New webinar for LIS students: Call for proposals

Hello, LIS students! We have a wonderful proposal to offer you!

The IFLA Division C is continuing to host the “Webinar Series for LIS students” which was initiated by the IFLA Division IV – Support of the Profession in Spring 2021. These webinars aim to create a place for students to share their projects, research, and ideas about different topics related to libraries. Each webinar will address a different theme. All events are held online and are open to everyone (no registration fees).

October’s theme is “International Engagement and Collaboration – Getting Started”.

We are interested in hearing about how you have started and got involved with your international engagement and cooperation, whether through a joint project with a partner library, through conference visits, stays abroad, study trips, internships, etc.

The proposal may focus on:

• Benefits of the international collaboration for library patrons
• New possibilities and projects for the library through international work
• New options for your own career through international involvement
• International experience within a LIS program

Library and Information Science students who have already had experience with international cooperation at all levels are encouraged to submit a proposal about the topic. Proposals (in MS Word) must include:

• Name, title, institution, email of speaker(s);
• Brief biographical statement about each speaker (maximum 100 words);
• Title of proposed presentation;
• Abstract highlighting its relevance to the theme (maximum 400 words).

Submissions

Submit your proposals to Albina Krymskaya (krymskayaalbina@gmail.com) and Susanne List-Tretthahn (list-tretthahn@bvoe.at). Accepted participants will receive a certificate from IFLA Division C for presenting at the webinar. Presentations will be delivered online by the presenter, in PowerPoint format. Each presentation will last for 25 minutes, including 5-10 minutes for questions and answers.

Important dates (might be changed due to keynote speakers):

• Deadline for submission is October 13th 2021.
• Three proposals will be accepted for presentation and the accepted participants will be notified by October 20th 2021.
• This month’s webinar is held on 27th October 2021 (Time will be confirmed depending on the time zones of the speakers).

For further questions, contact: Albina Krymskaya (krymskayaalbina@gmail.com) and Susanne List-Tretthahn (list-tretthahn@bvoe.at)

A new NPSIG Happy Hour!

When the WLIC has finished, and you still feel that beautiful feeling of having been connected with colleagues from all over the world, we give you the unique opportunity to join us and have a great time together in this new Happy Hour organized by the NPSIG

Here we leave you all the information you need to know:

When?: Friday, Aug. 20

Time: 8 PM (CEST)

Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87818892251

Prepare your voice and join us with a toast to celebrate that there is less and less to be together!

NPSIG Session: Music in the Library World

We are really excited!
We have prepared for you during the last months a session that we are sure will be one of the highest of the WLIC 2021, and we want you to be there.

This session will be divided into a first part where important speakers from all over the world will tell us about their experiences about how working with music in their libraries impacts their communities.
The second part will be to show you the results of the wonderful NPSIG Music Contests, where colleagues from all over the world participated with musical and audiovisual performances. Not to be missed!

We are sure that it will surprise you and you will not be able to easily forget this session.

Please note the date and time:
Music in the Library World
Aug 17
11:45 am – 12:30 pm (CEST) and 12:30 – 13:00 (CEST) for live Q&A

See you there!

NPSIG Music Contest: This is our jury!

We want to present you to the wonderful jury that will choose which will be the winning performances of the NPSIG Music Contest, the results of which we will report shortly, and which we will present at our Music Session of the next WLIC2021

We are sure that this jury of professionals will have a lot of work to evaluate all the great performances, videos and audios that have been sent to us from all over the world, as we pointed out in our previous post.

But we have no doubt that they will do a fantastic job, since our jury is made up of professionals from libraries, music or both! Here is a short presentation below.

NPSIG Music Contest: Thank you for the music!

The deadline for the first librarian music contest finally closed. We are really happy for the dissemination and the response we had, and that is why in this post we want to share this joy with you.

For several months, colleagues from all over the world presented different musical proposals, some in audio, others in audio and video, all with translation into English. Beautiful compositions, adaptations and musical poems will participate in this contest that tries to show the world how wonderful libraries are!

The numbers are impressive: 70 performances from 17 different countries, and 5 participating continents.

In the next few days the judges will evaluate all the proposals and they will decide which are the winning performances. But now we want to thank everyone for their participation, and dedicate the following video to you:

New IFLA Division IV webinar “LIS Degree Requirement: Internships, Practicums, or Field Experiences”

We are excited to announce a new IFLA Division IV webinar “LIS Degree Requirement: Internships, Practicums, or Field Experiences”.
As we are accustomed to in this IFLA Section of Support for the Profession, the presentations will be of a high level and with very varied approaches, always giving an important space to young professionals.
On this occasion, these will be the speakers:

• Kathleen Lourdes B. Obille
  “Crossing over from Theory to Practice: LIS Internship Programs in the Philippines”
• Kevin Conrad T. Tansiongco
  “Anatomizing UE LIS Education: An Educator’s Point of View”
• Syeda Mahmaz Batool
  “Field experience requirements in Institute of Information management University of the Punjab”
• Laura Grzunov
  “Written Heritage project: a training ground and a Department of Information Sciences, teaching laboratory for LIS
  students “
• Satveer Singh Nehra
  “LIS Professional Recruitments and Internships”

This Webinar will be honored to be introduced by our President-elect Barbara Lison as the Keynote Speaker

We are waiting for you on June 23 at 13: 00-14: 30 CEST.
Here is the Registration link: https://bit.ly/2ROXC43