Major IFLA Membership Mailing

PRESS RELEASE: for immediate release
March 12, 1998

Today, sixteen hundred parcels containing the latest edition of the IFLA Directory 1998-1999 and the IFLA Medium Term Programme 1998-2001 were mailed to all IFLA Officers and Members in more than 150 countries around the world.

Both the IFLA Directory and the Medium Term Programme mark a new era within IFLA, ushered in by the elections of the new IFLA President, Ms Christine Deschamps, and the new IFLA Board Members and Officers during the 1997 IFLA Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The IFLA Directory serves as an easy-reference manual, providing the names and addresses of all newly elected and current Board Members and Officers, and an overview of the broad range of programmes and groups that together realize the objectives of IFLA's professional programme. Following the outline of IFLA's organizational structure, the IFLA Directory also offers a complete list of all IFLA Members, Consultative Bodies and Sponsors, who represent IFLA's international network of information professionals.

The scope and activities of the various IFLA Core Programmes, Divisions, Sections and Round Tables, formulated for the period 1998 to 2001, are set out in the IFLA Medium Term Programme. The advancement of the many aspects of library and information services serves as the general thread of IFLA's professional programme; however, the way in which this goal is to be achieved varies from group to group.

An electronic and interactive version of the IFLA Directory 1998-1999 will be available on IFLA's World Wide Web site - IFLANET - at http://www.ifla.org. The professional programmes, as described in the IFLA Medium Term Programme, will be directly linked to the appropriate Core Programme, Division, Section and Round Table pages on IFLANET.

As part of the IFLA Membership benefits, both the IFLA Directory 1998-1999 and the IFLA Medium Term Programme 1998-2001 are sent to all IFLA Officers and Members free of charge. Additional copies of the IFLA Directory 1998-1999 are available at a special price of NLG 35 from the Publications Department at IFLA Headquarters. Non-Members may purchase the IFLA Directory 1998-1999 for NLG 95 and the IFLA Medium Term Programme 1998-2001 for NLG 40.

This announcement will be my last service for to the IFLA Membership. As of March 16 1998 my position at IFLA Headquarters will be taken over by my successor Ms Anne Telkers. Ms Telkers will be ready to inform you on all membership matters, and looks forward to welcoming many new organizations and individual information professionals to IFLA.

Partaking in the impressive international network of information professionals that IFLA represents has given me many wonderful opportunities to develop my abilities. However, I think that the time has come to move on and explore new skills! I would like to express my appreciation and say "thanks" to the many people I have come to know and assist in the past three years. I am confident that you will offer the same enthusiasm and support to Ms Anne Telkers, as you did to me!

Best wishes to you all.

Daphne Vlot
IFLA Membership Officer

IFLA Headquarters
P.O. Box 95312
2509 CH The Hague
Netherlands
E-mail: publications@ifla.org
and
membership@ifla.org