Dear fellow Directors/CEO’s of National Libraries and other CDNL meeting attendees.

I write to provide you with further information on our CDNL meeting arrangements and to ask you to do a little homework before our meeting on 22 August. Please find attached (below) the final meeting program including contact details for the CDNL meeting organising team in case you have any CDNL related questions whilst you are in Rotterdam.

• Venue details: our meeting will take place at Wereldmuseum, Willemskade 25, Rotterdam. Please note: this is not the venue where the WLIC is being held. You will need to organise your own transport to and from your accommodation to the Wereldmuseum.
• Meeting details: registration for the meeting opens at 10.00am (earlier entrance to the museum is not possible). Coffee and tea will be available until the meeting starts at 10.30am. Attached we are sending you the latest draft program. As far as the catering is concerned: everything is halal, there will be plenty of vegetarian alternatives available, and your other dietary requirements have been taken into account.
• Homework: to prepare for the speed-date session (a series of 2 minutes of exchange with your peers in the afternoon): If you could instantly become an expert in something in your Library, what would you choose as your area of expertise and why? Please be ready to share some information about the subject or job in your Library that you would like to be an expert in, and why, with your peers.

• Cultural evening: the meeting will close at 4.25pm which will provide sufficient time for those planning to attend the WLIC Cultural Evening to refresh. You can take advantage of one of the buses to the Cultural Evening venue that will leave from Ahoy Rotterdam (departing from Ahoy between 6.15pm and 7pm). You may also choose to make your way to the Cultural Evening independently, then travel to the main entrance at Blijdorplaan 8. Don’t forget to bring your voucher which will be attached to your WLIC name badge as an entrance ticket.  More information on the Cultural Evening is available here.

With warm regards, safe travels and see you in Rotterdam!

Marie-Louise

Dr Marie-Louise Ayres | Director-General | she/her/hers
02 6262 1390 | mayres@nla.gov.au | National Library of Australia

Chair: Conference of Directors of National Libraries – cdnl@nla.gov.au