Conferences and Workshops

IFLA Conference Programmes

• 2022, Dublin: Integrating Open Access Content into the Collection: Challenges and Opportunities
• 2021, Online: Power of Transformations – Open Access and Library Collections
• 2019, Athens: Digital Scholarship and Collection Development: Crossroads and Intersections
• 2018, Kuala Lumpur: Being Guided by our Users: Using Assessment to Build User-Focused Collections
• 2017, Wroclaw: Networks of Digital Collections and Digital Libraries and How They Present New Opportunities for Local Collection Development and Management
• 2016, Columbus: Shedding Light on the Reverse Side of Acquisitions – Using Deselection to Build Stronger Collections
• 2015, Cape Town: Libraries as Publishers: Toward a New Role in Collection Development
• 2014, Lyon: Open Access Converging on Collection Development
• 2013, Singapore: Collaboration in collections: Libraries, Users and Information Providers
• 2012, Helsinki: Treating print in an increasing digital collection: issues, dilemmas and directions: papers
• 2011, San Juan: Developing Collections in Hard Financial Times
• 2010, Gothenburg: Opening Doors to Spectacular Collections: Access to Multi-sensory, Multimedia, and Mobile Materials
• 2009, Milan: An e-book kaleidoscope: multiples perspectives on libraries’ experiences with e-books
• 2008, Québec: In and out (of copyright): Contrasting perspectives on digitization of library collections
• 2007, Durban: Collection description models – next generation initiatives
• 2006, Seoul: Evolving Business models for hybrid collections (with the Section on Serials and Other Continuing Resources)
• 2005, Oslo: Electronic Resources – different approaches for end-users
• 2004, Buenos Aires: Collections for literacy and development: focus on Latin America
• 2003, Berlin: Gifts, Book Donations and Collection Development
• 2002, Glasgow:  Literacy – the human dimension in life long learning: an international perspective
• 2001, Boston: Electronic Collections: Evaluating their ongoing Need and Utility for Library Users
• 2000, Jerusalem: Models for Acquiring Electronic Resources (with the Section on Serial Publications)
• 1999, Bangkok: The Role of Partnership Arrangements and Exchanges in Libraries
• 1998, Amsterdam: Collection Development Issues in Building the Digital Library
• 1997, Copenhagen: Working Together to Build Library Collections: The Economic Framework
• 1996, Beijing: The Changing Economics of Acquisitions

IFLA Conference Workshops

• 2013, Tijuana: International seminar on global trends in acquisitioon and collection development in academic and public libraries
• 2003, Berlin: Recent Developments on Co-operative Collection Development
• 2002, Glasgow: Evaluating Electronic Resources
• 2001, Boston: Exchange of Publications and Projections for its Future
• 2000, Jerusalem: Collection Development in the Digital Age: Organizational Challenges
• 1998, Amsterdam: New Collections: New Marketplace Relationships
• 1997, Copenhagen: The New Economics of Publishing (with the Section on Serial Publications and the UAP Core Programme) and Licensing Electronic Content for Libraries: The New Regime? (with the Section on Management and Marketing and the Publishers Liaison Committee)
• 1996, Beijing: Recent and new Developments in STM Publishing and Information Dissemination: Overview and Outlook for Librarians and Information Specialists (with STM Publishing)

IFLA Conference Satellite Meetingss

• 2012, Kuopio: Global policies, Imperatives and Solutions for the Efficient Library Collection Management and Access to Less Used Documents(co-sponsored)
• 2011, St. Thomas: Maximising collection development of electronic and print media in the digital environment
• 2008, Boston: Rethinking Access to Information: Evolving perspectives on information content and delivery (co-sponsored)
• 2006, Seoul: Resource Sharing, Reference and Collection Development in a Digital Age – a practical approach (co-sponsored)
• 2003, Munich: Is digital different? New trends and challenges in acquisition and collection development (co-sponsored)

Standing Committee mid-term meetings

• 2010, Moscow: Seminar on Collection Development
• 2009, Beijing: Workshop on the Digital Collection Development and Sharing
• 2008, Guadalajara: Taller de desarollo de colecciones
• 2007, Granada: Aproximación a los recursos electrónicos en las bibliotecas: la situación en Andalucía
• 2006, Paris
• 2005, Bologna: Current issues in collection development: Italian and global perspectives

Sponsored events

• 2009, Kuopio: The Universal Repository Library ad guarantees for the sustainability of the digital copy
• 2005, Helsinki: Seminar on Collection Description [papers]
• 2004, Kuopio: 2nd International Conference on Repository Libraries