Digital Libraries Futures

On Tuesday 25 August IFLA’s Professional Committee, together with the Italian Government organized a one day conference on Digital Libraries Futures, user perspectives and institutional strategies. This conference was sponsored by the Italian Athena project and was held in the University of Milan, during the 75 IFLA World Library and Information Congress. Unfortunately, this conference was "only by invitation" so many interested colleagues weren't able to participate. The criteria was that each IFLA group send two members to this conference. For all others, on the following day the IFLA Professional Committee was addressing the same theme by presenting a summary of the previous day. "At the end of the day, the IFLA Professional Committee formulated a vision statement that will be leading for the implementation of the Digital Libraries theme within the IFLA organisation in the coming few years. This vision statement is formulated as follows:
- To employ the fullest potential of digital technology in partnership with users by enabling seamless and open access to all types of information without limits to format or geography, and to enhance the ability of libraries, archives and museums to collaborate among themselves and with others to offer the broadest and most complete service possible.
- This statement includes the main conclusions: a) technology is not enough, b) we need cooperation with users, c) we need international cooperation with cultural institutions and partnership with others (publishers, et al.)".

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"As of now, the IFLA Professional Committee will continue to develop the theme of digital libraries – in all different aspects - within IFLA and within all the international IFLA partnerships."

We would like to conclude these wonderful events considering digital preservation with the news that in the near future the IFLA website will have a special page on the topic of digital libraries, to connect all ongoing and new activities in this broad area within IFLA. We think that it was about time to put more stress on digital libraries and digital preservation (there is no section devoted solely to these fields, for instance), because everybody at IFLA 2009 could witnessed that digitization was one of the dominant topics at the Congress.

You can see more on this, with presentations and summaries from the mentioned conference, at http://www.ifla.org/en/news/digital-library-futures-conference-and-the-future-of-digital-libraries-within-ifla.

18.09.2009. 14:06

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