Back Talk — Articulating a Global Vision for Libraries and Librarians

IFLA brings together professional librarians and their colleagues and friends not only fora week of stimulating exchanges in the annual Congress, but also in through-the-year work of over 60 standing committees and special interest groups, devoted to subjects all the way from art libraries, to copyright, to women in libraries. As the Congress moves around the world, moreover, it represents an opportunity region by region for librarians who can’t attend every year to participate when WLIC comes to their vicinity (for example, two meetings in South Africa, Durban in 2007 and CapeTown in 2015, when it was truly wonderful to see librarians coming together from all of sub-Saharan Africa to get energy and inspiration from the colleagues from around the world who joined them).