Stay up to date with our latest developments, initiatives, and new resources!
Attending the 87th World Library and Information Congress in Dublin? Take the opportunity to check in with the Knowledge Rights 21 team and find out more about how you can get involved and contribute to its goals, especially on Thursday 28 July, 13:15, in Liffey Hall 2.
A strong delegation of libraries engaged actively at the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. In addition to building links with senior decision-makers, they gained valuable insights to share with colleagues, contributing to building a more sustainable library field.
The IFLA Subject Analysis and Access Section’s Working Group on Automated Indexing is organizing the webinar titled "Where Do We Meet? Perspectives from Software Developers and Subject Specialists on Creating Machine Learning Projects". Webinar will be organized on Wednesday, Nov 9, 2022, 14:00 - 18:00 CET.
IFLA's Regional Division Committees will participate at their first IFLA World Library & Information Congress (WLIC) 2022 scheduled for Dublin, Ireland. They have prepared exciting Open sessions and are more than ready to share views and ideas on strengthening library advocacy at the regional evidence. Join their Open sessions to get to know what is happening in the world of libraries across all the regions of the world.
Subject Analysis and Access Section will be at WLIC 2022 with the Open session titled Semantic Shift and Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS). Join us on Wednesday, July 27, 11:15 - 12:30, Liffey Hall 1.
The IFLA Subject Analysis and Access Standing Committee will hold the first of two business meetings in person during IFLA WLIC 2022 on 25 July at 11:15-13:15 IST. (Wicklow Meeting Room 5)
Presentations from the webinar “Fascinating Facets: Recent Developments in Genre and Form Vocabularies” organized by the Subject Analysis and Access Genre/Form Working Group on May 19, 2022 are available online.
The IFLA Metadata Newsletter June 2022 issue is now published.
The aim of this publication is to help develop and promote standards and best practice in making information and knowledge available to parliaments. They provide a comprehensive overview of the work of parliamentary libraries and research services.
The Knowledge 21 Programme, of which IFLA is a a partner organisation, has launched a call for bids for funding to carry out work to promote copyright reform in Europe. Deadline: 30 September.