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The 75th International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) conference is being held in Milan, Italy from August 23-37, 2009.The theme of the 2009 conference is “Libraries create futures. Building on cultural heritage.”

Unfamiliar with IFLA? Here’s a little bit about the organization:

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession.

Founded in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1927 at an international conference, we celebrated our 75th birthday at our conference in Glasgow, Scotland in 2002. We now have 1600 Members in approximately 150 countries around the world. IFLA was registered in the Netherlands in 1971.

Read more about IFLA here.

Preconference/satellite events coming up:

IFLA Preconference 2009: Digital Information for Democracy: Information, Access, and Preservation (August 19; Rome, Italy)

Moving in, Moving up, Moving on: Strategies for Regenerating the Library and Information Profession (August 18-20; Bologna, Italy)

Conservation and preservation of library material in a cultural-heritage oriented context (August 31-September 1; Rome, Italy)

You may find a full list of satellite meetings associated with IFLA 2009 here.

There are a LOT of interesting-looking sessions. Here are a few conference events that may be of particular interest:

Session 92: Statistics and Evaluation, Information Technology and Preservation and Conservation

Statistics for cultural heritage

• Statistics in preservation as a basis for positive action
  IRMHILD SCHÄFER (Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany)
• Statistical tools for the evaluation of preservation needs
  ALISON WALKER and JULIA FOSTER (British Library, London, UK)
• The project NUMERIC: statistics for the digitisation of the European cultural heritage
  ROSWITHA POLL (Münster, Germany)
• Digital cultural heritage in the Netherlands: collecting statistics on production investments, and use
  TRILCE NAVARRETE HERNÁNDEZ and  FRANK HUYSMANS (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Measuring usage of cultural heritage documents; The German project Open Access Statistics
  MATTHIAS SCHULZE (University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany)
• Metrics and strategies for Web Heritage management and preservation
  EMMANUELLE BERMÈS and GILDAS ILLIEN (National Library of France, Paris, France)
• The DISCmap project: Digitisation of Special Collections: mapping, assessment, prioritisation
  MILENA DOBREVA (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK) et al.
• Museum statatistical data in Germany and Europe
  MONIKA HAGEDORN-SAUPE and AXEL ERMERT (Institute for Museum Research, Berlin, Germany)

Session 163- Rare Books and Manuscripts, Preservation and Conservation and Library History

Dispersed cultural collections. Preservation, reconstruction and access

• Virtual reunification, virtual preservation and enhance conservation at the British Library
  HELEN SHENTON (British Library, London, UK)
• Virtual reunification as the future of ‘codices dispersi’: Practices and standards developed by e-codices Virtual Library of Switzerland [Français]
  ANNE MARIE AUSTENFELD (Mediävistisches Institut der Universitsät Freiburg, Freiburg, Switzerland)
• Discovering and studying the ancient handwritten cultural heritage
  ORNELLA FOGLIENI and GILIOLA BARBERO (Regione Lombardia, Milan, Italy)
• The library of the Cistercian Abbey of Clairvaux at the time of Pierre de Virey (1472)
  LOUIS BURLE (Médiathèque de l’agglomération Troyenne, Troyes, France)
• Deconstruction and reconstruction: detecting and interpreting sophisticated copies
  MARGARET LANE FORD (Christie’s, London, UK)
• Dispersed musical treasures. The music autographs of Beethoven and Bach at the Berlin State Library [Deutsch]
  BARBARA SCHNEIDER-KEMPF (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany)
• ‘Returning home’: migration and repatriation of Latvian cultural objects and collections
  INESE A. SMITH (Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK)

Session 193- Information Technology

New repositories: architectures interoperability and data exchange

• Not (just) a repository, nor (just) a digital library, nor (just) a portal: a portrait of Europeana as an API [Français]
  CESARE CONCORDIA (CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy), STEFAN GRADMANN (Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany) and  SJOERD SIEBINGA (Europeana Development, The Hague, Netherlands)
• Video active – European television heritage online
  JOHAN OOMEN (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, The Netherlands),  VASSILIS TZOUVARAS (National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece) and MARCO RENDINA (Instituto Luce, Italy)
• A trust P2P network for the access to open archive resources
  EMANUELE BELLINI and PAOLO NESI (University of Florence, Florence, Italy)
• Persistent identifier distributed system for digital libraries
  MAURIZIO LUNGHI, EMANUELE BELLINI, MAURIZIO LANCIA, BRUNELLA SEBASTIANI, MASSIMILIANO SACCONE, ROBERTO PUCCINELLI  and  MARCO SPASIANO (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy)

You may find the full IFLA 2009 conference program here.

Want to keep up with news coming from Milan? On Twitter, follow @IFLA_HQ and watch for #ifla09

Think this all sounds pretty interesting? IFLA 2010 will be in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Additional links:

• Conference programs from IFLA 2008- Quebec, Canada and IFLA 2007- Durban, South Africa.

• IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts SectionBlog by senior IFLA policy advisor, Stuart Hamilton

• 2007 and 2008 highlights from 025.431: The Dewey Blog