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Item Minutes of extraordinary meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 27 November 2023(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-02-01) IFLA Regional CouncilThe extraordinary meeting of the Regional Council 2023-2025 was held virtually on 27 November 2023. Items discussed during this meeting include welcome by the Regional Council Chair, followed by resources and impact measurement advice. Furthermore, the Regional Information Coordinators and Chairs shared their regional priorities and objectives on regional communications.Item Minutes of meeting IFLA Regional Council, 9 February 2022(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-05-04) IFLA Regional CouncilItems discussed at the third Regional Council meeting include updates from the Regional Council Chair, a report on the Professional Council activities, and updates from the Regional Division Committee Chairs. Subsequently, information about IFLA Outreach and Membership in the Regions was shared, which included an overview of current membership, and questions for discussion, Regional Factsheets on IFLA Membership and data on IFLA Membership. Regarding the SDGs, a forward looking discussion took place. Issues about WLIC 2022 were also discussed, like Regional sessions at WLIC.Item Minutes of Meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 10 April 2025(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-05-14) IFLA Regional CouncilThe fourteenth meeting of the Regional Council 2023-2025 was held virtually on 10 April 2025. Items discussed during this meeting include welcome by the Regional Council Chair, followed by updates from Regional Division Committee Chairs, and Headquarters. Additionally, the election process was discussed. The handover process to the next Regional Council and Division Committees and the incoming training for Planning for Impact were introduced. The Council discussed a paper about encouraging regional representatives to stand as candidates to be officers. Updates on the Regional Advocacy Priorities Survey were shared, alongside an update on WLIC 2025 and updates on the Regional Council Action Plan.Item Minutes of Meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 13 November 2024(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-03-13) IFLA Regional CouncilThe eleventh meeting of the Regional Council 2023-2025 was held virtually on 13 November 2024. Items discussed during this meeting include welcome by the Regional Council Chair, followed by updates from the IFLA President, the Professional Council Chair, the Regional Division Committee Chairs, and Headquarters. Additionally, the Regional Council Self-Evaluation Processes and the Reginal Division Committee Evaluation processes were discussed, alongside contributions of the Regional Division Committees to the achievement of the Strategy Vision. Additionally, topics discussed in this meeting included: updates on the Regional Council Action Plan and on the 2025 WLIC Preparation; IFLA Elections – Making the Most of the Pre-Nominations Phase; End-of-year membership offer; Library Connectivity Survey.Item Minutes of meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 14 November 2023(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2023-12-07) IFLA Regional CouncilThe third meeting of the Regional Council 2023-2025 was held virtually on 14 November 2023. Items discussed during this meeting include welcome by the Regional Council Chair, followed by a report from the Nairobi Workshop and Sharjah RDC Meeting. Additionally, the Regional Division Committee Action Plans were reviewed and discussed, as well as a model for the review of Regional Division Committees. At the end of the meeting, discussions that took place were around the planning for the in-person December meeting and updates on the Regional Council Action Plan.Item Minutes of meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 17 January 2024(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-03-14) IFLA Regional CouncilThe fourth meeting of the Regional Council 2023-2025 was held virtually on 17 January 2024. Items discussed during this meeting include welcome by the Regional Council Chair, followed by updates from Governing Board, Professional Council, and Headquarters. Additionally, there were three Deep-Dive issues discussed: i) Deep-Dive: Understanding and Building Connections in New York, ii) Deep-Dive: RDC Plans and Practices for Engaging Emerging Leaders, and iii) Deep-Dive: Communications – Preparing for the next meeting with IFLA HQ. Updates on the Regional Council Action Plan were also mentioned, while discussion took place around planning for the next meeting in March 2024.Item Minutes of Meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 18 December 2024(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-03-13) IFLA Regional CouncilThe twelfth meeting of the Regional Council 2023-2025 was held virtually on 18 December 2024. Items discussed during this meeting include welcome by the Regional Council Chair, followed by updates from Regional Division Committee Chairs, and Headquarters. Additionally, the responses of the Regional Council Evaluation was discussed. Updates on the collaboration with the United Nations, on multilingualism and on the 2025 WLIC preparations were discussed. Additionally a forward-looking topic on what's on the agenda for 2025 was discussed.Item Minutes of Meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 19 February 2025(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-05-14) IFLA Regional CouncilThe thirteenth meeting of the Regional Council 2023-2025 was held virtually on 19 February 2025. Items discussed during this meeting include welcome by the Regional Council Chair, followed by updates from Regional Division Committee Chairs, and Headquarters. Additionally, updates on the IFLA elections were shared. Other issues discussed were: the Review of the Regional Council Action Plan, and what is possible before the end of the mandate; Cooperation between RDCs and other regional actors; Communications update; Plans for the regional advocacy priorities survey 2025; Update on WLIC 2025; Update on work to strengthen IFLA’s regional structures to manage projects.Item Minutes of meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 19 September 2024(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-11-21) IFLA Regional CouncilThe tenth meeting of the Regional Council 2023-2025 was held virtually on 19 September 2024. Items discussed during this meeting include welcome by the Regional Council Chair, followed by updates from Regional Division Committee Chairs, and Headquarters. Additionally, the Regional Division Committee Evaluation Process was discussed, alongside the mid-term review of the Regional Council. The work around the evaluation of IFLA’s past support for library associations was also discussed in this meeting, specifically of the "Building Strong Library Associations" initiative with a view to building an evidence base for designing more effective support to associations in future. Updates on the Regional Council Action Plan were shared by the RC Vice-Chair during this meeting. Additional topics discussed were: the RC contribution to the preparations of WLIC 2025; the implementation of the new IFLA Strategy 2025-2029 in regions; the IFLA ANBI Status and the organisation's sustainability; the regional results from the IFLA Trend Report; the promotion of the IFLA Internet Manifesto in the Regions.Item Minutes of meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 24 July 2022(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-10-05) IFLA Regional CouncilItems discussed at the fifth Regional Council meeting include an intervention of IFLA President, updates from the Regional Council Chair (incl. updated from the Professional Council), updates on progress on WLIC sessions and meetings, updated from around the SDGs theme, including a report from HLPF Participation, a discussion around evaluating the first year of IFLA’s Regional Structures, which included evaluations by Regional Division Committees and discussion around the proposed processes for co-option, casual vacancies, removals and mentors. Subsequently, a strategic discussion took place around communications, which included a briefing around current activities.Item Minutes of meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 24 July 2022(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-10-02) IFLA Regional CouncilItems discussed at the meeting include an intervention of IFLA President, updates on progress on WLIC sessions and meetings, report from members' participation at the High-level Political Forum, evaluating Year 1 of IFLA’s Regional Structures (evaluations by Regional Division Committees, revisions to Action Plans, proposed processes for co-option, casual vacancies, removals and mentors), strategic discussion on communication.Item Minutes of meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 25 August 2023(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2023-09-29) IFLA Regional CouncilThe first meeting of the Regional Council 2023-2025 was held after WLIC 2023 in-person, in Rotterdam. Items discussed during this meeting include welcome by the Regional Council Chair, including refresher on the role of the Regional Council, followed by introductions from the new Regional Council members. Also, a handover was presented by the previous Regional Council. Subsequently, forward-planning discussions took place and reports were requested from each region around the below different themes: the state of the library sector, the LGBTQ+ community, and children and youth in plans for inclusion and reading promotion. Future action planning was also discussed around advocacy, supporting global outreach, and overseeing and enabling the work of the Regional Division Committees (including cooperation with other units). Regarding planning, a draft Regional Division Committee Action Plan template was presented. Modalities of working (planning and performing work) were discussed. Finally, the next in-person meeting of the RC in December was discussed.Item Minutes of meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 29 June 2023(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2023-08-11) IFLA Regional CouncilItems discussed at the tenth Regional Council meeting include updates from the IFLA President and the IFLA Secretary General about WLIC 2024, followed by a discussion around this topic Also, updates from the Regional Council Chair, the Professional Council Chair, and the Regional Division Committee Chairs. Also, updates on the regional hubs WLIC 2023 and the Regional Council Session at WLIC 2023. Subsequently, there was a discussion about lessons learnt, with a focus on preparing the 2023-2025; evaluating the work of the Regional Council in 2021-2023; the draft Regional Council Welcome Guide 2023-2025. Regarding planning for the Committees' transition, the discussion continued including preliminary results from the IFLA Regional Advocacy Priorities Survey and an update on the transition planning. There was also an update about the SDG and Internet Governance work and towards a revision of the Internet Manifesto. Finally, there was an update about the elected members of the Regional Council 2023-2025 and a paper about Regional Diversity election results.Item Minutes of meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 29 September 2023(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2023-11-14) IFLA Regional CouncilThe second meeting of the Regional Council 2023-2025 was held virtually on 29 September 2023. Items discussed during this meeting include welcome by the Regional Council Chair, followed by a deep-dive from the Regional Division Chairs around themes for the state of the library field around the world: introduction on the state of the library field; regional Division Committee reports; background: data from the Library Map of the World; implications for the work of the Regional Council. Subsequently, forward-planning discussions took place.Item Minutes of meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 3 June 2024(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-09-17) IFLA Regional CouncilThe eighth meeting of the Regional Council 2023-2025 was held virtually on 3 June 2024. Items discussed during this meeting include welcome by the Regional Council Chair, followed by updates from Governing Board, Professional Council, and Headquarters. Additionally, the Regional Division Committee Evaluation Process was discussed, alongside the mid-term review of the Regional Council. One Deep-Dive issue was discussed about the drivers of engagement in RDC work (and how to shape them). Additionally, the RC members were engaged in a discussion about how to maximize regional participation and updates on the Regional Council Action Plan were also shared.Item Minutes of meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 30 April 2024(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-09-17) IFLA Regional CouncilThe seventh meeting of the Regional Council 2023-2025 was held virtually on 17 January 2024. Items discussed during this meeting include welcome by the Regional Council Chair, followed by updates from Governing Board, Professional Council, and Headquarters. Additionally, there was two Deep-Dive issues discussed: i) effective working practices between professional and regional units, ii) how to engage in the Information Futures Summit. Updates on work on RDC Reviews were also mentioned, alongside updates on communication and advocacy work. Discussion took place at the end about future deep-dive themes.Item Minutes of meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 4 May 2022(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-07-24) IFLA Regional CouncilItems discussed at the fourth Regional Council meeting include the Regional Council Chair’s Update, including Professional Council update and Regional Division Committees' updates, discussion on WLIC 2022 planning (Updates on progress on WLIC sessions, specifically updates from the PC Liaison and the Regional Division Committee Chairs), update on progress on the Regional Council global SDGs action plan, potential bid for a side-event at the 2022 High Level Political Forum and Regional Communications.Item Minutes of meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 4 May 2023(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2023-06-29) IFLA Regional CouncilItems discussed at the ninth Regional Council meeting include updates from the Regional Council Chair, the Professional Council Chair, Governing Board updates, and updates from the Regional Division Committee Chairs. Also, updates on the regional hubs WLIC 2023, the WLIC 2023 Provisional Programme - Business Meetings, Satellite Meetings and Regional sessions. The discussion about effective working practices was continued, with a focus on a checklist and detailed results from surveys on communications, emerging leaders, sub-groups and tips for inclusive meetings and webinars. Regarding planning for the Committees' transition, the discussion continued about how to support the induction of the next Regional Council and Regional Division Committees, including a transition planning, updates of the IFLA Regional Advocacy Priorities Survey rerun and a brief overview of IFLA nominations results till date. Finally, an update on SDG and Internet Governance work was shared and discussed.Item Minutes of meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 5 March 2024(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-09-17) IFLA Regional CouncilThe sixth meeting of the Regional Council 2023-2025 was held virtually on 5 March 2024. Items discussed during this meeting include welcome by the Regional Council Chair, followed by updates from Governing Board, Professional Council, and Headquarters. Additionally, there were four Deep-Dive issues discussed: 1) Changing perceptions of libraries among governments over COVID-19, 2) Changing perceptions of libraries among communities over COVID-19, 3) Changing self-perceptions of libraries over COVID-19, 3) Next steps with this work. Updates on work to develop contacts in New York, and other advocacy work were also discussed, alongside updates on communications and on methods for reviewing Regional Division Committees, and exchange of RDC chair experiences.Item Minutes of meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 5 October 2022(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-12-06) IFLA Regional CouncilItems discussed at the meeting include updates from the Regional Council Chair and the Professional Council liaison, call for a volunteer to stand on the IFLA ethics team, strategic discussions on evaluation and communication, updates on activities and lessons learnt shared by the Regional Division Chairs, preparations for the in-person meeting of the Regional Council in December 2022 in the Hague, actions that support the engagement in Voluntary National Reviews.