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6 October 2015The 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.
2 October 2015Peer review submission deadline: 16 May 2016
29 September 2015View the complete issue online
25 September 2015Read about the experience of attending the IFLA Congress from our attendance grant winners
23 September 2015The 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.
23 September 2015If you missed the Public Libraries Satellite in Cape Town don't despair, the presentations are now available on-line.
23 September 2015At 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.
18 September 2015Here 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!
9 September 2015delivered on 22 August at the 81st IFLA Congress in Cape Town, South Africa
9 September 2015French 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”.
8 September 2015“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope...” – Kofi Annan
29 August 2015Meetings, sessions, events.