Learning from the past to Inspire, Include and Sustain: Reporting from IFLA 2021

In January 2020 IFLA Library History Interest Group called on IFLA website for papers to review oral history of library and information science projects at a session entitled "Librarians: Learning from the past to Inspire, Include and Sustain". That year IFLA congress was canceled due to the Covid-19 epidemic. Upon the decision of the Secretary General and the President of IFLA 2021 congress was held virtually due to the spread of this global epidemic with the valuable support of the National Committee of Ireland a who provided a platform for presentations. At the session, four speakers from Ireland, Iran, USA and Croatia introduced projects of oral history in their countries. At the session four oral history projects of the National Archives and Library of Iran (NLAI), including LIS education in Iran, history of the Children's Book Council of Iran, history of the Iranian Library and Information Science Association (ILISA), and contributions of pioneer Iranian professional librarians in developing modern librarianship in Iran were reported.