EBLIDA, LIBER and ENCES Statement on the EC Proposal for a Draft Directive on Orphan Works EBLIDA (European Bureau of Library Information and Documentation Associations), LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) and ENCES (European Network for Copyright in support of Education and Science) welcome the commitment of the European Commission [...]
Read full post…Long time, no blog post. I’ll try to remedy that soon, but in the meantime, an announcement: IFLA, along with Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) and UNESCO, will be holding an Interactive Facilitation Meeting on Open Access as part of next week’s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum [...]
Read full post…Shawky Salem has pointed me towards this Youtube video of the moment in Cairo’s Tahrir Square when President Mubarak’s decision to step down was announced. Enjoy!
Read full post…Dragging some content in from the IFLA website… Proceedings of the International Symposium ‘Enhancing the Culture of Reading and Books in the Digital Age: Copyright as a Means to Foster Creativity and Access’ At the end of 2010 IFLA, in association with the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO), [...]
Read full post…Just a quick post this time, written from the room of the ICTD poster sessions. It’s extremely busy here, as poster presenters do their best to explain their projects to all of the conference delegates wandering by. The noise is very loud, people are very enthusiastic! For me, this has [...]
Read full post…So here I am at the end of a long day of conference trying to summarise things for you in an easy, readable manner. It was an early start (7am heading to the train) and a pretty late finish, but all in all it’s been an interesting day. Basically, the [...]
Read full post…So this is a slightly belated entry to my blog, written in a hallway of the National Diet Library in Tokyo. I’m here for a joint conference that IFLA has been organising with the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO), the International Publishers Association (IPA), the World Intellectual Property [...]
Read full post…The IFLA ALP Co-ordinator Fiona Bradley put me on to this blog post from Bethan Ruddock titled ‘Do Libraries Have a Future?‘ Tres interessant and plenty for us to consider…as a former medieval history student I particularly liked the train of thought relating to the dissolution of the monasteries in [...]
Read full post…Something I put together for the next FAIFE newsletter. Also reposted on IFLA’s ICTD Blog… IFLA at the IGF Between the 14th and the 17th of September I attended the 5th Internet Governance Forum in Vilnius, Lithuania. The Internet Governance Forum, or IGF, is a key outcome from the World [...]
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