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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, 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 extraordinary meeting: IFLA Regional Council, 2 February 2024(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-09-17) Regional CouncilThe extraordinary fifth meeting of the Regional Council 2023-2025 was held virtually on 5 February 2024. Items discussed during this meeting include welcome by the Regional Council Chair, followed by a discussion about the importance of regional identity, a regional communication analysis as a first step towards communication plans, and next steps and commitments around regional communications.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: Management of Library Associations Section, 25 July 2024(IFLA Management of Library Associations Section, 2024-09-18) Management of Library Associations SectionThe Management of Library Associations Section (MLAS) Standing Committee Meeting was held on 25 July 2024 via Zoom. The meeting was chaired by Loida Garcia Febo, MLAS Chair and was well attended with 15 MLAS Standing Committee Members and NPSIG and WILSIG Conveners present. Among the matters discussed include the following: Two new MLAS co-opted members; Updates from NP SIG and WILSIG ; IFLA 2024 General Assembly; IFLA WLIC host 2025; IFLA WLIC Review 2nd Pulse Survey; IFLA Information Futures Summit (IIFS); MLAS priorities 2024-2025; MLAS Building Strong Library Associations Initiatives; Mexican Information Global Forum; Building Strong Library Associations Mentorship Program; and MLAS Standing Committee Mid-Term Meeting 2025.Item Minutes of meeting: Library Publishing SIG, 26 June 2024(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-06-26) IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest Group CommitteeItem News Media Section Business Meeting Minutes, May 29, 2024(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-08-29) Mutev, ViktorThese are the News Media Section's business meeting minutes. The meeting was held on May 29, 2024, in Aarhus, Denmark, as part of the 2024 Mid-Year International Conference.Item Minutes of Meeting Professional Council 25 July 2024(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-08) IFLA Professional CouncilMinutes of the Professional Council's August 2024 meetingItem Minutes of Meeting: Bibliography Section, 16 May 2024(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-08-13) IFLA Bibliography SectionMinutes of Bibliography Section Mid-Year Meeting, Teleconference (Zoom), 16 May 2024Item Minutes of Meeting RSCVD Steering Committee, 12 June 2024(International Federation of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-08-13) Medawar, KatiaThe Committee discussed the latest developments in the Talaria software where 2 students were hired for 6 months to investigate reporting technologies and implementing them in Talaria. The newly registered libraries in Talaria will receive a welcome email, and more developments in progress.A new brochure about RSCVD/Talaria was designed to be used in outreach activities. The research4 Life project was also discussed and Peter Bae is doing more investigation to check the scope of the project. More outreach activities are planned in Santander in September, in India as a webinar, another meeting planned in October, and the ALA Conference in San Diego in June. Digital Archiving project to be initiated by Katia to preserve RSCVD history.Item Minutes of Meeting: Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section, 13 June 2024(International Federation of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-08-13) Medawar, KatiaThe DDRS Standing Committee met on the 13th of June 2024 and discussed the latest updates on the Action plan: the ILDS Conference date has been changed t0 2-4 December 2024 and approved. The 3rd webinar series will be scheduled in August 2024 under the topic: Licenses and Copyright. The 4th webinar will take place in November 2024 about Open Access. The RSCVD updates included enhancements in Talaria, along to a new brochure being created for outreach. The Research4 life project is under consideration with a potential collaboration with RSCVD. Outreach activities will be held in September in Santander Spain, along to webinar in India. Digital archiving will involve documenting all the RSCVD History since its inception.Item Minutes of Meeting: Management of Library Associations Section, 31 May 2024(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-07-12) IFLA Management of Library Associations Section Standing CommitteeThe MLAS Mid-Year Meeting was held in conjunction with the 13th Eurasian Academic Libraries Conference (EALC) which is a collaboration between the Nazarbayev University Library and the IFLA Management of Library Associations Section (MLAS) from 29 to 31 May 2024 in Astana, Kazakhstan. The title of the conference was "Connect, Collaborate, Create: Advancing Library Associations and Partnerships to Future-proof our Profession." The MLAS Session was held from 15:00 to 17:00 (Astana Time) on 29th, 30th and 31st May 2024. The Meeting was held in hybrid format(In-person and Online) and open to MLAS members as observers. Among the matters discussed at the meeting include the following: Updates from IFLA Governing Board; the MLAS Open Session was held on 17th May in collaboration with the Lebanese Library Association (LLA), the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region, and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN ESCWA); future MLAS collaboration; Co-option of MLAS SC Members; Programme of Mentoring; Building Strong Library Associations; updates on Advocacy Impact Evaluation (AIE) Project; IFLA Draft Strategy Survey; updates on NPSIG and WILSIG.Item Minutes of Meeting Professional Council 13 June 2024(IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions), 2024-07) IFLA Professional CouncilMinutes from the 13 June 2024 meeting of the IFLA Professional CouncilItem Annual Report 2022-2023: Metropolitan Libraries Section(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2023-09-20) Anthony, CarolynItem Minutes of Meeting: Metropolitan Libraries Section, 18 April 2024(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-07-11) Werder, LuciaItem Minutes of Meeting: Metropolitan Libraries Section, 14 December 2023(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-07-11) Werder, LuciaItem Minutes of Meeting: Metropolitan Libraries Section, 20 June 2024(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-07-11) Hosseini-Ara, MoeItem Minutes of Meeting: Academic and Research Libraries Section, 23-24 April 2024(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-07-09) Academic and Research Libraries Section Standing CommitteeWith the following: 1. Welcome, introductions and apologies. 2. Approval of the agenda. 3. Approval of minutes of previous meeting. 4 Group photo. 5. Matters arising. 5.1. Information Futures summit. 5.2. Survey re: future of WLIC. 5.3. Dynamic Unit Impact award. 6. Professional Committee. 6.1. Update from the PC’s March meeting. 6.2. Announcements from the Professional Committee. 7. Action plan items. 7.1 Joint Division D Mid-term Meeting. 7.2 Blogs. 7.3 Hot Topics. 7.4 IFLA Journal Special Issue. 7.5 Webinars. 7.6 Travel Grant. 7.7 Communications & Social Media. 8. Additional BusinessItem Minutes of meeting: Library Publishing Special Interest Group, 27 July 2022(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-07-27) IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest Group CommitteeItem Minutes of meeting: Library Publishing Special Interest Group, 27 July 2018(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2018-08-27) IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest Group CommitteeStart-up meeting: Library Publishing Interest Group