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The IFLA Senior Policy Advisor, Stuart Hamilton, is attending the Internet Governance Forum in Vilnius, Lithuania between the 14th and 17th September. Reports from the sessions, photographs and...

News - 14 September 2010 (created)

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

Conference Session 96 Law Libraries, Government Libraries and Government Information and Official Publications 12 August 2010 13:45 - 15:45 Creating an international legal information...

News - 4 August 2010 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Copyright, Democracy, Document delivery, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Information policy, Intellectual property, Open Access, Policy, Law Libraries

As the new chair of the FAIFE Committee I am delighted to send you a reminder of our annual appointment. I hope this email finds you all well, ready, and motivated to enjoy this year's conference...

News - 22 July 2010 (created)

Tagged: Communication, Conferences, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)

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

News - 6 July 2010 (created)

Tagged: Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Digitisation, Freedom of information, Institutions, Knowledge management, Library 2.0, m-libraries, Open Source, RFID, social networking, Web 2.0, Information Technology

IFLA would like to extend its warmest congratulations to Professor Paul Sturges for being awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen's Birthday Honours list....

News - 15 June 2010 (created)

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

During 2009, IFLA language centres around the world have been busy with a major translation project. Using funds provided by the Swedish International Co-operation and Development Agency (Sida),...

News - 9 March 2010 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Cultural heritage, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, HIV/Aids, Internet access

On October 22nd and 23rd, IFLA's FAIFE Committee held an impact assessment workshop in Cusco, Peru. The objective of the workshop was to look at the effects of a series of workshops on the IFLA...

News - 13 November 2009 (created)

Tagged: Freedom of information, Internet access, Peru, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)

  FAIFE Committee Member Loida Garcia-Febo, has just been elected Vice Chair/ Chair Elect of the American Library Associations Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT). Below are details...

News - 5 August 2009 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Advocacy, Associations, Censorship, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, United States, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)

"WITH THE RIGHT TO READ" Oslo IFLA pre-conference on reading August 7th - 9th  2010    IFLA satellite conference on Reading for all - a question of equal access,...

Informational Page - 21 July 2009 (created)

Tagged: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Digital divide, Disadvantaged people, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Reading, Services to people with disabilities, Services to the visually impaired, Library Services to People with Special Needs

  IFLA's Governing Board has named Kai Ekholm, Director and Chief Librarian of the National Library of Finland, as the Chair of FAIFE for the term 2009-2011. The objective of the...

News - 8 May 2009 (created)

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