As the altercations in Egypt endure, and following the recent damages suffered by the Institut d’Egypte in Cairo, the Blue Shield expresses its great concern regarding the safeguarding of the country’s invaluable cultural heritage amidst the ongoing turmoil, and wishes to recall the importance of the Arab Republic of Egypt as repository of the world’s collective memory. Read More
ä¸æ–‡ | Ελληνικά BACKGROUND Preserving digital information is becoming an increasingly urgent challenge for both libraries and publishers of books and journals, as the amount of digital information is growing quickly and preservation policies and techniques for this format of material remain… Read More
Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments & Sites (LAMMS) The five international organisations for cultural heritage, IFLA (libraries), ICA (archives), ICOM (museums), ICOMOS (monuments & sites) and CCAAA (audiovisual archives), have a longstanding relation of cooperation and now agreed to intensify cooperation between their organisations in those areas where libraries, archives, museums,… Read More
On November 11th IFLA Senior Policy Advisor Stuart Hamilton took part in the Minerva Conference in Jerusalem, Israel... Read More
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Español | français Communiqué from the Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL) The National Libraries of the world are the guardians of the cultural heritage expressed in a nation’s documented memory which includes the digital information produced in the Information Society. Read More
On the 21st of November 2008, IFLA President Claudia Lux initiated... Read More
Digital technology opens up a totally new perspective. The World Wide Web holds millions of websites and the Internet is the market place for research, teaching, expression, publication and communication of information. Libraries and archives are society’s primary information providers and were early users of the new digital technology… Read More