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In the February 2025 IFLA newsletter, we answer the question “what is IFLA?” by taking a curated deep dive into our most recent activities, updates, and initiatives, as well highlighting the importance of promoting engagement.
As we look towards our 100th, we’ve started a process to change how anyone with an internet connection can engage with our past in new ways. Looking back helps to position ourselves for possible futures and for this we’ve made some tools and resources visible, and even audible. Dig in!
Por ello, solicitamos artículos breves en español e inglés que aborden los retos a los que se enfrentan las bibliotecas y la profesión bibliotecaria, sobre todo en términos de censura, condiciones de trabajo precarias, servicio a poblaciones marginadas y las luchas por el acceso a recursos y servicios.
IFLA Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section Newsletter, Feburary 2025
IFLA’s Governing Board meets for a virtual session on Friday 21 February, its first meeting of 2025.
IFLA participated actively at United Cities and Local Governments' annual retreat and campus meetings, underlining the importance of knowledge, culture and libraries for delivering inclusive, sustainable development.
Earlier this year, we shared a survey designed to collect your ideas about what makes a successful major anniversary, and what you wanted from IFLA’s own centenary in 2027. We are happy to share the results here.
Faced with an uncertain future, shaped by a variety of different trends, what are the trends we should be developing? The Skills Agenda for the Trend Report, prepared by emerging leaders from around the world, offers insights.
With information integrity now recognised by the UN as a key policy priority, librarians from across Asia and Oceania met in Brisbane to reaffirm their commitment to this goal, and explore how best to achieve it.
Libraries played a prominent role at the International Conference on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, held in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, from 3-6 February. Discussions highlighted the need the voice and experience of Africans – and the librarians who support them – to be better reflected in the way copyright works.