Fighting Against Book Bans in Libraries: Select Resources to Explore, Raise Awareness, and Take Action

Unfortunately, many libraries, bookstores, and schools around the world are seeing an increasing wave of book banning and challenges. Book banning and challenges impacts our readers’ rights to access books. Book banning and challenges creates censorship culture in our communities which is against IFLA’s values. “Because censorship prevents the enjoyment of several generally recognized […]

Eight fantastic years with CPDWL

by Almuth Gastinger (CPDWL Secretary 2021–2023) My second term as a standing committee member for CPDWL was ending in August 2023, and I would like to write about my experiences with this fantastic section and committee during the last eight years. My first encounter with CPDWL was in 2009 when I attended its satellite meeting […]

An Interview with Elaina Norlin from ASERL

Getting ready for #WLIC2023? We are spotlighting professional development trainers and experts in librarianship to talk about their work. In this blog post, we interview Elaine Norlin, Professional Development DEI Coordinator for the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL). Elaina Norlin is the Professional Development DEI Coordinator for the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries. She […]

CIS Libraries in the Global Context: discussion of the IFLA Trend Report 2022

100 librarians from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries discussed the document “IFLA Trend Report 2022″ in Moscow, Russia, on April 20th, 2023. The discussion took place as part of the VI International Forum”Shaping the Future of Libraries” at the M. I. Rudomino All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature with topic of the year […]

What does ChatGPT think about CPDWL and the Standing Committee Members?

You may have read our a past blog post focusing on ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence tools in libraries and in this blog post, we’ll showcase how this tool describes CPDWL and its members using one word! Inspired by IFLA President-elect 2022-2023 Vicki McDonald’s podcast conversation with Dr. GIll Hallam, if we were to use […]

CPDWL Podcast Project Season 5, Episode 1: Vicki McDonald, IFLA President-elect 2022–2023

Colleagues, we are excited to announce the our newest episode (season 5) of the CPDWL Podcast Project where we feature library and information professionals who support and participate in professional development work. Our guest host for this episode is Dr. Gill Hallam, CPDWL Standing Committee Member. This episode’s guest is Vicki McDonald, IFLA President-elect 2022–2023. […]

Q&A with Authors Linda Miles and Susanne Markgren on LIS Professional Development

CPDWL focuses on professional development in the field. We provide numerous resources, training materials and updates on the trends in continuing learning and professional development in the workplace. In this blog post, we speak with librarians Linda Miles and Susanne Markgren, authors of How to Thrive as a Library Professional: Achieving Success and Satisfaction (2019) […]

IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning (CPDWL) Section Blog

Inspiring information professionals write about continuing professional development and workplace learning in order to build strong librarians and libraries for the future!