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IFLA's Acquisition and Collection Development (ACD), Academic and Research Libraries (ARL), Science and Technology Libraries (SciTech) sections and Library Publishing (LIBPUB) SIG are planning an IFLA Mid-term meeting in Istanbul.
The IFLA Library Publishing (LibPub) SIG created a blog series called “Library Publishing Through the IFLA Global Lens”, featured on the ARL blog, as well as our own WordPress page. It features a variety of people involved in library publishing from around the world.
The internet is fundamental to library publishing facilitating the publication, dissemination, discoverability and preservation of scholarly works globally through open access publishing platforms and institutional repositories, and serves as a catalyst for community building and professional networking within the Library Publishing Community, exemplified by initiatives like the Global Library Publishing Map produced by the IFLA SIG. The internet we want will further empower library publishers to expand their reach, enhance discoverability, uphold the values of global knowledge dissemination, and will build on universal access initiatives.
Library Publishing is part of a broader range of scholarly communication activities driven and managed by librarians in all types of libraries including national, state, academic, and public as well as learned societies Library Publishing advances the open scholarship agenda globally via the production of journals, monographs, and other publication outputs on a predominately open access basis. Library publishing programmes have strong EDI missions while strengthening bibliodiversity in the international scholarly communication landscape.
Submit information by 13 September 2021
The programme and registration for the mid-term meeting are now available.
Library Publishing SIG Virtual Open Programme - 15th October 2020
The Library Publishing SIG Midterm meeting organisers are pleased to announce that the slides and videos from that meeting (held in Dublin, Ireland, from February 28th through March 1st, 2019) are now available on the IFLA Library Publishing SIG website.
Theme: Libraries: dialogue for change – how library publishing can act as a dialogue for change