IFLA’s Local History and Genealogy Section is pleased to welcome six new colleagues to our Standing Committee. These members were recently elected in the latest round of IFLA elections. The following members are listed below with a link to their candidacy statements, so that you can get to… Read More
In 2020, the Slavic Reference Service (SRS), a part of International and Area Studies Library at the University of Illinois, in partnership with the National Libraries Section developed an online webinar series to feature national libraries around the world. The series is aimed to be enriching for researchers and librarians… Read More
Deal all, IFLA Academic & Research Libraries (ARL) Section is happy to announce the final programme for the pre-congress Satellite conference held at and organized with Erasmus University Library on 18-19 August in Rotterdam: “Inclusiveness through Openness”. Please browse the rich panel of issues that will be… Read More
IFLA has taken a leading role in organizing the 4th Civil Society Forum on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Read More
Slides from the International Advocacy Programme training course 2016… Read More
Diese vierte Ausgabe der IFLA-Richtlinien für Gefängnisbibliotheken bietet ein Instrument für die Planung, Umsetzung und Auswertung von Bibliotheksdiensten für Gefangene in allen Arten von Haftanstalten, einschließlich Erwachsenen- und Jugendgefängnissen. Sie dient als Musterleitfaden für die Entwicklung nationaler Richtlinien für Gefängnisbibliotheken und kann an die örtlichen Gegebenheiten und Bedürfnisse angepasst werden. Read More
The programme of our “Hot Topics” session at IFLA WLIC in Rotterdam … “From Gutenberg to ChatGPT: Will AI change the mission of academic and research libraries”? Tuesday, August 22 at 10:15am-11:15am … is now ready. Here below is a message from our team member Lorraine Haricombe,… Read More
The competition for IFLA Green Library Award was tight, and the quality of the submissions seems to get better year after year. It is also a joy to note that libraries are taking seriously environmental work and wish to promote the UN SDGs. The Award committee received 28… Read More
IFLA's Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Section latest blog post was kindly contributed by our colleague Jim O'Donnell, who coordinates the Section's Satellite Meeting that will he hosted by Erasmus University next 18-19 August in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Read More