IFLA has issued a brief on open educational resources, building on the recent UNESCO recommendation. This underlines the role librarians can play in creating, curating and ensuring access to these materials, and key issues surrounding them.
The WLIC 2019 Call for Papers in English and French has been extended to MARCH 11th.
Preservation and conservation specialists learned about the latest best practices in a workshop organized in the Sultanate of Oman by Qatar National Library, in its role as IFLA’s Regional Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Center, and UNESCO.
WANTED COACHES! Do you have experience in coaching? Are you willing to learn how to coach? WE NEED YOUR HELP!
2019 will be a key year to show what libraries around the world need from copyright laws. A series of regional seminars organised by the World Intellectual Property Organisation will bring together senior officials, and IFLA will be there.
Science and Technology Libraries Section joint with Evidence for Global and Disaster Health (E4GDH) Special Interest Group are holding our preconference in Vienna, Austria. Do join us on 21 August!
Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning (CPDWL) and the Evidence for Global and Disaster Health SIG (E4GDH) are joining forces to run an open session on exploring, testing and evaluating ways to transfer skills within our profession and with our communities. Submissions may take the form of a regular presentation which shares an innovative approach, or delivery of content via an interactive learning technique.
The Information Literacy Section in partnership with Library Theory and Research Section invites you to submit proposals for our session at the IFLA World Congress in Athens Greece, August 24 – 30th.
Theme: Libraries: dialogue for change – how library publishing can act as a dialogue for change
This year, LIS Education in Developing Countries joins Division V and IFLA Management of Library Associations Section (MLAS) for a satellite meeting in Alexandria, Egypt from 20-12 August 2019.
The Statistics and Evaluation Section of IFLA is hosting a two day Satellite event August 22-23 at the University of Piraeus, Greece: “More Than Numbers: Implementing New Assessment Methods for Libraries”
The IFLA School Libraries Section in collaboration with the Statistics and Evaluation Section invite interested professionals to submit proposals for the open session to be held in Athens, Greece, from 24–30 August 2019.
Barbara Lison is elected to serve as President-elect for the term 2019-2021 and to serve as President for the term 2021-2023.
IFLA Headquarters dispatched ballot papers and supporting documents for its Governing Board Elections 2019-2021 to all Voting Members on 22 February 2019. We are encouraged to see the number of viable candidates standing for elections increase with each election cycle and this year we have almost double that of the previous cycle.
The February 2019 issue of the Section's newsletter is now available.