Content tagged Cultural heritage

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

Our documentary heritage represents humanity’s ideas, imagination, innovation and cultural expressions – it is the memory of the world. We must act to preserve this heritage, and also...

News - 19 March 2020

Tags: Advocacy, Best practices, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digitisation, Policy, Preservation, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and Qatar National Library, as the IFLA Regional Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Center for Arab countries and the...

News - 11 March 2020

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digital humanities, Digitisation, Jordan, Library collections, Lifelong learning, Meetings, Preservation, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Le Bureau régional de l'UNESCO à Dakar au Sénégal, a organisé du 22 au 24 janvier 2020 une consultation internationale sur la sauvegarde, l’...

News - 10 March 2020

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digitisation, Mali, Meetings, Networking, Preservation, Rare books and manuscripts, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

The UNESCO Regional Office in Dakar, Senegal organised this international consultation, held January 22-24, 2020 in in the Malian capital, Bamako. IFLA was represented at this sub-...

News - 10 March 2020

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digitisation, Mali, Meetings, Networking, Preservation, Rare books and manuscripts, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Experts from libraries, cultural institutions and museums from across the Levant participated in a four-day training program, held from 3 to 6 February, organized by Qatar National Library in...

News - 27 February 2020

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digitisation, Education and training, Meetings, Preservation

As a partner NGO of UNESCO, we will attend the meeting of civil society observers with the members of the Bureau of the Committee on 11 February to advocate for the role of libraries in the...

Event - 10 February 2020

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Conference, Cultural heritage, Digital humanities, France, Marginalised populations, Multicultural populations, Preservation, Social inclusion, Society

The IFLA Audiovisual and Multimedia Section and Metropolitan Libraries Section invites interested professionals from any library to submit a short (10 minutes or less) video or multimedia work for...

News - 3 February 2020

Tags: Access to information, Accessibility, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Communications, Cultural heritage, Digital libraries, Education, Electronic resources, Freedom of information, Information technology, International cooperation, Library outreach, Library services, Open access, Metropolitan Libraries

In October 2019, the IFLA PAC Center in Russia hosted a visitor from the IFLA PAC Centre in Qatar to facilitate exchange of expertise and cooperation between specialists from the two centres....

News - 21 January 2020

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Education and training, Networking, Preservation, Russian Federation, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

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

Climate change forces all of us to face the reality that we will see major shifts in our economic models, our physical landscapes, our energy systems, and resource management more generally....

News - 10 January 2020

Tags: ATINA SIG, Best practices, Cultural heritage, Disadvantaged persons, Disaster management, Disaster relief, Displaced persons, E4GDH SIG, Human rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, International cooperation, Multicultural populations, Peace, Refugees, Risk assessment, Women’s issues, Women, Information and Libraries

IFLA joins international organisations including Blue Shield International, ICOM, ICOMOS, UNESCO and many more in concern over recent threats by the President of the United States of America...

News - 9 January 2020

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster management, Human rights, Preservation

The Art Libraries invite proposals for the Open Session entitled "Rethinking the concepts of art libraries, in view of changing cultural heritage paradigms: collection building...

News - 7 January 2020

Tags: Collecting art, Cultural heritage, GLAM, Art Libraries

UNESCO, in partnership with the Qatar National Library (QNL) organised a regional conference on “Supporting documentary heritage preservation in the Arab region”, held in Doha, Qatar...

News - 4 December 2019

Tags: Advocacy, Capacity building, Conferences, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Policy, Preservation, Qatar, Preservation and Conservation

The IFLA delegation had a successful week at the 40th Session of the UNESCO General Conference. From 18-21 November, IFLA represented the library and information profession in a series of meetings...

News - 26 November 2019

Tags: Access to information, Communications, Conferences, Cultural heritage, Development, Digital preservation, Education, France, Freedom of expression, Human rights, Networking, Policy, Preservation, Sustainability, UNESCO General Conference

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

Representatives from IFLA participated in the 2nd Inter-regional Conference for the Memory of the World, held in the Republic of Korea on 5-8 November 2019. The aim of the...

News - 12 November 2019

Tags: Advocacy, Archives, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Meetings, Networking, Preservation, Republic of Korea

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...

News - 11 November 2019

Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Conferences, Cultural heritage, Education, Libraries for development, Networking

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

This European Policy Debate was organised by Europa Nostra in partnership with the Fondation du Patrimoine and the Collège des Bernardins, with the support of the European Commission and...

News - 2 November 2019

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Democracy, Europe, International cooperation, Policy

​ UNESCO and Qatar National Library (QNL) to host a two-day regional conference on documentary heritage preservation. In 2018, QNL and UNESCO joined forces to support the...

Event - 31 October 2019

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

This major European Policy Debate will focus on some important challenges which cultural heritage faces in Europe and on the significance of shared cultural heritage for the future of the...

Event - 29 October 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, Event, France, Preservation

At the 39th meeting of WIPO's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), United Nations member states will discuss the topic of exceptions and limitations to copyright for...

Event - 21 October 2019

Tags: Advocacy, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Cultural heritage, International cooperation, Meeting

​IFLA has released its guidelines for setting up a digital unification project. These provide a checklist, and recommendations, for libraries in the planning, delivery, and finalisation...

Publication - 22 August 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital libraries, Digital preservation, digital unification, Standards, National Libraries

​The extensive PAC network, focused around the IFLA PAC Centres, has a wide range of expertise concerning preservation and conservation as well as safeguarding cultural heritage. The IFLA PAC...

News - 8 August 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, Strategic Programme on Preservation and Conservation, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

​ With the European Copyright Directive now voted, attention is turning to its implementation at national level. There is the promise of greater simplification and new...

Event - 19 June 2019

Tags: Access to information, Conference, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Cultural heritage, Romania, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

On 17 May 2019, after several years of discussion, the European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market was published in the official journal of the European Union. It enters into...

News - 18 June 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Archives, Associations, Conservation, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Cultural heritage, Digital humanities, Digital libraries, Digital preservation, Digitisation, Europe, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

​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

In a time when technological digital developments change rapidly, it is essential to have a platform where we can exchange knowledge and ideas. 2and3D Photography provides this platform and...

Event - 6 May 2019

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

IFLA has submitted comments to the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights on the subject of cultural diversity and human rights. With a responsibility to preserve the heritage of all of...

News - 27 April 2019

Tags: Cultural Diversity, Cultural heritage, Multicultural Populations, OHCHR, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

IFLA has submitted comments to the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights on the subject of cultural diversity and human rights. With a responsibility to preserve the heritage of...

Publication - 27 April 2019

Tags: Cultural Diversity, Cultural heritage, Multicultural Populations, OHCHR, Reports, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

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

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

By the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the European Bureau of Library Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA), SPARC Europe, the...

Publication - 17 April 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Associations, Conservation, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Cultural heritage, Europe, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Publications

The events of 15 April at the Cathedral of Notre Dame have shaken many, not just in Paris but around the world. For those who work in the heritage field, it is particularly heart-breaking...

News - 17 April 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster management, France, Preservation, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

The IFLA/PAC at the Qatar National Library invites all paper and book conservators and conservation technicians from libraries, cultural institutions and museums in Qatar and the Arab world to a 5...

News - 2 April 2019

Tags: book binding, Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, documentary heritage, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, Qatar

With many thanks to the Editor of the IFLA Journal Steve Witt (and former convenor of the LIbary History SIG), the March 2019 edition of IFLA Journal is a Special Issue on Libraries in...

News - 11 March 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital humanities, Displaced persons, IFLA Journal, IFLA WLIC 2017, Library history, WLIC 2017, Library History

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

Preservation and conservation specialists learned about the latest best practices in a workshop organized in the Sultanate of Oman by Qatar National Library, in its role as IFLA’s Regional...

News - 1 March 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, PAC

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

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...

News - 28 January 2019

Tags: Canada, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Indigenous peoples, International Year of Indigenous Languages, IYIL 2019, Indigenous Matters

2019 is the International Year of Indigenous Lanaguges. It provides a great opportunity to highlight the work that libraries are doing to support and promote languages, and the...

News - 17 January 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, indigenous languages, Indigenous peoples, International Year of Indigenous Languages, IYIL 2019, Multicultural populations, Indigenous Matters

The IFLA PAC Centre at Qatar National Library invites all libraries, cultural institutions and museums in the region to nominate paper and book conservators to attend this three-day...

News - 17 January 2019

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

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

29 May 2012 Following the alarming situation in Mali, the Blue Shield expresses its deep concern regarding the safeguarding of the country’s invaluable cultural and...

Publication - 12 January 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster management, Disaster relief, Mali, Preservation, Statements, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Cultural rights have long been recognised as a pillar of human rights. According to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, everyone should be able to take part in the cultural life of...

Publication - 12 January 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disadvantaged persons, Women’s issues, Briefings, Women, Information and Libraries

2018 has been declared the European Year of Cultural Heritage. While libraries are active in preserving our heritage every day of every year, this is a valuable opportunity to raise...

Publication - 12 January 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, Preservation, Briefings, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

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)

IFLA is pleased to announce that it has become a signatory to the Declaration on the inclusion of culture in the Post-2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals. The Declaration highlights...

Publication - 12 January 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Cultural heritage, LDP (Library Development Programme), Statements

In keeping with the thematic focus of the next World Library Information Congress, “Libraries: Dialogue for Change”, the IFLA SIG Relindial propose a session. It will be organised on...

News - 11 January 2019

Tags: Best practices, Collection development, Communications, conflict, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Democracy, Dialogue, Education, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Heritage, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Peace, Religion, RELINDIAL, resentment, Social inclusion, Society, Sustainability, Religions: Libraries and Dialogue

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:...

News - 7 January 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Digital resources, Scholarly communications

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)...

Event - 7 January 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Digital resources, Satellite Meeting, Scholarly communications

The IFLA Audiovisual and Multimedia Section, joined by the IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section and the Strategic Programme on Preservation and Conservation (PAC), invite interested...

News - 7 January 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Archives, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Best practices, Collection development, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Data management, Digital humanities, Digital libraries, Digital preservation, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Information technology, Library and information profession, Library collections, Open source, Preservation, Resource discovery, Risk assessment, Society, Usability

​ 10 December 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is an opportunity to read, and reflect on, a document that includes many of the key values -...

Publication - 7 December 2018

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Cultural heritage, Democracy, Human rights, Peace, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)

The inter-regional conference is one of several meetings being organized by the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme Secretariat in order to galvanize support for activities aimed at...

Event - 5 November 2018

Tags: Cultural heritage, Event

​ 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)

The 2018 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage will take place on October 27, and has the theme “Your Story is Moving”.   Here is what UNESCO says about the theme...

News - 2 October 2018

Tags: Access to knowledge, Archives, Associations, Cultural heritage, Digital humanities, Digital libraries, Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Education, Open access, Preservation, Resource discovery, Society

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)

08.00 - 10.30 The Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee’s first business meeting is taking place on 29 August 2018. Discussions will focus on several areas of the committee’s...

Event - 15 August 2018

Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, Meeting

Come by the IFLA Booth and meet the IFLA team! From 11.00-12.00 Tanja Clausen, Policy and Advocate Officcer will be in the IFLA Booth to talk about IFLA's work with the PAC...

Event - 15 August 2018

Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, IFLA Team, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, Social

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

08.00 - 10.30 Joint Business meeting of the Preservation and Conservation Section and the Strategic Programme on Preservation and Conservation (PAC). Conference participants are...

Event - 15 August 2018

Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, Meeting, PAC, Preservation and Conservation

08:00 - 10:30 The Preservation and Conservation Section’s second business meeting is taking place on 27 August 2018. Discussions will focus on several areas of the sections’s...

Event - 15 August 2018

Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, Meeting, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, Preservation and Conservation

16.00 - 18.00 In 2017, an IFLA workshop on developing metadata standards for palm leaf manuscripts highlighted the importance of taking a more holistic approach to these rare, and often...

Event - 15 August 2018

Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, PAC, Palm Leaf Manuscript, Preservation and Conservation, rare books, Seminar

12:00 - 14:00 The Strategic Programme on Preservation and Conservation (PAC)’s first business meeting is taking place on 25 August 2018. Discussions will focus on several areas of...

Event - 15 August 2018

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, Meeting, PAC, PAC Centre, Preservation, Strategic Programme on Preservation and Conservation

13:30 - 15:30 The Preservation and Conservation Section’s first business meeting is taking place on 24 August 2018. Discussions will focus on several areas of the sections’s...

Event - 15 August 2018

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, Meeting, Preservation

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)

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR) Article 27a states that “everyone has the right to freely participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share...

Publication - 18 July 2018

Tags: access, Advocacy, Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, European Parliament, Briefings

During the past years, we have continued to see our cultural heritage suffer damage and destruction. Natural or man-made disasters, wars and ethnic or religious conflicts represent a significant...

Publication - 18 July 2018

Tags: Blue Shield, Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, Disaster risk reduction, Guidelines

The Blue Shield acts to protect heritage during armed conflicts and disasters. It was founded in 1996 by the four key international organisations in their domains, the International Federation of...

News - 18 July 2018

Tags: Blue Shield, Cultural heritage, Disaster risk reduction

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR) Article 27a states that “everyone has the right to freely participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share...

News - 10 July 2018

Tags: access, Advocacy, Advocacy, Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, culture, European Parliament

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)

​ Half way through the European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH) IFLA attended the high-level conference on Europe’s shared history and values. The conference took place at the...

News - 28 June 2018

Tags: Advocacy, Cultural heritage, European Parliament, European Year of Cultural Heritage

The Art Libraries Section of IFLA, in collaboration with the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, is organizing a one-day conference that focuses on the documentation of global...

News - 13 May 2018

Tags: Access to information, Best practices, Conferences, Cultural heritage, Library collections, Art Libraries

IFLA, working with the Consorium of European Research Libraries, has submitted comments on the draft Regulation on the Import of Cultural Goods. In the spirit of ensuring that the new...

Publication - 23 April 2018

Tags: Cultural heritage, Europe, Heritage, trafficking, Statements, Preservation and Conservation

​New draft European Union legislation looks to make it more difficult to import stolen or looted cultural goods. IFLA has welcomed these steps, and proposed amendments which will ensure that the...

News - 23 April 2018

Tags: Cultural heritage, Europe, Heritage, trafficking, Preservation and Conservation

Individual sessions will focus on development, cultural heritage, education and media literacy, training, and the future of libraries. Ms Parent will both join the opening panel for the event...

Event - 12 March 2018

Tags: Azerbaijan, Conference, Cultural heritage, Literacy, Reading, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Libraries are hosts to many invaluable works – books, manuscripts, maps, and other materials that contain the history of human ideas and knowledge.   Such documents are...

News - 22 February 2018

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster management, Europe, restitution of cultural heritage, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

2018 has been declared the European Year of Cultural Heritage. While libraries are active in preserving our heritage every day of every year, this is a valuable opportunity to raise...

News - 8 February 2018

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Europe, Preservation, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Libraries and the Bulgarian EU Presidency share the same goals – a stronger, more cohesive Europe, built on creativity, innovation and inclusion. Every day, libraries across the continent...

News - 10 January 2018

Tags: Access to information, Cultural heritage, Digitisation, Europe, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

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

The SIG Library History Action Plan for 2017-18 is now on our website and as you read it you will see that the SIG is planning a session for the IFLA conference in Kuala Lumpur in 2018 and the...

News - 29 November 2017

Tags: Cultural heritage, Library history, Library History

The SIG’s Committee has decided that the theme for our session at the 2018 IFLA conference will be: "Transform Libraries. Transform Societies: Library outreach to marginalized...

News - 29 November 2017

Tags: Cultural heritage, IFLA WLIC 2018, Library history, Malaysia, Library History

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)

27th October is the UNESCO´s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2017 This year’s theme is "Discover, remember and share" UNESCO and their World Day for...

News - 12 October 2017

Tags: Archives, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Collection development, Communications, Cultural heritage, Digital resources, Knowledge management, Preservation, Audiovisual and Multimedia

Annual Report 2018-2019 [in PDF] Annual Report 2017-2018 [in PDF] Annual Report 2016-2017 [in PDF]

Publication - 14 September 2017

Tags: Archives, Conferences, Cultural heritage, History of Librarianship, Library history, Library History, Annual reports, Library History

Action Plan 2019-2020 [in PDF] Action Plan 2018-2019 [in PDF] Action Plan 2017-2018 [in PDF]

Publication - 14 September 2017

Tags: Action plans, Archives, Conferences, Cultural heritage, History of Librarianship, Library History, Library History

The Blue Shield is the cultural equivalent of the Red Cross. It is the protective emblem specified in the 1954 Hague Convention (Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of...

Event - 29 August 2017

Tags: Austria, Blue Shield, Cultural heritage, International Committee of the Blue Shield, Meeting

Libraries have a central role in preserving and promoting cultural heritage. Without their work, our communities would be poorer and weaker. As set out in IFLA's Statement on Preserving...

Publication - 3 August 2017

Tags: Best practices, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Cultural Heritage topic, Preservation, Procedures, Guidelines, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

  IFLA hosted a two day workshop to discuss and scope the needs for metadata standards in palm leaf manuscript preservation. The workshop was held from 6-7 July 2017 at the...

News - 12 July 2017

Tags: Cultural heritage, Metadata, PAC Centre, Palmleaf preservation, Preservation, Sri Lanka, workshop

The working group for the IFLA digital unification key initiative (WGDU) was an ad hoc and temporary working group. It developed guidelines for setting up a digital unification project, which are...

Informational Page - 12 June 2017

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation

The very difficult task of reviewing so many fine submissions has been finalised and as you can see from the Programme for IFLA Wroclaw 2017 http://2017.ifla.org/conference-programme  or http...

News - 23 May 2017

Tags: Cultural heritage, Library history, Multicultural populations

Call for Papers in Spanish and English The Conference aims to deepen discussion and debate about cultural-heritage in libraries of this region. It is crucial to strengthen national and...

News - 18 May 2017

Tags: Cultural heritage, Latin America and the Caribbean, Rare Books and Special Collections

Call for Papers in Spanish and English

Event - 18 May 2017

Tags: Conference, Cultural heritage, Latin America and the Caribbean, Rare Books and Special Collections

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)

The proceedings of the satellite meeting organized in 2016 in Columbus by Relidial and ATLA (American Theological Library Association) are available online. The title of this eBook (...

News - 2 May 2017

Tags: Cultural heritage, Dialogue, Religions

Collections and original documentary cultural heritage objects have, over time and due to a wide variety of circumstances, found their homes in countries and memory institutions which were not the...

News - 9 February 2017

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, digital unification

Many thanks to the SIG Committee for their comments and support of our Call for Papers for the upcoming 2017 IFLA Conference in Wroclaw.  It can be found here: http://2017.ifla.org/cfp-calls/...

News - 24 November 2016

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, IFLA2017, Library history, Poland, WLIC2017, Library History

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

The Audiovisual and Multimedia Section, Information Literacy Section and School Libraries Sections invite you to submit an abstract for IFLA WLIC 2017 (Wrocław, Poland, 19–25 August 2017...

News - 22 November 2016

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Cultural heritage, Digital resources, Document delivery, Education, Education and training, Electronic collections, Electronic document delivery, Electronic resources, Information Literacy Section, Information technology, Internet access, Poland, School Libraries Section, Audiovisual and Multimedia

On the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2016, IFLA’s Audiovisual and Multimedia Section and IASA’s National Archives Section join forces to launch a new survey of audiovisual deposit...

News - 27 October 2016

Tags: Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Cultural heritage, Leagal deposit, Library collections, Audiovisual and Multimedia

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

What a wonderful Library History session at IFLA 2016 Columbus: "Libraries and Immigrants: Historical Perspectives"! I may be biased, but I thought the session went very well with three...

News - 29 August 2016

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Library history, Multicultural populations, United States of America, Library History

联合国教科文组织持续计划（UNESCO PERSIST Project）（提升全球范围信息社会可持续性的平台，Platform to Enhance the Sustainability of the Information Society Transglobally）欣然宣告《联合国持续计划选择数字遗产进行长期保存指导方针》（UNESCO PERSIST...

News - 15 August 2016

Tags: Cultural heritage, From the Annual Conference, UNESCO PERSIST

The UNESCO PERSIST Project (Platform to Enhance the Sustainability of the Information Society Transglobally) is pleased to announce the publication of the UNESCO PERSIST Guidelines for...

News - 15 August 2016

Tags: Cultural heritage, From the Annual Conference, UNESCO PERSIST

El Proyecto UNESCO PERSIST (siglas en inglés de la Plataforma para Mejorar la Sostenibilidad de la Sociedad de la Información Transglobalmente) tiene el placer de anunciar...

News - 15 August 2016

Tags: Cultural heritage, From the Annual Conference, UNESCO PERSIST

Проект ЮНЕСКО PERSIST (платформа для развития устойчивости информационного общества на глобальном уровне) объявляет о публикации Руководства проекта ЮНЕСКО PERSIST по отбору цифрового...

News - 15 August 2016

Tags: Cultural heritage, From the Annual Conference, UNESCO PERSIST

Das UNESCO-Projekt PERSIST (Plattform zur globalen Verbesserung der Nachhaltigkeit der Informationsgesellschaft) freut sich, die Veröffentlichung der UNESCO PERSIST Richtlinien f...

News - 15 August 2016

Tags: Cultural heritage, From the Annual Conference, UNESCO PERSIST

Le projet de l’UNESCO PERSIST (Platform to Enhance the Sustainability of the Information Society Transglobally, ou Plateforme d’amélioration trans-internationale de la...

News - 15 August 2016

Tags: Cultural heritage, From the Annual Conference, UNESCO PERSIST

يسر مشروع اليونسكو PERSIST (موقع لتطوير استدامة مُجتمع المعلومات حول العالم) أن يُعلن عن إصدار الخطوط التوجيهية  PERSIST/ اليونسكو من أجل انتقاء التراث الرقمي للمحافظة عليه...

News - 15 August 2016

Tags: Cultural heritage, From the Annual Conference, UNESCO PERSIST

Your participation is key! IFLA's Key Initiative 3.2 states that we will work on Developing standards for the collection and preservation of content in its diverse forms....

News - 3 August 2016

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Preservation, survey, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Call For Papers Libraries: Culture, History, and Society (LCHS) We are delighted to announce that "Libraries: Culture, History, and Society" is now accepting submissions for...

News - 18 July 2016

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Library history

The combined Library History/Multicultural Libraries session: Libraries and Immigrants: Historical Perspectives session for the IFLA 2016 conference in Columbus progresses with 3 of the 4 papers...

News - 10 June 2016

Tags: Cultural heritage, Library history, Multicultural populations, United States of America, Library History

IFLA is pleased to announce the creation of a new Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centre which will focus on digital preservation and digital sustainability. The new PAC Centre is based at the...

News - 31 May 2016

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Digitisation, PAC Centres, Preservation, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

This book is the publication of the proceedings of the Relindial satellite meeting of Paris (2014). From antiquity until the present, libraries have served to witness cultural and...

Publication - 26 May 2016

Tags: Cultural heritage, Satellite Meeting papers/presentations, Religions: Libraries and Dialogue

IFLA will be represented at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) next week. Talk of copyright is normally...

News - 6 May 2016

Tags: Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Archives, Copyright, Copyright reform, Cultural heritage, Development, Digital resources, Freedom of information, Information policies, International cooperation, Policy, Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR), WIPO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

22 April 2016 Palmyra and the wider historic environment in Syria In the latest Statement of the Blue Shield, the organisation welcomes the removal of Da’esh from...

News - 22 April 2016

Tags: Blue Shield, Cultural heritage, Syrian Arab Republic

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

The UNESCO PERSIST Project, an initiative of UNESCO, ICA, IFLA and other partners, for enhancing the sustainability of digital heritage, has now launched The UNESCO/PERSIST...

News - 10 March 2016

Tags: Advocacy, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Preservation

The National Library Board (NLB) Singapore celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2015. To commemorate the special occasion, NLB launched its Legal Deposit Catalogue (PublicationSG) to enable...

News - 2 March 2016

Tags: Cultural heritage, Legal deposit catalogue, Library collections, Singapore, Singapore, Asia and Oceania

In August 2015 IFLA created the IFLA Cultural Heritage Programme Advisory Committee which oversees and advises on all of IFLA's cultural heritage activities.  The main role of the...

Informational Page - 29 February 2016

Tags: Cultural heritage

IFLA is pleased to announce the creation of a new Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centre which will support Francophone speaking countries (with a focus on Francophone Africa) in preservation...

News - 2 February 2016

Tags: Cameroon, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Preservation, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

The IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section and the Preservation and Conservation Core Activity invites interested professionals to submit proposals for this open session to...

News - 26 January 2016

Tags: Communications, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Rare books and manuscripts

The United Nations General Assembly approved the Outcome Document of the High­ Level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Overall Review of the Implementation of the WSIS Outcomes on the...

News - 17 December 2015

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Cultural heritage, Preservation, United States of America, WSIS

The IFLA Journal Special Issue on Cultural Heritage. 

Publication - 29 September 2015

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Disaster management, Library collections, Preservation, Newsletters, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

We are very happy to present the newest edition of the IFLA Journal which is entirely dedicated to Cultural Heritage. The edition was edited by Douwe Drijfhout (Preservation and...

News - 29 September 2015

Tags: Cultural heritage, Preservation

Over the last three years, the United Nations (UN) held extensive negotiations in which governments, civil society and the public contributed to the creation of the 2030 Agenda. This revolutionary...

News - 23 September 2015

Tags: 2030Agenda, Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Cultural heritage, Development, post-2015, UN, United States of America

L'IFLA est heureuse d'annoncer la création d'un nouveau centre pour le programme PAC (Preservation and Consevation, ou Préservation et Conservation) spécialis...

News - 18 August 2015

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, PAC Centre, Preservation, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

IFLA is pleased to announce the creation of a new Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centre with expertise in tropical climates and pest management. The new PAC Centre is based at the National...

News - 6 August 2015

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, PAC Centre, Preservation, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

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

Culture is a basic need.  A community thrives through its cultural heritage, it dies without it. The importance of cultural heritage to a community, and the significance of...

IFLA Group or Activity - 26 June 2015

Tags: Cultural heritage, Risk Register

Society without Memory is a society without present or future The Preservation of cultural heritage has multiple dimensions unsuspected and unexpected in the digital...

Event - 28 May 2015

Tags: Cultural heritage, Satellite Meeting, South Africa, Preservation and Conservation

19 August 2015, 09:30-12:45, Ballroom East Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) In the spirit of the Lyon Declaration—preserving and ensuring ongoing access to...

News - 7 May 2015

Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Disaster management, Electronic collections, Government information, International cooperation, Knowledge management, Preservation

This week the first United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) Culture Summit took place in Bilbao, Spain. Governing Board member Glòria Pérez-Salmerón represented IFLA at the...

News - 20 March 2015

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Cultural heritage, Development, post-2015, Spain

In March 2015, the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction took place in Sendai, Japan. Prior to the main conference a series of expert meetings were held. The expert meeting on...

Informational Page - 17 March 2015

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Preservation

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)

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

​ During the last year many initiatives have formed around the post-2015 Development Agenda and IFLA has actively engaged with a number of these. The Lyon Declaration on Access to...

Informational Page - 17 November 2014

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Cultural heritage, Development

An event co-hosted by MEP Julia Reda, Greens/EFA, Pirate Party and MEP Josef Weidenholzer, S&D Europe is proud of its rich cultural heritage. Institutions like...

Event - 4 November 2014

Tags: Belgium, Copyright, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Event

The third UNESCO World Forum on Culture and the Cultural Industries set out to ensure that culture is taken into account in international development policies, and notably in on-going negotiations...

News - 23 October 2014

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Cultural heritage, Cultural Heritage topic, culture, Italy, post2015

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

ICOMOS, the International Council on Monuments and Sites, is a unique non-governmental, not for profit international organisation, committed to furthering the conservation, protection, use and...

Event - 3 September 2014

Tags: Cultural heritage, Development, France, Meeting

IFLA is pleased to announce that it has become a signatory to the Declaration for the inclusion of culture in the Post-2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals. The Declaration...

News - 22 May 2014

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Cultural heritage

[PDF] [WORD] IFLA is pleased to invite libraries to submit a proposal for the new IFLA Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centre for Western, Northern and Southern Europe. The IFLA PAC...

News - 12 May 2014

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Preservation, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in collaboration with the Government Information and Official Publications section of the International Federation of  Library Associations...

News - 1 May 2014

Tags: Conferences, Cultural heritage, Digital resources, Government information, India, Library and information profession, Lifelong learning, Networking, Professional development, Government Information and Official Publications

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

View of the National Parliamentary Library of Ukraine (green roof) During the months of January and February 2014, the National Parliamentary Library of Ukraine found itself at...

News - 4 March 2014

Tags: Announcement, Cultural heritage, Preservation, Ukraine

Following the civil conflict that has been shaking the Ukraine, the Blue Shield wishes to express its deep concern regarding the safeguarding and protection of the country’s...

News - 27 February 2014

Tags: Announcement, Cultural heritage, Preservation, Ukraine

Theme: National Libraries and the Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age   Deadline for proposals: 1 March 2014   The full call for papers is available...

News - 17 January 2014

Tags: Cultural heritage, National Libraries

UNESCO 'Managing Cultural World Heritage' manual IFLA Principles of Engagement in library-related activities in times of conflict, crisis or disaster International...

Informational Page - 6 January 2014

Tags: Cultural heritage

The Government Information and Official Publications Section invites proposals for papers to be presented at the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) in Lyon, France , August 16-22, 2014...

News - 19 December 2013

Tags: Cultural heritage, Development, Digital preservation, France, Government information, Information professionals, Library as place, Library history, Government Information and Official Publications

The Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section and Education invites proposals for papers to be presented at a two-hour session in the next IFLA General Conference on August 2014 in...

News - 27 November 2013

Tags: Collection development, Cultural heritage, Digital resources, Education and training, Electronic collections, Multicultural populations, Policy, Social inclusion, Library Services to Multicultural Populations

français Society without Memory is a society without present or future The concept of cultural heritage has multiple dimensions unsuspected and unexpected in the digital age...

Event - 25 November 2013

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Satellite Meeting, Sustainability, Switzerland, Preservation and Conservation

​ Photo © Japan Meteorological Agency and EUMETSAT On behalf of President Sinikka Sipilä, the IFLA Governing Board, and IFLA colleagues around the world we express our...

News - 14 November 2013

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster management, Disaster relief, Philippines

Timbuktu Manuscripts II Astronomy-Mathematics, © 2007, EurAstro Mission to Mali In 2012 the situation in Mali started to progressively worsened. With the destruction of the...

Informational Page - 26 May 2013

Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural Heritage topic, Mali

A man leaves after retrieving some documents from the rubble of a collapsed building in the aftermath of the 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photo: AP When the earthquake hit...

Informational Page - 26 May 2013

Tags: Cultural heritage, Haiti

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

IFLA is pleased to launch a new set of resources relating to libraries and cultural heritage.   The new webpages look at the work and support given by libraries to areas experiencing...

News - 23 May 2013

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Preservation

A new FAIFE Spotlight has just been released: Interview with Saad Eskander, Director of Iraq National Library and Archives (INLA). Ten years ago this April Iraq’s National Library...

News - 2 May 2013

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

The initial news media reports from Mali gave a worrying picture of the situation for cultural heritage in the northern provinces and especially Timbuktu. Most recent media and independent reports...

News - 30 January 2013

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster relief, Mali, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments and Sites

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)

Theme: Images Lost and Found - Innovative Approaches to the Discovery and Use of Visual Materials Found in Rare Books, Manuscripts and Special Collections Deadline for Proposals: 18 January...

News - 4 December 2012

Tags: Archives, Cultural heritage, Digital resources, Indexing, Library collections, Resource discovery, Art Libraries

Nuestro Futuros Digital 6 y 7 de marzo de 2013 • Auditorio Index MUAC • Ciudad Universitaria, México D.F. Las bibliotecas sirven a todos sin se...

News - 29 November 2012

Tags: Access to information, Announcement, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, Cultural heritage, Mexico

Our Digital Futures March 6 - 7, 2013 Auditorium Index MUAC (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo) University City, Mexico City, Mexico...

News - 28 November 2012

Tags: Access to information, Announcement, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, Cultural heritage, Mexico

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO Memory of the World Program, UNESCO, in collaboration with the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies and the University...

News - 6 October 2012

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation

1992: Vedran Smailović plays his cello in the destroyed National Library, Sarajevo. Photo: Mikhail Evstafiev 20 years have now past since the deliberate destruction of the...

News - 21 September 2012

Tags: Cultural heritage, National libraries, Preservation

29 May 2012 Following the alarming situation in Mali, the Blue Shield expresses its deep concern regarding the safeguarding of the country’s invaluable cultural and...

News - 6 June 2012

Tags: Announcement, Cultural heritage, Preservation

At its meeting in April, the IFLA Governing Board has endorsed Principles of Engagement in library-related activities in times of crisis, conflict or disaster. The Principles are part of IFLA...

News - 23 May 2012

Tags: Advocacy, Cultural heritage, Disaster management, Disaster relief, Preservation

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

Jazz is a universal language of freedom and creativity.  UNESCO's International Jazz Day is intended to raise awareness in the international community of the virtues of jazz as an...

News - 27 April 2012

Tags: Archives, Cultural heritage, Audiovisual and Multimedia

The recent events are great cause for apprehension for the world heritage community. Both the tragedies suffered by the people of the Syrian Arab Republic and the dangers faced by...

News - 16 April 2012

Tags: Announcement, Cultural heritage, Preservation

In recent days, fighting in and around Timbuktu has led to serious concerns about the safety of the tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts there. What is in danger is the written legacy...

News - 11 April 2012

Tags: Announcement, Cultural heritage, Preservation

Image from yfrog; more photos from libraries affected by the quake at Togetter A year has now passed since the 9.0-magnitude earthquake—one of the largest ever recorded...

News - 12 March 2012

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster relief, Japan

A draft programme and complete details regarding registration, travel, visa and accommodation are available on the ANCBS General Assembly website.

Event - 5 March 2012

Tags: Cultural heritage, Meeting, Preservation and Conservation

From 28-31 May 2012, the National Library of Indonesia (Perpusnas) in cooperation with the Indonesian Library Association (IPI) will be hosting the 15th Consal Meeting and General Conference.

Event - 16 February 2012

Tags: Conference, Cultural heritage, Cultural Heritage topic, Indonesia, International cooperation, Asia and Oceania

photo courtesy of Martin Dee, University of British Columbia—Vancouver  Mark your calendars! Announcing the 2012 IFLA Presidential Programme IFLA Presidential...

News - 3 February 2012

Tags: Announcement, Canada, Cultural heritage, Multicultural populations, Multilingualism

26 to 28 September 2012 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme, in cooperation with the School of Library, Archival and Information...

News - 13 January 2012

Tags: Announcement, Canada, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Preservation

20 December 2011 As the altercations in Egypt endure, and following the recent damages suffered by the Institut d'Egypte in Cairo, the Blue Shield expresses its great concern...

News - 22 December 2011

Tags: Announcement, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation

ICBS works for the protection of the world cultural heritage by coordinating preparations to meet and respond to emergency situations as well as post-crisis support.

Event - 9 December 2011

Tags: Conference, Cultural heritage, Cultural Heritage topic, Disaster relief, ICBS, International Committee of the Blue Shield, Republic of Korea

21  June 2011 As the situation in Libya endures, the organisation and its members continue to deplore the suffering and loss of life this conflict imposes on the Libyan...

News - 2 July 2011

Tags: Announcement, Cultural heritage, Libya

français The most important triennial gathering of ICOMOS will take place from 27 November to 2 December 2011 for the first time in Paris at UNESCO headquarters...

Event - 27 May 2011

Tags: Cultural heritage, Development, France, Meeting

First impressions: April 25-27 the National Library of Malaysia hosted the 2011 Newspapers Section Conference at the National Library in Kuala Lumpur.  In these times of tight library...

News - 5 May 2011

Tags: Cultural heritage, Malaysia, News Media

A library in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan Last week's massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan has caused an untold number of deaths and tremendous damage....

News - 29 April 2011

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster relief, Japan

6 April 2011 To IFLA members from Japan Library Association Thank you very much for your message and concerns on the damages of library materials and other records caused by March...

News - 6 April 2011

Tags: Announcement, Cultural heritage, Disaster relief, Japan

Christa Meindersma, Director of the Prince Claus Fund for Culture & Development and IFLA Secretary General Jennefer Nicholson Creating a solid foundation for Haiti's...

News - 29 March 2011

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster relief, Haiti, Press Release

14 March 2011 Following the recent events in Libya, the Blue Shield expresses its great concern about the safeguarding of the country's invaluable cultural heritage amid the...

News - 14 March 2011

Tags: Announcement, Cultural heritage, Libya

Message from Thomas W. Galante, CEO, Queens Library:  Let's show the world that libraries have a heart and can unite to help the Egyptian people rebuild their public...

News - 9 March 2011

Tags: Announcement, Cultural heritage, Disaster relief, Egypt

3 March 2011 Following the recent earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, the Blue Shield expresses its great sorrow for the loss of lives and the destructions the city's...

News - 4 March 2011

Tags: Announcement, Cultural heritage, Disaster management, Preservation

It's an honour to share with you the direct diary from Dr. Shawky Salem, a member of the FAIFE Committee from Egypt. Shawky's report of the last 18 days makes compelling reading, I urge...

News - 12 February 2011

Tags: Announcement, Cultural heritage, Egypt, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)

A man retrieving documents from the rubble in Haiti Dear Colleagues As a result of last year’s devastating earthquake in Haiti, more than 220,000 Haitians were...

News - 18 January 2011

Tags: Announcement, Cultural heritage, Disaster relief, Haiti, Preservation

Stuart Hamilton, IFLA Senior Policy Advisor  At the end of 2010 IFLA, in association with the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO), the International...

News - 10 January 2011

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, Cultural heritage, Japan, Reading, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

français | Español Two shipping containers loaded with shelves, mobile cabinets, textbooks and books on general culture have just arrived in Haiti. Despite the...

News - 20 December 2010

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster relief, Haiti, Preservation

IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2011 Newspaper in multiple scripts and multiple languages: issues and challenges for national heritage 25th - 27th April 2011 National Library of...

News - 20 November 2010

Tags: Cultural heritage, Malaysia, Multicultural populations, Multilingualism, News Media

Please vist the 2011 Conference website for the most up-to-date details. Conference Papers (PDF, 3 MB)    Theme Newspaper in Multiple Scripts and Multiple Languages: Issues and...

Event - 5 November 2010

Tags: Conference, Cultural heritage, Malaysia, Multicultural populations, Multilingualism, News Media

A number of Swiss libraries, along with assistance from Libraries without borders (BSF), have sent two shipping containers loaded with books and shelving for Haïtian libraries At 8:30...

News - 26 October 2010

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster management, Disaster relief, Haiti, Preservation

The worldwide community of museums will celebrate International Museum Day around May 18, 2011. Museums and Memory is the theme of International Museum Day 2011. Museums store memory and tell...

News - 18 October 2010

Tags: Cultural heritage, Preservation

Organised by National Library Singapore and supported by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), and Institutions & Library Association of Singapore (LAS)....

Event - 1 October 2010

Tags: Conference, Cultural heritage, Preservation, Asia and Oceania

A workshop participant busy with small repairs and gap filling 21-22 July 2010 Organised by IFLA, the International Council on Archives (ICA), International Committee of...

News - 30 August 2010

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster relief, Haiti, Preservation

L to R: IFLA President Ellen Tise, Mme Marie Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue–Haitian Minister Of Culture and Communication, & Francoise B. Thybulle–Director of the National...

News - 25 June 2010

Tags: Announcement, Cultural heritage, Disaster relief, Haiti, Preservation

The Blue Shield International sent two experts to Port-au-Prince from 11th to 16th of April. Danielle Mincio (IFLA) and Christophe Jacobs (ICA and ANCBS) went there in order to work with our...

News - 4 June 2010

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster management, Disaster relief, Haiti, Preservation

The International Committee on the Blue Shield is very pleased to share with you the official recognition of a new Blue Shield Committee in Haiti. Our colleagues deployed huge efforts to...

News - 28 May 2010

Tags: Announcement, Cultural heritage, Disaster management, Disaster relief, Haiti, Preservation

Paris, 22 March 2010 PRESS RELEASE The international Blue Shield network has worked hard in the last weeks on defining an action plan for helping our Haitian colleagues. You...

News - 26 March 2010

Tags: Announcement, Cultural heritage, Disaster management, Disaster relief, Haiti, Preservation

In China the tradition of a book society is longer than anywhere else in the world. Chinese paper making, calligraphy and woodblock printing date from very early ages, but have for a very long...

News - 24 March 2010

Tags: Announcement, Calligraphy, China, Cultural heritage, Preservation, Printing

In China the tradition of a book society is longer than anywhere else in the world. Chinese paper making, calligraphy and woodblock printing date from very early ages, but have for a very long time...

Publication - 24 March 2010

Tags: Calligraphy, China, Cultural heritage, Preservation, Printing, Publications, Rare Books and Special Collections

During 2009, IFLA language centres around the world have been busy with a major translation project. Using funds provided by the Swedish International Co-operation and Development Agency (Sida),...

News - 9 March 2010

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Cultural heritage, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Internet access

    Ms. Paola Roncatti President of the Colegio de Bibliotecarios de Chile, A. G.       On behalf of the IFLA Latin...

News - 3 March 2010

Tags: Chile, Cultural heritage, Disaster relief, Preservation, Latin America and the Caribbean

Workers painstakingly retrieve records from the ruins of the Tax Office On this page we are collecting the latest news from the library community around the world about the...

Informational Page - 19 February 2010

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster reconstruction, Disaster relief, Haiti, Preservation

Bibliothèque haïtienne des Pères du Saint-Esprit (also known as San Martial) Courtesy of Dominique Franck Simon, director of the Alumni Association for San Martial...

News - 1 February 2010

Tags: Announcement, Cultural heritage, Disaster relief, Haiti, Preservation

Dear Colleagues, The Bibliothèque Nationale d'Haïti has sustained heavy damage from the earthquake, but has not collapsed.  Historic preservation architects will...

News - 22 January 2010

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster relief, Haiti, Preservation

UNIVERSIDAD DE PUERTO RICO, RECINTO DE RIO PIEDRAS ESCUELA GRADUADA DE CIENCIAS Y TECNOLOGIAS DE LA INFORMACION y ACURIL (ASSOCIATION OF CARIBBEAN UNIVERSITY, RESEARCH AND INSTITUTIONAL...

News - 19 January 2010

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster relief, Haiti, Preservation

Saturday, 16 January 2010 By way of CDNL, IFLA has received the following message from the Director-General of the National Library of Haïti: The building of the National library is...

News - 18 January 2010

Tags: Announcement, Cultural heritage, Disaster relief, Haiti, Preservation

français | Deutsch | Español | Русский | 中文 | العربية Dear colleagues On behalf of all IFLA members and staff I extend our deepest sympathy and sorrow to our Haitian...

News - 15 January 2010

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster relief, Haiti, Preservation

Le Comité Français IFLA (CFI), solidaire avec Haïti blog Au nom du Comité Français IFLA (CFI), le Président et les membres du Conseil d'...

News - 15 January 2010

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster relief, Haiti, Preservation

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

Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments & Sites (LAMMS) The five international organisations for cultural heritage, IFLA (libraries), ICA (archives), ICOM (museums), ICOMOS (monuments...

Informational Page - 30 November 2009

Tags: Archives, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Collaboration, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, International cooperation, International-NGOs

Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments & Sites (LAMMS) The five international organisations for cultural heritage, IFLA (libraries), ICA (archives), ICOM (museums), ICOMOS (monuments...

IFLA Group or Activity - 27 November 2009

Tags: Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Collaboration, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, International cooperation, International-NGOs, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments and Sites, Joint Activities

During a meeting in Paris last month the UNESCO General Conference endorsed the IFLA Multicultural Library Manifesto, making it the latest in a number of joint IFLA/UNESCO documents that include...

News - 12 November 2009

Tags: Cultural Diversity, Cultural heritage, Information literacy, Linguistic Diversity, Multicultural populations, Library Services to Multicultural Populations

Press release Amsterdam 18 August 2009 The Prince Claus Fund provides relief for Chinese library destroyed by earthquake Support of 120.000 Euro to build storage room...

News - 14 September 2009

Tags: Announcement, China, Cultural heritage, Disaster relief, Fundraising

There will be 2 days of presentations that highlight particular aspects and issues related to Preservation. The first day will feature preservation and conservation activities in several...

Event - 20 May 2009

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digitisation, Satellite Meeting, Preservation and Conservation

​ In 1998, the PAC Regional Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean issued a CD-ROM on safeguarding of photographic collections within the framework of the UNESCO's Memory...

Publication - 31 March 2009

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Latin America and the Caribbean, Publications, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ An IFLA/UNESCO/Ministère de la culture project. All throughout history, libraries and archives have been the guardians of the...

Publication - 31 March 2009

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Preservation, Publications, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Throughout history libraries, museums and archives have been struck by disasters, both natural and manmade. Earthquakes and floods, storms and fires have caused huge losses of precious...

Publication - 31 March 2009

Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster management, Preservation, Publications, Preservation and Conservation

On the 21st of November 2008, IFLA President Claudia Lux initiated the first NGO Meeting on Convergence. The outcome of this meeting was that IFLA and its sister organizations for archives (ICA),...

News - 31 March 2009

Tags: Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Collaboration, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, International cooperation, International-NGOs