National Libraries

Newly searchable database reveals real reading habits.

Posted 18 June 2019

International Museums Day is celebrated in May 2019. Kenn Bicknell considers the lessons libraries can learn from museums.

Posted 03 May 2019

Libraries matter for Europe and Europe matters for libraries. IFLA and its partners have developed a library manifesto for Europe. Here are the highlights.

Posted 26 April 2019

Initiative includes preserving over 200 billion Weibo posts.

Posted 23 April 2019

British Library initiative outlines plans for the Library in the north of England.

Posted 25 March 2019

Gale, a Cengage company, has released the third installment of its award-winning Archives of Sexuality & Gender series.

Posted 26 February 2019

It's 2019 and ILI is back to celebrate innovative libraries and librarians in our 21st year. We take a look behind the scenes as the Call for Speakers opens, and speaker proposals start to come in.

Posted 28 January 2019

The IFLA Green Library Award, sponsored by De Gruyter Publishing, was established in 2016.

Posted 20 July 2018

A wide range of topics were covered at INFORUM in Prague, including library strategy and advocacy, tech developments, preservation, archiving and digitisation.

Posted 12 June 2018

Two beneficiaries have received the transferred works.

Posted 27 April 2018

The National Archives joins the Open Preservation Foundation; 3D Models can now be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

Posted 26 February 2018

Celebrating innovative libraries and info pros at this year's Internet Librarian International (16-17 October, Olympia, London).

Posted 15 January 2018

The Bibliography covers approximately one million works published in Finland.

Posted 02 January 2018

A Storify of Tweets using the #ILI2017 hashtag on Day 2 of Internet Librarian International.

Posted 20 October 2017

New British Library exhibition celebrates Harry Potter's 20th anniversary.

Posted 20 October 2017

A Storify of Tweets using the #ILI2017 hashtag on Day 1 of Internet Librarian International.

Posted 19 October 2017

Help shape the future of the library field.

Posted 25 August 2017

This year's Internet Librarian International celebrates the superhuman impact librarians have on organisations, communities and individuals.

Posted 17 August 2017

Access to information empowers individuals, communities, nations and organisations to make better decisions, and live better lives.

Posted 21 July 2017

A round-up of all the news you may have missed including: Elsevier launches Biology Research Network; T&F partner with The Conversation Africa; new case study collection from Emerald; JoVE adds physics; Webcomics and Webcultures archives from the Library of Congress; UK's national sculpture collection to be catalogued - and more.

Posted 25 June 2017

Kate Torney, Chief Executive of State Library Victoria in Australia, has been announced as the keynote speaker for ILI 2017 and will speak on 'Making a noise about a quiet revolution'.

Posted 29 April 2017

The British Library is to build an extension to its London site.

Posted 21 April 2017

IFLA has begun collecting data for its 2017 Library Map of the World survey.

Posted 06 April 2017

Over 300 documents went missing between 2014 and 2015.

Posted 11 January 2017

British Library calling for nominations for manuscripts to digitise.

Posted 11 December 2016

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