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CoS at WLIC 2025: Sessions about IFLA Standards

IFLA President's Message - June 2025

The below message was shared from 30 June 2025 with IFLA members and volunteers in IFLA's official languages. 

Speakers and presentations WLIC 2025 ACD Open Session

Now available: IFLA ARL Newsletter issue #14

IFLA Newsletter, June 2025: Innovating through digital access

In this month's edition of the IFLA newsletter, we unpack topics related to innovating through digital access

Standards in the Open: Making IFLA Standards Work on the Web

The IFLA Namespaces site is our central platform for publishing IFLA standards as linked data was launched in 2020. This initiative supports the broader goal of making bibliographic standards more usable, discoverable, and machine-readable—key pillars of digital access. By structuring standards as linked data, we enable libraries, developers, and metadata professionals to integrate them directly into cataloguing tools, discovery systems, and research workflows.

Out Now: June 2025 issue of IFLA Journal

National Libraries support digital access

RSCVD: Digital access through resource sharing

RSCVD, an initiative by the IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section, aims to promote international resource sharing to ensure access to high-quality scientific literature. By leveraging ILL-DD library services, RSCVD depends on the expertise and dedication of volunteer librarians to provide access to hard-to-obtain documents.

REMEDIS project releases its evaluation planner

As part of the Horizon Europe-funded REMEDIS project (REthinking MEdia DIgital Skills), an international consortium has launched a new digital tool to support educators, librarians, civil society actors, and policymakers in evaluating Media Literacy and Digital Skills (ML&DS) interventions.

How can bibliography work be made accessible to visually impaired people?

Registration Now Open - IFLA Satellite on Artificial Intelligence, Bibliographic Control & Legal Matters, Astana, Kazakhstan, August 2025

IFLA SSA RDC pre-conference workshop held during the 6th AFLIA Conference

The IFLA Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Division hosted a successful preconference workshop under the theme "Advocacy & Networking for a Sustainable LIS Profession." The session was strategically aligned with the overall conference theme, "Open Knowledge: Present, Future, and African Realities" and was held at the University of Namibia (UNAM) Library Video Conference Room.

IFLA Advisory Committee on Standards call for an Expert Advisor - copy editor

Are you passionate about writing, editing, detail and supporting the library and information field to communicate its standards materials effectively?  The IFLA Advisory Committee on Standards (CoS) is looking for a talented copy editor to join as a committee Expert Advisor (volunteer position).

Looking ahead: UN High-Level Political Forum 2025

With the importance of sustainability, inclusiveness and the importance of science and evidence at the heart of the theme for this year’s UN High-Level Political Forum, there is close alignment with the values and priorities of libraries.

New IFLA ARL Blog post: “Standing Committee Election Results are Final!”

IFLA elections and nominations: data analysis

Over half of IFLA's members took part in our elections this year, while more than one in five nominated a candidate. Within this, Latin America and the Caribbean and the Middle East and North Africa stood out for their mobilisation, while overall we saw an increase in the regional diversity of the membership of our Section standing commitees.

IFLA Townhalls - June/July

Join IFLA President Vicki McDonald and Secretary General to hear the latest about IFLA’s work, and to ask your own questions.

IFLA Division C Webinar Series for LIS Students - April’s Theme: “Translating Theory into Practice through Workplace Learning: A Panel Discussion”