2010 open session: Gothenburg, Sweden

Papers presented at the 2010 IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 76th IFLA General Conference and Assembly,  "Open Access to Knowledge – Promoting Sustainable Progress"
10-15th August 2010 Gothenburg, Sweden

Libraries promoting reading in a multicultural, multilingual society

• Meaning of reading – reading for meaning
  MAIJA BERNDTSON (Helsinki City Library, Helsinki, Finland)
• Building a culture for reading in a multicultural, multilingual world
  RAY DIORON (Faculty of Education, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada) and MARLENE ASSELIN (Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada)
• Intercultural library networking in Switzerland: sharing material and knowledge
  Translations: [Deutsch]
  RUTH FASSBIND-EIGENHEER (Bibliomedia Schweiz, Solothurn, Switzerland)
• Celebrating culture, Reading and family literacy @ the library with the Latino Reading and Literacy Programs "El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Día)" and "Noche de Cuentos"
  JAMIE CAMPBELL NAIDOO (University of Alabama, School of Library and Information Studies, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA), PATRICIA MONTIEL-OVERALL (University of Arizona, School of Information Resources and Library Science, Tucson, Arizona, USA), ORALIA GARZA DE CORTÉS (REFORMA: The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking, Austin, Texas, USA), LUCÍA GONZÁLEZ (REFORMA, Miami, Florida, USA) and IRANIA PATTERSON (Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA)
• "We are here because you were there": minority ethnic genre fiction in UK public libraries
  BRIONY BIRDI (Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom)
• "Come to your Library": BLA project for promotion of reading in West Bengal, India
  RATNA BANDYOPADHYAY (Department of Library and Information Science, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India), K.P. MAJUMDER (Department of Library and Information Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India), BITHI BOSE and PAPRI SENGUPTA (BLA, Kolkata, West Bengal India)
• Reading – what to purchase, and why?
  INGRID ATLESTAM (Kultur i Väst Regionbiblioteket /the Västra Götaland Regional Library, Göteborg, Sweden) and RANDI MYHRE (Immigrant-institutet /The Immigrant Institute, Borås, Sweden)