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I F LA

Volume 36 Number 3

October 2010

IFLA

Contents

Editorial
Editorial: Information technology for development

211

Stephen Parker

The President’s Page
The President’s Page: Help for Haiti – recovering the past, creating the future!

213

Ellen R. Tise, IFLA President 2009–2011

Articles
Bringing the benefits of information technology to underserved populations: An introduction to
ICTD for the library community

215

Christopher T. Coward

Symbiotic partnerships: The global library community and the ICTD stakeholders

221

Fay A. Austin

Main factors affecting the preservation of Chinese paper documents: A review and recommendations 227

Liu Jiazhen and Wang Jingxuan

Arab online book clubs: A survey

235

Amany M. Elsayed

System migration from Horizon to Symphony at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

251

Zahiruddin Khurshid and Saleh A. Al-Baridi

News

259

International calendar

271

Abstracts

272

IFLA Journal
Official Journal of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
ISSN 0340-0352 [print] 1745-2651 [online]
Published 4 times a year in March, June, October and December

Editor: Stephen Parker, Apt. 1C, Edifício Rosa dos Ventos, Rua Rosa Parracho 27,
Cascais 2750-778, Portugal. Email: zest@sapo.pt
Editorial Committee
Christine Wellems (Chair),
Buergerschaftskanzlei, Parlamentarische Informationsdienste, Hamburg, Germany. Email: christine.wellems@bk.hamburg.de
Sanjay Kumar Bihani,
Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, India. Email: alio@mea.go v.in
Filiberto Felipe Martinez-Arellano,
University Center for Library Science Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Email: felipe@cuib.unam.mx
Jerry W. Mansfield,
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Email: JMANSFIELD@crs.loc.gov
Ellen Ndeshi Namhila,
University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia. Email: enamhila@unam.na
Ann Okerson



References: Rosa Parracho no. 27, Bairro do Rosario, 2750-778 Cascais, Portugal

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