Resources

Twenty Years of Organized Lifelong Learning of Librarians in Croatia: Opportunities for a Sustainable Future

National Training Center for Continuing Education of Librarians in Croatia (CSSU) recognizes the United Nation’s Susta...

Integrated Self-Pickup Service at the National Library of Public Information (NLPI) in Taiwan: A Resilient Infrastructure

Every day, more than 1,000 reserved books are held at the National Library of Public Information (NLPI). To efficiently ...

Generative AI versus intellectual capacity and knowledge development: a trending crisis

Generative Artificial intelligence is a new technological development rapidly affecting the world. It is a technology de...

UBC, Background and Future Perspectives

This paper reviews the background of IFLA involvement in Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC) from 1950 to present. The...

Dealing with floods, earthquakes, and volcanic damage. How libraries/archives handle emergencies in the event of natural disasters

Some considerations related to the preliminary technical and methodological knowledge on emergency and risk to prevent d...

Newsletter: Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section, October 2023

IFLA's Section on Libraries for Children and Young Adults had its midyear meeting in Singapore in May. One night, over d...

Memory and Amnesia in the Archival Practices of the World’s Library and Information Associations, with a Case Study of Arrangements Made by the UK’s Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

National library and information associations are in essence meta-history, or meta-memory, organizations, in that one of...

Preserving the History of the Oldest Library Association: A Report from the American Library Association Archives

The American Library Association Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the official repository o...

Free or not free? That is the Question: Discovery and access is the answer!

The gateways to discovery of the Open Electronic Resources at the Library of Congress are through the Online Public Asse...

Minutes of Meeting: UNIMARC Review Group, 19 September 2023

Minutes of meeting: Library Publishing Special Interest Group, 27 September 2023

Minutes of Meeting: Advisory Committee on Cultural Heritage, June 2023

Approved minutes of the June 2023 meeting of the Advisory Committee on Cultural Heritage.

Minutes of Meeting: Advisory Committee on Cultural Heritage, April 2023

Approved Minutes from the April 2023 meeting of the Advisory Committee on Cultural Heritage.

Minutes of Meeting: Academic and Research Libraries Section, 20 August 2023

With the following: 1. Welcome, introductions and apologies. 2. Approval of the agenda. 3. Matters arising from the prev...

From Bias to Transparency : Ethical Imperatives in AI-Based Library Cataloging

In today's digital age, the need for a cohesive system to organize global knowledge is evident. Universal bibliographic ...

Minutes of Meeting: Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Section, 20 August 2023

These are the minutes of the Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Section (ENSULIB) of IFLA, recorded at the meetin...

Minutes of Meeting: Advisory Committee on Cultural Heritage, February 2023

Approved Minutes of the February 2023 meeting of the Advisory Committee on Cultural Heritage.

Minutes of Meeting: Advisory Committee on Cultural Heritage, October 2022

Approved Minutes of the October 2022 meeting of the Advisory Committee on Cultural Heritage.

Annual Report 2022-2023: Environment Sustainability and Libraries Section

This is the August 2022 - August 2023 annual report for the Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Section (ENSULIB) ...

Get into Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2023

The goal of Global Media & Information Literacy (MIL) Week is to raise awareness of the need for an international effort...