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IFLA's Secretary General Honoured

PRESS RELEASE : for immediate release
05 January 2000
IFLA HQ,
The Hague, Netherlands

IFLA's Secretary General Honoured

Ross Shimmon, Secretary General of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has received an honour in the British Prime Minister's New Year's honours list. He becomes an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for services to librarianship and information provision.

Ross Shimmon said he was 'astonished and delighted to receive the award'. He was particularly pleased of the recognition it gave to librarians and libraries in the UK.

He expects to receive the medal at Buckingham Palace later in the year.

Other recipients of awards in the New Year's honours list include actress Elizabeth Taylor and entertainer Julie Andrews, who both become Dames of the British Empire (DBE), author Doris Lessing who receives a Companion of Honour (CH) and Richard Branson who becomes a Knight.

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Notes for Editors

The Honours list is published twice a year, on New Year's Eve and on the Queen's Birthday. Those honoured are determined by the Prime Minister with the approval of the Queen.

Ross Shimmon took up the post of Secretary General of IFLA in May 1999. Since 1992 he had been Chief Executive of the (UK) Library Association, the first professional librarian to be appointed to that post. He began his career as a library assistant with Portsmouth City Libraries. He obtained his professional qualifications at the North Western Polytechnic, London and became a Fellow of the Library Association (FLA) in 1972. He worked in public libraries in Hampshire and the London Borough of Bexley. He was seconded from Bexley to the Department of Education and Science in London as part of the library advisory team. Other posts have included teaching and research in library studies at Southampton, Aberystwyth and Papua New Guinea and deputy librarian at Preston Polytechnic in Lancashire.

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