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Item Minutes of Meeting: Equitable and Accessible Library Services Section, 5 February 2025(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-05-15) IFLA Equitable and Accessible Library Services Standing CommitteeThe meeting covered the publication and promotion of new Accessibility and Displaced Persons Guidelines, updates on the 2025 IFLA elections, planning for WLIC 2025 (including a poster project), and scheduling the upcoming April midterm meeting to review the section’s progress and leadership transition.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, 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 Professional Council 27 March 2025(IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions), 2025-05) IFLA Professional CouncilMinutes from the 27 March 2025 meeting of the IFLA Professional CouncilItem Minutes of Meeting: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section, 11 March 2025(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-05-03) IFLA Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section Standing CommitteeMinutes of the LPD Midterm Meeting held in Malmö, Sweden, covering updates from IFLA and EALS, member reports, collaboration with DAISY, the Accessibility Metadata Network, and ongoing work on the section’s mission, goals, and communications strategy.Item Minutes of Meeting: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section, 25 September 2024(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-09-25) IFLA Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section Standing CommitteeMinutes of LPD Business Meeting 2, including discussion of the Action Plan 2023–2025, participation in WLIC 2025, collaboration with the DAISY Consortium, and planning for the midterm meeting.Item Minutes of Meeting: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section, 20 August 2024(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-05-03) IFLA Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section Standing CommitteeMinutes of the LPD Business Meeting 1 held in Washington, DC on 20 August 2024. The meeting included updates from Division D, planning for future activities, and an in-depth discussion on revising the section’s mission and goals.Item Minutes of meeting: IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest Group, 30 April 2025(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-05) IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest GroupThe LIBPUB Committee meeting held on 30 April 2025 covered updates on committee membership, progress on transitioning from SIG to Section status, preparations for WLIC 2025, the announcement of the LPC/IFLA LIBPUB International Scholarship, planning for upcoming events such as the Open Textbooks initiative, developments in the blog series, and a tribute to the late Nodumo Dhlamini for her contributions to open science in Africa.Item Minutes of Meeting: Education and Training Section, 09 April 2025(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-04-09) IFLA Education and Training Section Standing Committee; Gupta, Dinesh K.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.Item Minutes of Meeting: Bibliography Section, 18 November 2024(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-04-03) IFLA Bibliography Section Standing CommitteeMinutes of Business meeting on November 18, 2024 covering topics including Chair's update, News and update from the IIFS in Brisbane, Action Plan Updates October 2024 and Annual Report 2023-2024, Working groups developments, Communications update, 2025 In person meeting and Review of Guidelines/Documents authored by BIB’s SCs.Item Minutes of meeting Professional Council 13 February 2025(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-04) IFLA Professional CouncilMinutes from the 13 February 2025 meeting of the IFLA Professional CouncilItem Minutes of Meeting: Library Publishing Special Interest Group, 26 March 2025(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-04-01) IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest Group CommitteeMinutes of meeting held on 26 March 2025 by the IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest Group. Key topics discussed included progress on the transition from SIG to Section, updates on the ongoing IFLA elections, and approval of the WLIC 2025 Open Session titled “Sustainable Pathways to Open Science and Open Scholarship.” The group also planned collaborative webinars with LPC, reviewed a draft for the international scholarship, and discussed updates to the Library Publishing Map. Further discussions included launching a blog series to increase engagement and visibility, and updates on the new Norwegian Library Publishing Network and potential contributions.Item Minutes of Meeting: Resource Sharing during COVID-19 Committee, 12 March 2025(International Federation of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-03-21) IFLA Resource Sharing during COVID-19 CommitteeThe Resource Sharing Collaborative and Volunteering Document Delivery (RSCVD) steering committee held its monthly meeting on the 12th of March, 2025 and discussed the latest successful upgrades on Talaria software with publishing 2 short videos tutorials on the RSCVD website. The updates went smooth. The next phase will focus on the statistics implementation and emails notifications. Silvana notified the committee that they are exploring the Arabic interface due to the high demand from libraries in the MENA region. The next RSCVD demo will be held on the 13th of March for the Bodleian Library, organized by Peter Bae, Carmen Lomba and Katia Medawar. Giovanna will organize a demo on the latest updates to the Italian partners. Carmen reminded the committee about the coming RSCVD nominations in April 2025. The final selection of nominees will take place in August 2025. Katia confirmed that the DDRS proposal at the WLIC2025 is accepted and will follow up with Tuba about securing a booth for RSCVD. The IFLA elections were also discussed , where 15 vacant positions were available for DDRS and 16 candidates. Peter Bae is running for the IFLA Governing Board. Carmen provided an update on compiling the case studies for conversion into a formal paper which will be added to both the Baku repository and the IFLA repository. Ibrahim suggested to publish the paper and case studies in the journal Information Discovery & Delivery before adding them to the repositories.Item Minutes of Meeting: Resource Sharing during COVID-19 Committee, 19 February 2025(International Federation of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-03-21) IFLA Resource Sharing during COVID-19 CommitteeThe monthly RSCVD Steering Committee meeting took place on the 19th of February 2025 and discussed the recent updates of Talaria software, with the coming webinars to take place in Lisbon in May. The WLIC2025 planning committee is working on presenting a proposal where RSCVD will play a role between presenting RSCVD and providing demos in a booth during the congress. And, on the 4th of February, Katia and Ibrahim hosted a RSCVD session for the MENA region in Arabic and organized by the IFLA MENA RO at Qatar National Library. The webinar was successful with 74 participants . The feedback showed that participants learned about RSCVD and are willing to use it in the future. The coming webinars will be in Lisbon in May, in Genova in October, in Marsh for the Bodleian Library, and planning another one for the SiriLanka Library Association and Bangladeshi Librarians. The committee members agreed for the need to write a policy and tips on what can or cannot be requested through RSCVD to minimize confusion as same requests are going to RSCVD and NILDE. The last item was discussing the ILDS2024 papers to be published along to the 4 case studies done from Lebanon, Qatar, India and Turkey.Item Minutes of Meeting: Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section, 06 March 2025(International Federation of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-03-21) IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section Standing CommitteeThe DDRS Standing Committee met on March 6th, 2025 and evaluated the latest webinar held on the 5th of March reflecting on the take away of the ILDS 2024 conference that was held in Baku on 2-3-4 December 2024. The 3 participants grants recipients benefited from the conference and the people they met and spoke about each own's take away for own library. The 6th webinar will be held in May 2025, with Delnet from India and Andy Appleyard will be the moderator. The date is yet to be decided. The WLIC2025 proposal for DDRS was accepted and the planning committee will be meeting to refine the entire proposal and work on shaping the session's main theme the Sustainability of the IFLA Voucher. The search for host for the ILDS2026 is still open, and todate no bid was received. Members agreed to contact institutions they know to encourage them to host. Chair made some updates on the elections, for DDRS there are 15 seats and 16 candidates. The DDRS Action Plan was updated on time, with the completion of the webinar series, the ILDS2024 conference, only the guidelines are still in working progress. Carmen Lomba Chair of the RSCVD Committee shared updates on RSCVD webinar and current state. On March 13th a RSCVD webinar will be held for the Bodleian Library.Item Minutes of Meeting: Management of Library Associations Section, 04 February 2025(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-03-20) IFLA Management of Library Associations Section Standing CommitteeThe Management of Library Association Section (MLAS) held the Standing Committee Meeting on 4th February in a hybrid format (in-person and virtual) during the MLAS Mid-Term in Berlin, Germany from 3th to 4th February 2025. The Mid-Term which was chaired by Loida Garcia Febo, MLAS Chair, and hosted by Hella Klauser, MLAS SC and the German Library Association. Among the matters discussed during the meeting were updates from the IFLA Governing Board which include IFLA's Financial Sustainability; Final draft of IFLA's World Library Information Congress (WLIC) Review in which Loida through the IFLA Governing Board and Loy Jyoon, through geographical diversity are in the WLIC Steering Committee; IFLA Elections 2025 which was launched on 13 January; IFLA WLIC 2025 which will be held in Astana, Kazakhstan from August 18-22 ; Call for Expression of Interest (EOI) to host IFLA WLIC 2026; IFLA Trend Report which was released at the IFLA Information Futures Summit in Brisbane, Australia and IFLA Strategy 2024-2029. Hella gave an update on the MLAS Mid-Term which was held at the Berlin Public Library. Loida gave an update on 2025 MLAS Webinars which will be held form April to July 2025; MLAS Open Session and MLAS Business Meeting during IFLA WLIC 2025; Updates from New Professionals Special Interest Group and Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group.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, 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: Library Publishing Special Interest Group, 26 February 2025(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-03-11) IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest GroupItem Minutes of Meeting: Management of Library Associations Section, Monday, 13 January, 2025(IFLA Management of Library Associations Section, 2025-02-22) IFLA Management of Library Associations SectionThe 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.