Tbilisi to be World Book Capital 2021
​UNESCO has announced that Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, will be World Book Capital 2021. IFLA is looking forward to working with the authorities and libraries there to show the power of our institutions in promoting books and reading.
The UNESCO World Book Capital programme focuses on supporting access to, and the production of books. Built on the understanding that high levels of literacy and reading are linked to greater well-being and performance in other areas of development, it looks to celebrate innovative and leading practices at the local level.
The title of World Book Capital is awarded by the Director General of UNESCO, based on recommendations from an advisory committee including IFLA and the International Publishers Association. Through its engagement, IFLA encourages bids that take full advantage of the potential of libraries to deliver on the goals of the programme.
From April 2021, the holder of the title will therefore be Tbilisi. In this, they will follow on from the current holder, Sharjah (UAE) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) which will take on the role in April 2020.
With the theme 'So your next book is...', the year will focus on increasing the number of people reading - in particular the young - and the role that new technologies can play in bringing books to new audiences.
IFLA is looking forward to working with our members in Georgia in order to make the most of the opportunity to highlight the power of libraries.
Through providing access to books and other materials, as well as a truly public space, libraries are key to delivering on the right to culture. They are a key part of the social, educational and cultural infrastructure of any town or city.
We are sure that Tbilisi's time as World Book Capital will provide examples that will help inspire other cities around the world to place libraries at the heart of their development policies.
The Right Structures to Deliver on our Strategy: Update on IFLA's Governance Review
​​​With IFLA's Strategy for 2019-24 in place, now is the time to ensure that we have the right structures, as an organisation, to deliver on our vision and mission. IFLA's Governance Review – the process for achieving this – is already well advanced.
Throughout the Global Vision process, leading up to the presentation of the IFLA Strategy 2019-2024 at WLIC 2019 in Athens, IFLA's Members have played a central role in our transformation.
Thanks to this, we are in a better place than ever before to build a strong and united library field. The Governance Review is the step that will ensure that IFLA has the structure to deliver on its new Strategy.
This process is already well underway, drawing strongly on the input provided by IFLA's Members, reflecting IFLA's commitment to listening and taking account of the library field's feedback and views.
Governing Board Work Groups
As a first step in September, we created three Work Groups to examine our Governing Board, Professional Units, and Strategic Committees.
We asked them the following questions:
Is the current structure the best to deliver IFLA's mission, vision, values, and strategic directions?
If not, what are the issues that must be addressed?
What solutions would solve those issues, and are those solutions sustainable and aligned with IFLA's values?
Since then, each group has been hard at work interviewing key stakeholders, and reviewing comments received during the Global Vision process, the IFLA Membership Survey 2018, and in Professional Unit workshops.
When the Governing Board meets in December, they will bring together their findings so far.
Read more about IFLA's Strategy 2019-24.
Governance Structure Survey
In October, we asked for your views about the performance of IFLA's current governance structure. The results of this will be a key ingredient in these discussions.
The high relative response rate indicates the strong level of engagement in IFLA's future.
We received responses from 269 members of IFLA's professional units (a 33% response rate), with an average of 10 years of involvement, and 173 IFLA members who are not members of a professional units (12.7% response rate), with an average of 12 years of involvement.
The survey results provided the following highlights:
IFLA's Members appreciated that IFLA's governance structure allows many opportunities for involvement in leadership and that it generally reflects the breadth and diversity of the library field.
IFLA's Members were in agreement that any changes proposed to the governance structure must be financially sustainable, provide for organisational stability, address regional representation, open doors for participation and inclusion more broadly, and allow new leaders to step forwards.
In addition to issues of structure, IFLA's Members also saw transparency, communication, and collaboration as important.
Based on the consideration of the results of the Member survey, as well as the results of their work to date, IFLA's Governing Board will work to define concrete proposals for change.
They will meet in person again in April 2020, in order to take the next steps towards a final proposal to present to the General Assembly in August 2020.
Throughout this time, we will be providing updates, and further opportunities to provide your input.
Palaces for the People: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Public Library Manifesto
​Today we are celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the current edition of the Public Library Manifesto.
This document, agreed by IFLA and the Member States of UNESCO, places public libraries at the heart of efforts to promote education, democracy and participation in culture.
As IFLA Secretary General Gerald Leitner set out:
The Public Library Manifesto clearly sets out the values that don't just underpin the work of public libraries, but to a large extent, all libraries, everywhere. These shared values can be a driver and guiding star for our work to build a stronger library field, and so stronger communities and societies around the world, as set out in the IFLA Global Vision.
To mark the event, IFLA has encouraged its members around the world to act to celebrate both the Manifesto and the work and missions of public libraries themselves.
With a growing recognition of the value of physical spaces and opportunities for building connections and community, the need for public libraries appears as strong as ever.
Nonetheless, the need for advocacy at every level, as well as efforts within the field to define, share and implement good practices, remains high.
Over the coming months, working in particular through our Public Libraries Section and with UNESCO, IFLA will be looking at where the Manifesto could be updated to make it ever more useful for libraries and decision-makers alike.
IFLA President Christine Mackenzie underlined:
The values and principles set out in the Public Library Manifesto are as important today as they were 25 years ago. So too is our work to make them reality. I look forward to working together with libraries and library associations everywhere to deliver culture, education and access to information for all, into the future.
Read more about the Manifesto in our advocacy toolkit.
EIFL signs with Mathematical Sciences Publishers
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EIFL has signed a new agreement with Mathematical Sciences Publishers (MSP) that provides free access to MSP's 17 journals specialized in mathematics and related sciences.
The agreement is valid until December 2022, and is open to libraries in 29 EIFL partner countries:
LIBER Strategy Update: 2019 Year In Review
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With 2020 just around the corner, we want to reflect on the achievements of this year and highlight what we'll deliver in the months ahead. In 2019, we fulfilled our mission of enabling world-class research and worked towards our strategic goal of Powering Sustainable Knowledge in the Digital Age in many ways. We celebrated in…
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LIBER 2019: Annual Conference Survey Results
Thank you to everyone who participated in our feedback survey for LIBER's 2019 Annual Conference in Dublin, Ireland. The main findings are presented here. We'll use your feedback to improve LIBER 2020 in Belgrade, Serbia on 24-26 June 2020 at the University of Belgrade. Presentations and recordings from LIBER 2019 can be found here. Key findings…
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IFLA continues efforts in WIPO: a brief on NGO's Meeting with Director-General Francis Gurry
On November 26th, IFLA was once again at WIPO, at a meeting organised by the secretariat for Non-Governmental Organizations.
The NGOs' meeting with the WIPO Director-General
Many observers came to share their views on the various fields covered by WIPO including copyright, patents, trademarks, and industrial designs.
Director-General Francis Gurry made a very positive assessment of the organisation in good financial shape. WIPO now has 26 multilateral treaties including the Marrakesh Treaty (on access to adapted works for people with visual impairments), which is currently the organisation's most successful.
Director-General Gurry also spoke about important issues within WIPO, including artificial intelligence (AI), which is one of the many questions the intellectual property regime faces, and the rapid evolution of disruptive technologies in general. A report will soon be published on this subject (early 2020) to highlight the scientific progress made since 1950. In addition to this, another document will be published at the end of the month on the consequences of artificial intelligence.
The meeting was also an opportunity to underline the importance of the collaboration between WIPO and NGOs.
The upcoming election of a new Director-General
WIPO will see the election of a new Director General in early 2020. Several candidates have already been declared (see the list of candidates). The candidate will be nominated by the Coordination Committee for the post of Director-General in March, and will be formally appointed in May.
IFLA will work to build a strong relationship with the holder of the post from May, in order to underline the contribution libraries make to innovation and access to information, and how WIPO can help.
Next steps for SCCR preparation
IFLA was also able to discuss with delegates the next steps to deliver on the mandate of the International Conference and the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR): "The objective would be to consider the opportunities and challenges provided by various international solutions including soft law, contractual/licensing and normative approaches, as appropriate.
With European Union countries due to implement new preservation provisions in the next two years, we hope that this will provide the absis for a consensus on similar measures globally at the next SCCR session (29 June – 3 July 2020).
We would like to use this opportunity to thank delegates involved with us for their time.
News from 4Science–November 2019: Report From German institutions
From Susanna Mornati, 4Science
On November 18 in Münster (Germany, EU) the First International DSpace-CRIS User Group Meeting was held as a satellite event of the euroCRIS Membership Meeting, thanks to the hospitality of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU).
4Science, together with The Library Code and other organizations in the DSpace-CRIS community, such as the Hamburg University of Technology, the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the Georg-August-University Goettingen, and the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, the University of Bern. The University of Trieste, held the meeting, where significant projects from German institutions and others were represented. Updates to the roadmap for DSpace-CRIS 7 were shared and discussed: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACECRIS/Product+RoadMap
Meeting notes are available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BnI4a4DeDy54DUyikQ7ZnWM6azw_rSf0Jp0xU4oH-uI/edit?usp=sharing
Remember to check this wiki page for new DSpace-CRIS features. It is updated regularly by the community of DSpace-CRIS users to share effort and resources in order to improve the system: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACECRIS/New+Features
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Webinar Announcement: Integrating ArchivesSpace and Archive-It
ArchivesSpace is pleased to announce the third webinar in our new series focused on Integrations with ArchivesSpace. Each webinar in this series will highlight an integration with another application used in archives that ArchivesSpace members have worked on or requested. The webinar series will feature both open source and proprietary systems.
Our third webinar in this series will feature an open discussion on ArchivesSpace integration with Archive-It, a subscription web archiving service from the Internet Archive that helps organizations to harvest, build, and preserve collections of digital content.
When: December 4, 2019
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET (11:00 a.m. – noon PT; 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. BST)
Where: Zoom
https://lyrasis.zoom.us/j/901271657
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Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/awkFNWPxh
This webinar will be recorded and made available on the ArchivesSpace YouTube channel.
In this webinar, Lori Donovan (Archive-It) will discuss the Archive-It/ArchivesSpace integration that was developed as part of the Archiving the Websites of Contemporary Composers Mellon grant, which the Internet Archive collaborated on with New York University. Lori will also share information about the APIs that underly the Archive-It service and ways that these might be leveraged to integrate metadata from Archive-It into ArchivesSpace repositories.
Dallas Pillen (University of Michigan) will present on the Bentley Historical Library's use of ArchivesSpace to manage descriptive metadata about websites captured with Archive-It. The presentation will discuss why and how the Bentley decided to manage its descriptive metadata about archived websites in ArchivesSpace and will provide an overview of a locally developed ArchivesSpace plugin that integrates the two systems to facilitate this work.
A discussion will follow. ArchivesSpace users who have integrated with Archive-It or are considering integrating with Archive-It are encouraged to participate in this discussion in an effort to identify and highlight current community efforts or the potential for community collaboration to encourage integration between the two systems.
Lori Donovan is the Senior Program Manager for Web Archiving at the Internet Archive. Lori manages Archive-It service growth, which includes leading a team of Web Archivists and Technical Support staff who provide instruction, guidance and support for Archive-It users, and interfacing with the engineering team to develop new features and functionality for the Archive-It service. Lori has a Master of Information degree from University of Michigan, and a Bachelor's degree from Boise State University, where she majored in history and political science.
Dallas Pillen is the Archivist for Metadata and Digital Curation at the University of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library, where he oversees the library's use of ArchivesSpace, Archive-It, Archivematica, and DSpace. He is also a member of the ArchivesSpace Technical Advisory Council and co-chair of the Society of American Archivists' Encoded Archival Standards Section.
Anyone interested in possibilities for integrating ArchivesSpace with Archive-It, those who have integrated ArchivesSpace and Archive-It and would like to offer insight to others, and those who are interested in working with fellow community members to make integration with Archive-It easier.
Contact Jessica at jessica.crouch@lyrasis.org if you have questions about this webinar or the Integrations with ArchivesSpace webinar series. The next Integrations with ArchivesSpace webinar will be: Integrating ArchivesSpace with Aviary, January 15, 2020 at 2pm ET (11am PT)
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President Ramaphosa: please sign Copyright Bill
In a letter to Cyril Ramaphosa, President of the Republic of South Africa, EIFL urged the President to sign into law the long-awaited Copyright Amendment Bill without delay. The Bill, amending the 1978 Copyright Act, was approved by the legislature in March 2019 and awaits the Presidential assent. The Bill introduces new exceptions for libraries, education and people with disabilities, and brings copyright rules in South Africa into the digital age.
Partnering for Education, Science and Culture at the UNESCO General Conference
The IFLA delegation had a successful week at the 40th Session of the UNESCO General Conference. From 18-21 November, IFLA represented the library and information profession in a series of meetings with delegates and UNESCO committees.
Reflecting the breadth of IFLA's engagement with UNESCO, our engagement covered a number of areas:
CERLALC
IFLA's Secretary General Gerald Leitner and former President Glòria Pérez-Salmerón attended the 34th ordinary session of the board of the Regional Centre for Book Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLALC). In a preparatory meeting, the IFLA Secretary General set out IFLA's priorities and strengths, and discussed possibilities to work together to strengthen libraries.
During the formal session, Glòria Pérez-Salmerón delivered an address strongly welcoming the work of CERLALC in strengthening libraries and reading in the region. She underlined how this work fits together with IFLA's own strategy to inspire, engage, enable and connect the field, and encouraged more collaboration in the future.
Forum of Ministers of Culture
IFLA was also present for the Forum of Ministers of Culture, on the topic of Culture and Public Policy for Sustainable Development. More than 130 Ministers attended this major event, discussing the central place of culture in public policies and its role in delivering sustainable development.
Building on the momentum of this Forum in the meeting of the Culture Commission, we encouraged Member States to use their Voluntary National Reviews (a key part of the process for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals) to highlight the contribution of culture in their countries.
We also used this opportunity to promote the report: Culture in the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda, coordinated by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and United Cities and Local Government with support from IFLA.
Communication and Information (CI) Commission
IFLA's representative took the floor during the CI Commission meetings to voice support for the Draft Recommendation on Open Educational Resources. This recommendation concerns the vital role of accessible educational resources towards delivery of inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all.
As access to information, sharing knowledge and building open, participatory societies are core values of the library profession, we also encouraged member states to include experts from the library field in work to create, access, re-use, adapt and redistribute open educational resources.
Culture Commission
IFLA took the floor several times to address the Culture Commission.
Firstly, we voiced strong support for the call to strengthen the implementation of the 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. In addition, we advocated for a broad view of cultural property to be considered by Member States, taking account of the unique nature of documentary heritage.
During the critical discussion on UNESCO's Medium-term strategy and budget for 2022-2029, IFLA joined several Member States in voicing support for ongoing provisions for preserving documentary heritage.
Preservation issues relating to documentary heritage in digital form, specifically born-digital heritage, are sure to continue to be a major consideration in the conservation of, and access to, our cultural heritage. Therefore, IFLA called for ongoing cooperation between the Culture and the Communication and Information Sectors to ensure this part of our cultural heritage continues to be preserved and accessible.
Between sessions, IFLA's representatives met with delegates from Member States, NGOs and UNESCO Headquarters. In advocating for the role of libraries, we encouraged partners to consider the role of libraries in creating national and local level programmes that take concrete action towards achieving the goals of UNESCO.
Read more about key issues for libraries at the UNESCO General Conference.
Call for Papers: 2020 IFLA International News Media Conference in Mexico City, Mexico
Capture and Preservation of Born Digital News Media / Acopio y preservación de documentos de origen digital de medios de comunicación
Hosted by the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas y de la Información de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Organized by the IFLA News Media Section.
5-6 March 2020. A meeting of the IFLA News Media Section Standing Committee will take place on 4 March.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City
http://iibi.unam.mx/IFLAmedia
Theme & sub-themes:
Libraries and cultural heritage institutions have been leaders in preserving news media content, including newspapers, news websites, and radio and television news. The 2020 IFLA International News Media Conference will explore how institutions are addressing the challenges of capturing and preserving born digital news media, preserving and building access to physical news media content, and of opening all these materials for digital access to researchers. Proposals for papers should address the main theme and related topics, including but not limited to:
Preservation of audio-visual and multimedia news
Copyright issues related to news media preservation and access
Digital archives for audio-visual news media
Role of the librarian, archivist, and professional in curating news media collections
Preservation strategies for newspapers, news websites, and radio and television news
Preparation of news media content for access
Use of news media materials by researchers
Web archiving of digital news sites
Other proposals relevant to the main conference theme will also be considered.
Proposal abstracts must be submitted by 3 January 2020, must be in English or Spanish, and should clearly include:
Title of proposed paper
Abstract of proposed paper (no more than 300 words)
Name(s) of presenter(s) and position(s) and/or title(s)
Employer / affiliated institution
Contact information including email address and telephone number
Short biographical statement(s) of presenter(s)
Proposal abstracts should be submitted as MS Word files to all conference committee members:
Mary Feeney (mfeeney@email.arizona.edu)
Ana Krahmer (ana.krahmer@unt.edu)
Michael Luetgen (michael.luetgen@zeutschel.de)
Ann Okerson (aokerson@gmail.com)
Perla Olivia Rodríguez (perla@iibi.unam.mx)
Frederick Zarndt (frederick@frederickzarndt.com)
Selected presenters will be notified by 10 January 2020. To discuss any matter relating to this Call for Papers, please contact the conference committee members listed above.
Complete accepted papers should be 3000-6000 words in length and be an original submission not published elsewhere.
Complete accepted papers and accompanying presentation slides must be submitted by 14 February 2020.
Final papers should be written in English or Spanish.
The papers will be made available on the Conference Website, the News Media Section Website, and in the IFLA Library. The papers must be under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
Approximately 15-20 minutes will be allowed for presentation of the paper.
Registration information will be posted on the Conference Website in January 2020.
3 January 2020 Proposal abstracts due
10 January 2020 Acceptance notices sent to authors
10 January 2020 Start of registration
14 February 2020 Completed papers and presentations submitted
5-6 March 2020 Conference
The Programme Committee regrets that it has no funding to assist prospective authors, and the submission of an abstract must be on the understanding that the costs of attending the conference including registration, travel, accommodation, and other expenses, are the responsibility of the presenters of the accepted papers, or their institutions. No financial support can be provided by IFLA, but a special invitation can be issued to authors.
Welcome New LYRASIS Clients
LYRASIS Digital Technology Services is pleased to welcome the following new clients to LYRASIS hosted ArchivesSpace, CollectionSpace, DSpaceDirect, DuraCloud, Islandora, and Library Simplified services!
Canadian University Dubai
City of Somerville, MA
Montana State Library
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Fedora 6 Sprint
From David Wilcox, Fedora Program Leader, DuraSpace Community Supported Programs, LYRASIS The second Fedora 6 sprint ran from November 4-15, 2019 with 11 participants from across the Fedora community:
Danny Bernstein, LYRASIS
Andrew Woods, LYRASIS
Ben Pennell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peter Eichman, University of Maryland
Jared Whiklo, University of Manitoba
Bethany Seeger, Amherst College
Peter Winckles, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mohamed Mohideen Abdul Rasheed, University of Maryland
Aaron Birkland, Johns Hopkins University
Dan Field, National Library of Wales
Remigiusz Malessa, National Library of Wales
This sprint had two primary objectives:
Implement basic resource management (Create, Read, Update, Delete) for Containers using the Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL)
Update migration-utils to support a basic Fedora 3 to OCFL on-disk data conversion
Watch a video summary and demo from the second Fedora 6 sprint focused on the updated migration-utils tool, which now supports basic Fedora 3 to Fedora 6 data conversion based on the Oxford Common File Layout here. The first goal has mostly been accomplished, though there are a few outstanding issues to resolve in the coming weeks. The team expects a testable early version of the software with this functionality in place will be available before the end of the year. The second goal is now complete: an updated version of migration-utils is now available for testing, and it has already been validated against several sample data sets. The tool represents a great opportunity to see what Fedora 3 data will look like once it has been transformed to an OCFL-compatible format. A short video demo of this tool will be available next week. If you have Fedora 3 data, please test the tool and let us know whether or not it performs well and accommodates your use cases. If you have an interest in moving Fedora 6 forward, please sign up for the next sprint to take place in the first quarter of 2020: https://doodle.com/poll/es7nwdppt94rv2pz. With your help we can build, validate, document, and deliver Fedora 6 to the community next year.
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