« Full and immediate free access to research outputs and publications ensures that everyone – including researchers, policy makers, citizens, scientists, and the public – has the data, evidence, and knowledge they need to address societal, environmental, and global challenges. IFLA defines open access in its 2011 statement that in turn…
« (…) This Manifesto proclaims UNESCO’s belief in the public library as a living force for education, culture, inclusion and information, as an essential agent for sustainable development, and for individual fulfilment
« Information is a critical resource for personal, economic and social development. Libraries and archives are the primary access point to information for individuals and communities with much of the information protected by copyright or licence terms. In this complex legal environment, librarians and information professionals operate at the fulcrum of…
« Will we see the importance of virtual services and spaces reinforced, or will there be an analogue backlash? Will we see further political polarisation and undermining of expertise, or will information literacy finally be recognised and valued? Will we see meaningful action in favour of equity and diversity, or just…
« The IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing (DDRS) Standing Committee is pleased to announce the 17th Interlending and Document Supply (ILDS) Conference, hosted by Qatar National Library in Doha, Qatar from 8 to 10 March 2022.
Under the conference theme, “Sharing To Heal: Resource Sharing Through…
« En 2021, pour la première fois, le congrès annuel de l’IFLA (IFLA WLIC 2021) sera entièrement virtuel. Il aura lieu les 17, 18 et 19 août 2021.
Afin de favoriser la participation francophone à ce congrès, le Cfibd a décidé d’offrir leur inscription à 100…
« Empowering research by connecting libraries and facilitating access to knowledge; the international HERMES project responds with research, training, and brand new software. (…)
The project has just begun and will last 18 months, during which the group will work with the dual objective of refining the document sharing tools…
« In a post last week, we looked at the importance of being able to explain why non-investment in libraries matters. (…)
So just as we need to be able to talk about the cost of not investing financially in libraries, we should also learn to set…
« A lot of advocacy for libraries focuses on showing the return that our institutions provide on investment. Through this, we work to demonstrate that however much governments or other funders spend, the value created by the presence and work of libraries is more. (…) »
« The Conference aims to explore the new boundaries of Universal Bibliographic Control, which are widening in the digital ecosystem. Bibliographic control is radically changing because the bibliographic universe is radically changing: resources, actors, technologies, standards, and practices. As a « non-commercial public space » (IFLA Global Vision) – not only in a…
