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IFLA WLIC 2019: CPDWL Open Session
Submit your ideas for the CPDWL open session: Navigating your own professional development: Effective use of the 2016 IFLA Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development. Proposals due 15 March 2019.*REMINDER* Call for Nominations: IFLA 2019 Honours and Awards
Do you know someone who has made an outstanding contribution to IFLA or to international librarianship? The Call for Nominations for IFLA's Honours and Awards is out now! Deadline: 22 February 2019Extended Deadline for Proposals WLIC 2019 – Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group
Extended Deadline for Proposals WLIC 2019 – Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest GroupEnsuring Equality: IFLA Submits Comments to New Zealand Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Consultation
Following a call for comments by the government of New Zealand Te Aotearoa on draft legislation designed to implement the Marrakesh Treaty, IFLA has made a submission. This highlights the need to reject provisions that go beyond what the Treaty requires, and to respect the fundamental principle of non-discrimination.Call for papers: Library Love Stories
Would you fall in love in a library? Can a place of culture, knowledge and information be a place of passion?A Happy Ending – Interview with Mikkel Christoffersen on eLending in Denmark
The story of eLending in Denmark is a particular one. However, following some years of tension, Danish libraries are now lending more eBooks than ever, with all major publishers readily supporting this work. We interview Mikkel Christoffersen to find out what has happened.Nominations for the IFLA/Systematic Public Library of the Year Award 2019 are open!
Is your public library something out of the ordinary? Fill out our application form and submit your nomination today! Please be sure the read the assessment criteria – and don’t hesitate, nominations close on April 15th 2019.