Conference Session 106

Parliamentary libraries: strengthening democracy

Library and Research Services for Parliaments

Congress track 3: Users driving access and services.

13 August 2012 16:00 - 18:00 | Room: Session Room 1 | SI

• Defining effective knowledge management to empower citizens and members of parliament
  IRENE KRAFT and ROXANA DONOSO (Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile (BCN), Santiago, Chile)
• The Great East Japan Earthquake disaster and the National Diet Library's Research Services for the Diet (Parliament)
  KUNIO YAMADA (National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan)
• Les actions d'une bibliothèque parlementaire pour le renforcement de la démocratie / The actions of parliamentary library for strengthening democracy
  SANGUIA DADJAMA KOFFI (National Assembly of Togo, Lome, Togo)
• How parliamentary libraries can empower citizens: lessons from the development of the Outreach Service, Houses of Parliament, United Kingdom
  CLARE COWAN (House of Common, London, United Kingdom)
• The information needs and information use of Malaysia's members of parliament
  SZARINA ADBULLAH (Faculty of Information Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Campus Puncak Perdana, Shah Alam, Malaysia) and HUSNITA HUSSIN (Library, Office of the Prime Minister, Putrajaya, Malaysia)
• RASAN: Iran's Parliamentary Digital library of manuscripts
  AZADEH HEIDARI (Library and Information Science, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)