This guest blog by Morten Olsen Haugen, Trøndelag County Library, Norway, offers an example of how libraries protect, preserve, and promote indigenous languages and the communities that use them.
Read moreThe third round of posts in our 10-Minute Digital Librarian series focuses on digital productivity tools – things that allow you to be more effective in your work. As highlighted in IFLA’s Global Vision, a key characteristic of the library field is collaboration. Libraries and library and information workers are naturally open to working with […]
Read moreWhen IFLA’s Trend Report was released in 2013, the strapline was ‘Riding the Waves or Caught in the Tide’. The Report focused on long-term trends affecting the way we live, work, interact and learn. Today, libraries are of course faced with the very immediate question of how to provide services during a pandemic, and manage […]
Read moreThe COVID-19 pandemic has further underlined an issue that was already painfully clear around the world – that health is too often an equalities issue. Yet it has also made clear that without action to improve the health and wellbeing of all, we cannot overcome challenges. This is the case both in the shorter term […]
Read moreCultural diversity is a force for development. It nurtures a climate of mutual understanding, celebration of differences, and critical thinking to combat pre-conceived notions of the “other”. This is a vital component of building peace, stability, and development. UNESCO states that three-quarters of the world’s major conflicts have a cultural dimension. In order bridge these […]
Read moreWhat do people lose when they have to stay at home? Social connections, leisure activities? A sense of accomplishment, purpose, mental well-being? Livelihoods, jobs, the security of a regular income? Losing any combination of these things is deeply personal experience, varying from individual to individual, but also reflect a larger picture of social welfare. This […]
Read moreOver the past few years, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has been engaged in the reform of copyright laws in South Africa. Indeed, IFLA has submitted on many occasions comments and proposals on draft amendments. This reform contains ambitious provisions which could have an extremely positive impact on libraries and heritage […]
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