I’m delighted to report that IFLA’s Library History Special Interest Group has issued a call for chapters for a book that is planned to mark IFLA’s Centenary in 2027. The intended scope of this book, which will be published by De Gruyter, publishers of the IFLA Publications (“Greenbacks”) series, is the history of IFLA in its broader international context, including both transnational and regional perspectives on IFLA and the history of libraries and the information society over the past 100 years.  The editors plan to organize the volume under the following broad themes:

• The future of libraries in an era of ubiquitous information
• Informational utopia – networks, knowledge organization, and the global rise of libraries
• Cold War and the dawn of information technology
• Information for All – access and information justice amidst globalization

For more information go to the announcement on the IFLA website.