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The video recording and slides for the IFLA Academic and Research Libraries Section lightning talks presented at the Hot Topics Session at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2022 in Dublin, Ireland are now available.
The webinar is organized by the joint team of two IFLA Sections – Information Literacy (IL) and School Libraries (SL) – and is delivered online within the programs of celebrations and initiatives for the Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2022, promoted by UNESCO, and the International School Library Month 2022, promoted by the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL).
If you missed IFLA’s Asia and Oceania & Middle East and North Africa webinars in September, you can now watch them again, and learn all about their open sessions at IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Dublin.
The Third Meeting of the Network of Parliamentary Libraries for Latin America and the Caribbean was held at the Congress of the Argentine Nation on September 19-21, 2022. Authorities of libraries and information agencies of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico and Uruguay shared experiences and proposals on different activities. The legislatures of the Argentine provinces were also part of the event.
The September 2022 edition of the IFLA Asia and Oceania Regional Newsletter includes editorials from the Chair of the Asia-Oceania Regional Division Committee, the Manager of the Regional Office for Asia and Oceania, and news both from IFLA and the region and beyond. This covers work in Malaysia, Maldives, Indonesia, Tonga, New Zealand, and China.
IFLA attended a meeting of the UNESCO World Book Capital Network in Wroclaw, Poland, on 22-23 September, bringing the perspective of the global library field as the participating cities formally signed the Network charter, and made plans for future actions.
As part of a global group of organisations committed to promoting access to knowledge at the World Intellectual Property Organization and beyond, IFLA encourages the library field to engage with a new website which shares key resources and data for advocacy and awareness-raising.
In 2022, Global MIL Week, hosted by Nigeria, will focus is on MIL’s role in nurturing trust, advancing social protection, and encouraging collective solidarity, to be explored through the theme, “Nurturing trust: A Media and Information Literacy Imperative”.
Library and Archives of People’s Majlis hope to see more libraries and institutions take the initiative to restore and preserve their collections as the handwritten records in any institution are vital cultural heritage – not only to the institution which holds the collection, but to the country too.
Read the interview with the new President of Librarians Association of Malaysia.
It is our pleasure to present the September 2022 issue of the IFLA Asia & Oceania Regional Newsletter, which features some of the latest happenings within and beyond the region.
Since the last issue of this newsletter, we have had the opportunity to meet face-to-face again for the first time since 2019.
The National Library of Indonesia has deposited the bulk of its collection relating to Indonesian and Southeast Asian history and culture. The collections contain information of Indonesian hajj pilgrims in colonial and postcolonial period.
Pham Thi Thanh Van and Tam Thach reflect on their experiences at IFLA WLIC 2022 in Dublin, Ireland.
Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Library was given the honour to receive thousands of books and other forms of collections and asked to maintain them. What are the next steps that the library followed?
Through this programme, the IFLA Regional Division Committee for Asia and Oceania aims to inspire and encourage colleagues within the region to advance their efforts to bring the UN SDGs to fruition.
We are looking for PhD Students, MS or Bachelor Students who have job experience in other fields or students who would like to present the research results in this area in their countries. We are also looking for LIS students who have not pursued a traditional library career, do not work in traditional professions and want to report on their path.
We are interested in hearing about the innovative projects you have created or helped create in a library. Your proposal could also include abstract ideas that you believe would be a great project.
Following a successful WLIC2022 session around this topic, we are soliciting articles and proposals on IT project management or agile methodologies for libraries. There is room for briefs or longer/more in-depth articles highlighting methodologies, implementation and future agile and project management directions.
In this webinar you will learn more about infodemic as a concept and how we went from fake news to infodemic in the last five years; about training initiatives at the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ASEAN-USAID PROSPECT in Jakarta, Indonesia. You will also hear the clarion call on the role of the librarian in advocacy and the skills needed to fight infodemic and infobesity.