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Dear colleagues, As 2022 came to an end and the New Year starts, I wanted to write to thank all of you involved in making IFLA what it is. As a Federation, it is in our name that we are a wide community. IFLA is about bringing people together, providing a common space and a platform for doing more together than we could ever do apart.
On December 1st 2022, the AI SIG ran an online workshop as part of the AI4LAM 2022 virtual event. The topic was "Applying AI in the Smaller Research Library". Read on for highlights...
2 January is Public Domain Day in 2023, celebrating the works that now belong to the ages (and you!). Public domain works may be copied from, remixed, incorporated into other works and generally utilized for free, without payment to rightsholders.
We in the IFLA Artificial Intelligence SIG feel AI is something every professional is curious about. Therefore we have selected 23 resources for getting up to speed on Artificial Intelligence in 2023.
The ISBD Review Group is wishing IFLA fellows and the whole library community happy holidays and a wonderful and successful new year! On this occasion, we are delighted to share with you the highlights of another special year for ISBD.
In the last days of 2022, SOCRS is happy to announce that the special issue of Serials Review journal on metrics is available.
IFLA’s Rules of Procedure complement our Statutes, providing further detail about how our Federation works. In advance of the upcoming elections period, the Governing Board has approved a number of changes designed to offer clarity, consistency and enhancements.
IFLA’s Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Section publishes its official newsletter twice a year, which reviews ENSULIB’s activities and achievements and provides a platform for presenting interesting stories, events or projects from libraries all over the world, that follow a clear green and sustainable commitment.
Meeting face to face in The Hague provided the IFLA Governing Board time to discuss in depth the many issues on which it is taking action in the short and long term. This report notes twelve highlights that we would like to share with you.
As part of IFLA's engagement at this year's High-Level Political Forum, the Dag Hammarskjold Library at the United Nations kindly hosted an IFLA session discussing the trends which are shaping how far access to information is enabling sustainable development today. Today we share the report of this event.
The December 2022 newsletter of the IFLA Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section has now been published online.
Any type of Green Library or library with an outstanding Green Library Project may apply for the IFLA Green Library Award. Libraries with a small budget but a great impact are explicitly invited to participate in the competition!
We are happy to launch this inaugural issue of the Information Literacy Section Newsletter.
The ISBD Review Group and its ISBD for Manifestation Task Force are pleased to announce that registration for its January 2023 is now open.
The recording is available of the SDGs-related seminar organised by IFLA's Middle East and North Africa Regional Division Committee organized.
The Chairs of IFLA's North America and Middle East-North Africa Regional Divisions at the 9th ALA Sharjah conference. What a great opportunity for two regional leaders to meet on the ground!
Read the results of the training programme on library advocacy that was held by IFLA's Regional Division Committee for Middle East and North Africa, in cooperation with the Arab Federation for Libraries and Information.
IFLA brings together colleagues from across the global library field, and you can be part of it. Interested in finding out more about how the IFLA elections process works?
In less than a month, the call for nominations for volunteer roles across IFLA's will open! We will be relying on passionate individuals with something to contribute to come forwards, and on our Members and Affiliates to nominate them. To get you thinking about what it means to be an IFLA volunteer, including the benefits it brings, we asked two of our Governing Board members, each overseeing structures of volunteer groups, to share their insights - Te Paea Paringatai (Chair, Professional Council) and Nthabiseng Kotsokoane (Chair, Regional Council).