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Webinar Registration Open: The Iraqi Manuscripts: Their Reality, Institutions, and Challenges
26 March 2024Webinar Registration Open: The Role of Networks in Cultural Heritage Preservation - the Case of MoHO
26 March 2024Influencing impact: IFLA Trend Report Update 2023 explores what shapes libraries' ability to shape development
26 March 2024The 2023 edition of the IFLA Trend Report highlights both potential blockers to libraries' impact on sustainable development, why it matters to find solutions, and what we can practically do to overcome them!
MLAS Conference in two months in Kazakhstan!
21 March 2024Message from the IFLA President, 21 March 2024
21 March 2024While we don’t have a meeting of our Governing Board this month, I nonetheless wanted to write to you to highlight a couple of key areas of work and upcoming opportunities for you in the coming weeks.
IFLA Newsletter, March 2024: the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Issue
21 March 2024Welcome to the March 2024 edition of our newsletter, focused this month on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)!
The World Through Picture Books (3rd edition) is launched and ready-to-use!
20 March 2024IFLA’s Libraries for Children & Young Adults (C&YA) Section is delighted to be launching the 3rd edition of The World Through Picture Books catalogue, which is an amazing resource developed by librarians for librarians.
Equity, Inclusion and Metadata
20 March 2024This month, the IFLA Newsletter focuses on diversity, equity, and inclusion. It seems a good moment to explain why six IFLA committees are sponsoring a proposal to create an IFLA network dedicated to the topic of accessibility metadata.
A spotlight on multicultural populations and issues of interest
20 March 2024Located in California, within the United States, San José State University (SJSU) School of Information has been highly involved with diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice initiatives. We have recently held some unique events that spotlight multicultural populations:
IFLA’s MCULTP Section: Contributions towards DEI initiatives
20 March 2024The IFLA MCULTP (Library Services to Multicultural Populations) section is one of the few IFLA sections whose mandate is directly aligned with DEI. While Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is experienced and practiced in differently across the globe, many common grounds exist that can provide a foundation and basis for concerted efforts amongst LIS professionals internationally.
Metropolitan Libraries: A view to inclusion and representation
20 March 2024As the IFLA section that explores the role of libraries within urban areas, the Metropolitan Libraries (METLIB) Section focuses on how libraries can be agents of urban development and catalysts of civic engagement. The world is a collection of disparate faiths, origins, identities, backgrounds, and beliefs. While every country and region may have ones that are culturally dominant, it is in the largest cities that you often encounter the broadest spectrum of humanity.
Library Impact Ontario: Bridging the Digital Divide
19 March 2024Inclusive subject terms are critical for equitable access to library materials
19 March 2024Subject metadata forms a critical access point in bibliographic and other information systems, providing access through search terms and browsing or filtering through subject links. Typically, libraries use standardized knowledge organization systems to provide better access to information resources. However, many of these standardized systems are problematic because they include outdated, harmful, exclusionary, or critical terms may not be present at all in thesauri or vocabularies. Problematic terms can negatively impact library users of all kinds. There is an increasing recognition of the need for more equitable and inclusive language subject metadata. The Subject Analysis and Access Section (SAA) has taken up several initiatives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion regarding subject access.
International organisations for authors, publishers, booksellers and libraries call for key freedoms to be respected
18 March 2024In recognition of the increasing efforts to restrict books, those who write them, publish them or make them available to readers, five organisations representing authors, publishers, booksellers and libraries worldwide have issued a joint statement.