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We are proud to share a report highlighting just a few examples of the difference that our work with Stichting IFLA Global Libraries is making to colleagues around the world in a new report. You can access this online now, and pick up copies at WLIC 2023 next week in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
IFLA’s current strategy comes to an end next year, and so it is time to start reflecting on how it has worked, and what should follow. This year’s World Library and Information Congress provides an opportunity to start gathering feedback – we’re looking forward to your views!
Candidacies are welcomed for 1 position as co-opted member of IFLA’s incoming Latin America and Caribbean Regional Division Committee. La candidatura es bienvenida para un (1) puesto como miembro cooptado del Comité de la División Regional de América Latina y el Caribe de la IFLA.
Welcome to the June 2023 issue of the IFLA Newsletter, focused on the environment and climate.
Candidacies are welcomed for 1 position as co-opted member of IFLA’s incoming North America Regional Division Committee.
Candidacies are welcomed for up to 10 positions as co-opted members of IFLA’s incoming Middle East and North Africa Regional Division Committee.
Candidacies are welcomed for up to 10 positions as co-opted members of IFLA’s incoming Middle East and North Africa Regional Division Committee.
Candidacies are welcomed for up to 10 positions as co-opted members of IFLA’s incoming Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Division Committee.
Welcome to the May 2023 issue of the IFLA Newsletter, focused on cultural diversity. 21 May is the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, making a clear link between the richness and variety of our cultures, and the success of our societies as a whole.
IFLA is seeking an individual with relevant knowledge and experience for the position of IFLA Parliamentarian.
The April edition of the IFLA Newsletter is now out!
Welcome to the March IFLA Newsletter, focused on regional issues.
Read on to find out more about how different parts of our field are working both with each other, and with external players, for example to promote open access publishing, better metadata, and development as a whole.
We 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.
This 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.
This 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.
As we move towards the end of the year, we’ve not been slowing down at all. This edition, with its special focus on Documentary Heritage, provides just a glimpse of all the great work going on in our Federation to support the future of our field.
Coming after Media and Information Literacy week in late October and the Memory of the World celebration in early November, we highlight the News Media Section as part of this month’s Units + Strategy coverage. News Media has a lot on offer for 2022-2023, so read on to find out more about what this IFLA Professional Section has planned.
Urban October – celebrated throughout the month by UN HABITAT – is an opportunity to highlight contributions, and so urban development is also the theme of this newsletter. In addition to more about libraries and sustainable urban development – including from the Library Map of the World – read on too for more about how libraries are contributing to two other international days marked in October – Evidence Based Healthcare Day, and World Statistics Day.
Sponsored by the IFLA Health and Biosciences Section, the IFLA Evidence for Global and Disaster Health (E4GDH) Special Interest Group works to promote and strengthen the roles that librarians play in times of disaster and in response to global health challenges. In the spirit of partnership, this month IFLA features the IFLA Health and Biosciences (HBS) Section and their partner the IFLA Evidence for Global Disaster and Health (E4GDH) Special Interest Group in the Units + Strategy recognition series, for their collaborative efforts not only with each other, but with several external medical and health-related information organisations. Read about what they’ve been doing and what they’ve got planned for 2022-2023.