The registration for IFLAcamp² is open now. Attending IFLAcamp² will be free of charge. To make the barcamp run smoothly, there will be a limit of 100 participants. So make sure to get your ticket today!
15-16 August 2013 Li Ka Shing Library
Singapore Management University Singapore 100 participants
IFLAcamp² is a two-day satellite meeting in the mode of an unconference that provides plenty of space for ad-hoc sessions and group discussions. The participant-driven approach will allow for active involvement of all attendees and including all kinds of topics of interest.
We are going to meet in the Li Ka Shing Library of the Singapore Management University. Located in the heart of Singapore, we will not only spend two intensive days of unconferencing, but also have the chance to explore this exciting metropole and enjoy some culinary adventures.
“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.
Only a little more than one month to go until the NPSIG network is going to meet in Kaliningrad for IFLAcampLab which means three exciting days of barcamping and cycling with international library lovers and friends. The registration will close on 21 April, so get your free ticket today!
There is still enough time to get your visa. The Kaliningrad centralized library system will provide invitations for you. Please contact your local Russian Consulates and Embassies to be sure about visa procedures, a list of documents needed and the possibility of getting a cultural visa which is free of charge.
To provide you an invitation we need the following information from you:
Full name (as in passport)
Citizenship
Date and place of birth
Passport number
Place of work (name, address, tel, fax) and position.
Please let us know if you need a confirmation letter about your participation in the IFLAcamp Library Creative Laboratory for your employer: email – zgblist@gmail.com, or phone: +7 4012 53 35 47.
New Professionals from all over the world drawn together to share their latest research and projects, discussing trends in Library and Information Science and enjoying three days of networking and fun. This can only mean one thing: We are at Bobcatsss once again! This year, the symposium by New Professionals for New Professionals extended its usual boundaries taking its participants to Asia Minor. Ankara with its islamic culture added some oriental touch to the Bobcatsss experience. The conference program, too, broke new ground by introcuding the pecha-kucha format and expanding the range of workshops. NPSIG crossed the Bosphorus to continue its series of Bobcatsss workshops, starting in Italy four years ago, with stopovers in Hungary and The Netherlands.
20 participants
…with various backgrounds got involved in our workshop “Tailor-made and weather-proof – Building and maintaining New Professionals groups as an important part of early career development”. Teased by two short presentations, they got to think about this topic from specific points of view in the interactive part of the workshop session.
NPSIG workshop participants
2 theses
…laid the ground from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. They had been finished recently and were related to the topic of the workshop. NPSIG activist Veronica Angell Bergli skyped in from Norway to introduce network theories such as Six Degrees of Separation and Communities of Practice and to explain the requirements of a well-functioning network.
NPSIG Convenor Sebastian Wilke outlined the many different forms of initiatives by new librarians around the world and explored four key dimensions in the existence of a New Professionals group: the level of structure, the effects of online and on-site, the direction of activities and, ultimately, short-term activism versus long-term goals.
See the presentation slides for more details:
1 question
…was asked to the workshop participants: “How might you design communication in a national New Professionals group?”. Based on the input of the two theses, their personal experience and driven by group dynamics, they developed various answers.
3 methods
…of brainstorming were applied to ensure a wide range of answers and encourage the participants to think out of the box. Besides the usual goal of brainstorming the ideal solution, we added a negative and a crazy approach. By turning the question upside down, the negative approach provides an unusual view on the question and helps getting focussed on what you really want. On the other hand, the crazy approach creates ideas without limits and lets you overcome the boundaries of reality.
brainstorming: ideal, negative, crazy
5 results
… were produced with the 3 methods by 5 different groups of 3 to 5 people. Each group had 15 min time to work together on a solution and present that to the other groups in 1 min short presentations (click on the group pictures to see the recorded presentations on youtube).
presentation group 4
results group 4
presentation group 2
results group 2
presentation group 3
results group 3
presentation group 1
results group 1
presentation group 5
results group 5
2 conclusions
… were drawn at the end of the workshop that reflected the results of all groups despite their different brainstorming approaches: We need both online and on-site engagement with each other to make communication work. Also, New Professionals rely on the support by their profession – a good atmosphere in general and time / permission by the employer in particular – to make things happen.
22
…will be the number of the next Bobcatsss symposium in Barcelona in January 2014. We are already looking forward to this!
时间：2013年8月15-16日
地点：新加坡管理大学李嘉诚纪念图书馆
（Li Ka Shing Library, Singapore Management University）
限定人数：100人
继2012年第一次IFLAcamp成功举办之后，国际图联（IFLA）新近专业工作者特别兴趣小组（New Professionals Special Interest Group）与国际图联亚太部（Asia and Oceania Section）一同欢迎您前来参加IFLAcamp²，暨2013年世界图书馆和信息大会（WLIC2013）的unconference会议。
Quoi: l’IFLAcamp² est un rassemblement satellite de deux jours. Sur le mode d’une conférence participative, il propose des espaces pour des sessions ad-hoc et des groupes de discussion. L’approche participative permet une implication de tous les participants autour de sujets variés.
Quand:l’IFLAcamp² aura lieu les 15 et 16 août 2013.
Où:Nous nous rassemblerons au sein de la bibliothèque Li Ka Shing de l’Université de Management de Singapour. Situés au cœur de Singapour, nous ne passerons pas seulement deux jours intensifs de conférence, mais aurons aussi la chance d’explorer cette métropole captivante et de tenter de nouvelles expériences gustatives.
Thèmes de l’IFLAcamp²
Reprenant le concept du Barcamp, chaque participant de l’IFLAcamp² sera encouragé à proposer sur place des sujets et à s’impliquer activement lors des sessions. Un programme sera établi chaque matin avec l’ensemble des participants.
N’hésitez pas à nous communiquer dès maintenant les sujets que vous souhaiteriez voir être abordés au cours de l’IFLAcamp² :
clux1
deichel
Claudia S.
lmpeifer
Antonin Benoît DIOUF
mollycaitlins
novevariant
sebastianwilke
sisterama
Dace
ukachingozi
mace
