Opening Address by IFLA President Glòria Pérez-Salmerón
25 August 2019Full transcript of the President's address given at the Opening Session on Sunday, 25 August 2019
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Full transcript of the President's address given at the Opening Session on Sunday, 25 August 2019
Full transcript of the Secretary General’s speech given at the Opening Session on Sunday, 25 August 2019
As it turns 20, IFLA’s Statement on Libraries and Intellectual Freedom retains its power as a reference point for libraries looking to promote their values.
Enrich your WLIC experience by meeting the committee, networking with others in the field and staying up to date with the work of IFLA across the Library Profession!
Concerning Motion 11.3: Motion to hold the election of the 10th member of the Governing Board...
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This year’s IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) will again be live streamed. With an even larger offer than in previous years, you will be able to access 11 key sessions from our diverse and world-class programme.
Since the adoption of the Marrakesh Treaty, IFLA has been monitoring how countries make it a reality. Today we publish the fourth update of the Marrakesh Monitoring Report, which looks into countries that have signed or ratified the Treaty since January 2019 and the way they are implementing it nationally.
Latest updates from the IPU on New PARLINE and the consultation process for the third Global Parliamentary Report.
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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).
Have you ever heard of a love story in a library? Among users? Among professionals? Please tell us your story, short or long!
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!
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.
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.
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.