{"id":143,"date":"2013-05-13T07:54:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T06:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/?p=143"},"modified":"2013-05-13T07:54:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T06:54:26","slug":"a-salute-to-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/2013\/05\/13\/a-salute-to-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"A Salute to Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_144\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2013\/05\/Outside-Library.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-144\" alt=\"Standing Committee members outside Biblioth\u00e8que Marguerite Duras\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2013\/05\/Outside-Library-210x300.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2013\/05\/Outside-Library-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2013\/05\/Outside-Library.jpg 421w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Standing Committee members outside Biblioth\u00e8que Marguerite Duras<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From 3-5 May members of the Public Library Standing Committee were in Paris for the mid term meeting. What a warm welcome that beautiful city and our hosts extended to us. Committee member Annie Dourlent had arranged a rich program and we were able to visit three wonderful libraries during our stay:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Biblioth\u00e8que Marguerite Duras<\/li>\n<li>Biblioth\u00e8que Louise Michel<\/li>\n<li>Biblioth\u00e8que publique d&#8217;information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In our meetings we discussed (among other things):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the session\u00a0<em>Exploring an e-book future\u00a0<\/em>for the WLIC Congress in Singapore that the Public Libraries Section is co-hosting with Metropolitan Libraries<\/li>\n<li>the results of our survey on the words you&#8217;d use to describe a public library<\/li>\n<li>our satellite for the 2014 WLIC Congress<\/li>\n<li>our strategic direction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Needless to say we also enjoyed the culinary delights that this beautiful city has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_145\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2013\/05\/Suzanne-and-Marion.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-145\" alt=\"Suzanne Payette and Marion Morgan-Bindon at dinner\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2013\/05\/Suzanne-and-Marion-300x252.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2013\/05\/Suzanne-and-Marion-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2013\/05\/Suzanne-and-Marion.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suzanne Payette and Marion Morgan-Bindon at dinner<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_146\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2013\/05\/Annie-and-Hitomi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-146\" alt=\"Annie Dourent and Hitomi Takeuchi at dinner\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2013\/05\/Annie-and-Hitomi-300x257.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2013\/05\/Annie-and-Hitomi-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2013\/05\/Annie-and-Hitomi.jpg 583w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annie Dourent and Hitomi Takeuchi at dinner<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our thanks to Annie for all the hard work in pulling the weekend together and for the library staff who gave us such interesting and engaging tours of their facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From 3-5 May members of the Public Library Standing Committee were in Paris for the mid term meeting. 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