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Make a note of these key dates for our section during WLIC 2019!

News from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)

Latest updates from the IPU on New PARLINE and the consultation process for the third Global Parliamentary Report.

Introduction to Open Access Webinar

Slides now available

Recording and Slides now available for the IFLA ARL Webinar Series: Academic Libraries Engaging in Publishing

Recording now available

National Libraries Section Sessions at the WLIC 2019 in Athens!

Three great sessions this year from the National Libraries Section, the Special Interest Group on National Organisations and International Relations (SIG-NOIR), and the Special Interest Group on National Information and Library Policy (SIG-NILP).

WLIC 2019: Call for stories!

Have you ever heard of a love story in a library? Among users? Among professionals? Please tell us your story, short or long!

NPSIG activities at IFLA Conference in Athens!

The New Professionals Special Interest Group is in Athens, Greece, from August 21st to August 29th, 2019. And there will be many opportunities to meet!

Reflecting Diversity and Building Understanding in Chocó, Colombia

As part of our series of examples of how libraries protect, preserve and promote indigenous languages in the context of the International Year of Indigenous Languages, this contribution from Alejandra Velez, University of Chocó, talks about her library’s work in this area.

Library turns publisher in order to promote indigenous language reading

In a further contribution to our collection of examples of how libraries protect, preserve and promote indigenous lanaguges and the communities that speak them, the below example comes from Trøndelag county library in Norway. We are grategul to Morten Olsen Haugen for the below contribution.

Protect, Preserve, Promote: Libraries Celebrate International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 2019

9 August is the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. It provides a great opportunity to highlight the work that libraries are doing to support and promote languages, and the communities that speak them. To celebrate, we share three stories - from Norway, the United States and Colombia.

Summer Newsletter Welcomes New Members

Meet our newest members, get ready for WLIC and more!

Using the Library of Congress Indigenous Law Portal to Promote Territorial Autonomy

​In the context of the International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019, IFLA is highlighting examples of the different ways in which libraries protect, preserve and promote languages, cultures and communities. We're glad to share an article by Rosa Maldonaldo of the Library of Congress about the Indigenous Law Portal and how this is helping to promote autonomy in Bolivia.

IFLA PAC Centres in Qatar and Russia - Exchange of experience

The IFLA PAC Netowrk has one major goal: to preserve all library and archive materials, published and unpublished, in all formats in accessible form for as long as possible. To ensure this - and to celebrate the Qatar-Russia Year of Culture - the two PAC Centres in Qatar and Moscow met to exchange experience and knowledge.

Updates for the 2019 IFLA WLIC and IFLAPARL Pre-Conference

Latest information available about the 2019 IFLAPARL pre-conference and sessions at the IFLA Congress in Athens.

New entries in the National Bibliographic Register

New profiles added for Canada, Greece, and Turkey

The July 2019 IFLAPARL newsletter has been published

The July 2019 issue of the Section's newsletter is now available

WLIC 2019: Events for AVMS

Meetings and Open Session

Newsletter on "Digital Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries for Children and Young Adults" is online

WLIC 2019 - Session 238 Gatekeeping to Advocacy

The Government Libraries, Library and Research Services for Parliaments and Law Libraries Sections invite to the session 238 of the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2019 - #WLIC2019, to be held in Athens, Greece. Date: 28 August 2019, 13:45 - 15:45.