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Registration Now Open: 38th Pre-Conference of the Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section of IFLA

Webinar recap: Digital Badges and Micro-credentials

Recording available: Northeast Asian libraries on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

As part of its SDG webinar series organized by the IFLA Asia-Oceania Regional Division Committee, this webinar focused on the best practices by Northeast Asian libraries and librarians to support the UN SDGs. Through this program, IFLA Regional Division Committee for Asia and Oceania aims to inspire and encourage colleagues within the region to advance their efforts to bring the UN SDGs to fruition.

Grabación disponible: Historias de voluntarios regionales de la IFLA en LAC: por qué es importante participar

Un grupo de los voluntarios regionales de IFLA, provenientes de diferentes países de América Latina y el Caribe, que integran las Unidades Profesionales de esta Federación, hablaron sobre su trabajo, y por qué su compromiso con IFLA y las Unidades Profesionales de IFLA es importante para la región.

Recording available: Stories from regional IFLA volunteers in LAC: why engagement matters

A number of IFLA’s regional volunteers on IFLA’s Professional Units who are from different countries in Latin America and the Caribbean talked about their work, and why their engagement with IFLA and IFLA’s Professional Units matters for the region.

Recording available: The strategic role of government libraries in providing evidence to support the preparation of Voluntary National Reviews in Asia-Oceania

IFLA's Asia-Oceania Regional Division delivered a regional webinar on “the strategic role of government libraries in providing evidence to support the preparation of Voluntary National Reviews”, as a side-event at this year’s Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) organised by the office on United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific – UN ESCAP in Bangkok.

IFLA joins UNESCO Greening Education Partnership, stresses role of libraries within schools and communities

Following the UN’s Transforming Education Summit in September 2022, the UNESCO Section for Education for Sustainable Development has launched a global, multistakeholder partnership to coordinate efforts to get every learner climate ready.

IFLA Elections 2023: Update on Sections and Professional Divisions

IFLA is happy to announce the results of the runoff elections among Professional Unit Sections that resulted in a tie following the April elections and the allocation of Professional Division Chairs to their Divisions for 2023-2025

Now available: IFLA ARL Newsletter issue # 6

Registration Now Open: 38th Pre-Conference of the Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section of IFLA

The IFLAPARL Standing Committee is pleased to announce registration is now open for our Pre-Conference, to be held in The Hague, on 17-18 August 2023.

IFLA Newsletter, May 2023: The cultural diversity issue

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.  

Czech Libraries Assist Ukrainian Refugees

The Czech Republic, with its population of over 10.5 million and its more than 5,000 libraries, is often considered a country with the densest library network in the world. Not long after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 the country has become a temporary home for nearly half a million refugees (mostly women, children and the elderly). Czech libraries have reacted very quickly to the influx and began providing support for incoming refugees.

IFLA Regional Offices 2024-26: Call for applications

IFLA is welcoming bids from institutions willing to host IFLA Regional Offices for Asia-Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa for a 3 year term, from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2026. Deadline for applications: 17 July 2023.

Letter from the President: Welcoming IFLA’s new Secretary General, Sharon Memis

As President of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, I am honoured and proud to announce the IFLA Governing Board’s unanimous decision to appoint Sharon Memis as the new IFLA Secretary General.

View Online – IFLA ENSULIB Webinar Series: Șirna Public Library from Romania

The recording is available via YouTube  and the slides/resources are available on SlideShare.

Empowering individuals to drive national, regional and global development: Libraries at the LAC SDG Forum

Libraries had a strong presence at the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development, through engagement in sessions, direct contact with delegates, and a side-event focused on how libraries empower people to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. 

IFLA ARL Section 2023 Travel Grant Winners now announced!

We are delighted to announce that our travel grant awarding process is now completed.

Now available: IFLA Principles for Responding to Conflict

Complimenting the existing Principles of Engagement around disasters (both natural and human-made), the just released IFLA Principles for Responding to Conflict aim to set out a basis for determining how IFLA should react to situations of civil or military conflict, in any part of the world, which impact on libraries.

It’s getting hot in here! Information Professionals Contributing to Open Science towards Climate Empowerment

This IFLA satellite meeting will shine a light on the contributions to Open Science from library and information professionals in different sectors and geographies. We will come up with practical ideas on what more can be done by our profession, through our communities of practice, professional associations and local communities, to advance Open Science towards climate empowerment.

Now available: UPDATES 2022 for UNIMARC, 3rd. ed.

All updates to the UNIMARC Bibliographic and Authorities formats, 3rd ed., approved in 2022 are available online (in PDF format).