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International Symposium on Library Services for Children and Young Adults “Reading Towards a Broader World!” June 19-20, 2014, South Korea [Call for Papers]

The National Library for Children and Young Adults (NLCY) invites speakers to present a paper for the 8th International Symposium on Library Services for Children and Young Adults. The symposium will take place between June 19 and 20, 2014 in South Korea. The NLCY annually holds the International Symposium to improve library services for children and young adults and promote reading habits among them. The theme this year is “Reading Towards a Broader World!”

December 2013 newsletter now available

Join us! Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Midterm Meeting: 1-2 April 2014

At the Library of Congress in Washington DC and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Call for Papers: SCIENCE+ART=CREATIVITYN : Libraries and the New Collaborative Thinking

Call for papers WLIC 2014 Lyon, off-site session

Off-site session theme is "Transmedia as a cultural approach for children and young adults" and it will be held at the Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon Part-Dieu (Public Library of Lyon Part-Dieu).

IFLA Committee on Standards: WLIC 2014 Call for papers

EU favours licensing over copyright reform for libraries in latest international negotiations

The 26th meeting of the Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) closed just before midnight on Friday 20th December, following five days of discussion of copyright protections for broadcasting, exceptions and limitations for libraries and archives, and for education.

Call for Papers - World Library and Information Congress 2014

The Classification and Indexing Section, Cataloguing Section, Bibliography Section, and the UNIMARC Core Activity have issued a call for papers for the World Library and Information Congress 2014.

Out now: December 2013 issue of IFLA Journal

View the complete issue online

TaC/IFLA Open Forum calls on governments to consider guidelines on better inclusion of vulnerable groups in the Information Society

Satellite meeting - Lyon, France 15 August 2014

WLIC 2014: Call for Papers: Libraries, Governments and Cultural Heritage

Call for papers WLIC Lyon 2014, Section Children and Young Adults and Section Literacy and Reading

Libraries creating content for/with children and young adults Libraries have always created content, writing reviews, organising writing clubs or collecting oral tradition for instance, and editing and publishing it in different ways, confidential or not. But content development has greatly increased in the last decade, thanks to the much larger inclusion of readers in library life and of course, thanks to technology. It makes collecting, recording, creating, publishing and accessing so much easier and more possible to most, not only to librarians but to young readers and their families. How is this content creation happening? What kind of content is being created, how, who by, with what goals? How are these actions helping children and/or young adults and their families engage with reading? How is local content being published and preserved? How is it being received all over the world?

IFLA thanks you for your support in 2013 and wishes you a successful 2014

Section on Education and Training (SET) Celebrates its 40th Anniversary

Over the past few decades, the Section for Education and Training (SET) has supported and enhanced library and information science (LIS) education and training based on research and professional practice on an international scale to encourage collaboration and development across the profession.

Call for papers: 2014 FAIFE satellite meeting in Geneva

Survey report on the benefits of attending IFLA conferences is published

The final report on the Section's project, evaluation the benefits of attending IFLA conferences, is now available.

IFLA publishes Statement on Libraries and Text and Data Mining

IFLA is pleased to announce the publication of a Statement on Libraries and Text and Data Mining.

Call for papers Lyon 2014, Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section with Africa Section

Libraries in Africa meeting the needs of children and young adults

Towards a Sustainable Information Society: Collaboration on the Vancouver Declaration

On the 5th and 6th of December a follow up meeting to the UBC/UNESCO Vancouver Declaration on Preservation and Digitisation took place in The Hague. The Vancouver Declaration pinpoints key issues affecting the preservation and long-term accessibility of digital documentary heritage.