Currently IABIN is:

Assessing the information needs of the biodiversity community in the region and setting priorities among those needs;

Implementing network-level tools to allow network-wide searching and retrieval of relevant biodiversity data, information, and knowledge;

Exchanging scientific expertise through collaborative projects and other efforts to build capacity in human and technological resources; and

Assessing the state of collections in the Americas and Europe and identifying non-electronic data of interest.