IFLA/LAC Regional Office

IFLA/LAC REGIONAL OFFICE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Regional Office
(what is it?)
Objectives
How does it operate?
Activities
Clearinghouse
Services and products
Newsletter

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1. The Regional Office (What is it?)

It is the focal point of all IFLA activities in the Region with the responsibility to maintain and disseminate the information generated by it.

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2. Objectives

In accordance with IFLA, which stimulates and promotes research and development in librarianship all over the world, the objectives of the Office in the area of Latin America and the Caribbean are as follow:

to promote and strengthen national and regional associations by encouraging them to join IFLA;
to foment the development of libraries and information service activities;
to increase participation in IFLA Core Programmes.

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3. How does it operate?
The Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean is linked to the Latin America and Caribbean Section of IFLA's Regional Activities Division.
It operates in the area of Latin America and the Caribbean in order to facilitate the work of the Federation in this region.
The Regional Office and the Regional Activities Division work in close cooperation with the IFLA Core Programme for the Advancement of Librarianship (ALP) in order to promote improvements in information services in the developing countries.
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4. Activities of the Regional Office

It operates as a distributor of IFLA's publications;
It publishes and delivers the IFLA/LAC "Newsletter";
It maitains a clearinghouse, with a collection of IFLA documents to be used in the Region, supplying photocopies of such materials;
It identifies, together with the regional section and its members, projects of interest to be developed in the Region and submits them to the ALP Programme;
It divulges the grants, funds and competitions for the Region;
It is represented at the IFLA General Conferences by its Regional Manager.

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5. Clearinghouse
Its function is to collect and organize IFLA's publications in order to:

store and index works;
divulge, stimulate and facilitate access to same by professionals and users of the Region;
supply information about IFLA;
cooperate with other clearinghouses;
maintain data bases of received publications (Micro -Isis).

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6. Services and Products

Listing of IFLA's publications;
IFLA/LAC Newsletter;
Supply of copies;
Distribution of publications.

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7. Newsletter
The Newsletter is published twice a year in June and December by IFLA's Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean. It contains news about IFLA and its Sections, IFLA affiliates and members in the Region, news of interest to the Region and a list of publications received.
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