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15 June 2023All Members of IFLA’s Governing Board met last week in The Hague, providing a valuable opportunity to take stock of progress in delivering on the plan for securing IFLA’s future, take key decisions for the coming months, and officially to welcome our new Secretary General, Sharon Memis. The in-person meetings provided a great chance to explore issues in depth, to examine different perspectives, and to come to formal conclusions.
12 June 2023"Emerging technologies and artificial intelligence in academic libraries: challenges and opportunities for innovation in services": 29 June IFLA ARL webinar.
12 June 2023Held annually in Bonn, Germany on the occasion of the UN Bonn Climate Change Conference, the Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) Dialogues brings together many voices from national governments and civil society.
10 June 2023Welcome new members of the IFLA Section on Education and Training (SET). One of the best ways to learn about SET projects and get involved is to read the SET Bulletin with an overview of major initiatives from those who lead them.
10 June 2023The webinar series is for those with an interest in the works of professional sections that are organized under Division F. Representatives from each section will deliver a short presentation about the future libraries look like in their areas.
9 June 2023IFLA’s Academic and Research Libraries Section (ARL) is proud to be organizing and hosting a satellite conference in Rotterdam, on the Friday and Saturday before WLIC 2023, on Inclusiveness through Openness.
9 June 2023The full programme for the IFLA WLIC Satellite Meeting on the topic of "Libraries as Actors of Climate Empowerment" is now available!
9 June 2023The IFLA General Assembly 2023 will be held on Wednesday 23 August 2023 (16:00 – 18:00 CEST) and Thursday 24 August 2023 (15:00 – 17:00 CEST) in hybrid format, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and online.
9 June 2023Opening with an essay on Dutch libraries that highlights the library community in The Netherlands for the 2023 WLIC in Rotterdam, the June 2023 issue of IFLA Journal features 16 articles that represent several timely issues for the profession.
8 June 2023On 19 August, IFLA’s Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Section (ENSULIB) and Public Libraries Section (PLS) , in collaboration with Bibliotheek Midden-Brabant, LocHal (Tilburg), are organising a Satellite Meeting before the 2023 IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
8 June 2023IFLA has joined Creative Commons and Europeana in signing an open letter to European lawmakers, underlining that proposals to impose fees on companies and institutions that share content online pose a real threat to libraries and others in their work to enforce cultural rights.
8 June 2023On 5 June, civil society organisations came together online and in person at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France, for the fourth edition of the Civil Society Forum of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of a Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005 Convention).
8 June 2023The Culture2030Goal campaign, of which IFLA is a founding member, has called on governments to correct the mistakes of 2015, and make sure that the Declaration emerging from a key UN event in September recognises the role of culture in accelerating sustainable development.
8 June 2023The International Science Council shares much with IFLA, both around its focus on issues around advocacy and rights, and in its specific work to ensure the place of knowledge in the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals.
7 June 2023We are back with another issue of the IFLA Asia & Oceania Regional Newsletter. Read on for news about the region!
6 June 2023At their comprehensive Satellite Meeting, the IFLA Library Services for Multicultural Populations, will present library workers with the tools to build, sustain, and strengthen a diverse and inclusive workplace.
5 June 2023In the light of regular reports of limitations on libraries' ability freely to build and maintain collections to respond to the needs of communities, IFLA President Barbara Lison has made the following statement
5 June 2023What is augmented reality? Why is it popular and trending? How can AR be utilised in libraries? Find answers to your questions here.
5 June 2023Read about this short video project titled “The Very Collection in My Library”, where they showcased precious books preserved in their respective libraries. Through this project, we could trace the path of book evolution since ancient times.
5 June 2023Read about this project, a proud winner of Nanyang Technological University’s SASD Service Innovator Award in March 2023. Its success frees up at least 275 hours of processing work, enabling staff to focus on higher value work and achieve greater operational efficiency.