STEAM into Sydney - the Public Libraries Section seminar in Sydney was sold out in four hours demonstrating the great interest in this topic. Delegates from around the world came together to share and learn. If you weren't able to join us read on to see how you can catch up with what happened.
The LSN and working group on Guidelines for Library Services to People Experiencing Homelessness invites you to review the draft of the guidelines.
More than 300 librarians from around the world gathered together and brought great energy to the marvelous space of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Lighthouse building in Athens, Greece.
Peer review submission deadline: 15 January 2018
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.
La discussion autour de la Vision mondiale de l'IFLA, lancée officiellement à Athènes aujourd'hui, regroupe des milliers de représentants du domaine des bibliothèques dans le monde entier pour explorer comment un secteur des bibliothèques interconnecté peut relever les défis du futur.
Atelier sur « l'open access à l'information juridique »
Would you like to spend a few hours a month volunteering for the Women, Information, and Libraries SIG? We're looking for volunteers to help with social media, and potentially creating a blog for the SIG.
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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