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This paper describes an extensive online project, Writingmatrix [http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com], involving several key elements essential to collaboration in Web 2.0, such as aggregation, tagging, and social networking. Participant teachers in several different countries--Argentina, Venezuela, and Slovenia--had their adult students at various levels of English competency interact using blogs and other Web tools, including RSS feed readers and Technorati [http://technorati.com]. The teachers describe their respective settings, how they got their students started in communicating through blogging and social networking, and how in future they intend to expand the Writingmatrix experience. (Contains 3 figures.)

The article presents information related to this issue of the periodical. For 30 years, the German publisher K.G. Saur Verlag Co. has been publishing this journal. It has been a productive partnership, extended year by year on not much more than a handshake. Last year, the IFLA Publications Committee decided that the periodical should recognize the new trends in publishing and the advent of electronic delivery and consider how to make the journal more relevant to today's librarians and more competitive in today's journal market. The first item in this issue is the Opening Address by IFLA president Kay Raseroka to the World Library And Information Congress in Buenos Aires, in which she reminds people that the theme of the Congress means that libraries and schools work together for an educated population and pays particular tribute to the innovative approaches being adopted in Latin America to address the information needs of indigenous populations. The fourth and last of the Buenos Aires papers in this issue, by Margarita Vannini, President of the Latin American and the Caribbean Committee for the UNESCO Memory of the World Program, outlines the nature of the Memory of the World Program as a whole.