IFLA-UNESCO School Library Manifesto 2025

The IFLA-UNESCO School Library Manifesto 2025 is an updated edition of the former IFLA/Unesco School Library Manifesto: The school library in teaching and learning for all (1999). The new edition reflects the many changes in technology, society and education, and represents an important and useful tool for school library advocacy for quality and inclusive education. The text is the outcome of a collaborative work within IFLA, IASL and the global school library community. It was jointly released in English by the IFLA School Libraries Section Standing Committee and the IASL - International Association of School Librarianship on the 12th of September 2021, and approved by the IFLA Governing Board on the 17th of April 2023. It was further approved in the 13th Session of the Intergovernmental Council of UNESCO's Information for All Programme (IFAP) in April 2025.