A diverse group of conference attendees wearing badges and lanyards engaged in a discussion outdoors near a glass railing overlooking a street.
What does it mean to be a leader in #libraries?
We asked our WLIC Emerging Leaders grant recipients to put together their ideas and come up with a definition
Find out what they said, and read more about the discussions at our dedicated session at #WLIC2025 in Astana! https://tr.ee/uaoueq
Whether you joined us in Astana or couldn’t make it to #WLIC2025, now’s your chance to relive the moments! 🌍
Catch up on 4 live broadcast sessions plus exclusive bonus recordings of key sessions and award highlights from this year's #IFLA Congress. ✨
Watch now: tr.ee/TmE7UU
La grande famille des bibliothécaires ? Vraiment ?
Après le #WLIC2025, Charlie-Camille Flores revient sur la notion de famille à un congrès professionnel.
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Comment adapter les collections des bibliothèques carcérales aux langues maîtrisées par les détenus ?
Un article de Lena Sarrut #WLIC2025
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An image of a person holding a paper and walking behind a podium
Congratulations to the #IFLA 2025 DUIA awardees! 👏
4 Professional Units were recognised at #WLIC2025 for:
🏆 Membership Engagement & Leadership Development
🏆 Quality & Impact of Work
🏆 Effective Communication
🏆 Overall Achievement
Read more about their work: tr.ee/KwtvRF
What a privilege to attend #WLIC2025 in Astana Kazakhstan! My first #IFLA event, too, thanks to the Emerging Leaders Grant. @ifla.org
Quick summary on LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/posts/imogen...
Cats on plastic panels with braille descriptions - a tool used to help people to learn braille.
Marina - a Congress volunteer and translator - showing blind Congress attendee Dipendra Manocha a welcome to Kazakhstan which one of the team at the library had just created.
Congress delegate Gulmira Abylgazina showing Abai Qunanbaiuly’s collection. Newspaper/magazine items can also be seen.
Chess and draughts - adapted for blind people - at the specialist library. Miranda and Gulmira can also be seen.
This afternoon we’re visiting a specialist library for blind & visually impaired citizens of Astana. #WLIC2025
We’ve been shown equipment for creating braille & other alternative formats plus a brand new prestigious collection of items from Kazakh poet Abai Qunanbaiuly.
@ifla.org @cilip.bsky.social
Me stroking MNU Cat (a grey and silver short-haired moggy) on a sofa at the University.
Other IFLA delegates stroking MNU Cat.
A cat play centre at MNU, featuring cubby holes with cat-faced-shaped openings.
We got to meet the famous MNU Cat - mascot of Maqsut Narikbayev University Library 😸 www.instagram.com/mnu_cat?igsh...
#WLIC2025
One of the reading rooms at MNU - it has a cuboid design featuring cosy soft furnishings and wooden shelving with glass panels. Yellow lighting is built into the shelves.
The Provost of MNU welcoming around 30 #WLIC2025 delegates to the library in MNU Library’s event’s space which features a large screen stating “Welcoming to IFLA WLIC delegates”.
Another angle of the library’s events space. Delegates are taking photos of the big screen showing a photo of the library and a title image. Camilla, who works at the library, is speaking at the front.
The exterior of the “Banana building” at MNU. It features grand Greek-style pillars.
Friday is tours day at #WLIC2025
First stop is Maqsut Narikbayev University Library.
It’s housed in a building affectionately known by students as the “banana building” owing to its bright yellow exterior.
The library itself was recently refurbished & looks stunning 🤩
@ifla.org @cilip.bsky.social
Thank you to @ifla.org and our hosts here in Kazakhstan for an engaging and inspired #WLIC2025 conference! Looking forward to our next one!
That’s a wrap on out time at #WLIC2025! Thank you @ifla.org for hosting such a brilliant event! We’ve had a fab time in Astana meeting everyone and answering all your OpenAthens questions.
We already can’t wait for next year! See you in Busan, South Korea for IFLA WLIC 2026!
#WLIC2025 That legendary moment when the #Busan delegation, host of #WLIC2026 leaves the scene in #Astana amidst the music of #Golden #KpopDemonHunters #IFLA 🤓🥳🤘
Welcome, and now goodbye! What an incredible first #WLIC the sheer global scale of different insights yet so much togetherness!
I feel confident that the LIS world can take on our future challenges ✨️📚🖤 #WLIC2025 #IFLA & Thank you @ifla.org for making this happen with the Emerging Leaders Grant.
« Il est temps pour les bibliothèques d’être audacieuses »
Devise présidentielle de Leslie Weir, nouvelle présidente de l’IFLA (2025-2027)
#wlic2025 #ClosingCeremony
Top 10 Country Delegations slide: Kazakhstan 452, US 110, China 99, Korea (Republic of) 69, Germany 51, UK 47, Malaysia 42, Qatar 35, UAE 35, Japan 32
The top 🔟 countries by numbers of delegates at #WLIC2025 ⬇️
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@ifla.org @cilip.bsky.social @cilip-ilig.bsky.social
It's the closing ceremony of #WLIC2025 (😢) 🇰🇿
You can follow along live on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/hVCC3YN...
@ifla.org @cilip.bsky.social
Te Paea Paringatai
Stuart Hamilton
Governing board at large
Governing board
Dirigeants de l’IFLA pour 2025-2027 :
Présidente : Leslie Weir
Pdte-élue : Te Paea Paringatai
Trésorier : Stuart Hamilton
CA : Anya Feltreuter, Julia Konopka-Żołnierczuk, Jan Richards, Lisa Hinchliffe, Silvia Stasselová, Ertuğrul Çimen, Athena Salaba, Loida Garcia-Febo
#WLIC2025
#WLIC2025 Outgoing #IFLA President Vicki McDonald and Incoming President Leslie Weir, a fantastic duo of professionals
As part of the IFLA Emerging Leaders Grant we were asked to give a lighting (1min) talk on what our definition of leadership is. To not only be able to attend an international conference, but also to share my view on stage was really pretty special ✨️📚🖤
#WLIC2025 #IFLA #EmergingLeaders @ifla.org
Delegates gathering for @ifla.org #WLIC2025 closing ceremony. It’s been a great week of knowledge sharing, innovations and reminding us of the power of libraries!
Say it LOUDER
Leadership happens at every level & every stage - and that means all staff deserve access to support, knowledge, training to grow their own leadership style, which in turns breeds more leaders (libraries sure love circular economies 🙃)
#WLIC2025 #IFLA
Imogen Negomi - one of IFLA’s Emerging Leaders - speaking at the #WLIC2025 event. Other Emerging Leaders can be seen in the audience, along with Dr Hena Ismail from the Arab Federation for Libraries and Information and session chair Stephen Wyber. A slide with the profile picture of all the Emerging Leaders on it can also be seen.
African librarian and Emerging Leader Damilare Oyedele speaking at the event. Stephen Wyber (session Chair) and other speakers can be seen in the background.
A privilege to hear diverse perspectives from some of the library world’s emerging leaders at this morning’s #WLIC2025 session.
You can find out more about them and about the @ifla.org Emerging Leaders Scheme here: www.ifla.org/news/meet-ou...
Empower displaced voices.
Resisting culture erasure.
English submission link for the Qatar National Library Project
#WLIC2025 #IFLA
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So many sessions to choose from this morning, decided on a topic I've done nothing on before,and might give me some ideas for a bid I'm working on :)
#WLIC2025 #IFLA
Claudia Heyer wearing traditional headwear using a QR code
Final impressions from WLIC 2025 in Astana. Thank you for the fruitful exchange and hope to see you again at WLIC 2026 in Busan.
#WLIC2025 #WLIC2026
Getting Published with IFLA: Insights from the Editors: exciting session with Debbie Schachter about the IFLA Journal and IFLA Publications.
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#WLIC2025
Congratulations to all winners of the Green Library Award 2025. De Gruyter is happy to support this award again this year.
More details here
www.ifla.org/news/10th-if...
#WLIC2025 #GreenLibrary
Debbie Schachter, Edmund Balnaves
Debbie Schachter, Luisa Marquardt
Debbie Schachter, Priscilla Nga Ian Pun
Book Launch of three new titles in the IFLA publication series on AI, Digital Literacy and Education for Sustainable Develpoment. More information:
www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/ifla-...
#WLIC2025 #IFLAPublications
