A corto di libri, 8th AIB/IFLA International Short Film Contest about libraries. The winners!
19 May 2016Please join us for the next free webinar!
18 May 2016IFLA Green Library Award 2016 Winners announced
18 May 2016IFLA’s Environment Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group (ENSULIB) is pleased to announce the winner of the IFLA Green Library Award 2016.
2016 IFLA LIS Student Paper Award Winner announced
13 May 2016Congratulations to Ms. Martha Attridge Bufton!
Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals - an example from Uruguay
9 May 2016An event in Uruguay, led by civil society organisations and the United Nations, has started the process for the national implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda.
Partners for Accessibility – IFLA and Latin American Blind Union sign Memorandum of Understanding
9 May 2016IFLA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Latin American Blind Union (ULAC). Both organisations believe that we need to ensure the Marrakesh Treaty enters into force, and implement its principles on the ground. This agreement will allow us to make important progress towards ensuring equitable and sustainable access to information for visually impaired people.
Presentations now available: “A common international standard for rare materials? Why? And how?”
6 May 2016Read abstracts and presentations from the Rare Books and Special Collections Section Midterm meeting in Lisbon.
From the Small Print to the Headlines: IFLA Engages for International Copyright Reform at WIPO
6 May 2016IFLA will be represented at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) next week. Talk of copyright is normally consigned to the small-print. But in 2016, it seems to be just as regularly in the headlines.
Enoncé de principes de l’IFLA sur les questions du droit à l’oubli
29 April 2016Le Conseil d'administration de l’IFLA a approuvé un énoncé de principes sur le « droit à l'oubli » qui suggère que les bibliothèques participent à des discussions politiques dans leurs régions et identifient les questions les concernant.
Journée mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle – les bibliothèques, les droits d’auteur et la créativité
26 April 2016On World IP Day, we show how libraries support creators and creativity.
World IP Day - Libraries, Copyright and Creativity
26 April 2016On World IP Day, we show how libraries support creators and creativity.
Call for online articles: How do libraries use digital devices on promoting reading?
25 April 2016Submit your proposal by 2 May 2016
Blue Shield Statement on Palmyra issued today
22 April 2016In the latest Statement of the Blue Shield, the organisation welcomes the removal of Da’esh from the World Heritage Site of Palmyra and stresses that it stands ready to support and stand together with Syrian colleagues to work on stabilising the site and prepare it for the future.