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Responding - Public Libraries and Refugees

As we have watched the refugee crisis unfold in Europe we have been flooded with examples of how public libraries have responded in practical and heartfelt ways.

Save the Date! Last session of the 2015 webinar series “New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations” to be held on October 26th!

Public Libraries 'Guest Blogger' series

The first of the Public Libraries Section's 'Guest Blogger' posts appears on the PLS blog today, this time by Public Libraries Standing Committee member, Torbjörn Nilsson who writes about the "reading Holiday' initiative in Sweden.

#next4billion – IFLA’s roundup of the United Nations Summit for the 2030 Agenda

The United Nations (UN) hosted the Summit for the adoption of the 2030 Agenda at the end of September in New York. IFLA has been actively involved in the process of creating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the last years and has advocated for access to information, culture, access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and universal literacy, all of which can be found in the 2030 Agenda, throughout this time.

Call for Papers: IFLA Journal special issue on Research Data Services

Peer review submission deadline: 16 May 2016

Now available: October 2015 issue of IFLA Journal

View the complete issue online

Now available: BSLA Learning Materials for Workshops (School Libraries focus)

Attendance grant winners' reports from 2015 Congress

Read about the experience of attending the IFLA Congress from our attendance grant winners

Preparing a new edition of Guidelines for Children's Library Services

The IFLA Children and Young Adults Section is revising the Guidelines for Children's Library Services. The new Guidelines will promote and encourage the development of effective library services for children by giving guidance to the international library community about children's needs and rights on information, literacy and reading.

Public Libraries Satellite Presentations now On-Line

If you missed the Public Libraries Satellite in Cape Town don't despair, the presentations are now available on-line.

CPD - Your thoughts

At the World Library and Information Congress in Cape Town IFLA's Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and Public Libraries Sections joined together to deliver the program Learning Across Boundaries: a workshop (Session 092). As part of the session each of our four presenters provided a number of questions that were discussed by participants in a world café.

Reference Interview - Jane Sánchez, Library of Congress, United States

Here is the first installment of the new RISS feature, "Reference Interview," in which we chat with members of the Standing Committee to learn more about them!

New Feature - Reference Interviews!

Now available: Acceptance speech of IFLA President Donna Scheeder

delivered on 22 August at the 81st IFLA Congress in Cape Town, South Africa

French software company BibLibre is the new sponsor of the IFLA International Library Marketing Award

French software company BibLibre new sponsor of IFLA Marketing Award. The IFLA International Marketing Award, one of the flagship awards of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), will get a new sponsor in 2016. BibLibre is a French company, based in Marseille. Their marketing campaign is very appealing: “A different company. Made in France”.