Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy The Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL) was launched by UNESCO in 2013, and focuses on both raising the profile of media and information literacy as an area of teaching, as well… Read More
The sixth edition of the Hispanic-Brazilian seminar of research in information, documentation and society (VI Seminário Hispano-Brasileiro de Pesquisa em Informação, Documentação e Sociedad) will be held on 18, 19 and 20 of 2017 in Aracajú, Brazil. The event, which takes place annually, is the result of an… Read More
Full text of President Duda's welcome letter to WLIC 2017 delegates presented at the Opening Session Read More
Freedoms of access to information and expression online are at risk. The spread of deliberately misleading information risks undermining confidence in the Internet, while heavy-handed reactions from authorities and platforms limit fundamental human rights. Read More
IFLA commissed a review of the available literature on the limits of licensing as a means of giving access to knowledge, in order better to understand the feasibility of universal licensing based solutions. The result draws on surveys, academic and grey literature in order to establish a complete picture… Read More
Alongside the Literature Review on the Limits of Licensing, IFLA has produced an executive summary. This is available to download as a pdf. Read More
The Open Program will take place on 21 August, 16-18,Auditorium Hall. Law Cataloguing and Classification in Poland: A Journey Through Time (and Practices) Barbara Szczepanska, Hogan Lovells (Warszawa) LLP, Poland Paper in English Sistema de clasificación e indización temática del Instituto… Read More
On March 9, 2017, the members of the Library Services to Persons with Special Needs (LSN) met at GallaudetUniversity, in Washington, D.C. (USA) for the first day of our two-day Midyear Meeting. The first day served as an opportunity to begin the process of revising our standards on… Read More