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Gerald Leitner
Gerald Leitner was appointed Secretary General of IFLA in December 2015, with a start date of 1 June 2016. This page I can imagine is going to be super long, I’ll come back to write it later!
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SIGL Statutes
The SIGL Statutes declare the purpose and operational conditions of SIGL (Stichting IFLA Global Libraries). Over time these have changed and it is interesting to see these changes sometimes discussed in the, now deleted, SIGL meeting minutes. SIGL was first set up as a Stichting (Foundation) in November 2016. [Unfortunately relevant documents are only in…
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SIGL Meeting minutes
During an argument with IFLA in March 2022, SIGL deleted its historical meeting minutes from their website. However, thanks to the Internet Archive these publically available documents were nearly completely recoverable. They represent an interesting viewpoint on the history of SIGL and IFLA, that often disagrees with that which they now state. So, I present…