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Call for Papers - IFLA World Library and Information Congress - 2020

Upcoming Webinar: Developing a Successful Poster Session

Our new NPSIG/CPDWL Webinar coming in February 26th, please save the date!

Call for Papers — Open Session at the 86th IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2020

Theme: “Local History and Genealogy Collection Classification, Preservation, Sharing, and Access Practices of Local Regional, and International Libraries and Institutions” By Local History and Genealogy Section with the Indigenous Matters Section and the Rare Books and Special Collections Section

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Call for Papers: Join the Science & Technology Libraries Section at IFLA WLIC 2020 in Dublin!

You are invited to submit an abstract for a paper to be presented at the joint Science & Technology and Social Sciences Libraries Sections program at WLIC 2020 in Dublin, August 15-21.

Call for Papers: Worldwide Open Access Mandates and Policies

The Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section (SOCRS) invites colleagues to submit proposals for its two-hour open session at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC), Dublin, Ireland, 15-22 August 2020.

Are you passionate about reading and libraries? Proposals sought for exciting Satellite in Oxford.

Are you passionate about reading and libraries? Do you have an experience that you would like to share? If so, read on, because we are looking for proposals for our Satellite Meeting in Oxford UK, this summer.

[CANCELLED] Call for Papers - Satellite Meeting in Cork, Ireland

Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group (ENSULIB) with Preservation and Conservation Section (P&C) invites LIS professionals and students to submit proposals for two-day satellite meeting to be held in Boole Library in University College of Cork, Ireland 12-13 August 2020.

Call for Papers 2020 — Satellite Meeting of IFLA Special Interest Group Environment, Sustainability and Libraries with Preservation and Conservation Section

Placemaking; Purposing; Partnerships - our Mid-Year Seminar in Montreal March 6 2020

Call for Papers for our Open Session at WLIC 2020 in Dublin

Proposals due by 21 February 2020

Cancellation of the 2020 World Library and Information Congress

The IFLA Governing Board and Irish National Committee have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2020 World Library and Information Congress. The decision has been published in full on IFLA’s website and via IFLA-L and we are in the process of contacting all stakeholders and registered delegates.

Now available: Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action - Briefing for Libraries

The 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action set out an ambitious UN agenda to advance women’s empowerment and gender equality. 2020 marks their 25th anniversary, and a large-scale review has been launched to assess the progress made towards implementing the Declaration and the Platform. This review process offers libraries an opportunity to reflect on how their work can help advance gender equality and take further action. This briefing examines the role that access to information, knowledge and lifelong learning play in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action; as well as library activities and initiatives noted in national reports prepared as part of the Beijing+25 review.

IFLA PAC Centres in Qatar and Russia Continue Cooperation in the Field of Preservation of Cultural Heritage

In October 2019, the IFLA Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Center in Russia hosted a visitor from the IFLA PAC Centre in Qatar to facilitate exchange of expertise and cooperation between specialists from the two centres.

Virtual Open Programme 2020

Library Publishing SIG Virtual Open Programme - 15th October 2020

Call for Submissions for the 2020 IFLA ARL Hot Topics Session, Dublin

You are invited to submit an abstract for a 3-minute briefing on a Hot Topic for the session sponsored annually by the Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Section at IFLA.

Bibliography Section documents posted

Action Plan 2019/2020, Annual Report 2018/2019, Minutes from August 2019 are now posted

WLIC 2020 Open Session Call for Papers [Update: WLIC 2020 CANCELLED]

Theme: Smarter Bibliographies: Connecting and engaging national bibliographies with new platforms

IFLA Signs on to Letter Calling for Transparency over Guidelines on Upload Filter Provisions in Europe

IFLA has joined with over 40 civil society organisations across Europe in calling for the sharing of draft guidelines on the implementation of the controversial upload filter provisions in the Copyright Directive.

IFLA Submission Calls on US to Reject Efforts to Use Trade Measures to Delay Much-Needed Copyright Reforms

Efforts to use trade measures to delay or block long-overdue copyright reforms which will benefit libraries and their users are regrettable. In its comment to a review of South Africa’s enjoyment of preferential trade rules with the United States, IFLA has therefore called for the rejection of a petition seeking to punish the country for taking steps to improve how copyright functions.

Call for papers - Satellite Meeting: "Of what is past, and passing, and to come": art library networks in transition

The Art Libraries Section of IFLA is looking back on 40 years of international collaboration of art librarians worldwide, and forward over the horizon, asking what is to be done – next?