Official Invitiation

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Luisa Vigo-Cepeda

Dear Colleagues and Friends:

On behalf of the IFLA 2011 Puerto Rico National Committee, the Library Society of Puerto Rico, and the Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries, we are highly honored to welcome you to the IFLA’s 77th Congress in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

We, librarians, archivists, museums specialists, information educators and other information professional in Puerto Rico feel extremely pleased to be able to receive all of you in our country in August 2011. Our conference theme Libraries Beyond Libraries: Integration, Innovation and Information for All sets a unique environment to integrate the efforts of all information units to collaborate in order to better serve needs of all.

We share your dreams and expectations of equitable access to information, documentation and communication, in all types of formats, to contribute to the education, research, enjoyment and sustainability of our countries. Blessed by the breeze, by the sun, by the rain, and the sound of the Caribbean Sea, in this Congress you will have the opportunity to visit and explore different areas in our country, see a sample of our libraries, archives and museums, interact and share experiences; you will be able to expose yourselves to our culture and social life, know and interact with our people; taste the best of our multicultural cuisine, enjoy our music, dance and reserve some time to relax yourselves. Within this environment, we envision that your presence and proactive interaction in IFLA 2011 Puerto Rico will trigger more energy, enthusiasm and creativity, and will bring to forth lots of ideas to enrich and strengthen ties in our learning communities of practice. The proactive opportunity will, therefore, allow us to build up new spaces and formally twin and network for the benefit of our different information units and endeavors, to better serve and satisfy the information needs of all members of our citizenries.

IFLA 2011 Puerto Rico is also extremely important for us in the Caribbean, integrated by a diverse, multicultural and multilingual community that works together with a common goal to reduce the information and communication gap, building and strengthening diverse strategies in the region to ensure this goal.

We are extremely grateful to IFLA’s Governing Board and to the General Assembly for selecting Puerto Rico as the 2011’s site. We are thankful for entrusting us the collaborative role of organising this world event.

The enthusiasm for IFLA 2011 Puerto Rico reigns and we hope that you will enjoy your stay and become a part of us.

It will be our pleasure to receive you with a warm embrace,

Luisa Vigo-Cepeda, Ph.D.
Chair of the 2011 WLIC National Committee
 

Last update: 27 April 2011