Content tagged Publications
Ordered by publication date from most to less recent.
(These results include any available translations of the original English documents.)
- IFLA Input for Report on Disinformation
IFLA has responded to a call for inputs, issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, about the...
Publication - 23 February 2021
Tags: Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Information literacy, Media literacy, OHCHR, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Fake News & Its Impact on Society, Lecture 3 Recording
This is the third in a series of four virtual events presented by News Media, Digital Humanities, FAIFE, and CLM. This event offers multiple speakers' research into the concept of fake...
Publication - 4 February 2021
Tags: Publications
- IFLA Response to UN Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development and the Sustainable Development Goals
IFLA has responded to a consultation by the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development, highlighting the value of a focus on access to information as a driver of success in the...
Publication - 2 February 2021
Tags: Access to information, Development, Right to Development, sustainable development goals, Reports, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- International Advocacy Programme - Training Slides
IFLA's International Advocacy Programme focused on building understanding of the United Nations 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It worked through a train-the-...
Publication - 26 January 2021
Tags: Access to information, Development, undefined, Toolkits
- Get into the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of Diverse Cultural Expressions
IFLA’s new guide takes a look at the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, why it matters to libraries, and how to put it to use for...
Publication - 25 January 2021
Tags: Advocacy, Cultural heritage, Policy, Resource Guides
- Rights Retention: Exploring how the Plan S Strategy could apply globally: Recording Available!
In January 2021, IFLA’s Section on Academic and Research Libraries, together with IFLA Headquarters, organised a series of three webinars with experts from cOAlition S. These focused...
Publication - 25 January 2021
Tags: Academic and Research Libraries, Open access, Open science, Rights retention, Webinars
- IFLA Comments on UNESCO draft Recommendation on Open Science
IFLA has submitted its response to a call for comments on UNESCO’s draft Recommendation on Open Science. The Recommendation is due to be agreed later this year. Our comments focus on...
Publication - 22 January 2021
Tags: Access to knowledge, Open access, Open science, Reports, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Get Into Safer Internet Day Guide
Safer Internet Day is an annual event that brings together diverse stakeholders from around the globe to empower young internet users, raise awareness and support skills-building to...
Publication - 21 January 2021
Tags: Children, Digital inclusion, Young adults, Publications
- ENSULIB Action Plans
Action Plans 2020-21 2019-20 2018-19 2017-18
Publication - 8 January 2021
Tags: Action plans, Environment, Sustainability and Libraries
- What’s Your Library Advocate Personality?
Everyone has it in them to be a library advocate! Building an effective library advocacy team requires a range of skills and personalities which, together, can make for a powerful and...
Publication - 5 January 2021
Tags: Advocacy, library advocacy, Toolkits
- IFLA Statement on Libraries and Open and Good Governance
Relating to Sustainable Development Goal 16 – peace, justice and strong institutions – IFLA’s new Statement on Libraries and Open and Good Governance provides recommendations for...
Publication - 5 January 2021
Tags: Access to information, Government libraries, Library and Research Services for Parliaments, Open government, Statements
- Competency Guidelines for Rare Books and Special Collections Professionals
Libraries are the guardians of cultural memory and the preservers of cultural heritage. Within larger libraries and as stand-alone repositories, special collections libraries are the specific...
Publication - 18 December 2020
Tags: Rare Books and Special Collections Competencies, Standards, Rare Books and Special Collections
- Evidence for Global and Disaster Health SIG Annual Report 2019-2020
Our Annual Report records the achievements and progress of the E4GDH Special Interest Group in relation to our Action Plan for the last year. If you have questions about our work,...
Publication - 11 December 2020
Tags: Annual reports, Evidence for Global and Disaster Health
- Evidence for Global and Disaster Health SIG Action Plan 2020-2021
Our Action Plan outlines the key objectives for the E4GDH Special Interest Group in the upcoming year. Take a look at our news feed to read updates on our progress. A report on these...
Publication - 11 December 2020
Tags: Action plans, Evidence for Global and Disaster Health
- Libraries in Digital Skills Strategies
In this research paper, IFLA looks across strategies and other policy documents prepared by governments, in order to identify how and where this potential is recognised. The paper...
Publication - 9 December 2020
Tags: Access to information, Digital inclusion, digital literacy, digital skills, Reports
- Enoncé de l’IFLA sur les Bibliothèques et la Liberté Intellectuelle
[PDF] Enoncé préparé par le Comité FAIFE de l’IFLA, et approuvé par le Conseil exécutif de l’IFLA, le 25 mars 1999, La Haye, Pays-Bas...
Publication - 8 December 2020
Tags: Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- References to Libraries in UN SDG Voluntary National Reviews
Over the last five years, 168 different countries have presented Voluntary National Reviews on their work to deliver the SDGs. The latest IFLA analysis highlights the example they offer of...
Publication - 2 December 2020
Tags: Access to information, Development, SDGs, VNRs, Voluntary National Reviews, Reports
- Fake News & Its Impact on Society, Lecture 2 Recording
This is the second in a series of four virtual events presented by News Media, Digital Humanities, FAIFE, and CLM. This event offers three speakers' research into the concept of...
Publication - 1 December 2020
Tags: Publications
- Fake News & Its Impact on Society, Lecture 1 Recording
This is the first in a series of four virtual events presented by News Media, Digital Humanities, FAIFE, and CLM. This event offers two speakers' research into the concept of fake news...
Publication - 18 November 2020
Tags: Publications
- IFLA Checklist for Legal Deposit Laws
The new IFLA Checklist for Legal Deposit laws aims to provide a tool for those analysing existing laws, or planning new ones. Rather than making any specific recommendations, it provides a...
Publication - 18 November 2020
Tags: Access to knowledge, legal deposit, Preservation, web harvesting, Guidelines, National Libraries
- Why Public Access Matters
Libraries were early adopters of the internet, seeing its potential to connect people to ever more information. While numbers of people with home connections has increased, the...
Publication - 11 November 2020
Tags: Digital inclusion, Internet access, Public Access, Infographics
- Annual Report 2019-20
Our Annual Report records our achievements and progress in relation to our Action Plan for the last year. Read our Action Plan for the past year to see what we set out to achieve...
Publication - 6 November 2020
Tags: Annual reports, Library Services to Multicultural Populations
- Library Pledge for Digital Inclusion
IFLA launched the Library Pledge for Digital Inclusion on 16 October, and is welcoming signatures. Below you can find the Pledge, and the signatories as of 3 December 2020. You can sign up to the...
Publication - 22 October 2020
Tags: Access to information, Digital divide, Digital inclusion, Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA Statement on Libraries and Artificial Intelligence
The adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning systems in private and public spheres is rapidly growing. How can these developments impact both everyday practices and the broader...
Publication - 21 October 2020
Tags: Access to information, Artificial intelligence, Big data, Information society, machine learning, Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Get Into… Guides
A key part of IFLA’s advocacy work is our engagement with international organisations and processes. These provide an opportunity to underline the role of libraries and call for laws,...
Publication - 21 October 2020
Tags: Advocacy, Blue Shield, GAPMIL, IGF, Internet Governance Forum, UN, WIPO, Briefings
- Library Tech Needs and Readiness: A Briefing
From public internet access facilities to digital collections, from online learning to makerspaces – the ICT-enabled roles and services libraries take on require a fit-for-purpose ICT...
Publication - 7 October 2020
Tags: Access to information, Internet access, Library services, Briefings
- IFLA Submission to OHCHR Call for Inputs on Children’s Privacy
Drawing on the library sector’s experiences, IFLA has prepared a response to the call for inputs launched by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ (OHCHR) Special...
Publication - 1 October 2020
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Children, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Human rights, Privacy in libraries, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- CPDWL Guidelines for Satellite Meeting -- 2020
Please note that the CPDWL guidelines are based on the IFLA Guidelines for Satellite Meetings (2019). CPDWL has a reputation for organizing strong and valuable satellite meetings on...
Publication - 28 September 2020
Tags: Resource Guides
- IFLA Response to the Call for Submissions on Women’s and Girls’ Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Situations of Crisis
IFLA has submitted a response to the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights call for inputs on women and girls’ sexual and reproductive rights. Libraries around the world...
Publication - 3 September 2020
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Human rights, Women’s issues, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- E4GDH & HBS webinar: Librarians Supporting Humanitarian Information Efforts
The second joint E4GDH and HBS webinar took place on 19 August 2020. Duration: 63 minutes. Subtitles / closed captions are available - click on Settings then Subtitles/CC...
Publication - 19 August 2020
Tags: Health and Biosciences Libraries, Webinars, Evidence for Global and Disaster Health
- Supporting Decision-Making When It Matters Most: Parliamentary Libraries during COVID-19
With governments currently taking decisions with far-reaching consequences, there is as great a need as ever for parliamentarians to benefit from the support of effective libraries. IFLA’s...
Publication - 13 August 2020
Tags: COVID-19, Parliamentary Libraries, Reports, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- Library Return on Investment - Review of Evidence from the Last 10 Years
Return on Investment measures how much value an organisation, project or service has generated for each monetary unit invested in it. This approach originates in the economic field of study, and...
Publication - 16 July 2020
Tags: Publications
- Development and Access to Information: Country Analyses
The Development and Access to Information (DA2I) report focuses both on building the case for the role of access in development, and on assessing progress towards this at the national level...
Publication - 10 July 2020
Tags: Access to information, Argentina, Development, Ecuador, Kenya, Nigeria, SDGs, Slovenia, sustainable development goals, Publications
- Knowledge Management and library innovation in a changing world
The Knowledge Management Section is pleased to announce the publication of its IFLA Journal Special Issue: Knowledge Management and library innovation in a changing world. Guest editors Leda...
Publication - 6 July 2020
Tags: Access to knowledge, Knowledge management, Knowledge society, Library and information profession, Library collections, Library services, Library theory and research, Management, Publications, Publications, Knowledge Management
- IFLA Response to UNESCO Questionnaire on Open Science
IFLA has provided input to a UNESCO consultation on Open Science, highlighting the need to ensure that Open Science brings benefits to all, and helps deliver solutions to key global challenges...
Publication - 18 June 2020
Tags: Access to information, Open access, Open science, Reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- IFLA virtual background for your online meetings
You can now represent the global library field in your online meetings using our 'We Are IFLA' virtual background! It is a great way to strengthen our voices as a global field, in...
Publication - 12 June 2020
Tags: #WeAreIFLA, IFLA Strategy, Posters
- Overview of Library Re-Opening Plans (6 June 2020)
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the measures taken to limit it, have had major impact on libraries and the communities they serve. Restrictions aimed at reducing infections have obliged...
Publication - 11 June 2020
- Libraries Supporting Open Government: Areas for Engagement and Lessons Learned
Open Government is an umbrella term that covers principles and practices of re-defining the relationship between government and wider society towards more openness, transparency and participation...
Publication - 4 June 2020
Tags: Access to information, government accountability, Government information, Transparency, Publications
- IFLA CLM Principles for Library Associations and Libraries in Approaches to Rightholders during the COVID-19 Pandemic
IFLA’s Advisory Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters has developed a set of principles for use by library associations in discussions with rightholders at the national level...
Publication - 27 May 2020
Tags: Access to information, Copyright exceptions and limitations, COVID-19, Best Practices, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- A Necessary Pre-Condition: Libraries, Information and Access to Justice
Access to justice is a key pillar of the rule of law, recognised in the Sustainable Development Goals under SDG16. Information is essential to making this a reality, both for legal...
Publication - 7 May 2020
Tags: Access to information, Access to Justice, access to law, Library services, SDG16, Briefings, Law Libraries
- Are You Advocacy-Fit? Draft IFLA Advocacy Capacities Grid
Effective library advocacy requires a combination of activities and skills. Our new draft grid aims to help associations and others assess where they stand now, and where to focus next. In...
Publication - 4 May 2020
Tags: #EveryLibrarianAnAdvocate, Advocacy, library advocacy, Toolkits
- Guide: Multilanguage tools for evidence based practice
A guide to multilanguage tools for evidence based practice. Created by Caroline De Brún, Public Health England, for the IFLA Evidence for Global and Disaster Health Special Interest Group...
Publication - 3 May 2020
Tags: Resource Guides, Evidence for Global and Disaster Health
- IFLA LMW SDG stories – YouTube Playlist
Explore our collection of UN SDG stories highlighting library programmes from around the world and their impact on communities. YouTube playlist To read the full stories, visit the...
Publication - 1 May 2020
Tags: Advocacy, Development, Libraries for development, Library Map of the World, LMW, Statistics and evaluation, Stories That Matter, UN SDGs, Videos
- E4GDH & HBS webinar: Combating digital health inequality in the time of coronavirus
The first joint E4GDH and HBS webinar took place on 23 April 2020. Bob Gann was the presenter. Bob described how community organisations including...
Publication - 23 April 2020
Tags: Webinars, Evidence for Global and Disaster Health
- Mid-Term Meeting Presentations (Oslo 2020)
Hosted at OsloMet University through the gracious and untiring efforts of Professor Lars Egeland, the 2020 mid-term meeting focused on library publishing platforms (first...
Publication - 20 April 2020
Tags: Conference proceedings, Library Publishing
- #Culture2030Goal Statement on COVID-19
IFLA has joined partners in the #Culture2030Goal campaign to produce a statement on the role of culture in the response to COVID-19. Alongside the vital work being done by healthcare...
Publication - 20 April 2020
Tags: Access to information, COVID-19, Cultural heritage, culture, sustainable development goals, Statements
- How to Spot Fake News – COVID-19 Edition
With fighting misinformation around COVID-19 a key part of the overall response to the pandemic, libraries have the reputation and the skills to make an important contribution. IFLA has...
Publication - 16 April 2020
Tags: Access to information, COVID-19, Information literacy, Media and Information Literacy, MIL, Infographics, Information Literacy
- Engaging with Embassies: An Opportunity for Libraries and Library Associations
Library associations and other institutions with a coordinating role are powerful means of strengthening national library fields. They can also build partnerships, not least with foreign embassies...
Publication - 15 April 2020
Tags: embassies, Library associations, Management, Briefings, Management of Library Associations
- Report from the 58th Session of the UN Commission on Social Development
IFLA attended the 58th Session of the United Nations Commission on Social Development in New York on 10-19 February 2020, which focused on homelessness. Genilson Geraldo, Brazil, attended...
Publication - 15 April 2020
Tags: Homelessness, Libraries and homelessness, Marginalised populations, Social inclusion, United States of America, Reports, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- Community Networks: A Briefing for Libraries
Ensuring equitable access to information and knowledge lies at the heart of the library mission. As part of this goal, many libraries offer public internet access and workstations. And yet, there...
Publication - 2 April 2020
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Internet access, Briefings, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- White Rose University Press: a case study
Publication - 27 March 2020
Tags: Publications
- Public Lending Right Briefing (2020)
Public Lending Right schemes exist in just over 30 countries worldwide, with active efforts from some to extend them further. IFLA's new briefing, linked to our position on the subject, aims...
Publication - 19 March 2020
Tags: eLending, eLending for Libraries, Publications
- Beijing+25: How Libraries Help Deliver on Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women
2020 marks 25 years since UN member states and the international society committed to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action - an ambitious roadmap towards gender equality. As part of the...
Publication - 9 March 2020
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Women’s issues, Reports, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA-ICA Statement on Privacy Legislation and Archiving
A new IFLA-ICA statement underlines the need to consider the importance of archiving - and the skills of those managing archival collections - when passing privacy legislation. The...
Publication - 4 March 2020
Tags: Access to information, data protection, Privacy, right to be forgotten, Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA Submission on WIPO Artificial Intelligence Issues Paper
The rise of artificial intelligence raises questions in many different policy areas, including for intellectual property. IFLA has contributed to efforts by WIPO to develop a survey to build...
Publication - 16 February 2020
Tags: Artificial intelligence, Copyright, text and data mining, Reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- National Libraries in Voluntary National Reviews – a Briefing
Voluntary National Reviews offer a great opportunity to highlight how libraries are contributing to national development goals. IFLA's latest briefing looks at the particular value of National...
Publication - 13 February 2020
Tags: Access to information, National libraries, sustainable development goals, VNRs, Voluntary National Reviews, Briefings
- International Women’s Day 2020: Advocacy Kit for Libraries
International Women’s Day is drawing near, and the celebrations in 2020 will hold special significance in light of the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action....
Publication - 12 February 2020
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Women’s issues, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Metropolitan Libraries Section: Action Plan (2019 - 2020)
Action Plan (2019 - 2020)
Publication - 10 February 2020
Tags: Action plans, Metropolitan Libraries
- MLAS Action Plan 2019-2020
The Management of Library Associations Action Plan 2019–2020 outlines the key objectives for our Section. If you have questions about our work, suggestions about what you would like...
Publication - 9 February 2020
Tags: Action plans, Management of Library Associations
- The New Urban Agenda – Advocacy Opportunities for Libraries
IFLA’s new briefing provides an overview of the New Urban Agenda, and highlights where libraries and library associations may be able to draw on it in their advocacy. The New...
Publication - 7 February 2020
Tags: Access to information, local development, local government, SDG11, Sustainable development, Briefings
- Satellite Meeting papers/presentations
Library Services for Open Science. (2019, Vienna. Joint with Science and Technology Libraries section: presentations). Evidence for Global & Disaster Health: Where are we now...
Publication - 3 February 2020
Tags: Satellite Meeting papers/presentations, Evidence for Global and Disaster Health
- Evidence for Global and Disaster Health SIG Annual Report 2018-2019
Our Annual Report records the achievements and progress of the E4GDH Special Interest Group in relation to our Action Plan for the last year. If you have questions about our work,...
Publication - 2 February 2020
Tags: Annual reports, Evidence for Global and Disaster Health
- Evidence for Global and Disaster Health SIG Action Plan 2019-2020
Our Action Plan outlines the key objectives for the E4GDH Special Interest Group in the upcoming year. Take a look at our news feed to read updates on our progress. A report on these...
Publication - 1 February 2020
Tags: Action plans, Evidence for Global and Disaster Health
- Annual Report 2018-19
Our Annual Report records our achievements and progress in relation to our Action Plan for the last year. Read our Action Plan for the past year to see what we set out to achieve...
Publication - 1 February 2020
Tags: Annual reports
- Action Plans
Action Plan, Focus Area !: Directory Action Plan, Focus Area 2: Curriculum
Publication - 22 January 2020
Tags: Publications
- Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action - Briefing for Libraries
The 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action set out an ambitious UN agenda to advance women’s empowerment and gender equality. 2020 marks their 25th anniversary, and a large-scale...
Publication - 21 January 2020
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Gender equality, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Libraries as Publishers: Building a Global Community
JEP Volume 20, Issue #2 Proceedings of a two-day IFLA satellite pre-conference that took place in Ann Arbor under the egis of Michigan Publishing in the summer of 2016 in advance of IFLA...
Publication - 20 January 2020
Tags: Publications
- Joint Letter on Transparency in Preparing Guidelines on Article 17 of the EU Copyright Directive
IFLA has joined with over 40 civil society organisations across Europe in calling for the sharing of draft guidelines on the implementation of the controversial upload filter provisions in the...
Publication - 19 January 2020
Tags: Access to information, copyright directive, Europe, upload filters, Reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- IFLA Submission to US Trade Representative on the Review of South Africa’s Position under the Generalized System of Preferences
IFLA has submitted a comment in the context of the review of whether South Africa should continue to benefit from preferential trade rules with the United States. The review has been triggered by...
Publication - 19 January 2020
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, copyright4libraries, South Africa, United States of America, Reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Public Libraries Section Action Plan 2019-2020
FOCUS AREA 1. Undertake a review of IFLA Public Library Service Guidelines. The IFLA Public Library Service Guidelines provide assistance, information and inspiration to the global...
Publication - 14 January 2020
Tags: Action plans
- Public Libraries Section Action Plan 2019-2020
Public Libraries Section Action Plan 2018-2019 The Public Libraries Section is very engaged and our Action Plan outlines the key initatives for the year 2018-2019. ...
Publication - 14 January 2020
Tags: Publications
- IFLA Submission on Public Spaces and Cultural Rights
Libraries do not just help communities through their services, but also through the spaces they provide. IFLA’s submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights provides an...
Publication - 12 January 2020
Tags: Access to knowledge, civic space, cultural rights, Reports, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Get into UN75
IFLA’s new guide offers background about the United Nations’ 75th Anniversary celebrations, and suggestions for how you can get involved. The United Nations was...
Publication - 9 January 2020
Tags: Development, UN75, United Nations, Briefings
- What They Said at SCCR 39
The latest meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) saw further discussions about how to get the best laws...
Publication - 19 December 2019
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Exceptions and limitations, WIPO, Reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- IFLA Intellectual Freedom Checklist
The IFLA Intellectual Freedom Statement celebrates its 20th birthday in 2019. But how well is it being implemented in countries, library associations and libraries? IFLA’s new Intellectual...
Publication - 9 December 2019
Tags: Access to information, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Intellectual freedom, Toolkits, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Librarians and information professionals as (pro)motors of change: immersing, including and initiating digital transformation for smart societies (2019)
The IFLA Section for Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning (CPDWL) focuses on all aspects of professional development and learning in the workplace and brings together those...
Publication - 2 December 2019
Tags: Digital divide, Satellite Meeting papers/presentations, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
- Libraries and the Paris Agreement: Connections and Contributions
Starting today, governments, experts and activists from around the world will be meeting in Madrid for the 25th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention...
Publication - 1 December 2019
Tags: Access to information, Climate change, climate heritage, Sustainability, Sustainable development, Reports, Environment, Sustainability and Libraries
- The Role of Libraries in National Broadband Plans and Policies
Public internet access in libraries is an important tool to help bring more people online. Including libraries in national broadband plans and policies is a way to support and enable their work...
Publication - 27 November 2019
Tags: Access to information, Digital divide, IFLA and the information society, Reports
- Libraries Engaged in Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs)
Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) can be a great way for libraries to engage in discussions around the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and to be recognised for...
Publication - 27 November 2019
Tags: Access to information, Development, SDGs, sustainable development goals, Voluntary National Reviews, LDP (Library Development Programme), Toolkits
- Protecting Exceptions: New Survey of Legislation Safeguarding the Rights of Libraries and their Users
A major advance in the most recent European copyright reform has been the inclusion of a ‘contract override’ provision for most of the new copyright exceptions. This addresses...
Publication - 26 November 2019
Tags: Access to information, contractual override, Copyright, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, Reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- IFLA/UNESCO Public Library Manifesto 25th Anniversary Poster
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
- Video recording of the 16th IFLA ILDS conference: Beyond the paywall - Resource sharing in a disruptive ecosystem. Held at the National Library of Technology in Prague, Czech Republic, October 9-11, 2019.
Recorded at the National Library of Technology in Prague, Czech Republic, from Wednesday, October 9, at 10:00 CET, until Friday, October 11, 2019, at noon CET. More at https://ilds2019....
Publication - 12 November 2019
Tags: Access to knowledge, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Benchmarking, Best practices, Big data, Conferences, Cooperation, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Czechia, Data management, Digital divide, Document delivery, eBooks, Electronic document delivery, eLending, eLending for Libraries, Interlibrary loans, International cooperation, Networking, Open access, Research support, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing, Videos
- IFLA Public Library Manifesto Advocacy Toolkit
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
- Proceedings of the 16th IFLA ILDS conference: Beyond the paywall - Resource sharing in a disruptive ecosystem : held at the National Library of Technology in Prague, Czech Republic, October 9-11, 2019
Published on behalf of the IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section’s Standing Committee, this freely-accessible eBook is a testimonial reflecting the state-of-the-art in the...
Publication - 4 November 2019
Tags: Access to information, Benchmarking, Best practices, Big data, Conferences, Cooperation, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Digital divide, Document delivery, eBooks, Electronic document delivery, eLending, eLending for Libraries, Intellectual property, Interlibrary loans, International cooperation, Library collections, Open access, Publications, Research support, Scholarly communications, Statistics and evaluation, User experience, Conference proceedings, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing
- Guidelines for Information Literacy assessment
The most important question to ask is "What am I trying to assess?" What students have learned, or how participants feel about their own learning? English Espa...
Publication - 27 October 2019
Tags: Guidelines
- Global Perspectives on Information Literacy: Fostering a Dialogue for International Understanding
This white paper includes chapters written by information literacy experts from around the world, including Africa, Canada, Europe, Oceania, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East and seeks to...
Publication - 26 October 2019
Tags: Publications
- UNESCO Media & Information Literacy: Policy & Strategy Guidelines
This comprehensive MIL Policy and Strategy Guidelines resource is the first of its kind to treat MIL as a composite concept, unifying information literacy and media literacy as well as considering...
Publication - 26 October 2019
Tags: Guidelines
- ACRL Standards, Guidelines, and Frameworks
ACRL is the source that the higher education community looks to for standards and guidelines for academic libraries and frameworks for information literacy. ACRL promulgates standards, guidelines...
Publication - 26 October 2019
Tags: Guidelines
- 10 Reasons for Environmental Sustainability in (Public) Libraries
It takes only five minutes to claim the importance of environmental commitment for public libraries – but these minutes make a real difference. Public libraries should not and cannot ignore...
Publication - 24 October 2019
Tags: Publications, Environment, Sustainability and Libraries
- Minutes of meetings
2021 virtual meeting (Zoom) (January) 2020 virtual meeting (Zoom) (October) 2020 annual meeting (Zoom) (September) 2020 virtual meeting (April...
Publication - 17 October 2019
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Support of the Profession
- LIDATEC Meetings
The Sub-Committee shall meet at least once a year during the IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) in August each year, and will do most of their work virtually. The Sub-...
Publication - 9 October 2019
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Linked Data Technical Sub-Committee (LIDATEC)
- Samos Satellite Meeting Papers
IFLA's Management and Marketing Section held its Satellite Meeting 22-23 August 2019 at the Public Library of Samos in Pythagoreion, Samos, Greece. The session (S09) was entitled "...
Publication - 24 September 2019
Tags: Satellite Meeting papers/presentations, Management and Marketing
- Culture in the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda
Four years on from the agreement of the United Nations 2030 Agenda, a new report, coordinated by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and United Cities and Local Government (...
Publication - 24 September 2019
Tags: #Culture2030Goal, Access to information, Advocacy, Libraries for development, Sustainable development, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, LDP (Library Development Programme), Reports
- For Everyone, Everywhere, at Every Age: Libraries and Adult Literacy
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
- Get into SDG Action Week
The 2020 edition of SDG Action Week will be held on 18-26 September, and will be entirely online. IFLA’s updated guide explains how libraries and library associations can get involved,...
Publication - 6 September 2019
Tags: Access to information, Development, sustainable development goals, Briefings, LDP (Library Development Programme)
- Great Ideas for Advocacy: Session at IFLA WLIC 2019
In Athens, Greece, librarians from around the world showed their inventiveness and persistance in advocating for libraries. Through a series of short presentations, they looked to inspire...
Publication - 28 August 2019
Tags: Advocacy, Development, sustainable development goals, Conference proceedings, LDP (Library Development Programme)
- IFLA Toolkit: How to use the Development and Access to Information Report 2019
The 2019 Development and Access to Information (DA2I) Report, launched in May 2019, is intended as a tool to help libraries globally in their advocacy around the SDGs. It shows how...
Publication - 27 August 2019
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, DA2I, Development, Libraries for development, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, Toolkits
- IFLA Statement on Censorship (2019)
On the 20th anniversary of IFLA's Statement on Libraries and Intellectual Freedom, IFLA has published a new statement, offering further guidance and support to members facing censorship...
Publication - 25 August 2019
Tags: Access to information, Censorship, Freedom of expression, Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA Guidelines on Public Internet Access in Libraries
IFLA's Guidelines on Public Internet Access in Libraries offer both a firm reiteration of support for the value of such access, but also practical guidance in dealing with the issues that...
Publication - 25 August 2019
Tags: Access to information, Information society, Internet access, Public Libraries, Standards, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA Division V Declaration
[PDF - English] We, members of Division V, including the participants of the IFLA Division V Satellite Meeting, as part of the 2019 IFLA World Library Information Congress, on...
Publication - 24 August 2019
Tags: Publications, Regions
- IFLA Toolkit for Library Engagement in Literacy and Reading Strategies
IFLA’s new toolkit aims to help library associations, institutions and individual library and information workers to advocate for libraries’ role in literacy...
Publication - 24 August 2019
Tags: Advocacy, Literacy, Reading, Toolkits, Literacy and Reading
- Guidelines for Setting Up a Digital Unification Project
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
- E4GDH webinar: Librarians are Essential - Advocating for a Seat at the Table
This third webinar in our series, which took place on 8 August 2019, was faciltiated by Blessing Mawire. We heard from two presenters. Siobhan Champ-Blackwell drew...
Publication - 19 August 2019
Tags: Advocacy, Webinars, Evidence for Global and Disaster Health
- Guidelines for Parliamentary Websites
In 2000 the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) published Guidelines for the Content and Structure of Parliamentary Websites. The Guidelines were based on an extensive survey of existing...
Publication - 3 August 2019
Tags: Guidelines, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- Management & Marketing Action Plan 2018-2019
Our Action Plan outlines the key objectives for our Section in the upcoming year. Take a look at our News feed to read updates on our progress. A report on these activities will...
Publication - 2 August 2019
Tags: Publications
- Management & Marketing Action Plan 2017-2018
Our Action Plan outlines the key objectives for our Section in the upcoming year. Take a look at our News feed to read updates on our progress. A report on these activities will be made...
Publication - 2 August 2019
Tags: Publications
- Educational Technologies and Student Data - Briefing for Libraries
The use of technology in education is growing, and a new class of technologies has emerged that relies on tracking and analysing vast amounts of student behavioural data to measure their...
Publication - 31 July 2019
Tags: Education, Freedom of expression, Privacy in libraries, Briefings, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Digital Unification: Case Studies
As part of its work, IFLA's Digital Unification Working Group has collected a range of case studies. Links to these can be found here: Codex Siniaticus Glagolitic Script...
Publication - 25 July 2019
Tags: Digital libraries, Digital preservation, digital unification, Reports, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- A concept framework for data science in libraries
Libraries are challenged to adopt new service models to assist with the transformation of data into information. Libraries need to improve their technological literacy, especially coding and mark-...
Publication - 7 July 2019
Tags: Publications
- ISBD to LRM Mapping (2018)
Final versión 2017, as amended in 2018. This is a conceptual or semantic mapping between the ISBD element set and the IFLA LRM elements. However, this...
Publication - 3 July 2019
Tags: Cataloguing, Conceptual models, LRM (Library Reference Model), Mappings, Publications, ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description)
- IFLA Metadata Newsletter
In 2015, the Cataloguing Section began to publish the IFLA Metadata Newsletter jointly with the Classification & Indexing and Bibliography Sections. SCATnews, the ...
Publication - 2 July 2019
Tags: Newsletters, Cataloguing
- SCATNews: Newsletter of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloguing Section (1995-2014)
NOTE: SCATNews was discontinued in 2014. In 2015, the Cataloguing Section began to publish the IFLA Metadata Newsletter jointly with the Classification & Indexing and...
Publication - 2 July 2019
Tags: Newsletters, Cataloguing
- Current Cataloguing Section Action Plan, 2019-2021
The Cataloguing Section analyses the functions of cataloguing activities for all types of material and media, including both bibliographic and authority information, for the benefit of all users...
Publication - 2 July 2019
Tags: Action plans, Cataloguing
- Reports of the liaison to the ISSN Network
2017-2018
Publication - 2 July 2019
Tags: ISSN, Reports, Cataloguing
- Reports of the liaison to the ISO TC46
2020 (April) 2018-2019 2017-2018
Publication - 2 July 2019
Tags: ISO, Reports, Cataloguing
- Reports of the liaison to the ALA Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access
2020 January; June 2019 January; June 2018 February; June 2017 January; June 2016 January; June 2015 ...
Publication - 2 July 2019
Tags: Reports, Cataloguing
- Meeting Reports / Minutes of Meetings
2019: Stockholm (Midterm meeting) 2018: Kuala Lumpur + Appendices I-IV 2018: Copenhagen (Midterm meeting) 2017: Wrocław 2017: Prague (Midterm...
Publication - 2 July 2019
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Cataloguing
- Cataloguing Section Annual Reports
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006...
Publication - 2 July 2019
Tags: Annual reports, Cataloguing
- IFLA Professional Statement on UBC (2012)
تحميل [PDF] العربية
Publication - 1 July 2019
Tags: Bibliography, UBC, Bibliography, Statements
- IFLA-Erklärung zur Universellen Bibliografischen Kontrolle (UBC) (2012)
[PDF] Nach mehreren Jahren der Diskussion über die Bedeutung von internationalem Datenaustausch etablierte die IFLA in den 1970er Jahren ein Büro für die Universelle...
Publication - 1 July 2019
Tags: Bibliography, UBC, Bibliography, Statements
- 国际图联关于世界书目控制的专业声明
[PDF] 经过若干年有关书目数据共享重要性的讨论,国际图联(IFLA)于20世纪70年代成立了世界书目控制(Universal Bibliographic Control)办公室,旨在减少成本并鼓励世界范围内的协作。该办公室后来被称为UBCIM(世界书目控制和国际MARC)。当时,UBCIM的理念是由每一个国家书目机构编目其本国出版的作品并确立著者的名称,...
Publication - 1 July 2019
Tags: Bibliography, UBC, Bibliography, Statements
- Déclaration professionnelle de l’IFLA sur le contrôle bibliographique universel (2012)
[PDF] Au cours des années 1970, après plusieurs années de débats sur l’importance de l’échange international des données...
Publication - 1 July 2019
Tags: Bibliography, UBC, Bibliography, Statements
- Профессиональная декларация ИФЛА, касающаяся Универсального Библиографического Учета (2012)
[РDF] В 1970-е гг. после нескольких лет дискуссий о необходимости международного корпоративного использования библиографических данных, что позволило бы сократить расходы на их создание и...
Publication - 1 July 2019
Tags: Bibliography, UBC, Bibliography, Statements
- Declaración Profesional de la IFLA sobre el Control Bibliográfico Universal (2012)
[PDF] Durante la década de 1970 la IFLA creó una oficina para el Control Bibliográfico Universal, fue el resultado de varios años de debates sobre la...
Publication - 1 July 2019
Tags: Bibliography, UBC, Bibliography, Statements
- CPDWL Webinars
The CPDWL section collaborates with the IFLA New Professionals SIG (NPSIG) and the American Library Association (ALA) to run a series of free webinars. Follow the links to...
Publication - 27 June 2019
Tags: Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning, Webinars
- International and Comparative Librarianship: Concepts and Methods for Global Studies
Based on his extensive experience in international librarianship, Peter Johan Lor, South Africa's first National Librarian and a former Secretary General of the IFLA, has written the first...
Publication - 24 June 2019
Tags: Comparative Librarianship, Education, Library and Information Science, Library and information science education, Publications
- WIPO Action Plans on Exceptions and Limitations
At the 36th session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Member States agreed on an action plan on exceptions...
Publication - 8 June 2019
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, WIPO, Briefings, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Webinar de la IFLA sobre la reunión regional de la OMPI para América Latina y el Caribe
Una ley de derechos de autor adaptada al mundo digital y equilibrada es clave para que las bibliotecas puedan llevar a cabo su misión de interés público....
Publication - 5 June 2019
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Latin America and the Caribbean, WIPO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Webinars
- IFLA webinar on the WIPO Latin America and the Caribbean regional meeting
Modern, balanced copyright laws are key to the fulfilment of libraries’ public interest mission. Outdated or inadequate legislation hampers democratic access to information and the...
Publication - 5 June 2019
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Latin America and the Caribbean, WIPO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Webinars
- Development and Access to Information (DA2I) Report 2019
The Development and Access to Information (DA2I) Report 2019 is the second issue of a series of reports, led by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (...
Publication - 13 May 2019
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, DA2I, Development, HLPF, Libraries for development, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, Reports
- Political Party Responses to the Library Manifesto for Europe
The Library Manifesto for Europe sets out six ways in which the European Union can support libraries and their values. On this basis, IFLA asked political parties at the European level - and...
Publication - 9 May 2019
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Elections, Europe, European Union, Sustainable development, Country reports, LDP (Library Development Programme)
- Webinaire de l'IFLA sur la réunion régionale africaine de l'OMPI
Des lois de droit d’auteur modernes et équilibrées sont essentielles à la réalisation de la mission d'intérêt public des biblioth...
Publication - 7 May 2019
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Africa, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, WIPO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Webinars
- IFLA webinar on the WIPO African regional meeting
Modern, balanced copyright laws are key to the fulfilment of libraries’ public interest mission. Outdated or inadequate legislation hampers democratic access to information and the...
Publication - 6 May 2019
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Africa, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, WIPO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Webinars
- NILP presentations at WLIC 2018 in Kuala Lumpur
The following presentations* are from NILP's open session at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 84th IFLA General Conference and Assembly on 29 August 2018 in Kuala...
Publication - 2 May 2019
Tags: Conference proceedings, National Information and Library Policy
- Best Practice for Establishing a Public Lending Right System that Supports Authors and Libraries and Enables Literacy and Learning (Annex to the 2016 IFLA Position on Public Lending Right)
IFLA’s existing statement on Public Lending Right (PLR), updated in 2016, sets out IFLA’s policy position on Public Lending Right. These best practices are without prejudice to the...
Publication - 29 April 2019
Tags: Advocacy, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Digital libraries, Digital resources, eBooks, eLending, eLending for Libraries, Best Practices, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- IFLA Submission to Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Cultural Diversity and Human Rights
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)
- A Library Manifesto for Europe
The decisions taken in Brussels and Strasbourg have a significant impact on libraries. To prepare for the coming mandate of the European Parliament, IFLA and partners have developed a Library...
Publication - 25 April 2019
Tags: Access to information, Europe, European Parliament, European Union, LDP (Library Development Programme), Manifestos
- Press Release on the Adoption of the European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market
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
- Get Connected: Public Access Policy Toolkit
The Public Access Policy Toolkit looks at the different policy areas where libraries may need to advocate to ensure that all our institutions can provide internet access to their users....
Publication - 11 April 2019
Tags: Access to information, Digital libraries, Dynamic Coalition on Public Access in Libraries, Internet access, Public Access, Briefings, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Libraries are Good for You: Supporting the Delivery of SDG3
Sustainable Development Goal 3 calls on United Nations Member States to 'ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all, at all ages'. IFLA's new briefing underlines how libraries...
Publication - 7 April 2019
Tags: Access to information, health, Health literacy, Research support, Briefings, LDP (Library Development Programme)
- IFLA Submission on Italian Universal Periodic Review
IFLA and the Italian Library Association have submitted a contribution to the Unviersal Periodic Review of Italy, as organised by the Human Rights Council. This underlines the importance...
Publication - 5 April 2019
Tags: Access to information, Human rights, Italy, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Universal Periodic Review, Reports, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA Statement on Open Access in Intergovernmental Organisations (2019)
IFLA has agreed a statement calling on Intergovernmental Organisations (IGOs) to make their research and data available to the public for free, and without unnecessary limitations on use....
Publication - 4 April 2019
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Open access, Statements
- Mid-Term Meeting Presentations (Dublin 2019)
Opening Talk: Dr. Philip Cohen, Chair of the Library Association of Ireland, introduced by Ann Okerson, Center for Research Libraries (video...
Publication - 3 April 2019
Tags: Conference proceedings, Library Publishing
- E4GDH webinar: Librarian First Responders
In our second webinar, which took place on 14 March 2019, Feili Tu-Keefner [Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina]...
Publication - 22 March 2019
Tags: Education, Webinars, Evidence for Global and Disaster Health
- IFLA webinar on the WIPO Asia-Pacific regional meeting
Modern, balanced copyright laws are key to the fulfilment of libraries’ public interest mission. Outdated or inadequate legislation hampers democratic access to information and the...
Publication - 19 March 2019
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Asia and Oceania, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, WIPO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Webinars
- SDG Storytelling Flowchart
How to know if you are ready to submit your story to the Library Map of the World The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) continue to be a major focus of IFLA’s advocacy...
Publication - 7 March 2019
Tags: Advocacy, Development, Libraries for development, Library Map of the World, Storytelling, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, Infographics
- Gifts for the Collections: Guidelines for Libraries, 2019 Extended Edition
Gifts represent an important component of the collection-building activities of libraries. These Guidelines focus exclusively on gifts and donations to library collections, whether proactively or...
Publication - 6 March 2019
Tags: Guidelines
- IFLA Brief on Open Educational Resources
The brief celebrates the commitment of the library sector to making OER a reality and encourages continued engagement by providing background information. It shares the definition of OER, its...
Publication - 4 March 2019
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, E-learning, Education, Briefings, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Action plan 2016/2017
Action plan 2016/2017
Publication - 26 February 2019
Tags: Publications
- Action plan 2017/2018
Action plan 2017/2018
Publication - 26 February 2019
Tags: Publications
- IFLA Survey on Rare Materials Cataloguing with RDA
Is the rare-materials-cataloguing-community willing to adopt RDA? Do they miss the detailed guidance that ISBD and DCRM used to provide? And, if they are going to adopt RDA, how are they planning...
Publication - 22 February 2019
Tags: Cataloguing, RDA, Reports, Rare Books and Special Collections
- A Social Justice Mission: Libraries, Employment and Entrepreneurship
The World Day of Social Justice focuses on the steps that need to be taken to ensure that globalisation and change benefits everyone. The new opportunities brought should give all who can the...
Publication - 20 February 2019
Tags: Access to information, Minority groups, SDG 8, Social inclusion, Society, Sustainable development, Briefings, LDP (Library Development Programme)
- Parliamentary Research Handbook
Parliamentarians need access to up-to-date and accurate information and research in order to effectively perform their parliamentary duties. All research produced by parliamentary officials...
Publication - 18 February 2019
Tags: research, Guidelines, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- Libraries, Local Government, Human Rights and Sustainable Development: IFLA Submission to Human Rights Council
Through providing access to information and skills in a welcoming environment, as well as working as a platform for partnerships, libraries can realise rights and development. IFLA has...
Publication - 16 February 2019
Tags: Access to information, Human rights, Sustainable development, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Reports, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Reports
Publication - 14 January 2019
Tags: Publications
- International NGOs bonding to intensify cooperation on convergence in the cultural heritage sector (2009)
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
- IFLA and IPA face the challenge of Libraries, Copyright and the Electronic Environment (1996)
PRESS RELEASE: for immediate release May 28, 1996 At the invitation of IPA President Fernando Guedes, IFLA Secretary General Leo Voogt represented IFLA at the 25th...
Publication - 13 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Publishing, IFLA/IPA Steering Group, Statements
- Librarians and Publishers Working to a Common Agenda (2001)
JOINT PRESS RELEASE: For immediate release 23 August 2001 IFLA General Conference Boston, MA, USA The International Federation of Library...
Publication - 13 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Pubishing, IFLA/IPA Steering Group, Statements
- Publishers and librarians promote common principles on copyright in the electronic environment (2001)
12 October 2001: The joint Steering Group of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the International Publishers Association (IPA) is working to promote...
Publication - 13 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Publishing, IFLA/IPA Steering Group, Statements
- IFLA Principles for Library eLending (2013)
Following the production of the IFLA Background Paper on eLending the IFLA Governing Board tasked the eLending Working Group with developing a set of principles that could guide library...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Copyright exceptions and limitations, eLending, eLending for Libraries, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Libraries, eLending, and the Future of Public Access to Digital Content
In May 2012 IFLA released a Background Paper on eLending which discussed the situation facing public libraries seeking to lend eBooks to their users. The paper discussed the challenges facing...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Copyright exceptions and limitations, eLending, eLending for Libraries, Briefings, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2011 Report
IFLA, along with Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL) and UNESCO, held an Interactive Facilitation Meeting on Open Access in Geneva, Switzerland on May 19th, as part of the World Summit on...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Digital inclusion, Internet access, Internet governance, Conference proceedings, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society)
- IFLA and EBLIDA Statement on ACTA and the Importance of Multilateral Multi-stakeholder IP Policy Formation (2010)
The Hague, 2 July 2012 [PDF] The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the European...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to knowledge, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, trade deals, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- IFLA Position on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (2010)
English | français The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the global voice of the international library community. Libraries play...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, trade deals, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- The Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age (2015)
“Big Data can reshape the world and save lives. By analyzing it, we can find answers to challenges such as climate change and global epidemics. Economies can be stimulated....
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, data mining, Open access, text and data mining, Text mining, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Brussels Declaration on Trade and the Internet for international trading systems reform (2016)
On 22 February 2016, IFLA co-signed the Brussels Declaration on Trade and the Internet in support of sustainable, transparent, accountable and democratic international trading systems. The...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, trade agreements, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Drivers of Change – eBook Now Available
In 2015, librarians from across Latin America met in Buenos Aires. They came to share experiences and reflections, hopes and ambitions about the future of libraries and how they could best serve...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Argentina, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Congress papers, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- South Africa Can Lead the Way: IFLA Delivers Submission on Copyright Reform
South Africa is reforming its copyright framework, and the Copyright Amendment Bill takes an ambitious approach that could set a great example not only for neighbouring countries but also...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to knowledge, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, South Africa, Reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Is Malawi’s accession to the Marrakesh Treaty effectively addressing the book famine? (2017)
The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled, adopted on June 27, 2013, has been ratified by 30...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, Malawi, Marrakesh Treaty, Print disabilities, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Official recognition of a new Blue Shield Committee in Haiti
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...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster risk, Haiti, Preservation, Statements, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Blue Shield Statement on Egypt
31 January 2011 Following the recent events in Egypt, the Blue Shield expresses its great concern about the safeguarding of the country's invaluable cultural heritage amid the...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: conflict, Cultural heritage, Disaster risk, Egypt, Preservation, Statements, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Blue Shield Statement on Christchurch
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...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster risk, New Zealand, Preservation, Statements, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Blue Shield Statement on Libya
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...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: conflict, Cultural heritage, Disaster risk, Libya, Preservation, Statements, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Blue Shield Statement on Syria
(Copy of the original article on the Blue Shield website) 17 May 2011 Following the recent events in Syria, the Blue Shield expresses its deep concern regarding the safeguarding...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: conflict, Cultural heritage, Disaster risk, Preservation, Syrian Arab Republic, Statements, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Blue Shield 2nd Statement on Libya
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...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: conflict, Cultural heritage, Disaster risk, Libya, Preservation, Statements, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Blue Shield 2nd Statement on Egypt
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...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: conflict, Cultural heritage, Disaster risk, Egypt, Preservation, Statements, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Blue Shield - 2nd Statement on Syria
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...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: conflict, Cultural heritage, Disaster risk, Preservation, Syrian Arab Republic, Statements, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Blue Shield Statement on Mali
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)
- Blue Shield Statement on 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...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Blue Shield, Disaster management, Disaster relief, Preservation, Ukraine, Statements, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Blue Shield Statement on Iraq
June 17, 2014 PROTECTION OF IRAQI CULTURAL HERITAGE SITES Blue Shield is appalled by the great suffering and loss of life in the current fighting in Iraq and expresses great...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Blue Shield, Disaster management, Disaster relief, Iraq, Preservation, Statements, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Blue Shield Statement on Yemen
[English] [العربية] [français] [Español] 3 June, 2015 The Blue Shield offers its unequivocal support for the United Nations Secretary General’s statements (26...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Disaster management, Disaster relief, Preservation, Yemen, Statements, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Libraries Protect Women's Cultural Rights
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
- European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 - Briefing for 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)
- The UNESCO/PERSIST Guidelines for the Selection of Digital Heritage for Long-term Preservation
The UNESCO PERSIST Project, an initiative of UNESCO, ICA, IFLA and other partners, for enhancing the sustainability of digital heritage, has launched the UNESCO/PERSIST Guidelines for...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Conservation, Digital resources, Preservation, UNESCO PERSIST, Guidelines, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Disaster Risk Response – A brief on Libraries and the Sendai Framework
Libraries have a duty to preserve our cultural heritage and make it accessible to the public, in order to inform and inspire future generations. Though many libraries already have disaster plans...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Conservation, Disaster management, Disaster relief, Preservation, Briefings, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- IFLA Newspaper Conference, 11-13 April 2012 - Papers
Details home venue registration sponsorship accommodation Conference theme: "Newspaper Digitization...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Conservation, France, Newspapers, Preservation, Conference proceedings, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Workshop on Library and Archive Material Mitigation of Water-Damage in Sri Lanka
National Library & Documentation Services Board (NLDSB) of Sri Lanka has formed a library disaster recovery team in 2013. Ten officials serve in this team. They were trained for fire rescue,...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Disaster management, Disaster relief, Preservation, Sri Lanka, Reports, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- 3rd United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction - Cultural Heritage and Disaster Resilient Communities
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...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Disaster management, Disaster relief, Japan, Preservation, Conference proceedings, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Preservation and Conservation Satellite Conference, Rome, 2009: Proceedings now on line
Date: 31 August, 2009 - 2 September, 2009 Location: Istituto centrale per il restauro e la conservazione del patrimonio...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Conservation, Preservation, Conference proceedings, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- In and Out Air Strategies Conference: Speakers' presentations on line!
International Conference, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 5-6 March 2009 This event was the first of a cycle of four which will be organized by PAC Core activity in collaboration...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Conservation, France, Preservation, Conference proceedings, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Blue Shield Statement on Palmyra
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...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Blue Shield, Conservation, Disaster management, Syrian Arab Republic, Statements, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- IFLA Statement on UNESCO: Education, Science and Culture: Shared Objectives Need Shared Efforts
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 brief on the HABITAT III New Urban Agenda
HABITAT, a platform which gathers every 20 years to shape the future of human settlements, has issued its Quito Declaration on sustainable cities and human settlements for all – the...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Development, Digital divide, Social inclusion, Briefings, LDP (Library Development Programme)
- How Libraries Can Connect the Next Four Billion
Half of the world’s population lacks access to information online.In our knowledge society, libraries provide access and opportunity for all. Around the world, public access to...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Development, Digital divide, LDP (Library Development Programme), Reports
- The "Road to Dignity by 2030" includes access to information and an open Internet
IFLA's response to the Synthesis Report of the UN Secretary-General on the Post-2015 Development Agenda: "The Road to Dignity by 2030: Ending Poverty, Transforming All Lives and...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Development, ICTs, Intellectual property, Lyon Declaration, post-2015, LDP (Library Development Programme), Publications
- IFLA signs Declaration for the inclusion of culture in the Post-2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals
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
- IFLA joins civil society in demanding a UN post-2015 framework that makes governments more accountable
IFLA, together with almost 200 civil society organisations, is calling on the United Nations to put good governance, access to information and independent media at the centre of the post-2015...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Libraries, Development and the United Nations 2030 Agenda, Sustainable development, LDP (Library Development Programme), Statements
- Access to Information should be central to the Post-2015 Development Framework
On Monday 9th December IFLA launched a joint statement on the role access to information can play in the post-2015 development framework. The statement, prepared in association with Article 19,...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Development, Libraries, Development and the United Nations 2030 Agenda, Sustainable development, LDP (Library Development Programme), Statements
- Libraries Power Development - IFLA in the Guardian
IFLA participated in the Guardian live chat on the role information plays in development. The live chat lasted for 2 hours and recieved a lot of questions and feedback in form of over 250...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Development, Libraries, Development and the United Nations 2030 Agenda, Sustainable development, LDP (Library Development Programme), Reports
- International Human Rights Conventions and Declarations
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights Text in more than 285 different languages International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Resource Guides, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Intellectual Freedom & Human Rights Organisations
Below, a list of international Organizations working within the areas of Access to Information, Freedom of Speech, Intellectual Freedom and related areas. We hope you find our list useful...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Resource Guides, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- International reports
Regularly published world-wide or regional reports covering the state of the human rights, including intellectual freedom Amnesty International's Annual Report The annual...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Resource Guides, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Human Rights Resources on the Net
Useful global Internet documentation centers on human rights Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) is an independent, non-...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Human rights, Resource Guides, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Internet censorship, filtering and rating
Some links to basic reports, articles and other documents on internet content regulation in general and on filtering and rating in libraries - and the intellectual freedom implications of such...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Censorship, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Resource Guides, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Finnish Research Project Censorship and Control in the Internet Age
In terms of freedom of expression, the last few years represent a historical transition period. This transition has left a permanent imprint on the media, communications, political history and...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Censorship, Freedom of information, Resource Guides, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Lex Snowden – a Finnish Citizen Initiative to support whistleblowers’ protection
The leaks of Edward Snowden have raised a range of different responses and reactions against ubiquitous surveillance and led to calls to strengthen users’ rights and protection on the...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Censorship, Finland, Freedom of information, Videos, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IMMI – Icelandic grassroots innovation to legislation
Interview with Birgitta Jónsdóttir from Kirjastokaista Increased Internet censorship and surveillance has been an emerging trend over the last decade. Since the...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Censorship, Freedom of information, Videos, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- General Data Protection Regulation: What Do the New EU Rules Mean for Libraries?
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation enters into force on 25 May, bringing with it significant changes in the rules around how personal data is collected, managed and used...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, data protection, Europe, Privacy, Webinars, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Libraries and Fake News - Paper for Zagreb Roundtable on Freedom of Access to Information
Martyn Wade, Chair of IFLA's Advisory Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression, delivered a speech on Fake News and Libraries in Zagreb. The occasion...
Publication - 9 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Croatia, fake news, Media and Information Literacy, Interviews, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Libraries and Fake News - Paper for Zagreb Roundtable on Freedom of Access to Information
Martyn Wade, Chair of IFLA's Advisory Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression, delivered a speech on Fake News and Libraries in Zagreb. The occasion was the...
Publication - 9 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Croatia, fake news, Media and Information Literacy, Interviews, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Library Design for the 21st Century—Collaborative Strategies to Ensure Success
Library design in the 21st century has one common theme: collaboration is at the heart of innovation. Designing modern libraries is a complex process involving many stakeholders and participants....
Publication - 7 January 2019
Tags: Library building design, library buildings, Satellite Meeting papers/presentations, Library Buildings and Equipment
- 2015-2016 IFLA LGBT SIG Action Plan
2015-2016 IFLA LGBT SIG Action Plan
Publication - 2 January 2019
Tags: Action plans, LGBTQ library services, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)
- 2016-2017 IFLA LGBT SIG Action Plan
2016-2017 IFLA LGBT SIG Action Plan
Publication - 2 January 2019
Tags: Action plans, LGBTQ library services, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)
- 2017-2018 IFLA LGBT SIG Action Plan
2017-2018 IFLA LGBT SIG Action Plan
Publication - 2 January 2019
Tags: Action plans, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)
- 2014-2015 IFLA LGBT SIG Annual Report
2014-2015 IFLA LGBT SIG Annual Report
Publication - 2 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Acquisitions, Advocacy, Best practices, Cataloguing, Censorship, Collection development, Communications, Communities of practice, Conferences, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Human rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, Information society, LGBTQ library services, Libraries for development, Library and information science education, Library as place, Library collections, Library outreach, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Net neutrality, Peace, Resource discovery, User experience, Women’s issues, Young adults, Annual reports, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)
- 2015-2016 IFLA LGBT SIG Annual Report
2015-2016 IFLA LGBT SIG Annual Report
Publication - 2 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Acquisitions, Advocacy, Benchmarking, Best practices, Cataloguing, Censorship, Collection development, Communications, Communities of practice, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Guidelines, Human rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ library services, Libraries for development, Library and information science education, Library as place, Library collections, Lifelong learning, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Net neutrality, Peace, Performance indicators, Resource discovery, Social inclusion, User experience, Women’s issues, Young adults, Annual reports, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)
- 2016-2017 IFLA LGBT SIG Annual Report
2016-2017 IFLA LGBT SIG Annual Report
Publication - 2 January 2019
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Acquisitions, Advocacy, Benchmarking, Best practices, Cataloguing, Censorship, Collection development, Communications, Communities of practice, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Human rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ library services, Libraries for development, Library and information science education, Library as place, Library collections, Lifelong learning, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Net neutrality, Peace, Performance indicators, Resource discovery, Social inclusion, User experience, Women’s issues, Young adults, Annual reports, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)
- Information for Development: Why Access Matters Across the SDGs?
When the United Nations Member States agreed the 2030 Agenda, they recognised that without specific targets and a framework for measuring progress, the Sustainable Development Goals...
Publication - 27 December 2018
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Development, Libraries for development, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, Infographics
- 2017-2018 IFLA LGBT SIG Annual Report
Click here for the complete 2017-2018 IFLA LGBTQ+ SIG Annual Report.
Publication - 26 December 2018
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Advocacy, Communications, Communities of practice, Cooperation, Democracy, Development, Disadvantaged persons, Education, Education and training, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Guidelines, Human rights, LGBTQ library services, Libraries for development, Library and information science education, Library as place, Library buildings and equipment, Library outreach, Library services, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Networking, New professionals, Performance indicators, Privacy in libraries, Professional development, Risk assessment, Social inclusion, Staffing, Annual reports, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)
- 2018-2019 IFLA LGBT SIG Action Plan and Resource Request Form
Click here for the complete 2018-2019 IFLA LGBTQ+ SIG Action Plan. Objectives of Professional Unit 2018-19: 1. Provide guidelines for LGBTQ+ library services and collections around...
Publication - 26 December 2018
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Action plans, Advocacy, Benchmarking, Best practices, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Guidelines, Human rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ library services, Libraries for development, Library and information science education, Library as place, Lifelong learning, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Net neutrality, Peace, Performance indicators, Resource discovery, Social inclusion, User experience, Women’s issues, Young adults, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)
- This Library Supports the SDGs
As part of IFLA's global campaign to highlight the importance of libraries as partners for development, we have prepared this poster to mark the Global Day of...
Publication - 24 December 2018
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Development, Libraries for development, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, Posters
- European copyright reform: resources
The first major reform of Europe's copyright system in almost 20 years aims to update the law for the digital age. In addition to affecting libraries and library users across Europe, it also...
Publication - 20 December 2018
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, Digital humanities, Digital preservation, Digitisation, E-learning, eBooks, eLending, eLending for Libraries, Europe, Licensing, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Publications
- IFLA Input to 2018 WSIS Review
At meetings of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2005 and 2015, governments around the world agreed on the importance of connecting libraries as a means of helping everyone to...
Publication - 19 December 2018
Tags: Access to information, Digital divide, Public Access, Reports, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Internet Governance Guide for Libraries
Internet governance is a complex field that covers the rules, norms and standards that determine how the internet – from the physical connections to the programmes and information...
Publication - 18 December 2018
Tags: Access to information, Capacity building, Education, Information policies, Information professionals, Internet governance, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA Submission to the UN High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation
IFLA has submitted its response to the consultation launched by the United Nations High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation. This highlights the importance of action for access to information...
Publication - 12 December 2018
Tags: Access to information, Digital divide, Internet governance, Reports, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- E4GDH Special Interest Group Newsletter
July 2020 Newsletter - updates including our latest webinars and more on our multiliteracy work plus some guest columns. Includes a sign-up link to receive these occasional updates by email...
Publication - 10 December 2018
Tags: Evidence for Global and Disaster Health, Newsletters
- How Libraries Celebrate Human Rights Across the World
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)
- UNESCO's Internet Universality Indicators
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)
- Quotes from Member States at the 37th meeting of WIPO's SCCR
At the 37th meeting of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), many representatives of...
Publication - 6 December 2018
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Cooperation, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Libraries for Human Rights
Libraries have a unique relationship with human rights. Our institutions both depend on them to operate, but also contribute to their realisation. The 70th anniversary of the Universal...
Publication - 4 December 2018
Tags: Human rights, Information society, Posters
- Library and Research Services for Parliaments Annual Report 2017/18
Our Annual Report records our achievements and progress in relation to our Action Plan for the last year. Read our Action Plan for the past year (2017/18) to see what we set out to achieve...
Publication - 3 December 2018
Tags: Annual reports, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- Webinar: Finding the Evidence for Global and Disaster Health
On 19 November 2018, the IFLA Evidence for Global and Disaster Health (E4GDH) Special Interest Group hosted this webinar in conjunction with Evidence Aid, as part...
Publication - 29 November 2018
Tags: Webinars, Evidence for Global and Disaster Health
- Inspire, Inform, Indicate: How the UNESCO-IFLA Public Library Manifesto Makes a Difference
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
- International Advocacy Programme (IAP) Awareness-raising materials from around the world
As part of the International Advocacy Programme (IAP), IFLA has encouraged the millions-strong library field to unleash their creativity and create a...
Publication - 29 November 2018
Tags: Advocacy, Development, IAP, International Advocacy Programme, Libraries for development, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, LDP (Library Development Programme), Leaflets
- Global Action on School Library Education and Training
This book illuminates school librarian and teacher librarian education and training in light of the 2015 IFLA School Library Guidelines, second edition. The Guidelines provide a framework...
Publication - 28 November 2018
Tags: Professional development, School librarian services, School librarians, School library education, Publications, School Libraries
- Memories of Wolfgang Dietz and Gerhard Hahn
The attached article was written by Dr Russell Cope, Parliamentary Librarian at the Parliament of New South Wales from 1962 until 1993 and a very active IFLA member. It is a recollection of...
Publication - 27 November 2018
Tags: Library history, Publications, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- Briefing: WIPO Best Practice Guide on Collective Management Organisations
The World Intellectual Property Organisation has published a best practice toolkit on collective management organisations. This brief offers an overview of the toolkit, and suggests how it can be...
Publication - 25 November 2018
Tags: Access to knowledge, collective management, Copyright, WIPO, Briefings, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Going Green: Implementing Sustainable Strategies in Libraries Around the World — Buildings, Management, Programmes and Services
This publication examines aspects of reducing the ecological footprint in libraries’ workaday operations as well as the social role and responsibility of libraries as...
Publication - 20 November 2018
Tags: Sustainability, Publications, Environment, Sustainability and Libraries
- IFLA Webinar: Library Map of the World (August 2018)
Watch this 45-minute webinar to learn about new developments in the IFLA Library Map of the World (LMW) project and how to get involved and contribute. During...
Publication - 19 November 2018
Tags: Advocacy, Development, Libraries for development, Library Map of the World, LMW, Statistics and evaluation, Stories That Matter, UN SDGs, Videos
- IFLA submission for upcoming UN report: 10th anniversary of the mandate in cultural rights
Next year, 2019, will mark as the 10th anniversary of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights. To celebrate, the current Special Rapporteur – Karima Bennoune – has...
Publication - 12 November 2018
Tags: copy right, Cultural heritage, cultural rights, Human rights, UN, Publications
- Audiovisual and Multimedia Section, Action Plan 2018-2019
This document reports progress and results of our projects/activities. Please also consult our news page and social media channels for ongoing items of interest. Do please contact...
Publication - 12 November 2018
Tags: Publications
- Brief on the 2015 UNESCO Recommendation on Safeguarding Documentary Heritage
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
- Impact of Recently Approved IFLA Standards (WLIC 2018)
The Committee on Standard’s open session for WLIC 2018 was called The Impact of Recently Approved IFLA Standards, session 74, held on Saturday August 25th. The...
Publication - 2 November 2018
Tags: Congress papers, Committee on Standards
- Statistics and Evaluation Section Action Plan 2018-2019
Our Mission We promote the use and development of statistics, evaluation and assessment in libraries and information institutions, because these methods are essential in the following...
Publication - 29 October 2018
Tags: Action plans, Statistics and Evaluation
- Statistics and Evaluation Annual Report 2017-2018
Meetings The Standing Committee of the Statistics & Evaluation Section met on 24 August and 29 August during the Kuala Lumpur 2018 WLIC. Standing Committee members and guests reported...
Publication - 29 October 2018
Tags: Annual reports, Statistics and Evaluation
- Global Library Statistics (IFLA Journal)
When IFLA needed reliable data about libraries and their services worldwide, it became apparent that there are no such data. Therefore, the IFLA Section on Statistics and Evaluation, the UNESCO...
Publication - 29 October 2018
Tags: Access to information, Statistics and performance evaluation, Journal articles, Statistics and Evaluation
- Bibliography: Impact and Outcome of Libraries
Last update: July 2018 Literature on library impact is still growing. Thanks to all colleagues who advised me of new publications. When this bibliography was last revised in February 2016...
Publication - 29 October 2018
Tags: Publications, Statistics and Evaluation
- Great Ideas for Advocacy: Session at IFLA WLIC 2018
Since the beginning of IFLA’s International Advocacy Programme, librarians around the world have mobilised to raise awareness of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and to show how...
Publication - 23 October 2018
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Development, IAP, IFLA WLIC 2018, International Advocacy Programme, Libraries for development, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, Conference proceedings
- Public Access Policy Toolkit
Public access to the internet in libraries offers a number of important benefits, both for people who have no other means of getting online, and for those in countries with high levels of...
Publication - 16 October 2018
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Toolkits, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLAPARL at the 84th IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC), Kuala Lumpur, 2018
The 84th IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) took place between the 24th and 30th of August. The annual congress, setting the international agenda and offering...
Publication - 9 October 2018
Tags: Malaysia, Conference proceedings, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- IFLAPARL Pre-Conference, Kuala Lumpur, 2018
This year's pre-conference of the IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments (IFLAPARL) was held in Kuala Lumpur's Convention Centre on the 24th of August...
Publication - 9 October 2018
Tags: Malaysia, Conference proceedings, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- Connecting and Enabling the Next Billion(s) IV – Libraries Respond
In 2015, the Internet Governance Forum started a community-driven process to collect concrete stories showcasing successful initiatives which offer potential means of connecting the next...
Publication - 8 October 2018
Tags: Access to information, Development, Libraries for development, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Supporter, Complement, Gateway - How School Libraries Make the Difference for Teachers
Teachers are at the heart of efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4 - Quality Education. Yet they cannot do it alone, with libraries providing essential support both inside and out of...
Publication - 7 October 2018
Tags: Access to information, school libraries, Teacher librarians, Briefings, School Libraries
- Presentations and papers, IFLA WLIC 2018 Session "Library services: empowering people to develop their inter-cultural identities"
These presentations were made at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2018 in Kaula Lumpur by the the invited speakers in IFLA MCULTP's public session. The participative session...
Publication - 3 October 2018
Tags: Bilingualism, Cultural Diversity, Diversity, Identity, immigrants, Intercultural Competence, Library Outreach, Linguistic Diversity, Malaysia, Multicultural populations, Conference proceedings, Library Services to Multicultural Populations
- WIPO Broadcasting Treaty - IFLA Briefing
The World Intellectual Property Organisaiton is currently negotiating a draft treaty on broadcasting. This would give greater rights to broadcasters to protect their signals, in response...
Publication - 3 October 2018
Tags: Access to information, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Copyright, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, Briefings, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Public Libraries Section Action Plan 2018-2019
Public Libraries Section Action Plan 2018-2019 The Public Libraries Section is very engaged and our Action Plan outlines the key initatives for the year 2018-2019. Updates on the...
Publication - 2 October 2018
Tags: Action plans, Public Libraries
- Implementing the Marrakesh Treaty: Monitoring Report
The Marrakesh Treaty was signed in June 2013, and barely three years later entered into force. Yet ratification is only part of the story. IFLA's monitoring work shows where progress is...
Publication - 1 October 2018
Tags: Access to information, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Library services to people with disabilities, Marrakesh Treaty, Services to the visually impaired, LDP (Library Development Programme), Studies
- Declaração de Santiago
O acesso à informação para alcançar o desenvolvimento sustentável na América Latina e no Caribe Também disponível em inglês,...
Publication - 27 September 2018
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Development, LAC, Latin America and the Caribbean, Libraries for development, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, LDP (Library Development Programme), Statements
- La Déclaration de Santiago
Aussi disponible en portugais L’Accès à l’information pour réaliser le Développement durable en Amérique latine et aux Caraïbes...
Publication - 27 September 2018
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Development, LAC, Latin America and the Caribbean, Libraries for development, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, LDP (Library Development Programme), Statements
- La Declaración de Santiago
También disponible en portugués El acceso a la información para alcanzar el desarrollo sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe La Declaración de...
Publication - 27 September 2018
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Development, LAC, Latin America and the Caribbean, Libraries for development, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, LDP (Library Development Programme), Statements
- The Santiago Declaration
Also available in Portuguese Access to Information to Achieve Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean The Santiago Declaration is a statement of libraries...
Publication - 26 September 2018
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Development, LAC, Latin America and the Caribbean, Libraries for development, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, LDP (Library Development Programme), Statements
- Sustainability is Libraries' Business: Libraries and Sustainable Development
As institutions with a societal mission, it is natural for libraries to seek to address the major societal challenges of today - and there are fewer greater than sustainability. With...
Publication - 25 September 2018
Tags: Access to information, environmental sustainability, Libraries, Development and the United Nations 2030 Agenda, Sustainability, Briefings, Environment, Sustainability and Libraries
- Guide: Finding the Evidence for Global and Disaster Health
A guide to resources for Global and Disaster Health, created by Caroline De Brún for the 2018 E4GDH Satellite Meeting. Our thanks to Eukene Ansuategi and Marimar Ubeda from...
Publication - 23 September 2018
Tags: E4GDH, Resource Guides, Evidence for Global and Disaster Health
- Understanding, Inclusion, Healing, Remembrance - Libraries and Peace
Success in the mission of libraries relies heavily on peace. War and conflict, beyond immediate harm to people and buildings, holds back education, culture and research. Yet...
Publication - 21 September 2018
Tags: Access to information, Interreligious relations, peace, Briefings, LDP (Library Development Programme)
- IFLA Webinar: The SDGs in 2019 — What's on the Agenda for IFLA and the Sustainable Development Goals in 2019?
2019 is going to be a big year in IFLA’s work on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With a focus on SDG 4 (quality education), ...
Publication - 21 September 2018
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Development, HLPF 2019, Libraries for development, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, VNRs, LDP (Library Development Programme), Videos
- Libraries, Access to Information and Democracy
If information is power, then democracy - the power of the people - depends on access to information for all. To celebrate International Democracy Day 2018, IFLA has put together an...
Publication - 16 September 2018
Tags: Access to information, Democracy, Transparency, Briefings, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- The European Parliament’s position on the Digital Single Market Directive. What’s in there for libraries?
Before the summer break of 2018, the plenary of the European Parliament decided that the compromise brought forward by the legal affairs’ committee was not good enough. Its proposal for a...
Publication - 13 September 2018
Tags: Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Europe, Briefings, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- WLIC 2018 Kuala Lumpur presentations
At IFLA WLIC 2018 in Kuala Lumpur (Session 151), under the theme of ‘Global Action on School Library Education and Training’, the following papers were presented...
Publication - 12 September 2018
Tags: Conferences, IFLA WLIC 2018, Conference proceedings, School Libraries
- International Literacy Day 2018 - Infographic
For International Literacy Day 2018, we asked the members of IFLA's Literacy and Reading Session to share their favourite quotes about libraries and literacy. This...
Publication - 8 September 2018
Tags: International Literacy Day, Literacy, skills, Infographics, Literacy and Reading
- Creative Commons Update: IFLA WLIC 2018
With a shared commitment to acces to knowlede, the Creative Commons movement already includes many librarians. The IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2018 provided an...
Publication - 29 August 2018
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, Reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- IFLA Statement on Copyright Education and Copyright Literacy (2018)
Copyright has a decisive role on what libraries and their users can do with works to which they have access. However, librarians' knowledge of the law can play just as important a role,...
Publication - 27 August 2018
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Copyright Literacy, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Rare Books and Special Collections Section - IFLA Global Vision Discussion, 2018
How a united library field can tackle the challenges of the future: Ideas for actions On 4 June – 14 June 2018, by email and online, 18 members from the Rare Books and Special...
Publication - 27 August 2018
Tags: Rare books and manuscripts, Reports, Rare Books and Special Collections
- Rare Books and Special Collections Action Plan 2016-2017
Our Action Plan 2016-2017 outlines the key objectives for our Section. Take a look at our News feed to read updates on our progress. A report on these activities will be made...
Publication - 27 August 2018
Tags: Action plans, Rare books and manuscripts, Rare Books and Special Collections
- Rare Books and Special Collections Annual Report 2016-2017
Our Annual Report records our achievements and progress in relation to our Action Plan for the working year of 2017-2017. Read our Action Plan for the past year to see what we...
Publication - 27 August 2018
Tags: Rare books and manuscripts, Annual reports, Rare Books and Special Collections
- Getting Started with the Marrakesh Treaty - a Guide for Librarians
The Marrakesh Treaty entered into force in September 2016, faster than any other international copyright text in the last 40 years. It promises to remove some of the key...
Publication - 27 August 2018
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Libraries serving persons with print disabilities, Library services to people with disabilities, Marrakesh Treaty, Services to the visually impaired, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Toolkits
- IFLA Statement on Fake News
The phenomenon of ‘fake news’ has risen to prominence in many countries, regularly appearing in political debate. IFLA is concerned by the risk that this can pose to access to...
Publication - 25 August 2018
Tags: Access to information, fake news, Information Literacy, Media and Information Literacy, Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Data and the Sustainable Development Goals - IFLA Briefing
A key feature of the UN's 2030 Agenda is its data framework. This provides indicators associated with each of the 169 targets, making it possible to track progress over time. These...
Publication - 23 August 2018
Tags: Development, Libraries, Development and the United Nations 2030 Agenda, sustainable development goals, United Nations, Briefings, LDP (Library Development Programme)
- IFLA IAP Global Convening (2018)
IFLA held the International Advocacy Programme Global Convening on 28-29 June in New York, United States. The event as a whole provided an opportunity to look back on...
Publication - 23 August 2018
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Development, IAP, International Advocacy Programme, Libraries for development, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, Conference proceedings
- IFLA IAP Global Convening: SDGs - Looking Ahead (2018)
During the International Advocacy Programme Global Convening, held in New York on 28-29 June 2018, IFLA offered a presentation about expected events in the coming year at the United Nations...
Publication - 23 August 2018
Tags: Access to information, Development, Libraries, Development and the United Nations 2030 Agenda, sustainable development goals, United Nations, Conference proceedings, LDP (Library Development Programme)
- Libraries and the 2030 Agenda in 2019 - A Timeline
2019 will be a big year at the UN. The regular regional and global forum and voluntary national reviews taking a specific focus on education, employment, equality and access to...
Publication - 23 August 2018
Tags: Access to information, Development, Libraries, Development and the United Nations 2030 Agenda, Sustainable development, United Nations, Infographics, LDP (Library Development Programme)
- IFLA Guidelines for Library Services to Children aged 0-18 / revised version 2018
The IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section (C&YA Section) have undertaken this revision of the Guidelines for Children's Libraries Services, last published in 2003,...
Publication - 22 August 2018
Tags: Children, Guidelines, guidelines for childrens libraries, Management, Young adults, Guidelines, Standards, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- ENSULIB Annual Reports
Annual Reports 2019-20 2018-19 2017-18 2016-17
Publication - 21 August 2018
Tags: Annual reports, Environment, Sustainability and Libraries
- Mid-Term Conference in Barcelona, April 22-23, 2010
Mid-Term Conference: Case Studies in Government Libraries Museu d'Història de Catalunya 3 Plaça Pau Vila (Palau de Mar building) Auditorium (4th floor) 08003...
Publication - 16 August 2018
Tags: Publications
- How Libraries Provide Safe Spaces for (All) Youth
On International Youth Day 2018, IFLA released a paper exploring how libraries are working to provide safe spaces for youth. In doing so, they offer useful lessons on how to overcome the...
Publication - 12 August 2018
Tags: Access to information, Homelessness, LGBTQ, young adults, Youth involvement, Briefings, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- Briefing on International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019
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)
- Get into the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
In 10 December, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will turn 70. This is a major opportunity both to celebrate this key document and raise awareness of its messages. In...
Publication - 8 August 2018
Tags: Access to information, Education, Human rights, Privacy in libraries, Briefings, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Background Paper on Extended Collective Licensing
The IFLA background paper on extended collective licensing presents examples of extended collective licensing systems under several jurisdictions. Reports from Canada, China, France, Germany, the...
Publication - 7 August 2018
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Digitisation, Licensing, Reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Libraries overcome barriers to access to culture
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
- Get Into Blue Shield Guide
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
- IFLA Guide to Voluntary National Reviews
A key pillar of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda, alongside the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, is an ongoing review of implementation. Central to this is the process of...
Publication - 16 July 2018
Tags: Access to information, sustainable development goals, Briefings, LDP (Library Development Programme)
- International Advocacy Programme (IAP) Brochure
The IFLA International Advocacy Programme is a capacity-building programme by IFLA, designed to promote and support the role libraries can play in the implementation of the United Nations 2030...
Publication - 15 July 2018
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, DA2I, Development, IAP, Libraries for development, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, LDP (Library Development Programme), Leaflets
- IFLA's comments on the Australian Copyright Modernisation Review
Australia is looking at reviewing its Copyright Act of 1968 with the aim of bringing its copyright framework up to date with the digital world. The government consulted on a few specific...
Publication - 5 July 2018
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Australia, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Publications
- Article 13 and Its Implications for Freedom of Expression
Article 13 is a key element of the EU draft Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. As such, it needs careful analysis and consideration given the threats it poses...
Publication - 3 July 2018
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Copyright, Copyright, Europe, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Briefings, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- The Limits of Licensing: A Literature Review (Infographic)
IFLA commissed a review of the available literature on the limits of licensing as a means of giving access to knowledge, in order better to understand the feasibility of universal licensing based...
Publication - 29 June 2018
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Studies
- Net Neutrality Toolkit
Net neutrality refers to the principle that all data or traffic on the Internet should be treated equally. As set out in the IFLA Statement of 2016, unjustified discrimination can lead to certain...
Publication - 28 June 2018
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Net neutrality, Net Neutrality, Toolkits, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA KM, ADVOCACY, & the UN-SDGs 2030 Paper
KM, ADVOCACY, & the UN-SDGs 2030: Advocating for the role of Knowledge Management (KM) in organizations as the catalyst for supporting the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals...
Publication - 25 June 2018
Tags: Knowledge management, Publications, Knowledge Management
- IFLA Knowledge Management and Libraries Advocacy Paper
IFLA Knowledge Management Librariers and Advocacy Paper
Publication - 25 June 2018
Tags: Publications
- Get into IGF
The Internet is increasingly central to the way we create, share, access and use information. For libraries to be able to achieve their mission of providing universal, equitable and meaningful...
Publication - 21 June 2018
Tags: Access to information, Internet governance, Internet Governance Forum, Briefings, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Sanctuary, Storehouse, Gateway, Bridge: Libraries and Refugees - a Briefing
Libraries have long played a role in supporting marginalised groups, with refugees and other newcomers just one example of those who benefit from the access to information they provide. On World...
Publication - 20 June 2018
Tags: Access to information, Immigrants, Refugees, Briefings, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- Quotes from Member States at the 36th meeting of WIPO's SCCR
United Nations Member States said positive things bout libraries at the 36th meeting of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR, World Intellectual Property Organisation, WIPO...
Publication - 19 June 2018
Tags: Advocacy, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Update on the status of transposition of the Marrakesh Directive in Europe on 14 June 2018
On the occasion of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 12-14 June 2018, IFLA wished to underline the positive progress that is taking place within the European Union...
Publication - 14 June 2018
Tags: Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Briefings, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- NOIR SIG Annual Reports
2016-2017
Publication - 13 June 2018
Tags: Annual reports, National Organizations and International Relations (NOIR)
- IFLA's Response to UNESCO Consultation on Open Educational Resources
UNESCO – the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organisation – has become an important player in the field of open educational resources. At its 39th General Conference in...
Publication - 4 June 2018
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Education, Open access, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Publications
- Digital Humanities Satellite Meeting August 2017
Presentations are available below and here is a brief report of the conference. More information in the Academic and Research Libraries Section.
Publication - 27 May 2018
Tags: Conference proceedings, Digital Humanities – Digital Scholarship
- IFLAPARL Pre-Conference, Warsaw, 2017
The first day was organised by the Polish Parliament, who had the opportunity to present their organisation, legislative process and research/information output. SESSION I:...
Publication - 23 May 2018
Tags: Communications, Education and training, Meetings, Professional development, Conference proceedings, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- IFLAPARL Pre-Conference, Washington, DC [2016]
The IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments held its 32nd pre-conference in Washington, D.C, 10-12 August 2016, hosted by the U.S. Library of Congress. 143 participants...
Publication - 23 May 2018
Tags: Communications, Education and training, Meetings, Professional development, Conference proceedings, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- IFLAPARL Pre-Conference, Cape Town [2015]
The IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments held its 31st pre-conference in Cape Town, 12-14 August, 2015, hosted by the Parliament of South Africa. About 100...
Publication - 23 May 2018
Tags: Communications, Education and training, Meetings, Professional development, Conference proceedings, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- IFLAPARL Pre-Conference, Singapore [2013]
Links to photos: By the National Library Board Singapore | By Karel Sosna, Parliamentary Library, Czech Republic The IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for...
Publication - 23 May 2018
Tags: Communications, Education and training, Meetings, Professional development, Conference proceedings, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- IFLAPARL Pre-Conference, Helsinki [2012]
The IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments held its 28th annual pre-conference, 8-10 August 2012, in advance of the 2012 IFLA Congress in Finland. More...
Publication - 23 May 2018
Tags: Communications, Education and training, Meetings, Professional development, Conference proceedings, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- IFLAPARL Pre-Conference, Paris [2014]
Links to photographs: By Karel Sosna, Parliamentary Library, Czech Republic By Ross Becker: Pre-Conference | Management Workshop The IFLA Section on...
Publication - 23 May 2018
Tags: Communications, Education and training, Meetings, Professional development, Conference proceedings, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- Library Services to People with Disabilities - IFLA Contribution to UN Report
As part of its engagement in the UN initaitive on Monitoring and Evaluation for Disability-Inclusive Development, IFLA's section on Libraries Serving Users with Special Needs carried out a...
Publication - 23 May 2018
Tags: Access to information, Library services to people with disabilities, Print disabilities, Sustainable Development Agenda, Reports, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- 2017:Wroclaw,19–25 August
Publication - 17 May 2018
Tags: Publications
- Libraries and Good Governance
There is increasing awareness that sustainable development requires effective government. Libraries have a major role to play in delivering this, as part of their broader mission to provide access...
Publication - 11 May 2018
Tags: Access to information, government accountability, Government information, Transparency, Briefings, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Declaración del Secretario General de la IFLA en la reforma mexicana de derechos de autor
En nombre de las bibliotecas y sus usuarios en México y en todo el mundo, considero preocupante el texto del proyecto de ley recientemente votado en el Senado mexicano. El texto en cuesti...
Publication - 4 May 2018
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Censorship, Copyright, Mexico, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- IFLA Secretary General's Statement on the Mexican copyright reform (2018)
On behalf of libraries and their users in Mexico and around the world, I am concerned to hear about a reform recently voted in the Mexican Senate. The law in question would allow for articles,...
Publication - 4 May 2018
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Censorship, Copyright, Mexico, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- IFLA Webinar: General Data Protection Regulation: What Do the New EU Rules Mean for Libraries?
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation enters into force on 25 May, bringing with it significant changes in the rules around how personal data is collected, managed and used...
Publication - 2 May 2018
Tags: Access to information, Data management, Europe, Privacy in libraries, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Webinars
- Hot topics session at IFLA Congress, Lyon 2014
Slides from Hot Topics sessions, IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2014, Lyon, France. Radical collaboration - libraries working together in new ways James G Neal...
Publication - 1 May 2018
Tags: Academic and Research Libraries, Conferences, France, Hot Topics, Open access, radical change, WLIC2014, Conference proceedings
- Hot Topics 2015 - Library support for researchers
Riding the "cycle": librarians facilitating research Peter Sidorko Collections and content centered stewardship as an important paradigm in library services supporting the...
Publication - 1 May 2018
Tags: Academic and Research Libraries, Academic and research libraries, Africa, WLIC2015, Conference proceedings
- Research in the big data era: legal, social and technical approaches to large text and data sets (2014)
Slide presentations from the 2014 joint session in Lyon from ARL, Serials and Other Continuing Resources, and Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM) are now available....
Publication - 1 May 2018
Tags: Academic and Research Libraries, Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM), Data management, France, humanities, Serials and Other Continuing Resources, WLIC2014, Satellite Meeting papers/presentations
- Latin America and the Caribbean Section Presentations
Acceso a la información jurídica, certeza jurídica y ejercicio de derechos - Santiago, Chile 2017 Bibliotecario en línea: acortando brechas en el acceso a...
Publication - 27 April 2018
Tags: Conference proceedings, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Latin America and the Caribbean Section Videos
Events Interview with Sueli Mara Ferreira - Panamá, 2016 Interview with Glòria Perez Salmerón - Panamá, 2016 IFLA LAC Satellite Meeting,...
Publication - 27 April 2018
Tags: Videos, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Découvrir l'OMPI
Afin de promouvoir un régime de droit d'auteur équilibré, L'IFLA collabore de forme étroite avec l'Organisation Mondiale de la Propriét...
Publication - 25 April 2018
Tags: Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Resource Guides, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Descubrir la OMPI
La IFLA participa en la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI), la agencia de las Naciones Unidas a cargo de aprobar normas y recomendaciones a nivel internacional...
Publication - 25 April 2018
Tags: Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Resource Guides, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Get Into WIPO Guide
IFLA works closely with the World Intellectual Property Organisaiton (WIPO) - the UN agency in charge of making rules and recommendations internationally on copyright...
Publication - 25 April 2018
Tags: Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Resource Guides, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Minutes of Meetings
2016: Division Leadership Forum – Library Services, Division III 14 August, Columbus, Ohio 2015: Division III Skype meeting 14 October 2015 2015: Division...
Publication - 24 April 2018
Tags: Leadership forum, Minutes of Meetings, Library Services
- Minutes of Meetings
Division II Meeting Agenda and Minutes 24th, August, 2019 -- Division Leadership Forum: Minutes 21st, January, 2019 -- Online Meeting: Minutes 25th, August,...
Publication - 24 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Library Collections
- Minutes of Meetings
2018: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Division I Leadership Forum) 2017: Wrocław, Poland (Division I Leadership Forum) 2016: Columbus, Ohio, USA (Division I meeting...
Publication - 24 April 2018
Tags: Leadership forum, Minutes, Minutes of Meetings, Library Types
- Copyright Matters for School Libraries
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Infographics, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Copyright Matters for Public Libraries
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, eLending, eLending for Libraries, Infographics, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Minutes of Meetings
Minutes of the Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group Business meetings. 2015 Cape Town, South Africa 2016 Columbus, Ohio, USA
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Agricultural Libraries, Minutes of Meetings
- Minutes of Meetings
2019: Athens, Greece 2018: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2017: Wrocław, Poland 2016: Columbus, Ohio, USA 2015: Cape Town, South...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Subject Analysis and Access
- Minutes of Meetings (Updated February 2019)
2018: August, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2018: January, Mid-term meeting (Zoom) 2017: August, Wroclaw, Poland 2016: August, Colombus, United States...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Statistics and Evaluation
- Minutes of Meetings
This year's meeting minutes: WLIC was conference cancelled due to coronavirus, 2020. Online meeting minutes for 2020: April | August | October...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Social Science Libraries
- Minutes of Meetings
2019 Athens, Greece 2018 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2017 Wroclaw, Poland 2016 Columbus, Ohio, USA 2016 Mid-year virtual meeting Mar. 21 2016 2015 Cape...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Serials and Other Continuing Resources
- Minutes of Meetings
2017: Wroclaw, Poland 2016: Columbus, Ohio, USA 2015: Cape Town, South Africa 2014: Lyon, France 2013: Singapore 2012: Helsinki, Finland...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Science and Technology Libraries
- Minutes of Meetings
2019 Mid Term Meeting Guangzhou 2018 August Kuala Lumpur 2018 May Mid Term Meeting Lyon 2017 August Wroclaw 2017 April Mid Term Meeting...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, School Libraries
- Minutes of Meetings
Minutes, Athens, August 2019 (SC 2) Minutes, Athens, August 2019 (SC 1) Minutes, Kuala Lumpur, August 2018 Minutes, Wroclaw, August...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Reference and Information Services
- Minutes of Meetings
2018 Midterm Oslo 2017 Wroclaw 2016 Columbus 2016 Midterm Lisbon 2015 Cape Town 2015 Midterm London 2014 Lyon 2013 Singapore...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Rare Books and Special Collections
- Minutes of Meetings
2019: Tampere, March mid-term 2018: Kuala Lumpur, August 2018: Den Haag, March mid-term 2017: Wroclaw, Poland, August 2017: Sydney...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Public Libraries
- Meeting Minutes
Business Meetings 58th Meeting, Zoom Call, December 2020 57th Meeting, Zoom Call, September 2020 56th Meeting, Zoom Call, July 2020 55th Meeting, Zoom Call,...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, News Media
- Minutes of Meetings
2020: Mid-term meeting, Online 2019: 1st meeting, Athens, Greece 2019: 2nd meeting, Athens, Greece 2018: 2nd meeting, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2018: 1st...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, National Libraries
- Minutes of Meetings
2019 Athens: August 28 Helsinki: May 10 2018 Kuala Lumpur: August 24 Belgrade: May 15 2017 Wrocław...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Metropolitan Libraries
- MLAS Meeting Minutes
MLAS Zoom Meeting November 2020 MLAS Zoom Meeting August 2020 MLAS Zoom Meeting April 2020 MLAS Mid-Year Meeting, Chicago, February 2020 MLAS Zoom...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Management of Library Associations
- Minutes of Meetings
2020: June Virtual Business Meetings 2020: Ottawa, Canada 2019: Athens, Greece 2019: Stockholm, Sweden 2018:...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Management and Marketing
- Minutes of Meetings
2020: SC Zoom Meeting August 2019: SC Meeting, Athens, Greece 2018: SC Meeting, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2017: SC Meeting, Wroclaw,...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Literacy and Reading
- Minutes of Meetings
2019 Athens, Greece, 24 and 27 August 2018 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 24 and 27 August 2017 Warsaw,...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- Minutes of Meetings
Midterm meeting, Mexico city, Mexico, 6 March 2020 Athens, Greece, August 24 and August 26 2019 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 24 and August 28...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Library Theory and Research
- Minutes of Meetings
Sofia, 2019 March (PDF) Kuala Lumpur, 2018 August (PDF) Oslo, 2018 March (PDF) (HTML) Wroclaw, 2017 August (PDF) (HTML...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- Minutes
2020 2020: Mid-year meeting, Online, 20 April 2019 2019: Athens Conference, 24-30 August 2019: Mid-year meeting, Colorado Springs, USA, 14-16 March...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Library Services to Multicultural Populations
- Minutes of Meetings
2017 Wroclaw, Poland, August 2016 Columbus (OH), USA, August 2015: Cape Town, South Africa, August 2014: Lyon, France, August 2013: Singapore,...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Library Buildings and Equipment
- Minutes of Meetings
2019 WLIC: Athens, Greece draft 2019 March: Tokyo, Japan 2018 WLIC: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2018 April: Firenze, Italy 2017 WLIC: Wroclaw,...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- Minutes of Meetings
2019: Athens, Greece 2019: Helsinki, Finland 2018: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2018: Midyear Meeting, Brussels, Belgium 2017: Wroclaw, Poland...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Minutes of Meetings
2020: Conference cancelled. Zoom meeting SC I: English SC II: English SC III: English 2019: Athens, Greece SC I: ...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Law Libraries
- Minutes of Meetings
2020, November 2020, September 2020, July 2020, May 2020, March 2020, Febrauary 2020, January 2019,...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Minutes of Meetings
2020: March Midterm Meeting and Virtual Business Meeting 2019: Athens, Greece 2018: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2017: Wrocław, Poland 2016: ...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Knowledge Management
- Agendas & Minutes of Meetings
Online business meetings - 2020 Athens 2019 Kuala Lumpur 2018 Wroclaw 2017 Columbus 2016 Capetown 2015 Lyon 2014 Singapore 2013...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Information Technology
- Minutes of Meetings
2019: August, Athens 2018: August, Kuala Lumpur 2016: August, Columbus 2015: August, Cape Town 2014: August, Lyon 2013: August,...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Information Literacy
- Minutes of Meetings
2018 : Kuala Lumpur: 1st meeting | 2nd meeting 2017 : Wroclaw :1st meeting | 2nd meeting 2016 : Columbus :1st meeting | 2nd...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Health and Biosciences Libraries
- Minutes of Meetings
2019: Athens, Greece - 1st Meeting 2019: Athens, Greece - 2nd Meeting 2018: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Two meetings...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Government Libraries
- Minutes of Meetings
2020 Virtual Business Meeting 2019 Athens 2018 Kuala Lumpur 2017 Wroclaw 2016 Columbus 2015: Cape Town 2014: Lyon 2013:...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Government Information and Official Publications
- Minutes of Meetings
2020, May 7, Via Zoom 2019, Athens, Greece 2016,Columbus, USA 2015, Cape Town, South Africa 2014 Lyon, France 2013 Singapore...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Local History and Genealogy
- Minutes of Meetings
SET Committee members 2019 in Athens Greece Apr 2020 Zoom Virtual Meeting Feb. 2020 Zoom Virtual Meeting Athens, Greece, August 2019 1st...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Education and Training
- Minutes of Meetings
2017: Minutes - Wroclaw, August: Meeting 1 | Meeting 2 2016: Minutes - Columbus, August: Meeting 1 | Meeting 2 2015: Minutes - Special Meeting in Istanbul, October:...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing
- Minutes of CPDWL Meetings
Current 2021 Mid-year Online Business Meetings [Draft] Archive 2020 Online Business Meeting 2020 Mid-year Virtual Meeting 2019 Athens,...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
- Minutes of Meetings
2021: January, Virtual (Meeting January 29) 2020: August, Virtual 2019: August, Athens, Greece 2018: August, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2017: August, Wroclaw,...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Bibliography
- Minutes of Meetings
Athens, Greece, August 2019 Zoom meeeting, April 2019 (Midterm) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 2018 Martigues, France, March 2018 (Midterm) Wroclaw, Poland...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Audiovisual and Multimedia
- Minutes of Meetings
2020: Via Zoom, 10 November Agenda RSCAO Business Meeting 2020 2020: Via Zoom, Minutes of RSCAO Mid Term Meeting 17 March 2020 2020: Via Zoom,...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Asia and Oceania, Minutes of Meetings
- Minutes of Meetings
2019 Athens: 24 th and 17th August 2018 Kuala Lumpur: 24th and 27th August 2017 Wroclaw: 19th and 24th August 2016 Columbus: 13th...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Art Libraries, Minutes of Meetings
- Minutes of Meetings
2016 Gaborone Botswana 2015 Nakuru Kenya 2014 Lyon,France 2014 Kumasi, Ghana 2013 Singapore 2012 Bulawayo Zimbabwe
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Africa, Minutes of Meetings
- Minutes of Meetings
2019 IFLA WLIC Athens Greece (Business Meeting, 27 August) 2019 IFLA WLIC Athens Greece (Business Meeting, 24 August) 2018 IFLA WLIC Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 2017 IFLA...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Acquisition and Collection Development, Minutes of Meetings
- Minutes of Meetings
2019 Athens, Greece 2 2019 Athens, Greece 1 2018 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2 2018 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1 2017, Wrocław Poland 2 2016, Columbus USA 2...
Publication - 23 April 2018
Tags: Academic and Research Libraries, Minutes of Meetings
- IFLA Amendments to Draft EU Regulation on Imports of Cultural Goods
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
- Implementing the IFLA School Library Guidelines (workshop materials)
The IASL / IFLA Joint Committee has developed a set of workshop materials based on the IFLA School Library Guidelines, 2nd edition. This project is realised under the...
Publication - 18 April 2018
Tags: guidelines, school librarian, school library, Standards, Guidelines, Publications, School Libraries
- Comments by IFLA to the Colombian Bill 206-2018 (copyright reform)
Click on the image to access the full document (only available in Spanish). For more details on the context of the document, see the newspiece.
Publication - 17 April 2018
Tags: Advocacy, Colombia, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Briefings, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Comentarios de la IFLA al Proyecto de Ley 206-2018 de Colombia (reforma de derechos de autor)
Para más detalles sobre el contexto de este documento, ver la noticia aquí.
Publication - 17 April 2018
Tags: Advocacy, Colombia, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Briefings, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Libraries and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Storytelling Manual
Storytelling is all about engagement, using the power of words to create empathy, loyalty and aspiration. By telling stories, based on solid evidence, we can win over hearts and minds,...
Publication - 10 April 2018
Tags: Advocacy, Development, IAP, ILP, Libraries for development, Library Map of the World, Storytelling, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, Publications
- IFLA Response to Consultation on the Right to Privacy in the Digital Age
In response to a call for evidence on the Right to Privacy in the Digital Age, from the UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy, IFLA provided an answer highlighting the importance of privacy for...
Publication - 10 April 2018
Tags: Access to information, Intellectual freedom, Privacy in libraries, Reports, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- WiFi4EU... and for Libraries
WiFi4EU is an initiative of the European Commission which promises to expand significantly access to public WiFi around the European Union, with a budget of €120 million. Libraries...
Publication - 6 April 2018
Tags: Access to information, Europe, Internet access, Public Access, Briefings, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Attending International Meetings: A Playbook
International meetings, for example those organised by the United Nations on the Sustainable Development Goals, can be a great opportunity to let decision-makers know about the potential of...
Publication - 5 April 2018
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Development, Briefings, LDP (Library Development Programme)
- Press Release: Supporting Quality Information: Libraries and Publishers Dialogue (2018)
The Hague, Geneva, Oxford, 15th March 2018 — Libraries and publishers both play an essential role in the production of, and the provision of access to, creativity and knowledge. In their...
Publication - 15 March 2018
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Preservation, WIPO, Press Release, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- European copyright reform: Performing for Libraries?
The European Union is in the process of reforming its copyright law. The reforms set out the ambitious goal of bringing the regime up to date with the digital age, with rules affecting libraries...
Publication - 8 March 2018
Tags: Copyright, Infographics, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Disaster Risk Response – A brief on Libraries and the Sendai Framework
Libraries have a duty to preserve our cultural heritage and make it accessible to the public, in order to inform and inspire future generations. Though many libraries already have disaster plans...
Publication - 7 March 2018
Tags: Briefings
- Fair use and fair dealing for libraries
Copyright is present in many librarians’ everyday work. Even when it is complicated and unnecessarily burdensome, librarians need to be able to deal with the laws they have in order...
Publication - 28 February 2018
Tags: Fair dealling, Fair use, Infographics, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Management of Library Associations Annual Report 2016-2017
Results These are the activities completed during this period: Hosted a mid-term meeting in April 2017 in Athens, attended by 12 standing committee members. Attendance of more than...
Publication - 5 February 2018
Tags: Annual reports, Management of Library Associations
- MLAS Action Plan 2018-19
The Management of Library Associations Action Plan 2018–2019 outlines the key objectives for our Section. If you have questions about our work, suggestions about what you would...
Publication - 5 February 2018
Tags: Action plans, Management of Library Associations
- Relindial Cartonera project
The “Relindial Cartonera” project is one easy way to highlight the input of libraries in the diversity dialogue. It is supposed to be driven by a librarian or a group of librarians...
Publication - 29 January 2018
Tags: Children, Religions, Resource Guides, Religions: Libraries and Dialogue
- Comments by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) to the Content Regulation in the Digital Age 2018 Human Rights Council Report
The submission is available here.
Publication - 18 January 2018
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Information society, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA Briefing: Books in Blockchains
Blockchain, highlighted in the 2016 Trend Report Update as a key emerging issue for libraries, has also increasingly grabbed popular attention. The rising value of BitCoin has been at the heart of...
Publication - 7 January 2018
Tags: Access to information, blockchain, Copyright, Exceptions and limitations, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Studies
- Global Library and Information Science, 2nd Edition
This 2nd edition of the highly successful Global Library and Information Science presents an up-to-date review of international librarianship and library science through insightful and...
Publication - 3 January 2018
Tags: Academic libraries, IFLA, LIS Education, Public Libraries, school libraries, Publications
- Out of Commerce Works - the Case for an Exception
As part of IFLA's work, alongside partner organisations, in favour of copyright reform in Europe, we have produced an infographic. This serves as a briefing note on the need to an...
Publication - 16 December 2017
Tags: Copyright, Europe, Orphan works, out of commerce works, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Toolkits
- International Advocacy Programme (IAP) Updates
The International Advocacy Programme (IAP) Update is a compilation of awareness raising and advocacy activities carried out by the library community worldwide, in the effort to...
Publication - 7 December 2017
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Development, IAP, Libraries for development, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, Newsletters
- Literacy Matters! Using research to promote literacy and reading in libraries
These research guidelines are based on the first edition of this title (Lesley Farmer and Ivanka Stricevic authors) and the draft edition reviewed by the Standing Committee of the IFLA...
Publication - 5 December 2017
Tags: Publications, Literacy and Reading
- The IFLA Scoping Workshop on Palm Leaf Manuscripts
15 experts from South and South-East Asia participated in the workshop organised by IFLA 6-7 July 2017 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to discuss the challenges concerning tools and standards for...
Publication - 23 November 2017
Tags: Publications
- FAIFE Spotlight
The FAIFE Spotlight focuses on urgent events and gives a fresh analysis of freedom of speech issues. Spotlights are written by FAIFE Committee Members, the Chair or other...
Publication - 20 November 2017
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Freedom of expression, Human rights, Reports, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Audiovisual and Multimedia Section, Action Plan 2017-2018
This document reports progress and results of our projects/activities. Please also consult our news page and social media channels for ongoing items of interest. Do please contact...
Publication - 13 November 2017
Tags: Audiovisual and Multimedia, Publications
- Webinar de la IFLA: Bibliotecas, derecho de autor y la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual
El día 1 de noviembre, la IFLA organizó un webinar de 30 minutos sobre las actuales discusiones ante la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual alrededor del...
Publication - 3 November 2017
Tags: CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Webinars
- IFLA Webinar: Libraries, Copyright and the World Intellectual Property Organisation
On 1 November, IFLA offered a 30-minute webinar to discuss about the current discussions around libraries at the World Intellectual Property Organisation. WIPO’s Standing Committee...
Publication - 2 November 2017
Tags: CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Webinars
- Serials and Other Continuing Resources Annual Report 2017-2018
Promote the importance of best practices in serials and other continuing resources including e-resources The SOCRS 2018 Open Program on Scholarly Communications was well received and...
Publication - 2 November 2017
Tags: Annual reports, Serials and Other Continuing Resources
- Serials and Other Continuing Resources Action Plan 2018-2019
Monitor, report and promote standards and the importance of best practices in scholarly communication and continuing resources Plan and organize conference programs which will promote...
Publication - 2 November 2017
Tags: Action plans, Serials and Other Continuing Resources
- New Professionals Special Interest Group Action Plan 2017-2018
NPSIG objectives for 2017-18 are related to the following IFLA’s Strategic Directions 2016-2021 (Strategic Direction 1: Libraries in Society, Strategic Direction 2: Information and Knowledge...
Publication - 1 November 2017
Tags: Publications, New Professionals
- Library and Research Services for Parliaments Annual Report 2016/17
Our Annual Report records our achievements and progress in relation to our Action Plan for the last year. Read our Action Plan for the past year (2016/17) to see what we set out to achieve...
Publication - 1 November 2017
Tags: Annual reports, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- Public Libraries Section Action Plan 2017-2018
Public Libraries Section Action Plan 2017-2018 The Public Libraries Section is very engaged and our Action Plan outlines the key initatives for the year 2017-2018. Updates on the many...
Publication - 31 October 2017
Tags: Action plans
- IFLA Guidelines for Library Services to People Experiencing Homelessness
Introduction The IFLA Section for Library Services to People with Special Needs (LSN) focuses on those persons who, because of their living conditions and/or physical, mental, or cognitive...
Publication - 27 October 2017
Tags: Guidelines, Homelessness, IFLA standards, Libraries and homelessness, Social inclusion, Standards, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- Green Library Checklist
Sustainable buildings, equipment, and management For any construction project, just as for any complex undertaking in general, a checklist provides a useful means of confirming that...
Publication - 26 October 2017
Tags: Sustainability, Publications, Environment, Sustainability and Libraries
- Minutes of Meetings
August 2017 Minutes of the Indigenous Matters Section. IFLA 83rd World Library and Information Congress. Wrocław, Poland August 2010 Minutes of the SIG. IFLA 76th World Library...
Publication - 23 October 2017
Tags: Minutes of meetings, Minutes of Meetings, Indigenous Matters
- Comment mettre la main dessus? La documentation de l'UE: point de vue d'une bibliothèque de recherche
Publication - 19 October 2017
Tags: Academic and Research Libraries, Access to information, Conference proceedings, Publications
- How to Find It? EU documentation: perspectives from a research library
Publication - 19 October 2017
Tags: Academic and Research Libraries, Access to information, Conference proceedings, Publications
- IFLA Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices
The IFLA Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices have been prepared by the Section for Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning (CPDWL)...
Publication - 12 October 2017
Tags: Standards, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
- CPDWL Satellite Guide -- 2017 update
[PDF] CPDWL Guidelines for Satellite Meetings October 1, 2017 Ewa Stenberg and Susan Schnuer Please note that the CPDWL guidelines are based on the IFLA Guidelines for...
Publication - 10 October 2017
Tags: Resource Guides, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
- IFLA Webinar: Development and Access to Information (DA2I)
Meaningful Access to Information to Leave No One Behind To mark the second year anniversary of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), IFLA offered a 1-...
Publication - 5 October 2017
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Development, Libraries for development, Videos
- Implementing Marrakesh in Europe - A Guide
With European Union (EU) legislation implementing the Marrakesh Treaty now published, Member States now have a clear deadline for making the Treaty's provisions a reality in national law. The...
Publication - 1 October 2017
Tags: Europe, Libraries serving persons with print disabilities, Marrakesh Treaty, Print disabilities, Guidelines, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- IFLA Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices -- Posters
If you would like to translate the poster into your own language, please contact Gill Hallam for a copy of the template (email: gillian.hallam1(@)bigpond.com). English...
Publication - 22 September 2017
Tags: Best practices, Posters, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
- Annual Report 2020 | Library History Special Interest Group
Annual Report 2020 [in PDF] Annual Report 2018-2019 [in PDF] Annual Report 2017-2018 [in PDF] Annual Report 2016-2017...
Publication - 14 September 2017
Tags: Archives, Conferences, Cultural heritage, History of Librarianship, Library history, Library History, Annual reports, Library History
- Action Plan 2020-2021 | Library History Special Interest Group
Action Plan 2020-2021 [in PDF] Action Plan 2019-2020 [in PDF] Action Plan 2018-2019 [in PDF] Action Plan 2017-2018...
Publication - 14 September 2017
Tags: Action plans, Archives, Conferences, Cultural heritage, History of Librarianship, Library History, Library History
- Video Production Workshop
This presentation, a link at the end, was used at the workshop on Video production. Informing, communicating and disseminating knowledge using audio-visual content during WLIC2017 in Wroclaw,...
Publication - 7 September 2017
Tags: Access to information, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Communications, Communities of practice, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Freedom of information, Information technology, Open source, Professional development, Social inclusion, Resource Guides
- Erklärung der IFLA zu digitaler Kompetenz (18. August 2017)
Digital technologies have dramatically changed our lives. However, the physical access to these tools alone does not guarantee that virtually all people can take full advantage of the...
Publication - 27 August 2017
Tags: Access to knowledge, Digital divide, digital literacy, Information literacy, Literacy, Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA Statement on Digital Literacy (18 August 2017)
Digital technologies have dramatically transformed our lives. Yet even with physical access to these tools[1], it is not a given that all can take full advantage of the opportunities created to...
Publication - 22 August 2017
Tags: Access to knowledge, Digital divide, digital literacy, Information literacy, Literacy, Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA Resource Pack on Digital Literacy
Accompanying IFLA's Statement on Digital Literacy, we have also produced a resource pack including many examples of libraries which are already working to deliver digital literacy on the...
Publication - 22 August 2017
Tags: Publications
- IFLA Statement on Internet Shutdowns: Further Resources
To accompany IFLA's Statement on Internet Shutdowns, we have produced a list of further sources of information on the topic for anyone interested in learning more. This is a living list -...
Publication - 20 August 2017
Tags: Publications
- The Limits of Licensing: A Literature Review
IFLA commissed a review of the available literature on the limits of licensing as a means of giving access to knowledge, in order better to understand the feasibility of universal licensing based...
Publication - 20 August 2017
Tags: Access to knowledge, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Licences, licensing, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Studies
- The Limits of Licensing: A Literature Review (Executive Summary)
Alongside the Literature Review on the Limits of Licensing, IFLA has produced an executive summary. This is available to download as a pdf.
Publication - 20 August 2017
Tags: Access to knowledge, Copyright, Digital resources, Licences, Licensing, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Studies
- Libraries Fighting Fake News: Uses of the IFLA Infographic
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
- LSN annual report 2015-2016
This annual report is based on the LSN 2014 – 2019 Strategic Plan and relates to activities from September 2015 to August 2016 Our action plan for 2016-2017 is available on our...
Publication - 17 August 2017
Tags: Library services to people with disabilities, Services to the visually impaired, Social inclusion, Annual reports, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- LSN Action plan 2016-2017
Summary of LSN Action Plan Progress March, 2017 The IFLA Section, Library Services to People with Special Needs (LSN), submitted an action plan to IFLA with five objectives. ...
Publication - 17 August 2017
Tags: Action plans, Library services to people with disabilities, Social inclusion, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- Development and Access to Information (DA2I) Report 2017
Development and Access to Information (DA2I) 2017 is the first of a series of reports that monitor the progress countries are making towards fulfilling their commitment to promote meaningful...
Publication - 14 August 2017
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, DA2I, Development, HLPF, Libraries for development, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, Reports
- New Professionals Special Interest Group Annual Report 2016-2017
NPSIG objectives To empower new professionals to be involved in their national associations and with IFLA to become new local and international leaders. To...
Publication - 14 August 2017
Tags: Publications, New Professionals
- Get into GAPMIL
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
- IFLA Statement: No Development Without Access to Information - We Need Alternatives to Internet Shut-Downs (2017)
The library profession is strongly committed to protecting and delivering not only access to information, but also the benefits it can bring. Multiple human rights depend on it: freedom of...
Publication - 10 August 2017
Tags: Access to information, Development, Internet access, Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- 2017 Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship SIG Action Plan
Objective 1 Provide a globally engaged DH/DS forum among IFLA communities for exploring, developing and exchange ideas and best practices regarding DH/DS in the context of libraries...
Publication - 8 August 2017
Tags: Action plans, Digital Humanities – Digital Scholarship
- PAC Centre Annual Reports 2016
Annual Reports covering the period July 2016 - June 2017 as submitted by the PAC Centres. PAC Centre for the US and Canada PAC Centre for the Caribbean...
Publication - 7 August 2017
Tags: Conservation, Preservation, Annual reports
- Preserving cultural heritage: an IFLA guide
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)
- Data Protection in the EU: What Does it Mean for Libraries? (briefing)
The EU’s new data protection rules come into force in less than a year, with strong penalties for organisations that do not comply. While libraries are committed to respecting their users...
Publication - 3 August 2017
Tags: data protection, Privacy, Toolkits, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA Statement on Technological Protection Measures, and the Proposed Integration of Encrypted Media Extensions into the HTML Standard (16 July 2017)
Digital channels are becoming ever more dominant as a means of sharing and accessing content. They bring a speed and simplicity of use, at near-zero marginal costs, that have brought us much...
Publication - 24 July 2017
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- L’Atelier « l’Open Accès à l’Information Juridique », Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 29 et 30 mai 2017
L’atelier pour les professionnels de la documentation juridique d’Afrique francophone (conservateurs, bibliothécaires, documentalistes, archivistes) a été organis...
Publication - 27 June 2017
Tags: Access to information, Côte d'Ivoire, Legal Information, Open access, Publications, Law Libraries
- IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM)
The model IFLA LRM is a high-level conceptual reference model developed within an entity-relationship modelling framework. It is the consolidation of the separately developed IFLA...
Publication - 22 May 2017
Tags: FRBR LRM, Cataloguing, Standards
- Definition of PRESSoo: A conceptual model for Bibliographic Information Pertaining to Serials and Other Continuing Resources
PRESSoo PRESSOO is a formal ontology designed to represent the bibliographic information about continuing resources, and more specifically about serials (journals, newspapers,...
Publication - 22 May 2017
Tags: PRESSoo CIDOC CRM FRBR, Bibliographic Conceptual Models (BCM), Standards
- Fostering Global Communication Among Religions and Libraries
Relindial and the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) welcomed attendees to a timely discussion on Fostering Global Communication Among Religions and Libraries. A majority of...
Publication - 2 May 2017
Tags: Satellite Meeting papers/presentations, Religions: Libraries and Dialogue
- Guidelines for Audiovisual and Multimedia Collection Management in Libraries
This set of Guidelines updates the IFLA Audiovisual and Multimedia Section (AVMS) Guidelines document originally developed and shared in 1982 and updated in 2003.The scope of consideration and...
Publication - 2 May 2017
Tags: Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Guidelines
- Rare Books and Special Collections Annual Report 2006-2014
2014 2013 2011-2012 2010-2011 2009-2010 2008-2009 2006-2007
Publication - 24 April 2017
Tags: Annual reports, Rare Books and Special Collections
- Declaración de Valparaíso
[PDF] Biblioteca del Congreso de la Nación Argentina Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile Dirección General de Servicios de Documentación,...
Publication - 3 April 2017
Tags: Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section, LDP (Library Development Programme), Statements
- Valparaíso Declaration
[PDF] The Library of Congress of the Argentine Nation The Library of the National Congress of Chile The General Directorate of Documentation, Information and Analysis...
Publication - 2 April 2017
Tags: Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section, LDP (Library Development Programme), Statements
- Access to Information Network- Africa (ATINA) Action Plan
Publication - 27 March 2017
Tags: Access to Information Network - Africa (ATINA), Publications
- Access to Legal Knowledge Workshop (Kampala, Uganda)
On December 6 & 7, 2016, IFLA’s Law Library Section in cooperation with the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) and William S. Hein & Co., organized a workshop on Open...
Publication - 27 March 2017
Tags: Africa, Open access, Publications, Law Libraries
- Report on IFLA 2016 in Columbus, Ohio, USA
Several thousand members of the world library community came together in Columbus, Ohio, in mid-August when the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) held its...
Publication - 15 March 2017
Tags: Access to Justice, Digital age, Internet Policy, Library outreach, Open access, Privacy Law, Rule of Law, Annual reports, Law Libraries
- Poster for Poster Session at 2015 WLIC (Cape Town, South Africa)
Reinventing Legal Research Instruction: Librarians Teach Future Lawyers to Find the Law. This poster presents information about an innovative new curriculum developed and put into practice by...
Publication - 13 March 2017
Tags: Collaborative Learning, Information literacy, Instruction, Legal Research, Publications
- Poster for Poster Session at 2014 WLIC (Lyon, France)
Keeping the Law Safe: Librarians Advocating for Digital Authentication in the United States. Governments around the world are creating online versions of their primary legal sources (such as...
Publication - 13 March 2017
Tags: Authentication, Electronic Documents, Legal Information, Legal Sources, Open access, U.S. Uniform Law Commission, UELMA, Uniform Law, United States, Publications
- Means, Don (2016): “Reaching the Rest of Us: Public Spectrum for Public Access” - Libraries lead in providing public access via TV WhiteSpace to help bring billions of new users into global digital conversation
A paper by Don Means (2016) presented at IFLA WLIC 2016 in Columbus, OH, in the session Connections. Collaboration. Community in Session 81 - Division III Programme. Don Means...
Publication - 13 March 2017
Tags: Access to information, dc-pal, Digital divide, Information society, Public Access, Congress papers
- Satellite meeting 10-11 August 2016: Up Up and Away: High density storage for library materials
1) Comprehensive Preservation Environments: Site-wide Resource Management and Conservation Outcomes for ReCAP by Jacob Nadal 2) Managing Competing Interests with Off-Site Storage by...
Publication - 3 March 2017
Tags: Publications, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Definition of FRBRoo: A Conceptual Model for Bibliographic Information in Object-Oriented Formalism
FRBRoo FRBROO is an ontology or high-level conceptual model for bibliographic data. It is described in the document: Definition of FRBROO : a Conceptual Model...
Publication - 2 March 2017
Tags: CIDOC CRM, Conceptual models, FRAD; FRSAD, FRBRoo, Object-Oriented FRBR, Bibliographic Conceptual Models (BCM), Standards
- How To Spot Fake News
Critical thinking is a key skill in media and information literacy, and the mission of libraries is to educate and advocate its importance. Discussions about fake news has led to a new...
Publication - 1 February 2017
Tags: Access to information, fake news, Information literacy, Information society, post-truth, Infographics
- Videos about IFLA's Engagement in the Preparation of the UN 2030 Agenda
Ensuring equitable access to information contributes significantly to achieving the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Libraries are playing an increasingly important role in...
Publication - 30 January 2017
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Development, IAP, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, Videos
- The Lyon Declaration
The Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development The Lyon Declaration is an advocacy document that was used to positively influence the content of the United Nations post-2015...
Publication - 20 January 2017
Tags: Access to knowledge, Development, IFLA, Libraries and Development, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, Statements
- Government Libraries Section Social Media Communication Strategy 2017 - 2019
The IFLA Government Libraries Section (GLS) intends to continue communicating its activities and achievements to the international library community from all corners of the globe. For this reason...
Publication - 17 January 2017
Tags: Publications
- 2015-2017 Science and Technology Libraries Action Plan
Mission: The Science and Technology Libraries Section brings together special libraries involved in collecting and providing access to information and data about the physical sciences and...
Publication - 9 January 2017
Tags: Action plans, Science and Technology Libraries
- 2016-2017 Local History and Genealogy Section Action Plan
Objective 1: 1. Increase activity level among Section members and develop our network 1.1. Follow-up of the WLIC2016 sessions 1.1.1 Write a report of the presentations and invite to a...
Publication - 29 December 2016
Tags: Action plans, Local History and Genealogy
- Minutes of meetings
2020 SC meetings via Zoom: September | October | November 2019: SCII, Athens, Greece 2019: SCI, Athens, Greece 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Snd meeting...
Publication - 26 December 2016
Tags: Minutes of Meetings, Preservation and Conservation
- Definiendo “Multiculturalismo”
La Sección identificó la necesidad de revisar la definición de “Multiculturalismo”. Un borrador de la misma fue presentado en la Reunión Anual de la Secci...
Publication - 23 December 2016
Tags: Multicultural library services, multiculturalism, Publications, Library Services to Multicultural Populations
- Definition von “MultiKulti”
"Multikulti" ist die Koexistenz verschiedener Kulturen, in denen Kultur die ethnischen, religiösen oder kulturellen Gruppen umfasst und sich in üblichen Verhaltensweisen,...
Publication - 23 December 2016
Tags: Multicultural library services, multiculturalism, Publications, Library Services to Multicultural Populations
- Definition du “Multiculturalisme”
"Le Multiculturalisme" est la coexistence de diverses cultures, la culture ici comprend la race, la religion, le groupe culturel et se manifeste dans les comportements coutumiers, les...
Publication - 23 December 2016
Tags: Multicultural library services, multiculturalism, Publications, Library Services to Multicultural Populations
- Trade eBooks in Libraries: The Changing Landscape
With the advent of downloadable retail eBooks marketed to individual consumers, for the first time in their history libraries encountered an otherwise commercially available text format they were...
Publication - 16 December 2016
Tags: Digital publishing, Digital Rights Management, Ebooks, eLending for Libraries, EPUB, Public Lending Rght, Studies
- IFLA Statement on Government Provision of Public Legal Information in the Digital Age (2016)
Statement [PDF] English Español Français Deutsch Русский 中文 العربية...
Publication - 14 December 2016
Tags: Access to information, Digital preservation, Law, Statements, Law Libraries
- IFLA interventions at UNESCO (2014 onwards)
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
- Statement of International Cataloguing Principles (ICP) 2016
Introduction The original Statement of Principles - commonly known as the “Paris Principles” - was approved by the International Conference on Cataloguing Principles in 1961....
Publication - 24 November 2016
Tags: ICP, IME ICC, Principles, Cataloguing, Statements
- Subject Analysis and Access Section Annual Report 2016-2017
Subject Analysis and Access Annual Report, 2016 January-August This is a report on the Section’s progress and activities for the half year between January 1 and the IFLA...
Publication - 15 November 2016
Tags: Publications, Subject Analysis and Access
- NOIR SIG Strategic and Action Plans
Action Plan 2017-2018 Action Plan 2016-2017
Publication - 10 November 2016
Tags: Action plans, National Organizations and International Relations (NOIR)
- Public Libraries Section Action Plan 2016-2017
The Public Libraries Section is very engaged and our Action Plan outlines the key initatives for the Section during the year. Updates on the many projects and events we're involved with can be...
Publication - 1 November 2016
Tags: Action plans, Finances, Public Libraries
- Audiovisual and Multimedia Section, Action Plan 2016-2017
This document reports progress and results of our projects/activities. Please also consult our news page and social media channels for ongoing items of interest. Do please contact...
Publication - 30 October 2016
Tags: Publications
- Library and Information Science in the Middle East and North Africa
This volume offers up-to-date insights into the state of library and information science (LIS) in the Middle East and North Africa. Covered topics include information literacy, intellectual...
Publication - 14 October 2016
Tags: Education, Library and Information Science, Library and information science education, Middle East and North Africa, Publications
- بيان مُشترك بين الإفلا الاتحاد العالمي للناشرين في اليوم العالمي الأول لضمان حصول الجميع على المعلومات، 28 سبتمبر 2016
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
- Joint Statement by IFLA and the IPA on the First International Day for Universal Access to Information (2016)
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
- IFLA FAIFE Statement on the Continued House Arrest of Natalya Sharina, as Moscow Prosecutor General’s Office Refuses to Sign Her Indictment
IFLA remains extremely concerned over the treatment of Natalya Sharina, Director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature in Moscow. Natalya was arrested and placed under house arrest in...
Publication - 1 September 2016
Tags: Freedom of expression, Ukraine, Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Guidelines for translations of the IFLA ISBD namespace in RDF (August 2017)
These guidelines are intended to encourage, support and give guidance to professionals on the process of translations of the ISBD namespace from the English language into multiple other...
Publication - 27 August 2016
Tags: ISBD, ISBD Review Group, RDF, Guidelines, Cataloguing, Standards
- Guidelines for Use of ISBD as Linked Data (2016)
These Guidelines are intended for use by developers of applications that allow libraries to expose ISBD metadata for the Semantic Web. The guidelines aim to promote the use of the ISBD namespaces...
Publication - 27 August 2016
Tags: ISBD, linked data, Guidelines
- RISS Statement on Libraries and Development
[PDF] Reference and information services are at the heart of library operations and represent the public face of access to information. In a complex and information-abundant environment,...
Publication - 24 August 2016
Tags: Publications, Reference and Information Services
- Indigenous Matters Annual Reports
Our Annual Reports record our achievements and progress in relation to our Action Plans. 2017 Annual Report 2016 Annual Report 2015 Annual Report...
Publication - 12 August 2016
Tags: Publications, Indigenous Matters
- IFLA Statement on Net Neutrality and Zero-Rating (2016)
Introduction Network neutrality[1], or net neutrality, is the principle that all data or traffic on the Internet should be treated equally. Internet users’ freedom of...
Publication - 12 August 2016
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Net neutrality, Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Indigenous Matters Action Plans Information
2016-2017 Action Plan Our Action Plan outlines the key objectives for our Section in the upcoming year. Take a look at our News feed to read updates on our progress. The 2016-2017...
Publication - 12 August 2016
Tags: Action plans, Indigenous Matters
- Policy Options for Connecting and Enabling the Next Billion - DC-PAL Input
This document is the Dynamic Coalition on Public Access in Libraries (DC-PAL) input to IGF 2016 Community Intersessional Programme - Policy Options for Connecting and Enabling the Next Billion -...
Publication - 11 August 2016
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, dc-pal, Development, IGF, Internet governance, Policy, SDGs, Sustainability, UN 2030 Agenda, Statements
- Space and Collections Earning Their Keep: Transformation, Technologies, Retooling
Traditionally, libraries have served as storage spaces offering access to diverse physical collections. Today, following numerous social and technological changes, libraries are retooling their...
Publication - 5 August 2016
Tags: Collection development, Library buildings and equipment, Library collections, Acquisition and Collection Development, Publications
- Educating the Profession: 40 years of the IFLA Section on Education and Training
Education and training for the library profession have changed over the decades, and this publication looks both at the past and the future of these developments at schools of library and...
Publication - 5 August 2016
Tags: Education, Library and information science education, Publications, Education and Training
- Indigenous Notions of Ownership and Libraries, Archives and Museums
Tangible and intangible forms of indigenous knowledges and cultural expressions are often found in libraries, archives or museums. Often the "legal" copyright is not held by the...
Publication - 5 August 2016
Tags: cultural expressions, indigenous knowledges, ownership, Publications, Indigenous Matters
- Public Access: Supporting Digital Inclusion for All
Public Access: Supporting Digital Inclusion for All. Maximising The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) For Inclusive Social And Economic Development. Briefing on Public...
Publication - 22 July 2016
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Development, IGF, Internet access, Internet governance, Public Access, Sustainability, Leaflets
- How Libraries Can Connect the Next Four Billion
Half of the world’s population lacks access to information online. In our knowledge society, libraries provide access and opportunity for all Around the world, public access to...
Publication - 22 July 2016
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Development, Internet governance, next4billion, Sustainability, Leaflets
- New Professionals Special Interest Group Action Plan 2015-2016
Our Action Plan outlines the key objectives for our Special Interest Group in the upcoming year. Take a look at our News feed to read updates on our progress. If you have...
Publication - 13 July 2016
Tags: IFLAcamp, New professionals, newlibgc, NPSIG, Social Media, WLIC, Publications, New Professionals
- Access and Opportunity for All: How Libraries contribute to the United Nations 2030 Agenda
Act now to make sure libraries are included in your country’s national development plans for the SDGs!! The inclusion of libraries and access to information in national and...
Publication - 28 June 2016
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Development, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, UN Sustainable Development Goals, LDP (Library Development Programme), Publications
- LPD Statement VITreaty 2016
The members of IFLA's Section for Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities, comprising 80 library organizations, also represent the views of many other organizations such as...
Publication - 16 June 2016
Tags: Publications, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Libraries at the Heart of Dialogue of Cultures and Religions: History, Present, Future
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
- Blog posts on the IFLA PAC Centres
The IFLA PAC Centres together with the IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section are showcasing their work on the Rare Books and Special Collections Blog as of 2016 onwards. The blog...
Publication - 19 May 2016
Tags: Conservation, IFLA PAC and RBSC Blog, Preservation, Publications, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Annual Report 2017-18
Our Annual Report records our achievements and progress in relation to our Action Plan for the last year. Read our Action Plan for the past year to see what we set out to...
Publication - 6 May 2016
Tags: Annual reports
- Position de l'IFLA sur les droits de prêt public (2016)
Introduction La Fédération Internationale des associations de bibliothécaires et institutions (IFLA) est une organisation non-gouvernementale (ONG) représentant...
Publication - 29 April 2016
Tags: Access to information, Freedom of access to information, Public lending right, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Rare Books and Special Collections Annual Report 2015-2016
Our Annual Report records our achievements and progress in relation to our Action Plan for the last year. Read our Action Plan for the past year to see what we set out to achieve....
Publication - 21 April 2016
Tags: Annual reports, Rare Books and Special Collections
- High quality design on a low budget: New library buildings
Since 2008 the world's economy has seen dramatic changes that have rippled throughout the library world. While the demand for library services has increased, the money available to build,...
Publication - 29 March 2016
Tags: Library building design, library buildings, Publications, Library Buildings and Equipment
- Rare Books and Special Collections Action Plan 2015-2016
Our Action Plan outlines the key objectives for our Section in the upcoming year. Take a look at our News feed to read updates on our progress. A report on these activities will be made...
Publication - 17 March 2016
Tags: Action plans, Rare Books and Special Collections
- The IFLA Position on Internet Governance
IFLA issued a Position on Internet Governance in 2005 in connection with the second phase of WSIS in Tunisia. As WSIS enters a review period in the run up to its assessment by the UN General...
Publication - 15 March 2016
Tags: Access to information, Freedom of expression, Internet governance, multilingualism, Statements
- Principles on Public Access in Libraries
The Principles on Public Access in Libraries were produced by the Dynamic Coalition on Public Access in Libraries and discussed by participants at the Internet Governance Forum in Joao Pessoa,...
Publication - 15 March 2016
Tags: Access to information, DC PAL, Dynamic Coalition on Public Access in Libraries, Public Access, Public Libraries, Publications
- IFLA Statement on the Right to be Forgotten (2016)
Introduction The "right to be forgotten" refers to an individual’s ability to request that a search engine (or other data provider) remove links to information about...
Publication - 14 March 2016
Tags: Statements
- The quest for deeper meaning of research support
This monograph is the culmination of months of contemplation as to whether UCT Libraries was ready to launch its open monograph publishing service using the new principle of diamond open access...
Publication - 5 March 2016
Tags: Academic and Research Libraries, Publications
- IFLA journal: Special Issue: Cultural Heritage
Publication - 6 February 2016
Tags: Publications, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- 国际图联关于公共借阅权的声明
介绍 国际图书馆协会联合会(简称国际图联)是一个代表全世界图书情报界及其用户利益的非政府组织(NGO)。 面向公众开放的图书馆和其他非盈利性质的文化、科学和教育机构的存在,是为了向公众提供服务,确保公民可以无偿无限制地全方位获取现存的人文知识和信息。图书馆使全体社区成员有机会获取多种多样的知识、思想和观点,因此在民主社会的发展和维护方面起到了至关重要的作用。...
Publication - 2 February 2016
Tags: Access to information, Freedom of access to information, Public lending right, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Позиция ИФЛА по «Публичному праву на выдачу материалов с выплатой вознаграждения авторам за использование этих материалов в библиотеках»
Международная Федерация библиотечных ассоциаций и учреждений (ИФЛА) является неправительственной организацией, представляющей интересы библиотек и информационных служб, а также их пользователей по...
Publication - 1 February 2016
Tags: Access to information, Freedom of access to information, Public lending right, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- IFLA Toolkit: Libraries, Development and the United Nations 2030 Agenda (Revised version - August 2017)
Take action now so that libraries have a say! IFLA has launched a new toolkit which will help you to advocate to your national and regional policy makers to make sure that libraries and...
Publication - 19 January 2016
Tags: 2030Agenda, Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Development, Toolkits
- IFLA Toolkit: Libraries and the UN post-2015 development agenda (January 2015)
As the United Nations reflects on the future of global development and the post-2015 agenda, access to information must be recognised as critical to supporting governments to achieve development...
Publication - 14 January 2016
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Development, MDGs, Post 2015, United Nations, Toolkits
- Knowledge Management in Libraries and Organizations
The management of knowledge created in an organization not only enables reuse of knowledge, but also adds value to the organization itself. Preventing duplication of intellectual effort, it saves...
Publication - 6 January 2016
Tags: Publications, Knowledge Management
- IFLA Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment
[PDF] Introduction The rapid advancement of technology has resulted in increasing privacy implications for library and information services, their users, and society. Commercial...
Publication - 15 December 2015
Tags: Data collection, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression), Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Libraries, Privacy, Privacy in libraries, Surveillance, Statements
- CPDWL Satellite Guide -- 2017 update -- Supporting documents
Call for proposals is finalized and sent to IFLA-lists/T1a/T1b/T1c Begin to develop registration form/T2 and list of hotels - Local organizing committee...
Publication - 9 December 2015
Tags: Resource Guides, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
- Access to Scientific Research: Challenges Facing Communications in STM
The debate about access to scientific research raises questions about the current effectiveness of scholarly communication processes. This book explores, from an independent point of view, the...
Publication - 1 December 2015
Tags: Scholarly communications, Scientific research, STM, Publications
- Public Libraries Standing Committee - Action Plan - 2016
The Public Libraries Section is very engaged and our Action Plan outlines the key initatives for the Section during the year. Updates on the many projects and events we're involved with can be...
Publication - 23 November 2015
Tags: Action plans, Public Libraries
- Social Media, Children and Young Adults @ the Library - Safety, Privacy and Online Behavior
Statement on Social media concentrates on children's and young adults safety, privacy and online behavior and it was approved on IFLA WLIC at Cape Town, 2015. The statement has a message for...
Publication - 29 October 2015
Tags: Access to information, Children, Information literacy, Internet access, Young adults, Statements, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- Responding! Public Libraries and Refugees
Members of IFLA’s Public Libraries Standing Committee and their colleagues have joined together to collect some examples and stories of the role public libraries are playing in the refugee...
Publication - 9 October 2015
Tags: Access to information, Refugees, Publications, Public Libraries
- IFLA Journal Special Issue on Cultural Heritage 2015
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)
- Learning Across Boundaries - Question Responses
At the World Library and Information Congress in Cape Town IFLA's Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and Public Libraries Sections joined together to deliver the...
Publication - 22 September 2015
Tags: Professional development, South Africa, Conference proceedings, Public Libraries
- Joint Statement on Literacy and Reading for International Literacy Day (2015)
Call to Action IFLA together with the International Publishers Association (IPA), the International Authors Forum (IAF) and the Reading & Writing Foundation (RWF) has put together a...
Publication - 14 September 2015
Tags: Literacy, Statements
- IFLA WIL 2015 Congress activities
IFLA Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group Report to IFLA Management of Library Associations Section (MLAS) IFLA WLIC, Cape Town, 15 – 21 August 2015...
Publication - 15 August 2015
Tags: Africa, Reports, Women, Information and Libraries
- Guidelines for Parliamentary Research Services
The IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments operates at the intersection of two international communities: one of libraries, which finds its global...
Publication - 13 August 2015
Tags: Inter-Parliamentary Union, parliamentary research services, Guidelines, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- Post-occupancy evaluation of library buildings
Architectural realisation of a building and its opening to the public with a range of services are central components of the building and design process of libraries. Post-Occupancy...
Publication - 12 August 2015
Tags: Post-Occupancy Evaluation, Publications, Library Buildings and Equipment
- Global Action on School Library Guidelines
This book celebrates the new IFLA School Library Guidelines and shows how the Guidelines can be used in improving school library services. Each chapter describes innovative initiatives for...
Publication - 12 August 2015
Tags: guidelines, Guidelines, School Libraries
- Linked Data and User Interaction
This collection of research papers provides extensive information on deploying services, concepts, and approaches for using open linked data from libraries and other cultural heritage institutions...
Publication - 12 August 2015
Tags: Linked data, Semantic Web, Studies, Linked Data
- How libraries for children and young adults are supporting development by providing access to information
How do libraries, librarians and library services support development? Section Libraries for Children and Young Adults gave a brief on a statement based on Lyon declaration principals....
Publication - 13 July 2015
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Children, Development, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Lyon Declaration, Statement, Young adults, Statements, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- RISS Congress Papers/Presentations
IFLA/RISS presentations, Columbus 2016 Session 125 - Connecting Reference to the Wider Community - Reference and Information Services Section Providing Informed Referrals for...
Publication - 27 June 2015
Tags: Conference proceedings, Congress papers, Reference and Information Services
- RISS Satellite Meetings
IFLA Joint RISS/IT Satellite Meeting, University of Warsaw, Poland (2017) Theme: Innovation and the User Experience: Evaluating and Implementing Discovery Systems Papers Presented...
Publication - 27 June 2015
Tags: Satellite Meeting papers/presentations, Reference and Information Services
- Access to Government Information in the Post 2015 United Nations Development Agenda
Access to Government Information in the Post 2015 United Nations Development Agenda: A Statement from the Government Information and Official Publications Section (GIOPS), International...
Publication - 27 June 2015
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Government information, International cooperation, Publications, Government Information and Official Publications
- Brief supporting the Lyon Declaration
After the 2014 IFLA World Library Conference, GIOPS wrote a stament of support for the Lyon Declration accompanied by 3 recommendations ensuring equitable access of information, including...
Publication - 25 June 2015
Tags: Freedom of information, Government information, International cooperation, Publications
- Public Libraries Section Response to the Lyon Declaration
IFLA asked its Sections to look closer on how their profession furthers development and how the work they do supports the principles set out in the Lyon Declaration. This is the submission...
Publication - 24 June 2015
Tags: Advocacy, Publications, Public Libraries
- Examples of how libraries and library services contribute to development (2015)
Responses from the IFLA Sections to the Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development IFLA asked its Sections to look closer on how their profession furthers...
Publication - 23 June 2015
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Lyon Declaration, post2015, Publications
- IFLA Public Libraries Section Marketing Communications Plan 2017-2019
IFLA Public Libraries Section Marketing Communications Plan 2017-2019
Publication - 13 June 2015
Tags: Action plans, Library marketing, Public Libraries
- IFLA Toolkit: Libraries and national development plans (January 2015)
Libraries make an important contribution to development. Take action now so that libraries are recognized as partners to support implementation of the new development agenda, and that...
Publication - 1 June 2015
Tags: Access to information, Access to information, Access to knowledge, post2015, Toolkits
- Current reading resources
Selected research publications will be of interest to librarians and others concerned with the promotion of reading. We welcome other examples of current or recently completed...
Publication - 24 May 2015
Tags: Resource Guides, Literacy and Reading
- ISBD survey report (2015)
At the 78th IFLA General Conference in Helsinki, Finland (2012), the ISBD Review Group decided to conduct a survey on the use of the ISBD and expectations for its future. A task group was set up...
Publication - 3 May 2015
Tags: ISBD, Cataloguing, Publications
- IFLA School Library Guidelines, 2nd edition
This is the second edition of the School Library Guidelines, approved by the IFLA Professional Committee in June 2015. These guidelines constitute the second edition of the IFLA ‘...
Publication - 2 April 2015
Tags: guidelines, school librarian, school library, Standards, Guidelines, Publications, School Libraries
- IFLA Guidelines for Library Services to Persons with Dyslexia – Revised and extended
Introduction The IFLA Guidelines for Library Services to Persons with Dyslexia – revised and extended* aim to offer guidance to IFLA professional units and all its...
Publication - 12 March 2015
Tags: Dyslexia, Standards, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- IFLA Asia and Oceania Section Handbook
This Handbook supplements the IFLA RSCAO webpage with its primary aim being to serve as an internal working document for members of the RSCAO Committee. The Committee is made up of...
Publication - 6 March 2015
Tags: Asia and Oceania, Handbook, Publications, Asia and Oceania, Publications
- The World Through Picture Books (2nd Edition)
We are very happy to publish the second edition of The World through Picture Books, enriched with sixteen new annotated lists. This new edition proves even more the very enthusiastic, skilled...
Publication - 27 February 2015
Tags: Literacy, Reading, Publications, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- IFLA Manifest für Bibliotheken für Menschen mit Lesebehinderungen
Zur Verbesserung und Förderung barrierefreier Bibliotheks- und Informationsdienstleistungen für Menschen mit einer Sehbehinderung oder anderen Leseeinschränkungen. Der...
Publication - 20 February 2015
Tags: Manifestos, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Use case - Denmark
Comprehensive integration of the National Bibliography in library infrastructure The vast majority of the Danish National Bibliography is produced by the Danish Bibliographic Centre (DBC...
Page of a Book - 13 February 2015
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Use case - The United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom the British National Bibliography (BNB) is a view of data in the production database of the British Library's Integrated Library Management System. The records that form...
Page of a Book - 13 February 2015
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Ethical Dilemmas in the Information Society: How Codes of Ethics Help to Find Ethical Solutions
Papers from the IFLA/FAIFE Satellite Meeting 2014 Librarians and other information professionals are often confronted with ethical conflicts and dilemmas at their workplace. Although this...
Publication - 6 February 2015
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Code fo Ethics, Satellite Meeting papers/presentations, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Statement on the Ten-year Review of Progress Made in the Implementation of the Outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society
[PDF] Geneva, Switzerland 26-28 November 2014 We the undersigned organisations from civil society welcome the CSTD Secretariat's draft report on the Ten-year...
Publication - 17 December 2014
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Statements
- E-Government: Implementation, Adoption and Synthesis in Developing Countries, Vol. 1
E-Government is a hot topic. The integration of Information and Communication Technologies into public service delivery worldwide offers a number of promising opportunities. This text refers in...
Publication - 13 November 2014
Tags: e-governance, ICT, Information Societies, Publications
- Global Studies in Libraries and Information
Series Editor: Janine Scmidt Frequency: irregular ISSN: 2195-0202 The complex processes involved in the international...
Publication - 13 November 2014
Tags: Publications
- Section information leaflet
Leaflet of Section's aims, activities and contacts. Feel free to print and distribute at your national conferences etc. Download [English – PDF]
Publication - 17 October 2014
Tags: Young adults, Leaflets, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- Les principes défendus par les bibliothèques, définis dans le cadre des travaux sur l'évolution de l'Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (2005)
العربية | 中文 | Русский | Shqip | ქართული | Polski 1er objectif: Un domaine public solide et croissant pour offrir de nouvelles opportunités pour la création, la...
Publication - 14 October 2014
Tags: CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Bibliotheksbezogene Prinzipien* für die Internationale Entwicklungs-Agenda der Weltorganisation für geistiges Eigentum (2005)
العربية | 中文 | Русский | Shqip | ქართული | Polski Ziel 1: Eine kräftige und wachsende Gemeinfreiheit, um neue Möglichkeiten für Kreativität, Forschung und Lehre zu...
Publication - 14 October 2014
Tags: CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Subject classification schemes
IFLA recommends the adoption of subject classification schemes for arrangement of the national bibliography. Classification schemes may be directly related to the subject scheme used or...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- MACS
MACS (Multilingual Access to Subjects) is a collaborative project involving the British Library, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Swiss National Library...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- National and international initiatives
Subject indexing schemes express concepts in a way that is language-dependent. Multi-national initiatives to promote the interoperability of subject indexing across language barriers can involve...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Subject indexing schemes
Subject indexing schemes provide controlled access to the content of resources. Schemes define concepts and relationships between concepts to support user navigation. The Library of...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Subjects standards
IFLA recommends provision of subject access to national bibliographies. The IFLA Classification & Indexing Section has developed specific guidelines which have been made available in printed...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Authority control standards
Standards for authority files were often part of national cataloguing rules like AACR2 or RAK in the past. With the development of RDA as an internationally used cataloguing rule set, RDA...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Cooperative initiatives
Authority control is an expensive process. Various international initiatives exist with the objective of reducing the cost of authority control through co-operation. Such initiatives also...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Scope of Authority Control
The NBA is responsible for “establishing the authoritative form of name for its country’s authors, both personal and corporate, and authoritative lists of its country’s authors,...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Level of Authority Control
The scope of the national bibliography should be reflected in the scope of the authority file. Thus, NBAs that include journal articles in the national bibliography should include the authors and...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Authority control
Authority control (or access point control) refers to the normalisation of controlled access points (headings) and the provision of alternative and related access points. Authority control...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- International cataloguing rules
As a successor to the widely used AACR2, the new international code Resource Description & Access, RDA has been designed. Based on FRBR, RDA was developed to enable the description of any...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- National cataloguing rules
National cataloguing rules provide guidance on the selection and construction of access points and may cover other aspects of cataloguing, such as authority control, about which ISBD is silent...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Cataloguing rules
Whereas the ISBD is the standard that determines the data elements to be recorded, it is not an instruction manual itself. Most cataloguing rules that were developed by national bibliographic...
Page of a Book - 15 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Comprehensive
Comprehensive level: Denotes assignment of extensive metadata for description and access Explicitly conforms to published content standards but there is no commitment to...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Enhanced
Enhanced level description: Indicates that the basic resource has been supplemented by assignment of some metadata May not explicitly indicate the content standards used...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Authoritative
Authoritative level description: Denotes the highest level of metadata assigned to a resource Offers the most flexible support for resource discovery Includes (...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Basic
Basic level description: Assumes no metadata have been assigned to the resource, either by the bibliographic agency or by the source Is likely to include web resources...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Level of description detail
The NBA’s responsibility to create extensive records of its national imprint as recommended by the 1977 Paris conference and affirmed by the 1998 Copenhagen International Conference on...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Component description
An NBA may, in some cases, decide for the description of items such as journal articles, chapters and other parts of monographs, individual tracks on sound recordings, and other types of “...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Title description
Library metadata most commonly describes items – documents in any physical form, treated as an "entity”. The item forms the basis of the bibliographic description. If a national...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Collection-level description
Collection-level description (sometimes also: archival description) consists of metadata describing a collection as a whole, in contrast to item-level description (manifestation description in...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Granularity of description
A basic decision upon metadata requirements has to be made concerning the unit described. Does the metadata of a national bibliography pertain to a collection, to an item, or even to parts of...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Core national bibliographic elements
The starting point for selecting core metadata requirements is the analysis of uses of the national bibliography since use is only possible if appropriate metadata are available. Users will...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Bibliographies, Bibliography
- Cataloguing rules compatibility
Compatibility of cataloguing rules is as essential as compatibility of formats. While formats govern the structure of metadata, cataloguing rules govern its content. Two events marked the...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Bibliographic description
A primary function of the national bibliography is the accurate bibliographic description of the works it contains. Rules for the creation of bibliographic descriptions have evolved in...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Bibliographic content standards
Adherence to content standards ensures consistency in the published bibliography. Content standards specify: Which information is to be recorded How it is to be...
Page of a Book - 10 September 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Toolkit
IFLA/UNESCO Multicultural Library Manifesto Toolkit updates This toolkit was developed to give practical approaches on how libraries can apply the concepts in the Manifesto. The...
Page of a Book - 4 September 2014
Tags: Multicultural populations, Toolkits, Library Services to Multicultural Populations
- Platform for the IFLA/UNESCO Multicultural Library Manifesto Toolkit
Welcome to the platform for the IFLA/UNESCO Multicultural Library Manifesto and the accompanying Toolkit. What is the IFLA/UNESCO Multicultural Library Manifesto and Toolkit? The...
Page of a Book - 4 September 2014
Tags: Toolkits, Library Services to Multicultural Populations
- Public Library Futures in a global digital world. Birmingham 12-13 August 2014
PROGRAM Day 1 Brian Gambles : Presentation Eva Wilenius: Presentation, Paper Huang Qunqing: Presentation, Paper Sarah Dudek & Vera Binz...
Publication - 4 September 2014
Tags: Digital divide, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Conference proceedings, Public Libraries
- Guidelines for Planning the Digitization of Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
Digitization guidelines have proliferated in many forms over the last fifteen years, and all of them reflect a set of best practices that continues to evolve. These guidelines attempt to...
Publication - 3 September 2014
Tags: Digital repositories, Digital resources, Digitisation, Guidelines, Standards, Rare Books and Special Collections
- Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD)
FRSAD is an addition to the FRBR family of conceptual models addressing subject authority data issues. It provides a framework for a commonly shared understanding of what the subject authority...
Page of a Book - 8 August 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)
The FRBR conceptual model is intended to meet the end users’ needs. This data model proposes the creation of bibliographic concepts (“work”, “expression”, “...
Page of a Book - 8 August 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Functional Requirements: the FRBR Family of Models
The "FRBR family" of conceptual models consists of three entity-relationship models which are not cataloguing rules but rather conceptual models on how bibliographic data may be...
Page of a Book - 8 August 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- International cataloguing principles (ICP)
In 2009 the IFLA Cataloguing Section published Statement of International Cataloguing Principles (ICP) as an update of the Paris Principles adopted in 1961. The ICP aim to be applicable to online...
Page of a Book - 8 August 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Unicode / UTF-8
Unicode, developed by the ISO Working Group responsible for ISO/IEC 10646 (JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2) and the Unicode Consortium, is a universal standard for coding multilingual text. The ISO 10646...
Page of a Book - 8 August 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices
- Character encoding standards
In a globalized world, it is essential to encode characters in a manner that can be interpreted internationally and to encode and present information in the script required by the user. In such an...
Page of a Book - 8 August 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices
- 2nd UNIMARC Users Meeting: Presentations
The 2nd UNIMARC Users Meeting took place at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, the 14th of March 2008, following the 19th PUC Meeting. Opened by Dr. Maurizio Fallace, Director-...
Publication - 8 August 2014
Tags: Conference proceedings, UNIMARC
- 2008 UNIMARC Survey Results
In 2008, the UNIMARC Strategic Programe carried out a worldwide survey on the usage of UNIMARC and related editorial and training activities. The results were presented at IFLA 2008,...
Publication - 8 August 2014
- Libraries Serving Dialogue
The IFLA Religious Libraries in Dialogue Special Interest Group is dedicated to libraries serving as places of dialogue between cultures through a better knowledge of religions. This book...
Publication - 4 August 2014
Tags: Interreligious relations, Library collections, Publications, Religions: Libraries and Dialogue
- New developments
Agencies responsible for maintenance of bibliographic models and standards have recognised that alignment with these developing standards is essential if bibliographic standards are to have any...
Page of a Book - 30 July 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Bibliographic framework initiative
BIBFRAME is a new initiative led by the Library of Congress to explore the transition from the long established MARC 21 format via the creation of a new bibliographic data model and vocabulary...
Page of a Book - 30 July 2014
Tags: Best practices, Bibliographies, Bibliography
- Bibliothécaire producteur de contenus : du savoir au savoir être. L'exemple des médiathèques de Romans sur Isère
[This paper was in the Paris Satelitte Meeting program but the event has to be cancelled] Depuis 2006, les médiathèques du Pays de Romans portent un projet de m...
Publication - 30 July 2014
Tags: bibliothécaire, bibliothèque, Library marketing, management., médiation numérique, société du savoir, Congress papers, Management and Marketing
- Libraries as media: Redefining a library in the digital age
[This paper was in the Paris Satelitte Meeting program but the event has to be cancelled] With the recent advances in digital technology, the nature of libraries has changed...
Publication - 30 July 2014
Tags: Digital libraries, Library marketing, Library marketing, Role of libraries; Role of librarians, Social Media, Congress papers, Management and Marketing
- IFLA 2014 eLending Background Paper
Introduction The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) released the eLending Background Paper in 2012 followed by a commissioned think piece and the...
Publication - 30 July 2014
Tags: Ebooks, elending, eLending for Libraries, Publications
- LIS Education in Developing Countries - The Road Ahead
The book addresses the different issues and challenges that face LIS education in the various regions of the developing world, but also the commonalities that link them. It highlights the...
Publication - 24 July 2014
Tags: Developing countires, LIS eduction, Publications, LIS Education in Developing Countries
- MARC 21
MARC 21 is the product of the integration of USMARC, UKMARC and CANMARC (Canadian MARC). It is the most extensively used MARC format in the world and a de facto standard. It has been designed to...
Page of a Book - 23 July 2014
Tags: Best practices, Bibliographies, Bibliography
- Non-specialist file compression formats
While the long established Format for Information Exchange (ISO 2709) enables the efficient transmission of compressed MARC data, other non-MARC text based data formats (e.g. .CSV, XML etc.) lack...
Page of a Book - 22 July 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- ISO 2709
The "Format for Information Exchange (ISO 2709)" and its American counterpart, "Information Interchange Format" (ANSI Z39.2) have been used by NBAs for many years to...
Page of a Book - 22 July 2014
Tags: Best Practices
- Specialist bibliographic transmission standards
The libraries commonly use specialist formats for the distribution of MARC data based on the ISO 2709 standard that can be easily imported by library management systems.
Page of a Book - 22 July 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- ISWC
The ISWC (International Standard Musical Work Code) is a standard identifier (ISO 15707:2001) designed to uniquely and accurately identify musical works. It is a permanent identifier which...
Page of a Book - 21 July 2014
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- ISTC
The ISTC (International Standard Text Code) is a standard identifier (ISO 21047) for work expressions rather than their manifestations which are identified by ISBN. Although developed by the book...
Page of a Book - 21 July 2014
Tags: Best practices, Bibliographies, Bibliography
- ISNI
The ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) is a standard identifier (ISO 27729) for persons or corporate bodies and has obvious application in authority control, rights management and...
Page of a Book - 21 July 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- ISAN
The ISAN (International Standard Audiovisual Number) is an international standard (ISO:15706-1 & 15706-2) audiovisual work identifier. ISANs are unique, permanent reference numbers for...
Page of a Book - 21 July 2014
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- IFLA statement at the 8th meeting of the Open Working Group (OWG) on sustainable development goals
[PDF] “Conflict prevention, post-conflict peacebuilding and promotion of durable peace, rule of law and governance”. Thank you Mr. Co-Chair for...
Publication - 2 June 2014
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Development, Statements
- 2nd IFLA Statement to the United Nations President of the General Assembly (UNPGA) Event (May 2014)
[WORD] [PDF] Thank you Mr. Chair for giving the floor to the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions – or IFLA – the global voice of libraries and...
Publication - 27 May 2014
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, United States of America, Statements
- 1st IFLA Statement to the United Nations President of the General Assembly (UNPGA) Event (May 2014)
[WORD] [PDF] Thank you Madame Chair for giving the floor to the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions – or IFLA – the global voice of libraries and...
Publication - 27 May 2014
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, United States of America, Statements
- LPD Presentations
This page includes presentations for and about the LPD Section: LPD Presentation [DOC] This document outlines the information that is to be provided in a powerpoint...
Publication - 24 May 2014
Tags: Resource Guides, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Fulfill the promise of the Innovation Union (2013)
European Libraries, Archives and Research Institutions need balanced copyright laws More than 100 library, archive and research institutions from countries across the European Union and...
Publication - 16 May 2014
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Learning – Connecting – Relaxing TIB/UB – Relaunching the public spaces
IB/UB, the German National Library of Science and Technology and University Library Hannover, provides students, researchers and teaching staff from all faculties of Leibniz Universität...
Publication - 4 April 2014
Tags: Library, Library buildings and equipment, renovation, Publications, Library Buildings and Equipment
- 国际图联 《图书馆与发展声明》
信息获取是一项基本人权,可以打破贫穷的恶性循环,并支持可持续发展。 在许多社区,图书馆是唯一一个能让人们获取信息的地方,这些信息有助于改善他们的教育状况、开发新技能、寻求工作职位、建立企业、做出有关农业和健康的明 智决策或洞察环境问题。 图书馆独一无二的作用使其成为重要的发展合作伙伴,在这样一个瞬息万变、日渐复杂的社会中,既可以提供各种载体信息的获取,...
Publication - 18 March 2014
Tags: Development, Libraries and Development, LDP (Library Development Programme), Statements
- Заявление ИФЛА о библиотеках и развитии
Доступ к информации является фундаментальным правом человека, которое может разорвать порочный круг нищеты и способствовать устойчивому развитию. Библиотека является единственным местом во многих...
Publication - 18 March 2014
Tags: Development, Libraries and Development, LDP (Library Development Programme), Statements
- بيان الإفلا عن المكتبات و التنمية
يُعد الحصول على المعلومات حقًا من حقوق الإنسان التي تواجه مشكلة الفقر ويدعم التنمية المستدامة، وتُعد المكتبات المكان الوحيد الذى يوفر المعلومات لأفراد المجتمع في كثير من المجتمعات...
Publication - 18 March 2014
Tags: Development, Libraries and Development, LDP (Library Development Programme), Statements
- IFLA Erklärung zu Bibliotheken und Entwicklung
Der Zugang zu Informationen ist ein fundamentales Grundrecht, das den Kreislauf der Armut durchbrechen und eine nachhaltige Entwicklung unterstützen kann. Die Bibliothek ist der einzige...
Publication - 18 March 2014
Tags: Development, Libraries and Development, LDP (Library Development Programme), Statements
- La déclaration de l'IFLA sur les bibliothèques et le développement
L'accès à l'information est un droit humain fondamental qui peut briser le cycle de la pauvreté et soutenir le développement durable. La bibliothè...
Publication - 18 March 2014
Tags: Development, Libraries and Development, LDP (Library Development Programme), Statements
- Declaración de la IFLA sobre Bibliotecas y Desarrollo
El acceso a la información es un derecho humano básico que puede acabar con el ciclo de pobreza y apoyar el desarrollo sostenible. La biblioteca es el único lugar en...
Publication - 18 March 2014
Tags: Development, Libraries and Development, LDP (Library Development Programme), Statements
- Papers Presented at the IFLA International Newspapers Conference 2012
In April 2012, the IFLA Newspaper Section, IFLA PAC Stretegic Programme, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France held the 2012 IFLA International Newspaper Conference in Paris, France. The...
Publication - 14 March 2014
Tags: Digital preservation, Preservation, Conference proceedings, News Media
- Response to Public Consultation on the Review of EU Copyright Rules (2014)
5 March 2014 In September 2013, the European Parliament recognised the need to reform EU copyright rules within its European Parliamentary resolution on “Promoting the European...
Publication - 12 March 2014
Tags: Copyright, data mining, elending, Internet intermediary responsibilities, Linking and browsing, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- School Libraries Blog
The blog of the School Libraries Section. The first blog post was published on 30 September 2013. Additions appear irregularly.
Publication - 28 February 2014
Tags: Publications, School Libraries
- Funding Agencies
Funding Agencies and Organisations in Asia and Oceania Region This research provides a listing of funding agencies and organisations in the Asia and Oceania region that provide funding for...
Publication - 24 February 2014
Tags: Asia and Oceania, Funding, funding, project funding, Asia and Oceania, Reports
- IFLA Statement on Open Access (2011)
Clarifying IFLA's position and strategy IFLA is committed to the principles of freedom of access to information and the belief that universal and equitable access to information is...
Publication - 1 February 2014
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Open access, Statements
- Заявление ИФЛА о доступе к информации, соотносимой с личностью, в архивных записях
Ελληνικά Одобрено Правлением ИФЛА 3 декабря 2008 г. Международная федерация библиотечных ассоциаций подтверждает, что свободный доступ к...
Publication - 29 January 2014
Tags: Access to information, Archives, Personally identifiable information, Privacy, Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Beyond Libraries: Subject Metadata in the Digital Environment and Semantic Web
This special issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly contains the proceedings of the Section's satellite meeting held in Tallinn, Estonia, in August 2012. In it, authors from...
Publication - 17 January 2014
Tags: Indexing, Metadata, Publications, Subject Analysis and Access
- IFLA Statement on Text and Data Mining (2013)
[WORD] [PDF] As the leading international professional association concerned with information and library services, IFLA represents associations and institutions worldwide that endeavour...
Publication - 12 December 2013
Tags: Advocacy, Copyright, Statements
- Access to Information Central to the Post-2015 Development Agenda
[English] [Español] [français] [العربية] [Português] Access to information is crucial for everyone, including those living in poverty It empowers them to...
Publication - 9 December 2013
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Development, Libraries, Development and the United Nations 2030 Agenda, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, UN Sustainable Development Goals, Publications
- The Benefits of Attending IFLA Conferences
The IFLA Section for Library and Research Services for Parliaments wanted to understand more about the benefits that participants got from attending the annual preconference and/or the main IFLA (...
Publication - 6 December 2013
Tags: Communications, Education and training, Meetings, Professional development, Publications, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- Informe de Tendencias de IFLA en español
El Informe de Tendencias de IFLA en español Como parte de las actividades de la Oficina Regional de IFLA para América Latina y el Caribe vinculadas al Programa de IFLA para...
Publication - 12 November 2013
Tags: acceso a la información, economía global de la información, educación en línea, IFLA Trend Report, Informe de Tendencias de IFLA, privacidad, protección de datos, sociedades hiperconectadas, Society, Regional Offices, Reports
- Record deriving
Record re-use includes the downloading or export of records (single or batches) into bibliographic databases, library management systems, or other applications (e.g. Heritage of the Printed Book...
Page of a Book - 1 November 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- New factors
Web publishing, new formats and media have changed the scope of the "national published output" by: Challenging our definition of published Lowering the...
Page of a Book - 31 October 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Persistant themes
The purpose of the national bibliography is to be an extensive record of the national published output. The national bibliography is typically an aggregation of bibliographic records...
Page of a Book - 31 October 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- S-Z
SACO - Subject Authority Cooperative Program. The Subject Authority Cooperative Program (SACO) was established to provide a means for libraries to submit subject headings and classification...
Page of a Book - 29 October 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- O-R
OAI - Open Archives Initiative OAI-PMH - Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting . A protocol specification that enhances the description of resources (digital but also...
Page of a Book - 29 October 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- L-N
LCC - Library of Congress Classification. Library of Congress Classification Outline - The list contains the letters and titles of the main classes of the Library of Congress...
Page of a Book - 29 October 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- I-K
IANA - Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ICNBS, see International Congress on National Bibliographies (ICNBS) Recommendations IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission...
Page of a Book - 29 October 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- A-H
AACR2 - Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition. AACR (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition) is a major international standard for the cataloguing of all types of materials...
Page of a Book - 29 October 2013
Tags: Best practices, Best Practices, Bibliography
- 2012
The 2012 Warsaw Conference On August 9th 2012 the Standing Committee together with the IFLA Cataloguing Section held a conference Bibliography in a Digital Age at the National Library...
Page of a Book - 29 October 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- International Standard Bibliographic Description (2011)
The consolidated edition of the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) was published by De Gruyter Saur in July 2011. The consolidated edition merges the texts of the...
Publication - 30 September 2013
Tags: Standards, ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description)
- Libraries, e-Lending and the Future of Public Access to Digital Content
[PDF version] Prepared by Civic Agenda and presented to IFLA in The Hague November 2012.[1] Comment from FAIFE-Perspective. There is no doubt: the era of...
Publication - 26 August 2013
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- UNIMARC Bibliographic, 3rd edition (with updates)
This list contains all updates (in PDF format) to UNIMARC/Bibliographic, 3rd ed., 2008, approved in the periods 2009-2012 (marked as 2012) and 2013-2019 (marked with the year). 1 -...
Publication - 26 August 2013
Tags: Publications, UNIMARC
- Translations of ISBD
Translations of ISBD Consolidated Edition, 2011 bg - български език - Bulgarian ca - Català - Catalan es - Español - Spanish fr - Franç...
Publication - 21 August 2013
Tags: Publications, ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description)
- IFLA Statement on Libraries and Development (August 2013)
PDF: English | አማርኛ Access to information is a fundamental human right that can break the cycle of poverty and support sustainable development. The library is the only place in many...
Publication - 16 August 2013
Tags: Development, Libraries and Development, Libraries, Development and the United Nations 2030 Agenda, LDP (Library Development Programme), Statements
- UNIMARC Authorities, 3rd edition (with updates)
This list contains all updates (in PDF format) to UNIMARC/Authorities, 3rd ed., 2009, approved in the periods 2009-2012 (marked as 2012) and 2013-2019 (marked with the year)....
Publication - 13 August 2013
Tags: Publications, UNIMARC
- Freedom of expression and access to information in Syria today
[PDF version] “All human beings by nature desire to know” Aristotle Content Introduction 1. Syrian Media before March 18th 2011 2. Alternative Syrian media...
Publication - 10 August 2013
Tags: Access to information, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Tijuana 2013 ACD Workshop report
Please find below the report prepared by ACD Section Secretary Regine Schmolling, on the successful international workshop held by the Section in Tiujana and Esenada in June 2013:...
Publication - 6 August 2013
Tags: Acquisitions, Collection development, Mexico, Acquisition and Collection Development, Publications
- The Green Library – Die grüne Bibliothek
The challenge of environmental sustainability – Ökologische Nachhaltigkeit in der Praxis Contributions and case studies from Germany and other European countries...
Publication - 5 August 2013
Tags: Education and Training, Sustainability, Publications, Library Buildings and Equipment
- Full ISBD Examples (2013)
Full ISBD Examples, a collection of full bibliographic descriptions demonstrating ISBD guidelines in a variety of languages, was published in a preliminary edition in October 2009. A revised...
Publication - 30 July 2013
Tags: Standards, ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description)
- Bibliography
Aguirre Bello, R. (2011). Electronic legal deposit at the National Library of Chile Anderson, D. (1974). Universal bibliographic control: A long term policy, a plan for action. Pullach/M...
Page of a Book - 29 July 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Resource description and standards
Adoption of internationally approved standards and principles is crucial for NBAs responsible for disseminating bibliographic records for national and international exchange. Such bibliographic...
Page of a Book - 29 July 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Examples
This section contains examples of how to integrate National Bibliographies into the library infrastructure. Denmark The United Kingdom
Page of a Book - 29 July 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Integration into a portfolio
National Bibliographic Agencies and the role of national libraries In many countries responsibility for creation of the national bibliography resides with the national library. However the...
Page of a Book - 29 July 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- 2013 Tijuana Int'l Workshop Presentations
You'll find below the presentations that have been done during ACD's 2013 International Workshop in Tijuana & Ensenada, Mecixo : Presentation 1: Helen Ladron de Guevara (in...
Publication - 19 July 2013
Tags: Canada, Collection development, France, Germany, Mexico, United States of America, Acquisition and Collection Development, Publications
- Manifeste IFLA pour les bibliothèques numériques
Combler le fossé numérique : rendre l’héritage culturel et scientifique accessible à tous Le fossé numérique est un fossé d’...
Publication - 10 July 2013
Tags: A2K, Access to information, Digital divide, Digital libraries, Digitisation, Interoperability, MDGs, Sustainability, Digital Libraries, Manifestos
- Definitions
What is a national bibliography? "A current national bibliography is a mirror that reflects the culture of a country. By looking at the current national bibliography one is able to...
Page of a Book - 5 July 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Purpose and value
The Mission of the National Bibliography Establishing the need for a national bibliography Increasingly, with new sources of information becoming available via the web, there is...
Page of a Book - 5 July 2013
Tags: Bibliography, Best Practices, Bibliography
- Best Practice for National Bibliographic Agencies in a Digital Age
This web resource builds on the original printed ‘Guidelines for National Bibliographies in the Electronic Age (2009) created by the IFLA Working Group on Guidelines for National...
Page of a Book - 5 July 2013
Tags: Best Practices, Bibliography
- UNIMARC Concise Authorities Format
The UNIMARC Authorities Format was designed to allow the creation of authority and reference records for the management of controlled access points in a bibliographic database. It was...
Publication - 23 June 2013
- UNIMARC Manual – Holdings Format
In late 1999, PUC appointed a working group to develop a UNIMARC specification for holdings information pertaining to a bibliographic item. The work was carried out during the period of 2000-2003...
Publication - 23 June 2013
- IFLA Principles for the Care and Handling of Library Material
An entirely new version of "IFLA Principles for the Preservation and Conservation of Library Materials" by J.-M. Dureau & D.W.G. Clements, 1986 (IFLA Professional Reports no. 8...
Publication - 23 June 2013
Tags: Preservation, Standards, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Directives pour valoriser la marque IFLA
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession. Les premiers objectifs de l'IFLA pour utiliser son nom ou pour entrer en relation avec d'autres organisations et entreprises doivent être : Aider l...
Publication - 21 June 2013
Tags: Branding, Identity, IFLA, Logo, Guidelines
- Marketing Library and Information Services II A Global Outlook
With contributions from library and information professionals (practitioners, researchers, faculty members, consultants, and others), Marketing Library and Information Services: A Global Outlook...
Publication - 21 June 2013
Tags: Library marketing, Management, Publications, Management and Marketing
- Researcher Librarian : final report
Final reports of the Researcher-Librarian Partnership, begun in 2010 by Helen Partridge: What are libraries worth? A way to assess the impact of Italian Public Libraries on users...
Publication - 20 June 2013
Tags: Reports, Library Theory and Research
- The IFLA Library Theory and Research Section Study of the Impact of IFLA on Promotion change and Diffusing Professional Norms in Libraries-The Findings
The Impact of IFLA norms was a LTR-project, which started in 2003, initiated by Prof. Ragnar Audunson, Oslo. The IFLA Library Theory and Research Section Study of the Impact of IFLA...
Publication - 20 June 2013
Tags: Reports, Library Theory and Research
- The World Through Picture Books
Children’s Librarians all over the world understand how important picture books in both traditional and digital formats are for children: for their development, their cultural identity, as a...
Publication - 7 June 2013
Tags: Literacy, Reading, Publications, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- Project Report: Workshop on Health Information Literacy, Bangladesh
East West University took the initiative to conduct a project to grow leaders in the field of Health Information Literacy with support from the International Federation of Library Associations and...
Publication - 4 June 2013
Tags: Bangladesh, public access to health information, LDP (Library Development Programme), Reports
- ISBD Area 0: Content Form and Media Type Area (2009)
[Out of date publication. Revised version of Area 0 was issued in the ISBD consolidated edition, 2011. See Full ISBD Examples for use.] Area 0: Content Form and Media Type Area is an...
Publication - 3 June 2013
Tags: Standards, ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description)
- Library Services to Indigenous Populations: Case Studies
Segenat Children and Youth Library, Mekelle, Ethiopia This online book was developed with the following goals: To provide librarians around the world with a reference...
Publication - 31 May 2013
Tags: Africa, Australia, Canada, Case studies, China, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Indigenous peoples, Information professionals, Librarianship, Mexico, Multicultural populations, Pakistan, South Africa, Uganda, United States of America, Publications, Indigenous Matters
- Questionnaire on Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Library buildings
In the planning process, much can be learned from existing buildings. The importance of the library visit is widely accepted and the IFLA Library Building Guidelines book published in 2007...
Publication - 27 May 2013
Tags: Library buildings and equipment, Statistics and evaluation, Guidelines, Library Buildings and Equipment
- IFLA Public Libraries Section Action Plan
2014-2015 2013-2014 2012-2013 2011-2012 2009-2010
Publication - 13 May 2013
Tags: Action plans, Public Libraries
- Open Access and Digital Libraries / Acceso Abierto y Bibliotecas Digitales
The social sciences have made fundamental contributions to the understanding of the economic, political and social life of nations in the past century. Social science libraries now have an...
Publication - 3 May 2013
Tags: Access to information, Cuba, Open access, Publications, Social Science Libraries
- Interview with Saad Eskander, Director of Iraq National Library and Archives (INLA)
[PDF] Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraq National Library and Archives (INLA); photo courtesy of Fran Monks We never closed our doors except for a...
Publication - 29 April 2013
Tags: Publications, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Are digital laws making or breaking digital libraries?
...
Publication - 24 April 2013
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Law Libraries Section Newsletter
June 2015, no,3 July 2014, no.2 March 2013, no. 1
Publication - 14 April 2013
Tags: Newsletters, Law Libraries
- Social Media Guidelines for Parliaments
Hot off the presses!! Authored by Andy Williamson! [English] [français] [Español] One lesson that parliaments have learned from their efforts...
Publication - 26 March 2013
Tags: Legislative Libraries, Guidelines, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- e-Governance in West Africa
In 2009 FAIFE funded a small research project to assess the state of e-Governance in West Africa. Moustapha Mbengue, a PhD student at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, completed the...
Publication - 21 March 2013
Tags: Democracy, e-administration, e-governance, hybrid library, West Africa, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Division of Library Services Annual Report
Compiled annually, this report contains information on strategic directions, activities, projects, publications and section membership in the division.
Publication - 12 March 2013
Tags: Annual reports, Library Services
- Key Performance Indicator Handbook for Libraries Serving Print Disabled People
Compiled by Jon Hardisty, Royal National Institute of Blind People, National Library Service, England Sebastian Mundt, Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart, Germany With thanks to...
Publication - 14 February 2013
Tags: Publications, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Division of Library Collections Annual Report
Compiled annually, this report contains information on strategic directions, activities, projects, publications and section membership in the division. 2014 2013 2012...
Publication - 8 February 2013
Tags: Annual reports
- Division of Regions Annual Report
Compiled annually, this report contains information on strategic directions, activities, projects, publications and section membership in the division. 2012
Publication - 5 February 2013
Tags: Annual reports, Regions
- IFLA Professional Statement on UBC (2012)
A statement reaffirming IFLA's commitment to Universal Bibliographic Control was endorsed by the Professional Committee in December 2012. The statement was initiated by the Bibliography...
Publication - 1 February 2013
Tags: Bibliography, UBC, Bibliography, Statements
- Statement of Principles on Global Cross Sectoral Digitisation Initiatives
[MS Word] | [PDF] The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the International Council on Archives (ICA), the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual...
Publication - 31 January 2013
Tags: Digitisation, Digitisation, LAMMS, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments and Sites, Statements
- IFLADIAL Working Group Report on IFLA Communications to IFLA Professional Committee Meeting
This paper looks at issues of communication with IFLA, as identified by members and activists, and suggests areas for improvement. [December 2012] Download the IFLADIAL Working Group...
Publication - 25 January 2013
Tags: Reports, Support of the Profession
- Statement of Principles on Copyright Exceptions and Limitations for Libraries and Archives (2009)
The full text of the Statement, plus its translations are available at the bottom of this page. Introductory statement by Winston Tabb, Chair of CLM: Thank you, Mr....
Publication - 11 January 2013
Tags: SCCR, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Cataloguing Section Action Plan (Past)
Action plan 2018-2019 Action plan 2017-2018 Action plan 2016-2017 Action plan 2015-2016 Action plan 2012
Publication - 3 January 2013
Tags: Action plans, Cataloguing
- IFLA Code of Ethics for Librarians and other Information Workers (full version)
Contents Preamble Access to information Responsibilities towards individuals and society Privacy, secrecy and transparency...
Publication - 27 December 2012
Tags: Access to information, Code of Ethics, Intellectual property, Open access, Privacy, Transparency, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- The World Trade Organisation, IFLA's positions
IFLA positions with regard to the World Trade Organization: The IFLA Position on The World Trade Organization (2001) The IFLA Position on WTO Treaty Negotiations (2001)
Publication - 17 December 2012
Tags: WTO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Google Book Settlement, IFLA's positions (2009)
IFLA positions with regard to the Google Book Settlement of 2009. IFLA Position on the Google Book Settlement IFLA Written Statement to the European Commission hearing on the...
Publication - 17 December 2012
Tags: Advocacy, Google Book Settlement, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), IFLA's positions (2010)
Positions and Statments made by IFLA and its partners with regard to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement of 2010. IFLA and EBLIDA Statement on ACTA and the Importance of Multilateral...
Publication - 17 December 2012
Tags: ACTA, Advocacy, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Informe Anual de la IFLA
Ultimo año: Informe Anual de la IFLA de 2019 [PDF en Inglés, 33 MB] Read online as a Flipbook The Hague, The Netherlands, 2020...
Publication - 10 December 2012
Tags: IFLA, Annual reports
- Ambassadors of the book : competences and training for heritage librarians
What competences are needed for heritage librarians, and how can they be taught? The management of heritage collections requires a unique mix of knowledge and skills, including expertise in...
Publication - 28 November 2012
Tags: Conservation, Education and training, Heritage Librarians, Library and information science education, Publications, Rare Books and Special Collections
- Information and Communication Technologies in Parliamentary Libraries
The Handbook on "Information and Communication Technologies in Parliamentary Libraries", prepared by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the Inter-Parliamentary...
Publication - 15 November 2012
Tags: ICT, Information Communication Technology, Parliamentary Libraries, Guidelines, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- Access to libraries for persons with disabilities - CHECKLIST
Access for all to every library In many countries all over the world, access for patrons with disabilities to use libraries is not yet available or even expected. In order to provide equal...
Publication - 29 October 2012
Tags: Reports, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- Havana Declaration
FIFTEEN INFORMATION LITERACY ACTIONS…… for collaborative work on generation of networks for development of information literacy in Ibero-American countries (Latin America,...
Publication - 25 October 2012
Tags: Manifestos, Information Literacy
- IFLA Disaster Preparedness and Planning: A Brief Manual
International Preservation Issues (IPI) 6 The IFLA Preservation and Conservation Core Activity (PAC) has one major goal: “to ensure that library and archive materials, published and...
Publication - 14 October 2012
Tags: Disaster management, Disaster planning, Standards, Preservation and Conservation
- Care, Handling and Storage of Photographs
International Preservation Issues (IPI) 5 Photographic materials have complex physical and chemical structures that present special preservation challenges to the librarian and archivist....
Publication - 14 October 2012
Tags: Photographic materials, Preservation, Standards, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- IFLA Code of Ethics for Librarians and other Information Workers (short version)
Preamble This Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct is offered as a series of ethical propositions for the guidance of individual librarians as well as other information workers, and for...
Publication - 12 October 2012
Tags: Code of Ethics, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Código de Ética de la IFLA Para Bibliotecarios y Otros Trabajadores de la Información (versión corta)
Preámbulo Este Código de Ética y Conducta Profesional se presenta como una serie de proposiciones éticas para orientar a los bibliotecarios de forma individual...
Publication - 12 October 2012
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA Ethik-Kodex für Bibliotheks- und andere Informationsfachleute (Kurzfassung)
Präambel Dieser Ethik-Kodex wird als eine Reihe ethischer Vorschläge präsentiert, die Handlungsempfehlungen für einzelne Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare sowie...
Publication - 12 October 2012
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Guidelines for Library Services to Prisoners
INTRODUCTION The objective of this document is to provide a tool for the planning, implementation, and evaluation of library services to prisoners. The document is intended to serve as a...
Publication - 28 September 2012
Tags: Standards, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- Guidelines for Library Services to Persons with Dementia
Over the last decade many countries have paid increasing attention to dementia related diseases, primarily due to the rapid growth of the elderly population. Although dementia is generally...
Publication - 21 September 2012
Tags: Guidelines, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- Guidelines for Multilingual Thesauri
Multilingual indexing vocabularies exist in different forms, e.g. subject heading lists, thesauri, enumerative classifications, analytico-synthetic classifications. In a multilingual indexing...
Publication - 21 September 2012
Tags: Guidelines, Subject Analysis and Access
- Library Services to People with Special Needs Section - Glossary of Terms and Definitions
The need for this glossary first became strikingly evident during the development of the section's Guidelines for libraries serving hospital patients and the elderly and disabled in long-term...
Publication - 21 September 2012
Tags: Publications, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- International Resource Book for Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons: 2001-2008
An Update to the International Resource Book for Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons: 1931-2001 In 2001, the Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons (LSDP) Section of the International...
Publication - 21 September 2012
Tags: Publications, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- Helsinki 2012, Supplementary Papers
Building a Content Repository on the Arts of a Nation [PDF] Tay Chiew Boon artlibraries.net, WorldCat and Common Initiatives for the Future of Art Bibliography [PDF...
Publication - 13 September 2012
Tags: Congress papers, Art Libraries
- The road to information literacy: Librarians as facilitators of learning (2012)
Information literacy is increasingly being recognised as a necessary skill for life, work and citizenship - as well as for academic study - for all of us living in today's information...
Publication - 7 September 2012
Tags: Information literacy, Satellite Meeting papers/presentations, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
- Intergenerational solidarity in libraries / La solidarité intergénérationnelle dans les bibliothèques
Rapid and intensive changes in the information landscape cause changes in social relationships and, consequently, in relations between generations. Within their social role libraries should work...
Publication - 7 September 2012
Tags: intergenerational dialogue, Lifelong learning, Literacy, Publications, Literacy and Reading
- Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge (A2K)
This book is a must for librarians with international interest in access to knowledge. It includes a collection of 15 chapters written by authors from all over the world and covers different...
Publication - 7 September 2012
Tags: A2K, Access to information, Access to knowledge, Publications
- 85 Years IFLA : A History and Chronology of Sessions 1927–2012
Published in honor of the 85th anniversary of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 85 Years IFLA: A History and Chronology of Sessions 1927-2012...
Publication - 7 September 2012
Tags: IFLA, Library history, Publications
- They shoot citizen journalists, don't they? Curating or outsourcing? Opportunities and threats in post-gatekeeper journalism
[PDF in English] [PDF in Finnish] Contents: Introduction History Curating vs. outsourcing Four cases...
Publication - 3 September 2012
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- The Tunisia Declaration on libraries, reading and intergenerational dialogue (English, French, Spanish and Russian)
The declaration was made at the International Symposium, Reading as a link between generations: towards a more cohesive society, organized in Hammamet, Tunisia from 21-23 September 2011. The...
Publication - 29 August 2012
Tags: intergenerational dialogue, Libraries, Reading, Tunisia Declaration, Statements, Literacy and Reading
- Government Libraries Section Leaflet
Part 1 Part 2 (updated June 2014)
Publication - 21 August 2012
Tags: Publications, Leaflets, Government Libraries
- News Know-how: How Libraries and News Literacy Promote Public Discourse and Intellectual Freedom
Barbara Jones Director, Office for Intellectual Freedom American Library Association Contents Who is Concerned About the State of the News ALA...
Publication - 12 August 2012
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Library Codes of Ethics Worldwide
Hermann Roesch IFLA/FAIFE Vice-Chair Member of IFLA FAIFE Committee since 2007 LIS Professor, Cologne University of Applied Sciences Interests: Library & information ethics,...
Publication - 11 August 2012
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Ethics and Intermediaries in the Digital Age
Hermann Roesch IFLA/FAIFE Vice-Chair Member of IFLA FAIFE Committee since 2007 LIS Professor, Cologne University of Applied Sciences Interests: Library & information ethics,...
Publication - 11 August 2012
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- The Struggle to Scale: Keeping Up With the Internet
Dr. Stuart Hamilton is the Director of Policy and Advocacy at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). He gained his PhD in Library and Information Science...
Publication - 11 August 2012
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA Manifesto for libraries serving persons with a print disability
To improve and promote accessible library and information services to persons with a visual impairment or any other print disability Lack of access to information is the biggest...
Publication - 11 August 2012
Tags: Manifestos, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Are established democracies less vulnerable to Internet censorship than authoritarian regimes? The social media test
[PDF] Abstract David Cameron's announcement during the 2011 riots across cities in the United Kingdom to consider shutting down social media shocked the international...
Publication - 10 August 2012
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Trends in transition from classical censorship to Intenet censorship: selected country overviews
Contents INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND ON TRADITIONAL CENSORSHIP CLARIFICATION OF TERMINOLOGY BACKGROUND ON INTERNET CENSORSHIP BRIEF REVIEW OF FORMAL, SCHOLARLY...
Publication - 10 August 2012
Tags: e-censorship, Internet censorship, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Campaign World Libaries PowerPoint
Publication - 2 August 2012
Tags: Publications
- Libraries in the Early 21st Century: An International Perspective, Volume 2
Following the pattern of the first volume, the second volume of Libraries in the early 21st century: An international perspective extends the range of countries covered. Each chapter covers a...
Publication - 1 August 2012
Tags: Library history, Publications
- Moscow Declaration on Media and Information Literacy
[PDF] The changing media landscape and the rapid growth in information are affecting individuals and societies now more than ever. In order to succeed in this environment, and to resolve...
Publication - 23 July 2012
Tags: Publications, Information Literacy
- Library statement on Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations (2012)
[PDF] The Hague, 4 July 2012 IFLA and other library organizations express concern at TPPA IP chapter Libraries play an essential role in fostering equitable access to...
Publication - 4 July 2012
Tags: TPPA, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Summary - Multicultural Communities: Guidelines for Library Services
The summary is a four-page extract of the Multicultural Communities: Guidelines for Library Services published by the IFLA Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section in July 2011....
Publication - 27 June 2012
Tags: Publications, Library Services to Multicultural Populations
- The Acquisition & Collection Development Section Blog (Archived)
Offering ACD members, followers and friends updated information on the Section’s work, projects and views. Click here
Publication - 23 June 2012
Tags: Collection development, Acquisition and Collection Development, Journal articles
- KM Section newsletter no 14 / June 2012
The KM Section newsletter no 14 / June 2012 features the KM agenda for WLIC 2012, portraits of speakers of the open session and the Km satellite meeting, including interviews with keynote speakers...
Publication - 19 June 2012
Tags: Newsletters
- 2011 Satellite meeting
The effect of new technologies on library design: building the 21st century library Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Technology provides a tool for the delivery of library...
Publication - 13 June 2012
Tags: Statistics and evaluation, Congress papers, Library Buildings and Equipment
- 2012 satellite meeting in Joensuu, Finland
Libraries for Young People: Breaking through Boundaries Papers: TenThirteen – A library for all senses / Amanda Stenberg, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden...
Publication - 13 June 2012
Tags: Congress papers, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- Data driven futures - censorship takes new forms
[PDF] Contents: Freedom of speech and censorship - project Surveillance and censorship intertwined Who controls the internet? Paradoxes of democracy Big media -...
Publication - 5 June 2012
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Anonymous Classics: a list of uniform titles for Chinese works (2011)
With the present list of Chinese works the Asian part of the Anonymous classics project begins. Anonymous classics: a list of uniform headings for Chinese works began to be compiled in...
Publication - 31 May 2012
Tags: China, Cataloguing, Publications
- IFLA Principles of Engagement in library-related activities in times of conflict, crisis or disaster
At its meeting of 19th August 2011, the IFLA Governing Board set up an Advisory Group to draft Principles of Engagement to be used by IFLA and its members in library-related activities of disaster...
Publication - 22 May 2012
Tags: Advocacy, Best practices, Conservation, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Cultural Heritage topic, Development, Disaster management, Disaster relief, International cooperation, Library and information profession, Preservation, Procedures, Publications, Risk assessment, Society, Sustainability, Publications
- The Library and Freedom of Information Revisited
[PDF] Abstract In an attempt to assess the role of libraries as contributors to the freedom of (official) information published in the journal Alexandria in 2001, Sturges examined both the...
Publication - 21 May 2012
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Manga and Libraries in Japan
[PDF] In the course of history we have witnessed many book genres being banned. One of the most interesting genres raising this kind of discussion has been Japanese manga. During the IFLA...
Publication - 17 May 2012
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Background Paper on e-Lending (2012)
As part of its work on the 2011-2012 Key Initiatives, the IFLA Governing Board appointed a working group to draft a background paper on digital lending. At its April meeting the IFLA Governing...
Publication - 11 May 2012
Tags: Copyright, Digital resources, Digitisation, Electronic resources, Intellectual property, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies
In a networked and globalized world of information the form of national bibliographies may have changed, however their major function remains unchanged: to inform about a country’s...
Publication - 2 May 2012
Tags: Guidelines, Subject Analysis and Access
- IFLA Media and Information Literacy Recommendations
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
- IFLA Statement on Orphan Works (2011)
Libraries are dealing with an increasing number of works where the copyright owners cannot be identified and located to consider the library’s request for uses of the work which require the...
Publication - 23 March 2012
Tags: Copyright, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- IFLA Statement on Legal Deposit (2011)
Legal deposit is critical for the preservation of and access to a nation’s documentary heritage. Publishers and libraries work together to ensure the worldwide success of legal deposit...
Publication - 23 March 2012
Tags: Copyright, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Guiding Principles for IFLA’s position concerning international treaties relating to Traditional Cultural Expressions (2012)
Background The issue of traditional cultural expressions, folklore and traditional knowledge is being considered within the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)...
Publication - 23 March 2012
Tags: Copyright, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Key Issues for e-Resource Collection Development: A Guide for Libraries
Edited by members of the Acquisition and Collection Development Committee, including Ann Okerson, Jérôme Fronty, Joseph Hafner, Judy Mansfield and Regine Schmolling. The...
Publication - 28 February 2012
Tags: Collection development, Acquisition and Collection Development, Guidelines
- Satellite Conference Reports
2011 Havana, Cuba 8-10 August Theme: Social Science Libraries: A Bridge to Knowledge for Sustainable Development conference report by Lynne Rudasill [PDF]
Publication - 13 February 2012
Tags: Reports, Social Science Libraries
- Political Dismissal of the Director of the National Library of Serbia
[PDF] "The Director of the National Library of Serbia, writer and philosopher Sreten Ugricić was dismissed urgently on the 20th of January 2012 at the so-called "telephone...
Publication - 29 January 2012
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Guidelines for Easy-to-Read Materials
Introduction These guidelines have three main purposes: to describe the nature of and the need for easy-to-read publications; to identify the main target groups for...
Publication - 25 January 2012
Tags: Guidelines, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- Policing the Internet is not a Job for a Corporation
[PDF] In light of recent legislation in the US (SOPA and PIPA), and a decision last week in the Netherlands that orders Dutch ISPs to block access to the Pirate Bay website, this...
Publication - 18 January 2012
Tags: Access to information, Censorship, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Leaflet Library Theory and Research Section
You can now find the flyer of the section Library Theory and Research in four languages : English : written by the LTR Section English : written by the LTR...
Publication - 16 January 2012
Tags: Leaflets, Library Theory and Research
- The problem of blasphemy and defamation of religion laws
[PDF] Introduction Precisely on the day the first words of this Spotlight were written, a newspaper story reported that in a court in Tomsk, Siberia, state prosecutors have filed a...
Publication - 4 January 2012
Tags: Freedom of expression, Freedom to read, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- 2008 Survey on learning and development needs
Report to Standing Committee IFLA Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section Download: 2008 Survey on learning and development needs [PDF]
Publication - 23 December 2011
Tags: Reports, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- Revisionism and Professional Ethics II
[PDF] The library of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, placed in the center of Paris, is known as a very welcoming place for searchers. One day a notorious revisionist who didn't hide his...
Publication - 18 December 2011
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Designing Library Space for Children
In recent years the library community has seen a renewed interest in library architecture and design. This is due to the change of focus from content and collection development to how libraries...
Publication - 13 December 2011
Tags: Library buildings and equipment, Publications, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- Libraries in the Early 21st Century: An International Perspective, Volume 1
Libraries have been part of human civilization for centuries. They have been developed and destroyed many times due to acts of war and natural disasters, but they have kept up with the...
Publication - 13 December 2011
Tags: Library history, Publications
- Cost Management for University Libraries
Financial autonomy, global budgets, budgeting, decentralized resources management – new challenges in financing and cost management confront not only academic libraries, but also all other...
Publication - 5 December 2011
Tags: Academic libraries, Cost Management, Publications
- Models of cooperation in U.S., Latin American and Caribbean libraries
"Models of Cooperation in U.S., Latin American and Caribbean Libraries" considers library cooperation in the context of "The Americas," a name given to the geographic,...
Publication - 5 December 2011
Tags: Access to information, Cooperative projects, Publications, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Continuing professional education for the information society (2002)
In the "information society" first qualifications provide no more than a starting point in professional life. The IFLA continuing professional courses reflect the increasing importance...
Publication - 5 December 2011
Tags: Satellite Meeting papers/presentations, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
- Libraries in the Information Society
"Libraries in the Information Society" aims to bring together works related to the changing role of the library as a social institution in the emerging information society. The thematic...
Publication - 5 December 2011
Tags: Publications
- An attempt to understand what the proposed Internet filtering system in Turkey means
[PDF] As of March 2011, Reporters Without Borders would include Turkey on its 2011 list of 16 countries "under surveillance" (the less serious of two Internet censorship lists...
Publication - 19 November 2011
Tags: Access to information, Censorship, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Marketing library and information services: International perspectives
The marketing of library services is an essential agenda item for almost all kinds of libraries all over the world. In this volume 47 experts from 20 countries address the issue through 40...
Publication - 18 November 2011
Tags: Library marketing, Management, Publications, Management and Marketing
- IFLA's First Fifty Years: Achievement and challenge in international librarianship
After half a century's existence an international organization - now a large one - has its history to relate, and when this space of time has been marked by war and destruction, as well as by...
Publication - 9 November 2011
Tags: Publications
- Management, marketing and promotion of library services based on statistics, analyses and evaluation
Rapid developments in information technology and media have resulted in increasingly diverse strategies for information retrieval by readers and users. The duty to cope with this phenomenon and to...
Publication - 8 November 2011
Tags: Publications, Management and Marketing
- Changing Roles of NGOs in the Creation, Storage, and Dissemination of Information in Developing Countries
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are growing exponentially. In 1993, the Yearbook of International Organizations listed 16,000 internationally recognized NGOs. By 2004, this number was 63,...
Publication - 8 November 2011
Tags: Development, Preservation, Publications, Social Science Libraries
- Law Libraries Strategic Plan
The Action Plans are aligned with IFLA's Strategic Plans and Priority Activities for 2010-2011. 2019-2020 2018-2019 2017-2018 2016-2017 2015-...
Publication - 14 October 2011
Tags: Action plans, Law Libraries
- Papers on Art Library Topics
The History of Art Libraries in Canada (in English and French) The realities of subject indexing in art libraries
Publication - 11 October 2011
Tags: Art Libraries, Publications
- Towards Media and Information Literacy Indicators
Background Document of the Expert Meeting 4-6 November 2010, Bangkok, Thailand Developing a Global Framework for a topic as broad and complex as Information Literacy-Media Literacy or,...
Publication - 12 August 2011
Tags: Reports, Information Literacy
- Report from the IPU / ASGP / IFLA Seminar
2) Report from the IPU / ASGP / IFLA Seminar: "Informing democracy: Building capacity to meet parliamentarian's information and knowledge needs" - Geneva...
Publication - 9 August 2011
Tags: Reports, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- History of Chairs and Papers Presented
1932-2009 A comprehensive overview of LSN Presidents / Rapporteur Générals / Chairs, original and subsequent committee names, and Papers, reports and poster sessions presented at...
Publication - 2 August 2011
Tags: Publications, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- LSN: A Historical Overview
1932-2009 In late 2008, IFLA approved a proposal by the Libraries Serving Disadvantage Persons Section (LSDP) to rename it Library Services to People with Special Needs (LSN). As was the...
Publication - 2 August 2011
Tags: Publications, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- Information Literacy State of the Art reports
Colombia (English) by Alejandro Uribe Tirado & Leonardo Machett's Penagos Colombia (Español) by Alejandro Uribe Tirado & Leonardo Machett's Penagos France by Agnes...
Publication - 25 July 2011
Tags: Reports, Information Literacy
- Open Access to STM Information: Trends, Models and Strategies for Libraries
This book contains a plethora of different viewpoints and research results from all over the world, bringing them together to provide a global perspective on the various issues that comprise...
Publication - 22 July 2011
Tags: Copyright, Open access, Publications
- Integrating the Information Literacy Logo: A Marketing Manual
Draft — December 2009 IFLA - Information Literacy Section / UNESCO Prepared by Jesús Lau Universidad Veracruzana Veracruz (Mexico) Jesús...
Publication - 18 July 2011
Tags: Guidelines, Information Literacy
- ISBD: International Standard Bibliographic Description Consolidated Edition
This is the new edition of the first consolidated ISBD that was published in 2007. The first years of usage have led to interesting and useful corrections and additions. Many cataloguers and...
Publication - 14 July 2011
Tags: Cataloguing, Standards
- Subject Access; Preparing for the Future
This volume contains the proceedings of a special conference held in Florence, August 2009. The theoretical and methodological aspects of rethinking semantic access to information and knowledge...
Publication - 14 July 2011
Tags: Publications, Subject Analysis and Access
- Global Perspectives on School Libraries Projects and Practices
Education for all can be more effectively provided through the services, programmes and activities of the school library tailored to the needs of the school community. This inspiring book can...
Publication - 14 July 2011
Tags: Publications, School Libraries
- Venezuela's National Library as the Nucleus of a National Library System (IABNSB) in the 20th century
English | Español A Prologue of Sorts In late 2010, I prepared the following text about Venezuela's Instituto Autónomo Biblioteca Nacional y Sevicios de Bibliotecas (IABNSB). I was...
Publication - 29 June 2011
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Knowledge society, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- 50th Anniversary Leaflet Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section (from year 2009)
Children and young adults services: a voyage in past, present and future Half a century for and with librarians all over the world! We started in Brussels in 1955 — we...
Publication - 7 June 2011
Tags: Leaflets, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) - A Conceptual Model
The purpose of authority control is to ensure consistency in representing a value - a name of a person, a place name, or a term or code representing a subject - in the elements used as...
Publication - 30 May 2011
Tags: FRSAD, Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data, Standards, Subject Analysis and Access
- Marketing Libraries in Web 2.0 World
Marketing the 21st century library and information organization to its new age customers using Web 2.0 tools is a hot topic. These proceedings focus on the marketing applications and (non-...
Publication - 30 May 2011
Tags: Library marketing, Publications, Management and Marketing
- Newspapers: Legal Deposit and Research in the Digital Era
The volume comprises the contributions to three conferences, on legal deposit in a digital environment, on web harvesting and archiving, as well as newspapers in the context of the Mediterranean....
Publication - 26 April 2011
Tags: Publications, News Media
- Treaty Proposal on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives
In 2004, Chile recommended that the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) undertake a review of the current state of...
Publication - 14 April 2011
Tags: Archives, WIPO, Drafts, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Report of the Public Access to Health Information Workshop in Mozambique
[PDF] Public Access to Health Information Workshop, Maputo, Mozambique, 15th and 16th March 2011 This report deals with a workshop funded by IFLA and jointly managed by IFLA and Phi....
Publication - 4 April 2011
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Mozambique, Reports, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- The role of Information Technology in defeating the Arab regimes: Facebook 2-0 Arab Presidents
[PDF] In January 2011, Arab countries and the entire world followed what happened in Tunisia and Egypt. Two Arabic regimes were step down in the same month. On January 14, 2011; the Tunisian...
Publication - 29 March 2011
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Egypt, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- The Ethics of Librarianship: An International Survey
This book brings together papers on professional ethics for library and information services from 17 countries—from Argentina to Uganda—approaching professional concerns and responses...
Publication - 28 March 2011
Tags: Access to information, Code of Ethics, Transparency, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- How to organise Conferences, Satellite Meetings and Training Seminars
These Guidelines are meant to be continuously updated, so that experiences from each satellite Meeting and Training seminar are added. Download: MS Word PDF Last Update: March 2011,...
Publication - 25 March 2011
Tags: Guidelines, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Using Research to Promote Literacy and Reading in Libraries: Guidelines for Librarians
Using research to promote literacy and reading in libraries: Guidelines for librarians prepared by Lesley Farmer and Ivanka Stricevic The Hague, IFLA Headquarters, 2011. – 28p. 30 cm (...
Publication - 15 March 2011
Tags: Guidelines, Literacy and Reading
- UNIMARC & Friends: Charting the New Landscape of Library Standards
With the expansion of the World Wide Web during the last decade, libraries and their standards face an ever more complex environment, with new types, genres and forms of information resources....
Publication - 22 February 2011
Tags: Publications, UNIMARC
- ISBD: International Standard Bibliographic Description
Recommended by the ISBD Review Group Approved by the Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloguing Section Preliminary Consolidated Edition Munich: K.G. Saur, 2007 ISBN 978-3-598-24280-9 (...
Publication - 21 February 2011
Tags: Publications
- The New Press and Media Act in Hungary
In December 2010 Hungary's Parliament passed a law which threatens fines on media who engage in "unbalanced coverage". The following article written by FAIFE Chair Kai Ekholm...
Publication - 18 February 2011
Tags: Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Women's Issues at IFLA: Equality, Gender and Information on Agenda
This is a compilation of approximately 30 papers given during the IFLA conferences during the 1990s. The articles have in common that they focus on the position of women in (international)...
Publication - 13 February 2011
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Women’s issues, Publications, Women, Information and Libraries
- Libraries as Places: Buildings for the 21st Century
This book contains the Proceedings of the 13th Seminar of IFLA's Library Buildings and Equipment Section, which was this time co-organised with IFLA's Public Libraries Section. The event took...
Publication - 13 February 2011
Tags: Publications, Library Buildings and Equipment
- e-Learning for Management and Marketing in Libraries
This publication reflects the content and richness of the IFLA satellite meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2003. It was devoted to e-learning for the marketing and management of libraries and...
Publication - 13 February 2011
Tags: Publications, Management and Marketing
- Continuing professional development - Preparing for new roles in libraries: a voyage of discovery (2004)
The papers collected in this volume have been selected from the proceedings of the Sixth World Conference on Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning for the Library and...
Publication - 13 February 2011
Tags: Satellite Meeting papers/presentations, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
- The Virtual Customer: a new paradigm for improving customer relations in libraries and information services
O cliente virtual: um novo paradigma para melhorar o relacionamento entre clientes e serviços de informação e bibliotecas L'usager virtuel: un nouveau paradigme pour amé...
Publication - 13 February 2011
Tags: Publications, Management and Marketing
- Librarianship as a Bridge to an Information and Knowledge Society in Africa
Knowledge Management was the theme of the Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern African Library and Information Associations (SCECSAL XVII) in 2006. This selection of conference...
Publication - 13 February 2011
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Knowledge management, Publications
- Library Management and Marketing in a Multicultural World
The papers collected in this volume were presented at the conference entitled Library Management and Marketing in a Multicultural World in Shanghai, China from August 16–17, 2006, held...
Publication - 13 February 2011
Tags: Publications, Management and Marketing
- What is the effect of WikiLeaks for Freedom of Information?
[PDF] Introduction WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organization working for transparency which publishes news leaks based on their ethical, historical and political significance....
Publication - 18 January 2011
Tags: Censorship, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Funktionale Anforderungen an Normdaten (2010)
Dieses Buch stellt einen Teil der Erweiterung und Entwicklung der Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records dar. Es enthält eine weitergehende Analyse der Merkmale...
Publication - 3 January 2011
Tags: Cataloguing, Publications
- Early Printed Books as Material Objects
The papers collected in this volume discuss descriptive methods and present conclusions relevant for the history of the book production and reception. Books printed in Europe in the 15th and 16th...
Publication - 3 January 2011
Tags: Publications, Rare Books and Special Collections
- Digital Library Futures: User perspectives and institutional strategies
Initiatives at a cross-cultural level, where libraries, museums and archives work together in creating digital libraries, and making their cultural heritage collections available online, are...
Publication - 3 January 2011
Tags: Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital Libraries, Publications
- FAIFE Newsletter
August 2013 July 2012 December 2011 June 2011 February 2011 October 2010
Publication - 22 October 2010
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Newsletters, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Guidelines for Library Services to Deaf People 2nd Edition
These guidelines are meant to inform librarians about the library and information needs of deaf people and pertain to all libraries that have deaf persons as any portion of their clientele. They...
Publication - 17 October 2010
Tags: Deaf, Guidelines, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- Guidelines for Libraries Serving Hospital Patients and the Elderly and Disabled in Long-Term Care Facilities
Background During the course of its preliminary research, the working group was struck with how the concept of a hospital library differs so in different parts of the world. It found, for...
Publication - 17 October 2010
Tags: Guidelines, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- Guidelines for Authority Records and References (2001)
Revision of: Guidelines for authority and reference entries / recommended by the Working Group on an International Authority System ; approved by the Standing Committees of the IFLA Section on...
Publication - 17 October 2010
Tags: Guidelines, Cataloguing
- Guidelines for Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) Displays (2005)
Existing Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs) demonstrate differences in the range and complexity of their functional features, terminology, and help facilities. While many libraries already...
Publication - 17 October 2010
Tags: Guidelines, Cataloguing
- Guidelines for Library-Based Literacy Programs
Introduction The IFLA Section on Literacy and Reading is pleased to present some practical suggestions for library staff who would like to help our society become more literate. We believe...
Publication - 16 October 2010
Tags: Guidelines, Literacy and Reading
- Guidelines for Audiovisual and Multimedia Materials in Libraries and other Institutions (2003 version – Retired)
The Guidelines are currently under revision. Please see the AVMS Publications webpage for access. This set of guidelines, for audiovisual and multimedia materials in libraries of all...
Publication - 16 October 2010
Tags: Audiovisual and Multimedia Materials, Storage and Handling, Guidelines, Audiovisual and Multimedia
- Guidelines for Library Services to Persons with Dyslexia
NOTE: 2nd Revised & extended edition now available Within the last ten years there has in many countries been an increasing interest in dyslexia – or specific learning...
Publication - 16 October 2010
Tags: Dyslexia, Guidelines, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- Guidelines for Legal Deposit Legislation
A revised, enlarged and updated edition of the 1981 publication by Dr. Jean LUNN IFLA Committee on Cataloguing The role of national libraries in ensuring universal and equitable access...
Publication - 16 October 2010
Tags: depository libraries, information/library legislation, international instruments, legal deposit, Guidelines, National Libraries
- School Libraries Section Leaflet 2016
The IFLA School Libraries Section concerns itself with the improvement and development of school libraries worldwide, advocacy for qualified and adequate staffing for school libraries,...
Publication - 17 September 2010
Tags: Advocacy, Leaflets, School Libraries
- Imageline Scope and Feasibility Report
This document reports the results and findings of a study that assessed the feasibility of Imageline—an international Web gateway to be collaboratively developed by the members of the IFLA...
Publication - 17 September 2010
Tags: Art Libraries, Reports
- Library Trends
Library Trends 58 (4) Spring 2010: The Purpose, Present Situation and Future of the Parliamentary Library. Edited by Gro Sandgrind and Hermina G.B. Anghelescu. https://www.ideals.illinois...
Publication - 10 September 2010
Tags: Publications, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- M&M Publications
Flaten, T. (2006). Management, marketing and promotion of library services based on statistics, analyses and evaluation. Munich: K.G. Saur. Gupta, D. (2006). Marketing library and information...
Publication - 30 August 2010
Tags: Publications, Management and Marketing
- Richtlinien für die OPAC-Anzeige (2010)
Die Richtlinien für die OPAC-Anzeige sollen Bibliotheken und ähnlichen Institutionen anregen, die Bildschirmanzeigen ihrer OPACs so zu gestalten, dass diese den Bedürfnissen der...
Publication - 24 August 2010
Tags: Guidelines, Cataloguing
- Mobile Library Guidelines
Mobile Library Guidelines Revision by a working group of the IFLA Public Libraries Section, co-ordinated by Ian Stringer The Hague, IFLA Headquarters, 2010. - 73 p. 30 cm (IFLA Professional...
Publication - 24 August 2010
Tags: mobile libraries, Guidelines, Public Libraries
- Multilingual Dictionary of Cataloguing Terms and Concepts (MulDiCat)
The Multilingual dictionary of cataloguing terms and concepts contains definitions for many terms and concepts used by the library cataloguing community. Terms and definitions are available in...
Publication - 24 August 2010
Tags: Multilingualism, Subject Analysis and Access, Guidelines, Cataloguing
- IFLA Library Statistics Manifesto
The initiative for this document was taken by IFLA President Claudia Lux at the Section's conference in Montréal, Canada in August 2008. The idea is to have a certified document about...
Publication - 18 August 2010
Tags: Manifestos, Statistics and Evaluation
- International Cooperation Checklist
International Cooperation Checklist [PDF]
Publication - 27 July 2010
Tags: Guidelines, National Organizations and International Relations (NOIR)
- International Projects Checklist
International Projects Checklist [PDF]
Publication - 27 July 2010
Tags: Guidelines, National Organizations and International Relations (NOIR)
- Mission and/or Vision Statements of Government Libraries Worldwide
Within recent years the Government Libraries Section of the International federation of Library Associations (IFLA) was contacted by two libraries for viable examples of mission and/or vision...
Publication - 27 July 2010
Tags: Management, mission, mission statement, planification, vision, vision statement, Statements, Government Libraries
- IFLA Public Library Service Guidelines
The public library is the prime community access point designed to respond to a multitude of ever-changing information needs. These guidelines are framed to provide assistance to library...
Publication - 14 July 2010
Tags: Service Guidelines, Guidelines, Public Libraries
- Report Survey on quality assurance models in Library and Information Science (LIS) programs
Report Survey on quality assurance models in Library and Information Science (LIS) programs
Publication - 12 July 2010
Tags: Education and training, Publications
- Model National Interlibrary Loan Code
[Português] First agreed by IFLA 1983 Revised 2000 This model national code for interlibrary loan and document supply was first established in 1983 by the IFLA Office...
Publication - 1 July 2010
Tags: Document Delivery and Resource Sharing, Publications
- Social Science Libraries: Interdisciplinary Collections, Services, Networks
This volume focuses on practical and empirical accounts of organizational change in the social sciences and impacts upon the professional skills, collections, and services within social science...
Publication - 28 June 2010
Tags: Interdisciplinary collections, Networks, Social Science Libraries, Publications, Social Science Libraries
- World Guide to Library, Archive, and Information Science Associations (3rd edition)
This handbook provides thorough, up-to-date information on associations concerned with the fields of librarianship, documentation, information science and archives. The third, completely revised...
Publication - 28 June 2010
Tags: Archives, Guides, Library associations, Publications
- Moving In, Moving Up, and Moving On: Strategies for Regenerating the Library & Information Profession
8th World Conference on Continuing Professional Development & Workplace Learning for the Library and Information Professions 18-20 August 2009 Bologna, Italy Programme...
Publication - 27 June 2010
Tags: Information literacy, Italy, Satellite Meeting papers/presentations, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
- Literacy and Reading Section Brochure (English, French, Spanish and Chinese versions)
Literacy and Reading Section Brochure - all the information you need to know about the section and what it does Section Alphabétisation et Lecture - Partagez avec nous...
Publication - 9 June 2010
Tags: Literacy, Publications, Literacy and Reading
- The History and Cultural Heritage of Chinese Calligraphy, Printing, and Library Work
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
- International Guidelines for Equivalency and Reciprocity of Qualifications for LIS Professionals
Draft guidance document for transparency, equivalency and recognition of qualifications
Publication - 20 March 2010
Tags: Guidelines, Education and Training
- Newsletter of IFLA CLC
Issue 1: January 2010 | 中文
Publication - 19 March 2010
Tags: China, Language Centres, Newsletters
- MLAS Strategic Plan
2016-2017 2010-2011 2008-2009 2006-2007 2004-2005 | Español
Publication - 18 March 2010
Tags: Action plans, action plans, Management of Library Associations
- Key Issues in Building Design
How to get started in planning a project Based on the IFLA Library Buildings and Equipment Section's LibraryBuilding Guidelines published in 2007, this short publication...
Publication - 17 March 2010
Tags: Building design, Guidelines, Library Buildings and Equipment
- IFLA/FAIFE World Report Series
The IFLA/FAIFE World Report Series comprises of two publications, the World Report, published bi-annually, and the Theme Report, published in alternate years. Each year's publication is...
Publication - 17 March 2010
Tags: Access to information, IFLA World Report, Reports, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA Cataloguing Principles: Steps towards an International Cataloguing Code, 3 (2006)
This book contains the proceedings of the third IFLA Meeting of Experts (IME) on an International Cataloguing Code (ICC), which was held in Cairo, Egypt in December 2005. A large number of...
Publication - 12 March 2010
Tags: Guidelines, Cataloguing
- IFLA Cataloguing Principles: Steps towards an International Cataloguing Code, 2 (2005)
This book contains the proceedings of the second IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code, which was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in August 2004. A large number of...
Publication - 12 March 2010
Tags: Guidelines, Cataloguing
- IFLA Cataloguing Principles: Steps towards an International Cataloguing Code (2004)
This book contains the proceedings of the First IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code, which was held at Die Deutsche Bibliothek, the German National Library at Frankfurt/...
Publication - 12 March 2010
Tags: Guidelines, Cataloguing
- IFLA/UNESCO Manifesto for Digital Libraries
Bridging the Digital Divide: making the world’s cultural and scientific heritage accessible to all The digital divide is an information divide Bridging the digital divide is...
Publication - 10 March 2010
Tags: A2K, Access to information, Digital divide, Digital libraries, Digitisation, Interoperability, MDGs, Sustainability, Digital Libraries, Manifestos
- Manifiesto de las IFLA/UNESCO Sobre las Bibliotecas Digitales
Colmar la brecha digital: volver accesible a todos el patrimonio mundial cultural y científico La brecha digital es una brecha de información Subsanar la brecha...
Publication - 10 March 2010
Tags: A2K, Access to information, Digital divide, Digital libraries, Digitisation, Interoperability, MDGs, Sustainability, Digital Libraries, Manifestos
- IFLA / UNESCO-Manifest für Digitale Bibliotheken
Die digitale Kluf überbrücken: das kulturelle und wissenschaftliche Erbe der Welt allen zugänglich machen Die digitale Kluft ist eine Informationskluft Die Ü...
Publication - 10 March 2010
Tags: A2K, Access to information, Digital divide, Digital libraries, Digitisation, Interoperability, MDGs, Sustainability, Digital Libraries, Manifestos
- Lernmaterialien für Workshops zum Thema öffentlicher Zugang zu Gesundheitsinformationen durch Bibliotheken
IFLA / FAIFE-Workshop-Moderatoren (Paul Sturges, Marta Terry und Shane Godbolt) besichtigen zusammen mit KEN-AHILA-Mitgliedern die Arzneiausgabe von Oloishobor im Ngong-Bezirk Kenias w...
Publication - 9 March 2010
Tags: Access to health information, Access to information, Learning materials, Workshop manual, Guidelines, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Learning Materials for workshops on Public Access to Health Information Through Libraries
IFLA/FAIFE Workshop facilitators (Paul Sturges, Marta Terry and Shane Godbolt) and KEN-AHILA members visit Oloishobor Dispensary, Ngong District, Kenya during the pilot workshop on ‘...
Publication - 9 March 2010
Tags: Access to health information, Access to information, Learning materials, Workshop manual, Guidelines, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Materiales de Aprendizaje para Talleres sobre Acceso Público a la Información de Salud a través de las Bibliotecas
IFLA/FAIFE Workshop facilitators (Paul Sturges, Marta Terry and Shane Godbolt) and KEN-AHILA members visit Oloishobor Dispensary, Ngong District, Kenya during the pilot workshop on ‘...
Publication - 9 March 2010
Tags: Access to health information, Access to information, Learning materials, Workshop manual, Guidelines, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Matériel pédagogique pour les ateliers sur l’accès public à l’information sur la santé en bibliothèque
Les “facilitateurs “de l’atelier de FAIFE /IFLA ((Paul Sturges, Marta Terry and Shane Godbolt) et les membres de KEN-AHILA ont visité le dispensaire Oloishobor, du...
Publication - 9 March 2010
Tags: Access to health information, Access to information, Learning materials, Workshop manual, Guidelines, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Publishers and Librarians Promote Freedom of Expression (2002)
IFLA/IPA Joint Press Release 9 October 2002 An international group of librarians and book and journal publishers re-asserted the importance of freedom of expression for democracy,...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Freedom of expression, IFLA/IPA Steering Group, Statements
- IFLA/IPA Joint Statement: IFLA and IPA deplore OFAC regulations limiting the exchange of information materials (2004)
A joint steering group with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the International Publishers' Association (IPA) Representing book and...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Publishing, United States, IFLA/IPA Steering Group, Statements
- Preserving the Memory of the World in Perpetuity: a joint statement on the archiving and preserving of digital information (2002)
中文 | Ελληνικά BACKGROUND Preserving digital information is becoming an increasingly urgent challenge for both libraries and publishers of...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Archiving, Digital preservation, Preservation, IFLA/IPA Steering Group, Statements
- IFLA/IPA Joint Statement on Retraction or Removal of Journal Articles from the Web* (2006)
français | Русский This IFLA/IPA joint statement lays down the consensus on best practices with respect to article retraction or removal from online editorial databases with special...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Censorship, Historical record, Retracted articles, IFLA/IPA Steering Group, Statements
- IFLA/IPA Joint Statement on Orphan Works (2007)
français | Русский June 2007 Increasing attention has been given in recent years to works of which the copyright owner cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Copyright, Orphan works, IFLA/IPA Steering Group, Statements
- Enhancing the Debate on Open Access (2010)
français | العربية A joint statement by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions and the International Publishers Association The debate...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: IPA, Open access, Scholarly publications, IFLA/IPA Steering Group, Statements
- Beacons of the Information Society: The Alexandria Proclamation on Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning
Ελληνικά | Íslenska | Nederlands | Português | српски језик | Slovenčina | Slovenščina Celebrating this week's...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Information Literacy, Information society, Lifelong learning, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society), Statements
- Phares de la société de l'information: La Proclamation d'Alexandrie sur la Maîtrise de l'Information et l'Apprentissage Tout au Long de la Vie
Ελληνικά | Íslenska | Nederlands | Português | српски језик | Slovenčina | Slovenščina Célébrant cette semaine la...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Information Literacy, Information society, Lifelong learning, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society), Statements
- Faros para la Sociedad de la Información: Declaración de Alejandría Sobre la Alfabetización Informacional y el Aprendizaje a lo Largo de la Vida
Ελληνικά | Íslenska | Nederlands | Português | српски језик | Slovenčina | Slovenščina Conmemorando durante esta semana la...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Information Literacy, Information society, Lifelong learning, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society), Statements
- Leuchtfeuer der Informationsgesellschaft: Die Alexandria-Proklamation zu Informationskompetenz und lebenslangem Lernen
Ελληνικά | Íslenska | Nederlands | Português | српски језик | Slovenčina | Slovenščina Bei den aktuellen Feiern zur...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Information Literacy, Information society, Lifelong learning, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society), Statements
- IFLA Position on Internet Governance (2005)
Deutsch | Español | Français | Slovenčina As the peak international professional association concerned with information and library services, IFLA represents...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Access to information, Internet governance, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society), Statements
- Joint Statement on Freedom of Expression (2002)
Slovenčina The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the International Publishers Association (IPA) have for a long period of time promoted the right...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Digital works, Freedom of expression, IFLA/IPA Steering Group, Statements
- Joint IFLA/IPA statement on Freedom of Expression on the Internet (2003)
français | Slovenčina The International Publishers' Association (IPA) and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) state that access...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Censorship, Freedom of access to information, Freedom of expression, IFLA/IPA Steering Group, Statements
- IFLA Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research Documentation [2003]
Slovenčina IFLA (the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) is committed to ensuring the widest possible access to information for all peoples in accordance...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Intellectual property, Open access, Research documentation, Scholarly literature, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Déclaration de l'IFLA sur l'Accès libre à la littérature scientifique et à la documentation de recherche
Slovenčina L'IFLA (Fédération internationale des associations de bibliothécaires et d'institutions) se doit d'assurer l'accès le plus large...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Intellectual property, Open access, Research documentation, Scholarly literature, Statements
- Declaración de la IFLA sobre el Acceso Abierto a la Literatura Académica y Documentación de Investigación
Slovenčina La IFLA (la Federación Internacional de Asociaciones e Instituciones Bibliotecarias) se compromete a garantizar el acceso más amplio posible a la informació...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Intellectual property, Open access, Research documentation, Scholarly literature, Statements
- IFLA-Erklärung über den freien Zugang (Open Access) zu wissenschaftlicher Literatur und zur Forschungsdokumentation
Slovenčina Die IFLA (Internationale Vereinigung bibliothekarischer Verbände und Einrichtungen) setzt sich dafür ein, den größtmöglichen Zugang zu Informationen f...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Intellectual property, Open access, Research documentation, Scholarly literature, Statements
- IFLA-Erklärung zu indigenem traditionellem Wissen
Slovenčina | Ελληνικά Die IFLA (Internationale Vereinigung bibliothekarischer Verbände und Einrichtungen) erklärt, dass der Mensch ein...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Cultural heritage, Indigenous knowledge, Traditional knowledge, Statements
- IFLA Statement on Indigenous Traditional Knowledge
Slovenčina | Ελληνικά IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) declares that human beings have a fundamental...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Cultural heritage, Indigenous knowledge, Traditional knowledge, Statements
- IFLA Declaración sobre el Conocimiento Indígena Tradicional
Slovenčina | Ελληνικά IFLA (Federación Internacional de Asociaciones e Instituciones Bibliotecarias) declara que los seres humanos tienen el...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Cultural heritage, Indigenous knowledge, Traditional knowledge, Statements
- IFLA Déclaration sur le savoir indigène
Slovenčina | Ελληνικά IFLA (Fédération internationale des associations de bibliothécaires et d'institutions) proclame le...
Publication - 2 March 2010
Tags: Cultural heritage, Indigenous knowledge, Traditional knowledge, Statements
- FAIFE Strategic Plan
2001-2003 IFLA / FAIFE Programme Scope and Strategic Plan adopted by IFLA's Executive Board, 21 August 1998, Amsterdam. Action Plan adopted by IFLA / FAIFE Committee, 26 August 1999,...
Publication - 28 February 2010
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- FAIFE Annual Report
2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
Publication - 28 February 2010
Tags: Annual reports, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA Cataloguing Principles: Steps towards an International Cataloguing Code, 4 (2007)
These are the results of the 4th IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code, held in Seoul, Korea, in August 2006 and the book forms a further step in the process led by Barbara...
Publication - 22 February 2010
Tags: Guidelines, Cataloguing
- World Guide to Library, Archive, and Information Science Associations (2nd edition)
This handbook provides thorough, up-to-date information on associations concerned with the fields of librarianship, documentation, information science and archives. The second, completely revised...
Publication - 15 February 2010
Tags: Publications
- Functional Requirements for Authority Data (2009)
The FRAD Final Report was first published in print in 2009 by K.G. Saur as volume 34 of the IFLA Series on Bibliographic Control. English FRAD 2009 as amended and corrected...
Publication - 20 January 2010
Tags: Publications, FRANAR (Functional Requirements of Authority Numbering and Records)
- Asia and Oceania Section Newsletter
June 2014 | December 2014 June 2013 | December 2013 June 2012 | December 2012 June 2011 | December 2011 June 2010 | December 2010...
Publication - 13 January 2010
Tags: Asia and Oceania, Publications, Asia and Oceania, Newsletters
- Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section Newsletter
The Section of Libraries for Children and Young Adults issues a regular newsletter for members containing news of children's issues worldwide. There are also news of conferences and projects...
Publication - 8 January 2010
Tags: Newsletters, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- Feasibility of International Guidelines for Equivalency and Reciprocity of Qualifications for LIS Professionals
Feasibility of International Guidelines for Equivalency and Reciprocity of Qualifications for LIS Professionals
Publication - 23 December 2009
Tags: Publications, Education and Training
- CLM Country Reports (2006 onwards)
Read about changes in national copyright legislation, lobby & educational activities, law cases, and strategic plans for the future: 2014 Argentina...
Publication - 17 December 2009
Tags: Country reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- CLM Annual Reports and Reports to the Council (Archive 2001 - 2007)
Annual Reports 2007 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 Reports to Council 2007: Report to Council, Durban, South Africa...
Publication - 17 December 2009
Tags: Annual reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Guidelines for Legislative Libraries
The scale of change in the provision of information and research services since the original edition of this guide (published 1993), in particular the development of the Internet, meant...
Publication - 15 December 2009
Tags: Legislative Libraries, Guidelines, Publications, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- Acquisition and Collection Development Action Plan
2020-2021 (Open Access Publishing) 2019-2020 (Focus Area - Collection Assessment) 2019-2020 (Focus Area - Open Access Publishing) 2018-2019 2017-2018...
Publication - 29 November 2009
Tags: Action plans, Acquisition and Collection Development
- LSN Section Newsletter
2020 August PDF March PDF 2010 June (Issue 70) — PDF | Word 2009 December (Issue 69) — PDF | Word...
Publication - 27 November 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- Government Libraries Strategic Plan
2012-2013 2011-2012 2010-2011 2009-2010 2005-2007 2004-2005
Publication - 24 November 2009
Tags: Action plans, Government Libraries
- Guidelines for Libraries of Government Departments
Several years of brainstorming, planning, meetings, writing, and hearings have culminated with this working guide for managers and line staff of government libraries. Guidelines are just that-...
Publication - 24 November 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Government Libraries
- Measuring Quality : Performance Measurement in Libraries 2nd revised edition
The first edition of this handbook appeared in 1996 and dealt with academic libraries. It gained wide acceptance and was translated into five other languages. After ten years, this new...
Publication - 11 November 2009
Tags: Performance Measurement, Guidelines, Statistics and Evaluation
- World Guide to Library, Archive and Information Science Education
The third edition of this guidebook lists education institutions world-wide where professional education and training programmes are carried out at a tertiary level of education or higher...
Publication - 11 November 2009
Tags: Education, Information Science, Publications, Education and Training
- International Genealogy and Local History : Papers presented by the Genealogy and Local History Section
This book contains the papers delivered at sessions organised by the Genealogy and Local History Section at the annual conferences of the International Federation of Library Associations and...
Publication - 11 November 2009
Tags: Publications, Local History and Genealogy
- Information Literacy: International Perspectives
This book provides a comprehensive update on the status of information literacy activities around the world, particularly from countries where no related literature has been published in English....
Publication - 11 November 2009
Tags: Publications, Information Literacy
- Managing Technologies and Automated Library Systems in Developing Countries: Open Source vs. Commercial Options
The theme of this meeting was the management of technologies and library automated systems in the context of developing countries, and in the light of recent developments concerning especially open...
Publication - 11 November 2009
Tags: Publications, Information Technology
- Libraries and Information Services Towards the Attainment of the UN Millennium Development Goals
The United Nations Millennium declarations of 2002 set eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015. The high poverty levels in most African countries make many aware...
Publication - 11 November 2009
Tags: Access to information, Central and Southern Africa Library and Information Associations, Development, Libraries for development, MDGs, SCECSAL, Standing Conference of East, United Nations Millennium Develoment Goals, Publications
- Manuel UNIMARC. Format bibliographique
This manual is the French translation of the second edition of UNIMARC Manual: bibliographic format published in English in 1994 and completed by 5 updates published from 1996 to 2005. This 5th...
Publication - 11 November 2009
Tags: Publications, UNIMARC
- Statistics and Evaluation Section Strategic Plan (Archive)
2017-2018 2012-2014 2010-2011 2008-2009 2006-2007
Publication - 6 November 2009
Tags: Action plans, Statistics and Evaluation
- IFLA Cataloguing Principles: Steps towards an International Cataloguing Code, 5 (2008)
IFLA Cataloguing Principles: Steps towards an International Cataloguing Code, 5. Report from the 5th IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code, Pretoria, South Africa,...
Publication - 3 November 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Cataloguing
- UNIMARC Manual – Bibliographic Format, 3rd ed.
The third edition succeeds the fifth update of second edition. One of the main features has been the adoption of new and revised international standards, notably the International Standard...
Publication - 3 November 2009
- UNIMARC formats and related documentation
UNIMARC Strategic Programme is responsible for the preparation and dissemination of IFLA publications and other documentation regarding UNIMARC UNIMARC Bibliographic The...
Publication - 3 November 2009
Tags: Publications, UNIMARC
- UNIMARC Strategic Programme Reports
Annual Report 2018-2019 Activity Report 2016 Activity Report 2015 Activity Report 2014 Activity Report 2013 Activity Report 2012...
Publication - 3 November 2009
- UNIMARC Action Plan
2017-2018 2007-2009 Issued with ICABS Strategic Plan: 2005-2006 2004-2005
Publication - 3 November 2009
Tags: Action plans, UNIMARC
- Art Libraries Section Satellite Meeting Papers, Florence 2009
Padua on the Praries CENOBIUM: Romanesque Cloister Capitals The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz Illustrating the Illustrators - The V&A Illustration Awards...
Publication - 22 October 2009
Tags: Congress papers
- Strategic plans CLM 2002-2003 (Archive)
Mission The mission of CLM is to support the professional priorities of IFLA relating to copyright and other legal matters, which might have an impact on library and information services. In...
Publication - 12 October 2009
Tags: Action plans, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- IFLA Journal
IFLA Journal is an international journal publishing peer reviewed articles on library and information services and the social, political and economic issues that impact access...
Publication - 9 October 2009
Tags: IFLA Journal, Journal articles
- IFLA Series on Bibliographic Control
Contact: publications@ifla.org ISSN: 1868-8438 The series was formerly known as the UBCIM series (Universal Bibliographic Control and...
Publication - 9 October 2009
Tags: Bibliographic Control, Bibliography, Publications
- IFLA Publications Series
Series Editor: Janine Schmidt Frequency: 2-3 titles per year ISSN: 0344-6891 Recent releases...
Publication - 9 October 2009
Tags: Publications
- International Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control (ICBC)
International Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control (ICBC) ceased publication in 2010. For information about alternative publication opportunities within IFLA on cataloguing and bibliographic...
Publication - 9 October 2009
Tags: Bibliographic Control. International Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control, Bibliography, Cataloguing, ICBC, Journal articles
- Web 2.0 and Library Services for Young Adults: an introduction for librarians
The document is an introduction for librarians new to Web 2.0 and Social Media, and who are interested in using publicly accessible social media tools to serve Young Adults in any types of...
Publication - 23 September 2009
Tags: Social Media, Web 2.0, Young people, Guidelines, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- Keynotes and presentations Rome pre-conference 2009; Raising a nation of readers
Rome Conference list of speakers Kerstin Keller-Loibl, The necessity of language and reading promotion in early childhood: experiences at public libraries in Germany Giovanna Malgaroli ,"...
Publication - 23 September 2009
Tags: Congress papers, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- Keynotes and presentations Milan Congress 2009
IFLA Conference Paper PowerPoint slides Kerstin Drotner; Children’s media culture: a key to libraries of the future? Karen Bertrams; Library of 100 talents...
Publication - 21 September 2009
Tags: Congress papers, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- Newspapers Section Newsletter
After 2009, the News Media Section discontinued newsletter publication. No.19 - April 2009 No.18 - July 2008 No.17 - February 2008 No.16 - July 2007...
Publication - 17 September 2009
Tags: Newsletters, News Media
- Newspapers Section Annual Report
2018-2019 2015-16 2015 2013 2003-2004
Publication - 17 September 2009
Tags: Annual reports, News Media
- Newspapers Section Strategic Plan
Action Plan 2019-2020, Focus Areas 1 and 2 Action Plan 2017-18 2008-2009 2006-2007
Publication - 16 September 2009
Tags: Action plans, News Media
- Strategies for regenerating the library and information profession (2009)
This volume comprises papers prepared for the 8th World Conference on Continuing Professional Development (Bologna, Italy, 18-20 August 2009). Within the broad theme of creating a positive work...
Publication - 2 September 2009
Tags: Satellite Meeting papers/presentations, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
- Leaflet MLAS Section
Languages available: Français | Русский
Publication - 13 August 2009
Tags: Leaflets, Management of Library Associations
- Information Literacy Section Newsletter
Note: the IFLA Information Literacy Section now has a blog, which has taken the place of the IL Newsletter. July 2010 February 2010 June 2009 January...
Publication - 13 August 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Information Literacy
- National Bibliographies in the Digital Age: Guidance and New Directions (2009)
The changes brought about by the World Wide Web and the explosion of electronic media have called into question many of the assumptions on which national bibliographies have been founded. The need...
Publication - 11 August 2009
Tags: Bibliography, national bibliographies, Bibliography, Publications
- The Public Library Service: the IFLA/UNESCO Guidelines for Development
2nd EDITION NOW AVAILABLE! The Public Library Section's major project for 4 years was, the production of new Guidelines and Standards for public libraries. Prepared by a...
Publication - 5 August 2009
Tags: Development, Standards, Guidelines, Publications, Public Libraries
- Towards Information Literacy Indicators
Conceptual framework paper With a list of potential international indicators for information supply, access and supporting skills by UNESCO Institute for Statistics Languages available:...
Publication - 3 August 2009
Tags: Publications, Information Literacy
- UNIMARC Manual – Authorities Format, 3rd ed.
The UNIMARC Authorities Format was designed in the early 1990s to allow the creation of authority and reference records for the management of controlled access points in a bibliographic...
Publication - 3 August 2009
- Public Libraries, Archives and Museums: Trends in Collaboration and Cooperation
This report examines the recent trends in collaboration and cooperation between public libraries, archives and museums. In many cases, the shared or similar missions of the institutions reviewed...
Publication - 3 August 2009
Tags: Publications, Public Libraries
- Academic and Research Libraries Section Newsletter
Note: the IFLA Academic and Research Libraries Section now has a blog. Number 47, December 2011 Number 46, July 2011 Number 45, December 2010 Number 44,...
Publication - 29 July 2009
Tags: Academic and Research Libraries, Newsletters
- Chair's Report 2005-2007
[PDF – English]
Publication - 29 July 2009
Tags: Reports
- Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section Newsletter
2021 February (English) 2020 July (English) February (English) 2019 July (English;Spanish) February (English;...
Publication - 21 July 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- Library and Research Services for Parliaments: Action Plans
2020-2021 Action Plan 2019-2020 Action Plan 2018-2019 Action Plan 2017-2018 Action Plan 2016-2017 Action & Communications Plan 2015-...
Publication - 21 July 2009
Tags: Action plans, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section Annual Reports
2019-2020 2018-2019 2017-2018 2016-2017 2015-2016 2004-2005 2003-2004 2002-2003 2001-2002 2000-2001...
Publication - 21 July 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- CPDWL Section Newsletter
Current 2021: January l June 2020: January | June Archive 2019: January | June 2018: January |...
Publication - 20 July 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
- CPDWL Annual Reports
Current 2019 - 2020 Archive 2018 - 2019 2017 - 2018 2016 - 2017 January 2015 - August 2016 2015 2014 2004...
Publication - 20 July 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
- Leaflet Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section
2019 Presentation - PowerPoint (.ppx) file / PDF file Tunisia Case Study - PDF File 2017 PDF file 2012 PDF file...
Publication - 20 July 2009
Tags: Leaflets, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- CPDWL Action Plan
Current 2020-2021 Archive 2019-2020 2018-2019 2017-2018 2016-2017 2015-2016 2013-2014 2010-...
Publication - 20 July 2009
Tags: Action plans, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
- School Libraries Section Action Plan
2020-2021 2015-2017 2013-2015 (Updated September 2014) 2013-2015 (Updated) 2013-2015 2012-2013 Updated Action Plan 2012-2013 (Action Plan...
Publication - 10 July 2009
Tags: Action plans, School Libraries
- Guidelines on Information Literacy for Lifelong Learning
Final Draft These guidelines have been compiled by the Information Literacy Section (InfoLit) of IFLA with the aim of providing a pragmatic framework for those professionals who need or...
Publication - 6 July 2009
Tags: Lifelong learning, Guidelines, Information Literacy
- Literacy and Reading Section Bookmark
Literacy & Reading Section bookmark [PDF]
Publication - 30 June 2009
Tags: Publications, Literacy and Reading
- Literacy and Reading Section Newsletter
Note: the IFLA Literacy and Reading Section now has a blog. No. 32 - August 2012 No. 31 - June 2011 No. 30 - January 2011 No. 29 - June 2010 No. 28 -...
Publication - 30 June 2009
Tags: Literacy, Reading, Reading, Newsletters, Literacy and Reading
- Literacy and Reading Section Action Plan
2020-2021 (Action Plan) 2016-2017 (Action Plan) 2014-2016 (Action Plan) 2010-2011 (Action Plan) 2007-2008 (updated September 2008) 2006-2007:...
Publication - 30 June 2009
Tags: Action plans, Literacy and Reading
- Literacy and Reading Section Annual Report
During 2018 – 2019 members of the Literacy and Reading Standing Committee focused on the development of Engaging in Literacy and Reading Strategies: An IFLA Toolkit for...
Publication - 30 June 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Literacy and Reading
- Literacy for sustainable development. Reading for all: a Pan-African voice for literacy
4th Pan-African Reading For All Conference 22-26 August 2005 Dr. J. Thuli Nhlengetfwa, Swaziland Reading Association Languages available: English
Publication - 29 June 2009
Tags: Publications, Literacy and Reading
- The role of libraries in the creation of literate environments
Krolak, Lisa, Head of Documentation, UNESCO Institute for Education, Hamburg, Germany. March 2005. Languages available: English The EFA Global Monitoring Report 2006 also focussed...
Publication - 29 June 2009
Tags: Publications, Literacy and Reading
- Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section Newsletter
2020 No. 1. LPD Newsletter 2020-1 English Word LPD Newsletter 2020-1 English PDF LPD Newsletter 2020-1 Spanish Word LPD Newsletter...
Publication - 24 June 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section Action Plan
2018-2019 2017-2018 2015-2016 2014-2015 2012-2013 2010-2012 2008-2009 2006-2007 2004-2005 2003-2005
Publication - 24 June 2009
Tags: Action plans, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section Annual Report
2006-2007 2005 2003-2004 2001
Publication - 24 June 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Guidelines created by the World Blind Union (WBU) on how to make the use of PowerPoint and other visual presentations accessible
Complete WBU version Summary by Minna von Zansen and Jenny Craven (IFLA LBS)
Publication - 24 June 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- International report on library and information services for visually impaired people
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, the British Library and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions have today published an international report on the governance...
Publication - 24 June 2009
Tags: Reports, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Designing and Building Integrated Digital Library Systems - Guidelines
The Hague, IFLA Headquarters, 2005. - 67p. 30 cm. ISBN-13 978 - 90-77897-05-4 Libraries have always been a community’s ‘portal’ to information, knowledge and leisure....
Publication - 24 June 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Libraries for the Blind in the Information Age - Guidelines for development
Libraries for the Blind in the Information Age: Guidelines for Development Edited by Rosemary Kavanagh and Beatrice Christensen Sköld 2005 ISBN-13 978 - 90-77897-01-1 Visually...
Publication - 24 June 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- International Directory of Libraries for the Blind
The fourth edition of the International Directory of Libraries for the Blind is printed from a database which was maintained by the Japanese Society for the Rehabilitation of Persons with...
Publication - 24 June 2009
Tags: Publications, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Guidelines for Library Service to Braille Users
Background In November 1994 the Intergovernmental Council of the UNESCO General Information Program approved the new revised text of the UNESCO Manifesto for Public Libraries. The...
Publication - 24 June 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities
- Microfilming for Digitisaton and Optical Character Recognition
Supplement to Guidelines for Newspaper Preservation Microfilming Introduction The Guidelines for the preservation microfilming of newspapers were published by IFLA in 1996 and...
Publication - 17 June 2009
Tags: Guidelines, News Media
- International Guidelines for the Cataloguing of Newspapers
These Guidelines for the cataloguing of newspapers were prepared by the IFLA Section on Serial Publications Working Group on Newspapers. The text was prepared by Hana Komorous with the assistance...
Publication - 17 June 2009
Tags: Guidelines, News Media
- Guidelines for Newspaper Preservation Microfilming
Newspapers are of great interest to a wide variety of library users as an indispensable record of all kinds of information on day to day life in a country or world-wide historical, economic,...
Publication - 17 June 2009
Tags: Microfilm, Guidelines, News Media
- Library Statistics for the 21st Century World
An international collaboration between IFLA, the UNESCO Institute of Statistics and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has developed standards for new library indicators for...
Publication - 17 June 2009
Tags: IFLA, Publications, Statistics and Evaluation
- Global Library and Information Science - a Textbook for Students and Educators
This book presents international librarianship and library science through insightful and well written chapters contributed by experts and scholars from six regions of the world. The role of...
Publication - 17 June 2009
Tags: IFLA, Publications
- Functional Requirements for Authority Data – A Conceptual Model (2009)
This book represents one portion of the extension and expansion of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. FRBR has been published as Nr 19 in the present Series. It contains a...
Publication - 17 June 2009
Tags: Cataloguing, Publications
- Networking for Digital Preservation: Current Practice in 15 National Libraries
Libraries all over the world have to deal with fast growing numbers of digital materials that need to be safeguarded. Publications in digital form, online or on CD, digitised images, and...
Publication - 16 June 2009
Tags: Digital preservation, Networking, Publications
- Newsletters
Note: the IFLA Subject Analysis and Access has a blog. IFLA Metadata Newsletter In 2015 the Subject Analysis and Access Secetion began to publish the IFLA Metadata...
Publication - 15 June 2009
Tags: Indexing, International cooperation, Newsletters, Subject Analysis and Access
- IT Section Strategic Plan & Action Plan
Current 2019-2021 Previous 2018-2019 2017-2018 2016-2017 2013-2015 2012-2013 2010-2011 2008-2009...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Action plans, Information Technology
- Information Technology Section Newsletter - TILT
December 2019 June/July 2019 July 2018 January 2018 July 2017 July 2015 December 2014 July 2014...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Information Technology
- Annual Reports of the Information Technology Section
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2011-2013 2010-2011 2009 2007 2003-2004
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Access to information, Databases, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Information technology, Annual reports, Information Technology
- IFLA Metadata and Bibliography Section Newsletter
The Bibliography Section also hosts the Bibliography Blog. IFLA Metadata Newsletter Since 2015 the Bibliography Section publishes the IFLA Metadata Newsletter jointly...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Bibliography
- Bibliography Section Action Plans
2020-2021 Action Plan 2019-2020 Action Plan 2018-2019 Action Plan 2017-2018 Action Plan 2016-2017 Action Plan 2015-2016 Action Plan 2014-...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Action plans, Bibliography
- Bibliography Section Annual Reports
2019/2020 2018/2019 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2007 2006...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Bibliography, Annual reports, Bibliography
- National Bibliographies in the Digital Age (2009) Summary
Consult the English language summary of the final 2009 print publication National Bibliographies in the Digital Age: Guidance and New Directions. Information on the...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Bibliography, national bibliography, Bibliography, Publications
- Sharing of Bibliographic Information and Resources (2005)
IFLA Bibliographic Standards and Interoperability What is "Interoperability"? Types of Interoperability for Metadata Exchange IFLA Standards That Are...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Bibliographies, Bibliography
- Survey on the state of national bibliographies in Africa (2007)
This paper presents the results of a 2007 survey on national bibliographies in Africa. The survey is a result of an initiative by the IFLA Bibliography Section to gather and update information on...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Africa, Bibliography, national bibliographic agencies, Bibliography, Reports
- Survey on the state of national bibliographies in Asia (2006)
This paper presents the results of a 2006 survey on national bibliographies in Asia. The survey is a result of an initiative by the IFLA Bibliography Section to gather and update information on...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Asia and Oceania, Bibliography, national bibliographic agencies, Bibliography, Reports
- Survey of European National Libraries: Composite Data (2005)
The 2005 survey was prepared to assist the Bibliography Section in gathering more comprehensive information on selection criteria used by national bibliographic agencies in preparing their...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Bibliography, Europe, national bibliography, Bibliography, Reports
- Survey of National CIP Programs: Results and Analysis (2004)
August 2004 The survey was conducted in 2003-2004 by the Library of Congress, using a survey instrument endorsed by the Bibliography Section. Report prepared by John Cello, Chief and...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Cataloguing, CIP, Bibliography, Reports
- Survey on the state of national bibliographies in Latin America (2004)
April 2004 This paper presents the results of a 2004 survey on national bibliographies in Latin America. The survey is a result of an initiative by the IFLA Bibliography Section to...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Bibliography, Latin America and the Caribbean, national bibliographic agencies, Bibliography, Reports
- An examination of national bibliographies and their adherence to ICNBS recommendations (2001)
Reports on a project sponsored by the Bibliography Section to examine national bibliographies world-wide and assess their adoption of the recommendations of the 1998 International Conference...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Bibliography, national bibliographies, Bibliography, Reports
- Changes in the National Bibliographies, 1996-2001
Reports on a survey of national bibliographies carried out by the Bibliography Section in 2001. This survey is a follow up of Robert Holley’s study Results of a ‘Survey on...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Bibliography, national bibliographies, Bibliography, Reports
- International Congress on National Bibliographies (ICNBS) Recommendations
čeština | Dansk | English | Français | Deutsch | Русский | Slovenčina | Español The final recommendations of the ICNBS Background In 1977 Unesco...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Bibliography, Publications
- Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section Action Plan
2021 Action Plan (PDF) 2020 Action Plan (PDF) 2016 Action Plan (PDF) 2015 Action Plan (PDF) 2013-2014 Action Plan (PDF) 2008-2009...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Action plans, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing
- International Resource Sharing and Document Delivery: Principles and Guidelines for Procedure
2009 Revision The shared use of individual library collections is a necessary element of international co-operation by libraries. Just as no library can be self-sufficient in meeting all...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing
- Guidelines for Best Practice in Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery
This leaflet stems from discussions held among members of the Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section of IFLA. It is based on best practices formulated from the following studies...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing
- Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section Newsletter
2013 January: DOCDEL: a blog for the IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section 2009: April 2008: October | April 2007: October | April 2006:...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Document delivery, Newsletters, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing
- Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section Brochure
The Section on Document Delivery and Resource Sharing is the forum in IFLA for libraries and associations concerned with making information in all formats available all over the world through a...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Leaflets, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing
- Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section Annual Report
2015 2013 Chair's Report (Aug. 2013) Treasurer's Report (Aug. 2013) 2009 2008 2007 2001...
Publication - 12 June 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing
- 40 Years of Technology in Libraries: A Brief History of the IFLA Section on Information Technology, 1963/64 - 2003
Created by IFLA in 1963 at the beginning of the commercial computer era, the IFLA Section on Information Technology has led the Federation through changes in computer and communications technology...
Publication - 11 June 2009
Tags: Publications, Information Technology
- Annex A: List of Papers and Workshops, 1964-2003
Annex A: List of Papers and Workshops, 1964-2003
Publication - 11 June 2009
Tags: Publications, Information Technology
- Annex B: IFLA Section on Information Technology Officers, 1963 - 2003
Annex B: IFLA Section on Information Technology Officers, 1963 - 2003
Publication - 11 June 2009
Tags: Publications, Information Technology
- The Impact of Digital Technology on Contemporary and Historic Newspapers
The papers brought together in this highly actual book are grouped around three themes. Not only the physical and digital preservation of newspapers are treated, but also the service and access...
Publication - 10 June 2009
Tags: Conservation and restoration, Conservation et restauration, Digital preservation, IFLA, Numérisation, Publications, News Media
- S&E Newsletter
2013: February 2012: September 2011: July-December 2010: July | January 2009: July 2008: December | July 2007: December | July...
Publication - 10 June 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Statistics and Evaluation
- Guidelines for a Collection Development Policy using the Conspectus Model
This booklet is a brief guide on how to write a collection development policy, making use of the Conspectus methodology. It is the result of the recognition by the IFLA Acquisition and Collection...
Publication - 10 June 2009
Tags: Collection development, Conspectus, Acquisition and Collection Development, Guidelines
- Handbook on the International Exchange of Publications
Since publication of the previous (fourth) edition of this handbook by UNESCO in 1978, drastic technological progress and very important changes in the political-economic sphere have taken place,...
Publication - 10 June 2009
Tags: Handbook, Acquisition and Collection Development, Publications
- Gifts for the Collections: Guidelines for Libraries
Gifts represent an important component of the collection-building activities of libraries. These Guidelines focus exclusively on gifts and donations to library collections, whether pro-actively or...
Publication - 10 June 2009
Tags: Acquisition and Collection Development, Guidelines
- Acquisition And Collection Development Bibliography, 1990-1999
This bibliography was compiled by staff of the Russian State Library on behalf of the IFLA Acquisition and Collection Development Section A Kotelespeldany torveny tervezete.//Konyvtaros.- Evf.44...
Publication - 10 June 2009
Tags: Bibliographies, Acquisition and Collection Development
- Acquisition and Collection Development Section Newsletter (Archived)
Number 43 (October 2011) Number 42 (May 2011) Number 41 (October 2010) Number 40 (May 2010) Number 39 (July 2009) Number 38 (February 2009...
Publication - 10 June 2009
Tags: Acquisition and Collection Development, Newsletters
- Newspaper Collection Management: Printed and Digital Challenges
This volume offers presentations at the most recent events of the IFLA Newspapers Section (Santiago de Chile, May 2007 & Durban, August 2007). The Santiago International Newspaper Conference...
Publication - 10 June 2009
Tags: Conservation and restoration, Digitization, IFLA, Newspapers, Publications, News Media
- Acquisition and Collection Development Section Annual Report
2019-2020 2018-2019 2017-2018 2016-2017 2015-2016 2014 2013 2012 2009-2010 2008-2009 2003-2004...
Publication - 10 June 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Acquisition and Collection Development
- Newspapers of the World Online: U.S. and International Perspectives
Digitisation has been a hot topic in newspaper librarianship for some years now; it came as a godsend for many bulky and space-consuming collections. The major part of this volume comprises the...
Publication - 10 June 2009
Tags: IFLA, Publications, News Media
- International Newspaper Librarianship for the 21st Century
This volume consists of presentations at recent events of the IFLA Newspapers Section in Oslo 2005, Canberra 2005, Buenos Aires 2004, Shanghai 2004, Berlin 2003 and Cape Town 2003. It covers...
Publication - 10 June 2009
Tags: IFLA, Publications, News Media
- Newspapers in Central and Eastern Europe / Zeitungen in Mittel und Osteuropa
This book contains the proceedings of a special IFLA conference held in Berlin in August 2003. The situation of newspaper collections was reviewed in a part of the world that has undergone a...
Publication - 10 June 2009
Tags: IFLA, Publications, News Media
- Newspapers in International Librarianship
This is a compilation of 35 papers given during the IFLA conferences during the 1990s. This is the period that the IFLA Round Table on Newspapers has been active in promoting awareness of...
Publication - 10 June 2009
Tags: Publications, News Media
- Managing the Preservation of Periodicals and Newspapers / Gérer la conservation des périodiques et de la presse
Managing the Preservation of Periodicals and Newspapers / Gérer la conservation des périodiques et de la presse Proceedings of the IFLA Symposium/Actes du Sumposium IFLA Edited by...
Publication - 10 June 2009
Tags: IFLA, Publications, News Media
- Library Theory and Research Section Strategic Plan
Action Plan 2019-2021 2017-2018 2015-2017 2013-2015: English | French 2012-2014: English 2011-2013: English | French...
Publication - 8 June 2009
Tags: Action plans, Library Theory and Research
- Metropolitan Libraries Section Strategic Plan
2010-2011 2006-2007
Publication - 8 June 2009
Tags: Action plans, Metropolitan Libraries
- Metropolitan Libraries Section Newsletter
Annual Statistical Survey Newsletter Fall 2008 INTAMEL Metro (Discontinued in 2002) No. 20 (July 2001) No. 19 (December 2000) | No. 18 (July...
Publication - 8 June 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Metropolitan Libraries
- Brochure Metropolitan Libraries Section
The new brochures will be available soon. The old version (in 7 languages) is available here.
Publication - 8 June 2009
Tags: Publications, Metropolitan Libraries
- Metropolitan Libraries Section Annual Report
2009 2007
Publication - 8 June 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Metropolitan Libraries
- Library Buildings and Equipment Section Action Plans
2017-2018 2016 - 2017 2013-2015 2010-2012 2009-2011 2007-2009 2005-2007 2004-2005
Publication - 8 June 2009
Tags: Action plans, Strategic plan, Library Buildings and Equipment
- IFLA Library Building Guidelines: Developments & Reflections
The information society and the information age are changing library services as well as library premises. This raises questions about what needs to be considered when planning and...
Publication - 8 June 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Library Buildings and Equipment
- Library Buildings in a Changing Environment
Proceedings of the 11th Seminar of IFLA's Library Buildings and Equipment Section Shanghai, China, 1999
Publication - 8 June 2009
Tags: Publications, Library Buildings and Equipment
- Intelligent Library Buildings
Intelligent Library Buildings Proceedings of the 10th Seminar of IFLA's Library Buildings and Equipment Section The Hague, Netherlands, 1997 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Publication - 8 June 2009
Tags: Publications, Library Buildings and Equipment
- Library Buildings and Equipment Section Newsletters
Since 2016 the section uses a blog format. 2014 No. 3 Fall 2014 No. 2 2014 No. 2 Santi Romero Article in Spanish 2014 No. 1 ...
Publication - 8 June 2009
Tags: library buildings, Library buildings and equipment, library equipment, Newsletters, Library Buildings and Equipment
- Library Buildings and Equipment Section Annual Report
2016 - 2017 2015 - 2016 2014 - 2015 2000 1994-1995
Publication - 8 June 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Library Buildings and Equipment
- IFLA Guidelines for Exhibition Loans
The following guidelines on potential loans of collection materials for purposes of exhibition (as distinguished from interlibrary loans for purposes of research) are intended to assist potential...
Publication - 6 June 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Rare Books and Special Collections
- Leaflet Rare Books and Manuscripts Section
Rare books and manuscripts are part of the global cultural heritage. Their significance as intellectual creations, historic collections, and objets d'art exceed boundaries of language, state or...
Publication - 6 June 2009
Tags: Leaflets, Rare Books and Special Collections
- Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Newsletter
2013: January | July 2012: January | July 2011: January | August 2010: January | July 2009: January | August 2008: January | July 2007:...
Publication - 6 June 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Rare Books and Special Collections
- IFLA Digital Reference Guidelines
Introduction The purpose of these guidelines is to promote digital reference best practices on an international basis. The online environment is uniquely suited to consortial models of...
Publication - 6 June 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Reference and Information Services
- Reference and Information Services Action Plans
2018-2019: English 2017-2018: English 2016-2017: English 2011-2013: English 2009-2010: English | Español 2008-2009: English...
Publication - 6 June 2009
Tags: Action plans, Reference and Information Services
- Promotional Bookmarks for Printing
English Français
Publication - 6 June 2009
Tags: Publications, Reference and Information Services
- Reference and Information Services Section Newsletter
Note: the IFLA Reference and Information Services Section now has a blog. Autumn 2011 Summer 2008 February 2007 July 2005, Volume 4 Summer 2004, Volume...
Publication - 6 June 2009
Tags: Reference services, Newsletters, Reference and Information Services
- Reference and Information Services Section Annual Report
2017-2018 2015-2016 2012-2013 2011-2012 2010-2011 2007-2009 2005-2006 2004-2005 2003-2004 2002-2003...
Publication - 6 June 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Reference and Information Services
- IFLA Multilingual Conference Reports
IFLA 2014 Conference Report (Lyon, France) Spanish
Publication - 6 June 2009
Tags: Publications, Law Libraries
- Law Libraries Section Annual Report
2018-2019: English 2016: English 2015: English 2014: English 2013: English 2012: English 2011: English...
Publication - 6 June 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Law Libraries
- Science and Technology Libraries Section Strategic Plan
2015-2017 (Action Plan) 2010-2012 (Action Plan) 2008-2009 2006-2007
Publication - 6 June 2009
Tags: Action plans, Science and Technology Libraries
- The formation and evolution of the IFLA Science and Technology Libraries Section 1978-90
The formation and evolution of the IFLA Science and Technology Libraries Section 1978-90 by Dennis Shaw, IATUL Quarterly Vol.4, No.4, 1990, pp.205-214
Publication - 6 June 2009
Tags: Publications, Science and Technology Libraries
- Science and Technology Libraries Section Newsletter
June 2016 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 June 2010 July 2009 January 2009 July 2008 January 2008...
Publication - 6 June 2009
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- Membership Information Brochure
We invite you to join! Nous vous invitons á rejoindre! Einladung zur Mitarbeit!
Publication - 6 June 2009
Tags: Publications, Science and Technology Libraries
- Science and Technology Libraries Section Annual Report
2012-2013 2010-2011 2009-2010 2008 2006-2007 1997-1998 1994-1995
Publication - 6 June 2009
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- Art Libraries Section Strategic Plan
2017-2018 2016-2017 2015-2016 2012-2013 2010-2011 2006-2007 2004-2005
Publication - 6 June 2009
Tags: Action plans, Art Libraries
- Art Libraries Section Newsletter
2009: No. 63 2008: No. 62 2007: No. 61 | No. 60 2006: No. 59 | No. 58 2005: No. 57 | No. 56 2004: No. 55 | No. 54 2003: No. 53 |...
Publication - 6 June 2009
Tags: Art Libraries, Newsletters
- Leaflet Art Libraries Section
العربية Deutsch English Español français Italiano Português Русский 中...
Publication - 6 June 2009
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- Imageline
Imageline Scope and Feasibility Report Description manual (English) Manuel de description (French) Template [Word Document]
Publication - 6 June 2009
Tags: Art Libraries, Reports
- Art Libraries Section Annual Report
2016-2017 2015-2016 2009-2010 2003-2004 2002-2003 2000-2001 1999-2000
Publication - 6 June 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Art Libraries
- Knowledge Management Section Newsletter
2020 Winter: Number 27 - the web presentation of our newsletter may not be available in all countries. Please find the PDF located here. 2019 Summer:...
Publication - 5 June 2009
Tags: Knowledge management, Newsletters, Knowledge Management
- Knowledge Management Action and Communication Plans
Knowledge Management Action Plan, 2019 - 2021 The IFLA Knowledge Management Section’s Action Plan 2019-2021 aligns with the new structure IFLA adopted. It also aligns with IFLA...
Publication - 5 June 2009
Tags: Action plans, Knowledge Management
- Leaflets and Brochures Knowledge Management Section
KM Section One-pager (English) KM Section Brochure 2017 (English) KM Section Brochure 2016 (Arabic) KM Section Brochure 2016 (Chinese) KM Section...
Publication - 5 June 2009
Tags: Leaflets, Knowledge Management
- KM Section Annual Reports
For the WLIC 2019 the Section decided to organize a satellite meeting together with the SIG DH/DS, a joint open session with the IT Section and the Knowledge Café 2019 with CPDWL, Library...
Publication - 5 June 2009
Tags: Knowledge management, Annual reports, Knowledge Management
- Structures of Corporate Name Headings (2000)
Final Report - November 2000 Working Group on the Revision of FSCH Examples contributed by the members of the Section on Cataloguing Compiled and introduced by Ton Heijligers...
Publication - 4 June 2009
Tags: Cataloguing, Publications
- Academic and Research Libraries Section Action Plan
2019-2020: English 2018-2019: English 2017-2018: English 2016-2017: English 2015-2016: English 2008-2009: English | Deutsch...
Publication - 2 June 2009
Tags: Academic and Research Libraries, Action plans
- Leaflet Academic and Research Libraries Section
Link up with colleagues throughout the world by joining the Section of Academic and Research Libraries The Section is the international forum for all concerned with academic and research...
Publication - 2 June 2009
Tags: Academic and Research Libraries, Leaflets
- Academic and Research Libraries Section Annual Report
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2007-2008 2001-2002 1999-2000: English | Russian | Spanish
Publication - 2 June 2009
Tags: Academic and Research Libraries, Annual reports
- 10 ways to make a public library work/ Update your libraries
The IFLA Public Library Section has now produced some additional recommendations to supplement the Public Library Manifesto so that public libraries can place their services in the 21st century...
Publication - 2 June 2009
Tags: Publications, Public Libraries
- Knowledge Management: Libraries and Librarians Taking Up the Challenge
It is widely accepted that knowledge management constitutes a key asset for the information professional. Management theory has always pointed to the fact that libraries and librarians in...
Publication - 2 June 2009
Tags: Publications, Knowledge Management
- The Public Library Service: the IFLA/UNESCO Guidelines for Development 2001
The Public Library Section's major project for 4 years was, the production of new Guidelines and Standards for public libraries. The Public Library Service: the IFLA/UNESCO Guidelines...
Publication - 27 May 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Public Libraries
- The Role of Libraries in Lifelong Learning
Final report of the IFLA project under the Section for Public Libraries: The Role of Libraries in Lifelong Learning (PDF)
Publication - 27 May 2009
Tags: Publications, Public Libraries
- National Information Policy/ National IT Strategies a Survey
Hellen Niegaard Member of the Standing Committee (Bangkok 1999) Introduction: The information society generates and consumes enormous amounts of information and at the same time information...
Publication - 27 May 2009
Tags: Publications, Public Libraries
- IFLA/UNESCO Public Library Manifesto 1994
Freedom, prosperity and the development of society and of individuals are fundamental human values. They will only be attained through the ability of well-informed citizens to exercise their...
Publication - 27 May 2009
Tags: Manifestos, Public Libraries
- Manifeste de l'IFLA/UNESCO sur la Bibliothèque Publique 1994
La liberté, la prospérité, le progrès de la société et l’épanouissement de l’individu sont des valeurs humaines fondamentales, que...
Publication - 27 May 2009
Tags: Manifestos, Public Libraries
- Manifiesto de la IFLA/UNESCO Sobre la Biblioteca Pública 1994
La libertad, la prosperidad y el desarrollo de la sociedad y de los individuos son valores humanos fundamentales. Estos sólo podrán alcanzarse mediante la capacidad de ciudadanos...
Publication - 27 May 2009
Tags: Manifestos, Public Libraries
- Öffentliche Bibliothek. Manifest der IFLA/UNESCO 1994
Freiheit, Wohlstand und die Entwicklung der Gesellschaft und des Einzelnen sind grundlegende menschliche Werte. Diese Werte werden nur verwirklicht, wenn gutinformierten Bürgern die Mö...
Publication - 27 May 2009
Tags: Manifestos, Public Libraries
- Public Library Acts
Acts on Library Services: Catalonia, Spain Czech Republic Denmark Finland Norway Philippines Russia Sweden
Publication - 27 May 2009
Tags: Publications, Public Libraries
- Public Libraries Newsletter
Note: the IFLA Public Libraries Section now has a blog which has superceded the Newsletter. Also 'Like' us on Facebook Issue no. 39, July 2011 Issue no. 38,...
Publication - 27 May 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Public Libraries
- Public Libraries Section Annual Report
National pride was an integral part of the 2019 IFLA/Systematic Public Library of the Year Award, with each of the four short-listed accompanied by a passionate cheer squad at the presentation...
Publication - 27 May 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Public Libraries
- Public Libraries Section Strategic Plan
2012-13 Strategic Plan (draft).doc 2011 Priority Activities 2011-2012 August.doc 2009-2010 2008-2009 2006-2007 2004-2005 (Revised version) 2004-2005
Publication - 27 May 2009
Tags: Publications, Public Libraries
- Guidelines for Library Services for Young Adults (Revised)
This publication, IFLA 'Guidelines for Library Services for Young Adults' provides a framework for developing services to young adults and libraries, for the international community. It...
Publication - 25 May 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- Guidelines for Children's Library Services
The purpose of these Guidelines is to inform decision makers, to give guidance to the international library community about children's needs and rights on information, literacy and reading and...
Publication - 25 May 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- Guidelines for Library Services to Babies and Toddlers
The Guidelines are developed as a joint project (2006-2007) of all sections of IFLA Division of Libraries Serving the General Public, and coordinated by the Libraries for Children and Young Adults...
Publication - 25 May 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- Statistics and Evaluation Section Annual Report (Archive)
2016-2017
Publication - 25 May 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Statistics and Evaluation
- Internet and Children’s Library Services
Members of the Standing Committees of the IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section and the Reading Section, gathered in Durban for the annual World Library and Information Congress...
Publication - 25 May 2009
Tags: Literacy and Reading Section, Statements, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- Policy Statements
"Literacy Training for Children and Young Adults in Public Libraries" "Internet and Children’s Library Services" This statement is offered as a...
Publication - 25 May 2009
Tags: Statements, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- SET Membership Form (2008)
Section Information Brochure and Membership Form (2008) English | Français | Deutsch | Italiano | 日本語 | Español
Publication - 24 May 2009
Tags: Education and training, Library and information science education, Leaflets, Education and Training
- Social Science Libraries: Action Plans
This year's action plan: 2020-2021 (current plan!) Other recent action plans: 2019-2020 2018-2019 2017-2018 2014-2015...
Publication - 19 May 2009
Tags: Action plans, Social Science Libraries
- Social Science Libraries Section Newsletter
Note: the IFLA Social Sciences Section now has a blog. Newsletter 2017 No.1 Newsletter 2016 No.1 | Newsletter 2016 No. 2 Newsletter 2015 No.1...
Publication - 19 May 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Social Science Libraries
- Brochure Social Science Libraries Section
Download: English Français Español Русский
Publication - 19 May 2009
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- Social Science Libraries Section Annual Report
2020-2021 2017-2018 2016-2017 2013-2014 2012-2013 2011-2012 2011 2010 2007 2003-2004 2000...
Publication - 19 May 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Social Science Libraries
- International Library and Information Science Research: A Comparison of National Trends
From the examination of the social and cognitive institutionalisation of the LIS research field in the studied countries we can find some explanations for the differences in topics and research...
Publication - 18 May 2009
Tags: Reports, Library Theory and Research
- Library Theory and Research Section Newsletter
Note: the IFLA Library Theory and Research Section now has a blog. 2020: February 2018: July 2018: January 2017: July 2017: January 2016:...
Publication - 18 May 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Library Theory and Research
- Library Theory and Research Section Annual Report
2018-2019 2016-2017 2015-2016 2014 2013 2011-2012 2010-2011 | français 2009-2010...
Publication - 18 May 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Library Theory and Research
- Development of the Profession: a history of the IFLA Section for Education & Training from 1974 to 2003
Introduction Until 1973 IFLA consisted of five Sections: National and University Libraries Public Libraries Special Libraries Libraries and Museums...
Publication - 18 May 2009
Tags: Publications, Education and Training
- Guidelines for Professional Library/Information Educational Programs - 2012
[PDF] These guidelines were endorsed by IFLA's Professional Committee in August 2012 Notes: Translations of the Guidelines can be found at the bottom of this...
Publication - 18 May 2009
Tags: Library and information science education, Guidelines, Education and Training
- Newsletter: SET Bulletin
2021: January | July 2020: January | July 2019: January | July 2018: January | July 2017: January | July 2016: January |...
Publication - 18 May 2009
Tags: Education and training, Library and information science education, Newsletters, Education and Training
- Education and Training Section Annual Report
2019-2020 2018-2019 2017-2018 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2005 2004...
Publication - 18 May 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Education and Training
- IFLA Professional Reports
Contact: publications@ifla.org ISSN: 0168-1931 The IFLA Professional Reports series promotes high standards of library and information services and advances...
Publication - 14 May 2009
Tags: IFLA, IFLA Professional Reports, Reports
- GIOPS Action Plans
2020-2021 2019-2020 2017-2018 2013-2015 2007-2009 2005-2007 2004-2005
Publication - 6 May 2009
Tags: Action plans, Government Information and Official Publications
- School Libraries Section Newsletter
The section stopped distributing Newsletters and switched to a Blog for the section. Number 56 - June 2013 Number 55 - December 2012 Number 54 - June 2012...
Publication - 4 May 2009
Tags: Newsletters, School Libraries
- School Libraries Section Annual Report
Annual Report 2018=2019 Chairperson's Report 2013-2014 Chairperson's Report 2012-2013 Chairperson's Report 2011-2012 Chairperson's Report...
Publication - 4 May 2009
Tags: Annual reports, School Libraries
- The school library: today and tomorrow (trilingual: English/French/Spanish)
Trilingual (English/French/Spanish) publication of the IFLA School Library Section to commemorate its 25th anniversary: The school library: today and tomorrow La blioth...
Publication - 3 May 2009
Tags: Publications, School Libraries
- School Library Advocacy kit
Advocate strong school libraries using the IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto and Guidelines and other resources The IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto defines the mission and goals of...
Publication - 3 May 2009
Tags: Publications, School Libraries
- IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto 1999
The School Library in Teaching and Learning for All The school library provides information and ideas that are fundamental to functioning successfully in today's information and...
Publication - 3 May 2009
Tags: Manifestos, School Libraries
- Manifeste de l'IFLA/UNESCO de la bibliothèque scolaire 1999
La bibliothèque scolaire dans le contexte de l'enseignement et de l'apprentissage pour tous La bibliothèque scolaire fournit l'information et les idées...
Publication - 3 May 2009
Tags: Manifestos, School Libraries
- IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto 1999
La biblioteca escolar en el contexto de la ensenanza y el aprendizaje para todos La biblioteca escolar proporciona información e ideas que son fundamentales para desenvolverse con...
Publication - 3 May 2009
Tags: Manifestos, School Libraries
- IFLA / UNESCO-Manifest Schulbibliotheken 1999
Die Bedeutung der Schulbibliothek für die Bereiche Lehren und Lernen für alle Die Schulbibliothek stellt Informationen und Ideen bereit, die von grundlegender Bedeutung für...
Publication - 3 May 2009
Tags: Manifestos, School Libraries
- IFLA/UNESCO School Library Guidelines
New 2nd, completely updated and enlarged edition (DRAFT) version now available! Introduction The "IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto: the school library in teaching and...
Publication - 3 May 2009
Tags: Guidelines, School Libraries
- Books and Reports of the Section of School Libraries
Ressources pour les bibliothèques et centres documentaires scolaires Resourcebook for School Libraries and Resource Centers edité/edited by Paulette Bernhard Munchen, K. G....
Publication - 3 May 2009
Tags: Publications, School Libraries
- High-Level Colloquium on Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt November 6-9, 2005 Report of a Meeting Sponsored by the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), National...
Publication - 2 May 2009
Tags: Reports, Information Literacy
- Continuing professional development: Pathways to leadership in the library and information world (2007)
A volume from the proceedings of the 7th IFLA World Conference on Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning for the Information Professions, held in Johannesburg, South Africa in...
Publication - 29 April 2009
Tags: Leadership in the library and information professions, Learning objectives, Professional development institutes, Programs and activities, Recruitment and evaluation strategies, South Africa, Structure, Satellite Meeting papers/presentations, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
- Audiovisual and Multimedia Section Strategic Plan
2019-2020 2018-2019 2017-2018 2016-2017 2015-2017 2009-2011 2008-2009 updated 2008-10-2 2006-2007
Publication - 28 April 2009
Tags: Action plans, Audiovisual and Multimedia
- Brochure Audiovisual and Multimedia Section
Español Deutsch
Publication - 28 April 2009
Tags: Audiovisual and Multimedia, Publications
- Audiovisual and Multimedia Section Newsletter
Issue no.13, June 2011 Issue no.12, June 2010 Issue no.11, December 2009 Issue no.10, July 2009 Issue no.9, December 2008 Issue no.8, June 2008...
Publication - 28 April 2009
Tags: Audiovisual and Multimedia, Newsletters
- Audiovisual and Multimedia Section Annual Report
2013-2014 2009-2010 2008-2009 2007-2008 2006-2007 2004-2005 2003-2004 2002-2003 2001-2002 1999-2000
Publication - 28 April 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Audiovisual and Multimedia
- Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Strategic Plan (archive)
The Rare Books and Manuscripts Section provides a forum for discussion and exchange of information on matters of particular concern to rare book, manuscript, and special collections librarians,...
Publication - 28 April 2009
Tags: Action plans, Rare Books and Special Collections
- Conservation des documents audiovisuels et multimédias
Round Table on Audiovisual and Multimedia Isabelle Giannattasio Bibliothèque nationale de France Tout d'abord je voudrais vous souhaiter la bienvenue dans cet atelier "Conservation...
Publication - 28 April 2009
Tags: Audiovisual and Multimedia, Publications
- The long road of the Information Literacy Section
1990 - 1996 - First part By Oili Kokkonen Sinikka Koskiala Teodora Oker-Blom Eva Tolonen Helsinki University of Technology Download: [PDF]
Publication - 27 April 2009
Tags: Publications, Information Literacy
- Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section Action Plans (PDF)
2019-2020 2018-2019 2017-2018 2016-2017 2015-2016 2011-2013 2008-2009 2006-2007
Publication - 26 April 2009
Tags: Action plans, Serials and Other Continuing Resources
- Basic Serials Management Handbook (BSMH) - Revised ed.
Preface During long years of involvement in diverse serials-related activities with international bodies like UNESCO; International Organization for Standardization (ISO); International...
Publication - 26 April 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Serials and Other Continuing Resources
- Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section Newsletter (2001-2012)
NEW! Rather than publishing a newsletter we now have a blog. Please join us June 2012 December 2011 August 2011 December 2010...
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Serials and Other Continuing Resources
- Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section Annual Reports (PDF)
2018-2019 2017-2018 2016-2017 2015-2016 2013 2007 2002 2001 2000
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Serials and Other Continuing Resources
- Africa Section Action Plan
2016-2017 2015-2016 2014-2015 2013-2014 2011-2012 2010-2011 2008-2009 2006-2007
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Action plans, Africa
- Africa Section Newsletter
No. 56 December 2019 No. 55 July 2019 No. 54 December 2018 No. 53 July 2018 No. 52 December 2017 No. 51 June 2017 No. 50 Decrmber 2016...
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Africa, Newsletter, Africa, Newsletters
- Africa Section Annual Report
2015-2016 2014-2015 2013-2014 2012-2013 2011-2012 2010-2011 2009-2010 2008-2009 2006-2007 2005-2006...
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Africa
- Management & Marketing Section Action Plans
2020-2021: Focus Area 1: Management / Focus Area 2: Marketing 2019-2020: Focus Area 1: Management / Focus Area 2: Marketing 2018-2019...
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Action plans, Management and Marketing
- Glossary of Marketing Definitions
Work in Progress
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Publications, Management and Marketing
- Management and Marketing Section Newsletter
2013 May, No. 23 2011 February, No. 22 2010 August, No. 21 2009 May, No. 20 2008 May, No. 19 | January, No. 18 2007 July, No. 17 2006...
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Management and Marketing
- Management and Marketing Section Annual Reports
2020 2019 2013 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2000
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Management and Marketing
- Asia and Oceania Section Action Plan
2019-2020 2018-2019 2017-2018 2016-2017 2008-2009 2005-2007
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Action plans, Asia and Oceania
- Asia and Oceania Section Annual Report
2018-2019 2017-2018 2015-2016 2013-2014 2012-2013 2009-2010 2006-2007 2005-2006 2004-2005 2003-2004...
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Asia and Oceania
- Directorio de Asociaciones de Bibliotecarios y Profesiones Afines de América Latina y el Caribe (2006)
Directorio de Asociaciones de Bibliotecarios y Profesiones Afines de América Latina y el Caribe
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Publications, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Latin America and the Caribbean Section Annual Report
2018/2019 English 2016/2017 English Sept. 2015/Oct. 2016 English 2015 English 2014 English 2013 English | Español...
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Latin America and the Caribbean Section Action Plan
2020-2021 | english | español 2019-2020 | english | español 2017-2019 | español...
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Action plans, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Latin America and the Caribbean Section Newsletter
Note: the IFLA LAC Section has a blog (in Spanish). Publication is ceased. Publicación cerrada. English | Español No. 64, January-June 2014 English |...
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Latin America and the Caribbean, Newsletters, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Health and Biosciences Libraries Section Annual Report
2006-2007 2005-2006 2004-2005
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Health and Biosciences Libraries
- Health and Biosciences Libraries Section Strategic Plan
HBS Action Plan 2015-2016 HBS Action Plan 2010-2011 2006-2007 2005-2006 2004-2005
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Action plans, Health and Biosciences Libraries
- Health and Biosciences Libraries Section Newsletter
2011 February, Volume 9, Number 2 2010 June, Volume 9, Number 1 2010 January, Volume 8, Number 2 2009 July, Volume 8, Number 1 2008 July, Volume 7, Number 2...
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Health and Biosciences Libraries
- Preservation and Conservation Section Action Plan
2020-2021 2018-2019 2008-2009 2006-2007 2004-2005
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Action plans, Preservation and Conservation
- Preservation and Conservation Section Annual Report
2020 2018-2019 2017-2018 2003-2004 2002-2003 2000-2001
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Preservation and Conservation
- Preservation and Conservation Section Newsletter
Note: the IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section now has a blog. 2011 September - Issue 31 2011 June - Issue 30| Français 2010 November - Issue 29| Fran...
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Preservation and Conservation
- Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section Strategic Plan
2017-2018 2016-2017 2010-2011 2009-2010 2008-2009 2006-2007
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Action plans, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section Annual Report
2015 Jan-Jul 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2004-2005 2003-2004 2002-2003...
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- Leaflet Statistics and Evaluation Section
English Français Deutsch Korean Русский Español
Publication - 25 April 2009
Tags: Leaflets, Statistics and Evaluation
- Rapport annuel de l’ IFLA
Dernière année parue : Rapport annuel 2019 de l’IFLA [PDF – Anglais – 33 MB] Read online as...
Publication - 24 April 2009
Tags: IFLA, Annual reports
- IFLA Annual Report
Latest year: IFLA Annual Report 2019 [PDF – English – 33 MB] Read online as a Flipbook The Hague, The Netherlands, 2020 78 pages ISBN...
Publication - 24 April 2009
Tags: IFLA, IFLA Annual Report, Publications, Annual reports
- IFLA-Geschäftsbericht
Neuestes Ausgabe: IFLA-Geschäftsbericht 2019 [PDF, 33 MB] Read online as a Flipbook Den Haag, Niederlande 2020 78 S. ISBN 978-90-77897-79-9...
Publication - 24 April 2009
Tags: IFLA, Annual reports
- Richtlinie für die IFLA-Markenidentität
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession. Die IFLA erteilt die Genehmigung zur Nutzung ihres Namens oder knüpft Beziehungen zu anderen Organisationen oder Unternehmen mit dem folgenden primärem Ziel...
Publication - 24 April 2009
Tags: Branding, Identity, IFLA, Logo, Guidelines
- Guidelines on IFLA Branding
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession. The IFLA brand is synonymous with trust and global expertise in the library and information sector and beyond. These guidelines set out how IFLA should be represented clearly...
Publication - 24 April 2009
Tags: Branding, Identity, IFLA, Logo, Guidelines
- Directrices sobre la imagen de marca IFLA
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession. La finalidad principal de la IFLA a la hora de permitir que su nombre sea utilizado o de entrar en relaciones con otras organizaciones o empresas comerciales ser...
Publication - 24 April 2009
Tags: Branding, Identity, IFLA, Logo, Guidelines
- Understanding Information Literacy: A Primer
This publication is an easy-to-read, non-technical overview explaining what "information literacy" means, designed for busy public policy-makers, business executives, civil society...
Publication - 23 April 2009
Tags: Publications, Information Literacy
- Information Literacy Section Annual Reports
2016-2017 2015-2016 2015 2014 2012 - 2013 2010 - 2011 2009 - 2010 2006 - 2007 2005 - 2006 2003 - 2005
Publication - 23 April 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Information Literacy
- LSN/IFLA Professional Reports
120. Guidelines for easy-to-read materials Revision by Misako Nomura, Gyda Skat Nielsen and Bror Tronbacke on behalf of the IFLA/Library Services to People with Special Needs...
Publication - 22 April 2009
Tags: Publications, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- Newsletters "The Information Point"
Note: the IFLA Government Libraries Section now has a blog. 2014: August 2013: July 2012: July 2011: July 2010: January | July...
Publication - 22 April 2009
Tags: Government information, Newsletters, Government Libraries
- Annual Reports
2013 2011 2010 2008 - 2009 2006 - 2007 2003 - 2004 1999 - 2000 1996 - 1997 1998 - 1999 1995 - 1996...
Publication - 22 April 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Government Libraries
- National Libraries Section Strategic and Action Plans
Action Plan 2019-2020 Action Plan 2018-2019 Action Plan 2017-2018 Action Plan 2016-2017 Strategic Plan 2015-2017 Strategic...
Publication - 22 April 2009
Tags: Action plans, National Libraries
- Reports to the Standing Committee
Report to the Standing Committee, Columbus 2016: IFLA National Library Section: Inventory National Library Function. Hans Jansen and Genevieve Clavel Report to...
Publication - 22 April 2009
Tags: Reports, National Libraries
- National Libraries Section Annual Reports
2018-2019 2017-2018 2016-2017 2015-2016 2015 2009 2007 2003-2004 2000-2001
Publication - 22 April 2009
Tags: Annual reports, National Libraries
- National Libraries Section Newsletter
The National Libraries Section distributes a monthly email newsletter via its mailing list. Items for the newsletter can be submitted by any national library. To subscribe to the mailing list,...
Publication - 22 April 2009
Tags: Newsletters, National Libraries
- Information Literacy Section Action Plans
2018-2019 2017-2018 2016-2017 2015-2016 2012-2013 2010-2011 2009-2011 2007-2009 2006-2007 2004-2005
Publication - 22 April 2009
Tags: Action plans, Information Literacy
- Statements at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), based in Geneva, is the United Nations agency responsible for copyright and other intellectual property matters. Established in 1967, its...
Publication - 17 April 2009
Tags: SCCR, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section Newsletter
2020: January | June 2019: Summer 2018: Summer | Winter 2017: Summer | Winter 2016: Summer | Winter 2015: Summer | Winter...
Publication - 17 April 2009
Tags: Conferences, Multicultural populations, Newsletters, Library Services to Multicultural Populations
- Work Schedule
Work schedule to February 2012 Work Schedule to August 2011 Work Schedule to February 2011 Work Schedule August 2010 Work schedule 2009 - 10 Work...
Publication - 17 April 2009
Tags: Publications, Library Services to Multicultural Populations
- Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section Strategic/Action Plans
2020-2021 2019-2020 2018-2019 2017-2018 2015-2016 2011-12 2009-2010 2006-2007 2004-2005
Publication - 17 April 2009
Tags: Action plans, Library Services to Multicultural Populations
- Defining "Multiculturalism"
"Multiculturalism" is the co-existence of diverse cultures, where culture includes racial, religious, or cultural groups and is manifested in customary behaviours, cultural assumptions...
Publication - 17 April 2009
Tags: Multicultural library services, multiculturalism, Publications, Library Services to Multicultural Populations
- Raison d'être for Multicultural Library Services
What and why "multicultural library services" (MLS) continue to be questions asked by the library and information professions First, MLS include both the provision of...
Publication - 17 April 2009
Tags: Publications, Library Services to Multicultural Populations
- Tips for Organizing and Hosting an IFLA Satellite Meeting
A description of policy, procedures, experiences, and recommendations Download: English [PDF]
Publication - 17 April 2009
Tags: Publications, Library Services to Multicultural Populations
- A Concise history of the IFLA Section on Library Services to Multicultural Populations
Celebrating 20 Years: A Concise history of the IFLA Section on Library Services to Multicultural Populations [PDF]
Publication - 17 April 2009
Tags: Publications, Library Services to Multicultural Populations
- Leaflet Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section
The IFLA Section on Library Services to Multicultural Populations provides an active forum for libraries and associations concerned with the development and availability of library services...
Publication - 17 April 2009
Tags: Leaflets, Library Services to Multicultural Populations
- IFLA/UNESCO Multicultural Library Manifesto
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
- Multicultural Communities: Guidelines for Library Services, 3rd edition
Overview These guidelines promote fairness and equity of access in library services to multicultural communities. They provide a basis for the planning of library services to all groups in...
Publication - 17 April 2009
Tags: Guidelines, Library Services to Multicultural Populations
- Education and Training Section Strategic Plan
2019-2020 2018-2019 2016-2017 2015-2016 2013-2015 2011-2012 2008-2009 2006-2007 2004-2005
Publication - 17 April 2009
Tags: Action plans, Education and Training
- Intellectual Freedom Statements by others
Intellectual Freedom Statements A Collection of Statements on Intellectual Freedom adopted by National Library Associations - see also IFLA Statement on Libraries and Intellectual Freedom...
Publication - 16 April 2009
Tags: Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- International Preservation Issues (1998 -2006)
International Preservation Issues (IPI) is a collection of studies, surveys or basics on preservation issues to complement the publication of International Preservation News (IPN). IPI...
Publication - 16 April 2009
Tags: Newsletters, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Translations of FRBR
ar - عربية bg - български ca - Català cs - Čeština de - Deutsch es - Español...
Publication - 15 April 2009
Tags: Bibliographic Conceptual Models (BCM), Publications
- IFLA Statement on Access to Personally Identifiable Information in Historical Records
Ελληνικά Endorsed by IFLA Governing Board, 3 December 2008 The International Federation of Library Associations affirms that free access to...
Publication - 15 April 2009
Tags: Access to information, Archives, Personally identifiable information, Privacy, Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA-Erklärung über den Zugang zu personenbezogenen Daten in historischen Datensätzen
Ελληνικά Am 3. Dezember 2008 vom IFLA-Vorstand angenommen Der Internationale Verband der Bibliothekarischen Verbände und Einrichtungen...
Publication - 15 April 2009
Tags: Access to information, Archives, Personally identifiable information, Privacy, Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Declaración de IFLA sobre el Acceso a la información de Identificación Personal en los Registros Históricos
Ελληνικά Aprobado por la Junta de Gobierno de la IFLA el 3 de diciembre de 2008 La Federación Internacional de Asociaciones e...
Publication - 15 April 2009
Tags: Access to information, Archives, Personally identifiable information, Privacy, Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- The Campaign for the World Libraries Guide
The Campaign for the World Libraries Guide: How to participate and use the campaign Languages available: English Româna Español...
Publication - 15 April 2009
Tags: @your library (The Campaign for the World's Libraries), Guidelines
- Learning Materials for workshops on the IFLA Manifesto on Transparency, Good Governance and Freedom from Corruption
“Libraries are in their very essence transparency institutions, dedicated to making available the most accurate and unbiased educational, scientific and technical, and socially relevant...
Publication - 15 April 2009
Tags: Freedom from Corruption, Good Governance, Learning materials, Transparency, Workshop manual, Guidelines, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
The FRBR Final Report was first published in print in 1998 by K.G. Saur as volume 19 of UBCIM publications, new series, as well as PDF and HTML files on the IFLA Web site. Current text...
Publication - 14 April 2009
Tags: FRBR, Bibliographic Conceptual Models (BCM), Standards
- Local History and Genealogy Section Annual Report
2013-2014 2009-2010 2008-2009 2007-2008 2006-2007 2005-2006 2004-2005 2003-2004 2002-2003 2001-2002
Publication - 2 April 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Local History and Genealogy
- Leaflet Genealogy and Local History Section
Afrikaans (June 2008) العربية (July 2009) 中文大辞典 (June 2008) 中文大辭典 (June 2008) English (June 2008) Français (June...
Publication - 2 April 2009
Tags: Leaflets, Local History and Genealogy
- Local History and Genealogy Section Action Plan
2016-2017 2011-2012 2010-2011 2009-2010 2008-2009 2007-2008 2006-2007 2005-2006 2004-2005
Publication - 2 April 2009
Tags: Action plans, Local History and Genealogy
- Local History and Genealogy Section Newsletter
NEWSLETTER INDEX, Issues 1-18 Number 23, July 2016 Number 22, April 2016 Number 20, July 2012 Number 19, January 2012 Number 18, June 2011...
Publication - 1 April 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Local History and Genealogy
- International Preservation News (1987 -2013)
The "International Preservation News" used to be published three times a year reporting on the preservation activities and events that support efforts to preserve materials in...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Newsletters, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- The IFLA/FAIFE PhD Project
To what extent can libraries ensure free, equal and unhampered access to Internet-accessible information resources from a global perspective? Between November 2001 and November 2004, IFLA/...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Freedom of access to information, Internet access, Patriot Act, War on Terror, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Internet Manifesto 2014
1. Library and information services and the Internet 1.1 Library and information services are vibrant institutions that connect people with global and local information resources....
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Access to information, Internet access, Manifestos, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Learning Materials for workshops on Access to information on HIV/AIDS through Libraries
These learning materials, which take the form of a workshop manual and a set of accompanying workshop slides, are intended for use by library professionals who are engaged in training colleagues...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Access to information, Learning materials, Workshop manual, Guidelines, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA's three pillars and WSIS
Presentation held by Alex Byrne for the Governing Board in December 2004: Full version with photographs [1.01 MB] Compact version with photographs [104 kB] Text only...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society), Reports
- MLAS Annual Report
2015-2016 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Management of Library Associations
- GIOPS Annual Report
2019-2020 2011-2013 2007-2009 2006-2007 2005-2006 2004-2005 2003-2004 1999-2000 1994-1995
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Government Information and Official Publications
- Government Information and Official Publications Section Newsletter
Note: the IFLA Government Information and Official Publications Section now has a blog. April 2010 May 2009 January 2008 March 2006 Spring 2004...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Government Information and Official Publications
- MLAS Strategic Plan 2006-2007
Mission Within IFLA, the MLA Section (MLAS) supports the role of IFLA as an international advocacy agency and policy maker. It addresses the interests, aspirations and concerns of the...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Action plans, Management of Library Associations
- MLAS Newsletter
2012: April | July 2010: July 2009: June 2008: December | April 2007: November | April 2000: Winter
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Newsletters, Management of Library Associations
- Report on the GIOPS-FAIFE African Seminar
Report on the GIOPS-FAIFE African Seminar and post-WSIS Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia By Francis T. Kirkwood IFLA: FAIFE & Reference Committees Past Chair of GIOPS Library of...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Ethiopia, Reports, Government Information and Official Publications
- Statement of International Cataloguing Principles 2009
*** Superseded. See 2016 edition *** The Statement of International Cataloguing Principles (ICP) was published in February 2009 and is available in several languages. ...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: ICP, IME ICC, Principles, Cataloguing, Publications
- Anonymous Classics: African Literature (2005)
A list of uniform titles for African epics, Anonymous Classics: African Literature: Epics and Assimilated, has been drafted for the Working Group on Anonymous Classics by Nadine Boddaert. This is...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Africa, Cataloguing, Publications
- IFLA Manifesto on Transparency, Good Governance and Freedom from Corruption
(Translations and other versions below) IFLA has on numerous occasions and in many forums made clear its belief in the positive role of libraries in society and its commitment to enhancing...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Freedom from Corruption, Good Governance, Libraries, Libraries, Development and the United Nations 2030 Agenda, Transparency, Manifestos, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA Council resolution on National Security Legislation
Berlin, Germany, August, 2003 During the World Library and Information Congress in Berlin,there was much debate about the US PATRIOT Act and similar legislation being enacted elsewhere...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- The Glasgow Declaration on Libraries, Information Services and Intellectual Freedom
Meeting in Glasgow on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of its formation, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) declares that: IFLA proclaims the...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Statement on Libraries and Sustainable Development (August 2002)
中文 | français | Italiano | Slovenčina Meeting in Glasgow on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of its formation, the International Federation of Library Associations and...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Libraries, Development and the United Nations 2030 Agenda, Sustainability, Sustainable development, Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Cuba resolution adopted at IFLA Council
Resolution adopted at IFLA Council II held at Boston, USA on Friday 24th August 2001The following resolution was adopted. 553 votes were recorded in favour of the resolution and 54 against. There...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Cuba, Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA Statement on Libraries and Intellectual Freedom
[PDF] Statement prepared by IFLA/FAIFE and approved by The IFLA Executive Board on 25 March 1999, The Hague, Netherlands IFLA (The International...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: freedom of conscience, Freedom of expression, freedom of opinion, freedom of speech, Human rights, Intellectual freedom, UDHR, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- FAIFE Policy papers 1983-1997
Resolution to establish a Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression Adopted by the 63rd IFLA Council and general Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 5 September...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- A response to The European Commission's Green Paper "Copyright in the Knowledge Economy" (2008)
IFLA welcomes the opportunity to respond to the European Commission's Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy (COM(2008) 466/3). IFLA has long been campaigning for fair and balanced...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Copyright, European Commission, Green Paper, Knowledge society, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- The Public Domain - Why WIPO should care (2007)
Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a WIPO Development Agenda Third Session, Geneva, February 19-23, 2007 A rich public domain and fair access to copyright protected material...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- The IFLA Position on Public Lending Right (2016)
Introduction The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) representing the interests of libraries and information...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Access to information, Freedom of access to information, Public lending right, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Library-Related Principles* for the International Development Agenda of the World Intellectual Property Organization (2005)
العربية | 中文 | Русский | Shqip | ქართული | Polski Goal 1: A robust and growing public domain to provide new opportunities for creativity, research, and scholarship. 1.1. All...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- The IFLA position on the Geneva Declaration on the Future of WIPO (2004)
English | 中文 | français | Polski | Slovenčina The IFLA position on the Geneva Declaration on the Future of WIPO September 28, 2004 The International...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Freedom of expression, Intellectual property, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Statement made by IFLA on the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) (2002)
français There are very few countries today that are not members of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Today it has over 140 members (China joined recently, and some 30 more...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- The IFLA Position on Copyright in the Digital Environment (2000)
français | 中文 | Русский | Slovenčina IFLA is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) which exists to undertake, support and co-ordinate research and...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- PAC Annual Reports (2000 onwards)
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2010 2009 2007 2006 2005 2004...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Annual reports, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Preservation and Conservation Centre Forward Plans
Action Plans 2019-2020 Japan PAC Centre Qatar PAC Centre Oceania PAC Centre Russia PAC Centre Action plans 2017-2018...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Action plans, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Photography in Latin America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (English/Spanish/French - CD-ROM)
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)
- Safeguarding our documentary heritage / Conservation préventive du Patrimoine documentaire (CD-ROM)
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)
- Learning Materials for workshops on the IFLA Internet Manifesto and on Access to information on HIV/AIDS through Libraries
FAIFE is pleased to present two sets of learning materials for use by librarians working in the areas of Internet access and public access to health information. These learning materials, which...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Guidelines, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Learning Materials for workshops on the IFLA Internet Manifesto
The IFLA Internet Manifesto was adopted at the 68th IFLA General Conference and Council, August 23rd 2002, Glasgow, Scotland. Since that time the document has been translated into 20 different...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Access to information, Internet access, Learning materials, Workshop manual, Guidelines, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Guidelines for Digitization Projects for collections and holdings in the public domain
Digital technology opens up a totally new perspective. The World Wide Web holds millions of websites and the Internet is the market place for research, teaching, expression, publication and...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Digital preservation, Digitisation, Guidelines, Preservation and Conservation
- Preparing for the Worst, Planning for the Best: Protecting our Cultural Heritage from Disaster
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
- First, do no harm
A Register of Standards, Codes of Practice, Guidelines Recommendations and Similar Works relating to Preservation and Conservation in Libraries and Archives The task of compiling a...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Codes of Practice, Standards, Publications, Preservation and Conservation
- Subject Analysis and Access Section Annual Report
The Subject Analysis and Access Annual report, 2018-2019 If you have questions about our work, suggestions about what you would like us to work on, or you would like to help us,...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Annual reports, Subject Analysis and Access
- Subject Analysis and Access Section Action Plan
Action Plan 2019-2021 The Subject Analysis and Access Action plan 2019-2021 outlines the key objectives for our Section in the upcoming years. For details about communication and...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Action plans, Subject Analysis and Access
- Statement of International Cataloguing Principles (ICP) and its Glossary 2009
ISBN 978-3-598-24285-4 Euro 119.95 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 168.00 Special price for IFLA members Euro 99.95 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 140.00 This professional book presents...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: ICP, IME ICC, Principles, Cataloguing, Publications
- IFLA-Erklärung zum Thema Bibliotheken und geistige Freiheit
[PDF] Nachstehende Erklärung wurde von IFLA / FAIFE erstellt und vom IFLA-Vorstand am 25. März 1999 in Den Haag in den Niederlanden verabschiedet. IFLA (Die...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- IFLA-Manifest zu Transparenz, verantwortungsvoller Regierungsführung und Korruptionsfreiheit
(Übersetzungen und andere Versionen unten) Die IFLA hat bei zahlreichen Gelegenheiten und in verschiedenen Foren ihre Überzeugung von der positiven Rolle der Bibliotheken in der...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Freedom from Corruption, Good Governance, Transparency, Manifestos, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Erklärung zu Bibliotheken und nachhaltiger Entwicklung
中文 | français | Italiano | Slovenčina Konferenz der IFLA (Internationale Vereinigung bibliothekarischer Verbände und Einrichtungen) in Glasgow anlässlich des 75....
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Alexandria-Manifest über Bibliotheken, die Informationsgesellschaft in Aktion
العربية |Русский |Italiano | Slovenčina | Ελληνικά | Беларуская Bibliotheken und Informationsdienste tragen zum ordnungsgemäßen...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Access to information, Freedom of expression, Information society, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society), Manifestos
- IFLA Lizensierungsrichtlinien (2001)
Русский | Polski Einführung Der globale Markt für alle Formen elektronischer Informationsressourcen befindet sich in einer Zeit, in der Verleger und Zulieferer...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Contracts, Copyright, Licences, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Die Glasgow-Erklärung zu Bibliotheken, Informationsdiensten und geistiger Freiheit
Die Internationale Vereinigung bibliothekarischer Verbände und Einrichtungen (IFLA) erklärt auf der Konferenz in Glasgow anlässlich des 75. Jahrestages seiner Gründung...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Best Practices in Government Information: A Global Perspective
A rare opportunity to discover international trends and developments in access to government information is presented to you in selected papers from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: best practices, Publications, Government Information and Official Publications
- Alexandria Manifesto on Libraries, the Information Society in Action
العربية |Русский |Italiano | Slovenčina | Svenska | Ελληνικά Libraries and information services contribute to the sound operation of the...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Access to information, Freedom of expression, Information society, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society), Manifestos
- IFLA Licensing Principles (2001)
Русский | Polski Introduction The worldwide marketplace for all types of electronic information resources is rapidly being developed as publishers and vendors who create...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Contracts, Copyright, Licences, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright and Neighbouring Rights in the Digital Environment: An International Library Perspective (2004)
Further information on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives. Revised after IFLA Buenos Aires 2004 Summary The International Federation of...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Copyright, TRIPS, WIPO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Maintaining our digital memory: a declaration of support for the World Summit on the Information Society
Español | français Communiqué from the Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL) The National Libraries of the world are the guardians of the...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Access to information, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, National libraries, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society), Statements
- Joint statement of IFLA and ICA: On the security of the Iraq National Library and Archives
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the International Council on Archives (ICA) note with grave concern reports from Dr Saad Eskander, the Director of...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Archives, Cultural heritage, INLA, Iraq, Preservation, Statements
- Manifeste IFLA sur la Transparence, la Bonne Gouvernance et la lutte contre la corruption
(Traductions et autres versions ci-dessous) L’IFLA a exprimé à plusieurs occasions et dans de nombreux forums sa conviction profonde du rôle positif que les...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Freedom from Corruption, Good Governance, Transparency, Manifestos, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Manifiesto de la IFLA sobre Transparencia, Buen Gobierno y Erradicación de la Corrupción
(Traducciones y otros versiones abajo) En numerosas ocasiones y en muchos foros, la IFLA ha manifestado su convicción sobre el papel decisivo de las bibliotecas en la sociedad y su...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Freedom from Corruption, Good Governance, Transparency, Manifestos, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Declaración de Glasgow sobre las Bibliotecas, los Servicios de Información y la Libertad Intelectual
Reunida en Glasgow con ocasión del 75 aniversario de su creación, la Federación Internacional de Asociaciones de Bibliotecarios y Bibliotecas (IFLA) declara que: La...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Publications, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Declaración de la IFLA sobre las bibliotecas y la libertad intelectual
[PDF] La declaración, elaborada por el Comité de Libre Acceso a la Información y la Libertad de Expresión de la IFLA (en inglés Committee on Free Access...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Declaración acerca de las Bibliotecas y el Desarrollo Sostenible
中文 | Deutsch | français | Italiano | Slovenčina Reunida en Glasgow, en ocasión del 75o. aniversario de su creación, la Federación Internacional de las...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Statements, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Posición de la IFLA frente al Derecho de Préstamo Público (2016)
Lea el documento de antecedentes sobre el derecho de préstamo público : inglés | polaco Introducción La Federación Internacional de Asociaciones...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Access to information, Freedom of access to information, Public lending right, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Principios relacionados con las Bibliotecas* en la Agenda Internacional para el Desarrollo de la Organización Mundial de Propiedad Intelectual
العربية | 中文 | Русский | Shqip | ქართული | Polski Meta 1: Un dominio público lo suficientemente sólido y en crecimiento como para ofrecer nuevas oportunidades a la...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements
- Manifiesto de Alejandría sobre Bibliotecas:la Sociedad de la Información en Acción
العربية |Русский |Italiano | Slovenčina | Svenska | Ελληνικά Las bibliotecas y los servicios de información contribuyen a la adecuada...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Access to information, Freedom of expression, Information society, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society), Manifestos
- Manifeste d'Alexandrie sur les bibliothèques, la société de l'information en action
العربية |Русский |Italiano | Slovenčina | Svenska | Ελληνικά Les bibliothèques et services d'information contribuent au bon...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Access to information, Freedom of expression, Information society, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society), Manifestos
- Principios de las Licencias (2001)
Русский | Polski Introducción El mercado mundial para todos los tipos de recursos de información electrónica se está desarrollando rá...
Publication - 31 March 2009
Tags: Contracts, Copyright, Licences, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements