Essen Symposium 1986 — a Review

Abstract

We met again, within the hospitable walls of the Essen University Library. Our host: Dr. Ahmed Helal. The occasion: the 9th Essen Symposium, 8–11 September in Essen, West Germany. This year's topic was the “Impact of New Information Technology on International Library Cooperation.” The Essen Symposium is one of the very few meetings which are reliable. That is, you can count on a small selected group of good papers, excellent discussions, and many opportunities for continuing discussions, for conducting business, and for socialising. For speakers, you can guarantee an interested, informed and often argumentative audience. For exhibitors, the attendees are decision‐makers from their organisations. For delegates, there's the chance to learn, to question, to dispute, to spend several days in a relaxed, yet stimulating, environment. And of course, the reason for all this is the marvellous ability of Dr. Helal, with Pedro Hadstedt and Joachim Weiss providing superb backup, to assemble this group of people. The Symposium is by invitation only, and every year the numbers of the hopeful grow, but the numbers of the ‘guests’ remain constant, as should be the case.

Citation

Noerr, K.T. (1986), "Essen Symposium 1986 — a Review", The Electronic Library, Vol. 4 No. 5, pp. 263-263. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb044709