Earlier this month, the communiqué of the Urban-20 summit – a meeting of mayors of leading cities around the world, in the context of the Italian G20 Presidency – was released. It calls for action in a number of areas of core library work.
The 41st session of the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR41) will take place from 28th July to 1st June. This meeting has an agenda that encompasses rights for broadcasters, exceptions and limitations for libraries, archives, museums, educational and research institutions, and a range of other items.
IFLA’s General Assembly – the primary opportunity for our Members to take decisions about our Federation – will take place on 25 August 2021 in The Hague, Netherlands. The formal Convening Notice, published today, sets out details about the topics for discussions, and opportunities for participation.
In this article, IFLA celebrates the work of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and its engagement with the IFLA Strategy.
Empowering research by connecting libraries and facilitating access to knowledge: the international HERMES project responds with research, training, and brand new software.
Our latest E4GDH SIG webinar highlighted two projects being undertaken by the Librarian Reserve Corps.
IFLAPARL section conducted a panel on June 17 on the topic "Virtual parliamentary research services" as part of the World E-Parliament Conference 2021.
PAC Sri Lanka has published a new Report detailing best practices for the conservation of Palm-Leaf Manuscripts.
Recording and slides from the May 27, 2021 webinar are available.
Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) has emerged in the last few years as a specific means of enabling libraries to fulfil their missions. It involves libraries lending digital copies of physical works in their collections, using technological safeguards to ensure that no more copies are loaned than the library itself owns. IFLA's statement underlines the potential of CDL, and what conditions could allow it to take place.
Joint effort by Monash University (Australia) and Penn State University (USA) is the 1st place winner of coveted IFLA PressReader International Marketing Award for 2021.
The key theme of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda is “Leaving No-one Behind”; the pandemic has highlighted the urgency of addressing disproportionate barriers and disparities that various minority groups are experiencing. An IFLA input to a UN Human Rights Council consultation examines the role of access to information in facilitating minority rights within the context of sustainable development, and ways that libraries support it.
The key theme of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda is “Leaving No-one Behind”; the pandemic has highlighted the urgency of addressing disproportionate barriers and disparities that various minority groups are experiencing. An IFLA input to a UN Human Rights Council consultation examines the role of access to information in facilitating minority rights within the context of sustainable development, and ways that libraries support it.
At the Russian State Library for Young Adults (RSLYA), we hold interactive meetings together with children, actively using retro technologies.
Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section will conduct a Standing Committee Open Meeting on June 18, 2021 (8am Montreal UTC-4).