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Dear friends and colleagues, We have already passed half of 2019 and many events have taken place. Colleagues have come and left. It is the end of the current term but new friends have joined us in the coming term.
The Mozilla Internet Health Report is an annual publication which brings together information and reflections about key issues facing the internet today. The report therefore offers a great basis for thinking within the library field about issues around the way we access, share and create information.
At the 2019 High Level Political Forum, governments, UN officials and civil society representatives heard about the ways in which libraries can deliver the Sustainable Development Goals. Through two side-events, participation in a Voluntary National Review, and interventions in other sessions, IFLA’s team, including the President and Secretary-General, spoke up for our institutions.
Session 234 LIS Education Role in Libraries Dialogue: Changes Start Here Wednesday, August 28, 2019 13:45 - 15:45 held in Trianti. ---------------------- Session 275 LIS Education in Developing Countries: Challenges and Trends - Thursday, August 29, 2019 13:45 - 15:45 held in MC 3
First Business Meeting: Session 006 will meet in Athens College Room 107 on Saturday, August 24, 2019 from 11:15 a.m. - 13:15 p.m. --------------------------- Second Business Meeting: Session 244 will meet in Business Meeting Room 3 Thursday, August 29, 2019 from 08:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Presenters: Jody Bailey, Head of Scholarly Communications Office, Emory University Libraries, and Ted Polley, Social Sciences & Digital Publishing, IUPUI University Library Date & Time: December 5, 2019, 9:00 AM EDT (NY) US time REGISTER NOW
In its second event at the High Level Political Forum, IFLA, with the kind support of the Argentine Mission to the United Nations, held a discussion about how to extend the success of the Buenos Aires Declaration to more countries, and around the world.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals place a strong emphasis on partnerships, within and across countries. These, the UN argues, are essential for spreading ideas, reducing inequalities within and across countries and improving the effectiveness of development policies. Libraries are well suited to participate in and support these partnerships, as was made clear in an event held at the UN Library on 16 July.
The UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation report "The Age of Digital Interdependence" outlines key issues and offers recommendations for building an inclusive digital future. Several messages and recommendations the report puts forward are directly relevant for libraries.
Alongside growing concern in the United States and Canada about the conditions imposed on libraries looking to lend eBooks, there are also efforts to reduce dependency on third party distributors by building 'library-controlled' platforms. We interviewed Jessica Want, Director, Digital Products at New York Public Library to find out about one major initiative - Library Simplified. One such effort is Library Simplified, a collaboration between New York Public Library, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), and Lyrasis.