Information technology

TechSoup for Libraries

Simon — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:19:04 +0100

TechSoup for Libraries is a project of TechSoup Global, a nonprofit organization devoted to making technology and technology education available and affordable to nonprofits and libraries all over the world. As of June 2009, it has distributed over 4.9 million donated and discounted products to nonprofits and public libraries across the globe, freeing up more than US$1.4 billion dollars for other uses.

KM 2009

ebalnaves — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:11:12 +0200

The Knowledge Management, Parliamentary Libraries and Information Technology sections combined to present an interesting cross-disciplinary session at the IFLA congress in Milan in August 2009. The following are the power point presentations from those sessions.

Information Technology Section

IFLA IT Section collaborates in an interesting session on Statistics for Cultural Heritage & scores well in citation analysis

ebalnaves — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:33:12 +0200

The IFLA IT Section collaborated with the Statistics and Preservation and Conservation section today to present a very interesting series of papers on statistics in the context of cultural heritage:

Statistics and Evaluation, Information Technology and Preservation and Conservation

Statistics for cultural heritage

Information Technology Section

Trying out open source is getting easier

ebalnaves — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:19:29 +0200

One of the difficulties of testing open source solutions is the range of linux flavours and the difficulties of setting up different test enviornments and switching between them.

With virtualisation reaching the desktop now, this process is much easier.

IFLA IT Section - Newsletter July 2009

ebalnaves — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:36:37 +0200

Features:

Information Technology Section

IFLA IT Section - New members

ebalnaves — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:48:57 +0200

The IFLA Information Technology standing committee welcomes the new members elected for the term 2009-2013:

Jonas Ahlberg
Head, IT Department
National Library of Sweden

Emmanuelle Berms
Head of Prospective and Data Services
Bibliothque nationale de France

Giuliana de Francesco
Library Manager-International Projects
ICCU - Instituto Centrale Catalogo Unico Delle Biblioteche Italiane

Information Technology Section

Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge: Special Session at the WSIS Forum

Louis — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:01:36 +0200

Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge

Thursday May 21 11.00 – 12.30

ITU Room B2

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

Emerging trends in technology: libraries between Web 2.0, semantic web and search technology - Florence 2009

ebalnaves — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:12:13 +0200

The IFLA information technology section is pleased to announce the pre-Conference:

Emerging trends in technology: libraries between Web 2.0, semantic web and search technology

Keynote speaker: Stephen Abram, Vice President, Innovation, SirsiDynix, Canada

The full programme is available at:

Information Technology Section

Libraries and Web 2.0 Special Interest Group

Patrick.Danowski — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:03:33 +0200

Scope

We want to maintain a forum for the implications of Web 2.0 for libraries, where the question of Library 2.0 and the ongoing development is watched and discussed in the next few years. It would be nice if there will be a lot of input from as many sections as possible.

More about this groups objectives and actitivites

About FAIFE

Mark — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:16:32 +0100

FAIFE is an initiative within IFLA to defend and promote the basic human rights defined in Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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