New IFLA Strategy: Now is the time to inspire, engage, enable and connect the global library field
26 June 2019With our collective experience, ideas and vision, we have created a roadmap for the future – the IFLA Strategy.
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IFLA Metropolitan Libraries Short Film Award 2019. The winner is...
26 June 2019Why these Finnish libraries are the best in the world - Espoo, Finland
IFLA live streams highlights of the World Library and Information Congress 2019
26 June 2019This year’s IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) will again be live streamed. With an even larger offer than in previous years, you will be able to access 11 key sessions from our diverse and world-class programme.
PAC Centres developing new capacity building efforts
26 June 2019IFLA’s Preservation and Conservation Centres play a valuable role in IFLA’s work to safeguard cultural heritage. By bringing together experience and expertise from all over the globe, they form a powerful network. The PAC Centres are currently working to strengthen the collaboration further, to the benefit of the whole global library field.
Join the Movement: IFLA Shares Plans, Invites Engagement in Delivering the Global Vision at ALA Annual
25 June 2019IFLA’s President Glòria Pérez-Salmerón and Secretary General Gerald Leitner are participating in the 2019 American Library Association Annual Conference, held in Washington DC.
IFLA at EuroDIG 2019
25 June 2019The 2019 edition of the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) took place in The Hague from 19-21 June. This year, IFLA was involved in organising a panel on the European Copyright Reform, and attended a number of sessions and workshops to see how the latest developments in the sphere of internet policies can affect the library field.
WLIC 2019, Session 153: #marketinggenius - Beg, Borrow, or Steal Great Ideas from Around the World
19 June 2019Join us for presentations by IFLA PressReader International Marketing Award Winners 2019 and a keynote speech by Bonnie Mager from Invercargill City Libraries and Archives, New Zealand.
2019 IFLAPARL Pre-Conference
19 June 2019Registration for the 2019 IFLAPARL pre-conference at the Hellenic Parliament, Athens, has now closed.
European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market: what it is about and why libraries should care
18 June 2019On 17 May 2019, after several years of discussion, the European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market was published in the official journal of the European Union. It enters into force on 20 June 2019, which marks the beginning of a two-year period for member states to change their laws in order to meet the objectives of the directive.
IFLA 2019 Athens: Library History SIG Business Meeting and Library History Papers
17 June 2019For those of you coming to Athens, please join us at the Library History SIG business meeting and open session
Out Now: June 2019 issue of IFLA Journal
13 June 2019View the complete issue online
IFLA Satellite Meeting in Piraeus 2019: Registration Now Open
10 June 2019The IFLA section “Statistics and Evaluation” and the University of Piraeus Library are pleased to invite you to register to the Satellite meeting with the theme: "More Than Numbers: Implementing New Assessment Methods for Libraries" they organize at the University of Piraeus, on 22-23rd of August 2019.
IFLA Green Library Award 2019 Winners Announced
9 June 2019IFLA’s Environmental Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group (ENSULIB) is pleased to announce the winner of the IFLA Green Library Award 2019.
WLIC 2019, Session 259: Library Love Stories
7 June 2019This session will explore the ways that libraries can tap into ideas of love and passion as a way of celebrating libraries, to representations and reinterpretations of traditional love stories, to managing relationships whilst maintaining professional conduct, and more!
First Steps Towards Strategies for Stronger Libraries in Latin America and the Caribbean
4 June 2019Library representatives from 28 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean came together on 24 May in Buenos Aires for the first step in a new phase in IFLA’s work to build a stronger and more united library field.
Placing Libraries at the Heart of Connectivity Strategies
4 June 2019IFLA has submitted comments on two sets of plans to boost internet access in Africa, underlining the importance of including libraries. By doing this, governments not only support affordable internet access, but open up possibilities to develop digital skills and give people a safe place to get online.
Ethics checklist for discussion in Athens
3 June 2019The draft ethics checklists, which will be discussed at the IFLAPARL pre-conference in Athens, are available on the Ethics Project web page.
Updates to the National Bibliographic Register
2 June 2019Profiles updated for Colombia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Sweden