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Presentations from the 2015 IFLAPARL Pre-Conference and notes on the Workshop on the Guidelines for Parliamentary Research Services have been posted on the website of the Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments.
Here is the second in our series of "Reference Interviews" with RISS Standing Committee Members!
As we have watched the refugee crisis unfold in Europe we have been flooded with examples of how public libraries have responded in practical and heartfelt ways.
The first of the Public Libraries Section's 'Guest Blogger' posts appears on the PLS blog today, this time by Public Libraries Standing Committee member, Torbjörn Nilsson who writes about the "reading Holiday' initiative in Sweden.
The United Nations (UN) hosted the Summit for the adoption of the 2030 Agenda at the end of September in New York. IFLA has been actively involved in the process of creating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the last years and has advocated for access to information, culture, access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and universal literacy, all of which can be found in the 2030 Agenda, throughout this time.
Peer review submission deadline: 16 May 2016
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Read about the experience of attending the IFLA Congress from our attendance grant winners
The IFLA Children and Young Adults Section is revising the Guidelines for Children's Library Services. The new Guidelines will promote and encourage the development of effective library services for children by giving guidance to the international library community about children's needs and rights on information, literacy and reading.
If you missed the Public Libraries Satellite in Cape Town don't despair, the presentations are now available on-line.
At the World Library and Information Congress in Cape Town IFLA's Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and Public Libraries Sections joined together to deliver the program Learning Across Boundaries: a workshop (Session 092). As part of the session each of our four presenters provided a number of questions that were discussed by participants in a world café.
Here is the first installment of the new RISS feature, "Reference Interview," in which we chat with members of the Standing Committee to learn more about them!
delivered on 22 August at the 81st IFLA Congress in Cape Town, South Africa