Libraries: The Forgotten Science-Policy Interface?
A regular refrain in discussions about progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is that we still face major gaps in the evidence to support decision-making.
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Education for Peace and Development: Highlighting key moments and resources from 2022
The UN International Day of Education (24 January) celebrates the importance of education for peace and development. Libraries have a critical role in ensuring all members of society, of all ages, have access to quality education. To mark this day, this article revisits key moments, shares resources, and summarises IFLA’s activities in the field of […]
Read moreCopyright Week: Copyright Enforcement Tools as Censorship
The internet helps enable people worldwide to be creative, develop ideas in conversation, explore new uses of existing content, and make their own. It has opened up pathways for fun uses of copyrighted material generally allowed under law, such as memes and Instagram art, as well as more serious ones, such as news reporting by […]
Read moreCopyright Week: Fair Use protection in recent US Supreme Court cases
This week is the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)’s Copyright Week. Watch IFLA’s Policy and Advocacy blog for posts on the rights libraries and their users have under copyright right law. Recently we shared a post on Monday’s theme, the Public Domain. Today: Fair Use. Fair use triumphs over proprietarianism. Consumers benefit from competition and advances in technology – […]
Read moreGuest Blog: Library Turns Publisher to Promote Indigenous Language Reading
This guest blog by Morten Olsen Haugen, Trøndelag County Library, Norway, offers an example of how libraries protect, preserve, and promote indigenous languages and the communities that use them.
Read moreCount Libraries In! Transcript of the COP27 Presentation by Dr. Heba Mohamed Ismail (IFLA Regional Division Committee for MENA)
Read the transcript of the presentation given by Heba Mohamed Ismail during two events focussing on Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) at COP27
Read moreTake Part in World Environment Day 2022: Build and share your Earth Action Number
On World Environment Day (June 5), the Only One Earth campaign calls “collective, transformative action on a global scale to celebrate, protect and restore our planet”. This campaign, led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and hosted in 2022 by Sweden, is the largest international day focussed on the environment. This year’s call to […]
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