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The Gosford City Library team was thrilled to launch the IFLA “World Through Picture Books” exhibition at Erina Library on March 5th 2015. The author and illustrator Bruce Whatley entertained a large audience of children’s literature professionals including a large contingent of librarians, and teacher librarians, as well as interested community members.
With the negotiations over the UN post-2015 development agenda reaching their final phases in New York, it is an appropriate moment to share an overview of what is happening at the United Nations.
IFLA has joined an international coalition to offer a framework of safeguards and best practices for intermediary liability for third-party content and for the handling of requests to restrict or take down content.
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Theme: Access to Legal Information and Legislative Data in Africa: Role of Libraries and Librarians
Theme: The Future of Law Libraries: Tales of Existence and Transformation
"15 to 20 year olds reading across the world: Why? Where? How?" Young people between 15 and 20 years old around the world live in very different geographic, social, economic, every-day life conditions. Some attend secondary school or university, some work, some both study and work and some do not study nor work. How can 15-20 year olds that do not read be led to reading? What roles can be played by physical and digital libraries, by schools and cultural institutions, by associations and work places? Read the personal review of the IFLA satellite conference Section held in Paris, France 2014.
The Blue Shield offers its unequivocal support for the United Nations Secretary General’s statements. We also offer our total support for UNESCO’s Director General’s calls on all parties to protect Yemen’s unique cultural heritage.
IFLA attended the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2015, held in Geneva from 25–29 May.
Travelling exhibition of picture books "The World through Pictube Books" was presented in Erina Library, Gosford NSW Australia. See the article for impressions and photos.
IFLA has pleasure in announcing the result of the postal ballot for the election of President-elect 2015-2017
IFLA has pleasure in announcing the result of the postal ballot for the election of the Governing Board 2015-2017...
De Gruyter Saur and IFLA are delighted to announce that the winner of...
The guidelines have been translated into Korean by Dr. Hye-Eun LEE (Curator, National Library of Korea) / 이혜은 역 / and are made freely available as a PDF file under a Creative Commons license.
The Guidelines for translations of the IFLA ISBD namespace in RDF is intended to encourage, support and give guidance to professionals on the process of translations of the ISBD namespace
The deadline for the Presidential and Governing Board elections is the close of business on Wednesday, 13 May 2015.
IFLA is an original signatory to the Declaration which aims to foster agreement about how to best enable access to facts, data and ideas for knowledge discovery in the Digital Age.