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IFLA Green Library Award 2022: Call for Submissions

Generously sponsored by De Gruyter Publishing, the IFLA Green Library Award is given to libraries and projects that best communicate their commitment to environmental sustainability.

Libraries as Cultural Rights Defenders: Looking ahead to Culture, Heritage, and Development in 2022

As the global voice of libraries, IFLA strives to bring a library perspective to discussions and processes relating to international cultural policy. 2022 presents important opportunities to bring library voices to the table and highlight libraries as stakeholders in the culture sector.

IFLA Trend Report 2021 Update released!

IFLA is happy to share the 2021 Update of its Trend Report, based on the ideas submitted by emerging library leaders ahead of our World Library and Information Congress. We invite you to look through, and think how these trends will interact and impact upon our institutions, our profession and our communities. 

Protecting library education in Ecuador

IFLA’s Regional Division Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean has been active in supporting the Ecuadorian librarians’ association in fighting back against a proposal to close down library degree programmes in the country.

At the Heart of Local Development: Culture2030Goal Report on the Place of Culture in Voluntary Local Reviews

A new Culture2030Goal Campaign report explores how effectively local and regional governments are placing culture at the heart - and even the start - of their efforts to deliver on the United Nations 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals. 

IFLA publishes briefing on the UN SAMOA Pathway for small island developing states

A new briefing provides insights on a key UN document on sustainability which provides a potential framework for securing greater recognition and new partnerships for libraries and library and information professionals.

Warm Wishes for the New Year and Highlights of 2021 from the ISBD Review Group

The ISBD Review Group is wishing IFLA fellows and the whole library community a wonderful and successful new year!

Holiday Greetings from SET Chair Albina Krymskaya

Happy New Year 2022!  There is a tradition all over the world to sum up the results of the passing year. We are grateful that 2021 has been pretty successful for the IFLA Education and Training Section (SET) thanks to your support and initiatives.

Call for Nominations: IFLA 2022 Honours and Awards

Do you know someone who has made an outstanding contribution to IFLA or to the global library field? IFLA’s Honours and Awards recognise those who have given significant service and made distinguished contributions to the profession.

Newsletter December 2021 - Libraries for Children and Young Adults

The articles in our current newsletter demonstrate how libraries truly align with the words of IFLA’s vision statement as they “inspire, connect, enable, and engage” young people around the world.

Programs and services for children with special needs

The goal of the Public Library in Croatia's Bjelovar is inclusion. Here's how they create programs and services that children with and without special needs can participate in equally.

Library programs supporting Roma children in Croatia

Under the motto "Library Accessible to All - a Library for All" the Fran Galovic Koprivnica Public Library strives for equal inclusion of a socially marginalized people.

Empowering Youth Through Art and Heritage

The Poudre River Public Library District’s bilingual art workshop IMAGINANTES offers an opportunity for Latinx youth to connect to their heritage, their community, and their future.

December 2021 Newsletter celebrates 40 years of MCULTP

This issue features articles from current and former Standing Committee members of the section, looking back at their fondest memories and achievements over the past 40 years.

Choose Your Library Adventure and Discover the Wonders of the Library

During the pandemic, when schoolchildren's visits to Singapore's libraries dropped, the National Library Board innovated new ways to interact with students online.

Children impress as talk show hosts at Stockholm Public Library

Stockholm Public Library's new program series is a recorded talk show about books - planned and run by children. Adult authors might be invited as guests, but librarians and other adults gets to stay behind the camera.

The first issue of the ENSULIB Newsletter now available online

ISBD: Update 2021 to the 2011 Consolidated Edition [DRAFT]

The International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) Review Group is pleased to announce the release of the Update 2021 to the 2011 ISBD Consolidated Edition as a draft.

Standing on one foot - a Norwegian library's digital focus during the pandemic

The pandemic didn’t pull the rug from under our feet. It simply meant that we had to stand on one foot for a while.

Deadline extended for 2022 IFLA PressReader International Marketing Award!

The IFLA Section on Management and Marketing is partnering with PressReader in collaboration with the IFLA PressReader International Library Marketing Award for 2022. Submissions are due 19 December 2021.