It’s time to look back at a of week global discussions on copyright at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). There were useful new reports and materials, signs of consensus on all sides that exceptions and limitations are an essential part of the copyright framework, and further proof that action is needed to allow libraries to work across borders. Read More
The IFLA SIG Library History decided to partner with a Section for IFLA 2019 in Athens and the Section on Genealogy and Local History (Genloc) agreed. As you can see from the Call for Papers, the topics on offer are quite varied and there are a couple which… Read More
Theme "It's good to preserve, it's even better to share: Sound and visual cultural heritage in local communities" Read More
The papers from our successful WLIC 2018 conference session 'National Libraries and Social Media – Meeting the Challenges of Acquiring, Preserving and Proving Long-Term Access' are now available. You can read papers from the National Library of New Zealand and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in the… Read More
The 2018 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage will take place on October 27 with the theme “Your Story is Moving”. Read More
Action Plan 2019-2020 [in PDF] Action Plan 2018-2019 [in PDF] Action Plan 2017-2018 [in PDF]… Read More
That news publication has changed dramatically since the advent of the Internet and the Web is no news to anyone. There are many examples of established news organizations that have either stopped printing newspapers or shifted to publishing news on websites or through social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Read More
Digital technologies offer rich opportunities to collect, preserve and make the world’s knowledge available. But to make the most of these collections, libraries and archives need the right laws. At a meeting of world copyright experts and law makers, librarians and archivists underlined the challenges they face from anachronistic laws, often the fruit of lobbying by established interests. Read More