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The article presents world news briefs on conferences and schools as of June 2004. Sofia 2004: Libraries, Globalization, and Cooperation, to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, from November 2 to 5, 2004 is part of an international conference series hosted by the School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University, Kansas and the Department of Library and Information Sciences, University of Sofia. The University of Sofia and Emporia State University will also host a pre-conference on Globalization and Cooperation Trends in Library and Information Science Education on November 2, 2004. Sofia 2004 is part of an international conference series hosted in Kansas City, Kansas in 1995, Warsaw, Poland in 1997, Sofia, Bulgaria in 2000, 2002, and 2004. The series is designed to explore the impact of globalization and change on the development of libraries, information infrastructure, and society. The Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the Harvard University library system are launching a joint program to provide training for Iraqi librarians and archivists, to help modernize Iraqi libraries and address the country's serious shortage of librarians. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded Simmons and Harvard $100,000 for the two-year project. The grant is part of the NEH program Recovering Iraq's Past, which funds projects to help rebuild Iraq's cultural heritage.