Minutes of Meeting: Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section, 06 February 2025

The DDRS Standing Committee met on February 6, 2025 and discussed the future of the webinar series that will continue in March and May 2025, in addition to the RSCVD parallele webinars organized by the RSVD Steering Committee. The IFLA WLIC 2025 program was finalized and committee members discussed 2 subjects: Building a Sustainable Future for Resource Sharing in a Changing World or Digital Strategies for Sustainable Resource Sharing. The deadline for the proposla is set to febraury 28th and the Committee members voted between both options. The 1st option was predominant, and was agreed to move with it. The WLIC program committee asked for volunteers to plan IFLA. As for the ILDS 2026 call for bids, it was published on Social Media account of DDRS, the IFLA website and DocDel platform

Minutes of Meeting: Resource Sharing during COVID-19 Committee, 13 November 2024

The Resource Sharing Collaborative and Voluntary Document Delivery (RSCVD) Steering Committee met and updated about the latest action between the group and the Toolkit as part of the collaboration and sustainability for both groups. The Toolkit has added a new column allowing RSCVD libraries to register and join the platform. It was decided to send an announcement via the RSCVD Listserv to inform member libraries about the opportunity to register with the Toolkit. The ILDS Conference happening soon 2-4 Dec., the Committee discussed in details the RSCVD session that will take place on December 4th from 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Libraries, music and intellectual property at the Palau de la Musica de Valencia

This is the presentation of Enrique Monfort, Palau de la musica de Valencia, during the IFLA-IAML webinar for World IP Day 2025. You can read more about the webinar here: https://www.ifla.org/news/keeping-the-music-playing-world-ip-day-recording-available

Quarterly Meeting Minutes for Libraries for Children & Young Adults

Quarterly Meeting Minutes for professional section E - Libraries for Children and Young Adults, 26 April, 202

Asia & Oceania Regional Newsletter, March 2025

The March 2025 IFLA Asia and Oceania Regional Division Newsletter includes editorials from the Chair of the Asia-Oceania Regional Division Committee, the Manager of the Regional Office for Asia and Oceania, and news from IFLA, the region and beyond. This covers work in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Sri Lanka and United Arab Emirates

Building Strong Library Associations (2008-2018) - Module 7 (Copyright)

The seventh module of the Building Strong Library Associations (2008-2018) programme focused on library association engagement in advocacy around copyrigh

Minutes of Meeting: Management of Library Associations Section, Monday, 25 November, 2024

The last Management of Library Associations Section (MLAS) Standing Committee Meeting for the year 2024 was held on 25 November, 2024 via zoom. The meeting was chaired by Loida and was well attended by 17 MLAS Standing Committee Members, NPSIG and WILSIG Conveners; and Helen Mandl, IFLA Deputy Secretary General. Among the matters discussed include the following: MLAS Mid-Term Meeting 2025 in Berlin, Germany; Updates from New Professionals SIG and Women, Information and Libraries SIG; IFLA Budget 2025; stepping down of IFLA GB Treasurer; IFLA President's Priorities; IFLA centenary 2027; IFLA Strategy 2024-2029; IFLA Elections 2025 and Pre-Nomination System; IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) 2025, Astana, Kazakhstan; Update on Code of Conduct for Volunteers; MLAS Priorities 2023-2025; MLAS Action Plan 2023-2024; Updates on Advocacy Impact Evaluation Working Group, Building Strong Library Associations Initiative, MLAS Communications Working Group; MLAS Webinar in collaboration with IFLA European Regional Division; IFLA Building Strong Library Associations (BLSA) Project and MLAS SC Happy New Year Video

Reviewing Support for Library Association Development and Sustainability for the Public Benefit

This reports looks at the benefits of the Building Stronger Library Associations (BSLA) program, which ran between 2008 and 2018 more or less. It also looks at future library associations’ needs, using a proposed Taxonomy of Library Association Capacities. This is an emerging idea, based our desk research and our own experiences working with library groups and associations, and one that is there to be adapted and improved on. The report also acknowledges the harsh reality of many small library associations that are run by volunteers and their unique needs, and emphasizes that local context is important when reviewing the taxonomy capacities