“With the tagline literacy for welfare means creating a prosperous society by empowering public libraries. This is very much in line with the manifesto of public libraries in supporting the achievement of sustainable development goals,” he explained.
Meanwhile, IFLA Regional Manager for Asia-Oceania Lin Lin Soh stated that libraries play a crucial role in supporting the SDGs by providing access to information to the public, so that the community can develop sustainably, both socially and environmentally.
She said IFLA has created a Library Map of the World website, which contains library data in 135 countries, SDGs stories, and profiles of 28 countries. The SDGs story channel contains activities and programs related to libraries that bring about change to encourage the achievement of SDGs.
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The 28th CDNLAO will take place on 24-27 October 2022 in Jakarta. This is the third time for Indonesia to host the event. Indonesia also hosted the meeting in 2007 and 2012.
The 28th CDNLAO carries three sub-themes namely sustainability, inclusion, and innovation with speakers from Perpusnas, IFLA, Iran National Library, Vietnam National Library, Philippine National Library, Singapore National Library, Qatar National Library, and China National Library. (un)