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Volume 44 Number 2 June 2018 IFLA IFLA Volume 44 Number 2 June 2018 IFLA Contents Editorial Three Days to the Future: An invitation to reflect upon IFLA’s Global Vision project 87 Lynne M. Rudasill Articles Transformation strategies in community engagement: Selected initiatives by Malaysian libraries 90 Zawiyah Baba and A. Abrizah An investigation of the experiences of Nicaraguan Costen˜o librarians 106 Ana Ndumu and Lorraine Mon Predictors of knowledge sharing behaviour on Sustainable Development Goals among library personnel in Nigeria 119 Magnus Osahon Igbinovia and Ngozi P. Osuchukwu Open access repositories of Bangladesh: An analysis of the present status 132 Md. Hasinul Elahi and Muhammad Mezbah-ul-Islam The Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive: Harnessing an open-source platform to host digitized collections online 143 Jeffrey A. Knapp, Andrew Gearhart, L. Suzanne Kellerman and Linda Klimczyk Abstracts 154 Aims and Scope IFLA Journal is an international journal publishing peer reviewed articles on library and information services and the social, political and economic issues that impact access to information through libraries. The Journal publishes research, case studies and essays that reflect the broad spectrum of the profession internationally. To submit an article to IFLA Journal please visit: journals.sagepub.com/home/ifl IFLA Journal Official Journal of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions ISSN 0340-0352 [print] 1745-2651 [online] Published 4 times a year in March, June, October and December Editor Steve Witt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 321 Main Library, MC – 522 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL, USA. Email: [email protected] Editorial Committee Barbara Combes, School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia. Email: [email protected] Milena Dobreva-McPherson, University College London Qatar, Qatar. Email: [email protected] Anne Goulding, School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Email: [email protected] Dinesh Gupta, Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University, Kota, India. Email: [email protected]/[email protected] Perla Innocenti, Northumbria University, UK. Email: [email protected] Mahmood Khosrowjerdi, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran. Email: [email protected]/[email protected] Jerry W. Mansfield, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Email: [email protected] Anne Okerson, (Governing Board Liaison) Center for Research Libraries, USA. Email: [email protected] Lindsay Ozburn, (Editorial Assistant) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Email: [email protected] Debbie Rabina, Pratt Institute, USA. Email: [email protected] Seamus Ross, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Email: [email protected] Shali Zhang, (Chair) University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, United States. Email: [email protected] Lihong Zhou, Wuhan University, China. Email: [email protected] Publisher SAGE, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC and Melbourne. Copyright © 2018 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. UK: Apart from fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, and only as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Acts 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the Publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction, in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency (www.cla.co.uk/). US: Authorization to photocopy journal material may be obtained directly from SAGE Publications or through a licence from the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (www.copyright.com/). Inquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to SAGE. Annual subscription (4 issues, 2018) Free to IFLA members. Non-members: full rate (includes electronic version) £321/$592. Prices include postage. Full rate subscriptions include the right for members of the subscribing institution to access the electronic content of the journal at no extra charge from SAGE. The content can be accessed online through a number of electronic journal intermediaries, who may charge for access. Free e-mail alerts of contents listings are also available. For full details visit the SAGE website: sagepublishing.com Student discounts, single issue rates and advertising details are available from SAGE, 1 Oliver’s Yard, 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 20 7324 8500; e-mail: [email protected]; website: sagepublishing.com. In North America from SAGE Publications, PO Box 5096, Thousand Oaks, CA 91359, USA. Please visit journals.sagepub.com/home/ifl and click on More about this journal, then Abstracting/indexing, to view a full list of databases in which this journal is indexed. Printed on acid-free paper by Page Bros, Norwich, UK. IFLA Editorial International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions 2018, Vol. 44(2) 87–89 Three Days to the Future: ª The Author(s) 2018 Reprints and permission: An invitation to reflect upon sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0340035218778142 IFLA’s Global Vision project journals.sagepub.com/home/ifl Lynne M. Rudasill Chair, IFLA Social Sciences Section, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA In March of 2018, IFLA President, Glo`ria Pe´rez-Sal- of IFLA and the profession. If we consider active and mero´n hosted the President’s Meeting in Barcelona - engaged professionals within the sections representa- home to Palau Gu¨ell, Sagrada Famı´lia and the 1992 tive of new voices and groups, clearly IFLA is Summer Olympics. The meeting served as the kickoff responding and empowering us to become more workshop for the long awaited IFLA Global Vision closely engaged in the organization as it works toward Report Summary, which presents data from an ambi- a new strategic framework. tious global survey of IFLA’s membership (IFLA Pre- In the years leading up to the Global Vision Report, sident’s Meeting, 2018)1. The report provides details IFLA engaged the profession widely in the creation of regarding perspectives on the challenges the profes- the IFLA Trend Report. IFLA launched the Trend sion believes it will face in the future. This work Report’s Insights Document at the Singapore Con- aligns with other sensemaking activities among gress in 2013. Both the Trend Report and Global library associations around the world (Dorner et al., Vision Report employ a bottom-up approach that soli- 2017). Speakers who ranged from government offi- cits local perspectives with attempts to synthesize cials to non-governmental organizations and from them at a global level. For the Vision Report six storytellers to publishers explored a variety of themes regional workshops will take place through July of important to library and information workers. During 2018. The workshops will be followed by a Global the final event of the opening day, IFLA Secretary Call for Ideas as part of the Global Vision Outcomes General Gerald Leitner launched the Global Vision Report scheduled during the WLIC in Kuala Lumpur Report Summary. The Report provides ten in August of 2018. From September 2018 through “Highlights” and ten “Opportunities” for our consid- March of 2019, IFLA will analyze the data and design eration, and through the Key Findings the report a way forward with the launch of the IFLA Strategy encourages library and information professionals to for 2019 – 2024, occurring in August 2019 at the act locally and think globally when addressing future Congress in Greece (IFLA, 2018b). challenges (IFLA, 2018a). This was a fitting prologue The Global Vision Report Summary raises impor- for the work that would occur over the two following tant issues for the profession, and readers should feel days of the IFLA Global Vision Workshop. compelled to review the report to see all of the data An optimist would view the organization of the points and information it encompasses. In Barcelona, two-day workshop that occurred after the President’s the second day of the program provided an opportu- Meeting as a reflection of an ongoing renewal and nity to analyze the essence of each of the highlights rededication to the importance of the input from the and opportunities articulated in the report summary. A many library and information workers who volunteer rapid look at the degree of participation in the survey time as members of the professional committees. This from which the report emerged reflects the passion of is an effort to ensure local perspectives and help IFLA practitioners from throughout the world. Seven explore its future development. Under the leadership of Secretary General Gerald Leitner, 2018 is the sec- Corresponding author: ond year the chairs, secretaries, and others from the Lynne M. Rudasill, Chair, IFLA Social Sciences Section University sections and special interest groups came together of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61820, USA. outside of the annual congress to discuss the future Email: [email protected] 88 IFLA Journal 44(2) continents, 190 states and over 21,000 online votes at better understand our working realities. The final least partially answered the question of whether there question that many of us want to ask, however, is is a united library field. During the workshop, con- going forward how involved can we be? Will the same versation tables reflected the ten major issues type of assets that have been put forward to help us explored in the Report. Participants engaged in a vari- discuss problems and opportunities be available to ety of discussions and exercises over the course of two future members and their elected section leaders? Can days. The ongoing workshops in the spring of 2018 IFLA Headquarters continue to grow and become more will replicate this methodology by gathering the per- responsive to the needs of the membership represented spectives and bold ideas of leaders from associations by individuals in numerous sections and special inter- within each of IFLA’s regions.
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