A commitment to promoting access to information is a unifying factor across the global library field. In a changing information space, we interviewed Jonathan Hernández-Pérez to find out more about the concept of infodiversity and how it can help understand trends and developments.
After forty years of service to the iSchool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, Associate Professor Terry L. Weech (MS '65, PhD '72) retired at the end of December.
Our January 2021 newsletter is now out!
Qatar National Library has been selected to host the 17th International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Interlending and Document Supply (ILDS) Conference from 4 to 7 October 2021.
In a survey out now, OCLC is exploring how libraries are working with the SDGs. IFLA interviewed Evi Tramantza, Chair of the OCLC Global Council Program Committee, to find out more.
IFLA has published a new statement on the role of library and information services in improving the way societies are governed, both through optimal decision-making within government, and effective scrutiny and engagement by parliaments and wider populations.
This call offers additional opportunities for short reports from the field to represent the breadth of issues of concern for the diverse, global audience of IFLA Journal. Corrected Submission Deadline: 28.02.2021 For the details, please read; IFLA Journal Special Issue on storage 2nd call [doc]
With the lines that follow we would like to memorialize Viviana Quiñones, our dear and outstanding colleague in the IFLA section 'Libraries for Children and Young Adults'. After more than two years of illness, she died on 16 December 2020.
In this article, IFLA celebrates the work of the Iraqi Association for Information, Libraries and Documentation Specialists and their engagement with the IFLA Strategy.
IFLA is looking for two qualified Data and Outreach Administrative Assistants
Win €3,000 towards purchasing new technology for your library organisation! The IFLA Section on Management and Marketing is partnering with PressReader in collaboration with the IFLA PressReader International Library Marketing Award for 2021.
Your ideas, thoughts and contributions are changing the way we work. What we’ve learnt is that you are open to innovation and new experiences with high expectations for IFLA’s events as a place to bring the library field together.