IFLA Milan 2009: dieci anni dopo

IFLA Milan 2009 is to be read as a historic event for the Italian librarian community for having contributed to spread the library function awareness within the local and national cultural structure; the IFLA Congress, with its vast and highly successful program, gave an impulse to Italian colleagues in realizing that the true ‘librarianship music’ sounds at international level and that, in particular, young colleagues are invited to move towards commitments suitable to the cosmopolitan context and to try to gain experience outside of Italy, in libraries and other international cultural institutions. IFLA Milan 2009 was the event that put training in the center: IFLA means standards, guidelines, vision, innovation, and discipline. The statute of the librarian can only be oriented to the models representing the most advanced state of art and shared at a global level, combining technology with the enhancement of our peculiar cultural heritage.