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On Friday 20th July library delegation leader Winston Tabb delivered the following statement on behalf of IFLA and Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) at the 24th Meeting of the WIPO...

News - 23 July 2012 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, eIFL, Print disabilities, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

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 May 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

On Thursday 17th May 2012 IFLA, along with its organising partners Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL), the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and Scholarly Publishing and...

News - 22 May 2012 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Open Access, Switzerland, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society)

IFLA is pleased to report that a new Dynamic Coalition on Public Access in Libraries has been approved by the Secretariat of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). IGF Dynamic Coalitions are...

News - 13 March 2012 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Internet access, Internet Governance Forum, Public Libraries

On behalf of IFLA, the Public Libraries Section chair Suzanne Payette warmly congratulates Silvia Stasselova and colleagues from the Slovak Librarians Association for recently completing the Slovak...

News - 1 March 2012 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Best practice, Communication, Cooperation, Future of libraries, Information professionals, Professional development, Success stories, Public Libraries

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 February 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

[PDF] In light of recent legislation in the US (SOPA and PIPA), and a decision last week in the Netherlands that orders Dutch ISPs to block access to the Pirate Bay website, this...

Publication - 18 January 2012 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Censorship, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)

"EMMILE in Libraries (and beyond)" is a joint three-day meeting that, through a set of joint initiatives—organized thanks to the collaboration of IFLA SLRC, IASL, AIB, AIB...

Event - 12 January 2012 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Conference, Italy, Information Literacy

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 –...

News - 10 January 2012 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Audiovisual and multimedia, Children, Classification and indexing, Collections, Conferences, Digital resources, Electronic collections, Electronic delivery, Electronic resources, Finland, Indexing, Information technology, Metadata, Public access catalogues, Resource discovery, Classification and Indexing

Por Magdalena Biota English El 28 de septiembre de 2011, en coincidencia con el “Día del acceso a la información”, se realizó en Buenos Aires el Taller...

News - 2 January 2012 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Access to information, Argentina, Transparency, Government Libraries