Welcome to the LIBER 37th Annual General Conference, Koç University, Istanbul, 1-5 July 2008!

It is a great pleasure for us to invite you to the LIBER 37th Annual General Conference which will give you an opportunity to meet with other colleagues and to engage with the wide range of professional issues that will be discussed during the Conference.

The Conference will take place from 1 to 5 July 2008 at Koç University, a campus university close to the city of Istanbul. There will be a varied Conference programme organized under the main theme of the Conference: Bridging the Digital Divide: Effective Library Partnerships in the Digital Age. There will also be an important Pre-Conference on the topic: Discovery to Delivery A European Resource Discovery Space? The Pre-Conference will deal with strategic questions that emerged from the LIBER/EBLIDA Workshop on the Digitisation of Library Material in Europe held in Copenhagen in October 2007 on how to achieve integrated access to the digitised collections of libraries and archives across the EU.

We assure you that you will be offered a Conference programme that is both professionally and socially stimulating. There will also be excellent opportunities for discovering more about Istanbul, the City of Turkish cultural heritage, through the social aspects of the Conference programme, including the Conference Dinner, Library Visits,  and the Saturday Excursion. Istanbul will be the European Capital of Culture in 2010.

We are very much looking forward to welcoming you to this wonderful Campus and City in July 2008!

Didar Bayır
Director, Koç University Suna Kıraç Library