Increased Internet censorship and surveillance has been an emerging trend over the last decade. Since 2013’s leaks regarding online spying by various security agencies, the global dimensions and potential of ubiquitous surveillance have become evident to the global public.
The leaks of Edward Snowden have raised a range of different responses and reactions against ubiquitous surveillance and led to calls to strengthen users’ rights and protection on the Internet.
Increased Internet censorship and surveillance has been an emerging trend over the last decade...
The IFLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users SIG (LGBTQ) are seeking proposals...
The National Library for Children and Young Adults (NLCY) invites speakers to present a paper for the 8th International Symposium on Library Services for Children and Young Adults. The symposium will take place between June 19 and 20, 2014 in South Korea. The NLCY annually holds the International Symposium to improve library services for children and young adults and promote reading habits among them. The theme this year is “Reading Towards a Broader World!”
At the Library of Congress in Washington DC and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Off-site session theme is "Transmedia as a cultural approach for children and young adults" and it will be held at the Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon Part-Dieu (Public Library of Lyon Part-Dieu).
The 26th meeting of the Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) closed just before midnight on Friday 20th December, following five days of discussion of copyright protections for broadcasting, exceptions and limitations for libraries and archives, and for education.
The Classification and Indexing Section, Cataloguing Section, Bibliography Section, and the UNIMARC Core Activity have issued a call for papers for the World Library and Information Congress 2014.
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Libraries creating content for/with children and young adults Libraries have always created content, writing reviews, organising writing clubs or collecting oral tradition for instance, and editing and publishing it in different ways, confidential or not. But content development has greatly increased in the last decade, thanks to the much larger inclusion of readers in library life and of course, thanks to technology. It makes collecting, recording, creating, publishing and accessing so much easier and more possible to most, not only to librarians but to young readers and their families. How is this content creation happening? What kind of content is being created, how, who by, with what goals? How are these actions helping children and/or young adults and their families engage with reading? How is local content being published and preserved? How is it being received all over the world?
Over the past few decades, the Section for Education and Training (SET) has supported and enhanced library and information science (LIS) education and training based on research and professional practice on an international scale to encourage collaboration and development across the profession.
