2005, August, Oslo, Norway In 2002, when IFLA’s Professional Committee decided, in concert with Members of the Association, to develop an explicit list of professional priorities, there was immediate and unanimous agreement that one of those priorities should relate explicitly to intellectual property, since laws in this area have… Read More
The Committee on Copyright and Other Legal Matters was established to advise IFLA and its constituent groups with respect to copyright and intellectual property, economic and trade barriers to the acquisition of library materials, disputed claims of ownership of library materials, authenticity of electronic texts, subscriptions and license agreements… Read More
Title: Response from IFLA to the European Commission's Green Paper ‘Copyright in the Knowledge Economy' Author: Winston Tabb Date: November 2008 Note: Response to EU Green Paper (COM(2008) 466/3) Title: The Public… Read More
The IFLA Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section – IFLAPARL – addresses the specific professional interests of parliamentary library and research services. Purpose and Scope The Section is concerned with library & research services to legislatures at international and national level, and at second-tier level in the case of… Read More
Management Prospects and Challenges of Library Associations in Africa: the case for Uganda Library Association and the library and Information Association of South Africa [PDF] by Dick Kawooya. This article was originally published in “World Libraries,” Vol. 11, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring and Fall 2001, pp. 39-55. Read More
Promotion of published heritage and national bibliography is the main interest of the Bibliography Section. What is Bibliography? National bibliographies are a permanent record of the cultural and intellectual output of a nation or country, which is witnessed by its publishing output. They gather the bibliographic information of current publications… Read More
Serials & Other Continuing Resources (SCORE): Scholarly Communication in IFLA What We Do The Serials & Other Continuing Resources Section (SCORE) serves as IFLA’s home for scholarly communication. SCORE focuses on all aspects of the creation, dissemination, and preservation of research through programming, committee work, special projects, and collaboration with… Read More
We collect and disseminate knowledge about library design, construction and equipment. We facilitate an exchange of experiences between librarians and architects. Our Section considers matters concerning the design and construction of all types of libraries in all parts of the world, their furnishings and equipment. We aim to collect and… Read More
Health and Biosciences Libraries Section (HBS) members are from all regions of the world and from a wide range of sectors – academic and hospital libraries to national libraries and government agencies as well as LIS lecturers and researchers. Together we seek to provide a global voice on health and… Read More
This section was known as the Classification and Indexing Section until August 2016. The Subject Analysis and Access (SAA) Section focuses on knowledge organization systems (KOS) representing subject domains used in bibliographic description to provide subject access to bibliographic resources. The Section serves as a forum for creators of KOS,… Read More