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• Preservation Committee
  
• Membership Committee
  
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Thirty-two persons were present.

Julie Swann, chair, convened the meeting at 11:30 a.m.

Joanna Dyla is the incoming chair, and others will be appointed; an Agenda was distributed.

The Committee is working on a mentoring program, with Joanna Dyla as coordinator.

The conference program consisted of the following: seven Library of Congress-Soros Fellows presenting historical and factual reports on their respective libraries, library programs, collections and services. The seventh librarian (Zijad Sarajlic) gave a slightly different report commenting on the state of libraries and librarianship in Bosnia and Hercegovina where many library buildings have been totally destroyed and their collections burned. He noted that reconstruction of library structures and re-establishment of library collections is a top priority.

The seven presenters were:
Miriam Peknikova, Head Librarian, Comenius University Faculty of Medicine Library, Bratislava, Slovakia; Merita Selmanllari, Librarian, Scientific University Library, Tirana, Albania; Lenka Danevska, Library Director, Central Medical Library, Skopje, Macedonia; Irina Kuznetsova, Head of the Foreign Literature Department, Samara Region Research Library, Samara, Russia; Nada Bezic, Librarian and Archivist, Croatian Music Institute, Zagreb, Croatia; Miroslawa Modrzewska, Curator-Librarian, Gdansk Technical University Main Library, Gdansk, Poland; Zijad Sarajlic, University Librarian, Public and University Library of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Hercegovina

There was no further business; the meeting adjourned at 12:35 p.m.

--Minutes submitted by Richard Fitzsimmons.