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The IFLA Repository was established to collect and disseminate works by the global IFLA community. Here you can explore IFLA Standards, key publications, core documents and much more. Items in the repository are integrated with our main website, IFLA.org, as “Resources” and displayed in a separate Resources page of the website, as well as in relevant unit or topic pages.
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Recent Submissions
ECPRD: European Centre for Parliamentary Research and Documentation Activities in 2023-24
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-06-02) Kelemen, Ida
IFLAPARL 2024 Annual Conference (Madrid, 17-18 October), Day Two, Fourth session: Regional and Associations’ updates.
Slides presentation of the services provided and the activities organised by the European Centre for Parliamentary Research and Documentation in 2023-2024 (requests answered, seminars organised, action plan).
Presentation authored by Ida Kelemen, PhD (Head of Parliamentary Research Service, Hungarian National Assembly, and ECPRD Representative).
Presented on the site by Alexandra Holle, PhD (Deputy Head of the Information Service for MPs, Information Service for MPs, Hungarian National Assembly).
Minutes of Meeting: Permanent UNIMARC Committee, 18 March 2025
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-03-18) Permanent UNIMARC Committee (PUC)
The PUC Business Meeting took place on 18 March 2025 during the IFLA Advisory Committee on Standards Symposium in Athens (hybrid format). Discussions focused on maintaining and updating the UNIMARC formats and manuals, dissemination strategies, and ongoing harmonization projects with ISBDM and IFLA Namespaces. Progress in 2024 was reviewed, including proposals, manual versions, and user engagement. Strategic planning for the "Future of UNIMARC" project was initiated, aiming at a roadmap and position paper on the evolution of UNIMARC within entity-based cataloguing.
Minutes of Meeting: Permanent UNIMARC Committee, 3-5 June 2024
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-06-03) Permanent UNIMARC Committee (PUC)
The 34th Annual Meeting of the Permanent UNIMARC Committee (PUC) was held online from 3–5 June and on 11 July 2024. Discussions included updates to the UNIMARC/A and UNIMARC/B manuals, harmonization with ISBDM, proposals for new fields and subfields, and the future of the UNIMARC format. Several proposals were approved, while others were postponed for future meetings. The planning of the upcoming UNIMARC Users Meeting was also addressed, and volunteers were invited to contribute to editorial and harmonization efforts.
Presentation of the Platform for Content Management of data and documents of the Parliamentary Research Documentation Service of the National Assembly of Togo
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-05-29) Sanguia, Dadjama Koffi; Dahoe, Amega; Biyante-Afeto, Sahani Aniyame
IFLAPARL 2024 Annual Conference (Madrid, 17-18 October), Day Two, Third session.
In the perspective of digitizing the activities of the Parliamentary Research Documentation Service of the Togolese National Assembly, a computer solution called YULCOM has been implemented. The presentation is about the technical and functional characteristics of the content management system for data and documents of the Parliamentary Research Documentation Service of the National Assembly of Togo (slides presentation).
Sanguia, Dadjama Koffi: Head of the Studies and Research, Section in the Division of Documentation and Archive of the National Assembly of Togo.
Dahoe, Amega: Chief of Documentation Section in the Division of Documentation and Archive of the National Assembly of Togo.
Biyante-Afeto, Sahani Aniyame: Chief of the Archive Section, Division of Documentation and Archive of the National Assembly of Togo.
Library survey: User survey by the Bundestag Library in 2024
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-05-29) Piel, Mario
IFLAPARL 2024 Annual Conference (Madrid, 17-18 October), Day Two, Third session.
Slides presentation of the Library Survey conducted by the Bundestag Library in Germany, in order to evaluate the consequences of the after-Covid 19 era to the library services and the users' behaviour. The presentation provides the questions, the methodology, the aims of the survey and the steps taken after its results to improve library services.
Mario Piel: Head of Reference Section, German Bundestag