2010 open session: Gothenburg, Sweden

Session 141 — Library and Research Services for Parliaments

14 August 2010 13:45 – 15:45 | Room: F1-2

Theme: Libraries providing access to knowledge that supports democracy

• Enhancing democracy and good governance: the role of parliamentary library and research services
  INNOCENT RUGAMBWA (Library and Research Services, Parliament of Uganda, Kampala, Uganda)
• The role of parliamentary libraries in increasing citizens' access to knowledge and it's barriers in the developing countries
  ABDOLREZA NOROOZI CHAKOLI (Shahed University, Tehran, Iran), LALE SAMADI (Library and Information Center, Iranian Philosophy Institute, Tehran, Iran), LEILA CHEHRENEGAR (Ministry of Education, Tehran, Iran) and MEHRDAD ROSTAMZADEH (National Research Institute for Science Policy, Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Tehran, Iran)
• The role of the library in access to knowledge for democracy
  HAJI HATTAR (Pakistan)
• Visioning the role of a continental legislative library and research service: case of the Pan African Parliament
  MUYOYETA SIMUI (Pan African Parliament, Johannesburg, South Africa)
• What role for parliamentary libraries and research services in shaping how citizens will engage with parliaments in the future to participate in debating important issues or shaping legislation
  TRAORE NASSA DIALLO (Documentation and Archives, National Assembly, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
• How the Parliament of Zimbabwe Library and Research Services provide access to citizens to knowledge about parliament
  ISAIAH MUNYORO (Parliament of Zimbabwe Library, Harare, Zimbabwe)
• The Japanese Diet (Parliament) of the future and the progress of the services to the Diet
  JUNKO HIROSE (National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan)
• The public engagement strategy in the UK Parliament since 2006
  JOHN PULLINGER (House of Commons, London, United Kingdom) and ELIZABETH HALLAM-SMITH (House of Lords, London, United Kingdom)
• Managing information to support democracy in the Pacific: the work of the Pacific Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives
  MARK CROOKSTON (Pacific Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (PARBICA), New Zealand)