IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession.

Founded in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1927 at an international conference, IFLA celebrated its 75th birthday at their conference in Glasgow, Scotland in 2002. The organisation now has 1700 Members in 150 countries around the world.

At the recent international conference, held from August 19 to 23 in Durban, South Africa, 26 UP Library staff members attended and 14 of our experts delivered papers/posters. The theme of the conference was: "Libraries for the future: Progress, Development and Partnerships"

The following papers were delivered by staff from the UP Academic Information Service (Library):

Conference Papers

• Spiral training: Information literacy skills development / Susan Scheepers & Maureen Brassel Developing leadership skills / Ujala Satgoor
• Lifting the curtain on unfilled interlibrary loan requests / Heidi Visser & Janet Teresa Zambri
• “Adapt or die” : Energizing library staff and academics through the development of digital repositories / Ina Smith & Heila Pienaar
• Report from a deviating collaborator: the University of Pretoria’s interaction with the emerging integrated system of quality assurance in South African Higher Education Libraries / Monica Hammes
• Development of a Library 2.0 service model for an African library / Heila Pienaar & Ina Smith
• Disasters and diseases in Africa : information support for animal and human health / Tertia Coetzee, Antoinette Lourens, Marguerite Nel, Erica vd Westhuizen

Pre-Conference Papers

• Capturing knowledge in institutional repositories / Heila Pienaar and Martie van Deventer
• E-quality for equality / Monica Hammes and April Mahlangu

Post-Conference Papers

• Workshop collection development policy case study/ Robert Moropa

Posters

• The integrated library system (ILS); a coup (d’ état)? / Anette Lessing
• The naked librarian / Christelle Steyn

The Department of Information Science was involved as follows:

Conference Papers

• Bibliographic control in South Africa / Ina Fourie & Marlene Burger
• A theoretical paper: Public libraries addressing social inclusion: How we may think … / Ina Fourie
• Librarians and readers in the South African anti-apartheid struggle / Archie Dick Collaboration amongst LIS schools in South Africa / Hannes Britz & Theo Bothma

Pre-Conference Papers

• Role and responsibilities of librarians in the establishment and maintenance of a KM programme / Retha Snyman
• Information and knowledge audits and knowledge maps / Nisha Sewdass

Chapters in IFLA Libraries book:

• Bothma, TJD, Underwood, P and Ngulube, P (Eds.) 2007. Libraries for the future: progress and development of South African libraries. Pretoria: LIASA. Pp. 230. Archie Dick, Ina Fourie, Maritha Snyman, Theo Bothma (co-author & co-editor)