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To mark the 7th meeting of the International Conference on Adult Education, IFLA is releasing research looking into the place of libraries in adult learning strategies around the world.
Today (13 June 2022), elections open for the key posts of President-elect and Treasurer.
The 2022 IFLA General Assembly will take place on 25 August in hybrid form. Today, IFLA Members have been invited to propose agenda items and resolutions.
The Knowledge Rights 21 Programme (KR21), of which IFLA is a partner, has launched a call for proposals to undertake work on copyright and advocacy training.
JOIN the E4GDH SIG at WLIC in Dublin on Thursday 28 July 2002, 11:00 - 12:30 at Wicklow Hall 2 for 'Librarians as evidence intermediaries during times of crisis' (Session 142)
Newsletter from IFLA Section Libraries for Children and Young Adults with articles on reading promotion and early literacy.
IFLA’s Metropolitan Libraries (MetLib) Section is seeking a Co-Opted member to fill vacancies.
To offer insights into how to get involved in Internet Governance matters in Europe, IFLA’s European Regional Division Committee and EuroDIG (European Dialogue on Internet Governance) organised a webinar and its recording is now available to watch.
As we increasingly move to a more open access research environment, there are considerations to tackle as we share research instrumentation, data, and published output. Join us as we consider these issues with librarians who have already been involved in adapting practices to a new open access environment.
We are proud to present the IFLA Asia & Oceania Regional Newsletter (May 2022). Download the PDF to dive right into the articles.
Dr Premila Gamage, Member of the Regional Division Committee for Asia-Oceania and Dr Basheerhamad Shadrach, Founder of Indian Public Library Movement and the South Asian Chapter of the INELI programme, represented IFLA and travelled to Bangkok in March 2022 to attend the 9th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD).
A self-sustaining community library, Dawei Millennium Centre, was established in 2007 by five university graduates in the city of Dawei, the capital of Tanintharyi region, Myanmar. The library was founded in the region with the ultimate goal of transforming the community into a knowledgeable and digitally literate society.
Locating LIS schools worldwide is often challenging as there are no global databases currently in existence. The IFLA global database and map of LIS schools and programmes is an international collaborative project launched by the IFLA Building Strong Library and Information Science Education (IFLA-BSLISE) Working Group to address this gap. The global interactive database will be built using data gathered through an online questionnaire to be completed by LIS schools.
The Manuskrip Melayu project began during Malaysia’s Movement Control Order (MCO) when libraries closed and librarians had to work from home.
Established on 31 May 2021, the Thailand Nursing Library Network was based on the project ‘A study on Collaboration among Nursing Libraries in Thailand’ by Miss Surang Sirorojsakul,Librarian, Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University and her team, with funding from the Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University.
We are pleased to present SDG Stories from Asia and Oceania, a booklet which aims to showcase how libraries in the Asia-Oceania region are supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
We are proud to present the May 2022 issue of the IFLA Asia & Oceania Regional Newsletter, which features thoughtful articles from seven countries in the region.
For us in the library sector, it is more important than ever to defend the values we believe in, and which underlie our work to defend freedom of access to information, equitable access for all sectors in society without discrimination, and freedom of expression among the other human rights agreed many decades ago by the international community.
The Central University of Haryana Department Of Library & Information Science Announces "International Essay Competition in remembrance of Padma Shri Dr. S. R. Ranganathan"
In the first weeks of 2022, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights gathered inputs and contributions for an upcoming study on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people’s fundamental rights. An input prepared by the IFLA Section on Library Services for Children and Young Adults and HQ draws on library experiences to highlight some key challenges and measures taken to deliver on the rights of young users.