<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FYI.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font face="monospace, monospace">Hilton Gibson</font></b></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Ubuntu Linux Systems Administrator</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Stellenbosch University Library<br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><a href="http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/docs/cv/cv.html" target="_blank">http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/docs/cv/cv.html</a><br></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Louis Takács</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:louis.takacs@ifla.org">louis.takacs@ifla.org</a>></span><br>Date: 15 August 2015 at 20:01<br>Subject: [IFLA-L] just released: Cape Town Declaration<br>To: "<a href="mailto:ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr">ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr</a>" <<a href="mailto:ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr">ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr</a>><br><br><br>




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Cape Town Declaration (2015)</h1>
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<em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12.9959993362427px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><a href="http://conference.ifla.org/ifla81" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none rgb(187,85,119)!important;outline:0px;font-size:12.9959993362427px;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,0,0);background:transparent" target="_blank"><img alt="IFLA WLIC 2015" src="http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/wlic/2015/images/wlic-logo-2015-colour-small.jpg" style="padding:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12.9959993362427px;vertical-align:baseline;float:right;max-width:100%;width:100px;min-height:153px;border:none!important;margin:3px 0px 15px 15px!important;background:transparent"></a>Cape
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Ministers and country representatives from Angola, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote D’Ivoire Lesotho, Guinea, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, South Sudan and Swaziland met to discuss the status of libraries and implementation of access
 to information agenda at a meeting on 14 August 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa—just ahead of <a href="http://conference.ifla.org/ifla81" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-bottom-style:none;border-color:rgb(187,85,119);outline:0px;font-size:12.9959993362427px;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,0,0);background:transparent" target="_blank">IFLA
 WLIC 2015</a>.</p>
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IFLA President Sinikka Sipilä, African Library Associations & Institutions (AfLIA) President and national librarians were also present.</p>
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The group deliberated on the status of libraries on the African continent and the progress required to meet the global sustainable development goals.  </p>
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The resulting document is the <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12.9959993362427px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Cape Town Declaration</em>.</p>
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Read the full text: [<a href="http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/wlic/2015/documents/cape-town-declaration-of-ministers.pdf" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-bottom-style:none;border-color:rgb(187,85,119);outline:0px;font-size:12.9959993362427px;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,0,0);background:transparent" target="_blank">PDF–English</a>]</p>
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<div>SOURCE: <a href="http://www.ifla.org/node/9767" style="font-size:10pt" target="_blank">http://www.ifla.org/node/9767</a> </div>
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