UNESCO Cluster Office for the Gulf States and Yemen and Qatar National Library, the IFLA’s Preservation and Conservation Center for the Arab region, organise...

I represented IFLA at the United Cities and Local Government (UCLG) conference that was held in Durban in November. UCLG is the global voice of local and reg...

I was delighted to be invited to attend the ICDL (International Conference on Digital Landscape) 2019 conference in New Delhi in November and meet so many co...

The IFLA annual congress is always a wonderful time to learn new things, meet new and old friends and progress our agenda. This year in Athens was extra spec...

Changsha is an historical city situated in the Hunan Province of China. It is a modern, vibrant place with a strong economy and was the host of the Chinese L...

The Southeast Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA) held its annual conference in Noumea, New Caledonia, 27-29 June. Around 100 people from...

This is part 3 of 3 posts on the I&J Network conference. Day 2 of the conference was conducted in three parallel tracks: Data, Content and Domains. Participa...

This is part 2 of 3 posts on the Internet & Jurisdiction Network Conference held in Berlin 3-5 June. The Internet & Jurisdiction Global Status Report 2019 wa...

This blog is part 1 of 3 posts devoted to the I&J Network conference. I recently attended the third conference of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network w...

The IFLA President’s meeting, Motors of Change: Libraries and Sustainable Development in Buenos Aires last week launched the new Development and Access to In...

I represented IFLA at three professional events while I was in Russia last week. At the round table in St Petersburg we discussed library associations and pa...

When the invitation to visit Russia arrived, I was wondering what it would be like. We had visited St Petersburg in 2005. We were required to travel with a g...

In my time in the library field there have been special public librarians and libraries that have caused us to change our thinking and reassess what librarie...

My first calendar year as President-elect of IFLA has been amazing. I’ve been able to meet so many friends and colleagues and hear what great work is being d...

I was invited to attend the RAILS (Research Applications in Information and Library Studies) conference held at Monash University, Melbourne, 28 – 30 Novembe...

Connected Actions, Collective Vision: Libraries Transforming Society, Quezon City, 20-23 November. I was delighted to be the keynote speaker at the PLAI cong...

I wasn’t sure whether to publish this - and then I heard Anne Summers, noted Australian writer, journalist, leading feminist, editor and publisher on the rad...

The theme of the 16th Indonesia Library Association National Congress held in Surabaya 9 – 11 October was Transforming the Library, Transforming the Society....

ALIA and the Newcastle Regional Library sponsored this symposium on 30 October at the historic Newcastle City Hall. The presentations started with the intern...

Life after LIFE: New Horizons for the Municipal Libraries in Turkey was the final convening for the Turkish Libraries for Everyone program and was held in An...