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 moreFour years ago, Education International, the world’s leading international education trade union organisation, launched its Declaration on Education Support Personnel (ESP), defined as covering a wide range of professional, administrative, technical, and general staff working within the education sector such as teaching assistants, school nurses and psychologists, bursars, bus drivers, and, of course librarians.
Read moreStudies of human behaviour are often characterised by a distinction between idealism and realism, between emotion and logic, or between the heart and the head. Some decisions and actions we see as being driven by instinct, optimism or by a broader sense of values, while others seem to come down to cold, hard rationality. A […]
Read moreThe International Council on Museum and Sites (ICOMOS) is a global non-government organisation working for the conservation and protection of cultural places. As libraries are important features of cultural places and contributions to knowledge on cultural heritage, ICOMOS and IFLA are partners on many joint initiatives – see our work on the report, Culture in […]
Read moreThis week is Fair use and Fair dealing week, organised by the Association of Research Libraries! It is a week to celebrate these doctrines implemented in many countries all around the world and the copyright provisions that allow libraries to benefit from flexibility to continue their missions. Although libraries have similar missions around the world, […]
Read moreSoile Manninen is an Information Specialist at Helsinki University Library (Finland) and a member of the working group on legal issues of The Finnish Research Library Association. The mission of the group is to track legislation concerning libraries, and keep Association members up to date about these issues. Can you explain to us what article […]
Read moreThe International Council on Museums and Sites (ICOMOS) has named the theme of this year’s International Day for Monuments and Sites as: Shared Cultures, Shared Heritage, Shared Responsibility. Shared heritage brings to mind the many stories that make up a place – the different memories, perspectives, and experiences that are woven into the history of […]
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