Are librarians non-playable characters?
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In IFLA’s advocacy work, two recurring phenomena point to a key challenge that we need to overcome.
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The 10-Minute Digital Librarian #13: Explore digital work management tools
This third series of posts covers tools available to support productivity and effectiveness, with today’s edition looking at how you can manage your own work, as well as collaborative projects.
Read moreThe 10-Minute Library Advocate #91: Think how you can promote cultural diversity
Through providing access to information, libraries have a key role in opening eyes and broadening horizons. In schools, they can complement classroom work by promoting wider reading. In universities, they make it possible for students to build up a deeper, wider idea of the state of knowledge in their fields. Beyond, they enable people to […]
Read more10 Things in Our Common Agenda
Our Common Agenda is the United Nations’ Secretary-General’s response to the Declaration made by Member States on the UN’s 75th Anniversary in 2020. It marks an important step from defining priorities to defining concrete actions that can strengthen both the UN, and broader efforts to achieve its objectives. It complements key existing texts, not least […]
Read moreLearning and sharing globally: Interview with Mario Coffa
We interviewed Mario Coffa, the man behind the Library World Tour project that is collecting interviews with leading library actors and thinkers around the world, building up a great collection of insights into the present and future of our field. This interview complements the article already published in the bulletin of IFLA’s Section on Education […]
Read moreLibraries on the Road to Recovering and Revitalising Education
2021’s International Day of Education (24 January) carries a different weight than it has in past years. Although universal access to education is well-established as a human right, as well as a driver of sustainable development, the COVID-19 pandemic has added a new-found urgency, as well as a new set of challenges, to its delivery. […]
Read moreCables, Masts, Data Centres… and Libraries: The Components of a Comprehensive Internet Infrastructure
Infrastructure is what enables things to happen. Typically, we think of it as things like bridges, power networks or pipes, that allow people to travel around, and to receive electricity and running water – physical connections going from one place to the next. Policies for infrastructure are therefore often seen as mainly being about construction, […]
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