IFLA100: your ideas sought!

With IFLA’s centenary year now only two years away, we are keen to learn what, for you, makes for a great anniversary. Share your experiences, from the library field and beyond, via our survey. New deadline: 9 February 2025. 

On 30 September 2027, IFLA will turn 100 – a major anniversary for any organisation. This is already a reference point in our work and communication, something that is only likely to grow in the coming months and years.

Such events offer a great opportunity both for looking backwards and forwards, but also for taking initiatives that may not be possible at other times. Yet such initiatives also often take planning, and so need to be prepared some time in advance.

Of course, there are already significant projects underway, led by dedicated members of our community, which will make a powerful contribution to setting out the richness of our Federation’s history. IFLA’s Headquarters team have regularly provided access to our archives to researchers looking to tell our story.

But in order to bring all of this work together, and to allow the Governing Board a strong evidence base for determining how we can make the most of the opportunity our centenary offers, it is time to seek your views.

Our new survey aims both to draw on your experience of major anniversaries elsewhere – both for libraries and library associations, and for other organisations from which we can learn useful lessons. We also want to start to understand what priorities our community has for our own centenary.

The survey is open until 9 February 2025 (new date), and its results will feed into a short analytical paper which will be published, and shared with the Governing Board.

Results now available – see our news story for more!