The Hague, Netherlands – 19 June 2023 – The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has selected Dubai, United Arab Emirates to host the 2024 World Library and Information Congress.
The UN Secretary-General has released a Policy Brief offering a first idea of the principles, objectives and recommendations that could feature in the Global Digital Compact. This includes some welcome steps for libraries, but there remain areas needing clarification in order to ensure that it reflects the needs of libraries and their users.
Our SIG will be promoting access to reliable healthcare information as a human right.
The June 2023 newsletter of the IFLA Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section has now been published online.
Candidacies are welcomed for up to 10 positions as co-opted members of IFLA’s incoming Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Division Committee.
The challenges and opportunities of open access publishing are great and the urgency greater than ever. Please join us for a short conference in Rotterdam this August that will bring together perspectives from all over the world to concentrate on how to make the promise of "open" a reality.
All Members of IFLA’s Governing Board met last week in The Hague, providing a valuable opportunity to take stock of progress in delivering on the plan for securing IFLA’s future, take key decisions for the coming months, and officially to welcome our new Secretary General, Sharon Memis. The in-person meetings provided a great chance to explore issues in depth, to examine different perspectives, and to come to formal conclusions.
"Emerging technologies and artificial intelligence in academic libraries: challenges and opportunities for innovation in services": 29 June IFLA ARL webinar.
Held annually in Bonn, Germany on the occasion of the UN Bonn Climate Change Conference, the Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) Dialogues brings together many voices from national governments and civil society.
Welcome new members of the IFLA Section on Education and Training (SET). One of the best ways to learn about SET projects and get involved is to read the SET Bulletin with an overview of major initiatives from those who lead them.
The webinar series is for those with an interest in the works of professional sections that are organized under Division F. Representatives from each section will deliver a short presentation about the future libraries look like in their areas.
IFLA’s Academic and Research Libraries Section (ARL) is proud to be organizing and hosting a satellite conference in Rotterdam, on the Friday and Saturday before WLIC 2023, on Inclusiveness through Openness.
The full programme for the IFLA WLIC Satellite Meeting on the topic of "Libraries as Actors of Climate Empowerment" is now available!
The IFLA General Assembly 2023 will be held on Wednesday 23 August 2023 (16:00 – 18:00 CEST) and Thursday 24 August 2023 (15:00 – 17:00 CEST) in hybrid format, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and online.
Opening with an essay on Dutch libraries that highlights the library community in The Netherlands for the 2023 WLIC in Rotterdam, the June 2023 issue of IFLA Journal features 16 articles that represent several timely issues for the profession.
On 19 August, IFLA’s Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Section (ENSULIB) and Public Libraries Section (PLS) , in collaboration with Bibliotheek Midden-Brabant, LocHal (Tilburg), are organising a Satellite Meeting before the 2023 IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
IFLA has joined Creative Commons and Europeana in signing an open letter to European lawmakers, underlining that proposals to impose fees on companies and institutions that share content online pose a real threat to libraries and others in their work to enforce cultural rights.
On 5 June, civil society organisations came together online and in person at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France, for the fourth edition of the Civil Society Forum of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of a Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005 Convention).
The Culture2030Goal campaign, of which IFLA is a founding member, has called on governments to correct the mistakes of 2015, and make sure that the Declaration emerging from a key UN event in September recognises the role of culture in accelerating sustainable development.