Accelerating Knowledge was the theme for the IAEA’s second annual World Book and Copyright Day celebration, promoting and facilitating the spread of knowledge and information and encouraging access to books, authors, and publishers. The IAEA contributes to the transfer and preservation of information and knowledge by offering a wide range of nuclear science and technology resources to IAEA Member States and affiliated researchers from nuclear research institutes, governmental organizations and laboratories.
UNESCO proclaimed 23 April World Book and Copyright Day in 1995. At UNESCO’s twenty-eighth General Conference in Paris, it was stated that this celebration “will serve not only…to enlighten…but also to develop fuller collective awareness of cultural traditions throughout the world and to inspire behaviour based on understanding, tolerance and dialogue.
“As Albert Einstein put it, the only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library,” said Mary Alice Hayward, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Management, opening the event at IAEA Headquarters in Vienna. “Every day, books and reading allow people around the world to connect with new ideas, and give them a chance to learn about concepts that they may have never imagined.”
Every day, books and reading allow people around the world to connect with new ideas, and give them a chance to learn about concepts that they may have never imagined.
