2019 WLIC GIOPS Sessions in Athens
20 August 2019All are welcome!
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Connect and engage from wherever you are: IFLA live streams highlights of the World Library and Information Congress 2019
20 August 2019This year’s IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) will again be live streamed. With an even larger offer than in previous years, you will be able to access 11 key sessions from our diverse and world-class programme.
Agenda WLIC 2019
20 August 2019More Countries Join Marrakesh: Update of the Marrakesh Monitoring Report
19 August 2019Since the adoption of the Marrakesh Treaty, IFLA has been monitoring how countries make it a reality. Today we publish the fourth update of the Marrakesh Monitoring Report, which looks into countries that have signed or ratified the Treaty since January 2019 and the way they are implementing it nationally.
News from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
17 August 2019Latest updates from the IPU on New PARLINE and the consultation process for the third Global Parliamentary Report.
Introduction to Open Access Webinar
17 August 2019Slides now available
Recording and Slides now available for the IFLA ARL Webinar Series: Academic Libraries Engaging in Publishing
15 August 2019Recording now available
National Libraries Section Sessions at the WLIC 2019 in Athens!
14 August 2019Three 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).
WLIC 2019: Call for stories!
10 August 2019Have you ever heard of a love story in a library? Among users? Among professionals? Please tell us your story, short or long!
NPSIG activities at IFLA Conference in Athens!
10 August 2019The New Professionals Special Interest Group is in Athens, Greece, from August 21st to August 29th, 2019. And there will be many opportunities to meet!
Reflecting Diversity and Building Understanding in Chocó, Colombia
9 August 2019As 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.
Library turns publisher in order to promote indigenous language reading
9 August 2019In 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.
Protect, Preserve, Promote: Libraries Celebrate International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 2019
9 August 20199 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.
Summer Newsletter Welcomes New Members
9 August 2019Meet our newest members, get ready for WLIC and more!
Using the Library of Congress Indigenous Law Portal to Promote Territorial Autonomy
9 August 2019In 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.
IFLA PAC Centres in Qatar and Russia - Exchange of experience
8 August 2019The 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.
Updates for the 2019 IFLA WLIC and IFLAPARL Pre-Conference
7 August 2019Latest information available about the 2019 IFLAPARL pre-conference and sessions at the IFLA Congress in Athens.
New entries in the National Bibliographic Register
5 August 2019New profiles added for Canada, Greece, and Turkey