75th IFLA Congress Milan

IFLA Congress comes back to Italy after 45 years from the previous edition, a long time which shows the lack of interest, these last forty years, of Italian libraries in the international dimension. This event is a great success for the whole Italian librarian community and rewards the qualified, intelligent and constructive engagement of many Italian librarians who have been working within IFLA and on the international scene. The Italian Committee tried to promote the aims of IFLA, which is an international librarian association formed by about 1700 national associations, big libraries and, in a smaller number, by librarians. IFLA represents about 500.000 libraries in 150 countries and librarians all over the world giving them a place for sharing ideas and promoting international cooperation and the development in library science (which technically is called advocacy). The social values of IFLA are: creating and supplying high quality library services and supporting the principles of free access to information, ideas and intellectual achievements (as from article 19 of ONU Universal Declaration of Human Rights).