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The following areas were identified in this regard: teacher training in the use of ICTs; media education, including critical analysis of information contents; and training of professionals, including journalists and media professionals, archivists, librarians and other information specialists.

Human resources were therefore enhanced in the following areas: the formulation of educational policy, planning and management; the social and human sciences, on issues relating to the “Ethics of Science and Technology”, to knowledge societies, and ways of participating in the democratic process; the collection and conservation of cultural heritage with a view to protecting cultural diversity and promoting cultural pluralism and intercultural dialogue; the training of librarians, archivists, computer and media specialists so as to enable them to make full use of ICTs.

[...] provides impetus to librarians to proactively [...] [...]

Observers from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Council on Archives (ICA), the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the International Committee of the Blue Shield (represented by the ICA Observer) were also present.

For instance in moving from librarian-controlled (standards-based) to a socially-constructed metadata approach, it is found important that librarians lower the barriers [...] [...]

The Meeting was also attended by observers from 20 States not Parties to the Second Protocol, namely Algeria, Belgium, Canada, China, Croatia, Egypt, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Senegal, Turkey and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and by observers from Palestine, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Council on Archives (ICA), the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).

The Commission recommended to the General Conference that [...]

[...] Access to Information and Freedom of Expression of the International Federation of Library Associations [...] [...]

[...] [...] well as the Observers of the International Committee of the Red Cross and of the International Federation of Library Associations [...]

Training programmes offered to depository libraries have been very successful in building a network of librarians across various regions with knowledge of and expertise on the United Nations.

This will involve the development of a model school library concept replicable in various regions of Lebanon, of training materials for school librarians and teachers on teacher-librarianship curriculum, resource-based teaching and learning, cataloguing, library managing, reading promotion activities, etc.

[...] [...] parliamentarians and parliamentary librarians, and members of the Canadian [...]

The 150 participants included representatives from UNESCO Member States and organizations including Interpol, Blue Shield, the World Customs Organization, the International Council of Museums (ICOM), International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), and museums including the Musée du Quai Branly (Paris, France) and the Smithsonian Institution (United States of America).

Representatives from the Umusanzu Centre were invited to make a presentation at a training programme for 100 librarians in Rwanda, organized by the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology.

Representatives of the following international non-governmental organizations were present: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), FIAT and the International Council on Archives (ICA).

This is especially relevant for metadata richness where both user-generated (sociallyconstructed) metadata is harnessed along with the standards-based, librarian created metadata.

Representatives of the following international non-governmental organizations were present: International Association of Communication and Media Research (IACMR), International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), International Council on Archives (ICA), and International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).

Likewise, a workshop on “ICT and persons with disabilities” was organized with the participation of a large number of NGOs working in the area of access to information, including a representative of the section on “Libraries serving disadvantaged persons” of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), an NGO in formal associate relations with UNESCO.

The Secretariat has continuously kept NGOs such as the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA), International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) and the International Council on Archives (ICA) informed on IFAP activities by inviting them as observers to those meetings.

NGOs active in this field, especially the International Council on Archives (ICA), the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), and the Coordinating Council of the Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA), the specialized sub-committees of Memory of the World (MOW) and regional and national networks of partners.

[...] including university librarians involved in the [...] [...]

This problem is not particularly unique to librarians, as the same holds true when updating a factual error in a print encyclopaedia entry.

[...] [...] of scholars and librarians, called upon to [...]

[...] [...] run and manage an expensive Virtual Private Network (VPN).