Publications from Libraries, Development and the UN 2030 Agenda

Briefings

• A Necessary Pre-Condition: Libraries, Information and Access to Justice

• Engaging with Embassies: An Opportunity for Libraries and Library Associations

• National Libraries in Voluntary National Reviews – a Briefing

• The New Urban Agenda – Advocacy Opportunities for Libraries

• Get into UN75

• Get into SDG Action Week

• Libraries are Good for You: Supporting the Delivery of SDG3

• A Social Justice Mission: Libraries, Employment and Entrepreneurship

• IFLA brief on the HABITAT III New Urban Agenda

• Sustainability is Libraries' Business: Libraries and Sustainable Development

• Understanding, Inclusion, Healing, Remembrance - Libraries and Peace

• Libraries, Access to Information and Democracy

• Data and the Sustainable Development Goals - IFLA Briefing

• How Libraries Provide Safe Spaces for (All) Youth

• IFLA Guide to Voluntary National Reviews

• Sanctuary, Storehouse, Gateway, Bridge: Libraries and Refugees - a Briefing

• Libraries and Good Governance

• Attending International Meetings: A Playbook

Conference proceedings

• Great Ideas for Advocacy: Session at IFLA WLIC 2019

• Great Ideas for Advocacy: Session at IFLA WLIC 2018

• IFLA IAP Global Convening (2018)

• IFLA IAP Global Convening: SDGs - Looking Ahead (2018)

Country reports

• Political Party Responses to the Library Manifesto for Europe

Infographics

• SDG Storytelling Flowchart

• Information for Development: Why Access Matters Across the SDGs?

• International Literacy Day 2018 - Infographic

• Libraries and the 2030 Agenda in 2019 - A Timeline

Leaflets

• International Advocacy Programme (IAP) Awareness-raising materials from around the world

• International Advocacy Programme (IAP) Brochure

Manifestos

• A Library Manifesto for Europe

• IFLA Manifesto on Transparency, Good Governance and Freedom from Corruption

Newsletters

• International Advocacy Programme (IAP) Updates

Posters

• IFLA/UNESCO Public Library Manifesto 25th Anniversary Poster

• This Library Supports the SDGs

Publications

• Library Return on Investment - Review of Evidence from the Last 10 Years

• Development and Access to Information: Country Analyses

• The "Road to Dignity by 2030" includes access to information and an open Internet

• Libraries and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Storytelling Manual

• Access and Opportunity for All: How Libraries contribute to the United Nations 2030 Agenda

• Examples of how libraries and library services contribute to development (2015)

• Access to Information Central to the Post-2015 Development Agenda

• Libraries and Information Services Towards the Attainment of the UN Millennium Development Goals

Reports

• Overview of Library Re-Opening Plans (6 June 2020)

• Report from the 58th Session of the UN Commission on Social Development

• Libraries and the Paris Agreement: Connections and Contributions

• Culture in the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda

• For Everyone, Everywhere, at Every Age: Libraries and Adult Literacy

• Development and Access to Information (DA2I) Report 2019

• Libraries, Local Government, Human Rights and Sustainable Development: IFLA Submission to Human Rights Council

• How Libraries Can Connect the Next Four Billion

• Libraries Power Development - IFLA in the Guardian

• Inspire, Inform, Indicate: How the UNESCO-IFLA Public Library Manifesto Makes a Difference

• Library Services to People with Disabilities - IFLA Contribution to UN Report

• Development and Access to Information (DA2I) Report 2017

Statements

• #Culture2030Goal Statement on COVID-19

• IFLA signs Declaration for the inclusion of culture in the Post-2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals

• IFLA joins civil society in demanding a UN post-2015 framework that makes governments more accountable

• Access to Information should be central to the Post-2015 Development Framework

• Declaração de Santiago

• The Santiago Declaration

• The Lyon Declaration

• Joint Statement by IFLA and the IPA on the First International Day for Universal Access to Information (2016)

• Joint Statement on Literacy and Reading for International Literacy Day (2015)

• IFLA statement at the 8th meeting of the Open Working Group (OWG) on sustainable development goals

• 2nd IFLA Statement to the United Nations President of the General Assembly (UNPGA) Event (May 2014)

• 1st IFLA Statement to the United Nations President of the General Assembly (UNPGA) Event (May 2014)

• IFLA Statement on Libraries and Development (August 2013)

• Statement on Libraries and Sustainable Development (August 2002)

Toolkits

• Are You Advocacy-Fit? Draft IFLA Advocacy Capacities Grid

• Libraries Engaged in Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs)

• IFLA Toolkit: How to use the Development and Access to Information Report 2019

• IFLA Toolkit for Library Engagement in Literacy and Reading Strategies

• IFLA Toolkit: Libraries, Development and the United Nations 2030 Agenda (Revised version - August 2017)

• IFLA Toolkit: Libraries and the UN post-2015 development agenda (January 2015)

• IFLA Toolkit: Libraries and national development plans (January 2015)

Videos

• IFLA LMW SDG stories – YouTube Playlist

• IFLA Webinar: Library Map of the World (August 2018)

• IFLA Webinar: The SDGs in 2019 — What's on the Agenda for IFLA and the Sustainable Development Goals in 2019?

• IFLA Webinar: Development and Access to Information (DA2I)

• Videos about IFLA's Engagement in the Preparation of the UN 2030 Agenda