Welcome to IFLA’s Strategy for the five years from 2024 to 2029!

This is a document designed to take IFLA through its centenary in 2027, and almost up to the end of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

It is strongly rooted in the input provided by the global library field. Through a series of surveys and workshops, we learnt about how you use our Strategies, which issues mattered most for you, and what IFLA you wanted to see in 2029.

These led the Governing Board towards a document that:

  • Makes a clearer connection between what we do and the results we want to see
  • Is more easily adaptable and adoptable by library and information workers, libraries and library associations globally
  • Underlines the role of libraries as development actors, working to enable their communities

The Strategy has a new and clearer vision:

Sustainable futures for all through knowledge and information.

It also focuses on three impact areas:

  • Impact area 1: Libraries are connected and energised through vibrant, global professional communities
  • Impact area 2: Libraries are recognised, represented and valued as partners
  • Impact area 3: Libraries are enabled to deliver meaningful change at all levels

This work is underpinned by our enabler:

Futureproofing IFLA: Ensuring IFLA’s governance, projects, and partnerships are effective, transparent, and innovative.

Finally, in the full Strategy, you’ll find a set of indicators that will help us and you track progress.

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IFLA Strategy 2024-2029

IFLA’s 2024-2029 Strategy will take the Federation beyond its centenary, and almost to the end of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda. Both milestones encourage a focus on the long term, clarity about the world we want to see, and the role that libraries and IFLA can play. IFLA’s 2024-2029 Strateg...

See our separate webpage for translations into all IFLA languages, find out more about the process of preparing the Strategy under our Background webpage, and look out for more about how to work with the Strategy in the future.