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IFLA 2023 Election Results – Message from IFLA President Barbara Lison

Barbara Lison congratulates the hundreds of volunteers who will take up their terms of office in August 2023

IFLA Governing Board 2023-2025: Election Results

IFLA has pleasure in announcing the Governing Board 2023-2025 election results

2023 Satellite Meeting - Bibliography Section, Cataloguing Section and Subject Analysis and Access Section

We kindly invite you to the IFLA Satellite Meeting organised by the IFLA Bibliography, Subject Analysis and Access, and Cataloguing Sections and Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België (KBR). The conference will take place in Brussels at KBR, the Royal Library of Belgium, on 18-19 August 2023.

IFLA Governing Board meeting report, 17 April 2023

IFLA’s Governing Board met online on 17 April 2023, with a strong focus on continuing to deliver on the Plan for Securing IFLA’s Future, and to provide direction and guidance to the Federation over the coming months.

WLIC 2023 in Rotterdam : Call for papers for open session.

The IFLA School Libraries Section is organizing a session about the new School Library Manifesto.

Call for Contributions: WLIC 2023 Acquisition and Collection Development Section Open Session

The IFLA Acquisition and Collection Development Section is seeking proposals for presentations to be given at our Open Session during the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2023 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Applications open for the position of IFLA Parliamentarian

IFLA is seeking an individual with relevant knowledge and experience for the position of IFLA Parliamentarian.

Libraries Stand Out in Special Rapporteur’s Report on Cultural Rights of Migrants

Libraries not only depend on human rights to deliver their services – they actively contribute to their realisation. The values of libraries and many aspects of their missions are interlinked with ensuring access to information and freedom of expression. Both of these fundamental freedoms are also aspects of cultural rights. For their many actions to enable participation in cultural life, libraries can be considered cultural rights defenders.

CFP for 2023 WLIC Open Session by News Media Section

Theme: "Collecting News in Times of Conflict". IFLA’s News Media Section is a dynamic forum for sharing information on all issues relating to news media, in any form and on any platform.

New member of the IFLA Governing Board

As a result of the vacancy for the Chair of the Management of Library Associations Section (MLAS) who is also a member of the Governing Board, a call for nominations was conducted within the members of the MLAS Standing Committee. Only one nomination was received and therefore the nominated candidate, Loida Garcia-Febo (United States of America), is automatically elected.

CPDWL Newsletter April 2023 Issue Out!

Call for papers WLIC 2023 "Utopia, threat or opportunity? Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for cataloguing"

The IFLA Cataloguing, Information Technology and Subject Analysis and Access Sections are seeking proposals for papers to be presented at their Joint Open Session at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2023 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

IFLA Celebrates World Book Day with a Spotlight on Indigenous Languages

Every year, UNESCO invites the international community to celebrate World Book and Copyright Day on 23 April. This day recognises books as a “link between the past and the future, a bridge between generations and across cultures” and calls for celebrations of the power and joy of books.

IFLA Newsletter, April 2023: The Open Access and Culture Issue

The April edition of the IFLA Newsletter is now out!

CALL FOR PAPERS – WLIC 2023 IFLAPARL OPEN SESSION

The IFLA Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section – IFLAPARL – is seeking presentation proposals for its Open Session at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2023 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Actions of Serials & Other Continuing Resources Standing Committee (SCORE) to Collaborate on Open Access Call at IFLA

At a global level, the Open Access (OA) movement is currently in state of transition as it seeks to maximize the openness of data, research outputs and information financed with public funds; for this, various actors are required to develop and implement collaborative strategies. IFLA's recently released "10 years of the IFLA open access statement: a call to action" identifies new essential areas for that action; one of them is to lead by example through collaboration with various actors in the world of Open Access.

IFLA MLAS Advocacy Impact Evaluation Project

The IFLA MLAS Advocacy Impact Evaluation Project is a two-year project started in November 2021. The final project result, the Review of Advocacy Impact Evaluation Practices in the Library Field, is scheduled to be published in August 2023. The aim of the project is to strengthen the advocacy impact evaluation practice in the library field by providing a set of guidance and recommendations about how to measure and evaluate the library advocacy impact.

IFLA SCITECH and OA

IFLA’s Science and Technology Libraries (SCITECH) Section has hosted a number of programs over the years that explored and addressed open access. Programs ranging from Open Practices (2022), Library as Driver for Open Access (2018), Open Data (2016), and Open Access Across Scientific Disciplines (2009), among others. In this article we provide some background on Open Access (OA) and how it is in line with our section’s 2023 World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) programme.

Open should mean open

Open Access (OA) is both old and new. The oldest online scholarly journal published continually via open access dates to 1990; the first book on the desirability and feasibility of open access dates to 1995; the Budapest OA initiative dates to 2002. The goal of universal open access of scientific and scholarly information has been elusive, but the time seems to have come for a dramatic upswing in the percentage of such content that is available on open terms.

Evolving acquisition and collection development

This year, IFLA's Acquisition and Collection Development (ACD) Section continues its work to support acquisitions and collection development processes for libraries across the globe. Following last year’s focus on incorporating open access content into library collections, we shift our attention to Open Educational Resources (OER) collection development practices.