Be a part of it! IFLA nominations and elections 2025
26 September 2024
It’s coming. A chance to boost your career and help shape the future of global librarianship!
Every two years, IFLA holds its nominations and elections process, providing new opportunities to engage and contribute. In 2025, we invite you to join us – with openings across 50+ committees and groups, including the election of a new Governing Board.
IFLA’s volunteer-led committees are the spaces and structures where international librarianship comes to life. Experience are exchanged, ideas explored, and solutions developed together within these groups and volunteers hold the unique power to find solutions to the common challenges faced by libraries and other information organisations. Volunteering with IFLA can help accelerate and spread innovation far beyond our committees and groups.
An exciting time to lead
Volunteers starting their roles in August 2025 face an exciting opportunity: implementing our new Strategy and guiding IFLA into its centenary in 2027. This is a pivotal moment in our history, and by volunteering you can be at the forefront of driving the future of global librarianship!
To make this process even more accessible, this year we’re introducing a pre-nominations phase, ensuring that great candidates who may not have a nominator can still be part of this. This process begins on 14 October; look out for more details in the coming weeks.
Volunteering benefits everyone
IFLA volunteer committees are at the heart of international librarianship.
By volunteering, you unlock the unique power of collaboration – stronger connection to global conversations, a network of peers who share ideas and inspiration, and the opportunity to highlight national and local experience on the world stage.
No matter where you are in your career – whether you’re a new professional, a seasoned librarian, or anywhere in between – and regardless of where you are based, we believe everyone with a passion for libraries, knowledge sharing and community impact belongs in an IFLA role.
Engagement in IFLA means a stronger connection to global conversations, a network of peers who can share ideas and inspiration, and the opportunity to highlight national and local experience on the world stage.
So this is an opportunity to step up, and to be rewarded. By nominating a colleague or yourself, you create pathways for personal and professional growth, while bringing new energy, ideas, and leadership to the global library community, as well as your home institution and library association. We count on you!
Looking ahead
We can’t wait to share more details about the exciting nominations and elections process ahead. As you start considering who to nominate or which leadership roles you’ll step up for, make sure to mark these key dates in your calendar – this is your chance to help shape the future of global librarianship!
| 2024 | |
| 14 October | Opening of the pre-nominations phase for Section Standing Committee members, Regional Division Committee members, Review Group members, and Advisory Committee members. If you’re interested in standing for a role, but aren’t sure that you can find a nominator, you can put your name forwards here. NOTE: no-one is obliged to stand at this point – it is also possible to come forwards as a candidate during the formal nominations phase. |
| 29 November | Pre-nominations close |
| 2025 | |
| 13 January | Nominations phase opens for the following:
Candidates who have not participated in the pre-nominations phase in 2024, can submit their nominations if they have a nominator to support them. Nominators can either identify their own nominees or consult the list of candidates from pre-nomination and decide if they want to select someone to nominate We also welcome self-nominations for roles on Special Interest Group committees. |
| 24 February | Nominations phase closes |
| 17 March | Elections open for President-elect, Treasurer, Governing Board members Section Standing Committee members and Regional Division Committee members, where there are more candidates than available places. |
| 14 April | Elections close |
| 5 May | Results announced. Those roles which are appointed (Advisory Committee members and chairs, Review Group members, Special Interest Group members) should also be announced around this time. |
| 9 June | Call for Nominations for Officer positions of Section Standing Committees, Regional Division Committees, Review Groups and Convenors of the Special Interest Groups and Advisory Groups |
| 20 June | Deadline nominations for Officer positions |
| 25 June | Elections open for committee Officer positions |
| 9 July | Officer Elections close |
| 14 July | Results of the Officer elections announced |
Note: IFLA has hired Mi-Voice to manage its Nominations and Elections in 2024 and 2025. Throughout this process, potential candidates, current volunteers on our committees and IFLA Members and Affiliates will be engaging with Mi-Voice.
Questions? Contact us at [email protected].
Watch the Elections news feed for updates!