IFLA 2019_Congress Programme

251 IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2019 24—30 August 2019 | Athens, Greece Congress Programme | Thursday 29 August 2019 Thursday, 29 August Special Session Congress Programme Business Meeting Expo Pavilion/Tech Lab Session Session 249 National Libraries: Evolving Spaces - National Libraries 08:30 – 10:30 | Mitropoulos Chairs: Guy Berthiaume (Canada), Gerard Bouwmeester (Netherlands) and Mark Sweeney (United States) 1. But how are we all supposed to work together?! Stuart Hamilton (Irish Local Government Management Agency, Ireland) 2. Challenges for a brand new building Monique Kieffer (National Library of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) 3. Librarians and Architects: opponents or allies? Filippos Tsimpoglou (National Library of Greece, Greece) 4. A Building that Reflects the Vision: the new National Library of Israel and the Jewish people worldwide Oren Weinberg (National Library of Israel, Israel) 5. The experience of the Egyptian National Library in renovating and transforming its Bab Al- Khalq historic building Hesham Azmi (National Library and Archives of Egypt, Egypt) 6. Ensuring new missions with new partners Guy Berthiaume (Library and Archives Canada, Canada) 7. Re-designing library spaces: let’s keep on reinventing ourselves Laurence Engel (Bibliothèque nationale de France, France) 8. Living knowledge: thinking about dynamic management of collections (remote sites, long- term storage, etc.) Liz White (British Library, United Kingdom) 9. Celebrating the written word Lily Knibbeler (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Netherlands) 10. Developing a Visitor Experience Master Plan for the Library of Congress a User-Centered Approach to the Historic Thomas Jefferson Building Mark Sweeney (Library of Congress, United States)