ISSN GB Meeting held in Paris

The meeting of the Governing Board of the ISSN International Centre is being held today and tomorrow in Paris. There are 10 participants from 8 countries.

ISSN meetings held in Paris

Meetings of the Governing Board and the General Assembly of the ISSN International Centre were held in Paris during April 23-25, 2008. The 52nd GB meeting was held in the IC office on April 23, the 17th GA meeting was held in UNESCO House during April 24-25, and the 53rd meeting of the GB meeting was held in UNESCO House on April 25.

The meetings discussed financial statements, budget proposals and recent activities of the ISSN centres. A new Governing Board was elected, with China reelected and Vietnam and Tunisia newly elected. Ms. Susann Solberg from the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (National Library of Germany) was elected as the new chair, and Tuula Haapamaki from Kansalliskirjasto (National Library of Finland) was elected as the new vice-chair.

The 2009 Directors meeting will be held in National Library of China, Beijing, China, in September, 2009.

My visit to Bibliothèque nationale de France

I visited Paris during April 22-25. This is my first to Paris, even to Western Europe.

I visited Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France), and had a short meeting with some of my IFLA colleagues (Françoise Leresche and Nadine Boddaert) and discussed some issues concerning the Anonymous classics: Chinese literature. The project should be completed before the IFLA general conference in Québec.

BnF is made of steel, glass and wood. I am very impressed by the buildings, the collections and the services of the library. Several hours of visit is not enough to see them all.

Mr. Cheng Pei was on his holiday. One of his colleagues, Mrs. Jie Formoso, discussed with me about the cataloging of Chinese monographs and showed me around the library.

Leaving for Paris

I am going to Paris next week for the GB and GA meetings of the ISSN International Centre. Before the meeting, I planned to visit BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France, or the National Library of France), having a look at the building and discussing some issues for a project of the IFLA Cataloguing Section.

This will be my first time to Paris, even first time to Western Europe. Before then, I visited Denmark, Poland and Norway within the territory of Europe.