Content tagged UNESCO

World Book Day 2020 would have been a special event anyway, marking 25 years since the first celebration in 1995. But this year’s celebration will be particularly special, given the global...

News - 23 April 2020

Tags: Literacy, Reading, UNESCO, Literacy and Reading

With only four days to go until the 25th Anniversary of the Public Library Manifesto, it’s the last moment to look at the tools and ideas IFLA has made available. With our advocacy pack, you...

News - 25 November 2019

Tags: Access to information, public library manifesto, UNESCO, Public Libraries

Four years after its creation by UNESCO, the International Day for the Universal Access to Information has been formally added to the United Nations calendar. In a resolution passed by the General...

News - 21 November 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Development, UNESCO

On 29 November 2019, the IFLA-UNESCO Public Library Manifesto celebrates its 25th Anniversary. This is a great opportunity to celebrate the missions and work of public libraries....

Publication - 20 November 2019

Tags: Access to information, Public Libraries, public library manifesto, UNESCO, Posters, Public Libraries

A delegation from IFLA will attend the 40th Session of the UNESCO General Conference, held 12-27 November 2019 in Paris, France. As NGO partners of UNESCO, we are committed to growing our...

Event - 14 November 2019

Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Conference, Conferences, Cultural heritage, Library outreach, Peace, Policy, UNESCO

In just three weeks, it will be 25 years since the last revision of the IFLA/UNESCO Public Library Manifesto. IFLA’s new advocacy toolkit sets out some key facts, ideas, and tools to help...

Publication - 8 November 2019

Tags: Access to information, Digital inclusion, Education, public library manifesto, UNESCO, Toolkits, Public Libraries

On Sunday, 27 October it is the The World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2019. This years theme is ""Engage the Past Through Sound and Images". For more information...

News - 25 October 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, CCAAA, Communications, Preservation, UNESCO, Audiovisual and Multimedia

To mark International Literacy Day 2019, IFLA has released a new article focusing on the role of libraries around the world in promoting youth and adult literacy, in particular in those...

Publication - 9 September 2019

Tags: Access to information, Literacy, Literacy and reading, Reading, UNESCO, Reports, Literacy and Reading

​Digital records are vital assets of any organisation, and their preservation is the responsibility of managers and decision makers at all levels. The Executive Guide on Digital Preservation ...

News - 21 May 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, PERSIST, Preservation and Conservation, UNESCO

2019 is the International Year of Indigenous Languages. IFLA has been celebrating and promoting the year, sharing stories of libraries from all over the world, which are contributing to the...

News - 21 May 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, Indigenous Language, Preservation and Conservation, UNESCO

Last week IFLA attended the International Conference on the 20th anniversary of the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention hosted by UNESCO in Geneva, Switzerland. The Conference...

News - 8 May 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, culture heritage, Disaster risk, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, UNESCO

UNESCO has with support from the Government of Switzerland organised this international conference on protecting cultural property, in particular against the threats posed by conflict and...

Event - 24 April 2019

Tags: Conference, Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, documentary heritage, Preservation and Conservation, UNESCO

To mark the 10th anniversary of the mandate on cultural rights and the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights has...

News - 6 March 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, cultural rights, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, UNESCO

Preserving and celebrating languages is a core part of wider efforts to safeguard and develop our tangible and intangible heritage. On 21 February we celebrate International Mother Language Day, a...

News - 21 February 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, indigenous, International Mother Language Day, Language, minority, UNESCO

On 16 October 2017, following the announcement by the governments of the United States and Israel of their intention to leave UNESCO, IFLA released the following statement: ...

Publication - 12 January 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, UNESCO, Statements, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

​ With the internet playing an increasing role in our economic, social and cultural lives, the importance of it being inclusive grows. IFLA's new brief explains a new tool for...

Publication - 7 December 2018

Tags: Access to information, Internet access, Internet governance, internet inclusion, UNESCO, Briefings, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)

The Forum will focus on disaster risk reduction and management as a key strategy for the sustainable preservation of documentary heritage by the concerned memory institutions (archives, libraries...

Event - 29 November 2018

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster risk reduction, documentary heritage, DRR, Forum, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, UNESCO

The UNESCO-IFLA Public Library Manifesto was last updated and finalised on 29 November 1994. 29 November 2018 therefore marks the start of the Manifesto’s 25th year! First created in...

News - 29 November 2018

Tags: Access to information, Public Libraries, public library manifesto, UNESCO, Public Libraries

The UNESCO-IFLA Public Library Manifesto, in its most recent edition, is entering its 25th anniversary year. To start the celebrations, IFLA has produced an article looking at the ways in...

Publication - 29 November 2018

Tags: Access to information, Public Libraries, public library manifesto, UNESCO, Reports, Public Libraries

The Global Alliance for Literacy Policy Forum offers an opportunity for governments, international institutions and others to come together to find effective ways to tackle illiteracy. IFLA will...

Event - 11 November 2018

Tags: adult learning, Children, children, Conference, Information Literacy, Lifelong learning, Literacy, Mexico, UNESCO, Young people, Literacy and Reading

The UNESCO Memory of the World (MoW) Programme was established in 1992 in the light of the growing awareness of the importance of the preservation of, and access to, documentary heritage. Around...

Publication - 8 November 2018

Tags: 2015 Recomendation, Cultural heritage, documentary heritage, Memory of the World, MoW, UNESCO, Briefings

The UNESCO Memory of the World (MoW) Programme was established in 1992 in the light of the growing awareness of the importance of the preservation of, and access to, documentary heritage. Around...

News - 8 November 2018

Tags: 2015 Recommendation, Cultural heritage, documentary heritage, Memory of the World, MoW, UNESCO

​ Within the framework of the agreement signed between Qatar National Library and UNESCO, “Supporting Documentary Heritage Preservation in the Arab Region,” and in cooperation...

Event - 25 October 2018

Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, QNL, UNESCO, Workshop, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Qatar National Library (QNL) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have signed an agreement to implement a joint project entitled ‘Supporting...

News - 24 September 2018

Tags: Cultural heritage, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, Qatar, UNESCO, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Libraries, alongside other cultural heritage institutions, are increasingly investing in web presence in order to broaden access to their collections. Digital libraries have emerged as...

Event - 15 August 2018

Tags: Congress, Cultural heritage, Digital libraries, UNESCO

Come by the IFLA Booth and meet the IFLA team! From 13.30-16.00 Tanja Clausen, Policy and Advocate Officcer will be in the IFLA Booth to talk about IFLA's engagement with UNESCO on...

Event - 15 August 2018

Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, Social, UNESCO

Language is essential to culture, community and daily life. Through languages, people not only express their history, traditions and memory, but more importantly construct their future. Yet many...

News - 9 August 2018

Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, indigenous languages, indigenous peoples, intangible cultal heritage, IYIL 2019, PAC, UNESCO, Indigenous Matters

Language is essential to culture, community and daily life. Through languages, people not only express their history, traditions and memory, but more importantly construct their future. Yet many...

Publication - 9 August 2018

Tags: Access to information, Cultural heritage, Indigenous peoples, UNESCO, Briefings, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)

Mr. Udaya Cabral Director, IFLA  PAC Center Sri Lanka and Ms. Jaesun Lee, Director, IFLA PAC Center Korea attended the 8th UNESCO, MOWCAP (Memory of the World Committee for Asia and...

News - 3 July 2018

Tags: Cultural heritage, Memory of the World, PAC, Preservation, Risk Register, UNESCO, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

The first UNESCO-IFAP conference on ‘Tangible and Intangible Impacts of Information and Communications in the Digital Age’ on 3-8 June 2018 brought together representatives of...

News - 13 June 2018

Tags: Access to information, Digital inclusion, Information literacy, Media and Information Literacy, Russian Federation, UNESCO, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)

Global Media and Information Week 2018 will take place from 24 to 31 October 2018, and provides an opportunity to discuss – and celebrate – the importance of skills as both a response...

News - 29 May 2018

Tags: GAPMIL, Information literacy, Knowledge society, UNESCO, Information Literacy

The first-ever international conference “Tangible and Intangible Impact of Information and Communication in the Digital Age” which will take place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian...

Event - 12 April 2018

Tags: Access to information, Conference, Russian Federation, UNESCO

​ As the leading UN institution working on education, science and culture, UNESCO is a key partner for libraries. IFLA already engages with the institution across a wide variety of issues...

News - 12 April 2018

Tags: Education, Information literacy, Preservation, UNESCO, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Cultural heritage reflects the life, history and identity of a community, and links the past to the present. If cultural heritage is not preserved and protected, communities will break....

News - 8 December 2017

Tags: conflict, Cultural heritage, Hague, Protection, UNESCO

IFLA has been invited to participate in the twelfth meeting of the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. NGOs who has formal relations with UNESCO, are...

Event - 27 November 2017

Tags: Conference, Cultural heritage, UNESCO, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

The 39th General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) saw a new Director General, new Executive Committee members, and a renewed focus on key...

News - 19 November 2017

Tags: Cultural heritage, Freedom of expression, UNESCO, UNESCO General Conference, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

The 39th session of the General Conference took place in Paris, on 30 October – 14 November. IFLA took an active part, attending meetings on UNESCO’s activities in the area of...

News - 10 November 2017

Tags: CI Commission, Communication Information, IFAP, OER, Open Educational Resources, UNESCO, UNESCO General Conference

On 16 October 2017, following the announcement by the governments of the United States and Israel of their intention to leave UNESCO, IFLA released the following statement: ...

News - 16 October 2017

Tags: culture, Preservation, UNESCO

The World Book Capital initiative gives cities the opportunity both to celebrate local writing and culture, but also to promote reading and a love of books among residents and visitors. Bids are...

News - 19 September 2017

Tags: Cultural heritage, LAMMS, Literacy, UNESCO, UNESCO World Book Capital

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

UNESCO's GAPMIL initaitive offers a valuable potential means for libraries to connect around their work on information literacy, and underline their value to others. This IFLA briefing...

Publication - 11 August 2017

Tags: Information literacy, news media, UNESCO, Briefings, 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, Libraries for development, Republic of Korea, 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 resources, 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: Cultural heritage, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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: Republic of Korea, 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: Cultural heritage, International cooperation, Multicultural populations, UNESCO

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, Library Services to Multicultural Populations

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