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Management & Marketing Section joins the Coaching Initiative

During IFLA WLIC 2018 in Kuala Lumpur, the IFLA Section CPDWL hosted an open ses-sion with career and professional development coaching for the individual. The set up was a drop-in session where the participants could choose between a variety of coaching areas, i.e. Lifelong learning, IFLA structure and organisation, Professional reorientation, General management skills, Leadership or Health management. All WLIC delegates were welcome to join the coaching session, and 79 participants attended the programme.

IFLA/UNESCO Multicultural Library Manifesto Toolkit now updated

New English and Chinese versions are now available.

IFLA MetLib Conference 2019 in Helsinki – Call for proposals

Call for Papers: Satellite Meeting on Grey Literature - 23 August 2019

New IFLA Publication: Library Design for the 21st Century—Collaborative Strategies to Ensure Success

Just off the press in the IFLA Publications Series…

Call for papers WLIC 2019 - The IFLA Audiovisual and Multimedia Section, joined by the IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section and the Strategic Programme on Preservation and Conservation (PAC)

Theme "It's good to preserve, it's even better to share: Sound and visual cultural heritage in local communities"

REMINDER: Calls for Nominations for Section Standing Committees, GB & President-elect, CLM, FAIFE, and Standards Committees, ISBD and BCM Review Groups

IFLA invites nominations for candidates to serve as President-elect and Members of the Governing Board, on Standing Committees, the Committee on Standards, the CLM and FAIFE Advisory Committees and on the ISBD and BCM Review Groups

Free webinar: Library services for teenagers in the digital age

Don't miss our webinar discussion on how to support teenagers in your library (Thursday, 10 January 2019)

The call for papers for our exciting Open Session at WLIC 2019 in Athens is now open - 15 February Deadline!

Books for Better Societies: Call for World Book Capital 2021 Candidates Open

UNESCO has opened the call for candidates for the city which will be World Book Capital (WBC) for a year from 23 April 2021. IFLA encourages cities which are realising the potential of libraries to apply.

Presentations from our session in Kuala Lumpur

Power point presentations from Kuala Lumpur.

Out Now: December 2018 issue of IFLA Journal

View the complete issue online

IFLAPARL Call for Presentations, WLIC 2019, Athens

The Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section is pleased to invite proposals for short, engaging and inspiring presentations for its open session at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) in Athens, August 2019.

Call for paper for 2019 WLIC now launched: “Digital Scholarship and Collection Development: Crossroads and Intersections”

The Acquisition and Collection Development Section is seeking proposals for papers to be presented at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Athens, Greece, from August 24-30, 2019. This open program is co-sponsored by the IFLA’s Digital Humanities – Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group. At various points of the Digital Scholarship process, libraries are involved in this work in ways that are specific to their parent institution. In particular, library collections have been increasingly supporting the advancement and progressive expansion of Digital Scholarship during the last decade. Digital scholars work in academic departments, institutional centers and labs, or independently. In many cases, their work may be with large corpora of digital texts, digital images, audiovisual materials, raw data sets, geospatial data, born-digital materials and other types of digital content curated by libraries: content that is either already part of existing library collections or that is proactively acquired by libraries for specific digital scholarship projects.

Call for papers: Libraries, archives and museums in dialogue: Improving access to complementary collections

Don’t Stop Half Way: IFLA Submits Input to 2018 Review of WSIS Progress

IFLA has answered the UN’s call for contributions on progress towards WSIS Action Lines and Targets. This process makes connecting all libraries to the internet a key priority. IFLA’s response highlights welcome recognition of the potential of libraries, but also worrying legal trends.

IFLA, EIFL Congratulate Thailand on Copyright Reforms for People with Print Disabilities

IFLA and EIFL have addressed a letter of congratulation to the Prime Minister of Thailand, following the passage of legislation that will bring the country into line with the Marrakesh Treaty.

ENSULIB stood Runner-up in the IFLA Dynamic Unit and Impact Award 2018 competition

ENSULIB stood Runner-up in the IFLA Dynamic Unit and Impact Award 2018 competition

New publication

From Vision to Action: Towards the IFLA Strategic Plan 2019-2024

IFLA is on a journey. Through the IFLA Global Vision, the library field has come together and started a worldwide conversation about how we can create the future, together.