2010 open sessions: Gothenburg, Sweden

Theme: Libraries promoting reading in a multicultural, multilingual society

• Introduction to the Session
  IVANKA STRICEVIC (Croatia, Chair of the Literacy and Reading Section) and MIJIN KIM (Canada, Chair of the Library Services to Multiculutral Populations Section)
• Keynote: Libraries promoting multimodal literacy in an intercultural society
  MAIJA BERNDTSON (Helsinki City Library, Helsinki, Finland)
• Building a culture for reading in a multicultural, multilingual world
  Translations: [Français]
  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?
  Translations: [Deutsch]
  INGRID ATLESTAM (Kultur i Väst Regionbiblioteket /the Västra Götaland Regional Library, Göteborg, Sweden) and RANDI MYHRE (Immigrant-institutet /The Immigrant Institute, Borås, Sweden)

Theme: Children's Libraries: open access to different cultures?

• Books are windows, books are mirrors: multicultural collections for children and young adults opening new worlds
  LEONE TIEMENSMA (Midrand Graduate Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa)
• Let children love reading: an effort of a migrant city
  Translations: [Français] [中文] [Español] [Русский]
  ZHU SHUHUA (Shenzhen Nanshan Library, Nanshan Shenzhen, China)
• Sister libraries for children's and young adults' reading: an IFLA programme for international exchange and cooperation
  Translations: [Русский] [Deutsch] [Français] [العربية] [Español]
  VIVIANA QUIÑONES (Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Centre Nat. De la litt. Pour la jeunesse- La Joie par les livres, Paris, France)
• Libraries for children – free access to different cultures: examples from Poland
  Translations: [Español] [Русский] [Français] [العربية]
  GRAZYNA LEWANDOWICZ-NOSAL (National Library of Poland, Warsaw, Poland)
• Little users – big prospects: Children's Library of Gandia
  Translations: [Español] [العربية] [Русский] [Français]
  LOLA CAMARENA MARTINEZ and GISELA SENDRA PÉREZ (Children & Youth Library, Convent de Sant Roc, Gandia, Valencia, Spain)