UNESCO Session at WLIC 2017
21 August 2017UNESCO is a key partner for IFLA, given its involvement in many of the areas where libraries are most active – literacy, information literacy, culture, Internet governance, and of course safeguarding cultural heritage. The UNESCO session at WLIC 2017 focused on three areas where engagement is bringing benefits for libraries.
Ya está en línea el Mapa de la IFLA de las Bibliotecas del Mundo – una herramienta para todos en defensa de las bibliotecas
21 August 2017"Libraries. Solidarity. Society." comes to Wrocław at the Opening Session!
21 August 2017Wrocław’s Centennial Hall came alive in spectacular fashion on Sunday 20 August, as some 3100 delegates from 122 countries filled the historic space to experience the official opening of the 83rd IFLA General Conference and Assembly.
Today's the day! IFLA's Global Vision online voting is now open
21 August 2017Do you want to help shape the future of the library field and be involved in a truly worldwide brainstorm? Today is the day you can play your part in IFLA’s Global Vision discussion, as the online voting platform has now launched during the World Library and Information Congress in Wrocław, Poland.
Now online: IFLA Library Map of the World – an advocacy tool for all!
21 August 2017Advocacy efforts at the global, regional and national level are severely hindered by the fact that IFLA and many national associations do not have basic information about the state of libraries in their countries. Reliable global library statistics is our shared vision.
How licenses give access, but can also take it away
21 August 2017Release of the “Literature review on the use of licensing in the library context, and the limitations this creates to access to knowledge”
Official address to Congress delegates: Letter by Andrzej Duda, President of the Republic of Poland
20 August 2017Full text of President Duda's welcome letter to WLIC 2017 delegates presented at the Opening Session
Discurso oficial a los delegados del Congreso: Carta de Andrzej Duda, Presidente de la República de Polonia
20 August 2017Opening Session Address by IFLA Secretary General Gerald Leitner
20 August 2017Transcript of Gerald Leitner's address given at the Opening Session on Sunday.