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Global Commission Recommends Governments to Invest in Public Access in Libraries

“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.

Now available: IFLA WLIC 2016 Convening Notice & proxy forms for IFLA General Assembly in Columbus, Ohio

The IFLA General Assembly meetings will take place on 17 & 18 August 2016.

eBooks – a Step Forward

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.

Help Us to Help You: Reforms Necessary for European Libraries to Do Their Jobs

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.

New CPDWL guidelines now available!

IFLA Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices

The Internet as a Human Right? IFLA Promotes Public Access at EuroDIG

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.

New Blog Post: "An IFLA mindmap"

This is a post by Antoine Torrens, IFLA NPSIG Information Coordinator.

New Blog Post: "When a door closes, a window opens"

Interview with Courtney Young, American Library Association Immediate Past President, the youngest President the ALA had in the last 80+ years.

How do libraries use digital devices to promote reading? - Online articles published

Section's most recent article collection is online.

Be Open to Open Science – Libraries Call on All Stakeholders to Play a Constructive Role

Libraries today urged all players to work together and apply their efforts to build an open science system.

Libraries and Archives Are Embracing Digital: It’s Time the Law Did the Same

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.

IFLA Strategic Plan 2016-2021 now available in seven languages

With this Strategic Plan the IFLA Governing Board sets out IFLA's...

Pre-register now for Off-site Session in Columbus: Worth a Thousand Words: A Global Perspective on Image Description, Discovery, and Access

Sponsored by the Rare Books and Special Collections Section and the Art Libraries Section

Gerald Leitner starts as new IFLA Secretary General

A historic occasion for IFLA took place today as we both welcome Gerald Leitner as the IFLA Secretary General and say a fond farewell to Jennefer Nicholson whose tenure as Secretary General moved the association so far forward

New Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centre for digital preservation

New RELINDIAL publication: Libraries at the Heart of Dialogue of Cultures and Religions: History, Present, Future

This book is the publication of the proceedings of the Relindial satellite meeting of Paris (2014)

Out Now: June 2016 issue of IFLA Journal

View the complete issue online