2016 IFLA LIS Student Paper Award Winner announced
13 May 2016Congratulations to Ms. Martha Attridge Bufton!
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Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals - an example from Uruguay
9 May 2016An event in Uruguay, led by civil society organisations and the United Nations, has started the process for the national implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda.
Partners for Accessibility – IFLA and Latin American Blind Union sign Memorandum of Understanding
9 May 2016IFLA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Latin American Blind Union (ULAC). Both organisations believe that we need to ensure the Marrakesh Treaty enters into force, and implement its principles on the ground. This agreement will allow us to make important progress towards ensuring equitable and sustainable access to information for visually impaired people.
Presentations now available: “A common international standard for rare materials? Why? And how?”
6 May 2016Read abstracts and presentations from the Rare Books and Special Collections Section Midterm meeting in Lisbon.
From the Small Print to the Headlines: IFLA Engages for International Copyright Reform at WIPO
6 May 2016IFLA will be represented at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) next week. Talk of copyright is normally consigned to the small-print. But in 2016, it seems to be just as regularly in the headlines.
World IP Day - Libraries, Copyright and Creativity
26 April 2016On World IP Day, we show how libraries support creators and creativity.
Call for online articles: How do libraries use digital devices on promoting reading?
25 April 2016Submit your proposal by 2 May 2016
Blue Shield Statement on Palmyra issued today
22 April 2016In the latest Statement of the Blue Shield, the organisation welcomes the removal of Da’esh from the World Heritage Site of Palmyra and stresses that it stands ready to support and stand together with Syrian colleagues to work on stabilising the site and prepare it for the future.
Action Plan 2015-2017
20 April 2016Come together! Or what is an IFLA Special Interest Group about
16 April 2016This is a blog post by Katia Shklyar, NPSIG Information Co-Coordinator.
Libraries are fighting for public, not commercial interests - a response to comments at the International Publishers' Congress 2016
13 April 2016IFLA has co-signed a letter in response to comments made by Hachette Livre CEO Arnaud Nourry at this week's International Publishers' Congress. In it, we reject entirely the argument that libraries are proxies for the commercial sector, and invite publishers and others to work with us in passing limited but necessary reforms to copyright. These will strengthen the legal base on which librarians rely in order to fulfil their missions at a local, European and global level.