Current IFLA Standards
IFLA standards are internationally reviewed, published and regularly updated documents. Each IFLA standard reflects current consensus on rules, principles, guidelines, best practice or models for a particular activity or service. IFLA standards in their diversity of styles and subject matter provide optimum benefit for the international library community.
Standards are established by IFLA professional units who work in collaboration and by consensus.
This following is an overview of current IFLA Standards.
Conceptual models
- Definition of FRBRoo: A Conceptual Model for Bibliographic Information in Object-Oriented Formalism
- Definition of PRESSoo: A Conceptual model for Bibliographic Information Pertaining to Serials and Other Continuing Resources
- IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM)
Digital format codes
- UNIMARC Concise Authorities Format
- UNIMARC Manual – Authorities Format, 3rd ed.
- UNIMARC Concise Bibliographic Format
- UNIMARC Manual – Bibliographic Format, 3rd ed.
Rules for resource description
- Guidelines for Translations of the IFLA ISBD namespace in RDF
- ISBD International Standard Bibliographic Description : 2021 Update to the 2011 Consolidated Edition
IFLA Namespaces
General Guidelines
- Basic Serials Management Handbook (BSMH) – Revised ed.
- Care, Handling and Storage of Photographs
- Common Practices for National Bibliographies in the Digital Age
- Competency Guidelines for Rare Books and Special Collections Professionals
- Gifts for the Collections: Guidelines for Libraries
- Guidelines for Audiovisual and Multimedia Materials in Libraries and other Institutions
- Guidelines for Authority Records and References
- Guidelines for Best Practice in Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery
- Guidelines for a Collection Development Policy using the Conspectus Model
- Guidelines for Children’s Library Services
- Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices
- Guidelines for Easy-to-Read Materials
- Guidelines for Exhibition Loans
- Guidelines for Legal Deposit Legislation
- Guidelines for Libraries of Government Departments
- Guidelines for Library-Based Literacy Programs
- Guidelines for Library Service to Braille Users
- Guidelines for Library Services for Young Adults (Revised)
- Guidelines for Library Services to Babies and Toddlers
- Guidelines for Library Services to Persons with Dyslexia – Revised and extended
- Guidelines for Libraries Serving Hospital Patients and the Elderly and Disabled in Long-Term Care Facilities
- Guidelines for Multilingual Thesauri
- Guidelines for Newspaper Preservation Microfilming
- Guidelines for Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) Displays
- Guidelines for Parliamentary Libraries, 3rd edition
- Guidelines for Parliamentary Research Services
- Guidelines for Planning the Digitization of Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
- Guidelines for Professional Library/Information Educational Programs
- Guidelines for Setting Up a Digital Unification Project
- Guidelines on Public Internet Access in Libraries
- IFLA Digital Reference Guidelines
- IFLA Disaster Preparedness and Planning: A Brief Manual
- IFLA Guidelines for Library Services to Children aged 0-18 [revised version 2018]
- IFLA Guidelines for Library Services to People Experiencing Homelessness
- IFLA Guidelines for Library Services to Prisoners (4th Edition)
- IFLA Guidelines for Professional LIS Education Programmes
- IFLA Library Building Guidelines: Developments & Reflections
- IFLA Principles for the Care and Handling of Library Material
- IFLA Public Library Service Guidelines
- IFLA School Library Guidelines
- International Guidelines for the Cataloguing of Newspapers
- International Resource Sharing and Document Delivery: Principles and Guidelines for Procedure
- Key Issues for e-Resource Collection Development: A Guide for Libraries
- Microfilming for Digitisaton and Optical Character Recognition
- Mobile Library Guidelines
- Multicultural Communities: Guidelines for Library Services, 3rd edition
- Multilingual Dictionary of Cataloguing Terms and Concepts (MulDiCat)
- Using Research to Promote Literacy and Reading in Libraries: Guidelines for Librarians