Advocacy Forward Look: Opportunities for Libraries, January-July 2023
31 January 2023We're happy to share a high-level overview of key meetings, events and observances that provide opportunities for libraries to make our voices heard by governments and wider stakeholder groups. Take a look through, and think where you want and could be able to get involved!
IFLA Division C Webinar Series for LIS Students- Sustainable Development Goals in the View of LIS Students
31 January 2023Call for Presentations / Workshops
30 January 2023TILT 2023 Newsletter reminder and information
29 January 2023The Internet in 2023: Key Issues for Libraries
27 January 2023In the latest of our series of looks ahead on different policy areas, we turn to the internet and wider digital world. Given both our own reliance on technology, as well as its impact on the achievement of wider library goals, evolutions in this space are particularly relevant for our own field to consider.
Coming Up in 2023: Libraries addressing the climate emergency
25 January 2023Finding solutions to the climate crisis is not only the task of scientists, engineers, and politicians. This global challenge requires input from all people – from all sectors – to address.
A call for radical hope: IFLA Trend Report Update 2022
25 January 2023We are happy to publish the latest update of the IFLA Trend Report! Co-authored by the emerging leaders who attended our World Library and Information Congress last year, it's full of ideas for how we - as a field and as a federation - can make ourselves ready not just to face, but to make the best of the future.
IFLA Newsletter, January 2023: Innovation 💡
23 January 2023This edition of the IFLA newsletter is focused on our upcoming elections and shares insights from our Professional and Regional Council Chairs, and updates on how the process is being run.
FAIFE: Notes on Human Rights and Freedom of Expression 2022 (and hopes for 2023)
23 January 20232022 brought many challenges for Human Rights and Freedom of Expression. The reports of several NGOs and international organizations offer a global picture of threats to free expression.
Innovations are opportunities
23 January 2023IFLA's Information Technology (IT) Section and IFLA's newest Special Interest Group, the Artificial Intelligence SIG review the latest innovations in libraries. From building design to big data, single sign-on to virtual reality, read IT and AI SIG's overview of the top current innovations along with what is to come.
Applications open for position of IFLA Secretary General
20 January 2023The IFLA Governing Board is pleased to announce the opening of the search for a new Secretary General. The internationally experienced, executive search company Society has been engaged to assist with this process.
New file in the Names of Persons project for Malaysia
19 January 2023The Cataloguing Section’s Names of Persons project webpage has a new file from Malaysia. This file updates the existing 1996 file, capturing all the country’s rich language landscape.
Library and Information Science Student Voices: Global Peer-to-Peer Dialogue Webinar
19 January 2023The IFLA Building Strong Library and Information Science Education Working Group (BSLISE) announces the webinar “Library and Information Science Student Voices: Global Peer-to-Peer Dialogue”. Its aim is to connect library and information science (LIS) students all over the world to communicate and discuss the present and future of the LIS field.
Libraries and Sustainable Development in 2023: Trends and Issues
18 January 2023Sustainable development represents one of the broadest areas of IFLA’s advocacy engagement, covering both specific work around the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and underlying work to build – and demonstrate – libraries’ ability to contribute to a whole range of policy goals.
Now Available: Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section, December 2022 Newsletter
17 January 2023The December 2022 issue of the IFLAPARL Newsletter is now available.
Reminder: Call for Nominations for Academic and Research Libraries Section Travel Grant still open!
14 January 2023The yearly Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Section and Ex Libris and SAGE sponsored call for nominations for travel grant remains open until 6 March 2023.
IFLA Call for Nominations 2023 now open
13 January 2023Today, IFLA opens the nominations process for over 800 positions on its many committees. There are six weeks for candidates to come forward, and for Members and Affiliates to submit nominations for the varied positions available.
AI in Focus: Artificial Intelligence and Libraries – 2nd/3rd March 2023
13 January 2023The IFLA Information Technology Section and IFLA Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group are pleased to invite registration and attendance at our mid-term conference hosted by National Library of Singapore: AI in Focus: Artificial Intelligence and Libraries – 2nd/3rd March 2023.
Recent Highlights from the IFLA Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centres
12 January 2023IFLA’s PAC Centres are hubs of knowledge for documentary heritage preservation and access – hosted in major institutions around the world. PAC Centres take initiative to identify and raise awareness of preservation and conservation issues within the library field. Read on to find out more!