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Information Today September 2003 Dick Kaser |
Impressions of IFLA 69th World Information Congress was all about access  |
Information Today February 28, 2013 |
IFLA Launches Resources for eLending in Libraries The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions launched a new set of resources relating to ebooks and libraries.  |
Information Today August 27, 2015 |
IFLA Statement Encourages Advocacy for Patron Privacy The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions released the "IFLA Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment."  |
Information Today September 10, 2007 |
IFLA Receives Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grant The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions announced the receipt of a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Libraries initiative.  |
Information Today September 2, 2014 Marydee Ojala |
The Lyon Declaration Tackles Information Access and Sustainable Development At the 80th IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) World Library and Information Congress on Aug. 18, 2014, in Lyon, France, IFLA introduced the Lyon Declaration on Access to Information.  |
Information Today September 1, 2015 Marydee Ojala |
IFLA Puts Access to Information on the Global Agenda The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions bills itself as the "trusted global voice of the library and information profession." Nothing demonstrates the value of this voice more than the association's ability to put access to information on the global agenda.  |
Information Today May 17, 2012 |
IFLA Releases Background Paper on E-Lending As part of its work on the 2011-2012 Key Initiatives, the International Federation of Library Associations Governing Board appointed a working group to draft a background paper on digital lending.  |
Information Today September 3, 2013 Marydee Ojala |
Riding the Waves or Caught in the Tide A few of the perplexing situations that could transform libraries in the future were touched on by Ingrid Parent, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions president, in the IFLA Trend Report "Riding the Waves or Caught in the Tide?"  |
BusinessWeek October 27, 2003 Stan Crock |
Iraq: A U.N. Deal Still Won't Pay The Bills Given the expected outcome in Madrid, Iraqi participants are likely to walk away disappointed -- not confident in the international community's support. And Washington will have to shoulder the burden in Iraq for much longer than the Bush team had hoped.  |
Information Today November 14, 2005 Forest Woody Horton, Jr. |
Libraries--The Information Society in Action Several hot-button issues emerged from the WSIS pre-conference.  |
Information Today August 11, 2015 |
UN Sets 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development It features 179 targets for economic, environmental, and social development that all countries can use.  |
Information Today November 5, 2009 |
ARL, ALA Issue Statement Supporting PATRIOT Amendments Act of 2009 The Association of Research Libraries and the American Library Association have issued a statement saying they strongly support the USA PATRIOT Amendments Act of 2009  |
Information Today July 15, 2014 |
International Organizations Ask Elsevier to Withdraw TDM Policy International library and research organizations submitted an open letter to Elsevier asking the company to abandon its text and data mining policy.  |
ONLINE Nov./Dec. 2006 Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage - Perspectives, Perceptions, and Periscopes Librarians share the same perspective when naming their type of library. Perceptions of libraries, however, differ, depending on perspective.  |
Information Today October 2002 Jim Ashling |
The 68th IFLA General Conference and Council The library federation celebrated its 75th anniversary in Scotland, the country of its origin.  |
Information Today September 2003 Dick Kaser |
Sound Off for the Freedom to Read It's a sad day when the U.S. Congress needs to consider a bill called the Freedom to Read Protection Act. Introduced last March, this bill would exempt libraries and bookstores from some of the more onerous provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act.  |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2011 Marydee Ojala |
Strength in Numbers Libraries worldwide are under threat. Yet information professionals should not despair. We bring a unique perspective to these dual challenges, and we have strength in numbers.  |
Information Today July 15, 2014 Barbie E. Keiser |
WIPO Considers Changes to Broadcasting Copyrights Recently the World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights met in order to discuss its Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations, which could be enforced by 2015.  |
Information Today February 1, 2010 |
CERN Library Publishes Its Book Catalog as Open Data Librarians are, in general, very favorable to the principles of Open Access. But surprisingly few libraries have so far set free the data they produce themselves.  |
Information Today May 3, 2010 Paula J. Hane |
Celebrating Libraries and Promoting Choose Privacy Week (May 2-8) Choose Privacy Week, which takes place May 2-8, 2010, is about bringing information privacy issues out into the open and discussing them - and libraries are the perfect places for those conversations to take place.  |
Information Today October 27, 2008 |
Bibliotheque nationale de France to Add Records to WorldCat OCLC and Bibliotheque nationale de France have signed a letter of intent to work cooperatively to add records from the French national library to OCLC's WorldCat, the world's largest online resource for finding information in libraries.  |
D-Lib December 2005 Bonita Wilson |
Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources The Library of Congress Global Gateway provides access to the World Digital Library (WDL) which offers international cultural digital resources available via the Internet worldwide.  |
Reason June 2005 Jesse Walke |
Ohio Clampdown Four Ohio cities have denounced the PATRIOT Act, and, in some cases, asked their employees to work around it to whatever extent the law allows.  |
Bank Technology News May 2003 Holly Sraeel |
Privacy and Regulation: Can They Co-Exist Peacefully? One horrendous day of terrorism, the passage of The Patriot Act and a defiant Iraqi dictator all have tipped the scales in favor of regulation. The price, some argue, is an individual's right to privacy. Financial institutions are caught smack in the middle.  |
Information Today June 25, 2012 |
Penguin Group Launches Library Lending Pilot Program Penguin Group, The New York Public Library, and 3M Library Systems announced a pilot project that will make Penguin eBooks available to patrons of both The New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library.  |
Salon.com October 25, 2000 Christopher Hunter |
Don't let McCain censor the Net New legislation that would require the use of filtering software by public libraries is unnecessary and unconstitutional...  |
Searcher June 2003 Miriam Drake |
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet: Patriot II on the Way This article focuses on the government's data mining, information gathering, database building programs, and Radio Frequency Identification Chips.  |
Information Today December 2003 Jim Ashling |
International Report: Frankfurt Book Fair 2003 The number of visitors to the Frankfurt Book Fair increased for the second straight year, with 288,887 attending during the event's Oct. 8-13 run (8.7% more than 2002). With the number of exhibitors also increasing by 4 percent to 6,638, the director expressed satisfaction with the industry's growing optimism.  |
Information Today October 2, 2008 |
EPA Reopens Regional and Headquarters Libraries The re-opening of regional libraries in Chicago, Dallas and Kansas City and the library at Headquarters will help the Agency better share information.  |
Searcher April 2001 Wallace Koehler |
Dot-Lib for Libraries -- Can It Happen? Ask ICANN If museums have their own gTLD, why not libraries? That's simple enough, but reaching that goal may be a bit more complex...  |
Information Today November 15, 2010 |
Urban Libraries Seek Local Governments as Partners in Sustainability The Council's latest research report profiles how a strategic and successful relationship between the public library and the local government can be formed in order to accomplish sustainability for a community.  |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2004 Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy: Recommended Reading on the Library Field Refuge of a Scoundrel: The Patriot Act in Libraries... Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers... The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources... etc.  |
Information Today October 5, 2009 |
New Report on Filings in the Google Books Settlement The Association of Research Libraries, the American Library Association, and the Association of College and Research Libraries have issued a report that summarizes information about the filings that have been submitted to the federal district court presiding over the Google Books litigation.  |
Information Today December 10, 2013 |
Three Library Associations Shut Down The Communications Group announced the end of its association management division, which manages three national library associations.  |
Information Today April 28, 2015 Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2015 Celebrates Unlimited Possibilities @ Your Library The American Library Association provides libraries with marketing collateral (e.g., posters, sample press releases, badges, and images for promotion on social media) and programming ideas.  |
Reason November 2005 David Weigel |
When Patriots Dissent Government error and bad publicity resulting from use of the PATRIOT Act have reduced the number of Americans who are willing to trade privacy for security. Politicians who vote against measures like PATRIOT will go home to sympathetic voters.  |
Information Today April 18, 2013 |
New OCLC Registry Service Shines a Spotlight on Libraries OCLC announced that libraries can increase their visibility on the web by registering basic local information with the OCLC Library Spotlight program, a free service that works with popular web services to promote libraries.  |
Information Today September 2005 George H. Pike |
PATRIOT Summer: Extending the USA PATRIOT Act While there is no question that some form of the USA PATRIOT Reauthorization Act will pass, now is the time to make your voice heard about which version of the act should pass.  |
Information Today June 6, 2011 |
OCLC Web-scale Management Services on Target for July 1 Release In addition to the 32 committed libraries in the U.S., BIBSYS, the Norwegian library consortium signed an agreement with OCLC to base its new library management system on Web-scale Management Services, which will include management tools for more than 100 libraries in Norway.  |
Information Today July 23, 2015 |
Innovative Publishes Report on Libraries and the Web Innovative released a survey report of 4,000-plus academic library users in the U.K.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2011 |
Clips and Pointers 'Rome Wasn't Digitized in a Day'... Digital Preservation Summit 2011, 19-20 October 2011... National Digital Forum, 29-30 November 2011, Wellington, New Zealand...  |
Information Today February 19, 2009 |
The European Library Updates Site The European Library announced a new site release of www.theeuropeanlibrary.org, a free resource to discover learning and research materials, covering all subjects, from 38 national libraries across Europe.  |
D-Lib February 2000 |
Clips & Pointers Pointers to other source of information on digital libraries: SPEC Kit 253: Networked Information Resources... Abstracts available online from the Thirty-second Annual HICSS... PhysNet: the Physics Departments and Documents Network... etc.  |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2012 |
Clips and Pointers Legal issues in mass digitization... Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter... Open Access Africa 2011 presentation slides from the conference...  |
D-Lib January 2000 David M. Levy |
Digital Libraries and the Problem of Purpose Which way ought we to go in digital library research and development?...I'll start by reviewing the problem of purpose in American public libraries and American academic/research libraries before turning to digital libraries...  |
D-Lib January 2001 |
Clips & Pointers The Power of the Internet for Learning: Moving from Promise to Practice... Preservation Science Survey: An Overview of Recent Developments in Research on the Conservation of Selected Analog Library and Archival Materials... Issue Papers from the Networked Services Policy Task Group... etc.  |
Information Today April 17, 2008 |
ALA Releases `The State of America's Libraries' Report Libraries of all kinds continue to be "engines of learning, literacy, and economic development in communities nationwide."  |
Information Today November 14, 2011 |
IFLA Launches New Webpages on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions Copyright exceptions enable libraries to preserve and make available works. In many countries they have been established in the print era and not been updated to meet the needs of the digital age.  |
Information Today January 7, 2008 |
Pew Internet Project Issues New Report on Information Searching The report said that recent national survey results challenge the assumption that libraries are losing relevance in the internet age. Here are some statistics from the survey.  |
Salon.com September 5, 2001 Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Dumb and dumber The Israel bashers who hijacked the U.N. racism conference managed to make Bush look smart for limiting U.S. involvement...  |