Electronic collections

20th EBLIDA - NAPLE conference

Susan Schaepman — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:52:11 +0100

A conference on the role on libraries in Europe and their current e-challenges. The Jubilee Conference on Friday the 11th of May aims to draw the attention of the European Union both to the risks and threats at stake for libraries and their patrons, and therefore also to the citizens of Europe with the current situation in the volatile market of ebooks in which libraries have very few rights.

Call for Papers—Subject Access now: Inspiring, surprising, empowering

Sandra Roe — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:27:42 +0100

For the Classification & Indexing Section Open Session we invite presentations showing new and innovative ways of providing subject access to users from all types of libraries – approaches or applications that are inspiring, surprising, empowering.

For example:

Classification and Indexing Section

Registration now open for November “Intellectual Freedom across the Globe” webinar series

IFLA — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:22:23 +0200

CHICAGO - Registration is now open for “Intellectual Freedom across the Globe,” a series of three webinars on international issues related to free speech, censorship and access to information in libraries and beyond. The webinars will be held during November 2011 and feature speakers from several countries. The series is co-sponsored by ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and FA

Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE)

Emerald and IFLA begin a special partnership

IFLA — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:52:56 +0200

United Kingdom, April 2010

Mid-Term Meeting in Moscow

Corrado Di Tillio — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:16:21 +0100

Preliminary programme

Wednesday, March 3:

Workshop on the Digital collections development

10.00 – 10.15: Greetings by Dr. Victor Fedorov, president of the Russian State Library

Acquisition and Collection Development Section

Call for papers for Gothenburg 2010

Corrado Di Tillio — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:23:47 +0100

World Library and Information Congress: 76th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
10-15 August 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden
Theme: Opening Doors to Spectacular Collections: Access to Multi-sensory, Multimedia, and Mobile Materials

Acquisition and Collection Development Section

Kuopio-3 presentations now on-line

Corrado Di Tillio — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:10:48 +0100

The presentations and photos from IFLA sponsored Kuopio-3 conference are now on line. The theme of the conference was "The Universal Repository Library and guarantees of the sustainability of the digital copy". Key note speakers were Caroline Brazier (British Library), Derek Law (University of Strathclyde), Constance Malpas (OCLC) and Steve O'Connor (Hong Kong Polytechnics Library).

See: http://www.varastokirjasto.fi/Kuopio3/programme.htm

Acquisition and Collection Development Section