Om konferensens tema

Open access to knowledge
- promoting sustainable progress
The motto for the next World Library and Information Congress in Gothenburg in 2010 energizes and supports the presidential motto of the new IFLA president, Ellen Tise: Libraries driving access to knowledge.

On the bookmarks promoting the 2010 Congress, there are some associations around this theme and the development of libraries which might inspire the work to be done to bring the theme into activities.

Free access to knowledge, as important as freedom of speech

Accessible for all, even for the visually impaired or others with reading difficulties

Open and inclusive, no matter who you are or where you come from

Public domain, a place on the net or in a physical space where people contribute and socially share content produced and owned as a public service

Open for ideas with user-driven innovation where the user may also be the producer

Open access publishing for further knowledge building and a better balance between copyright laws and freedom of information

Why is this so essential?

Access to knowledge opens the world of imagination and creativity, and therefore progress for one individual is progress for society. That is the basis for true sustainable progress.

Inga Lundén, president of the Swedish Library Association
Ur IFLA Express, nr 6