IFLA’s Global Vision discussion, officially launched in Athens today, is bringing together thousands of representatives of the library field worldwide to explore how a connected library field can meet the challenges of the future.
.بدأت مُناقشات الإفلا عن رؤيتها العالمية رسميًا اليوم في أثينا، وجمعت آلاف من مُمثلي المكتبات حول العالم؛ لاستكشاف كيف يُمكن أن يصل بنا مُجتمع مكتبي مُتصل إلى مواجهة تحديات المُستقبل
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The Valparaíso Declaration affirming cooperation among parliamentary libraries of Latin America and the Caribbean was signed at the IFLA Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Section meeting on 15 March 2017.
Ballot papers, including supporting information, have been dispatched to all voting Members of IFLA on 23 March 2017.
We wish to inform that 1 April is the new deadline for submitting proposals for the session in Wroclaw.
The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee sent out a strong signal to the European Union’s Member States last week by voting unanimously for laws which will ensure that people with print disabilities, and those that support them, are not faced with needless and harmful barriers to access to knowledge and culture.
The workshop will be aimed at the implementation of the 2nd edition of the School Library Guidelines.
Two more IFLA IAP Regional Workshops were held in February and March 2017, bringing together participants from a further 20 countries to join the International Advocacy Programme (IAP). This capacity building initiative was launched by IFLA in the last quarter of 2016 and has now seen six regional workshops organised, with almost 150 participants in total.
At the European Parliament in Strasbourg (France) last week, library representatives and Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) discussed the path towards a copyright reform that will empower Europe's over 100M library users.
Open Access : Action Required. Aug. 16-18 at the European Solidarity Center, Gdansk, Poland.
FRBRoo is a conceptual model for bibliographic information in object-oriented formalism. Version 2.4 is now an IFLA standard.
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Deadline: 14 April 2017. IFLA Journal is an international journal publishing peer-reviewed scholarship on Library and Information services and the social, political and economic issues that impact access to information through libraries.
IFLA has pleasure in announcing the result of the postal ballot for the election of President-elect 2017-2019: Congratulations Christine Mackenzie!
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