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Article: Achtung! librarians in action.(IFLA organized numerous tours of local libraries, archives, and private collections for delegates to its World Congress in Berlin last month)(Brief Article)
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- September 1, 2003
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IFLA organized numerous tours of local libraries, archives, and private collections for delegates to its World Congress in Berlin last month. And the professional librarians in attendance hopped on public buses and U-Bahn trains to get to them.
Joining this particular tour of the Archives of the Political Parties of East Germany were representatives of the archives in Mall; Papau, New Guinea; and The Hague. ALA's executive director Keith Fiels was also on board.
Housed in a facility at Lichterfelde, which was used in every era of the German state, including as an American military base after World War II, its collection includes documents found in the ...