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- 2009 Dr. Shawky Salem Conference Grant winner has been announced.
- Letter of the President
(LOP) No. 3 (March) 2009.
- Presidential and Governing
Board Elections: 2009-2011, Statements of Candidacy.

- Law Libraries Section - Annual Report
2008.

Minutes of SC
Meetings in Quebec City, Canada, 2008.
- Statement by the International Committee of the Blue Shield (ICBS) on the earthquake in Abruzzo, Italy.

- Final Announcement: World Library and
Information Congress, 75th IFLA General Conference and Council,
August 2009, Milan, Italy.

- Art Libraries – Section Brochure.

- Greek translation of:
The IFLA Internet Manifesto
The IFLA Public Library Manifesto
Beacons of the Information Society - The Alexandria Proclamation on Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning
IFLA Manifesto on Transparency, Good Governance and Freedom from Corruption.
- World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
"Congress Programme" added.
- Winners of the 7th IFLA International Marketing Award for 2009.
- Updated:
Online IFLA Membership Directory.
- Library Services to People with Special Needs
Section – Minutes of Mid-year SC
Meetings in Lyngby, February 2009.
- Continuing Professional Development and
Workplace Learning Section – Quality Guidelines Project.
- Library Services to Multicultural Populations
Section – The IFLA Multicultural Library Manifesto.
- Asia and Oceania Section – Minutes of SC
Meetings in Quebec City, Canada.
- French translation of "President's Program"
pages.
World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
"Frequently Asked Questions" added.
- Cataloguing Section – Statement of
International Cataloguing Principles:
Arabic | Croatian | Czech | Korean |
Portuguese | Russian |
Thai | Vietnamese |
- Action for Development through Libraries
Programme Core Activity (ALP) – Annual Report
2008.
-
Data collection for the IFLA/FAIFE World Report 2009.
- World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
Draft Programme of the Satellite Meeting
– Art Libraries Section
Theme: "Art and History: Sharing Sources in
International Research Networks".
-
Committee Members involved in FAIFE Activities 2008.
- Announcement: World Book and
Copyright Day:
23 April 2009.
- World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
Call for Papers – School
Libraries and Resource Centres Section
Theme: "How School Librarians can engage their
students in and facilitate access to cultural heritage and cultural
artefacts; both their own and those of the rest of the world".
- Announcement: IFLA ALP Short Course on
Information Literacy and IT for Information Professionals in Asia
and Oceania Wellington, New Zealand; 16 November - 11 December
2009.
- Letter of the President
(LOP) No. 2 (February) 2009.
- International Cataloguing and Bibliographic
Control (ICBC) – Contents of Vol 38 No 1,
January/March 2009.
- IFLA Chinese Language Centre established at the
National Library of China, Beijing

- Information Literacy Section – Newsletter January
2009.
- Functional requirements for bibliographic
records: Final report / IFLA Study Group on the Functional
Requirements for Bibliographic Records. 2009.
- Libraries Serving Persons with Print
Disabilities Section – Dr. Dayton M. Forman Memorial
Award 2009 - Call for Nominations.

- IFLA Chinese
Language Centre established at the National Library of China,
Beijing.
- Cataloguing Section – Statement of
International Cataloguing Principles:
French | Japanese | Portuguese (Brazilian) | Slovenian |
- World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
Call for Papers – School
Libraries and Resource Centres Section
Theme: "How School Librarians can
engage their students in and facilitate access to cultural heritage
and cultural artefacts; both their own and those of the rest of the
world".
- Library and Research Services for Parliaments
Section – Newsletter, Volume 27,
No. 5, February 2009.
- Copyright's Ever Expanding
Empire: DRM, Licenses, and Privatization of Public
Information
FRED VON LOHMANN, Senior Intellectual Property Attorney, Electronic
Frontier Foundation
Presented at IFLA/EBLIDA/eIFL 2008 Conference on Copyright and
Libraries: "Copyright: Enabling Access or Creating Roadblocks
for Libraries?"
Chisinau, Moldova, November 13, 2008.
- Updated:
Online IFLA Membership Directory.
- IFLA Professional Reports, No. 113 – "Bibliotecas públicas, archivos y
museos: tendencias de colaboración y cooperación". (Spanish
translation of IFLA Professional Report 108.)
- IFLA Professional Reports, No. 115 – "Guidelines for Multilingual
Thesauri".
- World Library and Information Congress:
77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2011,
San Juan, Puerto Rico – The
logo has been decided on and the dates have changed.
World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
Call for Papers for Satellite Meeting
– IFLA Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression
Programme (FAIFE)
Theme: "Religion, Intellectual Freedom and
Libraries".

- Cataloguing Section – Statement of
International Cataloguing Principles:
German | Italian | Swedish | Chinese |
- Registration
is now open:
2009 August 17-20, Partnerships for print disabled people:
publishers and public libraries, Belgium and Netherlands.
[Text
version]
- IFLA Core Activity on Preservation and
Conservation (PAC) Conference, 5–6 March 2009 – "In and Out
Air Strategies. From Climate Change to Microclimate. Library,
Archives and Museum Preservation Issues": Speakers'
biographies.
- Academic and Research Libraries – Essay Contest - Free
Conference Registation 2009.
- IFLA
Journal 2009 (Vol. 35), issue no. 1.
- Library Services to Multicultural Populations
Section – Strategic
Plan 2009-2010.
- Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section
– Annual
Report 2008.
- Cataloguing Section – Statement of
International Cataloguing Principles:

World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
Call for Papers – Knowledge
Management Section, Information Technology Section, Library and
Research Services for Parliaments Section
Theme: "Social Computing Tools for Learning &
Knowledge Sharing".

Call for Papers – Acquisition
and Collection Development Section
Theme: "An E-Book Kaleidoscope: Multiple
Perspectives on Libraries' Experiences with E-Books".

- IFLA Governing Board Documents – Outcomes of
the December 2008 Meeting.

World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
Call for Papers – Knowledge
Management Section
Theme: "Knowledge advocacy".

Call for Papers for Satellite Meeting
– Preservation and Conservation Section with Core Activity on
Preservation and Conservation (PAC)
Theme: "Conservation and preservation of library
material in a cultural-heritage oriented context".

- Acquisition and Collection Development Section
– Newsletter
issue 38, February 2009.
World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
Travel, Accomodation, Local
Information – Accomodation/hotels
added
- Knowledge Management Section – Newsletter issue 7,
February 2009.
- School Libraries and Resource Centers Section
– Newsletter,
December 2009.
- IFLA Governing Board Documents – Outcomes of
the December 2008 Meeting.

- Science and Technology Libraries Section
– Newsletter,
January 2009.
- Art Libraries Section – Minutes of SC
Meetings in Quebec City, Canada.
- Art Libraries – updated section
brochures

World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
Exhibition – Revised floor
plan [2009-02-05]
- IFLA Annual Report
2007.
- IFLA/FAIFE
Learning Materials for workshops on the IFLA Manifesto on
Transparency, Good Governance and Freedom from Corruption.
- Genealogy and Local History Section – Newsletter 13,
January 2009.
World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
Call for Papers for Satellite Meeting
– IFLA Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression
Programme (FAIFE)
Theme: "Religion,
Intellectual Freedom and Libraries"
Call for Papers – Knowledge
Management Section, Information Technology Section, Library and
Research Services for Parliaments Section
Theme: "Social
Computing Tools for Learning & Knowledge Sharing"
Call for Papers – Acquisition
and Collection Development Section
Theme: "An E-Book
Kaleidoscope: Multiple Perspectives on Libraries' Experiences with
E-Books"
- Updated:
Online IFLA Membership Directory
- Section on Education and Training – Annual Report
2008.
World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
Call for Papers for Satellite Meeting
– IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section with Core
Activity on Preservation and Conservation (PAC)
Theme: "Conservation
and preservation of library material in a cultural-heritage
oriented context"
- Rare Books and
Manuscripts Section – Newsletter January 2009
- Special
Newsletter about the launch of the re-opened IFLA
Regional Office Africa in Pretoria, South Africa.
- Guidelines on IFLA branding

- Academic and Research Libraries – Minutes of SC Meetings in
Quebec City, Canada.
World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
Call for Papers – Knowledge
Management Section
Theme: "Knowledge advocacy"
- IFLA Core Activity on Preservation and
Conservation (PAC) – Cycle of PAC Conferences 2009-2010
"Preservation and the Four Elements: Air, Water, Earth and Fire"
No. 1: "In
and Out Air Strategies. From Climate Change to Microclimate.
Library, Archives and Museum Preservation Issues"

- Cataloguing Section – SCATNews No. 30, December
2008.
- Genealogy and Local History Section – Annual Report
2007-2008.
- Letter of the President
(LOP) No. 1 (January) 2009.
- IFLA Governing Board Documents – Outcomes of the December
2008 Meeting.
- Libraries Serving Persons with Print
Disabilities Section – Newsletter 2, 2008
PDF format
Text version
- Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section
– Guidelines for Library services for Young Adults translated into
Polish.
- World Summit on the Information Society –
Follow-up: Report from the
Internet Governance Forum, Hyderabad, India, December 2008.
World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
Call for Papers – Africa
Section
Theme: "Building on cultural heritage from the
African classical world to the 21st century"

Call for Papers – Agricultural
Libraries Discussion Group
Theme: "Worldwide Trends in Open Access to
Agricultural Information"

Call for Papers – Document
Delivery and Resource Sharing Section
Theme: "The Interlending, Document Delivery and
Resource Sharing tradition: evolving with the changing knowledge
economy"

Call for Papers – Library and
Research Services for Parliaments Section and Library History
Section
Theme: "Changing visions, parliamentary libraries
past, present and future"

Call for Papers for Satellite Meeting
– Art Libraries Section
Theme: "Art and History: sharing Sources in
International Research Networks"

Call for Papers for Satellite Meeting
– Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section
Theme: "Digital information for democracy:
management, access and preservation"

- IFLA Core Activity on Preservation and
Conservation (PAC) – Report on training: Preventive
conservation in libraries and archives in West Africa, 5-9 January
2009, Porto-Novo, Benin [in French / en français]
World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
Registration 
Call for Papers – UNIMARC Core
Activity
Theme: "UNIMARC and the future of catalogues"

Call for Papers – Statistics and
Evaluation Section, Information Technology Section, Preservation
and Conservation Section
Theme: "Statistics for the Cultural Heritage"

- IFLA Core Activity on Preservation and
Conservation (PAC) – International Preservation News No.
46, December 2008.
- Newspapers Section – re-entering some old Business
Meeting minutes (#7-#11).
- Permanent UNIMARC Committee (PUC) – 19th PUC
Meeting, 2008 March 12-13.
- IFLA Publications Series, No. 135: The Impact of Digital Technology on
Contemporary and Historic Newspapers – Proceedings of the
International Newspaper Conference, Singapore, April 1-3, 2008, and
papers from the World Library and Information Congress, Québec,
Canada, August, 2008.
- Education and Training Section – Newsletter "SET
Bulletin" january 2009.
- Academic and Research Libraries – Newsletter 42,
December 2008.
World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
Call for Papers – UNIMARC Core
Activity
Theme: "UNIMARC and the future of
catalogues"
Call for Papers – Division for
Regional Activities
Theme: "Libraries on the cultural agenda: regional
comparisons"

Call for Papers for Satellite Meeting
– Art Libraries Section
Theme: "Art and History: sharing Sources in
International Research Networks"

- Literacy and Reading Section – Newsletter 26,
January 2009.
- Science and Technology Libraries Section
– Annual
Report 2008.
- Cataloguing Section – Updated Standing Committee
Roster.
World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
Call for Papers – Art Libraries
Section
Theme: "Art Libraries and Cultural Heritage:
select, collect and connect"

Call for Papers – Genealogy and
Local History Section
Theme: "Opening up our cultural heritage through
digitisation and collaboration"

Call for Papers – Government
Information and Official Publications Section
Theme: "Government publications as cultural
heritage: preserving the past, keeping up with the present,
embracing the future"

Call for Papers – Health and
Biosciences Libraries Section
Theme: "Consumer Health: Health Literacy, Patient
Empowerment & Health Promotion"

Call for Papers – Newspapers
Section
Theme: "Newspapers in the Mediterranean and the
Evolution of the Modern State"

Call for Papers – Reference and
Information Services Section
Theme: "The Pro-Active Librarian: the how and the
why"

Call for Papers – Serials and
Other Continuing Resources Section
Theme: "Serials in the 21st century: new concepts,
new challenges"

- Newspapers Section – re-entering the first 7
Newsletters.
- Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section
– Newsletter 69,
December 2008.
- Library Services to Multicultural Populations
Section – publication "Defining 'Multiculturalism'"

- IFLA Publications Series, No. 134: Libraries and Information Services Towards
the Attainment of the UN Millennium Development Goals
- 2008
Satellite Meeting 7 – Presentations and Biographies
"Navigating with youth: In these days of technology, how can public
libraries attract and keep their young clientele?"
(World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General
Conference and Council, 2008, Quebec City, Canada)
World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
Exhibition Information 
Sponsors 
Disclaimer 
Important Deadlines 
Call for Poster Presentations 
Call for Papers for Satellite Meeting
– Academic and Research Libraries Section, Public Libraries
Section, Library Buildings and Equipment Section, Library Theory
and Research Section, Management and Marketing Section
Theme: "Libraries as Space and Place"

- 2009 IPA Freedom to Publish Prize – Call
for nominations.
- Government Libraries Section – Newsletter January
2009.
- Cataloguing Section – updates ISBD page and ISBD translations.
- Library Services to People with Special Needs
Section – Newsletter 67, December
2008.
- Education and Training Section –
Announcement IFLA LIS Student Paper Award 2009

- New IFLA
Statutes and accompanying Rules of Procedure.
- Calls for Nominations Committee
Members:
World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
Call for Papers – Reference and
Information Services Section
Theme: "The Pro-Active Librarian:
the how and the why"
- Knowledge Management Section – Minutes of SC Meetings in
Quebec City, Canada.
- Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative (DCMI) incorporated in Singapore.
- Classification and Indexing Section – Newsletter
December 2008.
- Management of Library Associations Section
– Newsletter
December 2008.
- Asia and Oceania Section – Newsletter December
2008.
World Library and Information Congress: 75th
IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 2009, Milan, Italy:
Call for Papers for Satellite Meeting
– Information Technology Section and Libraries and Web 2.0
Discussion Group
Theme: "Statistics for the Cultural Heritage"

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