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IFLA:

1. Global Representation: IFLA represents library professionals and institutions globally, advocating for their interests.

2. Standards and Guidelines: IFLA develops and promotes standards and guidelines for different areas of library and information services.

3. Professional Development: IFLA supports professional development through conferences, workshops, and training programs.

UNESCO:

1. Policy Development: UNESCO develops policies and strategies to promote the importance of libraries and information services.

2. Advocacy: UNESCO advocates for the role of libraries in fostering education, knowledge sharing, and cultural preservation.

3. Capacity Building: UNESCO supports capacity building initiatives to strengthen library and information services worldwide.

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IFLA has always worked closely with UNESCO and the involvement ranges from the Memory of the World Programme, the Information for All Programme, the World B…

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what is the problem of bibliographic control

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what is the problem of bibliographic control

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how to solve?

1. Standardize your bibliographic data by establishing consistent rules and formats.

2. Implement authority control to ensure accuracy and consistency of names and terms.

3. Use controlled vocabularies to describe resources consistently.

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The national bibliographic agency (NBA) is:

"the organizational unit established within a country's library system, which undertakes responsibility for the preparation of the authoritative and comprehensive bibliographic records for each new publication issued in the country, making the records in accordance with accepted international bibliographic standards and publishing them with the shortest possible delay in a national bibliography, which appears on a regular basis" (International Federation of Library Associations, IFLA International Office for UBC, & UNESCO, 1979)

Discuss one (1) function of NBA either it is main or additional.

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IFLA and UNESCO are two organizations concerned with Bibliographic Control.

Explain the relationship between these organizations in efforts to shape the library and information field.

Attach the link which supports your statement.

Have a very great day ahead!

Thank you!

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NK

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Bridging the Digital Divide: making the world's cultural and scientific heritage accessible to all

The digital divide is an information divide

Bridging the digital divide is a key factor in achieving the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. Access to information resources and the means of communication supports health and education as much as culturaland economic development.

The dissemination of information enables citizens to participate in life-long learning and education. Information about the world's achievements allows everyone to participate constructively in the development of their own social environment.

Equal access to the cultural and scientific heritage of mankind is every person's right and helps promote learning and understanding of the richness and diversity of the world, not only for the present generation, but also for the generations to come.

Libraries have long been essential agents in fostering peace and human values. Libraries now operate digitally, and their digital services open up a new channel to the universe of knowledge and information, connecting cultures across geographical and social boundaries.

Digital libraries

A digital library is an online collection of digital objects, of assured quality, that are created or collected and managed according to internationally accepted principles for collection development and made accessible in a coherent and sustainable manner, supported by services necessary to allow users to retrieve and exploit the resources.

A digital library forms an integral part of the services of a library, applying new technology to provide access to digital collections. Within a digital library collections are created, managed and made accessible in such a way that they are readily and economically available for use by a defined community or set of communities.

A collaborative digital library allows public and research libraries to form a network of digital information in response to the needs of the Information Society. The systems of all partners in a collaborative digital library must be able to interoperate.

A digital library complements digital archives and initiatives for the preservation of information resources.

Mission and Goals

The mission of the digital library is to give direct access to information resources, both digital and non-digital, in a structured and authoritative manner and thus to link information technology, education and culture in contemporary library service. To fulfil this mission the following goals are pursued:

Supporting digitisation, access to and preservation of cultural and scientific heritage.

Providing access for all users to the information resources collected by libraries, while respecting intellectual property rights.

Creating interoperable digital library systems to promote open standards and access.

Supporting the pivotal role of libraries and information services in the promotion of common standards and best practices.

Creating awareness of the urgent need to ensure the permanent accessibility of digital material.

Linking digital libraries to high-speed research and development networks.

Taking advantage of the increasing convergence of communications media and institutional roles to create and disseminate digital content.

Content creation, access and preservation

Building a digital library requires sources of content in digital form, whether digitised or born digital content.

Many countries have created national digitisation programmes, and more will do so, as agreed by the World Summit on the Information Society *. IFLA strongly supports and encourages both national and international digitisation strategies as well as single library and partnership initiatives. Digitisation allows the creation of virtual collections bringing together material across continents. Digitisation also has a preservation role in the case of deteriorating original documents and media.

The products of digitisation themselves must be preserved, just as born-digital material must be preserved. All digital library initiatives must include plans for digital preservation by an appropriate authority.

The digital library serves as an environment to bring together collections, services, and people in support of the full life cycle of creation, dissemination, use and preservation of data, information and knowledge.

Interoperability and sustainability are key to the vision of digital libraries able to communicate with each other. Digital libraries that conform to commonly agreed open standards and protocols improve world-wide knowledge dissemination and access.

Implementing the Manifesto

IFLA encourages national governments, intergovernmental organisations and sponsors to recognise the strategic importance of digital libraries and to actively support their development. Contributions to large-scale digitisation programmes serve to make cultural and scientific information resources more widely available, and advance national and international digital library initiatives that will be sustainable over time.

Specific legislation and financial support from national and local governments is required to bridge the digital divide and to ensure sustainable access. Any long-term strategy must aim to bridge the digital divide and to strengthen the development of education, literacy, culture - and most of all - to provide access to information.

Bridging the digital divide also implies the need for action by the appropriate authorities to incorporate information literacy into education curricula, and to raise awareness that much valuable information from the past is not in digital form.

IFLA encourages libraries to collaborate with other cultural and scientific heritage institutions to provide rich and diverse digital resources that support education and research, tourism and the creative industries.

Consultation with rights owners and other stakeholders is essential. Designers and implementers of digital libraries should consult fully with indigenous communities, whose tangible and intangible cultural heritage it is proposed to digitise, to ensure that their rights and wishes are respected. The implementation of the digital library must also support equity of access to the content by meeting the special needs of people with disabilities.

Authorities should be aware that active planning for digital libraries at any level (national, regional and local) should cover the following issues:

Trained personnel

Adequate buildings and facilities

Integrated planning for libraries and archives

Funding

Target setting

National e-strategies, as recommended by the World Summit on the Information Society **, could establish a firm basis for planning digital libraries.

This manifesto was endorsed by the IFLA Governing Board
December 2010

* World Summit on the Information Society, 2nd phase, Tunis 2005: 'Agenda for the Information Society', paragraph 93.

** See: World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva 2003: Plan of action, Action line C1, paragraph 8; Tunis 2005, 'Agenda for the Information Society', paragraph 90.

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IFLA/UNESCO Manifesto for Digital Libraries

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Bridging the Digital Divide: making the world's cultural and scientific heritage accessible to all Bridging the digital divide is a key factor in achieving the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. Access to information resources and the means of communication supports health and education as much as culturaland economic development.

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What is the problem of bibliographic control? How to solve that problem?

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Thank you! Have a great day ahead.

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NK

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Libraries play a crucial role in providing access to electronic resources, promoting digital literacy, and advocating for open access to information in the digital arena

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What is the library's role in facilitating access to information in a digital arena?

Please attach the picture/link to the services provided by the library (local or international) to help users in accessing information digitally during pandemic.

Above is my example.

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Digital Library Services - Library & Information Science Network

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Digital Library Services: Today we live in a world of instant global communication. Everyone is well known with the technological developments that have come with dazzling rapidity. New techniques for recording and transmitting texts, sound or visual images have proliferated. Digital technology has…