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IFLA has published a new statement on the role of library and information services in improving the way societies are governed, both through optimal decision-making within government, and effective scrutiny and engagement by parliaments and wider populations.
This call offers additional opportunities for short reports from the field to represent the breadth of issues of concern for the diverse, global audience of IFLA Journal. Corrected Submission Deadline: 28.02.2021 For the details, please read; IFLA Journal Special Issue on storage 2nd call [doc]
With the lines that follow we would like to memorialize Viviana Quiñones, our dear and outstanding colleague in the IFLA section 'Libraries for Children and Young Adults'. After more than two years of illness, she died on 16 December 2020.
In this article, IFLA celebrates the work of the Iraqi Association for Information, Libraries and Documentation Specialists and their engagement with the IFLA Strategy.
IFLA is looking for two qualified Data and Outreach Administrative Assistants
Win €3,000 towards purchasing new technology for your library organisation! The IFLA Section on Management and Marketing is partnering with PressReader in collaboration with the IFLA PressReader International Library Marketing Award for 2021.
Your ideas, thoughts and contributions are changing the way we work. What we’ve learnt is that you are open to innovation and new experiences with high expectations for IFLA’s events as a place to bring the library field together.
Libraries have traditionally seen themselves as places open to all members of the community, creating opportunities for everyone. However, being welcoming is as much a question of what you do proactively. We interviewed the Sub-Committee on Serving Refugees, Immigrants, and Displaced Persons of the ALA, to find out about their work.
The following are some highlights from the week of Governing Board meetings that have just taken place over the past week and a half. These provided an opportunity to look back over a year of both surprises and successes. 2020 has seen IFLA and the global library field demonstrate our ability to adapt, innovate and continue to provide great service, in spite of the challenges of COVID.
To mark Human Rights Day 2020, IFLA has opened a survey seeking views on intellectual freedom developments in recent years, their impact on libraries, and potential revisions to IFLA’s Statement on the subject.
In this article, IFLA celebrates the work of the IFLA SET Section and their engagement with the IFLA Strategy.
We present to you the November 2020 issue of our IFLA Asia and Oceania Regional Quarterly Newsletter.
IFLA's new research into digital skills strategies highlights examples of where governments have recognised the role of libraries in helping people become more competent, confident internet users. It provides examples to use in advocacy for library inclusion in such policy documents.