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Videos and slides for IFLA ARL "Hot Topics" 2023 session now available!

"Openness" now open(ed) to late-comers!

The IFLA Academic & Research Libraries Section (ARL) Satellite Conference “Inclusiveness through Openness” to be held at Erasmus University will be live streamed.

New IFLA ARL Blog post: "Hot Topics session in Rotterdam"

Here is IFLA Academic & Research Libraries (ARL) Section latest blog post, kindly contributed by our colleague Siviwe Bangani.

Now available: IFLA ARL Newsletter issue # 7

The IFLA Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Section focuses on cooperation, exchange of information, and promotion and support of the role of libraries as core institutions for research and education worldwide.

Library Publishing through the IFLA Global Lens - Blogpost Series

We are delighted that the Academic and Research Libraries Section has kindly hosted our latest blog post on the ARL Blog. In this post, Ursula Arning talks about her role in library publishing.

Video and slides available re: "Tecnologías emergentes" / "Emerging technologies": IFLA ARL 29 June Webinar

The IFLA Academic and Research Libraries Section (ARL) Standing Committee held its "Tecnologías emergentes e inteligencia artificial en bibliotecas académicas / Emerging technologies and artificial intelligence in academic libraries" webinar on 29 June, 2023.

IFLA ARL Section "Openness" conference: early bird rate deadline extended!

We meet at Erasmus University in Rotterdam on 18-19 August for a day and a half of energizing presentations and lively discussion. We expect that all participants will share in a lively discussion about advocacy and innovation resulting in messages to share at WLIC and in the months afterward.

IFLA ARL Section "Openness" conference: join the early birds!

The challenges and opportunities of open access publishing are great and the urgency greater than ever. Please join us for a short conference in Rotterdam this August that will bring together perspectives from all over the world to concentrate on how to make the promise of "open" a reality.

Tecnologías emergentes / Emerging technologies: IFLA ARL 29 June Webinar

"Emerging technologies and artificial intelligence in academic libraries: challenges and opportunities for innovation in services": 29 June IFLA ARL webinar.

IFLA ARL Section “Inclusiveness” Satellite meeting: Keynote speaker announced!

IFLA’s Academic and Research Libraries Section (ARL) is proud to be organizing and hosting a satellite conference in Rotterdam, on the Friday and Saturday before WLIC 2023, on Inclusiveness through Openness.

IFLA ARL Section Satellite conference « Inclusiveness through Openness » now published: see you there!

IFLA Academic & Research Libraries (ARL) Section is happy to announce the final programme for the pre-congress Satellite conference held at and organized with Erasmus University Library on 18-19 August in Rotterdam: “Inclusiveness through Openness”.

Save the date: IFLA ARL "Hot Topics" programme now available!

On behalf of the Hot Topics team, I am delighted to share ARL's open program at the WLIC in Rotterdam.  This year's Hot Topic on Artificial Intelligence has generated much interest and we have received many proposals from around the globe. 

New IFLA ARL Blog post: "Inclusiveness through openness"

IFLA's Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Section latest blog post was kindly contributed by our colleague Jim O'Donnell, who coordinates the Section's Satellite Meeting that will he hosted by Erasmus University next 18-19 August in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Welcome to our new IFLA ARL Committee members!

IFLA's Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Section is pleased to welcome seven new colleagues coming from a variety of countries and institutions who, pursuant to the latest round of IFLA Elections, will soon join our Standing Committee.

Now available: IFLA ARL Newsletter issue # 6

IFLA ARL Section 2023 Travel Grant Winners now announced!

We are delighted to announce that our travel grant awarding process is now completed.

Open should mean open

Open Access (OA) is both old and new. The oldest online scholarly journal published continually via open access dates to 1990; the first book on the desirability and feasibility of open access dates to 1995; the Budapest OA initiative dates to 2002. The goal of universal open access of scientific and scholarly information has been elusive, but the time seems to have come for a dramatic upswing in the percentage of such content that is available on open terms.

Now available: recording and slides for IFLA ARL Webinar re: "On Social Justice..."

The IFLA Academic and Research Libraries Section (ARL) Standing Committee held its "On social justice, diversity and inclusion in academic and research libraries" webinar on 29 March, 2023.

WLIC '23: IFLA ARL Call for Papers: "From Gutenberg to ChatGPT!"

IFLA’s Academic and Research Libraries Section (ARL) is seeking proposals for its in-person open session at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2023 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 

Call for Proposals: IFLA ARL Satellite Conference at Erasmus University 18-19 August 2023

The Academic and Research Libraries section of IFLA invite proposal submissions for a satellite conference preceding the World Library and Information Congress 2023 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.