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
During a meeting in Paris last month the UNESCO General Conference endorsed the IFLA Multicultural Library Manifesto... Read More
Simon says: THIS IS A PLACEHOLDER for the book page in node/8976, created to have the manifesto appear in the Section’s publications list. In that list, clicking on the link to this publication type node automatically redirects the visitor to the book page node with the actual manifesto text. Read More
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
On the 21st of November 2008, IFLA President Claudia Lux initiated... Read More
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
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