IFLA 2009 Conference

23 - 27th August 2009
Milan, Italy

Further information


World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
"Libraries create futures: Building on cultural heritage"

“Libraries create futures: building on cultural heritage” is the chosen theme for the IFLA 2009 Congress. Libraries can really build the future if they improve the quality in people’s lives rough their culture. Thanks to libraries, people have been gathering and storing their scientific, artistic, literary, musical as well as religious activity over time. Libraries preserve the bases of all human knowledge. Knowledge transmission today has radically changed: the scope of bibliography has widened immensely. Libraries therefore had to update their role: preservation and access are still the main points to be achieved, though in a new, critical and professional way, in order to assure the adequate standard of the service. In this way libraries keep pace with the change brought about by history and technology, helping to shape the future through the resources inherited from the past. Century long traditions have created a wide and diversified context, in which medieval libraries (mostly in monasteries and universities) live together with Renaissance libraries as well as modern libraries, whose efficient standards effectively promote public reading and research.