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IFLA's New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) is accepting proposals for IFLACamp which is going to be held online this year, in August. IFLACamp is all about connecting new professionals and creating an environment where we can share new ideas with one another. This year, we are accepting submissions for presentations.
Earlier this year, a call for volunteers went out to the IFLA membership to serve on the Code of Conduct for Volunteers Working Group.
Last week the WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event took place in Geneva from the 27 to the 31 of May. This event marked a significant milestone of twenty years of progress made in the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society, which took place in two phases — Geneva in 2003 and Tunis in 2005. Twenty years ago WSIS was the space that set an initial framework for global digital cooperation with a vision to build people-centric, inclusive, and development-oriented information and knowledge societies. Just as in the the past, IFLA attended this event to continue its ongoing involvement in this process since its foundation at the 2003 Geneva Summit; and engaged in diverse multistakeholder discussions to highlight the crucial role that libraries play as key actors of the information society.
Creative Commons, a longstanding partner of IFLA, is leading an effort to advocate for a UNESCO Recommendation on Open Culture. This would follow in the footsteps of current UNESCO recommendations on Open Science and Open Educational Resources.
IFLA joined partners from around the world in the Hague to mark 70 years of protecting cultural heritage at a conference hosted by UNESCO and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is on this occasion that we join sister organisations and fellow founding members of Blue Shield International to reaffirm our calls for the protection of archives, libraries, museums and heritage places during armed conflicts and political instability.
This blog post was contributed by Matthias Liffers, Product Manager for the Persistent Identifier Services at the Australian Research Data Common.
This webinar is sponsored by the Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section, the Local History & Genealogy Section, and the Middle East and North Africa Regional Division.
IFLA's Acquisition and Collection Development (ACD), Academic and Research Libraries (ARL), Science and Technology Libraries (SciTech) sections and Library Publishing (LIBPUB) SIG are planning an IFLA Mid-term meeting in Istanbul.
Does the global library profession need a World Library and Information Congress? Yes, it does! This was confirmed by 93.6% of more than 300 respondents to the first of four WLIC Review pulse surveys, which focussed on the need for such a Congress in the profession.
Welcome to the May 2024 IFLA Newsletter! With International Workers’ Day (Labour Day) falling on the first of the month, we’re focused on the library workforce in this edition.
IFLA Sub-Saharan African Regional Division (IFLA SSA RDC), May 2024 Newsletter
I am happy to be writing to you to with the latest update on all that is happening at IFLA, and specifically the work of our Governing Board. I would like to acknowledge the positive feedback on these monthly messages from many of our members and volunteers. Thank you for your comments. We are continuing to issue these updates in all IFLA languages, which I hope assists in updating you on key matters.
Media release of the IFLA PressReader International Marketing Award Winners 2024. Sponsored by PressReader, the IFLA PressReader International Marketing Award is presented by the IFLA Section on Management and Marketing. The Award recognizes the best library marketing projects from 2023, aims to encourage marketing in libraries and provides an opportunity for libraries to share marketing experience and expertise globally.
The IFLA Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group (DHDS SIG) in partnership with the Artificial Intelligence (AI) SIG, the Information Technology (IT) and Knowledge Management (KM) Sections, invite you to submit proposals for the Open Webinar “Navigating the Risks of Global Inclusiveness: ML/AI Applications in Librarianship and DH/DS Practices”.
This week, IFLA representatives will be taking part in the 4th United Nations Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS). This event, reflecting the unique circumstances and needs of SIDS, will finalise the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for SIDS (ABAS), providing a framework for action by the UN and international community to support these countries.
Do you remember IFLACamp? NPSIG's famous event before WLIC? We are holding it online this year and we have exciting things planned. But most important of all, we want to receive your proposals! Click to learn more and read about how you can submit your proposal.
The IFLA Bibliography Section cordially invites you to its upcoming webinar "National Bibliographies: Wider Perspectives", on 27 June 2024, 2:00 – 3:30 pm CEST (GMT/UTC +2).
IFLA MENA RDC offered a workshop in Damascus Syria in collaboration with The Syrian Computer Society (SCS). The workshop titled "Measuring, Evaluating, and Demonstrating the Impact of Library Services" was held on May 20-21, 2024, at SCS headquarters.
IFLA MENA RDC and IFLA MLAS partnered with the Lebanese Library Association and ESCWA to organize the sixth conference of the Lebanese Library Association, titled "Libraries and Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage." The conference took place at ESCWA in Beirut from May 14 to 16, 2024.
Experience provided by IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG)