The first IFLA/ALA Webinar 2018 is now available online!

The first Webinar of 2018, organized jointly by IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group,IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and the American Library Association , had a great participation.
One of the reasons of this success could have been the alluring theme: “Can the library do everything? The changing role of librarians and the library as a space of social inclusion “.

The other reason was for the quality of the talks offered by the following professionals: Dr. Mei-Mei Wu, Kelly McElroy and Magalí Sanchez were very clear in their presentations, and they generated a series of interesting questions

For those who want to listen again to these speakers and for those who could not be present, we offer them the possibility of accessing the full Webinar

And remember that soon we will be reporting on the new Webinar: “Can new librarians have a voice? Training and professional development vs. workplace reality.”

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Ready for the IflaCamp6?

Hi, Wonderful librarians!

We are already heating the engines for the WLIC Kuala Lumpur 2018 so, who wants to be the first to register in IflaCamp6?

Refresh the main data: The 6th edition of IFLAcamp will take place on August 23 in Selangor in Malaysia. It will be held in Incredible Raja Tun Uda Library, Shah Alam (Selangor Public Library). As for August 24, it will be in Kuala Lumpur (location will be determined soon).

Where we are going to do the best IflaCamp ever, because we’re going to be in one of the most beautiful libraries in the world . Do not believe? Please, look at the photos en the IflaCamp6 official web site, and while you imagine how wonderful time we are going to spend there, complete this registration form by June 30th

 

 

Webinar: Can the library do everything?

Webinar on the horizon!

April 20, 2018 at 11am CT/5 pm UTC

To join the meeting: http://ala.adobeconnect.com/r3srpr16iuhn/

“Can the library do everything? The changing role of librarians and the library as a space of social inclusion.”

The growth of political polarization throughout the world has prompted many librarians to reexamine various professional roles within the library and in relation to social justice and community engagement. This webinar will examine the changing role of the library and ways to engage and account for the needs of users from marginalized communities, as well as those who are veterans, transfers, and scholars from diverse backgrounds.

Presenters are Kelly McElroy, Magali Sanchez and Dr. Mei-Mei Wu.

Interview: Nicole Pagowsky (Librarian Wardrobe)

“We need to think of ourselves differently in order to affect change in how the public perceives and interacts with us”

Nicole Pagowsky is a young professional with a large trajectory, librarian and Instruction Coordinator at the University of Arizona. As she says on her website, her research interests include student motivation, educational theory, and critical pedagogy.

In 2014, she published with Myriam Rigby the book “The Librarian Stereotype: Deconstructing Perceptions and Presentations of Information Work“, an exhaustive work that focuses on the construction of the image of the librarian from the theoretical-methodological analysis of the social sciences. That same year she published “Ice Ice Baby: Are Librarian Stereotypes Freezing Us out of Instruction? ”

She is the creator of a very popular blog “Librarian Wardrobe” where librarians from all over the world send their photos to show their cool look, aiming to break (or not!) stereotypes.

Our Vision, Our Future!

In one of the most important examples of teamwork they have done among the libraries in history, the Global Vision Report Summary has been published. Top 10 Highlights and Opportunities, in theIFLA President´s  Meeting 2018 held in March in the city of Barcelona.

Guest post: Speed Mentoring. The fast and furious way to network!

The following post is a a guest post by Joanna Hare. Joanna is a  a coordinator of Hong Kong Libraries Connect (HKLC). More information, including links to HKLC blog and project, is included at the bottom of the post. 

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Greetings from Hong Kong! Today I’d like to share with you a networking activity we hosted last year as a way to launch our inaugural mentoring program: Speed Mentoring!

Speed mentoring event (www.hklibconnect.org)

In early 2017 we launched a pilot mentoring program as a means to nurture LIS students, and provide an opportunity for students and professionals to gather and talk about the profession in Hong Kong in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. We wanted to host a special event to officially launch the program. To give the whole group a chance to talk to a broad range of people, as well as identify potential partnerships, we decided to coordinate a speed mentoring session.

(For anyone unfamiliar with the term, it is based on ‘Speed Dating’, where a large group of participants gather to have ‘speed dates’. Each date is usually under 10 minutes, meaning participants are able to meet lots of different potential partners and decide if they might like to meet that person again for a more formal date.)