This conference was held November 8-10, 2000, In Sofia, Bulgaria.  On this website you will find issues that were addressed at this conference, memoirs, interviews, photos and comments. Please look around and visit all our pages. If you click on the word "Invitation" at the left it will take you to the original Sofia homepage.  Before you leave please visit our guest book and give us your comments.  We are already making plans for another conference in November, 2002.  Be watching this website for more information on the conference as the time approaches.

Program Content
On-going social, political, and economic changes in western, central and eastern Europe call for a dialog between stakeholders in the information professions on development of library and information services in the context of the communication revolution. Issues of democratic and economic reforms, digital technology, information access and use, social change and democracy constituted the core themes of the conference. 
 
 

Core issues explored at the conference:

School of Library & Information Management, Emporia State University

Center for Educational Technology, Emporia State University

Academic Affairs, Emporia State University

Graduate School, Emporia State University

Department of Library & Information Sciences, Kliment Ohridski, University of Sofia

Union of Librarians and Information Services Officers, Bulgaria

University of Kansas Center for Russian and East European Studies

University of Kansas Libraries

British Council, Sofia

Open Society Foundation, Sofia