The Information Technology Section joint with Academic and Research Libraries Section, Big Data Special Interest Group and Semantic Web Special Interest Group are seeking papers for the satellite conference to be held at University of Chicago, Regenstein Location, on Wednesday 10 August 2016.  Data in libraries: the big picture.  This conference will draw the “big picture” […]

Presentations from our Hot Topics session are now available.  Details about session 91, What is value? that we held in conjunction with Management and Marketing SC and the E-Metrics SIG are also available.  Papers from the joint session will be made available via the IFLA repository.  If you would like to know who your Standing Committee members are, their […]

For those attending the Congress in Cape Town, ARL will be holding its Hot Topics session on Thursday 20 August, 8.30-10.30 in Ballroom East. Our invited speakers will talk about a “hot topic” for five minutes or so.  Each speaker will provide a few questions to be debated and discussed by delegates attending the session.  Please […]

ARL,with generous sponsorship by Ex Libris and Sage, is pleased to announce the recipients for the Attendance Grant for the IFLA Congress in Cape Town 2015. They are: Phillidas Bweafoma Munubhi (Tanzania); Shaharima Parvin (Bangladesh); and Georgia Alexander (Trinidad and Tobago). Congratulations to our winners and looking forward to meeting you in Cape Town!   […]

Information about ARL’s satellite meeting, The quest for deeper meaning of research support, to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, on August 13 and 14 is now available.  Registration is free but you will still need to register to secure your place. Thank you to our sponsors: EBSCO Host, Thomson Reuters and Sabinet.

In James G Neal’s “Big Questions”-blogpost he points out that collaboration will be one of the important ways of achieving and maintaining success for academic libraries in the near future. In a time of austerity and reduced budgets for academic libraries worldwide, collaboration designed and planned around getting more services for the money is necessary. […]

We invite you to submit a proposal for the first day of the satellite meeting of IFLA’s Academic and Research Libraries’ Section to be held in Cape Town South Africa 13-14 August 2015. The meeting will be held at the delightful “The Range” – a wine farm in Tokai, Cape Town.  Closing date – 27 […]