Il 75° IFLA Congress di Milano

摘要

Overview on the 75th IFLA congress that will be held in Milan from 23 to 27 August 2009, sponsored by AIB (Italian Library Association) and supported by the Department of Cultural Heritage, the Region Lombardia, the province of Milan and the city of Milan. In 1929, Italy hosted the first International Congress on Library Science andd Bibliography, regarded as the first IFLA congress. The congress of 1929 leaded to the foundation of AIB, the Italian Library Association in 1930. The IFLA congress comes back to Italy after 45 years from its first edition as a proof of the indifference towards the international framework of Italian library science specialists. The chosen title, Libraries create futures: building on cultural heritage, well represents the peculiarity of Italian libraries in their consideration of tradition and present and future technologies.