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The IFLA elections process is underway, and the Acquisition and Collection Development (ACD) Section standing committee currently has eleven vacancies for the 2023-2027 term.
In 2022, the IFLA Acquisition and Collection Development (ACD) Section continued its work to support acquisitions and collection development processes for libraries across the globe, this year with a focus on incorporating open access content into library collections.
IFLA’s Acquisition and Collection Development Section is seeking co-opted members from Asia, Oceania, Middle East, and Africa. These countries are currently under represented in our standing committee.
The IFLA Acquisition and Collection Development (ACD) Section invites colleagues to attend an hour-long open session at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC), Dublin, Ireland.
The Acquisition and Collection Development Section is seeking proposals for papers to be presented at the satellite meeting in New Cairo, Egypt, from August 21-22, 2019. The satellite meeting will focus on building digital libraries within and among countries. It will explore collaboration models that utilize national resources with an international scope.
The Acquisition and Collection Development Section is seeking proposals for papers to be presented at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Athens, Greece, from August 24-30, 2019. This open program is co-sponsored by the IFLA’s Digital Humanities – Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group. At various points of the Digital Scholarship process, libraries are involved in this work in ways that are specific to their parent institution. In particular, library collections have been increasingly supporting the advancement and progressive expansion of Digital Scholarship during the last decade. Digital scholars work in academic departments, institutional centers and labs, or independently. In many cases, their work may be with large corpora of digital texts, digital images, audiovisual materials, raw data sets, geospatial data, born-digital materials and other types of digital content curated by libraries: content that is either already part of existing library collections or that is proactively acquired by libraries for specific digital scholarship projects.
Annual Report now final for 2017
Colleagues interested in working with the ACD Section but who cannot be re-appointed as Standing Committee our Corresponding members as per IFLA's Rules of Procedure have been appointed as Senior Advisors.