How might the IFLA Trends shape Strategy success?
09 December 2025
A new report from IFLA draws on the insight and experience of our members and volunteers to explore what could shape our ability to achieve the goals set out the pillars of our Strategy 2024-2029. Key messages: the interaction of technological change and capacity building is most prominent, but there’s lots of variation between regions.
This report presents the results of a survey of IFLA’s members and volunteers in order to gather their ideas about where the Trends identified in IFLA’s Trend report may affect work to achieve the goals set out in the IFLA Strategy.
Respondents highlight the impact of technological change on our work to build capacity across the field, both in terms of evolutions in needs, and how we can meet them. Nonetheless, the interactions seen as most significant vary between regions, and each area of IFLA’s work is affected by a different combination of Trends.
This report, crucially, offers a starting point for further thinking about what factors may shape the future of international librarianship – a topic that will be very much in focus as IFLA approaches its centenary.
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IFLA and Trends
This report presents the results of a survey of IFLA’s members and volunteers in order to gather their ideas about where the Trends identified in IFLA’s Trend report may affect work to achieve the goals set out in the IFLA Strategy.
Respondents highlight in particular the impact of technologic...