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SAJLIS Special Issue on AI and Libraries
27 September 2024Recording now available - Licenses and Copyright: Protection and Managing Digital Content
26 September 2024The presentation "Licenses and Copyright: Protection and Management of Digital Content" explores how copyright laws and different types of licenses help protect and manage digital content. It discusses practical examples of effective application of these legal tools across various digital environments. The presentation emphasizes the importance of keeping licensing practices up to date in the face of technological advancements and suggests the need for legal adaptations to enhance the protection of digital content.
From Summit to Launch Pad: Key Publication Launches at the IFLA Information Futures Summit
26 September 2024We’re barely a week away from the opening session of the IFLA Information Futures Summit. The event has a focus on providing a space for a collective discussion about information and knowledge environment of tomorrow, and how libraries can shape it. Our ambition is for it to be an accelerator of our efforts to prepare for, and be actors in, the future.
Be a part of it! IFLA nominations and elections 2025
26 September 2024It’s coming. A chance to boost your career and help shape the future of global librarianship!
IFLA and De Gruyter seek a Series Editor for the IFLA Publication Series
25 September 2024IFLA and De Gruyter are seeking Expressions of Interest for the position of Series Editor for the IFLA Publication Series. Closing date: 11 October 2024.
IFLA Newsletter, September 2024: The Future
25 September 2024Welcome to the September 2024 edition of the IFLA Newsletter! With less than a week away from the start of the IFLA Information Futures Summit, this month’s newsletter is all about The Future. 📡
Call for Preliminary Expressions of Interest: Future WLICs, 2026-2029
25 September 2024IFLA is currently carrying out a review of our World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) model, with a view to establishing recommendations by the end of the year about how we should go forwards with our flagship event. Key decisions will need to be made about the organisation and format of Congresses, as well as their frequency, based on the information that will have been received from our surveys and consultation sessions.
From Pact to Act: how the UN Pact for the Future can support you in your advocacy
24 September 2024The UN’s Pact for the Future, as well as the Global Digital Compact and Declaration on Future Generations annexed to it, includes plenty of relevance to libraries. This article highlights key points, and suggests ten ways you can work with these documents in your advocacy.
Library Professional Development in Europe Survey
23 September 2024Europe Regional Division Committe is running a survey on Library Professional Development in Europe. It aims to study the gaps and needs in library professional development across the European Region.
New IFLA ARL Blog post: "Paving the way for Open Access in Hong Kong and Greater China"
23 September 2024Message from the IFLA President, 20 September 2024
23 September 2024The below message was sent by the IFLA President on 20 September 2024 directly to all IFLA Members, affiliates, and volunteer.
Building the future of multilateralism: libraries and the Summit of the Future
23 September 2024The UN’s Summit of the Future comes to a close today, with the Pact for the Future – the key output text – already agreed. Through IFLA’s engagement in the preparatory process, and at events in New York, we were able to support calls for stronger recognition of, and support for, the role of information, knowledge, culture and libraries in achieving policy goals.
Global action, global access? The IGO licensing landscape
20 September 2024Following work that led to IFLA's 2018 Statement on Open Access in Intergovernmental Organisations (IGOs), we're happy to release updated analysis of how open content licensing approaches are. This highlights some progress, but much work still to do to facilitate the dissemination and uptake of publications.
IFLA Metropolitan Libraries Section: Focus on the Future
19 September 2024The IFLA Metropolitan Libraries Section’s focus for 2024-2025 is on urban transformation, sustainability, and civic engagement. The future of metropolitan libraries is entwined with the future of the large cities they serve. Cities are places where diversity and the density of people and ideas fosters innovation and well-being. At the same time, stark contrasts between wealth and poverty, along with pluralism, may generate friction. How can libraries contribute toward the achievement of equity and inclusion, sustainable urban growth, learning, and innovation?
Culture, Knowledge, Community: Looking Forward Together
19 September 2024With a grant from Spain’s Ministry of Culture, as well as the support of other generous sponsors, several IFLA Sections have come together and are pleased to organize the International Library Conference titled “Culture, Knowledge, and Community” in Barcelona, Spain, October 6-9, 2024.
CPDWL Webinar: Open Science Unveiled: Empowering Knowledge Sharing in the Digital Age
15 September 2024Save the Date: C&YA Midyear Meeting 5-8 April 2025
13 September 2024IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section will be holding their 2025 Midyear Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, 5th through the 8th of April.
Fulbright Foundation and IFLA host Fulbright Specialist, Melissa Levine, Chair, Advisory Committee on Copyright and Related Matters, IFLA
11 September 2024IFLA hosted Melissa Levine, Chair of our Advisory Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters in the Netherlands as a Fulbright awardee.