International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)

« … On Thursday, at a meeting between UN Major Groups and Member States, Donna Scheeder introduced the Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development which has now been signed by over 500 organisations from across the library, development and ICT sectors. Her intervention focused on the…

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London pride in context: Treasures & the library treasures volume in Britain today 244
Karen Attar

How library & information science academic administrators perceive e-learning in LIS schools: A qualitative analysis 254
Md. Shiful Islam, Susumu Kunifuji, Motoki Miura and Tessai Hayama

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« … Last week, an advance « Synthesis Report of the UN Secretary-General On the Post-2015 Agenda » was released. The Report outlines the priorities of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and has a serious objective: to transform our economies, our environment, and our societies. IFLA welcomes the Report…

« The following article appears in the latest issue of Library and Information Research (…)

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Increasingly, the library and information science (LIS) practitioner is being challenged to incorporate research into the context of their professional work. This paper reports on the Researcher-Librarian…

« … Volume 40, No.3 (October 2014)

Editorial

National libraries as centers of innovation: An IFLA Journal 40th anniversary tribute

Jerry W. Mansfield 143

Articles

From inertia to innovation: Information-based organizations in the Age of Intelligence
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« Full papers are available  from IFLA’s Library

– Mining large datasets for thehumanities PETER LEONARD (…)

– Do we need to believe Data/Tangible or Emotional/Intuition? JEAN-LUC MARINI, FANJUAN SHI (…)

– Copyright law and text and data mining: the…

« … IFLA has launched this toolkit to support library institutions and associations and other civil society organisations to advocate for this position. The toolkit provides background on the issues and practical advice on how to set up meetings with government representatives. Template letters, talking points and examples of how…

Organized by the Information Technology Section with the Semantic Web Special Interest Group

« Plenary session 1 moderated by Gildas Illien (BnF)

They made it happen… Library linked data success stories

Linking Libraries in The European Library and Europeana by Valentine Charles and Antoine…

« 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 complement this body of knowledge by addressing the specific needs related to planning digitization projects for rare and…

« Papers, presentations and photographs from the Section’s pre-conference in Paris and sessions at IFLA WLIC in Lyon are now available on the following pages:

– 2014 Pre-Conference of the Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments

– The Section’s sessions at…