Digital resources

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

Call for papers: Copyright Law and Legal Deposit for Audiovisual Materials

IFLA — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:34:47 +0100

IFLA WLIC 11-16 August 2012, Helsinki, Finland

Copyright laws have been established in many countries in the print age and have not been updated to meet the new needs of the digital era. There is a serious need of special laws and legal terms for this variety of media to increase and preserve accessibility, not only on the national level but also on an international one.

Audiovisual and Multimedia Section

Call for Papers

Christoph Albers — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:15:01 +0100

The Electronic Re-Evolution –
News Media in the Digital Age

Digital Newspapers for Local History and Family History

IFLA WLIC 2012, August 11-17, 2012, Helsinki, Finland

Please consider submitting a short proposal to present at a joint three-hour open session with an emphasis on digitized newspapers, portals, and their significance for local history or genealogy.

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Newspapers Section

Acquisition and Collection Development Section Satellite Conference

Joseph Hafner — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:05:17 +0100

Theme: “Maximising collection development of electronic and print media in the digital environment: Opportunities for collaboration, strategic partnerships and patron initiated collecting models”
Acquisition and Collection Development Section

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Latest IFLA IT Section newsletter released - July 2010

Edmund Balnaves — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:40:07 +0200

The latest issue of the IFLA ITS Newsletter has three feature articles: "India: the Digital Repository at IICT", "Digital Library Inter-operability" and "Addressing the Gap in Smartphone Use".

Information Technology Section

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

JSTOR Auction Catalogue Pilot Project

Martin Flynn — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:55:54 +0100

The libraries of the Frick Collection and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have undertaken a pilot project with JSTOR to make 1,500 English and American auction catalogues available on a beta site. The development group at JSTOR are keen for librarians to test the site and send them comments. Although individual registration is required to add corrections and comments to the digitised catalogues in the s

Art Libraries Section

LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2010

Yap Ian — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:29:22 +0100

The annual international conference Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) addresses the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in the digital world. Each year a different and ‘hot’ theme is addressed, divided in two parts; the first part covering research and development and the second part addressing advances in applications and practice.

Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section

Enhancing the culture of reading and books in the digital age

IFLA — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:43:04 +0200

Frankfurt Book Fair, October 13th

The Universal Repository Library and guarantees for the sustainability of the digital copy

Corrado Di Tillio — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:07:56 +0200

Welcome to KUOPIO-3!

The Kuopio Conferences have identified a vital issue facing the Library and Cultural communities. They have successfully highlighted the problems of how to identify low use print resources, how to preserve those materials and, more particularly, how to deal with these issues in a global environment.

Acquisition and Collection Development Section