

International Expert Workshop on Library
Legislation
Prague, Czech Republic, 19th - 20th November 1999
RESOLUTION
The International Work Meeting of Experts of the Central European
Initiative Countries and the Baltic States on Library Legislation (Prague 1999)
thanks to the Secretariat of the UNESCO, the Ministry of Culture of the
Czech Republic, the Czech UNESCO Commission and the National Library of the Czech Republic
for their support and assistance which enabled the International Work Meeting of Experts
of the Central European Initiative Countries and the Baltic States to be held. It was the
aim of the Meeting to clarify the current principles and trends in library legislation in
different countries and to seek common principles and to assist in formulation of the
legislation in the countries where no legislation has been as yet enacted,
has observed with pleasure that in the countries represented in the
Meeting, the principle of free access of the people to information has been fulfilling and
that this right has become codified in the law,
has observed with gratification that special legal anchoring of public
information and library services has become to be held necessary in most of the countries
represented in the Meeting or that the discussions about the need for such codification
have been started,
has been aggrieved by cases of inadequate funding of public libraries
from public budgets which is out of keeping with their role as the guarantor of public
information services in the information community,
has appreciated the activity and efforts by non-government national and
international organisations aimed at mutual co-operation in the field of librarianship and
efforts for compatibility of the information and library services and their legal
anchoring,
has appreciated the initiative by the Council of Europe and UNESCO in
the issue of improvement of the legal framework for the operations of libraries in the
different countries.
RECOMMENDED
to the UNESCO and the Council of Europe so that they continued in giving
moral support for the drafting of special pieces of legislation for the areas of
librarianship and information services and to proceed with further specific moves towards
the fine-tuning of the principles set forth under the adopted 1994 UNESCO Manifesto about
Public Libraries and the 1999 UNESCO Manifesto about School Libraries.
to the Council of Europe to continue in their efforts in the
implementation of the principles laid down in the Draft Agenda 9.1.1 Library Legislation
and Policy in Europe.
to the Council of Europe and UNESCO to continue in discussing several
topics in the field of library legislation which have not been answered unambiguously.
HAS CALLED THE DELEGATES
to inform their respective national bodies and national bodies for
co-operation with UNESCO and the Council of Europe about the outcome of the Meeting and
this resolution,
to do their best in applying the principles set forth in the two
Manifestos in their respective countries,
to publish in their countries the resolution and the Meeting results and
to make use of these in the drafting of the relevant pieces of legislation.
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