Content tagged Reading

The call for applications for the title of UNESCO World Book Capital City 2023 is open. IFLA encourages cities with cities with strong and innovative policies supporting books and readings to...

News - 12 March 2021

Tags: Literacy, Reading, UNESCO World Book Capital, World Book Capital, World Book Capital City, Literacy and Reading

The title of UNESCO World Book Capital 2022 will fall to Guadalajara, Mexico. From 23 April 2022, the city will host a year-long programme of events celebrating books, reading and libraries...

News - 5 November 2020

Tags: Literacy, Mexico, Reading, Social inclusion, UNESCO World Book Capital

As a new associate member of the Global Alliance for Literacy, IFLA spoke at the alliance’s annual meeting, held on 28-29 October. IFLA’s intervention underlined the importance of...

News - 30 October 2020

Tags: Literacy, Reading, Literacy and Reading

World Book Day 2020 would have been a special event anyway, marking 25 years since the first celebration in 1995. But this year’s celebration will be particularly special, given the global...

News - 23 April 2020

Tags: Literacy, Reading, UNESCO, Literacy and Reading

Despite the restrictions resulting from the COVID-19, pandemic libraries around the world are marking World Book & Copyright Day on 23 April 2020 and celebrating with their communities....

News - 23 April 2020

Tags: Reading, World Book and Copyright Day, Literacy and Reading

It is with heavy hearts that ‘Reading Journeys’ the Satellite program being organised in Oxford by four IFLA Professional Units will not go ahead. On behalf of the IFLA’s...

News - 13 March 2020

Tags: Literacy, Reading, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Literacy and Reading

Due to the current health-crisis and on behalf of the IFLA’s Literacy and Reading, Public Libraries, Metropolitan Libraries and Libraries for Children’s and Young Adults Professional...

News - 30 January 2020

Tags: Children, Literacy, Reading, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

IFLA’s Literacy and Reading, Public Libraries, Metropolitan Libraries and Libraries for Children’s and Young Adults Professional Units invite proposals for their Joint Satellite...

News - 27 January 2020

Tags: IFLA Satellite meeting, Reading, Literacy and Reading

  IFLA’s new toolkit aims to help library associations, institutions and individual library and information workers to advocate for libraries’ role in literacy...

Publication - 24 August 2019

Tags: Advocacy, Literacy, Reading, Toolkits, Literacy and Reading

Biblo.dk is owned and created by the Danish public libraries. This is a national online community for tweens aged 7-14 (target group 8-12), where the children’s own content is in the...

Informational Page - 4 August 2019

Tags: Children, Digital inclusion, digital library services, Digitisation, Reading, reading campaign, Reading promotion, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

We are proud to announce that our revised Guidelines for Library Services to Children aged 0-18 are now available. After a lengthy survey process, carried out by Dr....

News - 7 December 2018

Tags: Advocacy, Children, Conceptual models, Democracy, Development, Digital resources, Freedom of information, Guidelines, Information literacy, Library as place, Lifelong learning, Literacy, Management, Reading, Research support, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Children deserve access to the education, opportunities, and resources needed to read. Be an advocate for every child, everywhere. Download the poster and learn more about every child's right...

News - 5 October 2018

Tags: Children, Literacy, Reading

LIBER is the leading international fair for the Spanish-language book sector. IFLA will participate in a pannel about intellectual property, where speakers will discuss current trends and...

Event - 18 September 2018

Tags: Copyright, eBooks, Event, Publications, Reading, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

You can now view Clare O’Hanlon’s presentation, “A continuum of LGBTIQA+ community engagement in libraries: From collections and cataloguing to book displays, bathrooms and...

News - 30 August 2018

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Acquisitions, Advocacy, Australia, Bibliotherapy, Cataloguing, Collection development, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Human rights, LGBTQ library outreach, LGBTQ library resources, LGBTQ library services, LGBTQ library services. LGBTQ library programming, Library collections, Library outreach, Library services, Malaysia, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Reading, Reference services, Resource discovery, Social inclusion, Women’s issues, Young adults, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

Individual sessions will focus on development, cultural heritage, education and media literacy, training, and the future of libraries. Ms Parent will both join the opening panel for the event...

Event - 12 March 2018

Tags: Azerbaijan, Conference, Cultural heritage, Literacy, Reading, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Good ideas for better libraries – share your experience! How do I reach out to teens? How can I improve the story telling hour at my library? I want to engage parents in...

Informational Page - 28 April 2016

Tags: Advocacy, Benchmarking, Best practices, Children, Communications, Events, Library marketing, Library outreach, Reading, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

MakerSpace gives young people  access to space, materials and tools to be creative, with a splash of library awareness. Note: the term ‘MakerSpace’ in this article...

Informational Page - 16 June 2015

Tags: Children, Education, Literacy, MakerSpace, Networking, Reading, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

The Gosford City Library team was thrilled to launch the IFLA “World Through Picture Books” exhibition at Erina Library on March 5th 2015. The author and illustrator Bruce Whatley...

Informational Page - 1 June 2015

Tags: Children, Library collections, Reading, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

We are very happy to publish the second edition of The World through Picture Books, enriched with sixteen new annotated lists. This new edition proves even more the very enthusiastic, skilled...

Publication - 27 February 2015

Tags: Literacy, Reading, Publications, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

The Selection Committee for the World Book Capital is calling for nominations for the World Book Capital 2017. Each year, UNESCO and the international organizations representing the three...

News - 2 December 2014

Tags: Announcement, Literacy, Reading, UNESCO, World Book Capital, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments and Sites

Sister Libraries for Children’s and Young Adults’ reading: evaluation Carolynn Rankin (Leeds, UK) Sister Libraries...

Informational Page - 6 October 2014

Tags: Censorship, Communities of practice, Networking, Professional development, Reading, Young adults

World Book Capital The Selection Committee for the World Book Capital is calling for nominations for the World Book Capital 2016. Each year, UNESCO and the international...

News - 3 April 2014

Tags: Announcement, Literacy, Reading, UNESCO, World Book Capital, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments and Sites

The goal of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) special interest group is to adress the information needs of LGBTQ+ community members related to library services,...

IFLA Group or Activity - 13 January 2014

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Capacity building, Censorship, Classification and indexing, Collection development, Communities of practice, Data management, Digital inclusion, Education and training, Freedom of expression, Guidelines, Human rights, Indexing, LGBTQ library services, Library as place, Library collections, Library marketing, Library outreach, Library services, Library theory and research, Lifelong learning, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, New professionals, Privacy in libraries, Professional development, Reading, Social inclusion, Staffing, Subject analysis, Women’s issues, Young adults, Special Interest Groups, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

Theme: 15 to 20 year olds reading across the world: Why? Where? How? Date: August 23, 2014, associated to the 80th Annual IFLA conference in Lyon (August 16-22, 2014) Venue: Bibliothè...

News - 9 December 2013

Tags: Reading, school libraries, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

The Scientific Council on Reading of the Department of Education and Culture of the Russian Academy of Education, Research Center for the History of Book Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences...

News - 10 September 2013

Tags: Best practices, Children, Reading, Russian Federation, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Children’s Librarians all over the world understand how important picture books in both traditional and digital formats are for children: for their development, their cultural identity, as a...

Publication - 7 June 2013

Tags: Literacy, Reading, Publications, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

World Book Capital The Selection Committee for the World Book Capital is calling for nominations for the World Book Capital 2015. Each year, UNESCO and the international...

News - 12 December 2012

Tags: Literacy, Reading, UNESCO, World Book Capital

An informative paper presented at the IFLA School Libraries Section Session during the 2012 World Library and Information Congress in Helsinki, Finland. Main factors behind the good PISA...

News - 19 September 2012

Tags: Finland, PISA Results, Reading, School Libraries

International Research Abstracts: Youth Library Services 1996-97 (IRAYLS) To help librarians share resources and skills, the Children's Section of IFLA sponsors a database containing abstracts of...

Informational Page - 2 August 2012

Tags: Reading, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

INTERGENERATIONAL SOLIDARITY IN LIBRARIES / LA SOLIDARITÉ INTERGÉNÉRATIONNELLE DANS LES BIBLIOTHÈQUES Edited by Ivanka Stricevic and Ahmed Ksibi In order to...

News - 30 July 2012

Tags: Reading, Literacy and Reading

IFLA President Ingrid Parent speaking at the World Book Capital 2012 celebration In a festive celebration two days ago in Armenia, IFLA President Ingrid Parent witnessed the official...

News - 24 April 2012

Tags: Literacy, Reading, UNESCO

This conference has now been postponed until September 21-23 due to the ongoing events in Tunisia and neighbouring countries. Please click here to see the original announcement.

News - 7 March 2011

Tags: Reading, Tunisia, Literacy and Reading

The Pan African Reading for All Conference takes place every two years and represents the largest and most prestigious international literacy conference in Africa.  Teachers, researchers,...

Event - 4 February 2011

Tags: Africa, Africa, Conference, Literacy, Reading, Reading, Literacy and Reading

Stuart Hamilton, IFLA Senior Policy Advisor  At the end of 2010 IFLA, in association with the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO), the International...

News - 10 January 2011

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Copyright, Cultural heritage, Japan, Reading, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

Doris Ivon Samanez Alvamora (second from right) receives the award for El Casero del Libro at the award ceremony on December 7, 2010 El Casero del Libro of the Library of the...

News - 6 January 2011

Tags: IFLA Publications Series, Peru, Reading, LDP (Library Development Programme)

Cherry blossoms in Osaka, Japan; image courtesy of pelican IFLA is pleased to announce that a symposium "Enhancing the Culture of Reading and Books in the Digital Age: Copyright...

Event - 20 September 2010

Tags: Advocacy, Conference, Copyright, Freedom to read, Intellectual property, Literacy, Reading, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

Call for papers is now open for the session "Promoting Reading in a Multicultural, Multilingual Society" in the IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 76th IFLA General Conference...

News - 9 December 2009

Tags: Multicultural populations, Reading, Library Services to Multicultural Populations

Just as in previous years, IFLA had a presence at this year's Frankfurt Bookfair which was held this past October.   On 13 October a one-day conference was held on the theme...

News - 24 November 2009

Tags: Announcement, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Copyright, Germany, Literacy, Reading

English OCT 2009 El comité de selección de la Capital Mundial del Libro abre el plazo para la presentación de candidaturas para la elección de la Capital Mundial...

News - 16 September 2009

Tags: Literacy, Reading

What has happened to reading in the age of the Internet? Will the digital age put an end to the culture of reading and books that has been nurtured over centuries? In association with the...

Event - 15 September 2009

Tags: Conference, Copyright, Germany, Literacy, Reading, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

Frankfurt Book Fair, October 13th What has happened to reading in the age of the Internet? Will the digital age put an end to the culture of reading and books that has been nurtured over...

News - 14 September 2009

Tags: Copyright, Digital resources, Germany, Literacy, Reading, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

The 1st international Conference on children and young adults literature "Postacards from no man's land. Promoting teen literature" will be held in Cagliari, November 12-14, 2009. ...

Event - 11 August 2009

Tags: Conference, Italy, Reading, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

From 11 till 13 November 2009 a reading Summit will take place in Toronto, Canada. One of the speakers will be Ingrid Bon, Chair of IFLA section Libraries for Children and Young Adults. More...

News - 5 August 2009

Tags: Canada, Reading, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

The July 2009 Literacy and Reading Section newsletter is now out with features on the national framwork for reading and public libraries in Norway, turning pages in Ethiopia, multicultural literacy...

News - 24 July 2009

Tags: Reading, Literacy and Reading

"WITH THE RIGHT TO READ" Oslo IFLA pre-conference on reading August 7th - 9th  2010    IFLA satellite conference on Reading for all -...

Informational Page - 21 July 2009

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Digital divide, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Library services to people with disabilities, Reading, Services to the visually impaired, Library Services to People with Special Needs

Note: the IFLA Literacy and Reading Section now has a blog. No. 32 - August 2012 No. 31 - June 2011 No. 30 - January 2011 No. 29 - June 2010 No. 28 -...

Publication - 30 June 2009

Tags: Literacy, Reading, Reading, Newsletters, Literacy and Reading

At a meeting in Paris on 12 June 2009, the Jury of World Book Capital, a jury which includes IPA, IBF, IFLA and UNESCO, appointed Buenos Aires as World Book Capital 2011 for the quality and variety...

News - 16 June 2009

Tags: Access to information, Announcement, Argentina, Literacy, Reading, Society