With a growing generation of people relying on the internet for learning, entertainment and socializing, it's crucial to cultivate their capacity to ask critical questions about how technology impacts their lives, their communities and the planet. But how can educators guide teens to understand and navigate the digital world confidently? “Everywhere, All the Time” is a creative and playful digital literacy intervention, aiming to do just that.
Bringing together governments, UN agencies, experts and civil society representatives, the 7th Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean will focus both on preparing for the 2024 High-Level Political Forum, and exchanging on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals in the region.
While we have been fortunate to be able to put the restrictions associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic behind us, not all is the same as before. IFLA's Regional Council, which brings together representatives of each world region, has produced a new report which looks in particular at how the way governments, communities and libraries themselves saw libraries before the Pandemic and now.
The Open day Session is an in-presence event hosted by BRITANICO Library, the library of the Asociación Cultural Peruano Británica - BRITANICO, one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in Peru, and will be streaming in a Webinar Zoom format to reach a wider audience all over the world.
This open day aim to close libraries and colleagues from the Latin American Region, and to interchange experiences between M&M members and Peruvian librarians regarding to management and marketing practices seeking opportunities for developing and sustainable collaboration.
A key role of IFLA as the international organisation for libraries is to facilitate exchange between colleagues around the world. As part of its 2021-2023 action plan, the Regional Division Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean committed to facilitate 'pasantías' or job-shadowing schemes to allow people to spend time seeing how libraries in different countries in the region work. The results are now in!
Candidates are welcomed for several positions as co-opted members of IFLA’s Social Science Libraries Standing Committee for a term of up to four years.
While digital technologies offer huge possibilities to support sustainable development, realising this potential requires action at all levels, from government to the grassroots. Libraries have a key role to play in this digital governance framework, as was underlined at the ICEGOV 2023 conference in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
IFLA's global reach and geographical diversity will be on show at this year's World Library and Information Congress, in particular through the sessions organised by our Regional Council and Regional Division Committees. Each Committee has worked hard to prepare exciting open sessions, complemented by open business meetings, and our new Hubs Results Session, sharing views from our WLIC 2023 Regional Hubs.
This infographic provides a summary of the revised Guidelines developed by IFLA’s Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section.