THE IFLA ROUND-TABLE ON MANAGEMENT

There has been a long-established need within IFLA to provide more focus on management as a specialty of excellence, particularly in these times of declining resources and greater demands placed on libraries and collateral institutions. This challenge was confronted by the IFLA Professional Board during its deliberations at the IFLA Conference in Sydney in 1988, where the seeds were planted which resulted in the formal inauguration of the IFLARound Table on Management. The RoundTable was formally approved by the Professional Board during the Moscow Conference. Regrettably, a workshop scheduled to inaugurate the Round Table had to be canceled due to the momentous events surrounding the attempted coup d'etat. However, the Round Table has ambitious plans, as the following attests.