EBLIDA: European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations.
Take note of funding opportunities and the Vienna Declaration on support for libraries.
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If you think of topic maps as extending and making more specific the organization of information about subjects held by a library, the value-add of patron based topic maps becomes obvious. With a modicum of direction, patrons could make the value of a library manifest throughout their community. Done carefully, that value could be shared with other communities as well.