Post by Abby Moore, Chair, Social Sciences Section (2023—2025) September, 2023 I attended IFLA 2023 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands this summer and, as always, the congress was well organized, informative, innovative, and fun. After a quick weekend in Amsterdam, I traveled to Rotterdam by train and arrived Sunday before the main congress started. What I […]
Read moreOn the 10th of September, 2021, the IFLA Social Sciences Libraries Section held their Business Meeting II of (in ZOOM format). Donatus Düsterhaus, the Convenor of the Religions: Libraries and Dialogue Special Interest Group, sponsored by the Social Science Libraries Section, presented a brief resume of the session Facing the future: working together to improve […]
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The session, organised by RELINDIAL – Religions: Libraries and Dialogue Special Interest Group (sponsored by the Social Science Libraries Section), was titled “Facing the future: working together to improve the interreligious dialogue” and was held on Wednesday the 18th of August. The programme – due to the concept of our SIG – fitted well into […]
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On the August 13th, 2021, the first Business Meeting of the IFLA Social Sciences Libraries Section was held in virtual form (Zoom meeting).
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IFLA Social Sciences Section invites you to participate in session, organized by RELINDIAL SIG “Facing the future: working together to improve the interreligious dialogue” on August 18th, 2021.
Read moreAre you attending the IFLA 2018 World Library and Information Congress? Join us at Dr. Abdul Latiff Library at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia) on August 23, 2018 for a day-long text mining workshop for librarians hosted by the IFLA Social Science Libraries Satellite Meeting. This workshop will be led by instructors […]
Read moreThis off-site workshop will focus on helping librarians to understand and use ethnographic research methods–long used for cultural anthropology research–to better understand their libraries, their users, and how their services and collections are used. Presenters: Lynne S. Connaway, Senior Research Scientist and Director of User Research at OCLC Celia Emmelheinz, Anthropology and Qualitative Research Librarian […]
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