Content tagged IFLA Strategy

​ ​​ ​It is safe to say that 2020 was not what any of us expected, many having overcome great difficulties. 2021 is a time to look forward and put our planned goals for the year...

News - 22 January 2021

Tags: IFLA Professional Units, IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, WeAreIFLA

​ ​​ ​2020 will be remembered as a year of challenges and hardship for libraries and their users, but also of resilience and innovation. Now, having already stepped into 2021, more...

News - 12 January 2021

Tags: IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, WeAreIFLA

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Closely aligned to the IFLA Key Initiative 3.4...

News - 22 December 2020

Tags: IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, Iraq, WeAreIFLA

IFLA Professional Unit 2021 Action Plans have been developed and posted to Unit webpages.  The Units’ 2021 focus areas, planned outputs and timelines, aligned to the IFLA Strategy,...

News - 18 December 2020

Tags: IFLA Professional Units, IFLA Strategy, Professional Units

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Closely aligned to the IFLA Key Initiative 3.1 “Provide...

News - 10 December 2020

Tags: IFLA Professional Units, IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, WeAreIFLA, Education and Training

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Closely aligned to the IFLA Key Initiative 1.1 “...

News - 3 December 2020

Tags: Costa Rica, IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, WeAreIFLA

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Closely aligned to the IFLA Key Initiative 3.3 “Empower the field at the national and regional...

News - 25 November 2020

Tags: Academic and Research Libraries, IFLA Professional Units, IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, WeAreIFLA

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Inspired by the IFLA Strategy, the IFLA Latin America and the...

News - 19 November 2020

Tags: IFLA Professional Units, IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, WeAreIFLA, Latin America and the Caribbean

​ ​ ​ Resilience is defined as the ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The IFLA Strategy...

News - 11 November 2020

Tags: Guyana, IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, WeAreIFLA

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ IFLA’s Library Buildings and Equipment Section (LBES) has embarked on a new initiative designed to showcase...

News - 3 November 2020

Tags: IFLA Professional Units, IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, WeAreIFLA, Library Buildings and Equipment

​ ​ To coincide with the Fiji 50th Independence Anniversary celebrations and in support of the IFLA 2019-2024 Strategy, in October 2020, the Fiji Library Association (FLA...

News - 27 October 2020

Tags: Fiji, IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, WeAreIFLA

​ ​ ​ ​World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day, marked during Health Literacy Month, is an opportunity to highlight the impact of poor health literacy, which seriously hampers...

News - 20 October 2020

Tags: IFLA Professional Units, IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, WeAreIFLA, Health and Biosciences Libraries

​ ​ It is time to defend and promote libraries as places of affective listening, in order to receive a society marked by significant losses. This is how Adriana...

News - 6 October 2020

Tags: Brazil, IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, WeAreIFLA

​Through resources, activities, and spaces for discussion, IFLA offers you ways to get involved in international librarianship.  Explore the 10 ways YOU can do this!...

News - 23 September 2020

Tags: #IFLAFromHome, #WeAreIFLA, IFLA from Home, IFLA Strategy

​ Perfectly aligned with the IFLA’s Strategy Key Initiative 3.2, the IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) is proving its significance every single day...

News - 16 September 2020

Tags: IFLA Professional Units, IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, WeAreIFLA, New Professionals

​ ​ Networking and partnerships are what the IFLA Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section (IFLAPARL) is about. Their collaborative spirit and work aligned to...

News - 4 September 2020

Tags: IFLA Professional Units, IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, WeAreIFLA, Library and Research Services for Parliaments

IFLA’s Strategy is already one year old! A lot has happened over these first twelve months, both for IFLA and the world as a whole. Since the first presentation at the...

News - 2 September 2020

Tags: IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, WeAreIFLA

The National Association of Information Managers in Paraguay (APGI), was founded in 2017. Its primary objectives of strengthening librarians and libraries are in line with the IFLA...

News - 28 August 2020

Tags: IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, Paraguay, WeAreIFLA

  How has IFLA’s Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group (ENSULIB) engaged with the IFLA Strategy? By writing an open access book that will...

News - 7 August 2020

Tags: IFLA Professional Units, IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, Library Buildings and Equipment, WeAreIFLA, Environment, Sustainability and Libraries

​ IFLA is organising a series of regional workshops on Strategies for Stronger Libraries in order to bring the IFLA Strategy to libraries worldwide. A key focus is on using the...

News - 6 August 2020

Tags: IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, Suriname, WeAreIFLA

  IFLA’s Document Delivery and Resource-Sharing Professional Unit (IFLA DDRS) has launched a new service to support the sharing of...

News - 24 July 2020

Tags: IFLA Professional Units, IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, WeAreIFLA, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing

​ ​ ​ ​ In this video we discussed the IFLA Strategy with Nick Poole, the CEO of CILIP – the Library and Information Association, in the United...

News - 16 July 2020

Tags: IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, WeAreIFLA

​ The goal of the IFLA Section on Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning is to develop effective continuing professional development opportunities for...

News - 8 July 2020

Tags: IFLA Professional Units, IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, WeAreIFLA, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning

Thanks to the continued efforts of IFLA’s Language Centres, Regional Offices, and volunteer networks, IFLA’s Governance Review Draft Proposal, released in English on 19 June, is being...

News - 3 July 2020

Tags: Announcement, General assembly, Governance, IFLA Strategy, membership

At the moment that the IFLA Strategy was launched at the World Library and Information Congress in Athens, Greece almost no-one could have imagined the world we live in today. The...

News - 2 July 2020

Tags: IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, WeAreIFLA

​ IFLA Members and volunteers around the world are invited to share their views on the first draft of our governance review proposals through our survey by 14 July. Your input will shape...

News - 22 June 2020

Tags: Announcement, General assembly, Governance, IFLA Strategy, membership

​ 20 June is World Refugee Day, designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe. This year’s theme is ‘Every Action Counts...

News - 19 June 2020

Tags: IFLA Professional Units, IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, refugees, WeAreIFLA, World Refugee Day, Library Services to People with Special Needs

​ Following almost a year of discussions involving IFLA’s Governing Board, members and volunteers, this document sets out a draft proposal for a new governance structure as the...

News - 19 June 2020

Tags: Announcement, General assembly, Governance, IFLA Strategy, membership

​ IFLA’s five-year Strategy 2019-2024 was built on the Global Vision discussion - the largest and most inclusive conversation ever in the history of our field. With...

News - 18 June 2020

Tags: IFLA Professional Units, IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, WeAreIFLA

You can now represent the global library field in your online meetings using our 'We Are IFLA' virtual background! It is a great way to strengthen our voices as a global field, in...

Publication - 12 June 2020

Tags: #WeAreIFLA, IFLA Strategy, Posters

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Last February we spotted the great action being taken by the Library Association of Latvia (LAL) in order to make the IFLA Strategy a...

News - 3 June 2020

Tags: IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, Latvia, WeAreIFLA

​ IFLA’s members have offered overwhelming support via a consultative ballot to changes to the way that our Federation takes major decisions. At IFLA’s 2020 General Assembly,...

News - 19 May 2020

Tags: Announcement, General assembly, Governance, IFLA Strategy, membership

The COVID-19 Pandemic has seen so much energy and inventiveness from libraries as they work to continue to fulfil their missions. In line with our Strategy, IFLA in turn is working hard to support...

News - 12 May 2020

Tags: #IFLAFromHome, IFLA Strategy

​ IFLA is working hard to become a more inclusive organisation. Ahead of key decisions about our structures, we are contacting our Members to seek views on a change to our Statutes that...

News - 11 March 2020

Tags: Announcement, Governance, IFLA Strategy

Work to update IFLA's structures in order to deliver on our Strategy and our wider goal to be a more inclusive, effective organisation is continuing. IFLA Secretary General Gerald Leitner has...

News - 2 March 2020

Tags: Announcement, Governance, IFLA Strategy

Six months ago today, IFLA launched its new Strategy 2019-2024. Under the vision of a strong and united library field powering literate, informed and participatory societies,it provides both a...

News - 26 February 2020

Tags: IFLA Strategy, Latvia

The American Library Association’s Midwinter conference takes place this year on 24-28 January in Philadelphia. It features a varied programme of business meetings, talks and...

Event - 19 January 2020

Tags: American Library Association, Conference, IFLA Strategy, IFLA WLIC 2020, Library associations, United States of America

IFLA’s Strategy 2019-2024 is driving efforts to create an inspired, engaged, enabled and connected library field. Success will depend on libraries and library associations being ready to...

News - 8 January 2020

Tags: Associations, IFLA Strategy, International cooperation, Members, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Interview, Management of Library Associations

​ Drawing on contributions from a survey of members and consultations with Professional Units, IFLA’s Governing Board made important progress towards updating IFLA’s...

News - 16 December 2019

Tags: Announcement, Governance, IFLA Strategy

​ ​​​With IFLA’s Strategy for 2019-24 in place, now is the time to ensure that we have the right structures, as an organisation, to deliver on our vision and mission. IFLA’s...

News - 29 November 2019

Tags: Announcement, Global Vision, Governance, IFLA Strategy

​ ​ With its new Strategy, IFLA not only has a new guiding star for the work of our professional units and headquarters team, but also a reference point for the field as a...

News - 14 November 2019

Tags: Egypt, Global Vision, IFLA Strategy, MENA, Press Release

​   Without a strong commitment to multilingualism underpinning our core work, IFLA would not be able to bridge the cultural differences across the library community...

News - 4 November 2019

Tags: Announcement, IFLA Strategy, Multilingualism

  IFLA’s Governance review is officially underway and we already have an impressive and encouraging response. Let’s have a look at the first steps aimed at...

News - 29 October 2019

Tags: Announcement, IFLA Strategy

IFLA's Professional Units are major actors when it comes to inspiring and enhancing professional practice. With their new 2019-2020 Action Plans, the Professional Units will help...

News - 24 October 2019

Tags: Announcement, IFLA Strategy

Engagement by the global library field has been key to the development of the IFLA Strategy 2019-2024.  Continued and expanded contributions from the global library field will be key...

News - 30 September 2019

Tags: Announcement, IFLA Strategy

​ ​ ​ ​ The temperature in Athens stayed hot all throughout a packed week of learning, reflection, discussion and inspiration as IFLA’s World Library...

News - 30 August 2019

Tags: From the Annual Conference, Greece, IFLA Strategy, IFLA WLIC 2019, IFLA WLIC 2020, IFLA WLIC 2021

​ IFLA Strategy 2019-2024 from IFLA on Vimeo. Over the past two and a half years, IFLA has been undergoing a transformation. Today a crucial moment of this...

News - 26 August 2019

Tags: From the Annual Conference, Greece, IFLA Strategy, IFLA WLIC 2019

​ ​ ​ IFLA Strategy 2019-2024 from IFLA on Vimeo. على مدى العامين والنصف الماضيين، كانت تمر الإفلا بعملية تحول. واليوم تأتى لحظة حاسمة...

News - 26 August 2019

Tags: From the Annual Conference, Greece, IFLA Strategy, IFLA WLIC 2019

​ ​ IFLA Strategy 2019-2024 from IFLA on Vimeo. 在过去两年半的时间里，国际图联经历了一次转型。今天，伴随着《国际图联2019-2024战略报告》的发布，这场转型迎来了重要时刻。全球图书馆界的参与对于这份报告的制定至关重要，同时各方不断做出更大贡献，...

News - 26 August 2019

Tags: From the Annual Conference, Greece, IFLA Strategy, IFLA WLIC 2019

​ IFLA Strategy 2019-2024 from IFLA on Vimeo. Последние два с половиной года ИФЛА претерпевает трансформацию. Сегодня, с запуском стратегии ИФЛА на...

News - 26 August 2019

Tags: From the Annual Conference, Greece, IFLA Strategy, IFLA WLIC 2019

​ IFLA Strategy 2019-2024 from IFLA on Vimeo. In den letzten zweieinhalb Jahren hat die IFLA sich gewandelt. Der heutige Start der IFLA-Strategy 2019...

News - 26 August 2019

Tags: From the Annual Conference, Greece, IFLA Strategy, IFLA WLIC 2019

​       ​ IFLA Strategy 2019-2024 from IFLA on Vimeo. Depuis deux ans et demi, l’IFLA s’...

News - 26 August 2019

Tags: From the Annual Conference, Greece, IFLA Strategy, IFLA WLIC 2019

​ ​ IFLA Strategy 2019-2024 from IFLA on Vimeo. Durante los últimos dos años y medio, la IFLA ha emprendido una transformaci...

News - 26 August 2019

Tags: From the Annual Conference, Greece, IFLA Strategy, IFLA WLIC 2019