[IASL] Fwd: [IFLA-L] Launched today! IFLA Global Vision Report Summary Reveals Top 10 Highlights and Opportunities

From: Albert Boekhorst <albertkb@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:34:29 +0000

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From: IFLA Communications <communications@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, Mar 19, 2018, 17:52
Subject: [IFLA-L] Launched today! IFLA Global Vision Report Summary Reveals
Top 10 Highlights and Opportunities
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*BARCELONA, Spain, 19 March 2018* — [image:
https://www.ifla.org/files/assets/GVMultimedia/images/gv-report-summary.png]IFLA’s
eagerly-awaited Global Vision Report Summary
<https://www.ifla.org/node/11905> launches today, Monday 19 March, at the IFLA
President’s Meeting 2018 <https://president2018.ifla.org/>, revealing
incredible insights into the views of over 31,000 participants from 213
countries and territories and across all seven continents.

Overwhelmingly, the most important key finding from the global vision
discussion is the discovery that we are *globally united in our goals*.
Across regions, library types and length of engagement with libraries, we
share a deep commitment to the enduring value and role of libraries.

This gives us a strong foundation in which to explore how a connected
library field can meet the challenges of the future.
Highlights and Opportunities

Unveiled alongside this hugely positive key finding are the top 10
highlights and opportunities that now shape the 2nd phase of the IFLA
Global Vision discussion, which asks the library field to build a vibrant
'ideas store' and explore how we can turn ideas into actions.

The Global Vision discussion highlights show libraries are:

·         Dedicated to providing equal and free access to information and
knowledge

·         Deeply committed to core roles in supporting literacy, learning
and reading

·         Focused on our communities

·         Embracing digital innovation

·         Strong advocates for libraries at national and regional leader
level

·         Aware that funding is our biggest challenge

·         Eager to work more collaboratively and develop strong
partnerships

·         Desiring to be less bureaucratic and resistant to change

·         Proud to be guardians of the memory of the world

·         Attracting young professionals deeply committed and eager to lead

For each Global Vision highlight there are also ten opportunities for
action. And this is where the creative work begins!
Turning ideas into action
See the video: Our Vision, Our Future https://vimeo.com/260430507

The Global Vision discussion moves into top gear as IFLA is creating the
biggest idea store for actions, a source of inspiration for all librarians
and for IFLA in planning for the future. Through a series of workshops and
an online platform we want to gather ideas from librarians from all over
the world. These will allow us to identify how all regions and library
types can play their part. With your ideas, IFLA will create a strategy and
action plans that will turn our vision into reality: a strong and united
library field powering literate, informed and participative societies.

*IFLA Secretary General, Gerald Leitner*, who is spear-heading the
discussion, is delighted at the positive response from the library
community:

*Never before has there been such an initiative, which gives every single
librarian in the world the chance to contribute – and never before have so
many librarians from so many parts of the world contributed to one global
conversation. It is incredible to hear from so many voices. This truly
means that the top ten highlights and opportunities are **your**
opportunities. They belong to every library professional in every region of
the world. Now we're going to make all these wonderful ideas held in the
summary real. We're going to create global actions together. Let us make
our vision real!*

The full Global Vision report will be presented in August 2018 during IFLA's
World Library and Information Congress <https://2018.ifla.org/> in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia. For now, download your copy of the IFLA Global Vision
Report Summary <https://www.ifla.org/node/11905> and begin organising your
own ideas store!

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SOURCE: https://www.ifla.org/node/34321

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