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IFLA Standing Committee Elections 2017-2021

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Obituary: Marie Zielińska, former Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section Chair (1989-91)

Help shape our future of change! Join us at the President's Meeting 2017!

While the shared values of libraries and the information field remain a constant, continuous change in society creates challenges for the profession. What are the major challenges to maintaining these values? The issues facing libraries today require a collective and joint response; successfully achieving a common vision.

Libraries included in the recently published Finnish National Development Plan

On 2 February 2017, Finland published its National Development Plan for implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals to achieve the UN Agenda 2030. The plan includes libraries. Libraries are acknowledged in the context of the action plan to prevent hate speech and racism and to promote social inclusion: “The role of public libraries as promoters of active citizenship, cultural diversity and democracy shall be strengthened”.

Call for Papers: Session Theme: "Altmetrics : It's Time to Take Action," Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section

World Library and Information Congress, 83nd IFLA General Congress and Assembly, 19-25 August 2017, Wroclaw, Poland

WLIC 2017 Wroclaw - Open Sessions - Call for Papers

A joint open session hosted Monday 21 August. Theme, "New insights at the intersection of genealogy and other professional communities - including librarians, archivists, historians, demographers, linguists, anthropologists and geneticists"

Second Call for Papers - Satellite Meeting Vilnius 2017

“The Challenge of Multiple Identities - Multi-ethnicity in Genealogy, Local History and Regional Memory - Challenges and Opportunities for Libraries and Other Memory Institutions" is the theme for the main session. Genealogy and Local History Section (GENLOC) joint with Asia and Oceania Section and Information Technology Section invite proposals for papers to be presented at the session.

One week left to register for our seminar Storage! The final frontier

New blog post - Klaus Werner on Library Training Rooms

Libraries Educate, Copyright Reform can Help

Education is central to the work of libraries, from simply giving access to books to more formal courses on anything from literacy and language to computer skills, creative writing and other subjects. To facilitate this, libraries, schools and other institutions offering education need copyright rules that make it easy to create and use materials for teaching. IFLA, alongside 33 other organisations, has called on the EU to pass reforms that will set an example for this.

IFLA KM Open Session Wroclaw, Poland

Is it time to make a change? Tell us about it! IFLA KM is accepting proposals on the role of information professionals and change management for the open session at WLIC 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland 19 - 25 August 2017

IFLA Knowledge Management Satellite Conference Deadline Extended to 28 February 2017

Theme: New Directions in Knowledge Management Date: Friday, 18 August, 2017 Venue: Wrocław University of Economics, Wrocław, Poland Organizer: IFLA Knowledge Management Section

Digital unification – libraries working together to unite documentary heritage

Collections and original documentary cultural heritage objects have, over time and due to a wide variety of circumstances, found their homes in countries and memory institutions which were not the original producers of these objects.

IFLA Calls on European Parliament to Get Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Right

There is less than a month to go before a planned vote in the European Parliament on ratifying the Marrakesh Treaty. If this is done correctly, people with print disabilities could enjoy much wider access to knowledge and culture. IFLA continues to maintain the pressure for laws that let libraries maximise the impact of their work here.

How Libraries Help Build a Safer Internet

Libraries have always been about giving people access to the knowledge they need to take on the world. The Internet can boost this, but only if people have the skills and confidence to be, and feel, safe online. To mark Safer Internet Day 2017, here are some examples of how libraries are helping.

Call for Presentations - Government Libraries Section, WLIC 2017

The Government Libraries, Library and Research Services for Parliaments and Law Libraries Sections invite proposals for presentations, to be presented as one of the sessions in the next IFLA General Conference to be held on August 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland. We welcome proposals from individuals and organizations who can share views and implementations on Government/Parliamentary libraries helping to deliver the access to information elements of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The deadline for submissions is 3 March 2017.​

Satellite Meeting on Government Libraries - Berlin 2017

Linking Advocacy to UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The Government Libraries Section is hosting a satellite meeting to be held in Berlin, Germany just after the IFLA annual conference - WLIC 2017. We will revise the Guidelines for Libraries of Government Departments, in particular chapter 11, related to advocacy, tying it with the aspects of public access to information of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.