Content tagged Archives

The recording of the SIG's session for IFLA’s WLIC 2021 is completed. The session is titled "Librarians learning from the past to inspire, include and sustain" and is...

News - 27 July 2021

Tags: Archives, Cultural heritage, Library history, Library History

Join the Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centre hosted at Qatar National Library for this Introduction to Arabo-Islamic Manuscript Culture Intensive Course, organised by Qatar National Library...

Event - 28 April 2021

Tags: Archives, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Preservation, Webinar, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Culture is a basic need.  A community thrives through its cultural heritage, it dies without it. Libraries of course have an essential role in safeguarding this heritage, but their...

News - 9 April 2021

Tags: Advocacy, Archives, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Preservation, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Culture is a basic need.  A community thrives through its cultural heritage, it dies without it. Libraries of course have an essential role in safeguarding this heritage, but their...

Event - 6 April 2021

Tags: Advocacy, Archives, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Preservation, Webinar

IFLA joins ICOMOS, ICA, and ICOM to call on all parties to ensure the protection of cultural heritage in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Following the ceasefire agreement that came into force...

News - 2 December 2020

Tags: Archives, Conservation, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Preservation, Risk Register, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments and Sites

The Library History Special Interest Group has started to work on a series of projects on oral histories of the world's librarians and as you might imagine there are many components which we...

News - 6 November 2020

Tags: Archives, Library history, Library theory and research, Multicultural populations

ينظّم مركز الإفلا الإقليمي في مكتبة قطر الوطنية هذه الجلسة لمناقشة تاريخ التسجيلات الصوتية، من الفونوغراف أو الغرامافون عام 1857 إلى الصِيَغ الرقمية في القرن الحادي والعشرين، كما...

Event - 12 June 2020

Tags: Archives, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Workshop

The IFLA PAC regional center at Qatar National Library is organising this session to discuss the history of audio recording formats, from the 1857 phonautograph to 21st-century...

Event - 12 June 2020

Tags: Archives, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Workshop, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Representatives from IFLA participated in the 2nd Inter-regional Conference for the Memory of the World, held in the Republic of Korea on 5-8 November 2019. The aim of the...

News - 12 November 2019

Tags: Advocacy, Archives, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Meetings, Networking, Preservation, Republic of Korea

​ Designing the Archive is an international archives conference presented by the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA), Archives and Records Association of New Zealand Te Huinga...

Event - 26 September 2019

Tags: Archives, Australia, Conference

AVMS meetings: You are more than welcome to join the AVMS Section meetings, if you want to know more about what we do, or if you are considering becoming a member...

News - 4 August 2019

Tags: Archives

On 17 May 2019, after several years of discussion, the European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market was published in the official journal of the European Union. It enters into...

News - 18 June 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Archives, Associations, Conservation, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Cultural heritage, Digital humanities, Digital libraries, Digital preservation, Digitisation, Europe, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

For those of you coming to Athens, please join us at our SIG business meeting: Sunday 25 August 2019 from 13.45 – 15.45 in Business Room 4 of the conference venue.  The IFLA...

News - 17 June 2019

Tags: Archives, Library history, Library History

​It’s time to look back at a of week global discussions on copyright at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). There were useful new reports and materials, signs of consensus...

News - 9 April 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Archives, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Policy, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

The IFLA SIG Library History decided to partner with a Section for IFLA 2019 in Athens and the Section on Genealogy and Local History (Genloc) agreed.  As you can see from the Call for Papers...

Event - 6 March 2019

Tags: Access to knowledge, Archives, Congress, Genealogy, Genealogy and Local History, Greece, History of Librarianship, Library history, Library History, Local History, Library History

The IFLA Audiovisual and Multimedia Section, joined by the IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section and the Strategic Programme on Preservation and Conservation (PAC), invite interested...

News - 7 January 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Archives, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Best practices, Collection development, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Data management, Digital humanities, Digital libraries, Digital preservation, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Information technology, Library and information profession, Library collections, Open source, Preservation, Resource discovery, Risk assessment, Society, Usability

The papers from our successful WLIC 2018 conference session 'National Libraries and Social Media - Meeting the Challenges of Acquiring, Preserving and Proving Long-Term Access' are now...

News - 1 November 2018

Tags: Acquisitions, Archives, Digital preservation, Preservation, Social Media, National Libraries

The 2018 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage will take place on October 27, and has the theme “Your Story is Moving”.   Here is what UNESCO says about the theme...

News - 2 October 2018

Tags: Access to knowledge, Archives, Associations, Cultural heritage, Digital humanities, Digital libraries, Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Education, Open access, Preservation, Resource discovery, Society

The Rwanda Archive and Library Services Authority (RALSA) is responsible for preserving and sharing the country’s documented cultural heritage. The institution gives access to those who seek...

Event - 13 February 2018

Tags: Archives, Rwanda, Seminar, Africa

27th October is the UNESCO´s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2017 This year’s theme is "Discover, remember and share" UNESCO and their World Day for...

News - 12 October 2017

Tags: Archives, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Collection development, Communications, Cultural heritage, Digital resources, Knowledge management, Preservation, Audiovisual and Multimedia

Annual Report 2020 [in PDF] Annual Report 2018-2019 [in PDF] Annual Report 2017-2018 [in PDF] Annual Report 2016-2017...

Publication - 14 September 2017

Tags: Archives, Conferences, Cultural heritage, History of Librarianship, Library history, Library History, Annual reports, Library History

Action Plan 2020-2021 [in PDF] Action Plan 2019-2020 [in PDF] Action Plan 2018-2019 [in PDF] Action Plan 2017-2018...

Publication - 14 September 2017

Tags: Action plans, Archives, Conferences, Cultural heritage, History of Librarianship, Library History, Library History

That news publication has changed dramatically since the advent of the Internet and the Web is no news to anyone. There are many examples of established news organizations that have either stopped...

Informational Page - 2 July 2017

Tags: Archives, legal deposit, Newspapers, Preservation, News Media

Digital technologies offer rich opportunities to collect, preserve and make the world’s knowledge available. But to make the most of these collections, libraries and archives need the...

News - 7 June 2016

Tags: Access to knowledge, Archives, Copyright, Switzerland, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

IFLA will be represented at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) next week. Talk of copyright is normally...

News - 6 May 2016

Tags: Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Archives, Copyright, Copyright reform, Cultural heritage, Development, Digital resources, Freedom of information, Information policies, International cooperation, Policy, Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR), WIPO, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

      We are excited to announce the second installment of this year’s webinar series “New Librarians Global Connection: best...

Event - 4 April 2014

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Archives, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Benchmarking, Best practices, Databases, design, Digital divide, Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Information technology, International cooperation, Internet access, Knowledge management, user design, User experience, ux, Webinar, New Professionals

The Library Buildings & Equipment Standing Committee and the Acquisition and Collection Development Standing Committee are looking for papers that highlight how public, academic and research...

News - 20 December 2013

Tags: Access to information, architecture, Archives, books, Library as place, Library buildings and equipment, Library collections, Preservation, Rare books and manuscripts, storage, Technology, Library Buildings and Equipment

Theme: Rare and special collections in the Asian or Oceanian context Deadline for Proposals: 28 February 2013 The full call for papers is available on the IFLA WLIC 2013...

News - 16 January 2013

Tags: Archives, Library collections, Rare Books and Special Collections

Theme: Images Lost and Found - Innovative Approaches to the Discovery and Use of Visual Materials Found in Rare Books, Manuscripts and Special Collections Deadline for Proposals: 18 January...

News - 4 December 2012

Tags: Archives, Cultural heritage, Digital resources, Indexing, Library collections, Resource discovery, Art Libraries

Jazz is a universal language of freedom and creativity.  UNESCO's International Jazz Day is intended to raise awareness in the international community of the virtues of jazz as an...

News - 27 April 2012

Tags: Archives, Cultural heritage, Audiovisual and Multimedia

In 2004, Chile recommended that the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) undertake a review of the current state of...

Publication - 14 April 2011

Tags: Archives, WIPO, Drafts, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

News - 28 June 2010

Tags: Archives, Guides, Library associations

Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments & Sites (LAMMS) The five international organisations for cultural heritage, IFLA (libraries), ICA (archives), ICOM (museums), ICOMOS (monuments...

Informational Page - 30 November 2009

Tags: Archives, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Collaboration, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, International cooperation, International-NGOs