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The June 2025 Issue of the IFLA ENSULIB Newsletter now available online

Libraries and the Information Society: Takeaways from the WSIS 2025 Forum

At the forum, IFLA organized a joint session with the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and participated in two UNESCO led sessions. The IFLA-UPU session highlighted the important role that intermediaries like libraries and post offices play in facilitating access to information and digital services for underserved communities and the millions that remain offline. In a similar way the UNESCO sessions focused on harnessing the power of digital public goods and on providing library related recommendations for the WSIS Action Line C3 on Access to Information and Knowledge.

IFLA Standards Newsletter, volume 3, issue 1 (July 2025) is published

New IFLA ARL Blog post: “What it’s like to be an IFLAddict”

Defending Inclusive Knowledge Societies

A new statement from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions highlights the varied and parallel threats to the efforts of libraries to ensure that everyone can engage in, and benefit from, access to knowledge. 

Shortlisted applicants for IFLA/Baker & Taylor Public Library of the Year Award 2025

The "Public Library of the Year" award is presented by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) with the aim of honouring new public libraries. Baker & Taylor is proud main sponsor of the award.

On the agenda: IFLA Governing Board extraordinary meeting, 9 July

IFLA’s Governing Board will be holding an extraordinary meeting on 9 July 2025, in order to agree on the financial statements that will be presented to members at our General Assembly on 20 August 2025. 

Feedback on the 5th IFLA Symposium on AI - South Africa

IFLA Information Literacy Section Satellite Meeting – Website Now Live & Registration Open

IFLA Sub-Saharan African Regional Division (IFLA SSA RDC), June 2025 Newsletter

Provide feedback on the IFLA AMN Accessibility Metadata Statement and Principles

CoS at WLIC 2025: Sessions about IFLA Standards

IFLA President's Message - June 2025

The below message was shared from 30 June 2025 with IFLA members and volunteers in IFLA's official languages. 

Speakers and presentations WLIC 2025 ACD Open Session

Now available: IFLA ARL Newsletter issue #14

IFLA Newsletter, June 2025: Innovating through digital access

In this month's edition of the IFLA newsletter, we unpack topics related to innovating through digital access

Standards in the Open: Making IFLA Standards Work on the Web

The IFLA Namespaces site is our central platform for publishing IFLA standards as linked data was launched in 2020. This initiative supports the broader goal of making bibliographic standards more usable, discoverable, and machine-readable—key pillars of digital access. By structuring standards as linked data, we enable libraries, developers, and metadata professionals to integrate them directly into cataloguing tools, discovery systems, and research workflows.

Out Now: June 2025 issue of IFLA Journal

National Libraries support digital access

RSCVD: Digital access through resource sharing

RSCVD, an initiative by the IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section, aims to promote international resource sharing to ensure access to high-quality scientific literature. By leveraging ILL-DD library services, RSCVD depends on the expertise and dedication of volunteer librarians to provide access to hard-to-obtain documents.