Content tagged Cooperation

2021 has begun and IFLA is already on the way to being a busy year. While all libraries are facing information access problems because of COVID-19, we are committed to continuing efforts to build...

News - 20 January 2021

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Cooperation, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Digital preservation, Freedom of information, International cooperation, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

The NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee, in partnership with UNESCO, is organising the International Conference of NGOs 2020, held virtually from 16-18 December on the theme, “Envisioning a better...

News - 17 December 2020

Tags: Conferences, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Networking, Policy

IFLA joins ICOMOS, ICA, and ICOM to call on all parties to ensure the protection of cultural heritage in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Following the ceasefire agreement that came into force...

News - 2 December 2020

Tags: Archives, Conservation, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Preservation, Risk Register, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments and Sites

The International Science Council (ISC) is working together with science funders to bring together insights and ideas from the scientific community to support the achievement of the Sustainable...

News - 6 October 2020

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Capacity building, Cooperation, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Open access, Open science, Policy, Sustainability

During Global Media & Information Literacy (MIL) Week, UNESCO and the Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL) invite global stakeholders to come...

News - 1 October 2020

Tags: Access to information, Cooperation, Information literacy, Knowledge society

In the month following the devastating explosion in the Lebanese capital, the international community and the people of Beirut have been actively working to recover the cultural institutions of...

News - 7 September 2020

Tags: Conservation, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Disaster management, Disaster relief, International cooperation, Lebanon, Preservation, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

It has been more than 5 years since the Relindial Cartonera project was launched. Odile Dupont has drawn up a retrospective and statistics which are available in English and in French on the page...

News - 22 July 2020

Tags: Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Education, Interreligious Dialogue, Multicultural populations, Social inclusion, Sustainability, Religions: Libraries and Dialogue

UNESCO’s International Coalition of Inclusive and Sustainable Cities (ICCAR) hosted an international webinar on 20 April 2020 addressing racism, discrimination and exclusion in the time of...

News - 21 April 2020

Tags: Advocacy, Cooperation, Disadvantaged persons, Human rights, Immigrants, Information literacy, Library as place, Library services, Library services to people with disabilities, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Refugees, Social inclusion, Library Services to People with Special Needs

UNESCO’s statement, Turning the threat of COVID-19 into an opportunity for greater support to documentary heritage, co-signed by IFLA, stresses the importance of continued support for...

News - 6 April 2020

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Conservation, Cooperation, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Cultural heritage, Data management, Digital libraries, Digital preservation, Library and information profession, Library collections, Library services, Policy, Preservation

The IFLA/ UNESCO Public Library Manifesto has been an important achievement since it was first ratified in 1994. The Manifesto proclaims UNESCO's belief in the public library as a...

News - 23 March 2020

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Best practices, Cooperation, Democracy, Development, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Information society, Knowledge management, Libraries for development, Library and information profession, Library and information science education, Library as place, Library collections, Library outreach, Library services, Members, Policy, Social inclusion, Society, Public Libraries

Call for papers In keeping with the thematic focus of the next World Library Information Congress, "Inspire, Engage, Enable and Connect", the IFLA SIG Relindial...

News - 16 January 2020

Tags: Best practices, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Cultures, Dialogue, Human rights, Multicultural populations, Peace, Religions, Social inclusion, Religions: Libraries and Dialogue

Recorded at the National Library of Technology in Prague, Czech Republic, from Wednesday, October 9, at 10:00 CET, until Friday, October 11, 2019, at noon CET. More at https://ilds2019....

Publication - 12 November 2019

Tags: Access to knowledge, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Benchmarking, Best practices, Big data, Conferences, Cooperation, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Czechia, Data management, Digital divide, Document delivery, eBooks, Electronic document delivery, eLending, eLending for Libraries, Interlibrary loans, International cooperation, Networking, Open access, Research support, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing, Videos

Published on behalf of the IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section’s Standing Committee, this freely-accessible eBook is a testimonial reflecting the state-of-the-art in the...

Publication - 4 November 2019

Tags: Access to information, Benchmarking, Best practices, Big data, Conferences, Cooperation, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Digital divide, Document delivery, eBooks, Electronic document delivery, eLending, eLending for Libraries, Intellectual property, Interlibrary loans, International cooperation, Library collections, Open access, Publications, Research support, Scholarly communications, Statistics and evaluation, User experience, Conference proceedings, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing

Representatives from IFLA will attend the Second Inter-regional Conference for the Memory of the World to speak on our work towards preserving and providing access to Digital Heritage....

Event - 2 November 2019

Tags: Conference, Conferences, Conservation, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Digitisation, Guidelines, International cooperation, Preservation, Republic of Korea

It's another busy conference schedule for the National Libraries section as our main session takes on the way that national libraries are evolving their spaces to offer new services and reach...

News - 14 August 2019

Tags: 2019 WLIC, 203 agenda, Advocacy, Cooperation, cultural diplomacy, Development, Libraries for development, Libraries, Development and the United Nations 2030 Agenda, Library as place, Library buildings and equipment, Library services, Society, WLIC, National Libraries

We had a chat with Wend Wendland, Director of the Traditional Knowledge Division at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), to find out more both about the division and the WIPO...

News - 23 April 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Cooperation, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Cultural heritage, Indigenous peoples, Intellectual property

Registration for the ILDS2019 Conference is now open. The conference will be held in Prague on 9th – 11th October 2019. Don't miss this great event.  We invite you once more...

News - 13 February 2019

Tags: Cooperation, Czechia, Document delivery, Interlibrary loans, International cooperation, Resource discovery, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing

21 November 2008: Today in Paris, the International Federation of Library Institutions and Associations (IFLA) and the Bibliothèque nationale de France co-hosted the 1st meeting of...

Publication - 13 January 2019

Tags: Access to knowledge, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments and Sites, Statements

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)

IFLA DDRS Standing Committee would like to challenge the interlending and document supply community to consider strategies for contending with an increasingly complex global information...

Event - 7 December 2018

Tags: Access to information, Best practices, Change management, Conference, Conferences, Cooperation, Copyright, Czechia, Document delivery, Electronic document delivery, Interlibrary loans, International cooperation, Resource discovery, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing

At the 37th meeting of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), many representatives of...

Publication - 6 December 2018

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Cooperation, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

The Standing Committee on Libraries for Children and Young Adults has 5 places to fill in the term 2019-2023. You find all information about the procedure here https://www.ifla.org/node/81922...

News - 8 October 2018

Tags: Advocacy, Capacity building, Communications, Cooperation, Development, International cooperation, Management, Networking, Nominations, Professional development, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Dear Colleagues, it was nice to see so many of you at World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Colleagues from all over the world came...

Informational Page - 4 August 2018

Tags: Advocacy, Best practices, Children, Children's libraries, Conferences, Cooperation, Guidelines, Lifelong learning, Literacy, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Our participation to Mozfest was a blast. We met new people and learned a lot from them. Read about the experience and learn the new web literacy tools Mozilla made available to all. One...

News - 16 November 2017

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Cooperation, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Internet access, Knowledge society, Open access, Open source, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

IFLA Cataloguing Section invite you to submit a proposal for the CATS open session at the 83rd IFLA General Conference and Assembly to be held in Wrocław, Poland, 19-25 August 2017. The...

News - 18 January 2017

Tags: Cooperation, cooperation, Linked data, Metadata, Sharing, Committee on Standards

At the World Library and Information Congress in Columbus the Section on Academic and Research Libraries, the Section on School Libraries and the Section on Metropolitan Libraries joined together...

News - 24 August 2016

Tags: attendance, Cooperation, IFLA WLIC 2016, Library marketing, Management, papers, United States of America, Metropolitan Libraries

The IFLA Building Strong Library Associations Programme (BSLA) supports projects in Africa, Asia and Oceania, and Latin America and the Caribbean. BSLA offers a strategic and...

News - 24 June 2016

Tags: Advocacy, Africa, BSLA, Cameroon, Cooperation, Development, Meetings, LDP (Library Development Programme)

IFLA's highly successful Building Strong Library Associations (BSLA) programme has been expanded through a series of workshops and projects at the regional level in Africa, Asia and Oceania,...

Event - 28 April 2016

Tags: Cooperation, Development, Meeting, Meetings, Philippines, Professional development, LDP (Library Development Programme)

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

The overall aim of Oslo Public Library MakerSpace is to bring new forms of knowledge production into the library, through creating space that is available for anyone who wants to come to the...

Informational Page - 16 June 2015

Tags: 3D printing, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Children, Communications, Cooperation, Development, Digitisation, Education, Information literacy, Library as place, MakerSpace, Networking, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Brill, the international scholarly publisher, donated over 500 books to Loyola College in Chennai, India as part of its Adopt a Library Program. The donation of scholarly books covers...

News - 13 May 2015

Tags: Access to knowledge, Asia and Oceania, Brill, Cooperation, Donations, Asia and Oceania

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)

Abstracts of papers are now available for the open session "SCIENCE+ART=CREATIVITY: Libraries and the New Collaborative Thinking". The open session takes place on August 19, 4 to 6 p.m....

Event - 18 June 2014

Tags: Art + Science = Creativity, Conference, Cooperation, France, Art Libraries

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

Culture is a basic need.  A community thrives through its cultural heritage, it dies without it. Cultural heritage consists of tangible and intangible, natural and cultural,...

IFLA Group or Activity - 23 May 2013

Tags: +Main IFLA topics, Conservation, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Preservation

On behalf of IFLA, the Public Libraries Section chair Suzanne Payette warmly congratulates and thanks Vít Richter of the National Library of the Czech Republic who coordinated the Czech...

News - 25 April 2013

Tags: Access to information, Associations, Best practices, Cooperation, Public Libraries

L to R: David Ofili, Caroline Nyaga, Rozita Petrinska-Labudovikj, Chona San Pedro, Dwaymian Brissette On the 23rd of April, IFLA Headquarters welcomed the 2013 Jay Jordan ...

News - 23 April 2013

Tags: Cooperation, Jay Jordan, Netherlands, New professionals, OCLC, Professional development

Dear colleagues, MetLib 2013 is coming up! The Amsterdam Public Library has the pleasure of inviting you to IFLA's 2013 MetLib Conference which will take place from Sunday, May...

Event - 27 February 2013

Tags: Conference, Conferences, Cooperation, Library services, Netherlands, Metropolitan Libraries

Mid-meeting and Symposium on Regional Cooperation and Information Literacy - 25-27th February 2013 RSCAO will have its mid-term-meeting in Taipei and conduct a Symposium on Regional...

News - 1 February 2013

Tags: Cooperation, Asia and Oceania

At its meeting of 19th August 2011, the IFLA Governing Board set up an Advisory Group to draft Principles of Engagement to be used by IFLA and its members in library-related activities of disaster...

Publication - 22 May 2012

Tags: Advocacy, Best practices, Conservation, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Cultural Heritage topic, Development, Disaster management, Disaster relief, International cooperation, Library and information profession, Preservation, Procedures, Publications, Risk assessment, Society, Sustainability, Publications

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

On behalf of IFLA, the Public Libraries Section chair Suzanne Payette warmly congratulates Silvia Stasselova and colleagues from the Slovak Librarians Association for recently completing the Slovak...

News - 1 March 2012

Tags: Access to information, Best practices, Communications, Cooperation, Information professionals, Professional development, Success stories, Public Libraries

Nearly every library has an "Ask a Librarian" link on their website via which a library patron may ask any librarian a question via the web and receive a reply back via email or in a...

News - 2 November 2010

Tags: Cooperation, help a librarian, Information professionals, Government 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