The Copyright reader working group aims to produce an open access book to increase copyright literacy in the library sector by explaining copyright and its application in common copyright matters. Members Jessica Coates, jessica@libcopyright.org.au Victoria Owen, victoria.owen@utoronto.ca Susan Reilly, susan.reilly@ucd.ie Editorial liaison with De Gruyter:… Read More
World Book Day 2020 would have been a special event anyway, marking 25 years since the first celebration in 1995. But this year’s celebration will be particularly special. We look both at how libraries help meet the goals of this year's celebration - combatting isolation and loneliness - and offer eight ways you can celebrate! Read More
It is with heavy hearts that ‘Reading Journeys’ the Satellite program being organised in Oxford by four IFLA Professional Units will not go ahead. Read More
Due to the current health-crisis and on behalf of the IFLA’s Literacy and Reading, Public Libraries, Metropolitan Libraries and Libraries for Children’s and Young Adults Professional Units we announce with disappointed heart (and a logical head) that the IFLA Reading Journeys Satellite Conference in Oxford in August 2020 will… Read More
Launched in 2012 by the United States Library of Congress, the International Summit of the Book is an annual global meeting of minds to discuss and promote the book as a crucial format for conveying societies’ scholarship and culture. The 8th International Summit of the Book 2019 is organised… Read More