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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

The department of Culture, Media and Sport in the UK today published the Sieghart review on E-lending in English public libraries. This government commissioned review states that E-...

News - 27 Marzo 2013 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Copyright, United Kingdom

Stuart Hamilton participated in the Guardian live chat on the role information plays in development. The live chat lasted for 2 hours and recieved a lot of questions and feedback in form...

News - 25 Marzo 2013 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Development, Guardian

In late March, The Economist published an article on the Elending and Public Libraries. Stuart Hamilton, Director of Policy and Advocacy, as well as members of the IFLA Network, such as...

News - 25 Marzo 2013 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Copyright, Future of libraries, The Economist

Photo: Dan Chung IFLA would like to draw your attention to an article we have just posted on the Guardian ‘Global Development Professionals’ blog. The...

News - 13 Marzo 2013 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Guardian, Libraries and Development

The 13th International Symposium of Information Science (ISI) will be held against a background of accelerated change processes in both academic and everyday lifeworlds. In view of these...

Event - 6 Febrero 2013 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Conference, General discussion, Germany, Information technology, ISI, Knowledge management

This book is a must for librarians with international interest in access to knowledge. It includes a collection of 15 chapters written by authors from all over the world and covers different...

Publication - 7 Septiembre 2012 (created)

Tagged: A2K, Access to information, Access to knowledge, Publications

This is a reminder that the early registration (with a reduced rate) for the IFLA Satellite Post-Conference, Beyond libraries – Subject metadata in the Digital Environment and Semantic Web,...

News - 29 Mayo 2012 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Cataloguing, Classification and indexing, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Estonia, IFLA Satellite meeting, Indexing, Metadata, Semantic Web, Classification and Indexing

IFLA Secretary General Jennefer Nicholson (centre) with conference delegates; photo by Jacinta Were A short report on recent IFLA activities in Nairobi, Kenya Earlier...

News - 22 Mayo 2012 (created)

Tagged: Access to knowledge, Copyright, Kenya, Literacy, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

The conference will explore the role of different kinds of subject metadata in the digital environment and the semantic web, in libraries and beyond libraries. The digital environment creates...

Event - 10 Febrero 2012 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Cataloguing, Classification and indexing, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Estonia, Indexing, Metadata, Satellite Meeting, Classification and Indexing