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15 June 2016IFLA Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices
IFLA Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices
The internet offers an invaluable tool for achieving the key objective of libraries – providing equitable access to knowledge and information. Librarians have been quick to seize the opportunity, offering not only physical access, but also training and specific resources online that help users learn, enjoy and explore. At the European Dialogue on Internet Governance, IFLA representatives argued for policies and practices that support them in this role.
This is a post by Antoine Torrens, IFLA NPSIG Information Coordinator.
Interview with Courtney Young, American Library Association Immediate Past President, the youngest President the ALA had in the last 80+ years.
Section's most recent article collection is online.
Libraries today urged all players to work together and apply their efforts to build an open science system.
Digital technologies offer rich opportunities to collect, preserve and make the world’s knowledge available. But to make the most of these collections, libraries and archives need the right laws. At a meeting of world copyright experts and law makers, librarians and archivists underlined the challenges they face from anachronistic laws, often the fruit of lobbying by established interests.
With this Strategic Plan the IFLA Governing Board sets out IFLA's...
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A historic occasion for IFLA took place today as we both welcome Gerald Leitner as the IFLA Secretary General and say a fond farewell to Jennefer Nicholson whose tenure as Secretary General moved the association so far forward
This book is the publication of the proceedings of the Relindial satellite meeting of Paris (2014)
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Libraries and archives made a strong showing in the 32nd session of the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), which met earlier this month in Geneva. On the agenda were the legal exceptions and limitations to copyright that allow libraries and archives to do their jobs, and how to make sure these work globally.
IFLA believes that libraries and librarians have a key role in supporting human rights, including freedom of access to information and freedom of expression, and an attack on libraries or librarians is an attack on democracy and culture.