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The IFLA Member and Viewpoints Survey: requesting your feedback

IFLA is undertaking its first member and viewpoints survey and invites your input.

Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section Winter 2017 Newsletter Now Online!

Shared History, Shared Challenges, Shared Efforts – Preserving Francophone African Heritage

The countries of French-speaking Africa have a rich and diverse history. Much of this is recorded not through books or manuscripts, but through a vibrant tradition of oral history and know-how. Yet with preservation practices not always well-suited to these forms of heritage, and limited resources available, the need for cooperation in order to ensure that they are not lost is essential. A conference in Dakar on 17-19 November explored how best to do this.

Getting Copyright Right in Viet Nam: IFLA Speaks at WIPO Event

Like all aspects of government policy, copyright laws should serve to promote the long-term public interest. As the way in which people create and access information changes, copyright rules for libraries need to evolve to reflect this. IFLA, represented by Sue Warren (Gold Coast, Australia), underlined this message at a conference in Viet Nam, organised by the World Intellectual Property Organisation.

IFLA is Coming to Greece: World Library and Information Congress 2019 to be held in Athens

IFLA today announced that the World Library and Information Congress 2019 will take place in Athens, Greece. Following the opening of a new national library building, and its designation as 2018 World Book Capital, the city will in two years’ time play host to the biggest truly international gathering of the library field.

Call for Papers / Genealogy and Local History Section joint with the Asia and Oceania Section

"Local Histories and Genealogies in Multicultural World"

With Strong Libraries, Everyone Can Learn: Cameroonian Librarians Engage at WIPO Conference

Around the world, libraries are at the heart of education institutions, giving access to the materials students and teachers need. Librarians from Cameroon attended a WIPO conference on 21-22 November in order to underline the need to support their institutions as part of a comprehensive development strategy.

Spreading Library Values through Global Dialogue – IFLA’s World Library and Information Congress (WLIC)

IFLA exists in order to empower the library field.

Call for Papers - "Diverse indigenous voices, decolonizing, transforming, centering practices"

Human Rights Day 2017: IFLA welcomes the start of the 70th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

IFLA Secretary General Gerald Leitner today wrote to IFLA members to mark the start of the 70th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Emptying Libraries Weakens Democracy – IFLA Statement on the Destruction of Library Books in Turkey

IFLA is deeply concerned by the announcement of the destruction of 140 000 books held by public-controlled libraries in Turkey. As established in IFLA’s Statement on Libraries and Intellectual Freedom, decisions on the selection and availability of library materials and services should be governed by professional considerations and not by political, moral and religious views. Such broad and indiscriminate withdrawals of books from libraries risks challenging the principle that the right of freedom of access to information should be guaranteed in all but the most extreme circumstances.

Cultural Heritage at Risk: IFLA attends the UNESCO Meeting on Protection of Cultural Property in the event of Armed Conflict

The Twelfth Meeting of the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the event of Armed Conflict took place in Paris, on 29-30 November. IFLA was invited as one of the eminent professional NGOs who have a formal relation with UNESCO.

What Makes a Good Reader: International Findings from PIRLS 2016

Innovative Partnerships: a Strategic Imperative 2018 mid-year seminar in Birmingham (UK) 23 February 2018 - Full Programme now available!

International Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML) 2021 to be in held Africa for the first time

A Common History: Preserving Cultural Heritage in Europe

Today is the first day of the European Year of Cultural Heritage. For the next twelve months, libraries across Europe will be celebrating the importance of heritage, and the contribution it makes to communities. In doing so, they will underline the indispensable role they play in preserving, managing, and giving access.

Call for online articles: Libraries supporting curriculum

The IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section invites proposals for online articles to be included in the Winter 2018 Newsletter with the special theme: Libraries supporting curriculum.

WLIC 2018 Call for Papers: Health and Biosciences Libraries Section

The Last Mile: IFLA Launches Work to Help All Libraries Deliver on the Marrakesh Treaty

When they signed the Marrakesh Treaty in 2013, the Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organisation committed to removing legal barriers to access to books for people with print disabilities. They opened the way to dealing with a key cause of the book famine – the fact that barely 7% of published books were available in suitable formats. IFLA is working on a guide to ensure that libraries can make full use of the potential that the Treaty offers.