On April 2 and 3, 2025, the Regional Division of Latin America and the Caribbean of IFLA (IFLA LAC) held its Mid-Term Meeting in Brasília, with invaluable support from the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), a beacon of Latin American librarianship, represented by Ricardo Crisafulli Rodríguez and its director, Tiago Braga.
In the last of our series, find out what IFLA's representatives at the 2023 High Level Political Forum are looking to achieve, for libraries and their users, nationally and globally.
To help you get to know the experience and perspectives of the librarians attending this year's High-Level Political Forum, we're sharing their answers to a short set of questions. In this article - the second of three - we find out what their message is to the wider development community around how libraries can contribute to achieving the SDGs.
For the first time since the agreement of the SDGs in 2015, IFLA will be represented at the United Nations' High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) by a delegation including librarians from every world region. To help you get to know team libraries at HLPF 2023, we asked them about their experience and ambitions.
Sustainable development represents one of the broadest areas of IFLA’s advocacy engagement, covering both specific work around the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and underlying work to build – and demonstrate – libraries’ ability to contribute to a whole range of policy goals.
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!