Masoud Ghadim Fallah i Bok og bibliotek on WLIC i Dubai 2024.
"Den store forskjellen mellom sakene jeg har nevnt, er målet med boikotten. Er det folk eller stat som skal rammes? Vi må se på hva som er nyttig for folk og nye generasjoner i et land. Selvsagt kan slike konferanser hjelpe De forente arabiske emirater med å normalisere og stabilisere makten sin og vise frem sine luksusbibliotek, samtidig som de legger skjul på fattigdommen, de store klasseforskjellene, sosial diskriminering og mangelen på frihet og ytringsfrihet i samfunnet. Men samtidig kan deltakelse på slike konferanser være en god vei til overføring av ny kunnskap og moderne kultur og verdier til sosiale eliter og intellektuelle som er en minoritet i et totalitært kapitalistisk-islamsk samfunn."
This posting is sponsored by the Library Publishing SIG and published in cooperation with the ARL Section. Members of the Library Publishing SIG reach out to library publishers and invite them to respond to a series of questions.
This post features Dave Ghamandi who is the Open Publishing Librarian at the University of Virginia and Managing Editor, Aperio.
WLIC 21-25 August. Time to start planning your week in Rotterdam! Explore the Congress Programme, pick sessions of your choice and set up your own agenda!
Dear IFLA President and Governing Board, The LGBTQ+ Users Special Interest Group (SIG) is responding to the announcement that the WLIC 2024 will be hosted in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. https://www.ifla.org/news/dubai-2024/ The LGBTQ+ Users SIG applauds the decision to schedule the conference in an area where we have not met before. We are indeed convinced…
For the first time an Ifla representative directly involved in last years turbulence has agreed to answer Biblioteksbladet’s questions. Hans Ulrich ”Halo” Locher apologizes for the lack of transparency and promises to make secret compensations and golden parachutes public – should he be elected as president of Ifla.
"It’s time to imagine what a library can do "
May 24, 2021, A Letter From Bibliotheca CEO Ray Hood: As Leaders In Innovation, We Have A Long Legacy Of Providing Libraries & Communities Worldwide With Solutions That Increase Access
Chair of The Elders and former president of Ireland Mary Robinson delivered an inspiring keynote speech to kickstart edie's Sustainability Leaders Forum, which is available to watch in-full.
Die Bedeutung der Schulbibliothek für die Bereiche Lehren und Lernen für alle
Die Schulbibliothek stellt Informationen und Ideen bereit, die von grundlegender Bedeutung für das erfolgreiche Funktionieren in der heutigen Informations-und Wissensgesellschaft sind. Die Schulbibliothek vermittelt den Schülern die Fähigkeit zu lebenslangem Lernen und fördert ihre Phantasie; sie ermöglicht es ihnen so, als verantwortungsbewusste Bürger zu leben.
Includes links to virtual lectures series 2020 :
1. Phillip Russell, “‘Stop, Think, Check’: Ireland’s Be Media Smart Campaign”
2. Giuseppe Vitiello, “Assessing the Promotion of Freedom of Expression and Free Access to Information in Libraries: Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.10 through the EBLIDA-NewsGuard partnership”
3. Katharina Beckh & Vishwani Gupta, “Supporting Verification of News Articles with Machine Learning Methods: Automated Search for Semantically Similar Articles”
4. Katherine E. Boss, April Hines, Jeffrey Knapp, et. al., “‘It would be horrible if I printed something that wasn’t true’: Examining the Research Behaviors of Journalism Students”
CHICAGO – Today the Executive Board of the American Library Association (ALA) released the following endorsement for ALA Past-President Loida Garcia-Febo to serve as International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) President-Elect (2021-2023). IFLA is the leading international body representing library and information services and their users'
Full text of statement below. From the International Federation of Library Associations: IFLA's President Christine Mackenzie and Secretary General Gerald Leitner have issued the below statement concerning the situation in Afghanistan.