Content tagged Communities of practice

On 22 April 2021 the IFLA Division IV – Support of the Profession launched “A Webinar Series for Library and Information Science Students”. April’s theme was...

News - 3 May 2021

Tags: Associations, Communities of practice, Education and training, LIS Students Library Associations, Education and Training

The new 2019-2020 Action Plan for the National Libraries Section has been agreed and is now available through our Publications page. Highlights include proposed work on the sharing of...

News - 24 January 2020

Tags: annual plans, Benchmarking, Best practices, Communities of practice, Digital preservation, strategy, National Libraries

The Information Literacy Section in partnership with Library Theory and Research Sectioninvites you to submit proposals for our session at the IFLA World Congress in Athens Greece,...

News - 26 February 2019

Tags: Communities of practice, educational theory, Information Literacy

2014-2015 IFLA LGBT SIG Annual Report

Publication - 2 January 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Acquisitions, Advocacy, Best practices, Cataloguing, Censorship, Collection development, Communications, Communities of practice, Conferences, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Human rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, Information society, LGBTQ library services, Libraries for development, Library and information science education, Library as place, Library collections, Library outreach, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Net neutrality, Peace, Resource discovery, User experience, Women’s issues, Young adults, Annual reports, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

2015-2016 IFLA LGBT SIG Annual Report

Publication - 2 January 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Acquisitions, Advocacy, Benchmarking, Best practices, Cataloguing, Censorship, Collection development, Communications, Communities of practice, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Guidelines, Human rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ library services, Libraries for development, Library and information science education, Library as place, Library collections, Lifelong learning, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Net neutrality, Peace, Performance indicators, Resource discovery, Social inclusion, User experience, Women’s issues, Young adults, Annual reports, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

2016-2017 IFLA LGBT SIG Annual Report

Publication - 2 January 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Acquisitions, Advocacy, Benchmarking, Best practices, Cataloguing, Censorship, Collection development, Communications, Communities of practice, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Human rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ library services, Libraries for development, Library and information science education, Library as place, Library collections, Lifelong learning, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Net neutrality, Peace, Performance indicators, Resource discovery, Social inclusion, User experience, Women’s issues, Young adults, Annual reports, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

Click here for the complete 2017-2018 IFLA LGBTQ+ SIG Annual Report.

Publication - 26 December 2018

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Advocacy, Communications, Communities of practice, Cooperation, Democracy, Development, Disadvantaged persons, Education, Education and training, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Guidelines, Human rights, LGBTQ library services, Libraries for development, Library and information science education, Library as place, Library buildings and equipment, Library outreach, Library services, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Networking, New professionals, Performance indicators, Privacy in libraries, Professional development, Risk assessment, Social inclusion, Staffing, Annual reports, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

The IFLA Audiovisual and Multimedia Section, joined by the Information Technology Section, invite interested professionals to submit proposals for the open session to be held during IFLA WLIC in...

News - 1 December 2017

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Acquisitions, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Cataloguing, Classification and indexing, Collection development, Communities of practice, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Electronic resources, Games, Information technology, Knowledge management, Library buildings and equipment, Library collections, Library outreach, Library services, Lifelong learning, Preservation, Success stories, Young adults

This presentation, a link at the end, was used at the workshop on Video production. Informing, communicating and disseminating knowledge using audio-visual content during WLIC2017 in Wroclaw,...

Publication - 7 September 2017

Tags: Access to information, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Communications, Communities of practice, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Freedom of information, Information technology, Open source, Professional development, Social inclusion, Resource Guides

AVMS section meetings You are more than welcome to join the AVMS Section meetings, if you want to know more about the work or if you consider to become a member. Our first meeting...

News - 15 August 2017

Tags: Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Communities of practice, Conferences, Digital resources

There are still a few a seats for participants to the workshop to be held at and supported by Wrocław University of Science and Technology Wednesday, 23 August, during WLIC 2017. Please register...

News - 4 July 2017

Tags: Communications, Communities of practice, Digital resources, Education and training

Registration is now closed. 52 professionals from 30 different countries registered! Follow the updates on our Facebook event page. Day 1 Unconference at the Library...

Event - 9 March 2017

Tags: Associations, camp, Communities of practice, Education, Education and training, IFLAcamp, iflacamp2017, Information professionals, Meetings, New professionals, Poland, Satellite Meeting, New Professionals

Browse participating libraries in alphabetical order according to the country.  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Australia - NSW: Gosford City...

Informational Page - 21 January 2016

Tags: Children, Communications, Communities of practice, Cooperation, programmes, Sister libraries, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

IFLA project and lately programme for Sister Libraries starts its 7th year of operation. The programme web pages and list of participants have undergone an update, in order to make searching a...

Informational Page - 21 January 2016

Tags: Children, Communications, Communities of practice, Cooperation, Sister libraries, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Registration form List of participants Brochure   Description

Informational Page - 18 January 2016

Tags: Children, Communications, Communities of practice, Cooperation, Programs and activities, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

A selection of pre and post-conference presentations from past IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section's satellite meetings are now available: 15 to 20 year olds...

News - 19 December 2014

Tags: Children, Communities of practice, Conferences, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

IFLA LGBTQ Users SIG CFP 2015 Developing Equitable Access for LGBTQ Library Users                   According to...

News - 16 December 2014

Tags: Access to information, Acquisitions, Advocacy, Best practices, Censorship, Communities of practice, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of information, International cooperation, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Social inclusion, Society, Success stories

Queer Library Alliance: Global Reflections and Imaginings Call for Papers Editors: Rae-Anne Montague and Lucas McKeever  Publisher: Library Juice Press International...

News - 16 December 2014

Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Best practices, Communities of practice, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of information, International cooperation, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Social inclusion, Society, Women’s issues, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

The session will be developed as an Idea Café (Workshop?). Although the planning team is interested in a broad range of concepts, preference will be given to papers that reflect one or more...

News - 22 October 2014

Tags: Communities of practice, South Africa, Public Libraries

Updates on web pages: Sister Libraries partnership presentations from Lyon WLIC session about Section's projects on 'Conferences' page. Browse, enjoy and feel free to benchmark!

News - 7 October 2014

Tags: Children, Communities of practice, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Sister Libraries for Children’s and Young Adults’ reading: evaluation Carolynn Rankin (Leeds, UK) Sister Libraries...

Informational Page - 6 October 2014

Tags: Censorship, Communities of practice, Networking, Professional development, Reading, Young adults

IFLA 2014 Pre-Conference The satellite conference is intended to show the role of libraries as places of dialogue of the cultures in the centuries. Witnesses of the cultural and religious...

Event - 3 June 2014

Tags: Communities of practice, France, Satellite Meeting, Religions: Libraries and Dialogue

registration (EN+RU) | program plus latest updates: EN / RU We are happy to invite you to IFLAcamp Library Creative Laboratory: “A Hero of Our...

Event - 14 March 2014

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Associations, Collection development, Communications, Communities of practice, Conference, Conferences, Cooperation, Copyright, Cultural heritage, cycling, Development, Digital divide, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Digitisation, Education and training, IFLAcampLab, Information professionals, Information technology, International cooperation, Knowledge society, Library as place, Library collections, Library history, Meetings, Members, Networking, New professionals, NPSIG, Policy, Professional development, Russian Federation, unconference, New Professionals

The goal of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) special interest group is to adress the information needs of LGBTQ+ community members related to library services,...

IFLA Group or Activity - 13 January 2014

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Capacity building, Censorship, Classification and indexing, Collection development, Communities of practice, Data management, Digital inclusion, Education and training, Freedom of expression, Guidelines, Human rights, Indexing, LGBTQ library services, Library as place, Library collections, Library marketing, Library outreach, Library services, Library theory and research, Lifelong learning, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, New professionals, Privacy in libraries, Professional development, Reading, Social inclusion, Staffing, Subject analysis, Women’s issues, Young adults, Special Interest Groups, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

The satellite conference will be held immediately prior to the World Library and Information Congress in Helsinki, Finland, August 2012. See: pre-conference website Venue Klaipeda,...

News - 1 March 2012

Tags: Communities of practice, Conferences, Cooperation, Education and training, Information professionals, Public Libraries

The December 2009 issue of the Classification and Indexing Section newsletter is now available, featuring international news, Section actvities in Milan and elsewhere, and professional conference...

News - 13 January 2010

Tags: Access to knowledge, Classification and indexing, Communities of practice, Cooperation, Indexing, International cooperation, Metadata, Resource discovery, Subject Analysis and Access