Every year, a number of IFLA Professional Units (Sections and Special Interest Groups) organise unique Satellite Meetings prior to or just after the IFLA World Library and Information Congress.
These 1-2 day meetings are held either in the host country or in countries in the surrounding region.
The Building Journey
Date: 17-18 August, 2023
Location: De Krook Library, Ghent, Belgium
Let’s work together, let’s library for all
The integration of library services for persons with print disabilities into the services of the public library.
Date: 18 – 19 August 2023
Location: Korenbeurs, Schiedam, The Netherlands
Demystifying Statistics and Evaluation in Libraries
Date: 17 – 18 August 2023
Location: The University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Inclusiveness through Openness
Date: 18 – 19 August 2023
Location: Erasmus University, Rotterdam The Netherlands
Access to information at the heart of development: advocacy for libraries and documentation centres
L’accès à l’information au cœur du développement : plaidoyer pour les bibliothèques et les centres de documentation
Date: 16 – 18 August 2023
Location: Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Realizing the Opportunity: Libraries in Sustainable Urban Development
Date: 18 August 2023
Location: Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Innovative approaches in engaging people with local history and genealogy
Date: 17-18 August 2023
Location: KU Leuven Libraries, Leuven, Belgium
Agile methodology in libraries: innovations in library projects
Date: 18 August 2023
Location: Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
It’s getting hot in here! Information professionals and open science in a time of climate change.
Date: Friday 25 August 2023
Location: Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
‘The Library is open’: creating safe working environments for LGBTQ+ library employees and marketing supportive LGBTQ+ services
Date: 17-18 August 2023
Location: Government of the Netherlands, The Hague, The Netherlands
The school library standards in the digital age
Date: Saturday 19 August 2023
Location: TBC
Libraries as Actors of Climate Empowerment (ACE)
Date: Saturday 19 August 2023
Location: Bibliotheek LocHal, Tilburg, The Netherlands
38th Pre-Conference of the Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section of IFLA
Date: Thursday 17 August & Friday 18 August 2023
Location: Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal, The Hague, The Netherlands
Preserving our origins: Approaches to the organization, curation, and historiography of the record of national and international organizations in libraries, information, and documentation.
Date: Thursday 17 August (afternoon), Friday 18 August (Full day), Saturday 19 August (morning)
Location: Mundaneum, Mons, Belgium
Art Libraries: Big idea, difficult questions
What is the future as a result of the changes in digital technologies in the last 25 years, in the form of communications and exhibitions.
Date: 17-19 August, 2023
Location: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Global Impact of Library Publishing
Date: 19 August 2023
Location: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library of the Netherlands), The Hague, The Netherlands
Perspectives on Global Knowledge Management Training and Education
Date: 19 August 2023
Location: Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Empowering Diverse Librarianship
Engaging and Empowering Library Workers from Diaspora Communities to Strengthen their Social Representation and
Cohesion.
Date: 18 August 2023
Location: Dutch national centre of expertise and repository for research data, The Hague, The Netherlands
Strengthening libraries emergency preparedness and response
Date: 17 – 18 August 2023
Location: OBA Congres, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Empire, Indigeneity, and colonial heritage collections: confronting difficult pasts, enabling just futures.
Date: 18-19 August 2023
Location: University of Leiden Library, Leiden, The Netherlands
Young Children’s Journeys into Reading: Early Literacy Stories
Date: 19 August 2023
Location: The National Library of the Netherlands and the Children’s Book Museum, The Hague, The Netherlands
Universal Bibliographic Control at the crossroads: the challenges of unifying IFLA bibliographic standards
Date: 18 – 19 August 2023
Location: KBR, Brussels, Belgium
Working Together to Develop Digital Literate Learners
Date: 18 August 2023
Location: Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
IFLAcamp#9
Date: 18 – 19 August 2023
Location: Goethe Institut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Librarying SDGs: sharing experiences for progress.
Date: 19 August
Location: Rotterdam Public Library, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Advocating for Public Libraries in Europe
Date: 19 August
Location: Rotterdam Public Library, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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