IFLA 2019 Athens: Library History SIG Business Meeting and Library History Papers
17 June 2019For those of you coming to Athens, please join us at the Library History SIG business meeting and open session
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Out Now: June 2019 issue of IFLA Journal
13 June 2019View the complete issue online
IFLA Satellite Meeting in Piraeus 2019: Registration Now Open
10 June 2019The IFLA section “Statistics and Evaluation” and the University of Piraeus Library are pleased to invite you to register to the Satellite meeting with the theme: "More Than Numbers: Implementing New Assessment Methods for Libraries" they organize at the University of Piraeus, on 22-23rd of August 2019.
IFLA Green Library Award 2019 Winners Announced
9 June 2019IFLA’s Environmental Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group (ENSULIB) is pleased to announce the winner of the IFLA Green Library Award 2019.
WLIC 2019, Session 259: Library Love Stories
7 June 2019This session will explore the ways that libraries can tap into ideas of love and passion as a way of celebrating libraries, to representations and reinterpretations of traditional love stories, to managing relationships whilst maintaining professional conduct, and more!
First Steps Towards Strategies for Stronger Libraries in Latin America and the Caribbean
4 June 2019Library representatives from 28 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean came together on 24 May in Buenos Aires for the first step in a new phase in IFLA’s work to build a stronger and more united library field.
Placing Libraries at the Heart of Connectivity Strategies
4 June 2019IFLA has submitted comments on two sets of plans to boost internet access in Africa, underlining the importance of including libraries. By doing this, governments not only support affordable internet access, but open up possibilities to develop digital skills and give people a safe place to get online.
Ethics checklist for discussion in Athens
3 June 2019The draft ethics checklists, which will be discussed at the IFLAPARL pre-conference in Athens, are available on the Ethics Project web page.
Updates to the National Bibliographic Register
2 June 2019Profiles updated for Colombia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Sweden
IFLA President’s Meeting 2019: New Perspectives, New Possibilities and a Call to Action for Libraries as Motors of Change
31 May 2019With the agreement of the United Nations 2030 Agenda in 2015, the world’s governments underlined the importance of access to information as a driver of development. The 2019 IFLA President’s Meeting, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 23 May, explored how libraries, as guarantors of this access, can be motors of change, and saw a call to action to all participating, in person and online.
Now available: Library Publishing Mid-Term Meeting (Dublin 2019) Conference Proceedings
31 May 2019The Library Publishing SIG Midterm meeting organisers are pleased to announce that the slides and videos from that meeting (held in Dublin, Ireland, from February 28th through March 1st, 2019) are now available on the IFLA Library Publishing SIG website.
Satellite Meeting: Samos 2019
28 May 2019The Management and Marketing Section of IFLA, in collaboration with Samos Public Library, are organizing a satellite meeting in Pythagoreion, Samos, Greece willbe held 22 - 23 August 2019.
Access to Information Online: Towards an Adequate Transposition of Art. 17 in Europe
27 May 2019The European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market was recently published in the official journal, marking its entry into force and the start of the implementation process. Civil society organizations defending freedom of expression and freedom of access to information online, among which IFLA, have come together to request an inclusive stakeholder dialogue throughout implementation.
And the nominees for the 2019 IFLA/Systematic Public Library of the Year Award are...
27 May 2019The jury has now agreed on the four shortlisted libraries for the 2019 IFLA/Systematic Public Library of the Year award. All four will now be considered for selection as the world’s best new public library.
Tracking Progress, Underlining Potential: Launch of the 2019 Development and Access to Information Report
23 May 2019On 23 May, IFLA launched the 2019 edition of the Development and Access to Information report, on the occasion of the President’s Meeting in Buenos Aires.
Ministers of Culture and Representatives from Latin America and the Caribbean Commit to Libraries as Motors of Change
22 May 2019On 22 May, Ministers of culture and their representatives from 12 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean affirmed their commitment to the UN 2030 Agenda, and to the power of libraries and access to information to achieve it, by signing the Buenos Aires Declaration.
Executive Guide on Digital Preservation released
21 May 2019UNESCO PERSIST and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) have collaborated to produce the UNESCO/DPC Executive Guide on Digital Preservation, an online resource for raising awareness of the importance of digital preservation, leading to action to preserve digital assets, including digital documentary heritage, in an institution, organization or government.
Preserving and Promoting the Igbo Language in Libraries
21 May 20192019 is the International Year of Indigenous Languages. IFLA has been celebrating and promoting the year, sharing stories of libraries from all over the world, which are contributing to the safeguarding and promotion of indigenous languages and cultures. The next stop in our trip around the world is in Nigeria.