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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Dear EC members,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">At the secretariat we are starting to prepare for the next meeting and the upcoming AGM. As you may have seen already, we informed the members of the hotels for
the AGM yesterday. Now it is time for the next steps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">As agreed upon during our meeting in September, we send you the draft for a call for contributions for next year’s annual general meeting in Paris. You will notice
that we tried to keep it as open as possible. Do you have any other ideas or amendments?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">We also have looked for potential keynote speakers.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">As external speakers, we have some well-known (at least in Germany) persons in mind who often speak on sustainability from different perspectives:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Ranga Yogeshwar</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> - a physicist and science journalist from
Luxembourg living in Germany. His grandfather was librarian S. R. Ranganathan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Alexander Gerst</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> - European Space Agency astronaut and geophysicist
from Germany. He was part of the ISS Expedition in 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Auma Obama</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> - Kenyan-British community activist, sociologist,
journalist, author; sister of former president of the United States, Barack Obama<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Not as prominent as the above-mentioned is
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Guillaume Lafortune</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> - Director, Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Paris; Scientific Co-Director of the SDG Index<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">However, as he is located in Paris, we would prefer to ask
<i>first</i> him whether he could speak at the AGM. It would be the most sustainable solution as he would not have to travel at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">And as an internal keynote speaker, we would like to ask
<b>Harri Sahavirta</b> – He is the Chair of IFLA Environment, Sustainability and Libraries (ENSULIB) section 2021-2023, from Finland.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">We are still looking for another keynote speaker from a (national) library or another heritage institution for the internal view. Do you have any preferences or
ideas? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Thanks for letting us know your comments on the draft call and your preferences/ideas for the keynote speakers by 15 November 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Thanks and best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Susanne<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:DE">Susanne Oehlschläger<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:DE">CENL Secretary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Strategic Corporate Developments and Communications<br>
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek<br>
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D-60322 Frankfurt am Main<br>
phone: +49 69 1525-1063<br>
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