The following is a list of Panelists/Speakers and the corresponding statements/summaries
in PDF format. The symposium was held in New York on the 1st of March
2002.
Dag Hammarskjöld and the 51³Ō¹Ļ Library as a library
promoting peace.
Keynote speaker:
Sir Brian Urquhart
Former Under-Secretary-General
Biographer of Dag Hammarskjöld
Mr. Gérald Grunberg
Directeur, Bibliothèque publique d’information
France
Dr. Bob McKee
Chief Executive, the Library Association
United Kingdom
Mr. Winston Tabb
Associate Librarian, Library of Congress
United States
Ms. Gunnel Torén
UN Librarian, Dag Hammarskjöldbiblioteket
Sweden
Mr. Alexander Wilde
Vice President, Communications, Ford Foundation
United States
Panel discussion
The changing role of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library – Bridging
the information gap between developing and developed countries.
Mr. John A. Aarons
Director, National Library of Jamaica
Mr. Roch Carrier
National Librarian of Canada
Ms. Elsa Esperanza Barber
Directora del Departamento de Bibliotecología y
Ciencia de la Información
Argentina
Dr. Victor Vasilievich Fedorov
Director, Russian State Library
Russian Federation
Mr. Samir Gharib
Chairman,
Egyptian National Library and Archives
Mr. Hiroshi Kawamura
Director, Information Center, JSRPD
Japan
Prof. Christine Kisiedu
Dept. of Library and Information Studies,
University of Ghana;
Interim President, WALA
Prof. P.B. Mangla
University of Delhi
India
Ms. Sun Beixin
Deputy Director, National Library of China
Ms. Sin Joan Yee
Deputy University Librarian,
University of South Pacific
Fiji
Panel discussion
