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Three great sessions this year from the National Libraries Section, the Special Interest Group on National Organisations and International Relations (SIG-NOIR), and the Special Interest Group on National Information and Library Policy (SIG-NILP).
Have you ever heard of a love story in a library? Among users? Among professionals? Please tell us your story, short or long!
The New Professionals Special Interest Group is in Athens, Greece, from August 21st to August 29th, 2019. And there will be many opportunities to meet!
As part of our series of examples of how libraries protect, preserve and promote indigenous languages in the context of the International Year of Indigenous Languages, this contribution from Alejandra Velez, University of Chocó, talks about her library’s work in this area.
In a further contribution to our collection of examples of how libraries protect, preserve and promote indigenous lanaguges and the communities that speak them, the below example comes from Trøndelag county library in Norway. We are grategul to Morten Olsen Haugen for the below contribution.
9 August is the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. It provides a great opportunity to highlight the work that libraries are doing to support and promote languages, and the communities that speak them. To celebrate, we share three stories - from Norway, the United States and Colombia.
Meet our newest members, get ready for WLIC and more!
In the context of the International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019, IFLA is highlighting examples of the different ways in which libraries protect, preserve and promote languages, cultures and communities. We're glad to share an article by Rosa Maldonaldo of the Library of Congress about the Indigenous Law Portal and how this is helping to promote autonomy in Bolivia.
The IFLA PAC Netowrk has one major goal: to preserve all library and archive materials, published and unpublished, in all formats in accessible form for as long as possible. To ensure this - and to celebrate the Qatar-Russia Year of Culture - the two PAC Centres in Qatar and Moscow met to exchange experience and knowledge.
Latest information available about the 2019 IFLAPARL pre-conference and sessions at the IFLA Congress in Athens.
New profiles added for Canada, Greece, and Turkey
The July 2019 issue of the Section's newsletter is now available
Meetings and Open Session
The Government Libraries, Library and Research Services for Parliaments and Law Libraries Sections invite to the session 238 of the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2019 - #WLIC2019, to be held in Athens, Greece. Date: 28 August 2019, 13:45 - 15:45.
ENSULIB activities during IFLA WLIC 2019, Athens.
All are welcome to participate in this year’s meeting of the IFLA Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group (SIG)
The use of technology in education is growing, and a new class of technologies has emerged that relies on tracking and analysing vast amounts of student behavioural data. The position of libraries in educational ecosystems means that they may well, both directly and indirectly, come across this trend. This briefing outlines the key ethical and security concerns for libraries to consider, and suggests some ways for libraries to promote responsible and ethical use of Edtech.