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Unit 15: Promoters of Library and Information Services

India became a member of UNESCO on 4 November 1946. Notes
IFLA was registered in the Netherlands in 1971.
IFLA is an independent association that represents libraries and library associations around
the world.

15.5 Keywords

Fellowships: A fellowship is an arrangement in which financial support is given to a graduate
student to pursue his or her degree without any obligation on the part of the student to engage
in teaching and/or research in furtherance of the university’s academic mission.
Forum: A meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged.

Membership: Belonging, either individually or collectively, to a group. Some memberships may
require a fee to join or participate while some do not.
National Information System (NATIS): NATIS is a brainchild of UNESCO and implies that
governments at different levels (national, state and local) should maximize the availability of
all relevant information.
Social Equality: Social equality is a state of affairs in which all people within a specific society
or isolated group have the same status in certain respects.
Standardization: Formulation, publication, and implementation of guidelines, rules, and
specifications for common and repeated use, aimed at achieving optimum degree of order or
uniformity in a given context, discipline, or field.

Sustainable Development: Sustainable development refers to a mode of human development in
which resource use aims to meet human needs while ensuring the sustainability of natural
systems and the environment, so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for
generations to come.
The Members Pillar: It includes the services they offer to members, management of their
membership of IFLA, conferences and publications.
The Society Pillar: It focuses on the role and impact of libraries and information services in
society and the contextual issues that condition and constrains the environment in which they
operate across the world.
Workshop: Shop floor or facility where actual physical work (such as machining) is performed.

15.6 Review Questions

1. Discuss the foundation of Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation (RRRLF).
2. What are the major objectives of the foundation?
3. Explain the organization of UNESCO.
4. Describe the functions and activities of UNESCO.
5. When UNESCO started the first pilot project in library in India?

6. What are the three pillars of IFLA?
7. What are the two main categories of voting members in IFLA?
8. Explain the major core programmes of IFLA.

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