Content tagged Asia and Oceania

Hello everyone, The Asia Oceania Regional Office is pleased to present you the April 2020 issue of the e-newsletter. The IFLA President and Secretary General has announced that...

News - 23 April 2020

Tags: Asia and Oceania

Dear friends, We present to you the July 2019 issue of our IFLA Asia and Oceania Regional Quarterly Newsletter. Hope you have enjoyed it so far. ~Please open the...

News - 29 July 2019

Tags: Asia and Oceania

Prison Library service is a neglected area in Sri Lanka which needs more attention, resources and planned development. Though there are thousands of inmates from all strata of society in prisons...

News - 25 July 2019

Tags: Asia and Oceania

Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) will be holding its Asia-Pacific Regional Conference 2019 from 3-4  January, 2019 at the University of Cambodia in Phnom...

Event - 9 October 2018

Tags: Conference, Asia and Oceania

  2020: Via Zoom, 17 March Agenda RSCAO Mid Term Meeting 2020 2020: Via Zoom, 17 March Minutes RSCAO Athens 2019 2020: Via Zoom, 17 March Matters...

Publication - 23 April 2018

Tags: Asia and Oceania, Minutes of Meetings

After a long and vigorous review process, the Programme Committee has selected the following papers from around 100 submissions for the IFLA 2018 Open Session of Asia and Oceania Section in Kuala...

News - 17 April 2018

Tags: Asia and Oceania

Seminar for Cooperation with Libraries in Asia and Oceania Date and time: 11 April 2018 (Wed) 13:00-18:00 Venue: The International Conference Hall at the National Library of...

News - 15 April 2018

Tags: Asia and Oceania, Change management, Asia and Oceania

Event - 15 April 2018

Tags: Seminar, Asia and Oceania

News - 15 April 2018

Tags: Asia and Oceania

The book retains its status as a symbol of the possibility to preserve and share knowledge, the foundation of our evolution and development. Libraries continue to focus on collecting and giving...

News - 11 April 2018

Tags: Azerbaijan, Information literacy, Literacy, Preservation, Asia and Oceania

At the heart of success in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be resilience. Regions, countries, communities and individuals all need to have the resources – and the...

News - 6 April 2018

Tags: Access to information, Asia and Oceania, Development, Sustainable Development Agenda, Asia and Oceania

The RSCAO Mid-term Meeting and Seminar 2018 will be held on 9-11 April 2018 in Seoul hosted by Korean Library Association (KLA) and National Library of Korea (NLK). Name of event :...

News - 3 April 2018

Tags: Minority groups, Asia and Oceania

The RSCAO Mid-term Meeting and Seminar 2018 will be held on 9-11 April 2018 in Seoul hosted by Korean Library Association (KLA) and National Library of Korea  Name of event :...

Event - 3 April 2018

Tags: Midterm Meeting, Asia and Oceania

Theme: "Transforming the society: libraries as the torch-bearer of change" Date: 20-21 August 2018 Venue: Department of Library & Information Science; University of Calcutta,...

News - 6 March 2018

Tags: India, Asia and Oceania

Theme: "Local Histories and Genealogies in Multicultural Asia" Date: 22-23 August 2018 Venue: George Town, Penang, Malaysia Bangunan UAB, Event Hall (ground floor), No 21...

News - 15 January 2018

Tags: Access to information, IFLA WLIC 2018, Asia and Oceania

 The IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2018, 24 – 30 August 2018 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia : Theme: "Libraries Transformed to Transform Their Communities (Society...

News - 28 December 2017

Tags: Call for Papers, Malaysia, Open Session, Asia and Oceania

Call for Papers The Lebanese Library Association (LLA) in collaboration with Asia and Oceania Regional Section (RSCAO) of the International Federation of Library Associations and...

News - 20 November 2017

Tags: Call for Papers, Lebanon, Asia and Oceania

Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur, University Librarian, Jawaharlal Nehru University, was awarded RSC India Librarians' Choice Award for "Dynamic Librarian" by...

News - 8 August 2017

Tags: Awards, India, professional awards, Asia and Oceania

For information to play a full role in helping people to learn, find work and live healthily, simply laying cables may not be enough. The way in which access to knowledge is provided strongly...

News - 29 July 2017

Tags: Access to information, Development, Internet governance, Internet Governance Forum, Thailand, UN 2030 sustainable development goals, Asia and Oceania

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Event - 11 July 2017

Tags: Best practices, Congress, IFLA 2017, Open Session, Asia and Oceania

Regional Standing Committee for Asia & Oceania Section (RSCAO) invites you to submit a proposal for a presentation at its Open Session in Wroclaw, Poland in August 2017. Theme: "...

News - 10 January 2017

Tags: A & O Section, Call for Papers, Conference, IFLA 2017, Social inclusion, Society, Asia and Oceania

The theme Innovate China: Technology, Society and Library is composed of 3 pillars of sessions, work conference and exhibition. More>>

Event - 5 September 2016

Tags: China, Conference, Conference, Conferences, Asia and Oceania

You are invited to attend Asia and Oceania Section’s Open Session in Columbus Date: Monday 15 August        Time: 9.30 – 11.30    ...

News - 28 July 2016

Tags: Conferences, Open Session, United States of America, Asia and Oceania

Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) serves as a platform for discussion, exchange and collaboration at a regional level, and also where possible to aggregate national IGF...

Event - 30 June 2016

Tags: APrIGF, China, Internet Governance Forum, Meeting, Asia and Oceania

As many of you readers might be aware, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Support Unit are joining hands to put into action the commitments...

News - 25 May 2016

Tags: Democracy, SDGs, Asia and Oceania

Registrations are now open for the 2016 ALIA National Conference which will be held from 29th August to 2 September 2016.   More information can be accessed from Conference...

News - 20 May 2016

Tags: Australia, Conferences, Library associations, Asia and Oceania

The University of Queensland (UQ), Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Griffith University welcomed today’s announcement that Brisbane will host the international Open Repositories...

News - 16 May 2016

Tags: Australia, Conference, Open access, Asia and Oceania

University Librarians’ Association of Sri Lanka held its international conference at the University of Jaffna, from 9 to 10 March 2016. - More >>

News - 14 May 2016

Tags: Conferences, Library Association, Sri Lanka, Asia and Oceania

News - 15 April 2016

Tags: United States of America, Asia and Oceania

[Revised Call with Deadline extended to: 21 March 2016] Theme Access to Information in Small Island Developing States Date Friday, 12 August 2016 Organiser IFLA...

News - 9 March 2016

Tags: Asia and Oceania, Conferences, Satellite Meeting, United States of America, Asia and Oceania

The National Library Board (NLB) Singapore celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2015. To commemorate the special occasion, NLB launched its Legal Deposit Catalogue (PublicationSG) to enable...

News - 2 March 2016

Tags: Cultural heritage, Legal deposit catalogue, Library collections, Singapore, Singapore, Asia and Oceania

In December 2015, the Sri Lankan library community had an excellent opportunity to meet IFLA Secretary General, Ms Jennefer Nicholson.  Several important activities took place during her...

News - 11 February 2016

Tags: Asia and Oceania, BSLA, Meetings, PAC Centre, Sri Lanka, Asia and Oceania

With great sadness and a real sense of loss we share the news of the passing of Prof Russell Bowden, an eminent library scholar on the morning of Wednesday 27 January 2016 in Kottawa, Sri...

News - 27 January 2016

Tags: Death announcement, Russell Bowden, Sri Lanka, Asia and Oceania

The focus of the one-day seminar is on new learning trends for adults and how these ultimately affect the reach to adults by libraries to foster and support their lifelong learning pursuits...

Event - 26 January 2016

Tags: Midterm Meeting, Seminar, Singapore, Asia and Oceania

Theme: "User Experience (UX) and Social Science Libraries in the Digital Age" Deadline for Submission of proposals:  1 March 2016 The Social...

News - 21 January 2016

Tags: Conferences, United States of America, Asia and Oceania

The IFLA Regional Standing Committee for Asia and Oceania invites you to submit a proposal for a presentation at its Satellite meeting in Columbus Ohio, USA (11 & 12 August 2016...

News - 12 January 2016

Tags: Access to information, Call for Papers, Satellite Meeting, United States of America, Asia and Oceania

It is our great pleasure to announce that the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2016 has made available funds to provide support for 20 delegates to attend IFLA WLIC 2016 by...

News - 5 January 2016

Tags: Grants, Grants, United States of America, Asia and Oceania

In keeping with the conference’s overall theme, ‘Connections, Collaboration, Community’, the Asia and Oceania Open Session will focus on how libraries across our region are...

News - 14 December 2015

Tags: Asia & Oceania, Asia and Oceania, Call for Papers, Conferences, Open Session, United States of America, Asia and Oceania

The IFLA 2016 National Committee, through generous donations from the North American library community, will offer up to 50 full fellowships to librarians from outside North America (U.S...

News - 6 October 2015

Tags: Grants, Grants, Asia and Oceania

Conference update | September 2016    The ALIA National 2016 Conference program committee invites abstracts relating to the conference theme Engage, Create, Lead...

News - 21 September 2015

Tags: ALIA Conference 2016, Asia and Oceania, Australia, Conferences, Asia and Oceania

Sub Region Countries Central Asia Kazakhstan...

Informational Page - 17 September 2015

Tags: Sub-region countries, Asia and Oceania

Our Congratulations to all the awardees! CONSAL Outstanding Librarian Awardees for 2015 with Other CONSAL Members The winners of the CONSAL (Congress of Southeast Asian...

News - 9 September 2015

Tags: Asia and Oceania, Awards, CONSAL, professional awards, Thailand, Asia and Oceania

  The National Institute of Library and Information Sciences (NILIS) M.Phil/PhD. Colloquium provides students the opportunity to present, discuss and share their research...

News - 4 September 2015

Tags: Conferences, NILIS, PhD Colloquium, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka, Asia and Oceania

In August 2015 after more than three years of negotiations and intense involvement from many stakeholders, including IFLA, the Member States of the United Nations agreed to the final version of...

News - 27 August 2015

Tags: SDG, Success stories, Asia and Oceania

Eulogy presented at Gary's funeral - 25 August 2015 Gary was a very good friend of mine - but as I found out preparing this eulogy that there were some very interesting things...

News - 26 August 2015

Tags: Asia and Oceania, Eulogy, Gary Gorman, Asia and Oceania

As those of you who were associated with him know, Gary was deeply involved in IFLA activities, in particular in the Asia and Oceania Section and the ALP programme. He served on the...

News - 26 August 2015

Tags: Asia and Oceania, Death announcement, Gary Gorman, Asia and Oceania

Re-thinking Lifescape: Linking Landscape to Everyday Life 1-6 November 2015 I Haenyeo Museum & Jeju Stone Park, Jeju, Korea Call for Abstracts The International...

News - 23 July 2015

Tags: Asia and Oceania, Conferences, Conservation, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Symposium, Asia and Oceania

The Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) explores the technical issues affecting the long term survival and accessibility of audio-visual collections. JTS is an international symposium and...

News - 13 July 2015

Tags: Asia and Oceania, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Symposium, Asia and Oceania

Eleanor Kleiber, right, receives the American Library Association Hawaiʻi Student Chapter’s Sarah K Vann Professional Service Award. (Photo by Andrew B. Wertheimer)...

News - 4 June 2015

Tags: Asia and Oceania, Awards, Success stories, Asia and Oceania

Brill, the international scholarly publisher, donated over 500 books to Loyola College in Chennai, India as part of its Adopt a Library Program. The donation of scholarly books covers...

News - 13 May 2015

Tags: Access to knowledge, Asia and Oceania, Brill, Cooperation, Donations, Asia and Oceania

by Dr. Anup Kumar Das, Documentation Officer, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India In March 2015 UNESCO, in collaboration with the...

News - 24 April 2015

Tags: Curriculum, Open access, Open access, UNESCO, Asia and Oceania

In the past few months, the National Library Board of Singapore, the Library Association of Singapore, the National Library of Myanmar and the Library Association of Myanmar have been...

News - 10 April 2015

Tags: Asia and Oceania, Collection development, Donations, Asia and Oceania

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of National Library, the National Library and Documentation Services Board of Sri Lanka has planned an International Conference with the main objective...

News - 1 April 2015

Tags: Asia and Oceania, Call for Papers, Conferences, International conference, National Library, Asia and Oceania

The Department of Information Management, University of the Punjab (PU) is celebrating its centenary anniversary this year. The Department has planned an International Conference on Information...

News - 13 March 2015

Tags: Conferences, ICIML2015, Pakistan, Asia and Oceania

Call for Abstracts and Poster Proposals    We are witnessing fast changes in digital content and visualizing disruptive technologies in information and knowledge...

News - 13 March 2015

Tags: Conferences, Pakistan, Pakistan, SALC 2015, Asia and Oceania

  The British Library holds a small but significant collection of Lao material, consisting of manuscripts, rare printed books, periodicals and post cards. The oldest items in Lao...

News - 13 March 2015

Tags: Asia and Oceania, Online public access catalogues, Asia and Oceania

This Handbook supplements the IFLA RSCAO webpage with its primary aim being to serve as an internal working document for members of the RSCAO Committee. The Committee is made up of...

Publication - 6 March 2015

Tags: Asia and Oceania, Handbook, Publications, Asia and Oceania, Publications

The IFLA Regional Standing Committee for Asia and Oceania Section will be holding its annual Mid-Term Meeting from 9-11 February, 2015 at the at Tsurumi University in Yokohama, Japan. The meeting...

Event - 28 January 2015

Tags: Japan, Midterm Meeting, Seminar, Asia and Oceania

The conference aims at creation of regional cooperation and collaboration in implementing digitization programmes to enable information sharing, networking and preserving of richand diverse...

Event - 12 March 2014

Tags: Conference, Digital libraries, Digital repositories, Malaysia, Asia and Oceania

Funding Agencies and Organisations in Asia and Oceania Region This research provides a listing of funding agencies and organisations in the Asia and Oceania region that provide funding for...

Publication - 24 February 2014

Tags: Asia and Oceania, Funding, funding, project funding, Asia and Oceania, Reports

The IFLA Regional Standing Committee for Asia and Oceania Section will be holding its annual Mid-Term Meeting from 17 - 18 February 2014 at the Pertonas Pertoleum Resource Center, Kuala Lumpur...

Event - 12 February 2014

Tags: Asia and Oceania, Meetings, Midterm Meeting, Asia and Oceania

16-22 August 2013, Lyon, France This session focuses on how library services in Asia and Oceania are transcending many different types of borders to meet the highly varied needs of their...

News - 6 December 2013

Tags: Conferences, Asia and Oceania

16-22 August, 2014, Lyon, France A joint session of Knowledge Management Section and Asia & Oceania Section are inviting colleagues of the field to present their thoughts and practice...

News - 6 December 2013

Tags: Knowledge management, Asia and Oceania

A famous quotation by Thomas J. "Tom" Peters states “If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade'. The Lebanese Library Association (LLA) was proud to be...

News - 5 April 2013

Tags: Associations, Lebanon, Asia and Oceania

The capital of Kazakhstan Astana city hosted a forum of librarians on "Commonwealth Libraries: Integration, Innovation and Access for All" from 26 to 28 September 2012. The city which...

News - 4 April 2013

Tags: Conferences, Kazakhstan, Asia and Oceania

Library associations are key institutions in the library and information sector around the world. Library associations are advocates for equitable access to information, and help to build strong,...

News - 4 April 2013

Tags: Asia and Oceania, Associations, Asia and Oceania

A Message from the National Librarian of New Zealand After a three-year closure, the National Library of New Zealand’s building in Wellington reopened to the public with all our...

News - 3 April 2013

Tags: New Zealand, Asia and Oceania

Celebrating 100 Years: the University of Hong Kong Libraries’ Centenary Anniversary Conference In 1911, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) was founded. In 1912, the University...

News - 3 April 2013

Tags: China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Conferences, Asia and Oceania

The Conference on Library and Information Science Across the Taiwan Strait was initiated twenty years ago by a group of Library and Information Science Departments in Mainland China and the...

News - 2 April 2013

Tags: China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Conferences, Asia and Oceania

The Regional Standing Committee of the Asia and Oceania Section (RSCAO) will have its mid-term-meeting in Taipei and conduct a Symposium on Regional Cooperation – Information Literacy during...

Event - 14 February 2013

Tags: China, Information literacy, Midterm Meeting, Asia and Oceania

Mid-meeting and Symposium on Regional Cooperation and Information Literacy - 25-27th February 2013 RSCAO will have its mid-term-meeting in Taipei and conduct a Symposium on Regional...

News - 1 February 2013

Tags: Cooperation, Asia and Oceania

17-23 August 2013, Singapore The Asia and Oceania Section's open session in Singapore focuses on how library services in the Asia and Oceania (A & O) region must change to meet the...

News - 10 December 2012

Tags: Asia and Oceania

From 28-31 May 2012, the National Library of Indonesia (Perpusnas) in cooperation with the Indonesian Library Association (IPI) will be hosting the 15th Consal Meeting and General Conference.

Event - 16 February 2012

Tags: Conference, Cultural heritage, Cultural Heritage topic, Indonesia, International cooperation, Asia and Oceania

Session 145 — Asia and Oceania 15 August 2010 08:30 - 10:30 | Room: Hall B | SI Theme: Social Networking in libraries and other information organisations in Asia and...

Informational Page - 20 December 2011

Tags: Asia and Oceania

In connection with the mid-term business meeting of the IFLA Regional Standing Committee for Asia-Oceania (at the National Library in Auckland on 1-2 February 2012), a Regional Seminar will be...

Event - 15 December 2011

Tags: Conference, Seminar, Asia and Oceania

The Section's open session was held on 18 August from 10.45-12.45 at the Grand Salon B of the Puerto Rico Convention Centre. Five interesting papers were presented on the theme 'Moving...

News - 4 September 2011

Tags: Asia and Oceania

  Complete information is available in the flyer: Asian Festival of Children's Content [PDF]

Event - 5 May 2011

Tags: Conference, Conferences, Asia and Oceania

IFLA has launched new websites for its World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) and IFLA WLIC 2011 Call for Papers. Keeping the websites separate from the main IFLA website allows more...

News - 17 December 2010

Tags: Asia and Oceania

Organised by National Library Singapore and supported by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), and Institutions & Library Association of Singapore (LAS)....

Event - 1 October 2010

Tags: Conference, Cultural heritage, Preservation, Asia and Oceania

June 2014 | December 2014 June 2013 | December 2013 June 2012 | December 2012 June 2011 | December 2011 June 2010 | December 2010...

Publication - 13 January 2010

Tags: Asia and Oceania, Publications, Asia and Oceania, Newsletters

Networking for Effective Libraries and Information Services Workshop Report on Workshop on Digital Divide, 2 March 2003, Sri Lanka

Informational Page - 12 June 2009

Tags: Asia and Oceania

2018 World Library and Information Congress: 84th IFLA General Conference and Assembly August 24-30, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Theme: Transform Libraries, Transform...

Informational Page - 25 April 2009

Tags: Annual conference, Conferences, Asia and Oceania

2019-2020 2018-2019 2017-2018 2016-2017 2008-2009 2005-2007  

Publication - 25 April 2009

Tags: Action plans, Asia and Oceania

2018-2019 2017-2018 2015-2016 2013-2014 2012-2013 2009-2010 2006-2007 2005-2006 2004-2005 2003-2004...

Publication - 25 April 2009

Tags: Annual reports, Asia and Oceania

Scope The main objectives of the Section are to initiate, promote and facilitate the development of library and information services and the library profession within the five sub-regions...

Informational Page - 31 March 2009

Tags: Asia and Oceania

The main objectives of the Section are to initiate, promote and facilitate the development of library and information services and the library profession within the five sub-regions of Asia and...

IFLA Group or Activity - 31 March 2009

Tags: Sections, Asia and Oceania