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Minutes of Meeting: Information Literacy Section, 12 September 2023
No full textMinutes of business meeting with Information Literacy section' members held virtually the 12th of september 2023 following the WLIC 2023
Minutes of Meeting: Management of Library Associations Section, Monday, 13 January, 2025
No full textThe first MLAS Standing Committee Members Meeting for the year 2025 was held on 13 January 2025 via Zoom. MLAS held an IFLA Elections 2025 Orientation for MLAS Members. before the MLAS SC meeting. The orientation was chaired by Loida, MLAS Chair and Ms. Helen Mandl, from the IFLA HQ gave a presentation on IFLA Elections 2025 which was launched on 13 January 2025. After the orientation, MLAS Standing Committee Members Meeting was held. Among the matters discussed include the following: IFLA Governing Board Meeting which was held on the 9th to 11th December 2024 in-person at the Hague, The Netherlands; IFLA WLIC Steering Committee Draft Report in which Loida, MLAS Chair and Loy Jyoon, MLAS Secretary are in the Steering Committee; MLAS Mid-Term which will be hosted by the German Library Association and chair by Loida, will be held in Berlin, Germany from the 3rd- 4th February 2025; MLAS Webinar Series 2025 (March-July 2025) which include IFLA MLAS Advocacy-Impact Evaluation Project, MLAS Building Strong Library Association Initiative: Financial Sustainability; IFLA Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group : opportunities to collaborate; IFLA WLIC 2025, 18-22 August 2025 Astana, Kazakhstan; MLAS priorities for 2023-2024 and MLAS Webinar "How to Internationalize the Work in Library Associations" in collaboration with IFLA Europe Regional Division
Learning to lead: a scan of global library field practice
No full textLeadership in libraries and related fields plays a crucial role in creating an innovative and productive environment. It affects the operational effectiveness of libraries and their capacity to adjust, develop, and meet the changing needs of their communities. A major focus for IFLA is ensuring that emerging leaders have opportunities to gain experience and recognition. As a result, IFLA is keen to provide its members with a reference document that outlines the types of leadership programmes available, highlighting their commonalities, differences, and evidence of impacts where possible. The Learning to Lead: A Scan of Global Library Field Practice is the firstof-its-kind IFLA publication, aiming to provide a representative and comprehensive overview of leadership programmes run by library associations, libraries, museums, archives, and related organisations. It identifies their objectives, methods, and impact data, as well as key features and commonalities. It also aims to support library associations and libraries in their own decision-making about leadership programmes, and enable IFLA to make strategic decisions regarding its future leadership initiatives
Minutes of meeting: Professional Council 14 November 2024
No full textMinutes from the 14 November 2024 meeting of the IFLA Professional Counci
Estonian electronic legal deposit: changing legislation for new formats like AI and making e-Legal Deposit more accessible
No full textThe National Library of Estonia is dedicated to safeguarding the nation's cultural heritage, especially in the context of digital transformation. With the rise of digital media, it is crucial to reassess legal deposit principles, workflows, and e-solutions to ensure they align with modern technological advancements. Since 1997, the National Library has been actively involved in archiving Estonian online publications. Legislative updates in 2006 and 2016 expanded the scope to include digital publications and output-ready files, making Estonia a pioneer in this field. The creation of the Publisher Portal in 2017 further streamlined the submission and management of legal deposits. As AI-generated content and digital formats proliferate, the Library faces new challenges in maintaining the relevance of its services and ensuring the preservation of national cultural heritage. Collaboration with publishers and adapting to technological changes remain essential. The Library aims to unify its digital archives by 2025 and is exploring how to make digital legal deposits more accessible for research. As the digital landscape evolves, it is imperative to revisit and possibly amend the legal deposit laws to better reflect the realities of the digital age.
Note about the author:
Kairi Felt serves as the Head of Collection Development Department at the National Library of Estonia. On national level, she chairs the countrywide Preservation Copy Council and E-Lending Council. She also represents Estonia in the e-book working group of the NAPLE (National Authorities on Public Libraries in Europe) Forum. Furthermore, she is engaged in the professional development of librarians, being responsible for the Collection Development Module as part of the national training programme for Estonian librarians. She is a member of the Estonian Librarians' Association
Understanding Library Field Structures
No full textThe International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), as part of its partnership with Stichting IFLA Global Libraries, wishes to develop the potential for libraries of all kinds to contribute to systematic changes across a wide range of policy goals. To do so, libraries in a particular country or region need to act together in a library field.
This project aimed to test out the concept and its potential application by discovering realworld examples where library fields have formed the basis of public benefit projects. To do so, David Baker Consulting (DBC) set out to identify the key factors which make for successful library engagement. We believe that the range and seniority of the voices heard as part of our research, together with the extensive desk research and the interactive workshops give a high degree of confidence in our findings. It is hoped that this report will enable the use of library fields as a central concept in future development of libraries
UNIMARC Bibliographic Format Manual Online Edition
No full textThe UNIMARC bibliographic format is the backbone of a set of standards for the representation and exchange of different library data records: bibliographic, authorities, classification and holdings. Where applicable references are made to these formats but no details are given. For that, users of the bibliographic format are referred to the documentation for those formats. The UNIMARC Bibliographic format is designed to be a carrier for bibliographic information. It covers monographs, continuing resources, cartographic resources, music, sound recordings, graphics, projection and video materials, rare books and archival resources and electronic resources. This Manual is both a definitive statement of the bibliographic format and a guide to its use
UNIMARC Authorities Format Manual Online Edition
No full textThe first version of the online edition of the UNIMARC Authorities Format Manual was published in 2023, replacing previous editions. It includes changes agreed upon by the UNIMARC Permanent Committee (PUC) from 2010 to 2023. This edition also includes corrections in the text and examples, a reorganisation of the appendices and a new manual structure (tables of subfields, occurrence, repeatability, history paragraphs). The new UNIMARC Authorities Format documentation is an online integrated resource intended to be a permanently complete documentation and usually updated once a yea
Quarterly Meeting Minutes for Libraries for Children & Young Adults
No full textQuarterly Meeting Minutes for professional section E - Libraries for Children and Young Adults, 26 April, 202
The British National Bibliography Experience in the Share Family Linked Open Data Environment
No full textThis case study presents the experience of the British Library with a renovated approach to the curation of the BNB - British National Bibliography, supported by the Share Family Linked Data Ecosystem technology.
The Linked Open Data BNB was launched in 2011, nevertheless the potential of linked data was not fully expressed with that implementation. As the technology matured, the British Library joined the Share Family to take BNB forward.
Working with colleagues from other institutions on Share Family working groups, British Library staff contribute to the development of the underlying data structures and the presentation of data. This collaborative approach has enabled delivery of the British National Bibliography as the first institutional tenant of the Share Family National Bibliographies Portal. BNB data is enriched with URIs and has been remodelled and clustered to make it more compatible with current data models and standards, including the IFLA Library Reference Model, RDA: Resource Description and Access, and Bibframe. This environment offers the potential for aggregating and searching multiple national bibliographies on a single platform, while offering a range of outputs including:
- data publication by different means (SPARQL interface, data dumps, API endpoint, end user discovery portal);
- data enrichment with URIs from several sources;
- regular data updates;
- collaborative environment for data curation.
The BNB is available to explore in Beta: https://bl.natbib-lod.org.
This study addresses similar use cases where libraries need to transition to linked data national bibliographies. By adopting the vision that the Share Family of initiatives relies upon, institutions curating national bibliographies can extend the visibility of their data, contribute to the creation of a collective, global catalogue of national bibliographies, and share their experience and their own datasets in a network of institutions of varying nature and vocation, while maintaining their specificity, their autonomy and their role.
Note about the authors:
Thurstan Young is the British Library's Collection Metadata Standards Manager
Anna Lionetti is R&D Assistant and facilitator for research and development projects at Casalini Libr