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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 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 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 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 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 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?"  |
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.  |
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 September 2003 Dick Kaser |
World Library Congress Denounces USA PATRIOT Act A International Federation of Library Associations resolution called for the repeal or amendment of the USA PATRIOT Act and similar laws in other nations.  |
Information Today April 9, 2015 |
Gale and EveryLibrary Raise Awareness of Library Resources Gale and EveryLibrary partnered for a media campaign designed to increase awareness of libraries' importance in economic development and their role in the discovery of information.  |
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 September 2003 Dick Kaser |
Impressions of IFLA 69th World Information Congress was all about access  |
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.  |
D-Lib February 2009 Bonita Wilson |
Challenges and Opportunities Historically, libraries have been instrumental in helping individuals and businesses through difficult economic times  |
D-Lib March 2004 Patrice A. Lyons |
The World Meets the Internet Representatives from a wide spectrum of government, intergovernmental, private and what was termed "civil society" organizations met at Geneva in December 2003 at the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by information and communication technologies (ICT), in particular the Internet.  |
Information Today April 15, 2014 Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2014: Lives Change @ Your Library The United States has celebrated National Library Week during the second week of April (aka School Library Month) since 1958. This year, it's being celebrated April 13-19, with author Judy Blume serving as honorary chair.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2011 Casarosa et al. |
Report on the Workshop "Linking Research and Education in Digital Libraries" The theme of this workshop was a review of the roles of information professionals, considering not only the impact brought by the advances in the technical dimension, but also other dimensions such as policy, quality, user profiles, and legal aspects.  |
Information Today August 26, 2010 |
"Geek the Library" Campaign Now Available to All U.S. Libraries The campaign is designed to highlight the vital role of public libraries in today's challenging economic environment and to increase local library support.  |
D-Lib August 2005 William Y. Arms |
A Viewpoint Analysis of the Digital Library Should digital libraries be encouraged to develop independently or together?  |
D-Lib August 2005 Clifford Lynch |
Where Do We Go From Here? The Next Decade for Digital Libraries The next decade for digital libraries may be characterized by the transition from technologies and prototypes to the ubiquitous, immersive, and pervasive deployment of digital library technologies and services in the broader information and information technology landscape.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2015 |
In Brief and In the News OCLC prints last library catalog cards... VRA Core RDF Ontology available for review... ALA awarded IMLS grant for IFLA 2016 Congress Fellowships...  |
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.  |
Information Today August 6, 2009 |
Open Library Environment Project Draft Final Report Available The resulting OLE platform is predicated on service-oriented architecture and a community-source model of development and governance.  |
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 October 4, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest R.R. Bowker Acquires Syndetic Solutions... Library Groups Endorse Intellectual Property Declaration... Swets Launches SwetsWise Linker...  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Assessing the Impact of Library Discovery Technology on Content Usage... A New Way to Follow the Research Trail... GreyGuide - Guide to Good Practice in Grey Literature...  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 |
In Brief SEALS: Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale... Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award 2012... New library study: demand up for technology, budget cuts limit access...  |
Searcher March 2008 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Hey, OCLC! Got a Minute? The greatest reaction to the Working Group's report on bibliographic control is that the Library of Congress might have better things to do with its resources than serve as the primary cataloger for the libraries of the world.  |
Information Today May 20, 2014 Barbie E. Keiser |
Give Your Library the Edge The Edge Initiative is a toolkit designed to help public libraries "demonstrate how their work adds value and supports strong outcomes" in the communities they serve.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 |
In Brief and In the News Higher education, library groups release Net Neutrality Principles... ALA applauds Congress for passing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act... Finalists announced for the Digital Preservation Awards 2014...  |
Information Today December 22, 2008 |
Pilot Grant Program to Improve Internet Connections in Public Libraries The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a pilot initiative designed to help public libraries in seven states secure faster internet connections so more people can access a full range of online applications and opportunities.  |
D-Lib September 2006 Choi & Rasmussen |
What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries Digital libraries are the future of academic and research institutions, and digital professionals will be required to have more breadth and depth of knowledge and skills across the dimensions of traditional library knowledge, technology, and human relations.  |
Information Today September 22, 2015 Nancy K. Herther |
Libraries Find Creative Ways to Color Outside the Lines This is the second year that all types of libraries reached out "to their communities in new and engaging ways," with the shared event Outside the Lines.  |
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."  |
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In Brief and In the News Harnessing the Cognitive Surplus of the Nation by Crowdsourcing... Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance receives implementation funding from the Mellon Foundation... Content from European National and Research Libraries Now Available through New Portal for Researchers...  |
Information Today March 28, 2013 |
EveryoneOn Launches to Promote Digital Literacy March 21, 2013 marked the launch of Everyone On -- a national campaign to promote the importance of digital literacy skills and increase access to computer and internet training.  |
Information Today February 24, 2011 Theresa Cramer |
New Study: Libraries Embrace Digital Content in Face of Budget Constraints At the very time that library budgets were being slashed, demand for the services provided by these institutions was increasing in the communities they served. Libraries have had to reprioritize and get creative with budgets.  |
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 October 2007 |
In Brief EMC Heritage Trust Project Awards... Investigating overlay journals: introducing the RIOJA Project... Bungee View: An open-source visualization-based interface to search, browse, and data-mine image collections... etc.  |
Finance & Development September 2008 Elaine Venter |
Point of View: A Work in Progress The Paris Declaration renews focus on aid reform but is still donor-centric  |
Information Today July 21, 2008 Barbara Quint |
Voters and Public Library Funding: An OCLC Market Research Report Public libraries are in trouble. Costs and demands for their services continue to rise, while revenue and support for maintaining, much less increasing, financial support continue to sink.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2009 |
In Brief Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award... High precision and recall: Focuss.Info as community-driven search engine... Shared Shelf: partnership plans to launch networked image management platform... etc.  |
D-Lib February 2008 Datema et al. |
In Brief Getting the most out of your institutional repository... Science assets of the digital age at risk... Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: a documentary history... etc.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2014 |
In Brief and In the News The IDEASc Project Seeks Applicants... Unpacking Fedora 4... The Pisa Declaration: An Open Access Roadmap for Grey Literature Resources...  |
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 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.  |