Content tagged Digital resources

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 Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, Digital libraries, Digital resources, eBooks, eLending, eLending for Libraries, Best Practices, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

The UNESCO PERSIST Project launched the UNESCO/PERSIST Guidelines for the selection of digital heritage for long-term preservation in 2016. The Guidelines provide an overarching starting point for...

Publication - 12 January 2019

Tags: Conservation, Digital resources, Preservation, UNESCO PERSIST, Guidelines, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Sponsored by: IFLA Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section Co-sponsored by: IFLA National Libraries Section Date: August 23, 2019 (9:00 am to 4:00 pm) Venue:...

News - 7 January 2019

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

Sponsored by: IFLA Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section Co-sponsored by: IFLA National Libraries Section   Date: August 23, 2019 (8:00 am to 5:00 pm)...

Event - 7 January 2019

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

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

News - 7 January 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, accessibility, Archives, Audiovisual and multimedia, Best practice, Collection development, Collections, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Data management, Digital Humanities, Digital libraries, Digital preservation, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Information technology, Open Source, Preservation, Profession, Resource discovery, Risk assessment, Society, Usability

We are proud to announce that our revised Guidelines for Library Services to Children aged 0-18 are now available. After a lengthy survey process, carried out by Dr....

News - 7 December 2018

Tags: Advocacy, Children, conceptual models, Democracy, Development, Digital resources, Freedom of information, Guidelines, Information literacy, Library as place, Lifelong learning, Literacy, Management, Reading, research support, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

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

News - 2 October 2018

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

At the 2018 World Library and Information Congress in Kuala Lumpur, SOCRS held an open program on scholarly communication. The program featured papers from across Asia and Africa.  The main...

News - 4 September 2018

Tags: Africa, Asia and Oceania, bibliometrics, Digital libraries, Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital resources, eBooks, Electronic resources, Open Access, Professional development, Scholarly Communication, Serials and Other Continuing Resources

AVMS section meetings You are more than welcome to join the AVMS Section meetings, if you want to know more about the work or if you consider to become a member. Our first meeting...

News - 31 July 2018

Tags: accessibility, Audiovisual and multimedia, Cataloguing, Collections, Digital resources, Education, Electronic collections, Information technology, Malaysia, Open Session, Preservation, Section meeting

2018 IFLA World Library and Information Congress Open Session 84th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 24 - 30 August 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Call for Papers: The Document...

News - 22 December 2017

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Communication, Digital resources, Document delivery, Electronic delivery, eLending, Inter-Library Loans, International cooperation, Open Access

Libraries in the sky: large-scale collaboration strategies and infrastructures to enhance the use of digital heritage collections IFLA RBSCS mid-term conference, National Library of Norway...

Event - 27 November 2017

Tags: Collections, Conference, Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Digitisation, Information technology, Intellectual property, International cooperation, Norway, Rare books and manuscripts, Rare Books and Special Collections

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

News - 12 October 2017

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

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, Communication, Communities of practice, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Freedom of information, Information technology, Open Source, Professional development, Social inclusion, Resource Guides

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

AVMS section meetings You are more than welcome to join the AVMS Section meetings, if you want to know more about the work or if you consider to become a member. Our first meeting...

News - 15 August 2017

Tags: Audiovisual and multimedia, Communities of practice, Conferences, Digital resources

There are still a few a seats for participants to the workshop to be held at and supported by Wrocław University of Science and Technology Wednesday, 23 August, during WLIC 2017. Please register...

News - 4 July 2017

Tags: Communication, Communities of practice, Digital resources, Education and training

Article 19 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights sets out the freedom to seek and receive information. This is particularly essential in the case of public legal...

News - 14 December 2016

Tags: Access to information, Digital preservation, Digital resources, Law, Law Libraries

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

News - 22 November 2016

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

The Call for Papers for IFLA's Public Libraries Section Mid-Term meeting in Sydney are now being issued. In a rapidly changing environment join us to celebrate the responsiveness of...

News - 18 November 2016

Tags: Australia, Digital resources, Public Libraries

Technology has become the key focus of our lives today. Indeed so many aspects of our behaviour are governed by the need to stay connected to the world through technology. Children and young...

Informational Page - 10 June 2016

Tags: Access to information, Children, Communication, digital library, Digital resources, E-Learning, Information literacy, information seeking behaviour, Information technology, promoting library, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

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

News - 6 May 2016

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

The Workshop "Videos in digital libraries. What´s in it for Libraries, Scientists and publishers?" will precede the "The International Conference on Theory and Practice of...

News - 29 April 2016

Tags: Audiovisual and multimedia, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Germany, Libraries, publishers, scientists

Thursday August 18th 8:30-10:30 Room: Union Station A/B/C Simultaneous interpretation will be provided "National Libraries and digital collaboration: building...

News - 25 April 2016

Tags: Digital resources, National Libraries

Governments, international organisations, civil society representatives, development banks and industry have underlined their support for public access to the internet in libraries as a means of...

News - 25 April 2016

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Democracy, Development, Digital divide, Digital resources, Disadvantaged people, Education, Education and training, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Government information, Internet access, LDP (Library Development Programme)

IFLA’s Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM) will look, in its WLIC 2016 session, at recent, ongoing and upcoming copyright reforms around the world, under the title Copyright...

News - 6 April 2016

Tags: Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Conferences, Copyright, Digital resources, Information policy, Intellectual property, Policy, United States, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

The Audiovisual and Multimedia Section, Information Technology and Classification and indexing Sections invite you to submit an abstract for IFLA WLIC 2016 (Columbus, Ohio, USA, 13-19 August 2016...

News - 9 November 2015

Tags: Access to information, Audiovisual and multimedia, Cataloguing, Digital resources, discoverability of AV and Multimedia, Electronic resources, Information technology, linked open data, transforming raw data, United States, Audiovisual and Multimedia

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

The Classification and Indexing Section is co-sponsoring a programme on Universal Bibliographic Control in the Digital Age: Golden Opportunity or Paradise Lost? at the IFLA World Library and...

Event - 22 July 2014

Tags: Bibliography, Digital resources, France, Programme, Subject Analysis and Access

See the program for further details - session 119.  Hope to see you there!  

Event - 9 July 2014

Tags: Academic and Research Libraries, Digital resources, Programme

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

News - 1 May 2014

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

      We are excited to announce the second installment of this year’s webinar series “New Librarians Global Connection: best...

Event - 4 April 2014

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Archives, Audiovisual and multimedia, Benchmarking, Best practice, Databases, design, Digital divide, Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Information technology, International cooperation, Internet access, Knowledge management, user design, user experience, ux, Webinar, New Professionals

registration (EN+RU) | program plus latest updates: EN / RU We are happy to invite you to IFLAcamp Library Creative Laboratory: “A Hero of Our...

Event - 14 March 2014

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Associations, Collection development, Collections, Communication, Communities of practice, Conference, Conferences, Cooperation, Copyright, Cultural heritage, cycling, Development, Digital divide, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Digitisation, Education and training, IFLAcampLab, Information professionals, Information technology, International cooperation, Knowledge society, Library as place, Library history, Meetings, Members, Networking, New professionals, NPSIG, Policy, Professional development, Russian Federation, unconference, New Professionals

Organised by the Public Libraries Section of IFLA, in collaboration with CILIP and the Society of Chief Librarians in England,  this satellite conference is hosted by the new Library of...

Event - 13 January 2014

Tags: Digital resources, Electronic collections, Electronic delivery, Electronic resources, Satellite Meeting, United Kingdom, Public Libraries

Congratulations and thanks to Anette Mjöberg, Pirkko Lindberg and Leikny Indergaard who have developed a comprehensive program for the Section's Mid-Term meeting in Malmö, Sweden and...

News - 8 January 2014

Tags: Digital resources, Sweden, Public Libraries

Join public library colleagues from around the world in Malmö, Sweden and Tårnby/Copenhagen, Denmark for the IFLA Public Libraries Section Mid Term Meeting. In addition to hearing about...

Event - 7 January 2014

Tags: Digital resources, Midterm Meeting, Sweden, Public Libraries

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

News - 11 December 2013

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

Please browse the "Open Access converging on Collection Development" Call for papers on the 2014 WLIC conference website here, and share widely with your colleagues!

News - 10 December 2013

Tags: Acquisitions, Collection development, Digital resources, France, Open Access, Acquisition and Collection Development

Theme: Special Spaces for Special Collections The Library Buildings & Equipment and the Rare Books and Manuscripts Standing Committees together with the Preservation and...

News - 29 November 2013

Tags: Collection development, Conferences, Copyright, Democracy, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Document delivery, Electronic collections, Electronic delivery, Electronic resources, Guidelines, Information policy, Information technology, Intellectual property, Library Buildings and Equipment

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

News - 27 November 2013

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

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) is organizing International Conference on Digital libraries (ICDL 2013) from 27-29 November 2013 in New Delhi, India. The conference will also aim...

Event - 13 November 2013

Tags: Conference, Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital resources, India, Digital Libraries

The program will start with presentations to introduce access technology products, software and devices. Participants will then visit a "Technology Petting Zoo," where people (companies...

Event - 30 May 2013

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Acquisitions, Audiovisual and multimedia, Best practice, Digital divide, Digital resources, Disadvantaged people, Education, Education and training, Electronic delivery, Electronic resources, Programme, Services to people with disabilities, Services to the visually impaired, Singapore, Social inclusion, Library Services to People with Special Needs

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

News - 4 December 2012

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

IFLA is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) which exists to undertake, support and co-ordinate research and studies, and disseminate information about all aspects of library and...

Informational Page - 3 December 2012

Tags: Copyright, Digital resources, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

La IFLA es una organización internacional no gubernamental (ONG) que existe para emprender, apoyar y coordinar investigaciones y estudios, y difundir información sobre todos los...

Informational Page - 3 December 2012

Tags: Copyright, Digital resources, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

IFLA ist eine internationale Nichtregierungsorganisation (NGO), zu deren Aufgaben es gehört, Forschungs- und Studienprojekte durchzuführen, zu unterstützen und zu koordinieren,...

Informational Page - 3 December 2012

Tags: Copyright, Digital resources, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

This is a reminder that the early registration (with a reduced rate) for the IFLA Satellite Post-Conference, Beyond libraries – Subject metadata in the Digital Environment and Semantic Web,...

News - 29 May 2012

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Cataloguing, Classification and indexing, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Estonia, IFLA Satellite meeting, Indexing, Metadata, Semantic Web, Subject Analysis and Access

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

The conference will explore the role of different kinds of subject metadata in the digital environment and the semantic web, in libraries and beyond libraries. The digital environment creates...

Event - 10 February 2012

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Cataloguing, Classification and indexing, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Estonia, Indexing, Metadata, Satellite Meeting, Subject Analysis and Access

For the Classification & Indexing Section Open Session we invite presentations showing new and innovative ways of providing subject access to users from all types of libraries –...

News - 10 January 2012

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Audiovisual and multimedia, Children, Classification and indexing, Collections, Conferences, Digital resources, Electronic collections, Electronic delivery, Electronic resources, Finland, Indexing, Information technology, Metadata, Public access catalogues, Resource discovery, Subject Analysis and Access

IFLA WLIC 11-16 August 2012, Helsinki, Finland Copyright laws have been established in many countries in the print age and have not been updated to meet the new needs of the digital era....

News - 19 December 2011

Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Information policy, Intellectual property, Policy, Audiovisual and Multimedia

Theme: “Maximising collection development of electronic and print media in the digital environment: Opportunities for collaboration, strategic partnerships and patron initiated...

Event - 4 November 2010

Tags: Acquisitions, Collection development, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Satellite Meeting, Virgin Islands, U.S., Acquisition and Collection Development

The latest issue of the IFLA ITS Newsletter has three feature articles: "India: the Digital Repository at IICT", "Digital Library Inter-operability" and "...

News - 6 July 2010

Tags: Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Digitisation, Freedom of information, Knowledge management, m-libraries, Open Source, RFID, social networking, Information Technology

     Preliminary programme Wednesday, March 3: Workshop on the Digital collections development 10.00 – 10.15: Greetings by Dr. Victor Fedorov,...

Event - 3 February 2010

Tags: Acquisitions, Collection development, Collections, Digital resources, Digitisation, Electronic collections, Electronic resources, Midterm Meeting, Russian Federation, Acquisition and Collection Development

The libraries of the Frick Collection and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have undertaken a pilot project with JSTOR to make 1,500 English and American auction catalogues available on a beta site....

News - 16 January 2010

Tags: Digital resources, Art Libraries

The annual international conference Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) addresses the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in the digital world....

Event - 5 November 2009

Tags: Conference, Croatia, Digital age, Digital libraries, Digital resources, LIDA

Frankfurt Book Fair, October 13th What has happened to reading in the age of the Internet? Will the digital age put an end to the culture of reading and books that has been nurtured over...

News - 14 September 2009

Tags: Copyright, Digital resources, Germany, Literacy, Reading, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

Welcome to KUOPIO-3! The Kuopio Conferences have identified a vital issue facing the Library and Cultural communities.  They have successfully highlighted the problems of how to...

Event - 26 August 2009

Tags: Collections, Conference, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Finland, Repository libraries, Sustainability, Acquisition and Collection Development

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Publication - 12 June 2009

Tags: Access to information, Databases, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Information technology, Annual reports, Information Technology

Digital publishing is rapidly spreading into different publishing domains, at present especially within the academic world and among government and municipal bodies. For libraries that have started...

Informational Page - 17 April 2009

Tags: Cataloguing, Digital resources, Metadata, Cataloguing