Building Strong Library Associations

IFLA has developed programmes and training packages that are customisable, flexible, and designed to meet the needs of different library communities Policy based training Training based on IFLA’s guidelines, standards and manifestos. Developed by IFLA FAIFE Public Access to Health Information IFLA/UNESCO Internet Manifesto IFLA Manifesto on Transparency, Good Governance and Freedom from Corruption Building Strong Library Associations (BSLA

Way of ignorance

Preprint of an article by Jules Winterton, Associate Director and Librarian at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Implementing national guidelines and standards: A model for action

Outlines the steps undertaken by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) in coordinating the implementation of the `Information power: Building partnerships for learning\u27 standards. Survey conducted in 1995; Restructuring in 1996; Objective of the National Association of Secondary School Principals

Special Libraries, April 1952

Volume 43, Issue 4https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1952/1003/thumbnail.jp

Special Libraries, April 1952

Volume 43, Issue 4https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1952/1003/thumbnail.jp

The Role and Activities of the IFLA Libraries for the Blind Section

The purpose of this article is to introduce some of the issues that blind and other print disabled people face in connection with reading and to explain how this situation influences the role of libraries for the blind. It goes on to describe the structure and purpose of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and its Libraries for the Blind Section, and to highlight the Section???s challenges, goals, and activities contained in its latest strategic plan.published or submitted for publicatio

Special Libraries, November 1936

Volume 27, Issue 9https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1936/1008/thumbnail.jp

ASLIB

ASLIB was, from 1924 to 2010 an independent membership organisation for special librarianship, technical and commercial information work, and latterly for information management, It was highly influential in the development of documentation and information science, in the UK and worldwide. Its activities included research and consultancy, training, professional development, publishing, and technology development. Aslib was for many years the de facto UK centre for information research, especially information and library management, information orgnaisation and computer applications. It has had several names, being at times the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux, Aslib, the Association for Information Management, and ASLIB. In 2010, ASLIB became a part of Emerald Group Publishing, and activities ceased in 2016

Special Libraries, January 1926

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State promotion of local public goods: The case of public libraries, 1880-1929

The public library movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries led to a significant expansion of library services across the United States. We study the impact of state-level institutional development on the creation of local public goods. State library commissions were modestly funded state entities charged with helping localities establish libraries. State library associations were voluntary organizations with a similar mission, having as members the librarians of existing public libraries. Library-enabling legislation clarified the legality and taxation possibilities for local government entities such as towns, municipalities and counties to support libraries. Employing panel data drawn from a series of detailed reports on public libraries conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Education, we use a difference-in-differences methodology to identify the impact of commissions, associations, and enabling legislation on library development in matched pairs of counties that straddle state borders. Our results suggest that state-level institutions and legislation had a statistically and economically significant effect on public library development. The finding has implications for future interpretations of the history of the United States as a “nation of joiners”; local civic engagement and associational life was importantly influenced by larger scale civic and political action. JEL classifications: H40, H75, N31, N32, N41, N4