"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
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'
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”
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."
Discussions by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) broke down in the early hours of Saturday morning 3 May, after the European Union (EU) attempted to block future discussion of copyright laws to aid libraries and archives fulfill their missions in the digital environment.
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records FAQ: "If FRBR is not a data model, what is it then? Rather a conceptual reference model. One of the primary objectives in developing it was "to provide a (...) framework for relating the data that are recorded in bibliographic records to the needs of users of those records" (FRBR Final Report, sec. 2.1) and for assessing their actual relevance."