Be Open to Open Science – Libraries Call on All Stakeholders to Play a Constructive Role
9 June 2016Libraries today urged all players to work together and apply their efforts to build an open science system.
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Libraries and Archives Are Embracing Digital: It’s Time the Law Did the Same
7 June 2016Digital technologies offer rich opportunities to collect, preserve and make the world’s knowledge available. But to make the most of these collections, libraries and archives need the right laws. At a meeting of world copyright experts and law makers, librarians and archivists underlined the challenges they face from anachronistic laws, often the fruit of lobbying by established interests.
IFLA Strategic Plan 2016-2021 now available in seven languages
3 June 2016With this Strategic Plan the IFLA Governing Board sets out IFLA's...
Pre-register now for Off-site Session in Columbus: Worth a Thousand Words: A Global Perspective on Image Description, Discovery, and Access
2 June 2016Sponsored by the Rare Books and Special Collections Section and the Art Libraries Section
Gerald Leitner starts as new IFLA Secretary General
1 June 2016A historic occasion for IFLA took place today as we both welcome Gerald Leitner as the IFLA Secretary General and say a fond farewell to Jennefer Nicholson whose tenure as Secretary General moved the association so far forward
New RELINDIAL publication: Libraries at the Heart of Dialogue of Cultures and Religions: History, Present, Future
26 May 2016This book is the publication of the proceedings of the Relindial satellite meeting of Paris (2014)
Out Now: June 2016 issue of IFLA Journal
26 May 2016View the complete issue online
Keeping up the Pressure in Geneva – A Report from WIPO
24 May 2016Libraries and archives made a strong showing in the 32nd session of the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), which met earlier this month in Geneva. On the agenda were the legal exceptions and limitations to copyright that allow libraries and archives to do their jobs, and how to make sure these work globally.
IFLA-FAIFE statement on the continuing detention of the Director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature
20 May 2016IFLA believes that libraries and librarians have a key role in supporting human rights, including freedom of access to information and freedom of expression, and an attack on libraries or librarians is an attack on democracy and culture.
A corto di libri, 8th AIB/IFLA International Short Film Contest about libraries. The winners!
19 May 2016Please join us for the next free webinar!
18 May 2016IFLA Green Library Award 2016 Winners announced
18 May 2016IFLA’s Environment Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group (ENSULIB) is pleased to announce the winner of the IFLA Green Library Award 2016.