The Director continues as a Trustee of the Share the Vision project, which deals with public library services to visually-impaired people. The Office is organising a consultation on Large Print Books in the Autumn as part of this involvement. As the project finds it difficult to afford representation on IFLA, the UAP Programme has agreed to hold a watching brief on relevant matters within IFLA on its behalf. Global Concerns, Local Solutions. The growing tide of information across national boundaries has meant that copyright issues are of increasing global concern.
International conventions provide a framework in which legislators operate.
National legislation provides different answers to the questions. The papers cover general copyright issues in both electronic and paper based environments, approaching the topic from the points of view of libraries, users, collecting agencies and publishers. The IFLA Position Paper on Copyright in the Electronic Environment is reproduced and discussed in this volume. This publication contains the papers from the Workshop on Charging which was held as part of the IFLA General Conference in Beijing last year, and organised by the IFLA Section on Document Delivery and Interlending. Both publications are available from the usual UAP address.