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Webinar April 15th “New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations”

Our April webinar will focus on technology, innovation, and user needs.

We’ve recruited an amazing panel of two experienced library industry leaders and a new professional to shed light on these issues in different parts of the world. Serving as keynote speaker will be Hugh Rundle, public librarian from Australia’s City of Boroondara Library Service.

We hope you can join us!

April 15, 2014
2:00 p.m. CDT
3:00 p.m. EDT
9:00 p.m. CET

Link to webinar: https://ala.adobeconnect.com/_a1087453682/r2003pt8eiz/

CPDWL programmes accepted for IFLA Conference in Lyon

Good news!

All programmes of CPDWL were accepted for the IFLA conference in Lyon.

So mark your calender for the following:

MOOCs: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries

Programme Time: Monday August 18th 11.45 – 13.45

Together with the Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section and the Knowledge Management Section we will present a Knowledge Café

Learning Challenges for Librarians and Library Managers

Programme Time: Thursday August 21st 13.45-15.45.

We will update the programme details, topics of round tables etc. here soon.

 

IFLA LinkedIn group no longer active

Recent news from IFLA  “IFLA has recently announced that the LinkedIn group for IFLA has not been in use for some time now and as a result, there is no purpose for it anymore. Therefore the group will be deleted sometime in the next days.”

Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance

As part of Key Initiative 1 IFLA is working on library privacy issues.

And now IFLA has become a signatory to the International Principles on the
Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance
https://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/text

The document spells out how existing human rights
law applies to modern digital surveillance and gives civil society
groups, industry, lawmakers and observers a benchmark for measuring
states’ surveillance practices against long-established human rights
standards.