Participants in the program are matched with others outside their country, based on the information they provide to the program coordinators. Partnerships are made for a fixed term, and during this period the partnerships are supported by regular contact and discussion points led by the program coordinators. Supported partnerships have an end date, however it is our vision that participants would develop a widening network of independent professional relationships.

Since launching earlier this year the ILN website has already had over 7,500 views from 91 countries across 5 continents. Currently, the International Librarians Network is midway through a pilot phase with 92 participants from 20 countries. The aims of the pilot are to test the model for both its effectiveness and sustainability before launching a full round in September 2013.

Welcoming participants from any type of library and any point in their career, the program is keen to attract librarians from as many different parts of the world as possible to give it a true international flavour and ensure a widespread sharing of ideas. Much more information about the program, including how to sign up can be obtained from the program website.

Our vision for the International Librarians Network is that it will be run by volunteers all over the world. We are currently calling for expressions of interest for Country Coordinators. If you are interested in becoming involved please visit our website for more information.

—

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

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

Following-up the first IFLAcamp in 2012, the New Professionals Special Interest Group and the Asia and Oceania Section welcome you to IFLAcamp², the WLIC2013 unconference for new and established professionals!

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.

See you in Singapore!

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

Come and join us on 25 April for the fourth virtual NPSIG business meeting! Let’s all catch-up on the latest developments and take a look at upcoming events of the NPSIG network and plans of the group. Here is the current agenda.

Date and times of the 4th virtual business meeting:

25 April, 2013
06:00 a.m., New York
11:00 a.m., London
12:00 p.m., Berlin (–> noon)
06:00 p.m., Singapore
09:00 p.m., Sydney

check out your time zone

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 Thursday, please use the following link:

https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/virtual-npsig-business-meeting-4/.

The meeting will be open to everyone.

See also: Facebook event for the current meeting | archive with recordings of earlier meetings

UPDATE: The recording of the meeting is now available - enjoy!

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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:

1. Full name (as in passport)
2. Citizenship
3. Date and place of birth
4. Passport number
5. 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.

See you in Kaliningrad in May!

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

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!

further resources: workshop abstract | youtube playlist | facebook photo album | pinterest board

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© Dierk Eichel, Sebastian Wilke

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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。

IFLAcamp² 是一次采用了unconference模式的卫星会议，共为期两天。它为特别的议题和小组讨论提供了充足的空间。这次会议采用了参会者驱动会议的模式，这将保证参会者积极的参与，并尽可能的包括所有人们感兴趣的题目。

IFLAcamp² 是由国际图联新近专业工作者特别兴趣小组与国际图联亚太部共同主办的。

IFLAcamp² 将在2013年8月15-16日举行。

IFLAcamp² 将会在新加坡管理大学的李嘉诚纪念图书馆举行。这座图书馆位于新加坡的中心，因而我们不仅将进行两天日程紧密的unconference会议，而且我们还将有机会探索这座激动人心的大城市，并且品尝当地的美食。

IFLAcamp² 采用了barcamp的概念。我们鼓励每位参会者都提出感兴趣的话题，并且积极参与到讨论中。每天早上，所有参会者共同决定当天的日程。

请你们通过以下方式让我们知道你们想要在IFLAcamp²中讨论的话题：

1. Twitter: @npsig #iflacamp
2. Facebook 页面
3. e-mail: npsig.ifla@gmail.com
4. 或者请直接在这个页面留言

IFLAcamp² 将会使用英语作为官方语言。

Faisant suite au premier IFLAcamp de 2012, le Groupe d’intérêt spécial des Nouveaux professionnels et la Section Asie et Océanie vous invite au IFLAcamp², une conférence satellite du Congrès annuel de l’IFLA 2013 destinée aux nouveaux professionnels ainsi qu’à ceux en exercice depuis longue date.

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.

Qui: l’IFLAcamp² est un événement conjoint du Groupe d’intérêt spécial des Nouveaux professionnels et de la Section Asie et Océanie.

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 :

• Sur Twitter : @npsig #iflacamp
• Sur notre page Facebook
• Par email : npsig.ifla@gmail.com
• Ou en laissant un commentaire sous cet article

La langue officielle de l’IFLAcamp² sera l’anglais.