Join us for the sixth EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers that will focus on reproducible research and open data as training topics.  

• Date and time: 18 September,  09:00 UTC 
• Registration: Please register here to participate in the meet-up

Join us for the sixth EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers that will focus on reproducible research and open data as training topics.  

• Date and time: 18 September,  09:00 UTC 
• Registration: Please register here to participate in the meet-up

Join us for the sixth EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers that will focus on reproducible research and open data as training topics.  

• Date and time: 18 September,  09:00 UTC 
• Registration: Please register here to participate in the meet-up

Join us for the fifth EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers that will focus on research assessment as a training topic.  

• Date and time: 21 August 2024,  09:00 UTC. 
• Registration: Please register here to participate in the meet-up.

Join us for the fifth EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers that will focus on research assessment as a training topic.  

• Date and time: 21 August 2024,  09:00 UTC. 
• Registration: Please register here to participate in the meet-up.

Join us for the fifth EIFL online meet-up of open science trainers that will focus on research assessment as a training topic.  

• Date and time: 21 August 2024,  09:00 UTC. 
• Registration: Please register here to participate in the meet-up.

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will talk about EIFL’s open science training activities at the Open and Sharing Data Working Group (OSDWG) meeting that will take place during the 58th Asia Pacific Advanced Network Meeting. 

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will talk about EIFL’s open science training activities at the Open and Sharing Data Working Group (OSDWG) meeting that will take place during the 58th Asia Pacific Advanced Network Meeting. 

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, will talk about EIFL’s open science training activities at the Open and Sharing Data Working Group (OSDWG) meeting that will take place during the 58th Asia Pacific Advanced Network Meeting. 

Interested in developing institutional and national Research Data Management (RDM) policies and strategies collaboratively and don’t know how to start? 

Join this discussion with Basiru Adetomiwa, Faculty of Engineering Librarian (Scholarly Communication), Redeemers University Library, and his team of Advocates on Research Data Management in Nigeria who will share their success stories of developing institutional and national RDM policy templates. 

Interested in developing institutional and national Research Data Management (RDM) policies and strategies collaboratively and don’t know how to start? 

Join this discussion with Basiru Adetomiwa, Faculty of Engineering Librarian (Scholarly Communication), Redeemers University Library, and his team of Advocates on Research Data Management in Nigeria who will share their success stories of developing institutional and national RDM policy templates. 

Interested in developing institutional and national Research Data Management (RDM) policies and strategies collaboratively and don’t know how to start? 

Join this discussion with Basiru Adetomiwa, Faculty of Engineering Librarian (Scholarly Communication), Redeemers University Library, and his team of Advocates on Research Data Management in Nigeria who will share their success stories of developing institutional and national RDM policy templates. 

Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator, will facilitate a demonstration of the self assessment tools for Diamond open access publishers created by the DIAMAS project, in which EIFL is a partner, at the PUBMED Summer School on Scholarly Communication. 

Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator, will facilitate a demonstration of the self assessment tools for Diamond open access publishers created by the DIAMAS project, in which EIFL is a partner, at the PUBMED Summer School on Scholarly Communication. 

Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator, will facilitate a demonstration of the self assessment tools for Diamond open access publishers created by the DIAMAS project, in which EIFL is a partner, at the PUBMED Summer School on Scholarly Communication. 

How do you envision a project and design library buildings and facilities that will not be delivered for several years? The past 18 months has shone a new light on the need for resilient and responsive buildings. What library services and programmes will be provided in the future? How are innovative approaches to the delivery of library services imagined, implemented and accommodated in new facilities? What are the facilities that will fit future services not yet in existence? What are the challenges and debates within the design team and stakeholders as the planning and preparation are undertaken? What works best and what processes should be used? What differences, if any, are there in building a new facility or re-using and adapting an old site? On October 5th join Traci Lesneski, Philip Kent and thought leaders from Australia, Canada and The Netherlands to consider these important issues.

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The following statement was issued by Secretary General Gerald Leitner, on behalf of IFLA on 25 August 2021.

IFLA has followed closely recent legislative developments in Hungary, and in particular the provisions passed in June which prohibit the portrayal of homosexuality or gender reassignment in children’s books.

As has been noted by commentators, the breadth of the law creates the possibility that libraries, in providing access to books for young users, are covered by these provisions. As such, this raises significant questions about the ability and responsibility of libraries to fulfil their mission to provide access to information for all.

IFLA stands by its Statement on Intellectual Freedom (1999), which underlines that library collections shall reflect the plurality and diversity of society, and that selection and availability of materials should be governed by professional considerations and not by political, moral and religious views. 

In parallel, IFLA also underlines the message of the IFLA-UNESCO Public Library Manifesto (1994), which stresses the need to provide information to all, reflecting their needs, and evolutions in society. It also emphasises that ‘collections and services should not be subject to any form of ideological, political or religious censorship, nor commercial pressures’.

The IFLA-UNESCO School Library Manifesto underlines these same points, in connection with the development of children.

In the light of this, IFLA stresses that libraries should not face rules that prevent or hinder them from giving access to works which reflect the experience of any part of the communities they serve – including LGBTQ+ users and their families – or pressure to do so. This includes measures that make it harder for readers – in particular young readers – to find works, or the use of marks or other signs that stigmatise their use of such works.

Such steps limit the ability of library and information professionals to make their own judgements, based on professionalism and an understanding of the needs of users, in order to support the development of all members of their communities.

In parallel, IFLA also voices its support for publishers, authors and booksellers who have fallen foul of these new provisions, and calls for an end to similar restrictions elsewhere.

Gerald Leitner
​IFLA Secretary General 25 August 2021

Download the statement from our publications page.