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IFLA welcomes the report by the High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, published on the 30th of May 2013. The report calls for a ‘data and information...

News - 31 Mayo 2013 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Advocacy, Development, ICT4D, Information policy, International cooperation, Press Release, ALP (Action for Development through Libraries Programme)

The program will start with presentations to introduce access technology products, software and devices. Participants will then visit a "Technology Petting Zoo," where people (companies...

Event - 30 Mayo 2013 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Acquisitions, Audiovisual and multimedia, Best practice, Digital divide, Digital resources, Disadvantaged people, Education, Education and training, Electronic delivery, Electronic resources, Future of libraries, Programme, Services to people with disabilities, Services to the visually impaired, Singapore, Social inclusion, Library Services to People with Special Needs

At the 2013 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), IFLA hosted a workshop on 'Public Access to the Internet and the role of Libraries as an agent of development...

News - 17 Mayo 2013 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Switzerland, WSIS, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society)

The social sciences have made fundamental contributions to the understanding of the economic, political and social life of nations in the past century. Social science libraries now have an...

Publication - 3 Mayo 2013 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Cuba, Open Access, Publications, Social Science Libraries

Just off the press as Nr 158 in the IFLA Publications Series…fully bilingual English/Español title! Read all about it: Open Access and Digital Libraries / Acceso...

News - 3 Mayo 2013 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Open Access

A new FAIFE Spotlight has just been released: Interview with Saad Eskander, Director of Iraq National Library and Archives (INLA). Ten years ago this April Iraq’s National Library...

News - 2 Mayo 2013 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Cultural heritage, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)

On behalf of IFLA, the Public Libraries Section chair Suzanne Payette warmly congratulates and thanks Vít Richter of the National Library of the Czech Republic who coordinated the Czech...

News - 25 Abril 2013 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Associations, Best practice, Cooperation, Public Libraries

A new FAIFE Spotlight has just been released. It is titled "Are digital laws making or breaking digital libraries?" and it has been written by Benjamin White. Take a look at...

News - 24 Abril 2013 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)

Seven papers that were presented at our LSN Satellite Program on "Libraries and The Homeless" presented in Tallinn, Estonia in August 2012 will be published in a special issue by Emerald...

News - 15 Abril 2013 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Disadvantaged people, Information literacy, Information professionals, Library as place, Poverty, Library Services to People with Special Needs

Last November the IFLA team attended the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Baku. During our time there we were run four workshops. These workshops were very successfully received and the...

News - 8 Abril 2013 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Azerbaijan, IGF, Internet access