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<h1><strong>IFLA Global Vision Ideas Store
Explore the ideas and submit your own!

IFLA Global Vision Ideas Store


Welcome to the biggest ideas store for actions in the library field!

Here you can explore a broad range of ideas submitted by colleagues from around the globe, while you can also submit your own ideas and change the picture of the global library field.

Get inspired to engage your communities and help create a strong and united library field powering literate, informed and participative societies. Use the Ideas Store as a resource for inspiration and become a proud member of the global library family.

The Ideas Store is the culmination of a global consultation process that IFLA undertook through its Global Vision project. As a dynamic resource of ideas available to all librarians around the world, the Ideas Store is the brainchild of the global library and information professionals and provides a unique source of inspiration for the strategic and daily work of librarians worldwide.

Go on, explore the ideas and submit your own!

It’s our vision, our future.

Gerald Leitner
IFLA Secretary General

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You contributed to the Global Vision discussion

190

190

UN Member States on 7 continents
469,152

469,152

years of library experience
ALL

ALL

generations and library types
9,291

9,291

workshop participants
185

185

workshops
21,772

21,772

online votes

Explore the 10 Global Vision Opportunities!

Explore the 10 Opportunities!

What is the Ideas Store?


The Ideas Store is a place for explorers!

It hosts thousands of ideas shared by librarians from all over the world.

From advocacy and community needs, to technological and digital, to changing behaviors and developing young leaders, the ideas are there to inspire you to take action, and to share your own ideas.

Exploration is a new feature brought to you in 2019 and it is there to inspire you to bring change in your community,offer better services, strengthen your library association and to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

But that’s not all!

The Ideas Store continues to grow daily, and everyone is welcome to submit their ideas anytime!

"Vision without execution is a hallucination and the Ideas Store is the unique platform of inspirational ideas for a strong and united library field. Here you will find inspiring, creative and useful ideas from a vibrant library field around the globe!Go on and explore the ideas, get inspired and influence your communities. It’s a collective vision for the future of libraries worldwide."
Gerald Leitner, IFLA Secretary General

This biggest store of ideas was originally envisioned as a tool to make the Global Vision a reality. Global Vision was a 2017-2018 project that brought together over 30,000 people from 190 UN Member states who shared over 8,500 ideas to inspire and engage the global library field.

Explore, share, influence!

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