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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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