Content tagged Guidelines

19 August will we have our session at Zoom. The theme is "Preserving our recorded sound and visual heritage for the future...and beyond!" https://www.ifla-wlic2021.com/...

News - 10 August 2021

Tags: Guidelines, Preservation, Audiovisual and Multimedia

This document lists all articles in a single document. Pictures to the articles are not always included in this compilation.   Latest News: Short Report on the Safer Internet...

Informational Page - 23 May 2021

Tags: Best practices, Capacity building, Children, Collection development, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Democracy, Digital divide, Digital inclusion, Digital libraries, Digital resources, Disaster management, eBooks, Education, Education and training, Electronic collections, Guidelines, International cooperation, Internet access, Library as place, Library collections, Library outreach, Library services, Lifelong learning, Networking, Reading, Success stories, Young adults

By Salomon Hellman, Librarian, Stockholms stadsbibliotek, Sweden In 2018 we released the IFLA Guidelines for Library Services to Children aged 0-18, a completely revised version of the...

Informational Page - 23 May 2021

Tags: Best practices, Children, Guidelines, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Representatives from IFLA will attend the Second Inter-regional Conference for the Memory of the World to speak on our work towards preserving and providing access to Digital Heritage....

Event - 2 November 2019

Tags: Conference, Conferences, Conservation, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Digitisation, Guidelines, International cooperation, Preservation, Republic of Korea

Do You Have Pride in Your Library? The IFLA LGBTQ Users Special Interest Group is collecting information from libraries around the world on the LGBTQ+ resources, services, spaces,...

News - 7 July 2019

Tags: Benchmarking, Best practices, Guidelines, LGBTQ librarianship, LGBTQ library outreach, LGBTQ library resources, LGBTQ library services, LGBTQ library services. LGBTQ library programming, Libraries for development, Performance indicators, Statistics and evaluation, surveys, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

2015-2016 IFLA LGBT SIG Annual Report

Publication - 2 January 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Acquisitions, Advocacy, Benchmarking, Best practices, Cataloguing, Censorship, Collection development, Communications, Communities of practice, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Guidelines, Human rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ library services, Libraries for development, Library and information science education, Library as place, Library collections, Lifelong learning, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Net neutrality, Peace, Performance indicators, Resource discovery, Social inclusion, User experience, Women’s issues, Young adults, Annual reports, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

Click here for the complete 2017-2018 IFLA LGBTQ+ SIG Annual Report.

Publication - 26 December 2018

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Advocacy, Communications, Communities of practice, Cooperation, Democracy, Development, Disadvantaged persons, Education, Education and training, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Guidelines, Human rights, LGBTQ library services, Libraries for development, Library and information science education, Library as place, Library buildings and equipment, Library outreach, Library services, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Networking, New professionals, Performance indicators, Privacy in libraries, Professional development, Risk assessment, Social inclusion, Staffing, Annual reports, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

Click here for the complete 2018-2019 IFLA LGBTQ+ SIG Action Plan. Objectives of Professional Unit 2018-19: 1. Provide guidelines for LGBTQ+ library services and collections around...

Publication - 26 December 2018

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Action plans, Advocacy, Benchmarking, Best practices, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Guidelines, Human rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ library services, Libraries for development, Library and information science education, Library as place, Lifelong learning, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Net neutrality, Peace, Performance indicators, Resource discovery, Social inclusion, User experience, Women’s issues, Young adults, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

We are proud to announce that our revised Guidelines for Library Services to Children aged 0-18 are now available. After a lengthy survey process, carried out by Dr....

News - 7 December 2018

Tags: Advocacy, Children, Conceptual models, Democracy, Development, Digital resources, Freedom of information, Guidelines, Information literacy, Library as place, Lifelong learning, Literacy, Management, Reading, Research support, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

2016 IFLA Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices IFLA Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices...

Informational Page - 16 September 2018

Tags: Guidelines, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning

A paper on the impact of these guidelines at an international, national and local level was presented at the WLIC 2018 Session 074 Impact of recently approved IFLA standards, held by the Committee...

News - 25 August 2018

Tags: Guidelines, Library services to people with disabilities, Library Services to People with Special Needs

​ The IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section (C&YA Section) have undertaken this revision of the Guidelines for Children's Libraries Services, last published...

Publication - 22 August 2018

Tags: Children, Guidelines, guidelines for childrens libraries, Management, Young adults, Guidelines, Standards, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Dear Colleagues, it was nice to see so many of you at World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Colleagues from all over the world came...

Informational Page - 4 August 2018

Tags: Advocacy, Best practices, Children, Children's libraries, Conferences, Cooperation, Guidelines, Lifelong learning, Literacy, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

CALL FOR EXAMPLES! The IFLA Section on Library Service to People with Special Needs (LSN) is writing Guidelines for Library Services to People Who Are Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Deafblind...

News - 15 February 2018

Tags: Accessibility, Guidelines, Library Services to People with Special Needs

CALL FOR EXAMPLES! The IFLA Section on Library Service to People with Special Needs (LSN) is writing Guidelines for Library Services to People Who Are Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Deafblind...

Informational Page - 15 February 2018

Tags: Accessibility, Guidelines, Library Services to People with Special Needs

Introduction The IFLA Section for Library Services to People with Special Needs (LSN) focuses on those persons who, because of their living conditions and/or physical, mental, or cognitive...

Publication - 27 October 2017

Tags: Guidelines, Homelessness, IFLA standards, Libraries and homelessness, Social inclusion, Standards, Library Services to People with Special Needs

I have to confess that when I arrived at the Centennial Hall at the conference venue in Wroclaw and saw the venue for our session, I did wonder if perhaps it was a little large.  The SIG...

News - 3 September 2017

Tags: Europe, Guidelines, IFLA WLIC 2017, Libraries in Times of Crisis, Library History, Poland, Wroclaw, Library History

The LSN meeting in Berlin, 2016 decided to move forward with updating guidelines  to people who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing or Deafblind. The need for the new guidelines emerged due to the...

Informational Page - 18 August 2017

Tags: Guidelines, Library services to people with disabilities, Services to the visually impaired, Library Services to People with Special Needs

These guidelines are framed to provide assistance to library and information professionals in most situations.  They assist to better develop effective services, relevant collections, and...

News - 22 February 2016

Tags: Guidelines, Japan, Public Libraries

The IFLA Children and Young Adults Section have been given approval by the Committee on Standards to revise the Guidelines for Children's Library Services, last published in 2003. A Working...

News - 23 September 2015

Tags: Children, Guidelines, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

The guidelines are a revision and expansion of the previous guidelines published by IFLA in 2001. We expect them to be a valuable tool for library staff who are responsible for serving...

News - 19 March 2015

Tags: Guidelines, Library Services to People with Special Needs

Raising awareness of dyslexia and introducing the new publication "Guidelines for Library Services to Persons with Dyslexia" IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2014 Lyon...

Informational Page - 30 October 2014

Tags: Conferences, Dyslexia, Guidelines, Library services to people with disabilities, Library Services to People with Special Needs

The book will be co-edited by Dr. Barbara Schultz-Jones, from the University of North Texas in the USA, and Dr. Dianne Oberg, from the University of Alberta in Canada, and published in June 2015...

News - 10 September 2014

Tags: Guidelines, School Libraries

We invite you to consider contributing a chapter to a forthcoming book entitled Global Action on School Library Guidelines. The book will be co-edited by Dr. Barbara Schultz-Jones, from the...

Informational Page - 10 September 2014

Tags: Guidelines, School Libraries

The guidelines have been developed by an international working group working under the joint responsibility of both the Library Services to People with Special Needs Section (LSN) and the...

Informational Page - 18 August 2014

Tags: Guidelines, Library services to people with disabilities, Library Theory and Research

The open session Dyslexia? Welcome to our library! Raising awareness of dyslexia and introducing the new publication "Guidelines for Library Services to Persons with Dyslexia" published...

News - 16 August 2014

Tags: Access to information, Guidelines, Library services to people with disabilities, Library Services to People with Special Needs

We are glad to inform that a new translation of the 'Guidelines for Libraries of Government Departments' is already on IFLA website. Our sincere thanks goes to the Greek...

News - 20 June 2014

Tags: Guidelines, Government Libraries

The goal of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) special interest group is to adress the information needs of LGBTQ+ community members related to library services,...

IFLA Group or Activity - 13 January 2014

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Capacity building, Censorship, Classification and indexing, Collection development, Communities of practice, Data management, Digital inclusion, Education and training, Freedom of expression, Guidelines, Human rights, Indexing, LGBTQ library services, Library as place, Library collections, Library marketing, Library outreach, Library services, Library theory and research, Lifelong learning, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, New professionals, Privacy in libraries, Professional development, Reading, Social inclusion, Staffing, Subject analysis, Women’s issues, Young adults, Special Interest Groups, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

Theme: Special Spaces for Special Collections The Library Buildings & Equipment and the Rare Books and Manuscripts Standing Committees together with the Preservation and...

News - 29 November 2013

Tags: Collection development, Conferences, Copyright, Democracy, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Document delivery, Electronic collections, Electronic document delivery, Electronic resources, Guidelines, Information policies, Information technology, Intellectual property, Library Buildings and Equipment

We hope many people will wish to participate in the IFLA Section for School Libraries’ workshop on revising the IFLA/UNESCO School Library Guidelines at the Singapore National...

News - 29 July 2013

Tags: Guidelines, School Library Guidelines, School Libraries

I am very pleased to ANNOUNCE that the IFLA Professional Committee agreed to fund a project proposed by our Section for 2013: The Revision/New Edition of IFLA Professional Report no. 70 Guidelines...

News - 30 January 2013

Tags: Awards, Disadvantaged persons, Guidelines, Library Services to People with Special Needs

The revised IFLA education guidelines are now available on the IFLA SET website.  These guidelines replace the last significant revision in 2000 and incorporate the inclusion of material in...

News - 11 January 2013

Tags: Education, Education and training, Guidelines, Library and information science education, Education and Training

As we did with other languages, our Guidelines for Libraries of Government Departments have been translated into Arabic. This time, Miss Maria El Kady was in charge of the translation,...

News - 6 January 2013

Tags: Government information, Guidelines, Government Libraries

The Spanish translation of the "Guidelines for libraries of government departments" is almost ready. Its title will be "Directrices para bibliotecas gubernamentales...

News - 10 August 2011

Tags: Government information, Guidelines, Government Libraries

Multicultural Communities: Guidelines for Library Services, 3rd edition is now available in Russian.

News - 8 October 2010

Tags: Guidelines, Library Services to Multicultural Populations

The Guidelines for Libraries of Government Departments have been translated into German language by Maria Göckeritz and Christine Wellems. It has been published by IFLA at the IFLA...

News - 20 April 2010

Tags: Government libraries, Guidelines, Guidelines for Government Libraries, Management, Publications, Government Libraries

The scale of change in the provision of information and research services since the original edition of this guide (published 1993), in particular the development of the Internet, meant that it...

News - 15 December 2009

Tags: Announcement, Guidelines, Legislative Libraries

Dutch and Russian translations of Multicultural Communities: Guidelines for Library Services, 3rd edition are now available in the Publications section.     

News - 28 November 2009

Tags: Guidelines, Library Services to Multicultural Populations

Current Working Groups IFLA Genre/Form Working Group Previous Working Groups Subject Access in the New Environment IFLA Namespaces Task Group...

Informational Page - 26 June 2009

Tags: Access to information, Guidelines, Indexing, Multilingualism, Subject Analysis and Access