Beyond Access: Libraries Powering Development
16 March 2012Are you using your library to improve lives in your community?
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Notice of IFLA 2012 General Assembly and Call for Agenda Items
15 March 2012IFLA Members may propose items for inclusion in the agenda...
Formation of a new Dynamic Coalition on Public Access in Libraries at the Internet Governance Forum
13 March 2012IFLA is pleased to report that a new Dynamic Coalition on Public Access in Libraries has been approved by the Secretariat of the Internet Governance Forum...
One year after the Earthquake in Japan
12 March 2012A year has now passed since the 9.0-magnitude earthquake—one of the largest ever recorded—and ensuing tsunami devastated Japan, leaving more than 15,000 dead, several thousand missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, massive property damage, and lingering nuclear worries.
IFLA Electronic Resource Guide Now Available!
28 February 2012The purpose of this Guide is to help develop an awareness of the key issues that every library will need to consider and address in developing an e-portfolio
IFLA Key Initiatives 2011-2012 in action
20 February 2012These Key Initiatives are closely connected to IFLA's Strategic Plan, and also elaborate and enhance activities that are already taken up in various Sections, SIGs and Core Activities. They also provide IFLA with strong and important topics to enhance cooperation with its Strategic Partners.
Reminder—WLIC 2012 Call for Poster Sessions
6 February 2012Indigenous Knowledges: IFLA Presidential Programme Spring Meeting 2012, Vancouver Canada
3 February 2012Mark your calendars! Announcing the 2012 IFLA Presidential Programme
Out now: December 2011 issue of IFLA Journal
26 January 2012View the complete issue online...
LTR session in Puerto Rico, 2011
20 January 2012New IFLA Membership category: Non-Salaried Affiliate
17 January 2012IFLA is happy to share a new way for retired professionals or those in between jobs to join or continue as IFLA affiliates at a special rate.
New IFLA Committee on Standards
16 January 2012The committee will coordinate standards work within and beyond IFLA and support standards activities in IFLA professional units, principally in sections.
The LTR 2010-2011 Final Report
4 January 2012now available in English and French
Taller de la IFLA sobre transparencia y buen gobierno: Argentina
2 January 2012El 28 de septiembre de 2011, en coincidencia con el “Día del acceso a la información”, se realizó en Buenos Aires el Taller sobre transparencia y buen gobierno, patrocinado por IFLA LAC, IFLA FAIFE y la Biblioteca del Congreso (Argentina). A cargo de Paul Sturges, de la Universidad de Loughborough, Inglaterra, y de Alejandra Martínez del Prado, del Sistema de Bibliotecas de la Facultad de Medicina de la UNAM, el taller invitó al intercambio de ideas y opiniones para reflexionar sobre cómo pueden contribuir las bibliotecas al buen gobierno y la transparencia.
IFLA Knowledge Management Section Satellite Pre-conference in Helsinki, Finland, August 10 2012.
2 January 2012This one day satellite pre-conference focuses on how to plan, put into practice, refine, and assess knowledge sharing systems. Call for Papers open until February 15
IFLA workshop on transparency and good governance: Argentina
31 December 2011On September 28, 2011, simultaneously with the “Access to information day”, the Workshop on transparency and good governance was carried out in Buenos Aires. Cosponsored by IFLA LAC, IFLA FAIFE and the Library of Congress of Argentina, the workshop was delivered by Paul Sturges, from the University of Loughborough, England, and by Alejandra Martínez del Prado, from the System of Libraries of the School of Medicine (UNAM), contributing to the exchange of ideas on how libraries can contribute to good governance and transparency.