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The Global Value of OERs and Open Textbooks — OER Special Interest Group for ASEAN: Connecting Librarians in Southeast Asia for Shared Knowledge and Practice in Open Education
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2026-04-29) Chin, Melody
Presenter: Melody Chin, Senior Librarian for Instruction & Learning Singapore Management University (SMU) Libraries.
The Global Value of OERs and Open Textbooks — Living Handbooks: Concept, Structure, and Impact
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2026-04-29) Hennschen, Kyra
Presenter: Kyra Hennschen, Project Manager/ Open Access Publication Manager, ZBMed
The Global Value of OERs and Open Textbooks — Open Books Hong Kong: A Collaborative Approach to Open Access Scholarship
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2026-04-29) Meunier, Benjamin; Lam, Jenny
Presenters: Mr. Benjamin Meunier, University Librarian, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Ms. Jenny Lam, Open Science Librarian, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
4 AI strategies for science & technology libraries
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2026-04-20) IFLA Science and Technology Libraries Section Standing Committee
4 AI strategies for science & technology libraries is a set of know-how developed from the April 8th, 2026 webinar "AI in Science & Technology Libraries: Smarter Discovery, Better Services, and Responsible Use".
The Global Value of OERs and Open Textbooks: Policies, Impact, and Capacity Building
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2026-04-17) Corti, Paola
Presentation from the IFLA Library Publishing Section Webinar Series: "Capacity Building – Workshop on OERs. Webinar topic: The Global Value of OERs and Open Textbooks". Date: 29 April 2026.
The Global Value of OERs and Open Textbooks: Policies, Impact, and Capacity Building — Policies, Benefits and Importance
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2026-04-08) Walsh, Patrick Paul
Presentation from Capacity Building – Workshop on OERs, sponsored by the IFLA Library Publishing Section. Webinar topic: The Global Value of OERs and Open Textbooks. Date: 29 April 2026.
The Global Value of OERs and Open Textbooks: Policies, Impact, and Capacity Building — Digital public goods: OER for equitable access to knowledge
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2026-04-17) Cox, Glenda
Presentation from Capacity Building – Workshop on OERs, sponsored by the IFLA Library Publishing Section. Webinar topic: The Global Value of OERs and Open Textbooks. Date: 29 April 2026.
10 tips to grow your STEM programmes
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2026-04-13) IFLA Science and Technology Libraries Section Standing Committee
10 tips to grow your STEM programmes is a set of know-how developed from the March 30th, 2026 webinar "Collecting place names – a citizen science project in Valmiera, Latvia". Event page: https://www.ifla.org/events/science-popularization-at-the-national-library-of-public-information-taiwan/ Press release: https://www.ifla.org/news/national-library-of-public-information-in-taiwan-champions-science-literacy/ Recording: https://youtu.be/jWv9KnOOon0
5 steps to a successful citizen science project
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2026-04-13) IFLA Science and Technology Libraries Section Standing Committee
5 steps to a successful citizen science project is a set of know-how developed from the February 16th, 2026 webinar "Collecting place names – a citizen science project in Valmiera, Latvia". Event page: https://www.ifla.org/events/collecting-place-names-a-citizen-science-project-in-valmiera-latvia/ Press release: https://www.ifla.org/news/valmiera-library-transforms-local-knowledge-into-valuable-research-materials/ Recording: https://youtu.be/vJn0mArwEcM
Building an Accessible Library and Workplace – Practical Do’s, Don'ts, and Best Practices
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2026-03) Larsson, Karin
Building an Accessible Library and Workplace – Practical Do’s, Don'ts, and Best Practices Slides from a hands-on session focused on creating inclusive, accessible spaces in libraries and workplaces with Karin Larsson. Whether you’re designing physical areas, digital resources, or workplace processes, this session will guide you through essential practices to ensure your environment works for everyone. Karin covered key principles of accessibility, highlighting common mistakes and showcasing best practices. Through real-world examples—both effective and problematic—you’ll learn how to make your spaces, resources, and workflows user-friendly for people with disabilities.
MONDIACULT 2025 Cultural Rights and Libraries: Intervention Transcript
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-10-07) International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA); Memis, Sharon
IFLA attended the World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development – MONDIACULT 2025 to bring the voice of libraries to the table. Hosted by the Government of Spain in Barcelona from 29 September – 1 October 2025, this event has set the global agenda for culture in the years ahead. As an NGO in official partnership with UNESCO, IFLA was able to join the Thematic Session as an observer. Secretary General Sharon Memis joined the final discussion on Cultural Rights / Economy of Culture on 1 October to make a statement supporting the participatory approach to upholding cultural rights, and in particular, highlighting libraries as existing infrastructure to realise this goal.
Impact of Evidence Based Acquisitions (EBA) on Resource Sharing Activities of Canadian Research Libraries: How EBAs Impact the Ability to Share
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-07-22) Taylor, Donald
In Canada, university libraries play a key role in supplying research and scholarly items to college, public and special libraries’ patrons via resource sharing. At the same time Canadian university libraries have invested heavily in Evidence Based Acquisitions products, and ebooks in general. This paper presents the results of a survey of resource sharing specialists and licensing specialists at member libraries of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Recipients were surveyed for their work-informed impressions regarding resource sharing and licensing of ebooks; for evidence of declining resource sharing activity due to the rise in EBAs; and for evidence of communication, or non-communication, within libraries about the impact of e-books on resource sharing. The findings suggest that there is a causal link between the rise in EBAs and the decline in the ability of libraries to fulfill resource sharing requests. The findings also point to a probable lack of serious reflection by Canadian university libraries on the equity impacts of reducing resource sharing capacity through the acceptance of licensing terms that limit the ability to share ebooks within resource sharing networks.
Shaping the Future: The Impact of AI in Social Sciences Librarianship
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-06-09) IFLA Social Sciences Libraries Section Standing Committee; Ali, Muhammad Yousuf; Cruz, Luis Ezra D.; Stepanov, Vadim K.; SURAJ, Ashutosh Kumar
The IFLA Social Science Libraries Section recently hosted the international webinar "Shaping the Future: The Impact of AI in Social Sciences Librarianship," drawing over 200 participants worldwide. Chaired by Abby Moore, the session explored how AI is transforming the field, featuring four selected speakers whose presentations were chosen through a competitive call for papers. The speakers and their topics included: Dr. Muhammad Yousuf Ali – AI Tools for Systematic Review Mr. Luis Ezra D. Cruz – Generative AI for Contextual Search Dr. Vadim K. Stepanov – Neural Networks and Bibliographic Activity Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Suraj – AI-Assisted Emotional Tagging The event sparked dynamic discussions, with Robin Kear moderating the Q&A and Ekaterina Shibaeva closing with thanks to all contributors. The webinar highlighted the innovative intersections between AI and librarianship, showcasing global collaboration and forward-thinking ideas.
AI Tools for Systematic Review: Opportunities and Challenges
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-06-09) Ali, Muhammad Yousuf
AI Tools for Systematic Review: Opportunities and Challenges by Muhammad Yousuf Ali (Karachi, Pakistan) AI tools have significantly impacted academia and research, providing valuable support for various research activities. In recent years, a variety of AI-based tools have emerged to assist scholars and researchers, making their research processes more efficient. One important technique in research is the systematic review, which is commonly used in both the health sciences and social sciences. Libraries play a crucial role in supporting different types of literature reviews, including narrative reviews, scoping reviews, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses. This presentation aims to highlight AI tools used in systematic reviews and how librarians teach these tools to help library users conduct effective systematic reviews by integrating AI technology. Topics covered in this presentation include literature review summary tools such as Semantic Scholar, Elicit, and Research Rabbit, along with screening tools like ASReview, Rayyan, and Covidance for data management. We will also discuss reference and citation management tools like Samwell AI, myBib, and EasyBib.
AI-Assisted Emotional Tagging in Social Sciences Libraries: Enhancing Empathetic Information Access
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-06-09) Suraj, Ashutosh Kumar
AI-Assisted Emotional Tagging in Social Sciences Libraries: Enhancing Empathetic Information Access by Ashutosh Kumar SURAJ (Chandauli, India) In today’s rapidly evolving information landscape, libraries are no longer just repositories of knowledge; they are empathetic spaces that cater to the diverse needs of users. Social Sciences libraries, dealing with sensitive topics such as gender inequality, domestic violence, and mental health, face a challenge in categorizing content in a way that acknowledges its emotional impact on readers. Traditional classification systems focus on academic relevance but overlook the emotional sensitivity required for such topics. This presentation proposes an innovative solution: the integration of AI-assisted emotional tagging in Social Sciences libraries. By applying AI tools like sentiment analysis and contextual emotion recognition, library content can be tagged with emotional labels such as “empathetic,” “neutral,” or “potentially distressing.” This system will allow users to filter materials based on their emotional comfort, empowering them to engage with sensitive content according to their mental and emotional readiness. The presentation will explore the methodology behind developing such a system, including dataset curation, AI training, and the incorporation of user profiles for personalized suggestions. Key innovations like AI-generated content warnings and librarian training for emotional intelligence will also be discussed.
Bibliographic Activity in Social Sciences in the Era of Neural Networks and API Interfaces
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-06-09) Stepanov, Vadim K.
Bibliographic Activity in Social Sciences in the Era of Neural Networks and API Interfaces by Vadim K. Stepanov (Moscow, Russia) The total digitalization of information transfer processes and the parallel development of several standards and technologies at once have formed a new paradigm of bibliographic and, in general, information services for the scientific sphere. The foundation of the transformation was the adoption of international standards, DOI and ORCID. The method of providing scientific papers has also been unified: in most global scientific journals, when the author uploads a manuscript, along with the full text, all accompanying metadata are entered, launching the entire further cycle of bibliographic information. When a scientific paper is published, information about it is automatically transferred to Crossref (the global DOI registration agency), which has become a giant global repository of bibliographic information continuously received from publishers. Crossref is an open resource, information from which can be obtained by anyone without restrictions. API technology is used to borrow data from the Internet, which has become the basis for the bibliographic data exchange system: due to API, bibliographic information is continuously transferred from resource to resource in previously unimaginable gigantic volumes in the background without any human intervention. The opportunities that have opened up have been taken advantage of by companies that can be described as global discovery services or global bibliographic platforms. Their goal is to unite the entire world's flow of scientific publications to provide a full cycle of information services to any user in strict accordance with their individual information needs. Receiving bibliographic information from many publishers and specialized services, they have already accumulated arrays of hundreds of millions of records. The data is subject to intellectual processing – information obtained from different sources is combined into a single bibliographic record. Based on this array, users are provided with all traditional types of information support for research activities in a fully automated mode. Today, such companies include Semantic Scholar, The Lens, OpenAlex, Scilit, Google Academy, ResearchGate, Scopus, and Web of Science. In Russia, the equivalent of such an academic service is Elibrary. In the future, information support will increasingly shift towards global bibliographic platforms that provide comprehensive data with maximum comfort. Bibliographic services around the world need to take this fact into account and shift the focus to processing printed retrospective data and the flow of serials that are not classified as scientific publications.
Enhancing Social Science Research in Library Discovery: The Application of Generative AI for Contextual and Exploratory Search
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-06-09) Cruz, Luis Ezra D.
Enhancing Social Science Research in Library Discovery: The Application of Generative AI for Contextual and Exploratory Search by Mr. Luis Ezra D. Cruz (Manila, Philippines) Emerging models of information retrieval are reshaping how researchers in the social sciences navigate complex and interdisciplinary literature. As scholarly output grows in volume and complexity, traditional keyword-based search methods often fall short in meeting the needs of exploratory and context-driven inquiry. This prompts libraries to adopt AI-enhanced discovery tools that support more intuitive research workflows. This paper examines the Primo Research Assistant, a generative AI-supported tool integrated into the Primo-based discovery platform of an academic library in Southeast Asia. The tool is designed to facilitate exploratory search through natural language querying and contextualized content delivery. Operating within the Primo VE discovery layer, it enables users to pose research questions in natural language. Using a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) framework, it identifies and synthesizes content drawn from indexed academic sources in the Central Discovery Index (CDI). The resulting output presents a concise, structured overview derived from article abstracts, accompanied by inline citations and links to the full records, allowing users to verify and further explore the presented content. The paper focuses on the tool’s application in research contexts, particularly its role in supporting preliminary literature scanning, clarifying unfamiliar topics, and enabling associative discovery, an information behaviour commonly observed in social sciences scholarship. Use cases include users refining research questions, identifying entry points into emerging subject areas, and surfacing relevant materials when initial keyword strategies yield limited results. The tool also proves helpful in guiding users toward adjacent topics and concepts that may not have been part of their original query formulation. Preliminary observations indicate that the tool is valued for its ability to summarize dispersed content, reduce time spent navigating search results, and provide starting points for deeper inquiry. Users describe it as particularly useful in situations involving topic selection, scoping reviews, and initial background research.
Discovery Tools for Libraries - RDA in Practice: Teaching RDA
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-06-04) Sze, Elisa
This presentation by Elisa Sze explores practical strategies for teaching and implementing the Official RDA Toolkit, with a focus on the Canadian context. It introduces foundational concepts such as the IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM), RDA entities and elements, and the rationale for using RDA as an international metadata standard. The session highlights the differences between pedagogical and andragogical approaches to instruction, and shares detailed case studies from Canadian libraries and educational institutions. Examples include national training efforts, workshops, and classroom strategies at the University of Toronto. The presentation also outlines the role of key RDA bodies such as the RDA Steering Committee, RDA Registry, and the RDA Training in Canada Working Group. It concludes with recommendations and resources to support RDA adoption in both cataloguing practice and library education.
Promoting Discovery Tools for Libraries: Use of RDA in Libraries in the Asia and Oceania Region in 2023-2024
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-06-04) Ling, NG Hui; Jailani, Haliza
This presentation explores the current landscape of RDA (Resource Description and Access) implementation across Asia, based on the results of two regional surveys conducted between 2023 and 2024. It highlights key findings, including adoption rates, challenges faced by libraries, and the varied cataloguing practices shaped by national standards and resource constraints. The session also shares Singapore’s journey in implementing RDA, outlining practical strategies, training frameworks, and lessons learned by the National Library Board. Drawing on both regional data and local experience, the presentation concludes with targeted recommendations to support wider adoption, including calls for increased collaboration, shared resources, and localized training initiatives across Asia’s diverse library communities.
The EDI 100: Legal Deposit and Collecting from Under-Represented and Minoritised Communities
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2025-03-16) McPhail-Smith, Zoe; Hart, Patrick
In 2022/23 the National Library of Scotland ran a project to evaluate and improve its Legal Deposit collecting from organisations representing marginalised, underrepresented, and minority and minoritised communities across the country. Known internally as ‘EDI 100’, the project focused on a list of 100 organisations drawn up by curators. This consisted mostly of bodies we had hitherto struggled to collect from or that were no longer depositing regularly with us, and included charities, religious bodies, pressure groups, and umbrella organisations and federations, ranging from Age Scotland to YouthLink to the Poverty Alliance. The Acquisitions Team then investigated the deposit status of these organisations and made contact to set up or resume print and/or digital deposit where necessary and possible. The Team also looked to promote the importance of Legal Deposit and to create, maintain or strengthen working relationships with depositors. This presentation describes how and why the project was conceived, and the challenges and opportunities it raised. We discuss the project’s outcomes, successes and limitations, and recommendations for future work in this area. Note about the authors: Zoë McPhail-Smith, MA (Glas.), MSc (Strath.), is Senior Serials Librarian at the National Library of Scotland with over 16 years’ experience in Legal Deposit and collections management. She has successfully implemented the digital transition within her team after the 2013 UK Non-Print Legal Deposit legislation came into force. A particular area of interest and expertise is publisher engagement, and Zoe has aided the discussion with over 400 Scottish publishers to sign up to deposit their digital publications and to agree to enhanced access rights. Dr. Patrick Hart is Curator for Scottish Communities and Organisations at the National Library of Scotland. He previously worked as an academic, a translator, a roadsweeper, and a Drug Action Team Manager with the National Health Service.

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