When Patrice Landry completed his term as PC Chair in 2011, he articulated for us a list of suggested priorities, which I came to call “Patrice’s Ten Commandments.” They were invaluable in launching this term, now nearing its end. As Chair, I’d like to post here a draft list of […]
Read full post…Plan to attend: Professional Units Key Initiatives Session 20 August, 10:45-12:45, Nicoll 3 The IFLA website states the purpose of our Key Initiatives very succinctly, “Our aim through these Initiatives— as the trusted global voice of the library and information community—is to use our influence and apply our expertise to […]
Read full post…Advancing the Goals of IFLA and Libraries in our Regions From 10-15 June, I had the opportunity to represent IFLA at the 20th annual Crimea International Library Conference, held in Sudak in Ukraine. Founded and led by Dr. Yakov Shrayberg, facilitated by his indefatigable associate Ksenia Volkova, and coordinated by […]
Read full post…Dear Colleagues Back in September, I told you about our plans for an IFLA repository and said that we were in the process of evaluating a number of systems with the aim to set up a repository and add papers for the WLIC 2013. As you start to provide papers […]
Read full post…The review of eleven SIGs mentioned in my blog post in January has now been completed by the sponsoring Sections and the PC, and all but one of them will be continued with some changes to their organization. I’m including the full details at the end of this post for […]
Read full post…The PC is sending a last-minute reminder about the new Brill/IFLA Open Access award. A first call was issued on IFLA-L by Stuart Hamilton on March 14th, 2013 and the IFLA Web site carries a news item dated April 15th, 2013 with all the details: http://www.ifla.org/news/call-for-submissions-for-the-brillifla-open-access-award This is a Professional […]
Read full post…During last week’s (April 10th) Governing Board meeting, the Professional Committee proposed and succeeded in targeting the area of “Standards and Guidelines” as one of IFLA’s Key Initiatives for 2013-2014. The Standards KI will nest under the current Key Initiative 1: Digital Content Programme – Driving Access to Content..” As ProfSpeak readers […]
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