Author:  Shaharima Parvin, Senior Assistant Librarian, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh Library and information science (LIS) professionals have been incorporating emerging technologies in service innovation and sustainability. Many legacy sectors, including libraries, have been transforming their services and resources through the digital revolution, to fulfill patron’s expectations. Involvement in the Open Access (OA) movement by Library and […]

Author: Olga Einasto, PhD, University of Tartu Library, Estonia Young people born in the late 1990s and early 2000s are called the Zoomer generation or the Zoomers. They are also known as Digital Natives, the 5G- and @generation, referring to their deep connection with the internet and digital devices.     Statistically, this generation forms […]

Author: Cécile Quach, Library Curator, Gallica Studio Project Manager, BnF As part of the four hundredth anniversary of Molière’s birth in 2022, LITTE_BOT is a theatrical chatbot which embodies Dom Juan from Molière. If you come to Paris, why not drop by the recently reopened historic site Richelieu of the French National Library (Bibliothèque nationale de […]

Author: Danitza Coronel, La Paz, Bolivia I am Bolivian and my dream of attending an IFLA Congress began five years ago in the city of Bogotá, Colombia, when I was serving as a full-time missionary in philanthropic work. One day in the Fontibón Park, I saw that while some children practiced skating, their mothers were […]

Author: Roana Marie Flores of De La Salle University Libraries, Manila, Philippines It started with a dream. My twenty-year-old self knew and believed that one day I would be able to participate in IFLA’s World Library and Information Congress (WLIC). As for the how and when– I honestly didn’t have a clear plan. I just […]