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Four libraries from Australia, the US, and Denmark, respectively, have been nominated for the Systematic Public Library of the Year which is awarded to the world’s best new public library.
New IFLA publications to support your work on the UN 2030 Agenda. Act now to make sure libraries are included in your country’s national development plans for the SDGs!!
We are very sorry to inform you that the CPDWL satellite meeting in Cleveland, Transforming Libraries: What does this mean for continuing professional development and workplace learning? is canceled.
DEADLINE: 30 June 2016
“Government should invest in public Internet access points, especially in schools, libraries and other social service venues” states new report by the Global Commission on Internet Governance.
The IFLA General Assembly meetings will take place on 17 & 18 August 2016.
With eBooks becoming an ever more normal way of reading, it is high time that the law caught up with reality. IFLA therefore welcomes the Opinion of the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union on eLending.
Libraries have long been key to education, research and culture policies, in Europe and around the world. To continue to deliver the public interest mission given them, they need laws that reflect the times. A paper signed by IFLA and European library and cultural heritage institutions sets out how to do this.
IFLA Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices
The internet offers an invaluable tool for achieving the key objective of libraries – providing equitable access to knowledge and information. Librarians have been quick to seize the opportunity, offering not only physical access, but also training and specific resources online that help users learn, enjoy and explore. At the European Dialogue on Internet Governance, IFLA representatives argued for policies and practices that support them in this role.
This is a post by Antoine Torrens, IFLA NPSIG Information Coordinator.
Interview with Courtney Young, American Library Association Immediate Past President, the youngest President the ALA had in the last 80+ years.
Section's most recent article collection is online.
Libraries today urged all players to work together and apply their efforts to build an open science system.
Digital technologies offer rich opportunities to collect, preserve and make the world’s knowledge available. But to make the most of these collections, libraries and archives need the right laws. At a meeting of world copyright experts and law makers, librarians and archivists underlined the challenges they face from anachronistic laws, often the fruit of lobbying by established interests.
With this Strategic Plan the IFLA Governing Board sets out IFLA's...