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Minutes of Business Meetings: School Libraries Section, 21 and 22 April 2022

The IFLA SL Section Business Meetings were held in hybrid mode (both in presence, at the Blanchelande College in Guernse...

IFLA's First Fifty Years: Achievement and challenge in international librarianship

Jubilee publication commemorating IFLA's fiftieth anniversary in 1977. This volume consists of 20 separate chapters that...

Minutes of Meeting: Professional Council, 2 December 2021

Minutes from the 2 December 2021 meeting of the IFLA Professional Council

Minutes of Meeting: Professional Council, 1 April 2022

Minutes from the 1 April 2022 meeting of the IFLA Professional Council

Minutes of Meeting: Professional Council, 24 June 2022

Minutes from the 24 June 2022 meeting of the IFLA Professional Council

Minutes of Meeting: Professional Council, 11 February 2022

Minutes from the 11 February 2022 meeting of the IFLA Professional Council

Minutes of (online) business meeting: Academic and Research Libraries Section, 20 and 22 June 2022

Our June 2022 business meeting dealt inter alia with the following: Professional Committee announcements; WLIC 2022 incl...

Bibliography on Prison Libraries

IFLA LSN Prison Libraries working group: Action Plan 2019-2023

Minutes of meeting: Local History and Genealogy Section, 3 August 2022

Manifiesto IFLA-UNESCO sobre Bibliotecas Públicas 2022

El Manifiesto IFLA-UNESCO sobre la Biblioteca Pública 2022 ofrece una actualización de esta importante herramienta par...

Minutes of meeting: Social Sciences Libraries Section, 29 July 2022

1. Updates: RELINDIAL, WLIC 2022, SSLS/NML joint session debrief, quick SSLS/LTR/IFLA Journal shoutout, Goings on at I...

Cambridge University Press and Metadata

As we all know, good MARC records are necessary in order to attain good discoverability. If they are of poor quality, di...

Spot the Difference: Monitoring Data Quality in COBISS.SI

The article outlines a pragmatic dimension-based approach for observing and measuring the quality of data values in bibl...

ISNI, a top tool for quality enhancement, smooth data flows and efficient internal processes

The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is an ISO certified standardised number for uniquely identifying contr...

The IFLA-UNESCO Public Library Manifesto 2022

The 2022 IFLA-UNESCO Public Library Manifesto offers an update on this important tool for library advocacy. Last updated...

Minutes of meeting: Library Publishing Special Interest Group, 27 July 2022

The 2022 IFLA-UNESCO Public Library Manifesto at a Glance

This summary offers an overview of new and expanded concepts in the 2022 IFLA-UNESCO Public Library Manifesto at a glanc...