The UNESCO Chair Professor Ana Filipa Vrdoljak was invited to deliver the keynote address entitled ‘Libraries and Access to Information as a Common Public Good’ on the final day of the International Federation of Libraries Association international conference held in Brisbane, Australia from 30 September to 2 October 2024. Professor Vrdoljak was introduced by Professor Kirsten Thorpe, Jumbunna Institute. Professor Thorpe was part of a subsequent panel discussion, with Dr Rose Barrowcliffe, and Mr Desmond Crump, with chair Professor Tea Paea Paringatai, on ‘Looking back to enact an Indigenous-led Future: How such systematic and structural change has taken place in the context of Australian Libraries’.
The 2024 IFLA Information Futures Summit was the occasion for the launch of the Federation’s 2024 Trends Report.
