Recording Available: FamilySearch's Ottoman Initiative [Webinar]
14 June 2024This presentation was sponsored by the IFLA Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section, Middle East and North Regional Division, and Local History and Genealogy Section.
Call for papers – 24 Hours of Global Information Technology
13 June 2024The IFLA Information Technology Section, IFLA Artificial Intelligence (AI) Special Interest Group, and IFLA Big Data Special Interest Group are pleased to announce an upcoming international virtual event focused on Information Technology (IT) and Libraries. This webinar held across multiple time zones seeks to provide a snapshot of IT challenges and opportunities in libraries and provide regional perspectives on issues.
Change of name: From LSN to EALS
12 June 2024Volunteer Visions: developing a new code of conduct for IFLA
5 June 2024Earlier this year, a call for volunteers went out to the IFLA membership to serve on the Code of Conduct for Volunteers Working Group.
IFLA at the WSIS+20 Forum: Libraries for a more people-centered Internet
3 June 2024Last week the WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event took place in Geneva from the 27 to the 31 of May. This event marked a significant milestone of twenty years of progress made in the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society, which took place in two phases — Geneva in 2003 and Tunis in 2005. Twenty years ago WSIS was the space that set an initial framework for global digital cooperation with a vision to build people-centric, inclusive, and development-oriented information and knowledge societies. Just as in the the past, IFLA attended this event to continue its ongoing involvement in this process since its foundation at the 2003 Geneva Summit; and engaged in diverse multistakeholder discussions to highlight the crucial role that libraries play as key actors of the information society.
IFLA joins Sister Organisations in Declaration on the Protection of Cultural Heritage during armed conflicts
30 May 2024IFLA joined partners from around the world in the Hague to mark 70 years of protecting cultural heritage at a conference hosted by UNESCO and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is on this occasion that we join sister organisations and fellow founding members of Blue Shield International to reaffirm our calls for the protection of archives, libraries, museums and heritage places during armed conflicts and political instability.
Webinar Registration Open: Egypt's Cultural Heritage: Status and Future Prospects
28 May 2024This webinar is sponsored by the Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section, the Local History & Genealogy Section, and the Middle East and North Africa Regional Division.
Does the global library profession need a World Library and Information Congress?
28 May 2024Does the global library profession need a World Library and Information Congress? Yes, it does! This was confirmed by 93.6% of more than 300 respondents to the first of four WLIC Review pulse surveys, which focussed on the need for such a Congress in the profession.
IFLA Newsletter, May 2024: The Library Workers Issue
28 May 2024Welcome to the May 2024 IFLA Newsletter! With International Workers’ Day (Labour Day) falling on the first of the month, we’re focused on the library workforce in this edition.
IFLA Sub-Saharan African Regional Division (IFLA SSA RDC), May 2024 Newsletter
27 May 2024IFLA Sub-Saharan African Regional Division (IFLA SSA RDC), May 2024 Newsletter
Message from the IFLA President, 17 May 2024
27 May 2024I am happy to be writing to you to with the latest update on all that is happening at IFLA, and specifically the work of our Governing Board. I would like to acknowledge the positive feedback on these monthly messages from many of our members and volunteers. Thank you for your comments. We are continuing to issue these updates in all IFLA languages, which I hope assists in updating you on key matters.
IFLA PressReader International Marketing Award Winners 2024
27 May 2024Media release of the IFLA PressReader International Marketing Award Winners 2024. Sponsored by PressReader, the IFLA PressReader International Marketing Award is presented by the IFLA Section on Management and Marketing. The Award recognizes the best library marketing projects from 2023, aims to encourage marketing in libraries and provides an opportunity for libraries to share marketing experience and expertise globally.