Censorship and Access to Information.

The article presents information on an international conference "Censorship and Access to Information: History and the Present," scheduled to be held on March 16-18, 2005 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The conference is sponsored by International Federation of Associations and Institutions. The conference will deal with the historical and contemporary control and access to information, the social responsibility of participants in the informational process, and the role of libraries and mass media journalists in an informational society. Special attention will be given to the analysis of different techniques in the formation of conditions and first stages of informational society, including the process of humanization, as well as dehumanization, of individuals, groups, regional and trans-regional communities. The organizing committee reserves the right to select papers for presentation at the conference, as well as for subsequent peer-reviewed publication of the conference proceeding. Official languages of the conference are Russian and English.