IFLA Newsletter, June 2025: Innovating through digital access
27 June 2025In this month's edition of the IFLA newsletter, we unpack topics related to innovating through digital access
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Standards in the Open: Making IFLA Standards Work on the Web
26 June 2025The 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.
Out Now: June 2025 issue of IFLA Journal
26 June 2025National Libraries support digital access
26 June 2025RSCVD: Digital access through resource sharing
26 June 2025RSCVD, an initiative by the IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section, aims to promote international resource sharing to ensure access to high-quality scientific literature. By leveraging ILL-DD library services, RSCVD depends on the expertise and dedication of volunteer librarians to provide access to hard-to-obtain documents.
REMEDIS project releases its evaluation planner
26 June 2025As part of the Horizon Europe-funded REMEDIS project (REthinking MEdia DIgital Skills), an international consortium has launched a new digital tool to support educators, librarians, civil society actors, and policymakers in evaluating Media Literacy and Digital Skills (ML&DS) interventions.
IFLA SSA RDC pre-conference workshop held during the 6th AFLIA Conference
25 June 2025The IFLA Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Division hosted a successful preconference workshop under the theme "Advocacy & Networking for a Sustainable LIS Profession." The session was strategically aligned with the overall conference theme, "Open Knowledge: Present, Future, and African Realities" and was held at the University of Namibia (UNAM) Library Video Conference Room.
IFLA Advisory Committee on Standards call for an Expert Advisor - copy editor
25 June 2025Are you passionate about writing, editing, detail and supporting the library and information field to communicate its standards materials effectively? The IFLA Advisory Committee on Standards (CoS) is looking for a talented copy editor to join as a committee Expert Advisor (volunteer position).
Looking ahead: UN High-Level Political Forum 2025
25 June 2025With the importance of sustainability, inclusiveness and the importance of science and evidence at the heart of the theme for this year’s UN High-Level Political Forum, there is close alignment with the values and priorities of libraries.
IFLA elections and nominations: data analysis
24 June 2025Over half of IFLA's members took part in our elections this year, while more than one in five nominated a candidate. Within this, Latin America and the Caribbean and the Middle East and North Africa stood out for their mobilisation, while overall we saw an increase in the regional diversity of the membership of our Section standing commitees.
IFLA Townhalls - June/July
23 June 2025Join IFLA President Vicki McDonald and Secretary General to hear the latest about IFLA’s work, and to ask your own questions.
Registration Open for Satellite Meeting: Uniting Knowledge, Building the Future: Libraries Serving Multicultural Communities through Local History and Genealogy
20 June 2025Registration is now open for the Library Services to Multicultural Populations and Local History and Genealogy Sections' Satellite Meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 15 August 2025. In collaboration with the National Academic Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Library Services to Multicultural and Local History and Genealogy Sections are pleased to invite you to take part in the satellite meeting “Uniting Knowledge, Building the Future: Libraries Serving Multicultural Communities through Local History and Genealogy."
On the agenda – IFLA Governing Board meeting, 20 June 2025
19 June 2025IFLA’s Governing Board will meet online this Friday, just two months now ahead of the World Library and Information Congress in Astana, Kazakhstan, with updates on conference preparations (both for this and future years), as well as on finances and elections on the agenda.
Now Available: IFLA Asia and Oceania Regional Newsletter - June 2025
11 June 2025The June 2025 IFLA Asia and Oceania Regional Division Newsletter includes editorials from the Chair of the Asia-Oceania Regional Division Committee, the Manager of the Regional Office for Asia and Oceania, message from IFLA president-elect 2025-2027, and news from IFLA, the region and beyond.