Content tagged South Africa
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(These results include any available translations of the original English documents.)
- Still Time to Act: IFLA Calls for Rapid Finalisation of Copyright Reforms in South Africa
IFLA has called for South Africa’s Parliament to return the country’s Copyright Amendment Bill to the President for signature, and to reject the questionable allegations of...
News - 18 August 2020
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, South Africa, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- A Damaging Delay: Libraries and Users in South Africa Forced to Wait Longer for Overdue Reforms
Following years of advocacy in favour of long-overdue copyright reforms, libraries in South Africa will need to wait a while longer for change. Following pressure from foreign governments, the...
News - 29 June 2020
Tags: Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, South Africa, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- IFLA Submission Calls on US to Reject Efforts to Use Trade Measures to Delay Much-Needed Copyright Reforms
Efforts to use trade measures to delay or block long-overdue copyright reforms which will benefit libraries and their users are regrettable. In its comment to a review of South Africa’s...
News - 19 January 2020
Tags: Access to information, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, copyright4libraries, South Africa, United States of America, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- IFLA Submission to US Trade Representative on the Review of South Africa’s Position under the Generalized System of Preferences
IFLA has submitted a comment in the context of the review of whether South Africa should continue to benefit from preferential trade rules with the United States. The review has been triggered by...
Publication - 19 January 2020
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, copyright4libraries, South Africa, United States of America, Reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- IFLA President Underlines Role of Libraries in Successful Local Development
For many libraries, good relationships with local town halls and councils are essential. But as IFLA President Christine Mackenzie set out in interventions at the World Congress of Local and...
News - 5 December 2019
Tags: Access to information, local development, local government, right to the city, South Africa
- World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders – UCLG Congress
The World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders, convened by UCLG, is the largest gathering of mayors, presidents of associations, councillors, and local and regional practitioners from around the...
Event - 8 October 2019
Tags: Conference, Local Governments, Regional Governments, South Africa
- South Africa Can Lead the Way: IFLA Delivers Submission on Copyright Reform
South Africa is reforming its copyright framework, and the Copyright Amendment Bill takes an ambitious approach that could set a great example not only for neighbouring countries but also...
Publication - 12 January 2019
Tags: Access to knowledge, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, South Africa, Reports, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Delivering the Promise: IFLA Secretary General Urges Support for Copyright Reforms that Benefit South African Libraries, Users
IFLA Secretary General Gerald Leitner has written a letter to key South African ministers and parliamentarians, urging them to take the final steps necessary to approve a copyright reform that...
News - 5 December 2018
Tags: Access to knowledge, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Education, South Africa, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Tearing down myths around the South African Copyright Amendment Bill
IFLA has been working over the past months to support its South African members in advocating around ongoing copyright reforms. These promise to offer librarians more legal certainty and...
News - 20 November 2018
Tags: Advocacy, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, South Africa, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- 2018 IFLA Global Vision Regional Workshop: Africa
IFLA is creating the biggest idea store for actions, a source of inspiration for all librarians and for IFLA in planning for the future. Through a series of workshops and an online...
Event - 13 April 2018
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, IFLA Global Vision, Meeting, South Africa
- International Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML) 2021 to be in held Africa for the first time
The IFLA Health and Biosciences Libraries Section is delighted to announce that the 13th International Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML) will be held in Pretoria, South Africa in 2021, the...
News - 7 December 2017
Tags: ICML, International Congress of Medical Librarianship, South Africa, Health and Biosciences Libraries
- IFLA Regional Office for Africa hosts the UNISA Annual Public Lecture Series
The Executive Director of the UNISA Library Services cordially invites you to the 10th UNISA/IFLA Regional Office for Africa Annual Public Lecture on African Librarianship in the 21st Century...
Event - 13 April 2017
Tags: Advocacy, Lecture, South Africa, UN 2030 Agenda, UN SDGs, Africa
- Public Libraries Satellite Presentations now On-Line
How quickly does time go? It’s only just over a month since the wonderful IFLA Public Libraries satellite in Cape Town hosted by our friends and colleagues from the City of Cape Town Library...
News - 23 September 2015
Tags: Conferences, South Africa, Public Libraries
- CPD - Your thoughts
At the World Library and Information Congress in Cape Town IFLA's Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and Public Libraries Sections joined together to deliver the...
News - 23 September 2015
Tags: Professional development, South Africa, Public Libraries
- Learning Across Boundaries - Question Responses
At the World Library and Information Congress in Cape Town IFLA's Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and Public Libraries Sections joined together to deliver the...
Publication - 22 September 2015
Tags: Professional development, South Africa, Conference proceedings, Public Libraries
- C&I Section meetings in Cape Town
Classification and Indexing Section Printable version (PDF) Standing Committee Meetings 81st IFLA General Conference and Council Cape Town SC1 - Saturday, 15 August...
News - 5 August 2015
Tags: Classification and indexing, South Africa, Subject Analysis and Access
- Satellite meeting for Reference and Information Service Section in Botswana 2015
The Reference & Information Services Section (RISS) cordially invites you to attend our satellite event at WLIC 2015. Please see our Satellite Meeting website for complete details.
Event - 1 July 2015
Tags: Reference services, Satellite Meeting, South Africa, Reference and Information Services
- Preservation & Conservation Section IFLA 2015 Pre Congress Satellite Meeting
Society without Memory is a society without present or future The Preservation of cultural heritage has multiple dimensions unsuspected and unexpected in the digital...
Event - 28 May 2015
Tags: Cultural heritage, Satellite Meeting, South Africa, Preservation and Conservation
- Registration for Public Libraries Satellite now open!
Registrations are now open for the Satellite to be hosted by the Public Libraries Section in partnership with the City of Cape Town Library Service and the Western Cape Provincial Library Service...
News - 13 May 2015
Tags: Conferences, South Africa, Public Libraries
- LIS Education in Developing Countries Satellite Meeting
Programme See the final programme for details About The LIS Education for Developing Countries Satellite Meeting in Cape Town on 12 August is the 4th event...
Event - 30 April 2015
Tags: Satellite Meeting, South Africa, LIS Education in Developing Countries
- Public Libraries at the Crossroads
Public library services around the world have reached the cross-roads. Collection formats and community needs continue to evolve at a rapid pace. Technology plays a major role providing people...
News - 27 April 2015
Tags: Conferences, Ebooks, eResources, Satellite, South Africa, South Africa, Public Libraries
- Public Libraries Satellite - Call for Proposals
Public library services around the world have reached the cross-roads. Collection formats and community needs continue to evolve at a rapid pace. Technology plays a major role providing people...
News - 3 February 2015
Tags: Library services, South Africa, Public Libraries
- August IFLA Governing Board meetings
IFLA's Governing Board (GB) is responsible for the governance and financial and professional directions of IFLA, and represents the Federation in legal and other formal proceedings....
Event - 27 January 2015
Tags: Governing Board, Meeting, South Africa
- Public Libraries Satellite - Cape Town
Public library services around the world have reached the cross-roads. Collection formats and community needs continue to evolve at a rapid pace. Technology plays a major role providing...
Event - 27 January 2015
Tags: Conferences, Satellite Meeting, South Africa, Public Libraries
- 'Public Libraries at the Cross Roads' - Satellite in Cape Town
The two day workshop Public Libraries at the Crossroads will be held at the Goodwood Community Hall on Thursday 13- Friday 14 August. The Program will have a multi-pronged approach and will...
News - 27 January 2015
Tags: Conferences, South Africa, Public Libraries
- IFLA Reference and Information Services Section Call for Papers - 2015
Reference and Information Services Section Theme: Surprise Yourselves! New Models of Reference and Information Services The Reference and Information Services Section (RISS) invites...
News - 14 January 2015
Tags: Reference services, South Africa, Reference and Information Services
- IFLA Committee on Standards: WLIC 2015 Call for papers
The IFLA Committee on Standards invites papers to be presented at 81st IFLA General Conference and Assembly in Cape Town, South Africa in August 2015. Theme: Impact of standards...
News - 9 January 2015
Tags: IFLA standards, South Africa, Committee on Standards
- IFLA WLIC 2015 Call for Papers – Classification and Indexing Section
The IFLA Classification and Indexing Section has issued a call for papers for the World Library and Information Congress 2015. Successful papers will be presented during an open session in Cape...
News - 17 December 2014
Tags: South Africa, Subject Analysis and Access
- Call for Papers IFLA WLIC 2015: Libraries in Latin America and the Caribbean: agents of social transformation and development
IFLA World Library and Information Congress 81st IFLA General Conference and Assembly 15-21 August 2015, Cape Town, South Africa...
News - 11 December 2014
Tags: Call for Papers, Cape Town, Ciudad del Cabo, Conferences, Congresos, LAC, ponencias, Sección América Latina y el Caribe, South Africa, WLIC 2015, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Cape Town 2015: Call for Papers from Library Buildings and Equipment Section
Español Architecture can open up new perspectives into sites and situations. Library buildings are able to speak to us in their own unique way for experiences that are both private...
News - 8 December 2014
Tags: Library buildings and equipment, South Africa, Library Buildings and Equipment
- IFLA News Media Section: 2015 Pre-Conference in Pretoria, South Africa
Information is a key factor for sustainable development, democratic societies and economic growth. The equitable right and freedom of access to information contained in news should be guaranteed...
Event - 3 December 2014
Tags: IFLA WLIC 2015, Preconference, South Africa, News Media
- IFLA/ekz LIS Student Paper Award for 2015
English | Deutsch | العربية | Español | Português | русский The IFLA Education & Training Section in collaboration with ekz.bibliotheksservice GmbH has the pleasure to...
News - 5 November 2014
Tags: Awards, Education and training, South Africa
- Call for Papers - Learning across boundaries: a workshop
The session will be developed as an Idea Café (Workshop?). Although the planning team is interested in a broad range of concepts, preference will be given to papers that reflect one or more...
News - 22 October 2014
Tags: Communities of practice, South Africa, Public Libraries
- Library Services to Indigenous Populations: Case Studies
Segenat Children and Youth Library, Mekelle, Ethiopia This online book was developed with the following goals: To provide librarians around the world with a reference...
Publication - 31 May 2013
Tags: Africa, Australia, Canada, Case studies, China, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Indigenous peoples, Information professionals, Librarianship, Mexico, Multicultural populations, Pakistan, South Africa, Uganda, United States of America, Publications, Indigenous Matters
- UNISA/IFLA Regional office for Africa Public Lecture Series: “African Librarianship in the 21st Century”
The Executive Director of the UNISA Library Services, Dr Buhle Mbambo-Thata, cordially invites you to the 6th Annual UNISA/IFLA Regional Office for Africa Public Lecture on African Librarianship...
Event - 12 March 2013
Tags: Lecture, South Africa, Africa
- African Library Summit 2013
The aim of the African Library Summit 2013, the second event of its kind hosted by the Unisa Library, the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) Regional...
Event - 5 September 2012
Tags: Conference, South Africa, Africa
- African Public Libraries Summit 2012
Development in the 21st century demands access to information Across Africa, libraries are transforming themselves to serve as platforms for development. To further this, on 19 September,...
Event - 4 September 2012
Tags: Conference, South Africa, Africa
- The World e-Parliament Conference 2010
The World e-Parliament Conference 2010, Midrand, South Africa, 21-22 October 2010 The Global Centre for ICT in Parliament announce the 2010 edition of the World e-Parliament...
Event - 21 September 2010
Tags: Conference, Conferences, South Africa, Library and Research Services for Parliaments
- Continuing professional development: Pathways to leadership in the library and information world (2007)
A volume from the proceedings of the 7th IFLA World Conference on Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning for the Information Professions, held in Johannesburg, South Africa in...
Publication - 29 April 2009
Tags: Leadership in the library and information professions, Learning objectives, Professional development institutes, Programs and activities, Recruitment and evaluation strategies, South Africa, Structure, Satellite Meeting papers/presentations, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning