Closing of the WSIS+10 Review Meeting
28 February 2013The WSIS+10 Review concluded on Wednesday, 27 February with a lively multi-stakeholder debate across a large number of panel sessions. All sessions were asked to produce recommendations to feed into the final UNESCO statement “Information and Knowledge for All an Expanded Vision and a Renewed Commitment”.
IFLA attends special session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)
27 February 2013A special session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) took place from 18-22 February 2013 in Geneva to reach consensus on the draft text of an international treaty on copyright limitations and exceptions for visually impaired persons and persons with print disabilities.
IFLA launches multilingual website
25 February 2013Call for Papers - UNIMARC Session at IFLA 2013
22 February 2013The IFLA UNIMARC Core Activitiy invites papers to be presented at 79th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Singapore, August 2013.
The January 2013 issue of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Newseltter is now available.
14 February 2013The newsletter is published in electronic format (PDF file, 3.3 MB)
IFLA launches principles, research and advice for eLending in Libraries
8 February 2013IFLA is pleased to launch a new set of resources relating to eBooks and libraries
UNESCO releases Vancouver Declaration on Digitization and Preservation
17 January 2013UNESCO organized an international conference The Memory of the World in the Digital age: Digitization and Preservation, in September 2012 in Vancouver, Canada.
RELINDIAL SIG Religious Libraries in Dialogue: Call for Papers: Tools Developed for a Better Sharing of Religious Information
16 January 2013Theme: Tools Developed for a Better Sharing of Religious Information
Call for Papers: Religious Libraries in Dialog RELINDIAL: Tools Developed for a Better Sharing of Religious Information
16 January 2013Theme: Tools Developed for a Better Sharing of Religious Information
Call For Papers: Rare Book and Manuscript and Asia & Oceania Sections Joint Session at WLIC 2013, Singapore
16 January 2013Theme: Rare and special collections in the Asian or Oceanian context
Social Science Libraries Section Call for Papers: Libraries and Social Movements: A Force for Change
16 January 2013Theme: Libraries and Social Movements: A Force for Change
Out now: December 2012 issue of IFLA Journal
14 January 2013View the complete issue online