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- meet the President-elect: new librarians global connection webinar
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“New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations.” For the second consecutive year, IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning...
News - 15 April 2013 (created)
Tagged: Advocacy, Communication, new librarians global connection, New professionals, webinar, New Professionals
- E-Lending review in English public libraries
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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 March 2013 (created)
Tagged: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Copyright, United Kingdom
- Folding shelves - The Economist publishes article on Elending
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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 March 2013 (created)
Tagged: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Copyright, Future of libraries, The Economist
- Reflections from the Leipzig Bookfair
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Gerald Leitner, member of the IFLA Governing Board and the ELending Working Group, spoke at the Leipzig Bookfair about the challenges faced by libraries with regards to EBooks. He...
News - 21 March 2013 (created)
- Just launched: New webpages on IFLA and the Information Society
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Dear Colleagues IFLA is pleased to launch a new set of resources relating to the role libraries play in the information society and the way they can contribute to Internet governance. The new...
News - 1 March 2013 (created)
Tagged: Access to information, Advocacy, Announcement, Information society, Internet access
- IFLA and the Information Society
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Libraries have been at the heart of the information society since the very early days of the information and communication technology revolution, continuously adapting to new means of...
IFLA Group or Activity - 1 March 2013 (created)
Tagged: Access to information, Advocacy, Information society, Internet access
- The Thinkpiece ‘Libraries, eLending, and the Future of Public Access to Digital Content’
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In May 2012 IFLA released a Background Paper on eLending which discussed the situation facing public libraries seeking to lend eBooks to their users. The paper discussed the challenges facing...
Informational Page - 8 February 2013 (created)
Tagged: Advocacy
- E-Lending for Libraries
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Libraries have been providing access to digital content to their users for over two decades. Until recently this content largely comprised access to aggregated databases of journals, newspapers,...
IFLA Group or Activity - 8 February 2013 (created)
- Google Book Settlement, IFLA's positions (2009)
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IFLA positions with regard to the Google Book Settlement of 2009. IFLA Position on the Google Book Settlement IFLA Written Statement to the European Commission hearing on the...
Publication - 17 December 2012 (created)
Tagged: Advocacy, Google Book Settlement, Statements, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), IFLA's positions (2010)
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Positions and Statments made by IFLA and its partners with regard to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement of 2010. IFLA and EBLIDA Statement on ACTA and the Importance of Multilateral...
Publication - 17 December 2012 (created)
Tagged: ACTA, Advocacy, Statements, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)