Every year, a number of IFLA Professional Units (Sections, Special Interest Groups, Review Groups, and Advisory Committees) 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
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
CANCELLED
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
Advocating for Public Libraries in Europe
Date: 19 August
Location: Rotterdam Public Library, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Librarying SDGs: sharing experiences for progress
Date: 19 & 20 August 2023
Location: De Bibliotheek , Rotterdam, Netherlands
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