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Thinking about a hybrid event? Here are some tips from the IFLA Management & Marketing Section Experience 

Thinking about a hybrid event? Here are some tips from the IFLA Management & Marketing Section Experience 

Message from the IFLA President, 19 April 2024

I’m happy to be writing to you, just a day after the IFLA Governing Board’s first in-person meeting of the year has come to an end! It was great to see colleagues together in The Hague for a really positive and productive meeting – the three days flew by, but I believe that we are making excellent progress against the commitments set out in August of last year.

Who is funding library projects? New open data resource

In addition to core funding received from host institutions, governments or others, libraries represent great partners for others who share our commitment to supporting sustainable development. The results of a project made possible by Stichting IFLA Global Libraries, and carried out by The Doyenne Project, give an idea of who has a track-record of supporting libraries among private donors and public development agencies.

New city! Who would live on this sand?

The IFLA Local History and Genealogy Section explores the internet as access point for cultural heritage, through a project to digitize cultural heritage artefacts at the Serbian National Library.

Health information is a right – new IFLA statement

Libraries of different types, through providing inclusive access to information can make a major contribution to making the right to health a reality. Governments, in turn, can and should help realise this potential through law, regulation and funding, as a new statement from IFLA underlines.

Celebrating the fourth-year celebration of RSCVD

It was four years ago on 21 April 2020 that, during the early days of the COVID pandemic, the IFLA/DDRS committee launched an initiative to share resources with libraries throughout the world.

Landscape of Data Structure and Exchange Standards Survey

Take a 5 minute survey on the Data Structure and Exchange Standards Landscape and share your needs, ideas, projects and challenges in transforming library metadata.

Library Associations in the MENA Region

In its attempts to establish contacts with the library community in the region the IFLA Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Regional Division Committee has compiled a list of  information on library associations in the regions.

Framing the Future of Knowledge: IFLA launches International Futures Summit Programme

We’re thrilled to publish the high-level programme of the Summit, setting out the key themes we’ll be exploring and questions we’ll be looking to answer.

IFLA Sub-Saharan African Regional Division (IFLA SSA RDC), April 2024 Newsletter

[Webinar] Building a National Bibliography: Models from Around the World - Two Weeks Left to Register!

Two weeks are left to register to the IFLA Bibliography Section upcoming webinar "Building a National Bibliography: Models From Around the World"!

Launch of 'Everywhere All the Time' - a digital literacy intervention that fosters critical conversations about technology and AI

With a growing generation of people relying on the internet for learning, entertainment and socializing, it's crucial to cultivate their capacity to ask critical questions about how technology impacts their lives, their communities and the planet. But how can educators guide teens to understand and navigate the digital world confidently? “Everywhere, All the Time” is a creative and playful digital literacy intervention, aiming to do just that.

Talking copyright: The week ahead at WIPO

Ahead of the meeting of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights this week, we are happy to share an overview of the issues on the table, and some of the materials covered.

Building the Future of the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) together– your input needed!

Over the coming months, IFLA will be asking for feedback from its members and volunteers regarding their perspectives, desires, and experiences regarding the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC). This will enable the WLIC Review Steering Committee to adequately assess the needs and the views of IFLA members and volunteers. 

A common goal, a common language: IFLA Open Access vocabularies publication

The spread of Open Access arguably represents one of the most far-reaching successes of the library and research fields over the last quarter century.

The Role of Networks in Cultural Heritage Preservation- the Case of Modern Heritage Observatory

IFLAPARL Newsletter - Call for contributions

View Online – IFLA ENSULIB Webinar Series: The Walking Librarians of Kerala. A Tale of Empowering Women and the Elderly Woven into the Fabric of UN SDG Goals

The recording from the latest IFLA ENSULIB Webinar on "The Walking Librarians in Kerala. A Tale of Empowering Women and the Elderly Woven into the Fabric of UN SDG Goals" is now available via our YouTube channel.

Chile Abril 2024

Participación del Comité Regional de Latinoamerica y el Caribe, en el Congreso de Bibliotecas Universitarias y Simposio sobre Inteligencia Artificial realizado en Chile.

Copyright and Open Access to Research:  An International Survey of Academic Librarians

The IFLA Advisory Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters is happy to share a survey on attitudes among academic librarians to copyright reform in support of open access, with surveys in English and French. We encourage you to respond!