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Newsletter n°1-February 2012
The LTR section begins a new bulletin, the ideal way to see everything you missed our latest news.
Indigenous Knowledges: IFLA Presidential Programme Spring Meeting 2012, Vancouver Canada
Call for proposals: Promoting global access to law
Theme: Promoting global access to law: developing an open access index for official authenticated legal information. Part 2: Europe
CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Deadline 15th February
The Call for papers for IFLA Information Literacy Section and E-learning Special Interest Group Joint Open Session is extended. The new deadline is 15th February
2013 Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Fellowship deadline approaching!
The application deadline for the 2013 Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program is 17 February 2012.
This program–jointly sponsored by the American Theological Library Association, IFLA and OCLC–provides early career development and continuing education for library and information science professionals from countries with developing economies.
Environmental Sustainability and Libraries SIG getting ready for activities in Helsinki 2012!
The SIG has been granted slots for an Open Session (with the privilege of simultaneous interpretation) and a Business Meeting at IFLA WLIC 2012. Thanks to the generosity of the Helsinki library system, there also wil be an off-site event at one of the Public Libraries, providing the opportunity to work on some of the SIG's objectives (format and additional information forthcoming).
Out Now: a New FAIFE Spotlight on the Dismissal of the National Librarian of Serbia
The director of the National Library of Serbia, writer and philosopher Sreten Ugricić was dismissed urgently on the 20th of January 2012 at the so-called "telephone meeting" of the Government of Serbia.
IFLA Section blogs more visible
Blogs written by the IFLA sections using the IFLA WordPress software are collected on a blogs home page and now have an aggregated overview showing the 50 most recent posts. The recent posts overview is also available as an RSS feed meaning you can subscribe to receive it via your own news aggregator. The overview gives a nice idea of what's going on in these sections.
Gone are the days of modest electronic journals! CALL FOR PAPERS
Serials are evolving quickly and now contain linked data, visualizations, actionable QR codes, streaming media and other multimedia assets. They are delivered to end users via traditional digital platforms, and also via apps and mobile devices. Are libraries ready? How are serials librarians embracing these new technologies?
Out now: December 2011 issue of IFLA Journal
Volume 37, No.4 (December 2011)
Contents: Editorial
First papers from San Juan - and more
Stephen Parker 267
December edition of International Preservation News just released!
The latest issue of International Preservation News has just been released. It is dedicated to the topic of "Energy Savings and Preservation in Libraries and Archives".
Click here to download it.
Call for Papers: "The Public Face of Special Collections," a special one-day RBMS meeting in Helsinki
This special meeting of the Section is devoted to the changing role in society of libraries and institutions with "documentary heritage" collections. It will be held at the National Library of Finland in Helsinki on August 13th 2012.
Call for Nominations: IFLA 2012 Honours and Awards
DEADLINE: 16 March 2012
(late submissions shall not be considered)
LTR session in Puerto Rico, 2011
If you missed the annual conference in Puerto Rico or if you want to see other papers to prepare your answer to the call of paper for 2012, see the papers presented last summer.
The 95th session of the last annual Conference was about : Data collections in the service of libraries. The session was organized by the LTR section and Statistics and Evaluation section.
Call for papers: National Libraries Section at IFLA – 2012 (Helsinki)
In line with the 2012 IFLA conference theme “Libraries Now! - Inspiring, Surprising, Empowering”, the National Libraries Section is seeking papers on the topic: National libraries and open data: new discovery and access services. A two-hour session will investigate how and where national libraries’ activities in the field of open access may inspire re-use of bibliographic and other data in innovative and exciting ways.
2012 RFID SURVEY
For the last four years Mick Fortune, consultant and blogger at RFID: Changing Libraries for Good, has been running an annual survey of UK libraries’ use of RFID. Last year’s survey yielded the largest response so far with a total of 122 UK library authorities completing the questionnaire.
De Gruyter Saur / IFLA Research Paper Award 2012
Sven Fund, Managing Director of De Gruyter Saur
and
Jennefer Nicholson, IFLA Secretary General
Invite submissions of papers for the
De Gruyter Saur / IFLA Research Paper Award 2012
Now available: Knowledge Management Section Newsletter Issue Number 13
The Knowledge Management Newsletter Issue No 13 / January 2012 gives a summary of the Puerto Rico Sessions, the call for papers for WLIC Helsinki 2012, and an article about KM for developing countries:
New IFLA Membership category: Non-Salaried Affiliate
IFLA is happy to share a new way for retired professionals—or those in between jobs—to join or continue as IFLA affiliates at a special rate. The category of Non-Salaried Affiliate is open for individuals who are not currently in paid employment and do not expect to be within the next three months. Non-Salaried Affiliates is set in the group of Individual Affiliates within IFLA Membership. The 2012 fee for this category is EUR 59.