For this year's International Literacy Day, we asked the members of IFLA's Literacy and Reading Section Standing Committee for their views on the day's theme - transforming literacy learning spaces.
The Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, Russia, host of one of IFLA's Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centres, is hosting the V Interdisciplinary Scientific and Practical Conference: "Rare Books in Terms of Preservation".
IFLA President Barbara Lison will participate in the “Library in the City" Round Table to be held in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
IFLA President Barbara Lison will provide words of congratulation at the official re-opening Mayakovsky Library St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
The first UNESCO-IFAP conference on ‘Tangible and Intangible Impacts of Information and Communications in the Digital Age’ took place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia on 3-8 June 2018. The meeting took a long-term perspective on the implications of digital transformation on the way we learn, share and communicate. IFLA offered words of welcome, underlining the contribution libraries could make to such debates.
Libraries today are faced with trends that can both pose a threat and promise an opportunity. Globalisation and digitisation are unstoppable and are being felt around the world. Yet this shared situation underlines the value for libraries of working together to achieve our vision. This message came out clearly from a seminar held on 20 April in Moscow, with the participation of IFLA President Glòria Pérez-Salmerón.