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The webinar series from IFLA Professional Division F is for those with an interest in programs, services, collection development, and management at school libraries for building high-performing schools.
Check out the SET sessions at IFLA WLIC 2023
IFLA's Local History and Genealogy Section is pleased to welcome six new colleagues to our Standing Committee. These members were recently elected in the latest round of IFLA elections.
IFLA Academic & Research Libraries (ARL) Section is happy to announce the final programme for the pre-congress Satellite conference held at and organized with Erasmus University Library on 18-19 August in Rotterdam: “Inclusiveness through Openness”.
On behalf of the Hot Topics team, I am delighted to share ARL's open program at the WLIC in Rotterdam. This year's Hot Topic on Artificial Intelligence has generated much interest and we have received many proposals from around the globe.
IFLA's Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Section latest blog post was kindly contributed by our colleague Jim O'Donnell, who coordinates the Section's Satellite Meeting that will he hosted by Erasmus University next 18-19 August in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
IFLA's Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Section is pleased to welcome seven new colleagues coming from a variety of countries and institutions who, pursuant to the latest round of IFLA Elections, will soon join our Standing Committee.
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 5 JUNE 2023. The IFLAPARL Standing Committee is pleased to announce registration is now open for our Pre-Conference, to be held in The Hague, on 17-18 August 2023.
This webinar was co-organized by IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workforce Learning (CPDWL) Section and Information Technology (IT) Section.
As part of its SDG webinar series organized by the IFLA Asia-Oceania Regional Division Committee, this webinar focused on the best practices by Northeast Asian libraries and librarians to support the UN SDGs. Through this program, IFLA Regional Division Committee for Asia and Oceania aims to inspire and encourage colleagues within the region to advance their efforts to bring the UN SDGs to fruition.
Un grupo de los voluntarios regionales de IFLA, provenientes de diferentes países de América Latina y el Caribe, que integran las Unidades Profesionales de esta Federación, hablaron sobre su trabajo, y por qué su compromiso con IFLA y las Unidades Profesionales de IFLA es importante para la región.
A number of IFLA’s regional volunteers on IFLA’s Professional Units who are from different countries in Latin America and the Caribbean talked about their work, and why their engagement with IFLA and IFLA’s Professional Units matters for the region.
IFLA's Asia-Oceania Regional Division delivered a regional webinar on “the strategic role of government libraries in providing evidence to support the preparation of Voluntary National Reviews”, as a side-event at this year’s Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) organised by the office on United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific – UN ESCAP in Bangkok.
Following the UN’s Transforming Education Summit in September 2022, the UNESCO Section for Education for Sustainable Development has launched a global, multistakeholder partnership to coordinate efforts to get every learner climate ready.
IFLA is happy to announce the results of the runoff elections among Professional Unit Sections that resulted in a tie following the April elections and the allocation of Professional Division Chairs to their Divisions for 2023-2025
The IFLAPARL Standing Committee is pleased to announce registration is now open for our Pre-Conference, to be held in The Hague, on 17-18 August 2023.
Welcome to the May 2023 issue of the IFLA Newsletter, focused on cultural diversity. 21 May is the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, making a clear link between the richness and variety of our cultures, and the success of our societies as a whole.
The Czech Republic, with its population of over 10.5 million and its more than 5,000 libraries, is often considered a country with the densest library network in the world. Not long after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 the country has become a temporary home for nearly half a million refugees (mostly women, children and the elderly). Czech libraries have reacted very quickly to the influx and began providing support for incoming refugees.