Content tagged UNESCO

Libraries have been active in taking the IFLA infographic on How to Spot Fake News, and using it to promote media and information literacy. IFLA has produced a short report on initiatives to day...

Publication - 20 August 2017

Tags: Information literacy, Media and Information Literacy (MIL), Newspapers, UNESCO, Toolkits, Information Literacy

The Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL) was launched by UNESCO in 2013, and focuses on both raising the profile of media and information literacy as an area...

Publication - 11 August 2017

Tags: Information literacy, news media, UNESCO, Resource Guides, Information Literacy

Governing Board Member Ngian Lek Choh represented IFLA at the 2nd UCLG Culture Summit in Jeju, Korea from 10-12 May.  The UCLG Culture Summit is the main meeting point at global level...

News - 12 May 2017

Tags: Cultural heritage, Development, Korea, Republic of, Libraries, Development and the UN 2030 Agenda, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, UNESCO

Documentary works in all formats, including digital, are a key part of our cultural heritage. Working with, preserving, and safeguarding them in order to provide access to future generations is at...

News - 10 May 2017

Tags: 11.4, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Disaster management, Disaster relief, Policy, Preservation, Risk Register, SDGs, UN, UNESCO, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Publication: UNESCO PERSIST Guidelines for the selection of digital heritage for long-term preservation Offical website: UNESCO PERSIST Digital documentary heritage has...

Informational Page - 24 November 2016

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, PERSIST, UNESCO

IFLA's interventions at UNESCO expert meetings for the safeguarding of cultural heritage: Syria (2014) UN Resolution 2199 (2015) Yemen (2015)  

Publication - 24 November 2016

Tags: Cultural heritage, UNESCO, Statements

Today is the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2016. The theme of this year's celebration is " It’s your story – don’t lose it " "UNESCO...

News - 27 October 2016

Tags: Access to information, Audiovisual and multimedia, Cultural heritage, Knowledge society, Lifelong learning, UNESCO, Audiovisual and Multimedia

إن إتاحة المعلومات أكثر من مُجرد مبدأ، إنها السبب وراء وجود المكتبات والناشرين. إن اليوم هو اليوم العالمي الأول لضمان حصول الجميع على المعلومات، إنه اليوم الذي طالما سعت له المكتبات والناشرون...

Publication - 29 September 2016

Tags: Access to information, IDUAI, International Day for the Universal Access to Information, IPA, Libraries and Development, UNESCO, Statements

Access to information is more than just a principle; it is the reason why libraries and publishers exist. While today is the first International Day for Universal Access to Information, in...

Publication - 28 September 2016

Tags: Access to information, IDUAI, International Day for the Universal Access to Information, IPA, Libraries and Development, UNESCO, Statements

The World Culture Forum (WCF) 2016 will include a series of keynote addresses, symposiums on culture-related issues, a cultural carnival, and a parallel international youth forum on...

Event - 22 September 2016

Tags: Forum, Indonesia, UNESCO, World Culture Forum

UNESCO, IFLA, and IPA have opened the call for nominations for the World Book Capital 2019. Each year, UNESCO and the international organizations representing the three major...

News - 15 September 2016

Tags: Announcement, Literacy and reading, UNESCO, World Book Capital, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments and Sites

UNESCO, IFLA, IPA and IBF have opened the call for nominations for the World Book Capital 2018. Each year, UNESCO and the international organizations representing the three major...

News - 30 March 2016

Tags: Advocacy, Cultural heritage, International cooperation, LAMMS, UNESCO, World Book Capital

La IFLA ha creado un Registro de riesgos para el patrimonio documental con el fin de sensibilizar sobre la protección, conservación y salvaguarda del patrimonio documental (...

News - 17 August 2015

Tags: Blue Shield, Cultural heritage, documentary heritage, From the Annual Conference, Risk Register, UNESCO

为了在全世界范围内提高对文献遗产（无论何种形式）的保存、保护和保卫意识，国际图联建立了文献遗产风险登记表。我们旨在收集文献遗产藏品的信息，从而能在自然或人为灾害发生时，迅速作出响应。 有了风险登记表，国际图联就能在灾难发生时，向联合国教科文组织（UNESCO）和蓝盾国际委员会（International Committee of the Blue...

News - 17 August 2015

Tags: Blue Shield, Cultural heritage, documentary heritage, From the Annual Conference, Risk Register, UNESCO

Для того чтобы повысить мировой уровень информированности в сфере сохранения, охраны и защиты документального наследия (в любом виде), IFLA создала Реестр Риска для документального...

News - 17 August 2015

Tags: Blue Shield, Cultural heritage, documentary heritage, From the Annual Conference, Risk Register, UNESCO

L’IFLA a créé un Registre des risques du patrimoine documentaire  afin de favoriser la prise de conscience en matière de préservation, de...

News - 17 August 2015

Tags: Blue Shield, Cultural heritage, documentary heritage, From the Annual Conference, Risk Register, UNESCO

Die IFLA hat ein Risikoregister für das dokumentarische Erbe erstellt, um das Bewusstsein für die Bewahrung, die Erhaltung und die Sicherung des dokumentarischen Erbes (in allen...

News - 17 August 2015

Tags: Blue Shield, Cultural heritage, documentary heritage, From the Annual Conference, Risk Register, UNESCO

لقد أسست الإفلاسجل حماية التراث الوثائقي من المخاطر؛ لرفع الوعي بحفظ وترميم التراث الوثائقي (في كل أشكاله) وحمايته حول العالم، ونهدف إلى جمع بيانات عن مجموعات المُقتنيات منه؛ من...

News - 17 August 2015

Tags: Blue Shield, Cultural heritage, documentary heritage, From the Annual Conference, Risk Register, UNESCO

IFLA has created a Risk Register for documentary heritage in order to raise awareness for the preservation, conservation, and safeguarding of documentary heritage (in any format) world-wide. We...

News - 17 August 2015

Tags: Blue Shield, Cultural heritage, documentary heritage, From the Annual Conference, Risk Register, UNESCO

During the past two years, UNESCO has been working on a new Recommendation stressing the importance of preservation and access to documentary heritage (including in digital form). IFLA has...

News - 6 July 2015

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Cultural heritage, France, Memory of the World, UNESCO

Documentary heritage in archives, libraries and museums constitutes a major part of the memory of the peoples of the world and reflects the diversity of peoples, languages and cultures. The...

Event - 22 June 2015

Tags: Event, Memory of the World, UNESCO

The UNESCO Information for All Programme (IFAP) is an intergovernmental programme created in 2000. Through IFAP, Governments of the world have pledged to harness the new opportunities of the...

Event - 3 June 2015

Tags: Access to information, Meeting, multilingualism, Russian Federation, UNESCO

by Dr. Anup Kumar Das, Documentation Officer, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India In March 2015 UNESCO, in collaboration with the...

News - 24 April 2015

Tags: Curriculum, Open Access, Open access, UNESCO, Asia and Oceania

The Selection Committee for the World Book Capital is calling for nominations for the World Book Capital 2017. Each year, UNESCO and the international organizations representing the three...

News - 2 December 2014

Tags: Announcement, Literacy, Reading, UNESCO, World Book Capital, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments and Sites

From 11 to 15 October 2014, the International Council on Archives (ICA) will hold its Annual Conference in Girona. The PERSIST project organises a workshop on digital...

News - 26 November 2014

Tags: Cultural Heritage topic, PERSIST Project, UNESCO

At the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) in Lyon this summer, the UNESCO session was spent on the problem of selection in digital heritage. It is one of the challenging subjects within...

News - 7 October 2014

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Cultural Heritage topic, Digital preservation, France, PERSIST Project, UNESCO

The city of Wroclaw (Poland) has been named World Book Capital for 2016. The decision was made by an international committee of experts on 24 June during a meeting at UNESCO’s headquarters...

News - 27 June 2014

Tags: Poland, UNESCO, World Book Capital City

World Book Capital The Selection Committee for the World Book Capital is calling for nominations for the World Book Capital 2016. Each year, UNESCO and the international...

News - 3 April 2014

Tags: Announcement, Literacy, Reading, UNESCO, World Book Capital, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments and Sites

On the 5th and 6th of December a follow up meeting to the UBC/UNESCO Vancouver Declaration on Preservation and Digitisation took place in The Hague. The Vancouver Declaration pinpoints key issues...

News - 11 December 2013

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Conservation, Digital preservation, Digital resources, International cooperation, Netherlands, Preservation, UNESCO, Vancouver Declaration

Yesterday, UNESCO announced that the city of Incheon (Republic of Korea) was named World Book Capital for the year 2015. The Selection Committee, which met on 16 July at the UNESCO...

News - 24 July 2013

Tags: Korea, Republic of, UNESCO, World Book Capital City

In September 2012 UNESCO organised a major conference in Vancouver, Canada. The Memory of the World in the Digital age: Digitization and Preservation explored the key issues...

News - 4 July 2013

Tags: LAMMS, Netherlands, Preservation, UNESCO, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments and Sites

​ UNESCO will provide patronage for an international event being organized in Marseille from the 28th of October to the 1st of November. This conference is picking...

News - 18 March 2013

Tags: France, UNESCO, Vancouver Declaration

UNESCO organized an international conference The Memory of the World in the Digital age: Digitization and Preservation, in September 2012 in Vancouver, Canada, to explore the key issues...

News - 17 January 2013

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, UNESCO, Vancouver Declaration, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

World Book Capital The Selection Committee for the World Book Capital is calling for nominations for the World Book Capital 2015. Each year, UNESCO and the international...

News - 12 December 2012

Tags: Literacy, Reading, UNESCO, World Book Capital

Conference participants in the Atlas Park-Hotel Hall (Source: UNESCO)   In order to raise public awareness of the significance, scale and topicality of the tasks of...

News - 23 July 2012

Tags: Announcement, Media and Information Literacy (MIL), UNESCO, Information Literacy

  The city of Port Harcourt (Nigeria) was named the World Book Capital for the year 2014 after the Selection Committee, composed of representatives from the international...

News - 16 July 2012

Tags: Announcement, UNESCO

In support of Libraries, Books, Words & Ideas IFLA congratulates the city of Norwich (UK) on becoming the sixth UNESCO City of Literature.  Visit the Norwich...

News - 29 June 2012

Tags: Literacy, UNESCO

IFLA President Ingrid Parent speaking at the World Book Capital 2012 celebration In a festive celebration two days ago in Armenia, IFLA President Ingrid Parent witnessed the official...

News - 24 April 2012

Tags: Literacy, Reading, UNESCO

Find the world’s wealth and wisdom through books To promote books, reading, and the stimulation of creativity through copyright - this is why we celebrate World Book and Copyright Day...

News - 23 April 2012

Tags: Copyright, Literacy, UNESCO, World Book and Copyright Day

Final version In order to survive and develop, make decisions, and solve problems in every facet of life - personal, social, educational, and professional, individuals, communities, and...

Publication - 28 March 2012

Tags: Media and Information Literacy (MIL), UNESCO, Statements, Information Literacy

An extraordinary literary tradition and a strong commitment to preserve and promote it... The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, designated Reykjavik (Iceland) as 'City of Literature...

News - 29 August 2011

Tags: Literacy, UNESCO

Bangkok, Thailand has been designated World Book Capital 2013. The city was selected as the 13th World Book Capital by a committee made up of representatives from the publishing world and...

News - 30 June 2011

Tags: Announcement, UNESCO

We are pleased to announce that UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova has appointed IFLA President Ellen Tise to the International Advisory Committee (IAC) of the Memory of the World...

News - 3 February 2011

Tags: Announcement, UNESCO

We are pleased to announce that UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova has appointed IFLA Governing Board member and Chair of Division IV Michael Heaney to the International Advisory Committee (IAC...

News - 3 February 2011

Tags: UNESCO

Paris, France 5 January 2010 UNESCO The goal of the International Year consists in making the rapprochement of cultures the hallmark of all policy-making at local, national, regional...

News - 8 January 2010

Tags: Convergence, Cultural heritage, International cooperation, Multicultural populations, UNESCO

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 - 17 April 2009

Tags: Cultural heritage, Diversity, Linguistic heritage, UNESCO, Manifestos, Toolkits, Library Services to Multicultural Populations

The Multicultural Library – a gateway to a cultural diverse society in dialogue All people live in an increasingly heterogeneous society. There are more than 6,000 different...

Page of a Book - 17 April 2009

Tags: Cultural heritage, Diversity, Linguistic heritage, UNESCO, Manifestos, Library Services to Multicultural Populations