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IFLA’s Governing Board will be holding an extraordinary meeting on 9 July 2025, in order to agree on the financial statements that will be presented to members at our General Assembly on 20 August 2025.
The below message was shared from 30 June 2025 with IFLA members and volunteers in IFLA's official languages.
In this month's edition of the IFLA newsletter, we unpack topics related to innovating through digital access
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.