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ALISE is an association member of IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

To see what ALISE and ALISE members will be doing at the IFLA Conference, please see

ALISE at the 67th IFLA Council and General Conference

IFLA–Boston 2001
August 16–25, 2001

Libraries and Librarians:
Making a Difference in the Knowledge Age

ALISE has played an active role as a member of the National Organizing Committe for the IFLA 2001 conference in Boston. Evelyn Daniel (North Carolina-Chapel Hill) is the ALISE member representative for the Boston conference. She chairs the program committee. For additional information about the program theme, How to get involved (volunteer opportunities), registration and hotel information, information about Boston, library tours, and sightseeing tours plus other information, please see the IFLA2001 Boston website.

ALISE members may register for IFLA 2001 as members of IFLA.
The membership number to use on the registration form is US-0004.


IFLA accomplishes its work through two kinds of professional groups (35 sections with their round tables and discussion groups organized into 8 divisions; and 5 core programs). The divisions and their respective sections include:

  1. General research libraries (National Libraries, University Libraries and other Research Libraries, Library and Research Services for Parliaments)
  2. Special libraries (Government Libraries, Social Science Libraries, Geography and Map Libraries, Science and Technology Libraries, Biological and Medical Sciences Libraries, Art Libraries)
  3. Libraries serving the general public (Public Libraries, Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons, Libraries for Children and Young Adults, School Libraries and Resource Centres, Libraries for the Blind, Library Services to Multicultural Populations)
  4. Bibliographic control (Bibliography, Cataloguing, Classification and Indexing)
  5. Collections and services (Acquisition and Collection Development, Document Delivery and Interlending, Serial Publications, Government Information and Official Publications, Rare Books and Manuscripts)
  6. Management and technology (Preservation and Conservation, Library Buildings and Equipment, Information Technology, Statistics, Management and Marketing)
  7. Education and research (Education and Training, Library Theory and Research, Reading)
  8. Regional activities (Africa, Asia and Oceania, Latin american and the Caribbean)

The core programmes (IFLA uses British spelling) include:

  1. Universal Availability of Publications (UAP)
  2. Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC (UBCIM)
  3. Preservation and Conservation (PAC)
  4. Universal Dta Flow and Telecommunications (UDT)
  5. Advancement of Librarianship Programme (ALP)

ALISE selects four IFLA sections as part of its basic membership, nominating a representative to each Standing Committee (the governing body for a section) by March 1 of odd-numbered years. The four sections that ALISE currently belows to with the two ALISE representatives who are members of that section's Standing Committee are:

Section on Cataloging: Josephine Yu Chen Sche (Southern Connecticut), nominated for 2001-2005.
Section on Education and Training: Evelyn Daniel (North Carolina-Chapel Hill), 1993-2001
Terry Weech (Illinois), 1999-2003
Ismail Abdullahi (Clark Atlantic), nominated for 2001-2005.
Section on Library Theory and Research Wallace Kroehler (Oklahoma), nominated for 2001-2005.
Section on Management and Marketing: Michael Koenig (Dominican), 1997-2001
Section on Reading Research Maureen White (At-Large), nominated for 2001-2005.

ALISE members are nominated for four-year terms to each IFLA Standing Committee of which ALISE is a member. No member may serve more than two consecutive terms (8 years) on any Standing Committee.

Any ALISE member may request to be nominated. A nominee should have a working knowledge of at least one working language of IFLA (English, German, French, Russian or Spanish) and should have reasonable expectations of attending all four annual meetings of the Standing Committee at no cost to IFLA or ALISE. ALISE members wishing to be nominated should submit a resume with an explanation of why he/she desires to be a nominee with the information that IFLA requires:

If more than one qualified request is received, the International Committee of ALISE will recommend the best qualified to the ALISE Board for selection. Standing Committees have 15 members. If more nominations are received than there are vacancies on the Standing Committee, the nominees' names are submitted to the Standing Committee's membership for a vote.

Nominations are solicited from IFLA every two years. The next request will come on or about October 2002 with a deadline for submission of about February 2003 for service beginning with the August 2003 conference.

Personal memberships and institutional memberships are also possible. The cost of a personal membership is NLG 200 (Netherland guilders as IFLA Headquarters are in The Hague – cost in US dollars varies but is about $87 (as of 4/9/00). Cost of the ALISE association membership and institutional membership is NLG 750 (about $325).

Future IFLA Conferences:
  • 2001:  August 16 - 25, Boston
  • 2002:  August 18 - 24, Glasgow
  • 2003:  August 1 - 8, Berlin
  • 2004:   Buenos Aires
  • 2005:   not yet determined
  • 2006:   Seoul

 

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