UNESCO Calls for Continued Support for Preservation and Access to Documentary...
UNESCO’s statement, Turning the threat of COVID-19 into an opportunity for greater support to documentary heritage, co-signed by IFLA, stresses the importance of continued support for preservation and...
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UNESCO’s International Coalition of Inclusive and Sustainable Cities (ICCAR) hosted an international webinar on 20 April 2020 addressing racism, discrimination and exclusion in the time of COVID-19....
View ArticleA 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 professionals who...
View ArticleKnowledge 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 Bultrini...
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Library Return on Investment - Review of Evidence from the Last 10 Years
Over the last few decades, libraries have been exploring various ways to assess and demonstrate their value and contribution to users and communities. Return on Investment is a commonly used method to...
View ArticleLocal History and Genealogy Section Webinar
Objectives To understand what "genetic exceptionalism" is and why DNA testing is now critical for your genealogical patron To gain a basic knowledge of what DNA testing can and cannot do for...
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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 infrastructure,...
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Understanding Library Tech Needs and Readiness: a new IFLA Briefing
Information technology continues to have a fundamental impact on the library sector. Libraries’, library users’ and policy-makers’ expectations of library services are evolving alongside technological...
View ArticleReflecting Back & Looking Forward
Join us to hear about some inspiring stories of how public libraries adapted to service delivery during COVID-19; innovative approaches to literacy and reading during this time; listen to...
View ArticleGoing Digital: Bringing the Library to Teens in the New Normal
By Ms Siti Aisyah Binte Abdul Nasir, Deputy Head (Children & Teens) | Programmes and Exhibitions, Archives and Libraries Group, National Library Board, Singapore
View ArticleTechnology for Teenagers in an Italian Library: What Changed During the...
Interview by Naoko Nakajima Koseki (Chief Planning and Cooperation Division, International Library of Children's Literature, National Diet Library, Japan) to Nicoletta Gramantieri (Biblioteca Sala...
View ArticleThe World Through Picture Books 3rd edition – How Does My Country Get Involved?
By Claire Stuckey, Children's Librarian retired, Central Coast Council – Gosford, Australia With this programme the Libraries for Children & Young Adults Section is celebrating and promoting the...
View ArticleNewsletter May 2021 / IFLA’s Libraries for Children & Young Adults Section /...
This document lists all articles in a single document. Pictures to the articles are not always included in this compilation. Latest News: Short Report on the Safer Internet Day Survey The Safer...
View ArticleAre Online Events ‘Our Everything’ Now? How to Hold Online Events One Won’t...
by Anton Purnik, Head of Information & Technology Division, Russian State Library for Young Adults With the arrival of a pandemic in our lives, many libraries are having two main options for...
View ArticleWebinar - Library RDM Services: where are we now?
The third issue of the IFLA IT Webinar Series gave the occasion to hear Dr. Edmund Balnaves, a director at Prosentient Systems Ltd in Autralia, higlight some current best practices in academic library...
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