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Facing the future with confidence: IFLA Trend Report 2024 launched

30 September 2024

    We don’t need to know for sure what the future holds for libraries and the communities they serve in order to be able to play a role in shaping it. The 2024 Trend Report, launched at the Information Futures Summit and made possible by SIGL support, offers a key resource for librarians, libraries and library associations looking to integrate tomorrow into their planning today.

    Your views on our draft Strategy 2024-2029

    29 September 2024

      Our sixth and final survey to prepare for IFLA's next Strategy has closed, and we're happy to be sharing the results, which highlight both broad support for it, but also areas where we can improve it further. This feedback will help prepare a final edition for approval but the Governing Board.

      Recording now available - Licenses and Copyright: Protection and Managing Digital Content

      26 September 2024

        The presentation "Licenses and Copyright: Protection and Management of Digital Content" explores how copyright laws and different types of licenses help protect and manage digital content. It discusses practical examples of effective application of these legal tools across various digital environments. The presentation emphasizes the importance of keeping licensing practices up to date in the face of technological advancements and suggests the need for legal adaptations to enhance the protection of digital content.

        From Summit to Launch Pad: Key Publication Launches at the IFLA Information Futures Summit

        26 September 2024

          We’re barely a week away from the opening session of the IFLA Information Futures Summit. The event has a focus on providing a space for a collective discussion about information and knowledge environment of tomorrow, and how libraries can shape it. Our ambition is for it to be an accelerator of our efforts to prepare for, and be actors in, the future.

          From: HQ

          IFLA Newsletter, September 2024: The Future

          25 September 2024

            Welcome to the September 2024 edition of the IFLA Newsletter! With less than a week away from the start of the IFLA Information Futures Summit, this month’s newsletter is all about The Future. 📡

            From: HQ

            Call for Preliminary Expressions of Interest: Future WLICs, 2026-2029

            25 September 2024

              IFLA is currently carrying out a review of our World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) model, with a view to establishing recommendations by the end of the year about how we should go forwards with our flagship event. Key decisions will need to be made about the organisation and format of Congresses, as well as their frequency, based on the information that will have been received from our surveys and consultation sessions. 

              Building the future of multilateralism: libraries and the Summit of the Future

              23 September 2024

                The UN’s Summit of the Future comes to a close today, with the Pact for the Future – the key output text – already agreed. Through IFLA’s engagement in the preparatory process, and at events in New York, we were able to support calls for stronger recognition of, and support for, the role of information, knowledge, culture and libraries in achieving policy goals.  

                IFLA Metropolitan Libraries Section: Focus on the Future

                19 September 2024

                  The IFLA Metropolitan Libraries Section’s focus for 2024-2025 is on urban transformation, sustainability, and civic engagement. The future of metropolitan libraries is entwined with the future of the large cities they serve. Cities are places where diversity and the density of people and ideas fosters innovation and well-being. At the same time, stark contrasts between wealth and poverty, along with pluralism, may generate friction. How can libraries contribute toward the achievement of equity and inclusion, sustainable urban growth, learning, and innovation?

                  Culture, Knowledge, Community: Looking Forward Together

                  19 September 2024

                    With a grant from Spain’s Ministry of Culture, as well as the support of other generous sponsors, several IFLA Sections have come together and are pleased to organize the International Library Conference titled “Culture, Knowledge, and Community” in Barcelona, Spain, October 6-9, 2024.