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Urgent Need to Establish a Library & Information Science (ILS) Ecosystem in Cambodia

Key findings of first study on Cambodia’s status of continuing professional development (CPD) for LIS professionals

Watch Section on Education and Training Webinar on How to Become a Standing Committee Member

Our webinar held on February 16, 2023 tells about the IFLA Section on Education and Training (SET) and how to become a standard committee member. 

Save the date! IFLA ARL next Webinar Series on 29 March 2023 re: Social Justice, Diversity and Inclusion

IFLA/SYSTEMATIC Public Library of the year Award 2023

Applications for the IFLA/SYSTEMATIC Public Library of the year Award 2023 open on 21 February. Enter your new, exciting library as candidate for award!

IFLA Newsletter, February 2023: Partnerships 🤝

Read on to find out more about how different parts of our field are working both with each other, and with external players, for example to promote open access publishing, better metadata, and development as a whole.

A freedom and a right: libraries, information and social justice

The World Day of Social Justice, celebrated on 20 February, focuses on the need to ensure that everyone has the rights and resources to fulfil their potential. Born out of the work of the International Labour Organisation, it now touches on a wide range of the factors that determine people’s ability to enjoy their rights.   

Partners in Metadata

In alignment with our February newsletter theme, partnerships, we explore the relationship between IFLA’s metadata Sections - Bibliography (BIB), Cataloguing (CAT),  and Subject Analysis and Access (SAA) - how these IFLA sections are related and work together, and how their work intersects with the work of IFLA’s Review Groups: Bibliographic Conceptual Models (BCM), ISBD, LIDATEC, and UNIMARC. We also highlight their individual Section projects, which contribute globally to the area of the bibliographic universe.

Could your city be World Book Capital 2025? Call for applications open

Action at a local level has a key role to play in building an environment where reading and creativity is encouraged and supported, for all. The UNESCO World Book Capital Programme is there to highlight and celebrate great examples of cities and towns doing just this. Could yours be the next one? Nominations are open until 16 April 2023.

Getting started with an IFLA SIG

Magdalena Gomułka, Convenor of IFLA's New Professionals Special Interest Group, encourages those beginning their IFLA journey to look to a SIG of interest as a starting point. Read more about the value of getting involved in one of the 12 IFLA Special Interest Groups. 

Partners in Library Publishing

Library Publishing is part of a broader range of scholarly communication activities driven and managed by librarians in all types of libraries including national, state, academic, and public as well as learned societies Library Publishing advances the open scholarship agenda globally via the production of journals, monographs, and other publication outputs on a predominately open access basis. Library publishing programmes have strong EDI missions while strengthening bibliodiversity in the international scholarly communication landscape.

IFLA Advocates for Meaningful Engagement with Civil Society, Cultural Institutions and Organisations at UNESCO

The UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee (IGC) for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (UNESCO’s 2005 Convention) convened for their 16th session from 7-10 February in Paris, France.

Call for Papers - MetLib Conference 2023, October 2-4, Buenos Aires

Get To Know IFLA: Your Questions Answered | Ontario Library Association Super Conference 2023

IFLA's North America Regional Division Committee successfully delivered the special session "Get To Know IFLA: Your Questions Answered" at the Ontario Library Association Super Conference 2023. 

ENSULIB's definition of "What is a Green Library?" now available in 25 languages

We are glad to inform that the definition from the IFLA ENSULIB Section  "What is a Green Library?" is now available in 25 languages:

Libraries partnering for the SDGs

Libraries already do a lot for development on their own. But they can do even more as part of partnerships with a wide variety of actors, making unique contributions. This article focuses on examples taken from the IFLA Library Map of the World.

Now available: Spanish translation of the 2021 Update of the 2011 Consolidated Edition of the ISBD

The ISBD Review Group is pleased to announce the release of a Spanish translation of the 2021 Update of the 2011 Consolidated Edition of the ISBD.

Call for Expressions of Interest: IFLA Publication Series – Series Editor

IFLA and De Gruyter are seeking Expressions of Interest for the position of Series Editor for the IFLA Publication Series. Closing date: 3 March 2023.

Now available: IFLA ARL Newsletter issue # 5

Vacancies in IFLA Section Libraries for Children and Young Adults

The IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section Standing Committee has vacancies and we are seeking nominees with an interest in library services for young people.

Webinar materials available: From ISBD to ISBDM - a bibliographic standard in transformation

The ISBD Review Group is pleased to publish the recording and slides of its webinar titled “From ISBD to ISBDM: a bibliographic standard in transformation”, held on 26 January 2023.