IFLA Opens in Oslo

None other than His Highness King Harald helped to open this year’s IFLA conference in Oslo, with 3,200 delegates from 113 countries in attendance. News, good and bad of the library world included a report from Upali Amarasiri, national librarian of Sri Lanka, who gave an account of the devastation to libraries in his country caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004. More on IFLA here .