Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2015. IFLA and Brill are pleased to announce the new IFLA/Brill Open Access award, which consists of a cash prize (€ 1000), travel, accommodation, and registration for the IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) 2015...
A summary from the seminar ‘New uses of the public library’, held in Barcelona on 26 February 2015 is now available.
ARL's satellite meeting to be held on August 13 and 14 prior to the IFLA Congress in Cape Town
The IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section is very proud to have nominated PRAESA for this award.
This week the first United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) Culture Summit took place in Biblao, Spain.
The guidelines are a revision and expansion of the previous guidelines published by IFLA in 2001. We expect them to be a valuable tool for library staff who are responsible for serving persons with reading and learning difficulties.
Dedicated website and final programme now available; There will be five mains sessions with the following themes: *IFLA Trend Report and Lyon Declaration *Transforming Technologies: Opportunities and Threats *Legal regulations and the Impact on Information Technologies *Transformation in Public Libraries *Knowledge Economy in all Aspects
IFLA Members may propose items for inclusion in the agenda...
On Wednesday 11 March 2015, the UN Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights will present a thematic report to the 28th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva regarding copyright policy in the context of cultural rights.
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The IFLA Standing Committee on Management and Marketing is seeking a corporate sponsor for the IFLA International Marketing Award for the period 2016-2018 at a cost of 7500€ per year for three years.
Negotiations in New York last week focused on the Declaration section of the new Framework. Delegates called for an aspirational statement that made sense to all.
Prepared by Chiara Cauzzi, Chiara Consonni, Valeria De Francesca, Danilo Deana, Lisa Longhi, and Federica Viazzi and freely available as a PDF file under a Creative Commons license.