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Now available: Information Literacy Section Newsletter - Winter Issue 2024

18 November 2024

    The Information Literacy Section Newsletter is published twice a year. This Winter Issue 2024 includes a total of six articles, with contributors from around the world, including the USA, Switzerland, Vietnam, Malaysia and Norway. These articles cover a variety of topics, mainly focusing on diverse information literacy programs in different countries, such as library information literacy initiatives, AI literacy course, information literacy workshop, legal information literacy program, and information literacy teaching network. Articles in this issue: 1) Coffee Lecture: Critical Evaluation of AI-generated Information; 2) The Evolution of Information Literacy at the International Islamic University Malaysia: A Strategic Partnership Between Dar Al-Hikmah Library and Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws; 3) The Future of Research Methodology: Integrating AI for Better Outcomes; 4) Library Information Literacy Workshops at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Vietnam (RMIT Vietnam): A Reflection from a Liaison Librarian; 5) NANUB: The National Network for Information Literacy Instruction in Academic Libraries in Norway; 6) Penrose Library at Whitman College Launches New Information Literacy Initiatives.

    IFLA MLAS Launches webinar series “Building Strong Library Associations”

    1 November 2024

      IFLA’s Management of Library Associations Section (MLAS) in collaboration with the New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG), the Women, Information and Libraries (WILSIG), and IFLA Regional Divisions is proud to announce a webinar series on Building Strong Library Associations. MLAS webinar series will be presented between November 2024 and July 2025. Stay tuned for more news. Follow MLAS on Facebook and Twitter.

      Proposed Serbian library tax threatens closures, undermines credibility of public lending right

      31 October 2024

        IFLA has been alarmed by the news from Serbia about a proposed form of Public Lending Right that risks forcing mass closures of public libraries across the country. We strongly support the mobilization of the Serbian Library Association in this respect, urge the government to rethink its proposal, and call on the international reprographic rights community to condemn this step that undermines the credibility of such schemes. 

        From trends to partnerships practice: summary of Information Futures Summit sessions

        30 October 2024

          Partnerships are essential to libraries, core both to who we are and what we do. In three sessions at the Information Futures Summit, participants explored what partnerships mean and can mean, and what is needed to make more of them. Thanks in particular to Ashleigh Lowry, Secretary of ALIA Queensland, whose participation and note-taking made this report possible.