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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.
The webinar presentations covered both the experience of using discovery tools in library practice and promising developments of commercial companies and non-profit organizations in the area.
The December 2024 IFLA Asia and Oceania Regional Division Newsletter includes editorials from the Chair of the Asia-Oceania Regional Division Committee, the Manager of the Regional Office for Asia and Oceania, and news from IFLA, the region and beyond. This covers work in Australia, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Philippines, and Sri Lanka.
On November 28, 2024, IFLA's Europe Regional Division Committee, together with the Management of Library Associations Section (MLAS), in collaboration with the New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) and the Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group (WILSIG) hosted a webinar on the internationalization of Library Association's work. Webinar's recording is available.
The summit exposed me to the future evolution of libraries and information services and spurred my enthusiasm to be a part of this exciting transformation.