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The June 2024 issue of the IFLA Journal delves into the multifaceted roles of libraries in navigating contemporary global challenges. This issue underscores the diversity of library practices worldwide, highlighting their pivotal role as catalysts for knowledge, technology, and social resilience in the face of global challenges.
IFLA President Vicki McDonald and Secretary-General Sharon Memis joined the President and Executive Director of Qatar National Library formally to open IFLA's Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa.
The below message was sent out individually to IFLA Members and volunteers on 13 December by IFLA President Vicki McDonald.
Call: 2024 IFLA PressReader International Marketing Award
The first ever IFLA Guidelines for Libraries Supporting Displaced Persons grew from a chapter inside the IFLA Guidelines for library services to people who experience homelessness published by the IFLA Equitable and Accessible Library Services Section (EALS), formerly LSN, in 2017. Read more about this 2024 publication.
IFLA’s New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) is an open global network for new library and information professionals, paraprofessionals, LIS students and supporters. Read more about this group, which aims to positively impact the experience of new professionals as they enter the field.
IFLA welcomes UNESCO's decision to designate Morocco as World Book Capital 2026. With a strong national library and wider library sector, there are strong possibilities for the year to support engagement in reading and creativity.
One of the IFLA Statistics and Evaluation Section goals for this year was to host professional development sessions on evaluation and impact. Beginning in June, we conducted a Focus on Impact series.
IFLA Management of Library Associations Section is pleased to announce the following webinars to be presented during the period between March to July 2025. We will announce each event separately, but for now keep these themes in mind to join us: IFLA MLAS Advocacy-Impact Evaluation Project; IFLA Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group: opportunities to collaborate; MLAS Building Strong Library Associations Initiative: Financial Sustainability. Stay tuned!
LRMoo is newly available in the IFLA repository. It is a conceptual model that expresses the IFLA Library Reference Model (IFLA LRM) in an object-oriented modeling framework. Its approval by the Professional Council in April 2024 marked the conclusion of a project launched by the Bibliographic Conceptual Models Review Group (BCM RG) in 2017, shortly after the publication of IFLA LRM. LRMoo is a high-level, compact model that is tightly aligned with IFLA LRM and reflects its decisions about scope and granularity.
The first stage of IFLA’s nominations and elections process is complete – our pre-nominations phase. This has achieved its original goal of providing an opportunity for a more diverse range of candidates to engage.
Myanmar Library Association (MLA) in collaboration with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), hosted a comprehensive three-day workshop on “Measurement, Evaluation, and Demonstrating Impact of Library Services”. This took place with community and public librarians, as well as university librarians in Yangon Myanmar. The workshop was held from 6-8 December, 2024 with financial support provided by the Stichting IFLA Global Libraries (SIGL).
We are grateful to the Dutch library community for putting on a great event at the impressive LocHal public library in Tilburg, crossing perspectives from Dutch actors and thinkers with the experience of the IFLA Governing Board.
We're happy to share the recording of our recent course on developing impactful learning materials, as well as the associated worksheet. We're grateful to Lisa Hinchliffe for producing this material. This work is made possible by the financial support of Stichting IFLA Global Libraries.
IFLA's Governing Board meets in person in The Hague this week for three full days of meetings, as well as engagement with the Dutch library community. We're happy to share below the key points on the agenda.