Call for Poster Sessions

Poster Themes

“Uniting Knowledge, Building the Future” is the 2025 conference theme.

As IFLA holds the Congress in Central Asia for the first time, we have a unique opportunity to bring all aspects of the profession together to share and learn. The availability of knowledge is essential to building the future of our societies. Libraries share, libraries combine, libraries preserve different formats of knowledge – oral, print, digital. 

Please specify how your project or library activities bring together knowledge that contributes locally, regionally or globally to our societal future. Describe what you have done to achieve results through collaboration, partnerships or increasing sustainability?

• Projects involving collecting and analysing data that benefit users at a local or national level 

• Innovation through partnerships involving collaboration with a non-library or external partner 

• Using consortia to achieve specific goals for beneficial societal outcomes
• The use of storytelling to successfully advocate for your library – case studies

• Not reinventing the wheel – taking a product or service and repurposing it to suit your specific environment or situation
• Sustainability of LIS education and lifelong training – new ways of thinking
• Succession planning and supporting emerging leaders

• Cost effective and impactful professional development

• Advocacy actions that have enhanced the status or perception of librarians

Create a poster that highlights your library’s work and share it with the world at WLIC in Astana!

Successful applications will:

• Present a service/programme or application of technology that has a clear relationship to the poster themes as noted above 

• Choose a topic lends itself to a poster session; is not too hypothetical 

• Describe the topic of the poster in an engaging 300-word abstract 

• Be inspiring to others 

Additional criteria for evaluation include: 

• Concept/Programme/Service is clearly explained 

• Content is not duplicated in another poster 

• Presenter is not presenting another poster (a presenter must be present during the poster session to explain the poster to viewers although they could be a co-author on another poster) 

• Poster describes a project that is ongoing, near completion, or completed; not one that is yet to start 

Important note: The presenter must commit to attending the Congress in person and traveling to Astana, Kazakhstan.

All poster proposals are reviewed by a jury of members from the IFLA Professional Council. Proposal status will be announced in late April 2025.