THE IFLA ROUND-TABLE ON MANAGEMENT

There has been a long-established need within IFLA to provide more foc us on management as a specialty of excellence, particularly in these t imes of declining resources and greater demands placed on libraries an d collateral institutions. This challenge was confronted by the IFLA P rofessional Board during its deliberations at the IFLA Conference in S ydney in 1988, where the seeds were planted which resulted in the form al inauguration of the IFLARound Table on Management. The RoundTable w as formally approved by the Professional Board during the Moscow Confe rence. Regrettably, a workshop scheduled to inaugurate the Round Table had to be canceled due to the momentous events surrounding the attemp ted coup d'etat. However, the Round Table has ambitious plans, as the following attests.