Conference of Directors of National Libraries

CDNL Annual Meeting 2009

The 2009 Annual Meeting of CDNL was held on Wednesday 26 August 2009, in Milan, Italy. Working papers, reports and presentations from the meeting can be found by clicking on the links below:

Working papers and presentations:

Agenda item Agenda
3Minutes of the previous meeting
4Report from ICADS - by C. Brazier (powerpoint)
5 Contributions from IFLA:

Address
by Prof. Dr. Claudia Lux, president of IFLA 2007-2009(PDF)

Presentation by W. Tabb, Chair of the IFLA CLM (Copyright and Legal Matters) Core Activity, on IFLA's submission to WIPO: Report from IFLA CLM on advocacy to WIPO (Powerpoint) See also the IFLA Statement of Principles, which is a core document.

Report from the Section of National Libraries - by I. Parent

6Panel discussion on ‘Challenges facing national libraries’
7 Presentation on the RFBNN - by G. Berthiaume (BAnQ) - English, French
8Two papers for consideration by discussion groups:
'National Libraries Global - status'
Proposal for Decision on National Libraries Global


Welcome address by Mr Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, representing the City of Milan
Supplementary presentation on the National Library Foundation, Brazil (PDF).
DRAFT Minutes of the 2009 meeting.
Photos from the 2009 meeting.
Annual reports from member institutions are also available for downloading - click on to Country Reports.
Explanatory comments about the art collections in the Castle, by the Director Mr Claudio Salsi.

 

Country Reports -( country reports are posted when received by the Secretariat )

Country File
Australia PDF
Angola PDF
Austria PDF
Brazil PDF
Canada-Québec PDF
China PDF
Croatia PDF
Denmark PDF
Estonia PDF
Finland PDF
France PDF (English), PDF (French)
Germany PDF
Hungary PDF
Iceland PDF
Jamaica PDF
Japan PDF
Kazakhstan - National Academic Library PDF
Korea (Republic of) PDF
Latvia PDF
Lao PDR PDF
Lithuania PDF
Luxembourg PDF
Mali PDF
Malta PDF
Montenegro PDF
Nepal PDF
New Zealand PDF
Norway PDF
Poland PDF
Russia - National Library of Russia PDF
Russia - Russian State Library PDF
Serbia PDF
Singapore PDF
Slovakia PDF
Slovenia PDF
South Africa PDF
Spain PDF
Sweden PDF
Switzerland PDF
Tunisia PDF
Turkey PDF
UK- British Library PDF
UK - National Library of Scotland PDF
UK - National Library of Wales PDF
USA PDF