Now available: video from the Opening Session on 16 August 2015
3 September 2015IFLA WLIC 2015 - Opening Session from IFLA on Vimeo.
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Pictures from the Rare Books and Special Collections section events in Cape Town.
29 August 2015Meetings, sessions, events.
Honours and Awards at the IFLA WLIC 2015 Closing Session
20 August 2015During the Closing Session on 20 August, IFLA President Sinikka Sipilä and IFLA Professional Committee Vice-Chair Clara Chu conferred the following honours and awards..
IFLA WLIC 2017 = Wrocław, Poland!!!!
20 August 2015During the Closing Session, IFLA President Sinikka Sipilä officially announced the host location for the World Library and Information Congress 2017.
IFLA Publishes a Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment
20 August 2015At its 14 August 2015 meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, the IFLA Governing Board endorsed an IFLA Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment.
Just published: three new IFLA publications from De Gruyter
19 August 2015Three new books in the IFLA Publications series celebrate the broad spectrum of IFLA’s activities.
Two new IFLA Standards now available
19 August 2015IFLA School Library Guidelines, 2nd edition & Guidelines for Parliamentary Research Services
Five librarians selected as 2016 IFLA/OCLC Fellows
18 August 20152016 Fellows are from Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria, Philippines and Serbia
Just launched: IFLA Risk Register for documentary heritage
17 August 2015IFLA has created a Risk Register for documentary heritage in order to raise awareness for the preservation, conservation, and safeguarding of documentary heritage (in any format) world-wide.
Opening Address by IFLA President Sinikka Sipilä
16 August 2015Full text of IFLA President's address given at the Opening Session on Sunday.
Guidelines for parliamentary research services launched
13 August 2015The Guidelines for Parliamentary Research Services, a joint publication between IFLA and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), was launched today at the Section’s pre-conference in Cape Town.
Now available: De Gruyter / IFLA 2015 Research Award papers (runners-up)
13 August 2015Ahead of next month's publication of the winning paper, we would like to share the papers of the top runners-up. They are all worthy of your attention as well!
Winner of the 2015 IFLA/ekz LIS Student Paper Award
12 August 2015Mr Winner Chawinga, Master's student at University of Western Cape, is the recipient of the 2015 IFLA/ekz LIS Student Paper Award.