Culture Summit 2015 – Culture and Sustainable Cities
20 March 2015This week the first United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) Culture Summit took place in Biblao, Spain.
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New Guidelines for Library Services to Persons with Dyslexia now published
19 March 2015The guidelines are a revision and expansion of the previous guidelines published by IFLA in 2001. We expect them to be a valuable tool for library staff who are responsible for serving persons with reading and learning difficulties.
Registration now open: IFLA President's Meeting 2015
17 March 2015Dedicated website and final programme now available; There will be five mains sessions with the following themes: *IFLA Trend Report and Lyon Declaration *Transforming Technologies: Opportunities and Threats *Legal regulations and the Impact on Information Technologies *Transformation in Public Libraries *Knowledge Economy in all Aspects
Notice of IFLA 2015 General Assembly and Call for Agenda Items
13 March 2015IFLA Members may propose items for inclusion in the agenda...
Preservation and Conservation workshop in Kenya
12 March 2015Global Library and Archives Community welcomes new United Nations report
11 March 2015On Wednesday 11 March 2015, the UN Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights will present a thematic report to the 28th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva regarding copyright policy in the context of cultural rights.
Now available: March 2015 issue of IFLA Journal
4 March 2015View the complete issue online
Proposal for Sponsorship of the IFLA International Marketing Award — 2016-2018
26 February 2015The IFLA Standing Committee on Management and Marketing is seeking a corporate sponsor for the IFLA International Marketing Award for the period 2016-2018 at a cost of 7500€ per year for three years.
IFLA takes Lyon Declaration to the UN
23 February 2015Negotiations in New York last week focused on the Declaration section of the new Framework. Delegates called for an aspirational statement that made sense to all.
Just published: An Italian translation of the Guidelines for Planning the Digitization of Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
20 February 2015Prepared by Chiara Cauzzi, Chiara Consonni, Valeria De Francesca, Danilo Deana, Lisa Longhi, and Federica Viazzi and freely available as a PDF file under a Creative Commons license.
Call for papers IFLA 2015 Cape Town
9 February 2015Call for papers for IFLA WLIC 2015 Cape Town has been published. Extended deadline : 13 March 2015
Just published: A Turkish translation of the Guidelines for Planning the Digitization of Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
1 February 2015Translated by Dr. Nevzat Özel (Ankara University, Department of Information and Record Management, Turkey) and available as a free PDF file under a Creative Commons "by" license.
REMINDER: Call for Nominations for Section Standing Committees August 2015 – August 2019
22 January 2015Nominations for candidates to serve on the Standing Committees for the period from August 2015 to August 2019
REMINDER: Call for Nominations for President-elect and Members of the Governing Board of IFLA
22 January 2015Nominations for President-elect August 2015-August 2017 (President 2017-2019) and Members of the Governing Board of IFLA (August 2015-August 2017)
Preservation and Conservation Strategic Programme updates
20 January 2015Digitised back issues of IPN now available; Call for submissions for special issue of IFLA Journal on Cultural Heritage; WLIC 2015 Call for papers...