ALT An exhibition of pro-democracy posters from various Eastern European countries at Europe House.

ALT The EUROLIS Eurotoolbox (featuring books in different languages for children) flanked by international flags at Europe House.

ALT Anabel Lopez from Eurolis introducing the work of Eurolis at the event. A slide about promoting European languages for children can be seen behind her, along with a European Parliament Liaison Office banner.

ALT Emily Jewell - Head of Culture and Libraries at Vision Redbridge - introducing the day. A slide stating “On behalf of Eurolis, thank you for attending today!” can be seen on a screen behind her, along with attendees at the event in the foreground.

ALT Cats on plastic panels with braille descriptions - a tool used to help people to learn braille.

ALT Marina - a Congress volunteer and translator - showing blind Congress attendee Dipendra Manocha a welcome to Kazakhstan which one of the team at the library had just created.

ALT Congress delegate Gulmira Abylgazina showing Abai Qunanbaiuly’s collection. Newspaper/magazine items can also be seen.

ALT Chess and draughts - adapted for blind people - at the specialist library. Miranda and Gulmira can also be seen.

ALT Me stroking MNU Cat (a grey and silver short-haired moggy) on a sofa at the University.

ALT Other IFLA delegates stroking MNU Cat

ALT A cat play centre at MNU, featuring cubby holes with cat-faced-shaped openings.

ALT One of the reading rooms at MNU - it has a cuboid design featuring cosy soft furnishings and wooden shelving with glass panels. Yellow lighting is built into the shelves.

ALT The Provost of MNU welcoming around 30 #WLIC2025 delegates to the library in MNU Library’s event’s space which features a large screen stating “Welcoming to IFLA WLIC delegates”.

ALT Another angle of the library’s events space. Delegates are taking photos of the big screen showing a photo of the library and a title image. Camilla, who works at the library, is speaking at the front.

ALT The exterior of the “Banana building” at MNU. It features grand Greek-style pillars.

ALT Top 10 Country Delegations slide - Kazakhstan 452, US 110, China 99, Korea (Republic of) 69, Germany 51, UK 47, Malaysia 42, Qatar 35, UAE 35, Japan 32.

ALT Imogen Negomi - one of IFLA’s Emerging Leaders - speaking at the #WLIC2025 event. Other Emerging Leaders can be seen in the audience, along with Dr Hena Ismail from the Arab Federation for Libraries and Information and session chair Stephen Wyber. A slide with the profile picture of all the Emerging Leaders on it can also be seen.

ALT African librarian and Emerging Leader Damilare Oyedele speaking at the event. Stephen Wyber (session Chair) and other speakers can be seen in the background.

ALT Juliana Pranke from the German Library Association speaking about “Curation or Censorship” on the main stage at #WLIC2025. An image of a typewriter with the words “Freedom of Speech” can also be seen on the title slide.

ALT Another slide form Juliana’s talk, showing figures of librarians in an office looking in despair, with big children’s style building blocks saying “WTF?!” In the background.

ALT “Challenges and lessons learned” slide from a talk about advocating for prison libraries by Kirsten Wurmann who can be seen at the podium.

ALT A slide from Jelena Glišovic’s talk on advocating for Serbian Libraries. It is about “Involving Public Citizens” and examples of media coverage about Jelena’s campaign can be seen in a collage.

ALT The audience filing into the Astana auditorium at the Congress Centre for #WLIC2025

ALT The main stage at #WLIC2025 - patterned lights can be seen in the background.

ALT An IFLA WLIC "Welcome" sign outside the Astana Congress venue.

ALT The foyer of the Hilton Hotel which is also being used as a venue for #WLIC2025.

ALT Myself on the stairs of the Congress venue, wearing a turquoise volunteer jacket. Other volunteers can also be seen in the background.

ALT The Volunteers Briefing in one of the conference rooms at the Congress venue. Organisers can be seen at a podium, along with a title slide on a projector screen.

ALT The colourful outside of the Kitty Cafe at Birmingham New Street Station, with people looking in.

ALT A tuxedo cat next to a running wheel in the café.

ALT A young-looking tabby cat on a black and white chevroned floor. Other cats can also be seen in the background.

ALT The interior of the Kitty Café, with colourful lighting and furniture and things for cats to climb on across the walls and on the ceiling.