Five information disorders that could sink the SDGs, and how to prevent this
In IFLA’s work around the SDGs, our core theme is the importance of meaningful access to information as a key driver for development.
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25 Years of Cooperation for Cultural Property Protection
On 6 June 1994, the International Committee of the Blue Shield was established in a spirit of collaboration by the International Council on Archives (ICA), the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the International Council of Museums and Sites (ICOMOS), and IFLA. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Blue Shield, we look back at its history […]
Read moreLibraries in the Post-Pandemic Future of Cities
UN HABITAT, the United Nations Programme for Human Settlements, recently released Cities and Pandemics: Towards a More Just, Green and Healthy Future. Drawing both on the organisations’ long experience of supporting sustainable urban development – most notably through delivering on the New Urban Agenda – and lessons learned during the COVID-19 Pandemic so far, the […]
Read moreCaught in the Backwash? Six things worth retaining from the time of the pandemic
When 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 moreLibrary Stat of the Week #50 (Part 2): Where there are stronger and better used public and community libraries, more people read, more often
In the final post both of this mini-series on libraries and cultural data, and of our regular Library Stat of the Week posts, we return to a core function of libraries – to promote reading and access to books. In the past three weeks, we have looked at data around how much households spend on […]
Read moreLibrary Stat of the Week #48: In Countries with Stronger – and Better Used – Public and Community Library Fields, Books Account for Larger Shares of Household Spending on Culture
After a couple of weeks’ break, we’re back with a final mini-series of Library Stat of the Week posts, focusing this time on libraries and cultural data. Cultural data itself is unfortunately not as widely collected as other types of data, partly because of a lack of widely adopted shared standards, partly because – wrongly, […]
Read moreThe 10-Minute International Librarian #25: Learn and Tell a Library Story
The two key types of evidence in building the case for libraries are data and stories. Data reaches out to the ‘right’ brain, appealing to the logical, the rational. But sometimes, you need to be able to reach out first to emotions, to help them to see themselves in a particular situation. You need to […]
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