The Membership Recruitment Toolkit
This toolkit provides you with comprehensive information and statistics about IFLA membership. With this knowledge, you will be well equipped to plan your strategies as far as membership recruitment and development is concerned. IFLA invites you to actively start recruiting new members. There are many ways to approach this task and this toolkit will support you in your endeavour.
So plan your strategy and start recruiting now!
Starter Kit
Help is at hand. Refer to the following recruitment tips to get you started
- We advise you to start looking OUTSIDE the current membership base. Otherwise you are competing with other sections; a member cancelling one section registration to join another just creates administrative work.
- Try targeting potential members in countries where there are only a few or no IFLA members.
- Aim to attract different library and information services institutions and associations.
- Pick your target. Institutions and associations are the categories with nomination and voting rights - they have the ability to determine the make-up of standing committees and they play an influential role in defining what's on the agenda as far as libraries and information services are concerned worldwide.
- Why don't you add Membership development to your section's strategic plan? After all a large and diverse membership base on which to draw is vital to the success of your organisation.
The TOOLS
The following documents are necessary tools, providing you with all the information and statistics that you need to know about IFLA's current membership.
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Members per section
So you can start planning your recruitment strategy, refer to this table for the current number of IFLA members per section.
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Members per region per section
To focus on increasing members in a particular region, you can use this table to see how many IFLA members there are per region for each of our sections.
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Membership categories with related benefits and fees
To help you with your recruitment efforts, consult this document for a comprehensive overview of all the different membership categories and their related benefits and fees.
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Countries with IFLA members
IFLA has extensive global reach. This document provides a list of all countries with IFLA members.
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Countries without IFLA members
Despite IFLA's extensive international reach, there are some countries where there are no IFLA members. Look at the following information to find out which countries these are and set yourself the challenge of recruiting members from them. Play an important role in supporting IFLA's aim to be the global voice of the library and information services profession.
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The BENEFITS: Why should we join IFLA?
To answer this question, as the recruiter, you need to be aware of all the benefits of IFLA memberships. To make things easier we have stated some of the tangible and intangible benefits of IFLA membership.
Tangible benefits include:
- Free subscription to the IFLA Journal - respected professional Journal with articles on various aspects of library and information services (LIS) as well as other news items of general interest.
- Free copy of the IFLA Directory: the essential guide to who is who and what is what within IFLA; it includes IFLA Statutes, contact information for all professional groups, etc.
- Free registration in 2 professional Sections. There are 45 to choose from, covering nearly every type of library and every activity related to the LIS profession. Furthermore members located in one of the 3 regions - Africa, Asia & Oceania, Latin America & the Caribbean - also receive free registration in the appropriate Regional Section.
- Discounts on purchase of publications, including the IFLA publication series and IFLA Professional Reports.
- Discounts for representatives of institutions and every member of IFLA Associations to attend the annual World Library & Information Congress.
Intangible benefits include:
- Voting rights to determine the management of IFLA and the strategic directions of the Federation.
- Nomination and voting rights to influence the composition of the Governing Board and the Section Standing Committees.
- Support for IFLA to represent the entire LIS profession on the world stage at events ranging from WTO and WIPO to UNESCO and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) - the more members we have, the stronger our claim to speak on behalf of the profession world-wide.
- Solidarity with colleagues from around the world - knowing that you are part of a collective effort to promote and enhance the LIS profession.
- Support for the professional and societal work of the Federation - your membership fees enable the Sections and Core Activities to carry out vital work on a range of issues: compiling guidelines, issuing statements in support of free access to information, representing libraries' interests with respect to copyright and trade issues, etc.
- Enhancing your network of colleagues and your professional development.
Your STORIES - the most powerful advocacy tool
There are no supporting documents or downloads here. We encourage you to personalise your own unique IFLA experience. Be sure to tell your own stories. We simply ask you to master the art of storytelling and to demonstrate how IFLA has positively impacted YOU.
Your stories are the most powerful tool of this toolkit.
Contact
IFLA Headquarters
Cynthia Mouanda
Membership Manager
P.O. Box 95312
2509 CH The Hague, Netherlands
Fax: +31-70-3834827
E-mail:
membership@ifla.org
