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This is the report of the International Federation of Libraries Associations and Institutions (IFLA) 2017-2019 President’s Program. It is the narrative of the presidential program based on the Ideas Map inspired by an exhaustive analysis of how IFLA is developing in accordance with its strategic plan 2016- 2021. The activities that IFLA has recently started are focused on this new approach, taking advantage of the opportunity of transformation that has been provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Libraries Legacy. I also discuss the needs that I have identified and I consider necessary to fulfil the expectations defined in my presidential theme: Libraries: motors of change.

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This review reflects on the activities carried out during 2014 by four professional associations on Library and Information Science: IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions), Eblida (European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations), Liber (Association of European Research Libraries) and Fesabid (Spanish Federation of Archive, Library, Documentation and Museum Societies). Regarding the situation in Spain, the author regrets the current fragmentation into small local associations, despite the existence of a federation (Fesabid), because this weakens the Spanish professional community as a whole.

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ESTA OBRA PUBLICADA BAJO el patrocinio de la IFLA, en particular de la Management and Marketing Section, recoge las experiencias en marketing bibliotecario desarrolladas en diferentes partes del mundo. El libro representa la tercera publicación centrada en este tema. El primer volumen fue editado bajo el título Adapting marketing to libraries in a changing and world-wide environment en 2000, al año siguiente se publicó la obra Education and research for marketing and quality management in libraries.

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For the first time, Spain has a deontological standard for all professionals in Library and Information Science, with the adoption in 2013 of a professional ethics code by SEDIC and FESABID. This is in addition to a similar document adopted by IFLA, which wasthe first international text for professionals in libraries and information services. Both initiatives help to strengthen collective identity and social prestige, also reflecting its dependence on the institutions that employ them. Finally, the codes can also be interpreted as responses to threats of “economicism” and misfeasance of technology.

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The position of libraries as society’s guarantors of thefreedom of access to knowledge persists despite barriers to lending digital content, to the collection of digital content in order to preserve it from the “digital black hole” and to the development of digital collections in libraries. The evidence of the lack of minimum international legal standards in a digital environment and in our library sector has raised concerns over the global legal framework that is needed to facilitate the use of digital content in a way that is balanced for both libraries and copyright. The article includes a brief introduction about initiatives by library associations such as IFLA, working together with WIPO to boost TLIB, an international treaty on exceptions and limitations to copyright for libraries, and the EBLIDA campaign, ‘The Right to e-Read’.