Names of Persons - Swedish Names (2025)

Guidelines for understanding the structure of Swedish and Saami personal names for constructing valid entries and access points in catalogues, including romanization schemes. This 2025 IFLA document outlines naming conventions in Sweden, covering forenames, surnames (including patronymics, prefixes, and compounds), and cultural variations in Saami names. It includes cataloguing practices under RDA, authority file references, and specific considerations for minority languages

IFLA-UNESCO School Library Manifesto 2025

Le projet de bibliothèque scolaire améliore et renforce l’enseignement et les apprentissages pour l’ensemble de la communauté scolaire grâce à des professionnels qualifiés, travaillant en équipe, grâce à des collections physiques et numériques, à des espaces et équipements adaptés, et à une collaboration active pour développer les littératies, l’esprit critique, la créativité et la citoyenneté dans une éducation inclusive et égalitaire

Newsletter: IFLA Advisory Committee on Standards, December 2024

IFLA Standards Newsletter provides an international forum for news, information and discussions about IFLA standards and guidelines and their international counterparts. The newsletter’s aim is to showcase the wide range of standards developed and maintained by IFLA’s professional units, enabling libraries to assess and align their operations and performance in all aspects of librarianship. International in the scope of standards, it also seeks to highlight the work of national and international peer institutions and standardization organizations as it relates to library and information standards

Quarterly Meeting Minutes

Quarterly Meeting Minutes of Professional Section E- Libraries for Children and Young Adults, 02 August, 202

Balancing Interests: Reimagining Legal Deposit in Latvia’s Dynamic Publishing Field

The current Legal Deposit Law of Latvia entered into force in mid-2006. While it can be considered relatively progressive for the time it was written, we at the National Library of Latvia are increasingly aware of how it no longer suffices in the ever-changing field of publishing, sometimes limiting our ability to acquire and preserve certain publications and other times creating unnecessary burden for publishers. Therefore, we will share the main points regarding the updates to the Law we are actively working to implement, especially regarding legal deposit regulations of digital publications, including production files, multi-media publications, publications by trade publishers, web-based content, etc. Inseparable from these developments is our ongoing work with the heterogenous publishing community, including in the form of feedback to the legal amendments proposed by us, which has led us to some takeaways we aspire to implement as part of an extensive communication campaign we are designing to target new publishers and groups of publishers that are typically more challenging to work with in particular to foster a more positive perception of the concept of the legal deposit system shifting the focus from legal duties to the idea of individual and common good

Educating independent publishers about legal deposit

The book publishing industry is undergoing significant change. Where it was once driven by traditional publishers, it is now shifting closer to the hands of individuals who use self-publishing platforms to make their stories available. Self-publishers, or independent publishers, form a diverse and fast-growing sector of publishing. The National Library of Australia is faced with a great challenge: a vast country full of potential publishers haven't heard of legal deposit, many of whom participate in international writing communities and services where Australian legal deposit requirements are not a natural topic. How do we, as a National Library, reach these individuals who are far removed from Canberra and ensure we continue to build a diverse and comprehensive collection of Australian publications? The National Library has undertaken a two-phase project to firstly scope and understand the publishing environment and secondly focus on broad outreach targeting a range of audiences on a large scale. The outreach included the creation of promotional resources, articles and engagement with community groups and professional organisations, blogs targeting genre fiction communities, attendance at festivals and conferences, industry newsletters promotions and paid marketing in newspapers and festival programs. This presentation will discuss the different strategies for outreach, what impact they had and what we learned along the way. Note about the author: Rebecca is Assistant Director, Collect and Acquire leading the team that acquires published and archival collections, including the legal deposit program. Rebecca started her library career at the Australian Music Centre, Sydney and has worked at the National Library of Australia since 2006. Her previous roles span digitisation, acquisition and description of published materials, training, and policy projects. She holds a Master of Applied Science (Library and Information Management) from Charles Sturt University

Minutes of Meeting: Education and Training Section, 09 April 2025

The IFLA Education and Training Section (SET) held its business meeting virtually via Zoom on 9 April 2025. The agenda included updates on IFLA elections and transition plans, the ongoing SET Section Review, and preparations for WLIC 2025. Committee members discussed progress on the global book project about LIS education, reviewed the successful LIS student webinar series, and received updates from the BSLISE Working Group on various initiatives, including a new international scholar appointment and the promotion of LIS education guidelines. Additionally, members were briefed on the Global Knowledge Management Research Project and IFLA’s efforts to enhance its presence in LIS courses. The meeting concluded with action items to support communications and outreach

Minutes of Meeting: Management of Library Associations Section, Monday, 13 January, 2025

The first MLAS Standing Committee Members Meeting for the year 2025 was held on 13 January 2025 via Zoom. MLAS held an IFLA Elections 2025 Orientation for MLAS Members. before the MLAS SC meeting. The orientation was chaired by Loida, MLAS Chair and Ms. Helen Mandl, from the IFLA HQ gave a presentation on IFLA Elections 2025 which was launched on 13 January 2025. After the orientation, MLAS Standing Committee Members Meeting was held. Among the matters discussed include the following: IFLA Governing Board Meeting which was held on the 9th to 11th December 2024 in-person at the Hague, The Netherlands; IFLA WLIC Steering Committee Draft Report in which Loida, MLAS Chair and Loy Jyoon, MLAS Secretary are in the Steering Committee; MLAS Mid-Term which will be hosted by the German Library Association and chair by Loida, will be held in Berlin, Germany from the 3rd- 4th February 2025; MLAS Webinar Series 2025 (March-July 2025) which include IFLA MLAS Advocacy-Impact Evaluation Project, MLAS Building Strong Library Association Initiative: Financial Sustainability; IFLA Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group : opportunities to collaborate; IFLA WLIC 2025, 18-22 August 2025 Astana, Kazakhstan; MLAS priorities for 2023-2024 and MLAS Webinar "How to Internationalize the Work in Library Associations" in collaboration with IFLA Europe Regional Division

Preparation for receiving an electronic mandatory copy in the National Library of the Czech Republic [Webinar paper]

The National Library of the Czech Republic has the right of a legal deposit for physical copies from publishers. The library has been trying to legislate the submission of an electronic legal deposit for several years. The law is currently in the legislative process and should be enacted at the end of this year. This paper will present how the NL CR is preparing to receive and process an electronic legal deposit copy. The library has created its own system for receiving publications, in which publishers will insert e-born monographs and periodicals. The publication will then be processed in the library system and made available in the digital library. Note about the author: Michaela Bežová has been working in the library system for more than 14 years. She has been working at the National Library of the Czech Republic since 2017. Previously she focused on creating strategic and methodological documents for the digitization of library collections, now she is the Director of the Division, which deals with the management of digital content of the National Library (digitized documents and websites) and their accessibility in digital platforms