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The annual report of the IFLA National Committee Germany for the period September 2022 to June 2023 provides information on the current developments in the international library association IFLA. The report mentions the successful IFLA World Congress in Dublin in July 2022 and the General Assembly in August, where a plan for securing the future of IFLA was presented. Since June 2023, IFLA has a new Secretary-General, Sharon Memis. The report also provides information on the upcoming IFLA World Congress 2023 in Rotterdam, where a delegation from Germany is expected. The IFLA National Committee Germany consists of various professional associations and libraries with national significance. The committee's website provides information on the activities of IFLA in Germany and in the international library association. [Extracted from the article]

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Gender mainstreaming, as an important socio-political objective within the context of diversity management, became an element of the strategic fields of action and also of the operative work of the Stadtbibliothek Bremen (Bremen city library). The library's respective conception starts from one basic premiss of gender mainstreaming which states that there is no gender-neutral reality. This is why in all social projects and decisions, the different interests and situations in life of men and women have strictly to be taken into consideration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the role of the association Bibliothek & Information International and its work with the association Bibliothek & Information Deutschland. Both associations seek to educate people in and out of Germany on what German libraries can offer to scholars and everyday users. The associations also work to further the librarian profession.

The article presents a code of ethics for librarians that was approved at the third Leipzig Congress for Information and Libraries in March 2007. The "Ethischen Grundsätze der Bibliotheks- und Informationsberufe" ("Ethical Bases of Library and Information Occupations") developed by the Bibliothek & Information Deutschland (BID - Library and Information Germany) is similar to such codes in forty other countries.

The article discusses a proposal for library law put forward in Erfurt, Germany on May 29, 2008. Two thirds of the 27 countries in the European Union have passed national laws concerning the purpose, standards, and financing of their nation's libraries. The library organization Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Bibliotheks- und Informationsverbände (BID) recognized the proposal but requested that municipalities be required to support public libraries.