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The IFLA Governing Board met online on 9 July 2025 for an extraordinary session, mainly focused on reviewing IFLA’s financial statements ahead of issuing them to our General Assembly, to be held at WLIC, in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 20 August.
The IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing (DDRS) Section is pleased to announce a dynamic lineup of events and discussions at the upcoming World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) 2025 in Astana, Kazakhstan. DDRS members and interested professionals are encouraged and welcome to join these collaborative events and discussions to exchange ideas, share best practices, and strengthen international cooperation.
At the forum, IFLA organized a joint session with the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and participated in two UNESCO led sessions. The IFLA-UPU session highlighted the important role that intermediaries like libraries and post offices play in facilitating access to information and digital services for underserved communities and the millions that remain offline. In a similar way the UNESCO sessions focused on harnessing the power of digital public goods and on providing library related recommendations for the WSIS Action Line C3 on Access to Information and Knowledge.
A new statement from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions highlights the varied and parallel threats to the efforts of libraries to ensure that everyone can engage in, and benefit from, access to knowledge.
The "Public Library of the Year" award is presented by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) with the aim of honouring new public libraries. Baker & Taylor is proud main sponsor of the award.
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.