IFLA’s Strategic Objectives – Hungarian and International Library Parallels

Abstract

This study analyses the – significantly expanded – functions of libraries in the 21th century and their active community role in society, and draws attention to the continuous changes of environmental factors in proactive serving of the new demands derived from them. After appointing the corners of the strategic planning carried out for the library network based on prognoses, it outlines the international situation by introducing the development efforts and programs of IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions), promoting the Hungarian adaptation. The study discusses the Lyon Declaration and the IFLA Strategic Plan 2016-2021 on the basis of the IFLA Trend Report 2013 and its update, the IFLA Trend Report 2016. It considers the IFLA’s complex action plan – built on the UN Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the related rich documentation background (manuals, toolkits) as the crucial elements; however it leaves scope for the introduction of the Hungarian library trends and tendencies as well.