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Now available: IFLA ARL Newsletter issue # 10
22 April 2024Message from the IFLA President, 19 April 2024
22 April 2024I’m happy to be writing to you, just a day after the IFLA Governing Board’s first in-person meeting of the year has come to an end! It was great to see colleagues together in The Hague for a really positive and productive meeting – the three days flew by, but I believe that we are making excellent progress against the commitments set out in August of last year.
Who is funding library projects? New open data resource
22 April 2024In addition to core funding received from host institutions, governments or others, libraries represent great partners for others who share our commitment to supporting sustainable development. The results of a project made possible by Stichting IFLA Global Libraries, and carried out by The Doyenne Project, give an idea of who has a track-record of supporting libraries among private donors and public development agencies.
Health information is a right – new IFLA statement
21 April 2024Libraries of different types, through providing inclusive access to information can make a major contribution to making the right to health a reality. Governments, in turn, can and should help realise this potential through law, regulation and funding, as a new statement from IFLA underlines.
Celebrating the fourth-year celebration of RSCVD
21 April 2024It was four years ago on 21 April 2020 that, during the early days of the COVID pandemic, the IFLA/DDRS committee launched an initiative to share resources with libraries throughout the world.
Landscape of Data Structure and Exchange Standards Survey
19 April 2024Take a 5 minute survey on the Data Structure and Exchange Standards Landscape and share your needs, ideas, projects and challenges in transforming library metadata.
Library Associations in the MENA Region
18 April 2024Framing the Future of Knowledge: IFLA launches International Futures Summit Programme
18 April 2024We’re thrilled to publish the high-level programme of the Summit, setting out the key themes we’ll be exploring and questions we’ll be looking to answer.
[Webinar] Building a National Bibliography: Models from Around the World - Two Weeks Left to Register!
16 April 2024Launch of 'Everywhere All the Time' - a digital literacy intervention that fosters critical conversations about technology and AI
16 April 2024With a growing generation of people relying on the internet for learning, entertainment and socializing, it's crucial to cultivate their capacity to ask critical questions about how technology impacts their lives, their communities and the planet. But how can educators guide teens to understand and navigate the digital world confidently? “Everywhere, All the Time” is a creative and playful digital literacy intervention, aiming to do just that.
Talking copyright: The week ahead at WIPO
15 April 2024Ahead of the meeting of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights this week, we are happy to share an overview of the issues on the table, and some of the materials covered.
Building the Future of the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) together– your input needed!
15 April 2024Over the coming months, IFLA will be asking for feedback from its members and volunteers regarding their perspectives, desires, and experiences regarding the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC). This will enable the WLIC Review Steering Committee to adequately assess the needs and the views of IFLA members and volunteers.
A common goal, a common language: IFLA Open Access vocabularies publication
15 April 2024The spread of Open Access arguably represents one of the most far-reaching successes of the library and research fields over the last quarter century.
IFLAPARL Newsletter - Call for contributions
14 April 2024View Online – IFLA ENSULIB Webinar Series: The Walking Librarians of Kerala. A Tale of Empowering Women and the Elderly Woven into the Fabric of UN SDG Goals
12 April 2024The recording from the latest IFLA ENSULIB Webinar on "The Walking Librarians in Kerala. A Tale of Empowering Women and the Elderly Woven into the Fabric of UN SDG Goals" is now available via our YouTube channel.
Chile Abril 2024
11 April 2024Participación del Comité Regional de Latinoamerica y el Caribe, en el Congreso de Bibliotecas Universitarias y Simposio sobre Inteligencia Artificial realizado en Chile.
Copyright and Open Access to Research: An International Survey of Academic Librarians
10 April 2024The IFLA Advisory Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters is happy to share a survey on attitudes among academic librarians to copyright reform in support of open access, with surveys in English and French. We encourage you to respond!