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Resource Sharing: A Key Pillar of Open – Final Conference of the HERMES Project

Save the date for the final conference of the HERMES project on resource sharing, bringing together librarians, researchers, students and advocates for a knowledge commons in order to share tools, learn lessons, and identify future needs in the field of resource sharing. The conference takes place on 18 April 2023 at the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague, with training on 19 April. Read More

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03 February 2023

HERMES Project Meeting

IFLA is participating in a key project meeting as part of the EU-funded HERMES project on strengthening digital resource sharing during COVID-19 and beyond. Read More

Events
03 May 2022

COVID-19, Copyright, and Libraries report: executive summary released

In the week of World Intellectual Property Day 2022, IFLA has released the Executive Summary of its research report "How well did copyright laws serve libraries during COVID-19?". Read More

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29 April 2022

Call for Papers (video or multimedia work) IFLA WLIC 2020 Dublin – The Audiovisual and Multimedia Section joint with Metropolitan Libraries Section

Theme: Inspire, Enable, Engage and Connect: Video and Multimedia Productions by and for Libraries and Library Users Read More

News
03 February 2020
By: Mikael Johansson

Roundtable Discussion on the 38th Session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights

Representatives of the education and library communities and the South Centre will brief WIPO delegates on the coming work of the 38th session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR). There will also be roundtable discussions. The brief will focus on the two major copyright… Read More

Events
25 March 2019

Newsletter on Digital Opportunities and Challenges: Call for papers

IFLA’s Standing Committee on Libraries for Children and Young Adults is seeking articles for our next newsletter about youth services librarianship and best practices from around the world linked to our theme, which is: Digital Opportunities and Challenges for Library Services to Children and Youth. Read More

News
20 March 2019
By: Benjamin Scheffler

Call for papers WLIC 2019 – The IFLA Audiovisual and Multimedia Section, joined by the IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section and the Strategic Programme on Preservation and Conservation (PAC)

Theme "It's good to preserve, it's even better to share: Sound and visual cultural heritage in local communities" Read More

News
07 January 2019
By: Mikael Johansson

Scholarly Communication in Asia & Africa

Open Access might be a growing part of Scholarly Communication, but it is accompanied by challenges old and new, no matter where you are in the world Read More

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04 September 2018
By: anonymous

Session 140, To Have and not to Hold: The End of Ownership – CLM and FAIFE Advisory Committees

9:30 – 11:30 Simulatenous translation The shift from buying physical library media to licensing digital content has profound impacts on the way libraries acquire and give access to content. From e-books that can disappear at the whim (or the mistake) of the owners of a server… Read More

Events
09 August 2018

Session 217, What’s Up with eLending? – eLending Working Party with Public Libraries

08:30 – 10:30 Livestreamed Simultaneous Interpretation In the 5 years since the last major session at WLIC, we have seen talk of the death of the physical books replaced by talk of the death of the eBook (both unsubstantiated), evolution in licensing practices and… Read More

Events
09 August 2018

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