From among the nearly 200 papers and presentations at the Congress, Division and Section Committees recommended 50 for consideration by the IFLA Journal Editorial Committee for possible publication in the journal. After carefully reviewing all 50 papers, the Editorial Committee selected 19 for publication during 2005. This issue contains the first of these papers; others will be published in forthcoming issues. The ten Buenos Aires Conference papers in this issue reflect something of the wide range of topics and issues with which IFLA is concerned, and the wide geographical spread of its membership. The papers deal with such diverse topics as education and training of information professionals, the provision of e-learning services to the general public, the work of parliamentary libraries, professional liability for the quality of research, digital literacy, information dissemination by non-governmental organizations, copyright problems affecting the print-disabled, emigration records, online professional journals and the preservation of manuscript collections, and their authors come from the United Kingdom,
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