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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 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 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 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 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 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 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.  |
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.  |
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 |
Impressions of IFLA 69th World Information Congress was all about access  |
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.  |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2009 Marydee Ojala |
Global Legal Information Network: An Interview With Donna Scheeder GLIN not only brings together legal texts from around the world, but it also adds knowledge beyond the digitization process.  |
D-Lib November 2000 Lynne Brindley |
Taking the British Library Forward in the Twenty-first Century It is at this very time of success that the British Library needs to turn to, and accelerate its engagement with, the critical and transformational issues associated with the digital world and the new demands being made by our wide range of users and stakeholders...  |
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  |
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...  |
ifeminists June 22, 2005 Carey Roberts |
The Politics of Social Destruction at the UN Gender mainstreaming has become the Sisterhood's ploy to hijack the UN's Millennium Development Goals and turn them into another platform to advance its destructive agenda. US House of Representatives, beware.  |
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 June 27, 2011 Barbie E. Keiser |
EPA Releases Its National Library Network Strategic Plan FY2012-2014 This is a 3-year strategic plan which addresses four key areas -- EPA library network governance, services, collections (electronic and physical), and communications outreach and training.  |
D-Lib December 2007 Kaufman & Ubois |
Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization OCLC Programs and Research engaged Intelligent Television to study the partnership agreements between cultural institutions and for-profit companies for the mass digitization of books and other media. This report presents the findings of that study.  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2015 |
In Brief and In the News President Obama Announces Open eBooks and ConnectED Library Challenge... IMLS announces public request for comment and webinar on broadband barriers... Julie Todaro Wins 2016-2017 ALA Presidency...  |
ifeminists September 16, 2003 Carey Roberts |
The Radical Feminist Take-Over at the U.N. Once Americans find out how much the gender feminist agenda now pervades the UN, public support will continue to plummet.  |
D-Lib January 2002 Suzana Sukovic |
Beyond the scriptorium: The Role of the Library in Text Encoding Development of electronic textual resources means dealing with documents in new ways and on different levels, often involving work on a document's content through text encoding. This development challenges the library's assumed position in the research process...  |
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...  |
ifeminists September 21, 2005 Carey Roberts |
Party-Poopers at the UN Birthday Bash Apart from the decision to establish a new Human Rights Council, UN delegates failed to agree on details for countering terrorism, stopping the spread of AIDS, or reforming the UN Security Council. Even Mr. Annan himself ended up agreeing the final document was "watered down" and "disappointing."  |
Search Engine Watch November 22, 2005 Sullivan & Price |
World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed by Library of Congress & Google The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library, a project that's also received its first $3 million in funding from Google.  |
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.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 Gerolimos & Konsta |
Services for Academic Libraries in the New Era The aim of this paper is twofold. The primary focus is to research and document the integration of services based on the web into the framework of academic libraries.  |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2012 |
In Brief and In the News UNESCO endorses the IFLA Manifesto for Digital Libraries... Can culture on the web change peoples lives?... Europeana reaches 20 million items...  |
D-Lib November 2001 Jola G.B. Prinsen |
A Challenging Future Awaits Libraries Able to Change Highlights of the International Summer School on the Digital Library...  |
D-Lib April 2002 |
In Brief The Middle East Virtual Library... Advanced Technology Environmental Education Library... Testbed Digitale Bewaring: Working to Preserve the Digital Memory... Open Archives Initiative Protocol for harvesting cultural heritage metadata... etc.  |
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 May/Jun 2014 |
In Brief and In the News IMLS Grant to Support Development of Library Digital Badging System... CLIR Names 2014 Mellon Dissertation Fellows... Getty Research Institute adds 77,000 images to Open Content...  |
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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...  |
D-Lib April 2003 |
In Brief Report on the NLM/AMPA Archiving Forum... Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation... The Public Knowledge Project... Manifesto on Open Access to Scholarly Literature... The Internet Archive OAI-PMH Implementation... etc.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 Robert A. Schrier |
Digital Librarianship & Social Media: the Digital Library as Conversation Facilitator One of the ways digital librarians can cultivate a broader awareness of their collections is through social networking.  |
D-Lib April 2002 |
Clips and Pointers Collection Description Focus/CIMI: Summary Report... LITA Top Tech Trends... Digital Reference Services Bibliography... Calls for Participation... Usability for Digital Libraries... etc.  |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2009 |
In Brief Contributors offer updates on various digital library research and initiatives.  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2010 |
D-Lib Magazine In Brief and In the News PREMIS in METS Toolbox... EUscreen: Accessing and exploring European television heritage... Content Lifecycle Integration Framework (CLIF)... CeDAAME... Terrier 3.0 Release Announced... etc.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2011 |
In Brief and In the News Report on the International Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives 2011... Report on the Fourth Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries... UNC's Digital Innovation Lab: Fostering Public Digital Humanities...  |
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.  |
D-Lib October 2007 Anna Gold |
Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 2: Libraries and the Data Challenge: Roles and Actions for Libraries Once libraries and librarians have forged new partnerships with scientists and data managers, then they will be truly integral to the stewardship of data as a vital part of the scholarly record.  |
D-Lib January 2006 |
In Brief Digital Preservation Coalition Launches Series That Features DPC Projects... Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellowship in Scholarly Information Resources... 2006 International Paper Contest on International Digital Libraries and Information Science & Technology Advances in Developing Countries...etc.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Connecting Presidential Collections... The African American Theater History Project at the University of Minnesota Libraries... CrossRef Members add over a quarter million CrossMark records...  |
Searcher March 2011 Matarazzo & Pearlstein |
Survival Lessons for Libraries: Educating Special Librarians -- "The Past Is Prologue" When we began writing this series of articles addressing survival lessons for special libraries, we had more questions than answers; this is still the case.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2011 Michalis Gerolimos |
Academic Libraries on Facebook: An Analysis of Users' Comments This paper examines users' comments on the Facebook pages of 20 American academic libraries and subdivides them into 22 categories.  |
D-Lib June 2000 Diane Nester Kresh |
Offering High Quality Reference Service on the Web Today's researchers need to find quickly information that is usable, relevant, authoritative and verifiable. To meet that need, libraries must adapt our traditional strengths of acquiring, describing, and serving information to an environment that is not bound by time or physical place...  |