(13 Feb 2025) IFLA’s Trend Report series represents a key tool available to libraries globally in order to help plan for the future. Through this, it aims build the resilience and sustainability of our field during changing times, and so our ability to fulfil our missions. The IFLA Trend Report 2024 was initially released on 30 September 2024, with an updated version issued on 30 January 2025, as well as a Skills Agenda.
In line with the wider goal of the series, the latest edition is also not just to be read, but to be used. To help with this, the Report includes a set of ‘ways to play’ – ideas for how individuals, groups and associations can draw on the trends and scenarios to advance their own thinking.
The revised version, launched on 30 January 2025, includes an additional six scenarios, as well as a chapter giving an overview of different tools available for thinking about futures. In addition, we have been happy to launch a Skills Agenda for the Trend Report, prepared by emerging leaders from around the world, exploring which skills we will need to be ready for whatever the future may bring.
The report can be downloaded here. Read the full announcement here.
