IFLA statement on privacy in the library environment

Introduction The rapid advancement of technology has resulted in increasing privacy implications for library and information services, their users, and society. Commercial Internet services, including those used to deliver library and information services, collect extensive data on users and their behaviour. They may also sell data about their users to third parties who then act on the data to deliver, monitor or withhold services. Using identification and location technology, governments and third parties can analyse a library user’s communication and activities for surveillance purposes or to control access to spaces, devices and services. Excessive data collection and use threatens individual users’ privacy and has other social and legal consequences. When Internet users are aware of large-scale data collection and surveillance, they may self- censor their behavior due to the fear of unexpected consequences. Excessive data collection can then have a chilling effect on society, narrowing an individual’s right to freedom of speech and freedom of expression as a result of this perceived threat. Limiting freedom of speech and expression has the potential to compromise democracy and civil engagement

Licensing of scientific audiovisual media in Germany

TIB has set up a competence center for non-textual materials with the goal to collect, archive and present scientific audiovisual media among other non-textual material to its users via its portals. The acquisition of the necessary rights for the audiovisual media which enter into TIB´s collection profile is complex. The market for scientific information is international and does not end at national borders. Thus the scientific audiovisual media which TIB licenses are produced in Germany but also in other countries. Challenges are encountered regarding the German national law and, when collaborating with licensors from other countries, with other national laws. This paper aims at describing the legal framework within which TIB has to build up services and the challenges which TIB encounters when licensing electronic audiovisual media in Germany with a special focus on currently valid and new developments in European and German legal deposit and copyright law

The State of Professional Publishing in Non-Industrialized Nations

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66905/2/10.1177_034003528200800308.pd

IFLA guidelines for library services to children aged 0-18

資料著:IFLA児童青少年委員会. 責任編集:キャロリン・ランキン. 編訳:沼尻直美, 山際史子, 井上靖代application/pdfdepartmental bulletin pape

Libraries Engaged in Voluntary National Reviews: Part 8 - Prepare for the High-Level Political Forum

The eighth step towards successful engagement in a Voluntary National Review (VNR) is to prepare for the High-Level Political Forum at which Reviews will be presented. There is still plenty of uncertainty about how things will work in 2022, and whether in-person participation will be possible. However, after two years of practice, opportunities for online participation have been improved, meaning more people can join more easily

An introduction to the culture 2030 goal

This presentation was used with IFLA's webinar on an introduction to the Culture2030Goal campaig

Libraries Engaged in Voluntary National Reviews: Part 5 - Engage with Decision-Makers

The fifth step towards engagement in a Voluntary National Review (VNR) is to engage with decision-makers. This is very much the culmination of the work suggested in the previous three parts – preparing stories, data and facts, and presenting things effectively. It is also a crucial one, given that in the end, the success of advocacy is measured in how far you manage to change the minds and actions of those in power

Libraries Engaged in Voluntary National Reviews — Part 4: Present your materials

The fourth step towards engagement in a Voluntary National Review (VNR) is to present the information you have gathered – data, stories, background information – in a way that will be most effective in encouraging your government to include libraries. In order to get the team preparing the VNR interested, it will be important to organise your arguments and evidence around the areas of focus of your review

IFLA Strategy Pulse Surveys - Results, Survey 1

Below are the results from the first of four short surveys designed to build a sense of how the current IFLA Strategy works, and what the context and goals might be for the next one. The report runs through the overall methodology, then summarises the results, before summarising questions raised by the data