Join us! Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Midterm Meeting: 1-2 April 2014
18 January 2014At the Library of Congress in Washington DC and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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.
The final report on the Section's project, evaluation the benefits of attending IFLA conferences, is now available.
IFLA is pleased to announce the publication of a Statement on Libraries and Text and Data Mining.
Libraries in Africa meeting the needs of children and young adults
The IFLA Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Recommendations and the Libraries Serving People with Print Disabilities (LPD) Manifesto were passed at the 37th UNESCO General Conference held in Paris.
15 to 20 year olds reading across the world: Why? Where? How?