The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession.

The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global problems.

The Allgemeines Ku nstlerlexikon (AKL) is the most extensive, up-to-date and authoritative art-history reference work on artists. It is by no means limited to only the most famous artists: artists all over the globe and throughout the ages from antiquity to the present are recorded in this major encyclopedia. And it contains not only painters, sculptors, and architects, but gives equal weighting to sculptors in marble, restorers, and calligraphers, or craftsmen, to name but a few of the many hundreds of artistic professions found in the AKL.

The ongoing Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon is the most extensive, up-to-date and authoritative art history reference work on artists. Each volume profiles approximately 7,000 artists from all time periods and across the globe.