Symposium:  "The 40th anniversary of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library: Legacy of a Secretary-General."

The following is a list of Panelists/Speakers and the corresponding statements/summaries in PDF format. The symposium was held in New York on the 1st of March 2002. 

Introductory Remarks:

Mr. Shashi Tharoor
Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information
Moderator

Opening Address:

H.E. Mr. Yoshiyuki Motomura
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Chargé d'Affaires, a.i. of Japan to the United Nations

Morning Session:

Dag Hammarskjöld and the United Nations Library as a library promoting peace.

Keynote speaker:
Sir Brian Urquhart
Former Under-Secretary-General
Biographer of Dag Hammarskjöld

Mr. Gérald Grunberg
Directeur, Bibliothèque publique d’information
France

Dr. Bob McKee
Chief Executive, the Library Association
United Kingdom

Mr. Winston Tabb
Associate Librarian, Library of Congress
United States

Ms. Gunnel Torén
UN Librarian, Dag Hammarskjöldbiblioteket
Sweden

Mr. Alexander Wilde
Vice President, Communications, Ford Foundation
United States

Panel discussion

Afternoon Session:

The changing role of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library – Bridging the information gap between developing and developed countries. 

Mr. John A. Aarons
Director, National Library of Jamaica

Mr. Roch Carrier
National Librarian of Canada

Ms. Elsa Esperanza Barber
Directora del Departamento de Bibliotecología y
Ciencia de la Información
Argentina

Dr. Victor Vasilievich Fedorov
Director, Russian State Library
Russian Federation

Mr. Samir Gharib
Chairman,
Egyptian National Library and Archives

Mr. Hiroshi Kawamura
Director, Information Center, JSRPD
Japan

Prof. Christine Kisiedu
Dept. of Library and Information Studies,
University of Ghana;
Interim President, WALA

Prof. P.B. Mangla
University of Delhi
India

Ms. Sun Beixin
Deputy Director, National Library of China

Ms. Sin Joan Yee
Deputy University Librarian,
University of South Pacific
Fiji

Panel discussion