(26 Mar 2025) The IFLA Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Section focuses on cooperation, exchange of information, and promotion and support of the role of libraries as core institutions for research and education worldwide. Here’s the table of contents, Perceptions of the role of research librarian: A phenomenological study Australian academic libraries and the United Nations…
(27 Feb 2025) Are you involved in an interesting project, library activity, new service, or application of technology that contributes locally, regionally or globally to our societal future? Would you like to showcase your work and network with other like-minded individuals in Astana, Kazakhstan, in August 2025? IFLA is excited to announce that the call…
(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…
(16 Dec 2024) The first ever IFLA Guidelines for Libraries Supporting Displaced Persons grew from a chapter inside the 2017 IFLA Guidelines for library services to people who experience homelessness published by the IFLA Equitable and Accessible Library Services Section (EALS) (formerly Library Services to People with Special Needs – LSN Section). Even at the time the need was…
(30 Sep 2024) We don’t need to know for sure what the future holds for libraries and the communities they serve in order to be able to play a role in shaping it. The 2024 Trend Report, launched at the Information Futures Summit and made possible by SIGL support, offers a key resource for librarians,…
(13 May 2024) Contents of this issue include: Planning for the future of knowledge and information in Asia-Oceania INCITE in Conversation CONSAL XIX comes to Malaysia Report on the “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – Measurement, Evaluation, Demonstrating Impact of Library Services” Workshop in Kandy, Sri Lanka What does Singapore public libraries’ Chief Innovation Officer do?…
(14 May 2024) The IFLA Information Literacy (ILS) Section Newsletter is published twice a year. Articles in the Summer 2024 issue include: Unlocking Minds: Digital Libraries for Sustainable Literacy (Banaras Hindu University, India) Transforming the AMDI Library, Universiti Sains Malaysia: Embracing Innovation for Enhanced Learning (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia) Library Instruction and Blended Learning at RMIT University Vietnam…
(28 Feb 2024) In this issue of IFLA Asia and Oceania Regional Division Newsletter, Malaysian Libraries: Transforming Communities Through Citizen Science Building a Digital Network of Chinese Ancient Books” Chinese Ancient Books Resources Database Construction and Services Innovation for Enhanced Smart Library Services Implementation and Response to SDGs by a Public Library: Innovative AR Picture…
(22 Jan 2024) Copyright rules have a key impact on the work of libraries, shaping how we acquire, manage, and enable people to use knowledge. It is also an evolving issue, with new laws and regulation always under discussion, in response to technological, political and economic change. IFLA asked the members of its Advisory Committee…
(20 Nov 2023) ENSULIB, IFLA’s Environment, Sustainability & Libraries Section announces the 9th IFLA Green Library Award 2024 is open for submissions. The prize is awarded in two categories: Category 1: Best Green Library/Grand-Scale Project Category 2: Best Green Library Project The deadline for applications is 28 February 2024. Find out more here.…