World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council
"Libraries: Dynamic Engines for the Knowledge and Information Society"
20-24 August 2006, Seoul, Korea

Council Meeting
Convening Notice
This Convening Notice has been sent to all voting Members together with the Voting Card.
It should be forwarded to your voting delegate who will attend the IFLA Council to be held in Seoul, on Thursday 24th August, 2006.
If yours has not arrived, please contact IFLA HQ as soon as possible.
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The Governing Board of IFLA has pleasure in submitting this Convening Notice of the Council meeting of the Federation.
Time and Place
15.00 - 18.00 on Thursday 24th August, 2006
Address:
COEX Convention and Exhibition Centre
Room 102-104
Seoul, Korea
Please note: There will be
only one Meeting of Council
AGENDA
- Opening by the President, Alex Byrne
- Appointment of Tellers
- Establishment of a Quorum
- Adoption of the Agenda
- Minutes of the previous meeting, held in Oslo on 14th and 18th August, 2005
- In memoriam of those members who have died during the past year
- Presentation of the report by the President
- Presentation of the Annual Report by the Secretary General
- Presentation of the Annual Accounts by the Treasurer
- Report by the Secretary General on the postal ballot on Statutes changes and ratification of Statutes changes
- Proposal: inflation increase on membership fees
(Annex I)
- Motions and Resolutions (see notes below)
- Address by the President, Alex Byrne
- Closure of the Council meeting by the President
NOTES
- Voting delegates should take their seats in the designated area in the front of the hall.
- Voting may take place during Council on any motions and resolutions submitted during the course
of the congress.
- QUORUM: The attendance at Council of a simple majority of eligible Association members will constitute quorum. If you are representing an Association Member, there will be a white slip included with your voting papers. Under Agenda item 4, delegates representing Association members (directly or by proxy) will be asked to produce their white slips to be counted by the tellers. Quorum will be reached if the number of Association members present is 50% +1 of the total number of Association members who have paid their fees for the current year.
- Voting Papers: Voting delegates can obtain the necessary
voting papers at the IFLA Voting Office located in the Secretariat offices in Room
317 at the COEX Convention and Exhibition Centre. Voting papers will be
distributed only to those delegates who are in possession of the IFLA Voting
Card 2006, duly signed by the appropriate authority. The IFLA Voting Card is
enclosed with this document if your membership fees for 2006 have been paid. The Voting Office will be open in the Secretariat as from Friday, 18 August
2006. Please collect your voting papers as early as possible. Please do not
leave it until the last minute!
- If you have not paid
your 2006 membership fees at the time of distribution of this convening
notice, your voting card will be sent to you when you have paid. If your
payment is received after 1st July 2006, you will need to confirm
your payment at the Voting Office in Seoul.
- Representation: the relevant articles of the IFLA
Statutes and Rules of Procedure are as follows:
Article 15.1.1 Each Member is entitled to be
represented at Council by one or more representatives. One such person shall be
designated by the Member to exercise the right to vote.
Article 15.8.1 Each Member may be represented at a Council Meeting by another
Member. Such Member may exercise proxy votes on behalf of the Members they are
representing.
To obtain voting papers, representatives, or proxies of qualified Members
should call at the Voting Office during the hours set out in note 5 above, with
the IFLA Voting Card of the member concerned. The IFLA Voting Card should carry
the name of the representative or proxy, and the signature of the competent
authority of the Member concerned.
- The deadline for
submitting motions and resolutions to the Secretary General is Wednesday 23rd
August, 12.00.
- They may be handed in
to the Secretariat offices. Please make sure that the text is legible and
signed by both the proposer and seconder.
- Motions: a Motion is a proposal that the Council
take certain action or that it express itself as holding certain views. A
motion must be seconded. A motion may be made from the floor in a Council
meeting, but must, at the same time, be handed over in writing to the Chair. A
motion may be proposed and seconded by: Authorised representatives of Members,
IFLA Officers [Members of the Governing Board, Directors and Officers of Core
Activities, Chairs and Secretaries of Divisions, and Chairs and Secretaries of
Sections].
- Resolutions: In December 2004, the Governing Board
approved new Rules of Procedure to clarify the process of submitting and
managing Resolutions brought to Council (please find the new Rules of Procedure
below):
3.6 To permit the chair of the meeting to enable the efficient and effective conduct of business, rulings by the chair are final.
3.7
The Executive Committee
may appoint someone who is an expert on the rules and methods of the conduct of
business by boards and committees to assist the chair of Council or the
Governing Board in determining all matters of procedure for which there is no
provision in these Rules.
3.8
The Executive Committee
may approve the use of a standard guide to meetings procedure to assist the
chair of Council or the Governing Board in determining all matters of procedure
for which there is no provision in these Rules.
3.9
Resolutions which
Members wish to propose for inclusion in the agenda in accordance with Article
14.6 must reach the secretariat 5 months before the date of the meeting and
must be in the format prescribed in Rule 3.12.
3.10
Resolutions of an
exceptional or urgent character proposed after the deadline specified in
Article 14.6 must be submitted to the IFLA office by the due date and time
specified by the Executive Committee.
3.11
In very exceptional
circumstances, the President or other person who is acting as the chair of the
meeting may accept a resolution from the floor of Council with the consent of
the majority of the Members present or represented. It must, at the same time,
be handed over in writing to the Chair.
3.12
All resolutions must be
proposed and seconded by authorised representatives of Members whose names and
affiliations must be included and must clearly express the action recommended
to be taken by the Federation.
3.13
The Governing Board
shall take appropriate action on resolutions passed by Council.
3.14
All resolutions must be
brief, clear in intent and legible. Brief additional background or explanation
may be attached if necessary. The Executive Committee may seek clarification
or rephrasing to ensure that the meaning and intent of a proposed resolution
are clear and may nominate a delegate or delegates to assist the proposer to
revise a proposed resolution in order to conform with these Rules.
Peter J. Lor
Secretary General