Preserving and celebrating culture can be key to efforts to promote cohesion and cooperation in diverse societies. This is no truer than in the case of indigenous communities, who have historically been isolated or persecuted, but now, rightfully, demand equality. Read More
Call for Papers: Programme Session Standards and Best Practices Relating to Serials, Continuing Resources and Scholarly Communications Sponsored by: IFLA Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section Co-Sponsored by: IFLA Committee on Standards World Library and Information Congress… Read More
Sponsored by: IFLA Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section Co-sponsored by: IFLA National Libraries Section Date: August 23, 2019 (9:00 am to 4:00 pm) Venue: National Library of Greece, SMFCC: Stavros Niarchos Foundation Athens, Greece Https://www.snfcc.org/default.aspx Call for… Read More
Sponsored by: IFLA Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section Co-sponsored by: IFLA National Libraries Section Date: August 23, 2019 (8:00 am to 5:00 pm) Venue: National Library of Greece, SNFCC: Stavros Niarchos Foundation Athens, Greece Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grey-literature-scholarly-communication-in-a-digital-world-tickets-59696495826 The Internet… 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 first major reform of Europe’s copyright system in almost 20 years aims to update the law for the digital age. In addition to affecting libraries and library users across Europe, it also sets an example for others, and could affect libaries elsewhere directly. The European Union… Read More
With source code playing an essential role in the way our digital world works, efforts to preserve and give access to it are essential if libraries are to maintain the historical record. A UNESCO conference, organised together with INRIA, will explore the challenges around this, and what can… 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
SIG Library History Session on Transform Libraries, Transform Societies: Library Outreach to Marginalized Populations – Historical Perspectives. The SIG Library History’s session at IFLA Kuala Lumpur was again early in the conference programme and it would seem that each year the number of competitive meetings and… Read More
The 2018 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage will take place on October 27 with the theme “Your Story is Moving”. Read More