Conference Session 107

Libraries across time and space

Library History Special Interest Group

Congress track 2: Policy, strategy and advocacy.

13 August 2012 16:00 - 18:00 | Room: Session Room 3

• The chronology of my chronology: a history of 85 years IFLA: A history and chronology of sessions, 1927-2012
  JEFFREY M. WILHITE (University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA)
• Exchange of publications in two Finnish museum libraries in the nineteenth and early twentieth century
  JOHANNA LILJA (Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, Helsinki, Finland)
• Historical explanations for the success of Finnish public libraries (and Nordic countries in general)
  ILKKA MÄKINEN (University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland)
• The first use of moving pictures in promoting public libraries: the Danish case
  MARTIN DYRBYE (The Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Libraries and reading in a Finnish Canadian Utopia: Sointula 1900-1950
  ANN CURRY (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)