De Gruyter Saur and IFLA: a new Open Access agreement

In a common effort to promote the work of IFLA, De Gruyter Saur is making sixteen IFLA Publications available in Open Access over its online platform Reference Global.

IFLA Publications available in Open Access from August 2011:

IP 147 – IFLA Public Library Service Guidelines (2010)
Ed. by Christie Koontz & Barbara Gubbin

IP 144 – Social Science Libraries (2010)
Ed. by Steve W. Witt & Lynne M. Rudasill

IP 141 – The History and Cultural Heritage of Chinese Calligraphy, Printing and Library Work (2010)
Ed. by Susan M. Allen, Lin Zuzao, Cheng Xiaolan, & Jan Bos

IP 140 – Guidelines for Legislative Libraries (2009)
Ed. by Keith Cuninghame

IP 139 – Strategies for Regenerating the Library and Information Profession (2009)
Ed. by Jana Varlejs & Graham Walton

IP 138 – Library Statistics for the Twenty-First Century World (2009)
Ed. by Michael Heaney

IP 136/137 – Global Library and Information Science (2009)
Ed. by Ismail Abdullahi

IP 134 – Libraries and Information Services towards the Attainment of the UN Millennium Development Goals (2008)
Ed. by Benson Njobvu & Sjoerd Koopman

IP 132 – Managing Technologies and Automated Library Systems in Developing Countries: Open Source vs Commercial Options (2008)
Ed. by Bernard Dione & Réjean Savard

IP 127 – Measuring Quality (2007)
Ed. by Roswitha Poll & Peter te Boekhorst

IP 126 – Continuing Professional Development: Pathways to Leadership in the Library and Information World (2007)
Ed. by Ann Ritchie & Clare Walker

IP 123 – Changing Roles of NGOs in the Creation, Storage, and Dissemination of Information in Developing Countries (2006)
Ed. by Steve W. Witt

IP 120/121 – Management, Marketing and Promotion of Library Services Based on Statistics, Analyses and Evaluation (2006)
Ed. by Trine Kolderup Flaten

IP 10 – IFLA’s First Fifty Years (1977)
Ed. by Willem R. H. Koops & Joachim Wieder

[via IFLA Express]

“World Library and Information Congress”

IFLA 2011 has already begun, but just today is the opening sessin. Yesterday there were work sessions of units and groups.
There is also an “activity stream”, an aggregator for all the weblog entries, tweets and images.

The IFLA 2010 Experience

In August, IFLA 2010 took place in Gothenburg, Sverige. It was the first time, that the news of the conference was aggregated in a special website, “The IFLA 2010 Experience”. You can find there the news entries in English and other languages (German, French, Spanish, Arabian and Chinese), the twitter posts also as links to the conference related entries at Flickr, Youtube or Blogs.
Yesterday IFLA wrote, that this “experience” will be continued at the conferences in the next years!

This Week in Libraries #15: Stuart Hamilton (IFLA)

Stuart Hamilton is Senior Policy Advisor with IFLA. In 2006/2007 he walked across the United States and visited over 100 libraries. libraryjournal.com/article/CA6495173.html
In this episodes we focus on the work of IFLA and the upcoming conference in Gothenburg:
ifla.org/en/ifla76

More links:
walkingthestates.com/index.asp

State of the Art: Information Literacy

Two colleages from Erfurt and Munich wrote a report for the International Federation of Library Associations:

Information literacy : state of the art report Germany / Heike vom Orde ; Franziska Wein. IFLA Standing of Information Literacy Section, 2009.

“Libraries create futures: Building on cultural heritage”

At the moment, the IFLA conference begins at Milano in Italy. Please read IFLA Express, the daily newspaper reporting from the conference.
Last week a couple of satellite conferences took place at Florence, for example the meeting “Emerging trends in technology: libraries between Web 2.0, semantic web and search technology”. The german librarian weblog “Librarians are uncool” is reporting in Enlish from Milano. And if you want to search for reactions in “real time” just use the Twitter search with the keyword “ifla2009″.

About the Third Presidential Meeting

Stuart Hamilton, Senior Policy Advisor of IFLA Headquarts, wrote in his Blog February 18th ff. over the Third IFLA Presidential Meeting at Berlin. The conference programme was entitled ‘Access to Knowledge: Networking Libraries’.

The third Presidential Meeting of Mrs. Lux

Since the presidency of Mrs. Claudia Lux 2007-2009 three Presidential Meetings are held (No. 1-2) and planned (No. 3 in 2009). The third will be at 19/20th february 2009 and the program is published yet under the title “Access to Knowledge: Networking Libraries.
The Presidential Meetings are well documented, even if its noted in German, the keynotes are in English.