NPSIG/CPDWL WLIC 2013 session: final program available!

We are happy to share with you the final program of our WLIC2013 session, jointly organized with the Continuing Professionals Development and Workplace Learning Section. There will be four exciting workshops with hosts from all over the world, and mostly IFLA first-timers!

New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations

#wlic2013 #newlibgc

Thursday, 22 August 2013 | 10.45-13.00 | Room 6, Session 210

“New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations” was established in 2012 as a free quarterly series of webinars. It has been very well received by new and established professionals around the globe. As the topics covered so far continue to be of big interest to our community, we would like to bring the most popular themes from the 2012 webinar cycle to Singapore and build an open session around it.

Agenda

Keynote

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Parallel workshops, each 90 min

• “Library Residency Programs: Early Career Development for the Future of Libraries” by Angela Boyd, Suzanne Im and Yolanda Blue, University of California, Santa Barbara
• “New librarians, global connections: the world is your oyster” by Megan Fitzgibbons, Librarian, University of Western Australia, Perth
• “Leadership is more important than management debate” by Christine Busby, Business Information Librarian, Wellington, New Zealand
• “Know thyself: advancing your leadership potential“ by Eva Revitt, Chair, Access and Discovery Services, Grant MacEwan University, Alberta, Canada

See you in Singapore!

WLIC2013 workshop hosts by country

WLIC2013 First Timer workshop hosts

meet the President-elect: new librarians global connection webinar

“New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations.”

For the second consecutive year, IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group are partnering with the American Library Association to present a series of free quarterly webinars on issues of interest to new librarians, library associations and library schools, library-decision makers, and all library workers. This is a great opportunity for membership participation.

Following our tradition of excellence, this year our keynote speakers for each of our quarterly sessions come from different regions of the world. This time the keynote is by IFLA President-elect Sinikka Sipila.

Keynote by Sinikka Sipilä, IFLA President Elect and Secretary General of the Finnish Library Association. Keynote topics: Strong libraries for equal and innovative societies, advocacy, how IFLA works and how to join.

Susanne Riedel, former President of the German Library Association for Library Professionals, Head of Support Team  Publication Services at the Electronic Services Department, Bielefeld University. Topics include professional development, intergenerational librarianship, mentoring, librarians and change.

Kate Byrne, Outreach Team Leader, University of New South Wales and Program Coordinator of International Librarians Network, Australia.

April 16, 2013

• 9:00 a.m. CDT
• 10:00 a.m. EDT
• 4:00 p.m. CET
• 10:00 p.m. Singapore

World Clock
Virtual meeting room to replay the webinar

Webinar length is one hour. The webinars are archived, therefore you can join them, ask questions and participate in conversations with international colleagues live, or you can listen to them later, anywhere at any time. For more information about the 2013 ”New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations” series, visit the webinar homepage.

Questions and requests for information:
Loida Garcia-Febo
Series Coordinator
loidagarciafebo@gmail.com

new librarians global connection webinar

UPDATE: now available –> recording of the webinar | storify summary

Bibcamp 2013 Day 1

Finally in the land of the prezel.
The 6th edition of the legendary German library unconference Bibcamp takes place in the Franconian capital of Nuremberg wich is famous among other things for their tasty prezels. At least 5 different tastes of prezels among them a chocolate covered sweet one, thats what haven must be like. But enough of the prezels.

Nearly 150 librarians from all over Germany, Austria, Swizerland and Italy organized a professional program of 14 Session on Day 1.
Among them such intresting ones as “fail nicely” about how the Germans should overvome the angst of failing. You see in Germany we have no culture of failing, so in the library community we only have successful projects or the ones which must not be named aka the failed ones. But we could learn so much from our mistakes.
Another Session spareked a discussion about new technologies in libraries and how to facilitate the inevitable change process so that no librarian is left behind. Again the main motive of resitance was identified as angst. The fear to to loose ones tasks which had been perfected over the decades, for wich one is beeing valued. The fear to change as irrational as it might seem to the restless New Professional must not be underestimated. One interesting solution could be the appointement of an comfort manager to make the change process as smooth as possible for everyone. On the other hand I want to share an off the record qoute: “innovation must hurt”.
One of the later sessions adressed the issue of open innovation in the way of an interactive workshop. First the participants together with the moderator defined what the concepts of “innovation” (implement new, different or refine products, services or structures) and “open”(participation of users, non users, potential users, investors, external experts, internal staff as well as openess toward the outcome and thinking outside the box) ment in the context of the library. By adhering to the model of innovation as the intersection of the users desirability, technical feasibility and economic viability a brainstorming followed on how to come up with ideas for innovations in an open way. In the last part of the workshop the participants constructed a conceptual workflow on how to implement an open innovaton process in a library, guided by the moderator as a certified innovation manager. The workflow includes a not to large (10-12) group of people as defined under the “open” definition wich for a not to long period of time (10-20 min.) brainstorm a lot of ideas and then voting for the best ones (3-1) followed by a testing of a simple prototype of the ideas on the intended user group. To conclude: this was one of the most productive sessions on this day do to the demanding workshop concept and an engaged audience.
The first day of #bib6 ended in casual discussion with lots of pizza and beer.
Until tomorrow

WLIC2013 workshop proposals dissected

workshop proposals for ”New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations”

Great news everyone, we received 10 proposals for the WLIC2013 session “New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations” from all over the world and from a lot of IFLA First Timers.

WLIC2013 workshop proposals by country

WLIC2013 workshop proposals IFLA First Timer

WLIC2013 workshop proposals by topic

We are currently in the process of evaluating the workshop proposals and will inform you in the first week of March. So stay tuned.

This session is organized by the New Professionals Special Interest Group together with the Continuing Professionals Development and Workplace Learning Section of IFLA.

See you in Singapore.

#newlibgc #wlic2013

IFLADIAL Working Group Report on IFLA Communications

IFLADIAL Working Group Report on IFLA Communications to IFLA Professional Committee Meeting

1 Purpose of paper

This paper looks at issues of communication with IFLA, as identified by members and activists, and suggests areas for improvement.

2 Background

The issue of communication within IFLA was highly discussed during the WLIC in Helsinki.

During several business meetings with IFLA representatives, it became clear that many IFLA Officers and activists are not quite satisfied with the current practices; an active interest in strengthening the flow of information and communication was expressed.

As a result of one of these discussions during the Division IV Leadership Brief, led by Division Chair Anna Maria Tammaro on August 12, the IFLADIAL Working Group was established to investigate concerns related to IFLA communication issues and to develop proposals for the PC to consider at its meeting in December 2012. The Working Group met face to face on August 14 to develop a work strategy and establish a consultation mechanism.

3 Consultation

On August 28 the IFLADIAL group posted an opening statement in English and Spanish inviting participation to contribute to web-based discussions using different channels, including IFLA-L and comments on several IFLA blogs, all linked through the use of a shared hashtag (#ifladial). The opening statement on IFLA-L and blogposts generated very few, but nevertheless very interesting responses.

A short online survey available in English in Spanish, was also set up and advertised.

25 replies (14 in English and 11 in Spanish) were received by September 16, with a good geographical spread, including Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, New Caledonia, Norway, Peru, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, USA and UK.

45% of the respondents to the online survey were IFLA Officers / SC Members / SIG Conveners. Although not all respondents addressed all the questions, the answers were quite similar, hence symptomatic of generalised concerns. A further 20 people participated on the #ifladial tweetchats which took place on September 1 and Saturday 8 September. The same five key questions on the online survey were posted on twitter to generate discussion:

• Q1. What do you think about the way that IFLA communicates with its activists?
• Q2. What do you think about the way that IFLA communicates with its members?
• Q3. What do you think about the way that IFLA communicates with the general public?
• Q4. What do you think about the way that IFLA uses social media? (blogs, twitter, etc)
• Q5. What suggestions do you have to improve communications within IFLA?

Storify was used to keep a record of the 1st tweetchat, 2nd tweetchat and the general ifladial archive including tweets and blog posts.

NPSIG virtual business meeting today

Today we will meet for the 3rd NPSIG virtual business meeting and discuss the latest developments and upcoming activities of the New Professionals Special Interest Group.

You are welcome to join and get involved in our global network of LIS activists!

Date and times of the 3rd virtual business meeting:

20 Feb, 2013
2:00 p.m. CST
3:00 p.m. EST
9:00 p.m. CET  (21:00 Central European Time)
7:00 a.m. EDT (next day)

check your time zone

agenda

length: 90 min

As a platform, we are going to use Adobe Connect that includes chat (IM, voice/video chat), sharing documents with each other and many more options. The meeting will be recorded for later use. To enter the virtual meeting room on Wednesday, please use the following link:

https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/virtual-npsig-business-meeting-3/

The meeting will be open to everyone.