News about Haitian libraries
The Bibliothèque Nationale d'Haïti has sustained heavy damage from the earthquake... Read More
- News
- 22 January 2010
- By: anonymous
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Digital Library Futures Conference – and the future of digital libraries within IFLA
Summary and follow up Read More
- News
- 15 September 2009
- By: anonymous
Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Section
IFLA’s Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Section (ENSULIB) aim is to encourage librarians to inspire their communities into more environmentally sustainable way of action, by providing materials on green librarianship, giving voice to green librarians and library projects worldwide, leading by example, and offering a discussion forum. Present environments are endangered… Read More
- Units
- 11 May 2009
Preparing for the Worst, Planning for the Best: Protecting our Cultural Heritage from Disaster
Throughout history libraries, museums and archives have been struck by disasters, both natural and manmade. Earthquakes and floods, storms and fires have caused huge losses of precious collections. Human conflicts and wars have also played their own roles in violating the heritage of… Read More
- Publications
- 30 March 2009
- By: Nancy Gwinn & Johanna Wellheiser (Eds.)
Joint statement of IFLA and ICA: On the security of the Iraq National Library and Archives
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the International Council on Archives (ICA) note with grave concern reports from Dr Saad Eskander, the Director of the Iraq National Library and Archive (INLA) in Baghdad, that on 8 August 2007 members of the Iraqi National… Read More
- Publications
- 30 March 2009