How To Get Involved? A Few Words About NPSIG And IFLA Elections

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On February 1st, 2023 at 9 am and 7 pm CET we organised the Open NPSIG Meeting on a Zoom platform where we presented who we are, what projects we have and what we plan to do.

As we all know, there is an election time in IFLA and everybody can apply to IFLA councils, divisions, sections, and groups. And also to the IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group because we have 3 free seats in our standing committee!

Before you decide to join us, let us tell you more about what we are doing in NPSIG.

IFLA New Professionals SIG is a place for LIS new professionals who want to learn more about international cooperation, learn new skills and try to organise free events for librarians from around the world. Our group was created in 2004 by enthusiasts and it still attracts active librarians. When you plan your adventure with IFLA, New Professionals SIG is a good place to start.

We meet regularly on a Zoom platform and share our tasks. We work on organising webinars with IFLA sections and write articles as well as interviews. During IFLA WLIC we have a session, meetings, flashmob and the IFLAcamp. If you ever heard about fashion in librarians, an international music contest for librarians, librarians’ olympics in Greece or reading James Joyce’s “Ulysses” on the Library Square near Trinity College in Dublin, that’s our ideas!

Presentation from the meeting:

npsig-presentation-2023 Download

To find out about IFLA elections and how to apply, visit this website. Important: if you want to apply to NPSIG, there is no need to have a nomination from IFLA members because you “moninate yourself”.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us.

NPSIG Business Week: The Recordings!

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We are certainly going through a very particular year. At this time of year we had planned to organize the IFLAcamp 8 in Dublin, Ireland, for which we had many surprises but as we all know we must save our hopes for next year.
However, our desire to communicate with you generates great ideas. It occurred to us to organize in a virtual way our annual Business Meeting where we tell who we are, what we do and we invite all of you who want to add ideas and energy to participate in the New Professionals’ group.
But since we wanted to celebrate the diversity of our group and that the largest number of people could access our talks, we came up with the NPSIG Business Meetings Week in multiple languages!

And it certainly was a great effort. We know how complicated it was to coordinate a single international meeting, thinking of holding 4 successive meetings in 7 different languages was multiplying the complications, but if there was something we like, it was the challenges!

The first day was the business meeting in English, coordinated by our convenor Magdalena Gomulka and Paria Tajallipour, who was also in charge of offering a talk in Persian language. Our secretary Marija Simunovic, and Amber Cox were there as a technical support:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg1SJOknnK0&t=303s

The second day was dedicated to Slavic languages audience: Magdalena spoke in Polish and Marija in Croatian, again present at the meeting, joined by Jelena Vuksanovic in Serbian. Very good meeting!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGskvc3zq68

On the third day the language of the meeting was French, and it was in charge of Antoine Torrens and Assane Fall from the NPSIG Leadership Team (Assane was this person who came up with the great idea of multiple languages, thanks Assane!). In the technician support was Magdalena.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KykDSiHa8sk

And the last day was dedicated to the Spanish-speaking audience. The talk was given by Ruth Navarro and Andrés Reinoso. Magdalena and Marija were in technical support. There were many people attending this meeting!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1826S4zXUYo&t=275s

We must highlight the special presence of dear Loida García-Febo, founder of our group 16 years ago, who was introducing the talks about IFLA and NPSIG on the first day (in English) and the last day (in Spanish). Her presence was very appreciated by the public and especially by the NPSIG team .
And we also want to highlight our Convenor Magdalena, who showed her command of several languages, welcoming us in English, Polish, Croatian, French and Spanish!

In this post we summarized recordings of all meetings for those who want to see it. We’re waiting with the door open to all the enthusiastic new professionals who want to work with us. To join this great group you need only write to our mail npsig.ifla@gmail.com and then we will start contributing ideas and energy together!

Presentations are published also on the Slideshare platform:

NPSIG Business Meetings Week

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The great tradition is to meet the New Professionals Special Interest Group with any person interested in our activities. During this time you find out more who we are and what we are doing, what we achieved and what is our plan for the next year. It is also true that we usually organize a business meeting during the IFLA Congress on August, and now, we don’t want to break this rule!

In coming days we would like to invite you to participate in the NPSIG business meeting in August. And it will not be only one meeting but a few! We organize a special event: the NPSIG Business Meetings Week. You will have chance to meet online the NPSIG team and ask them about what you want.

Languages of meetings

If you have ever worried about understanding the language of meeting, this time you should not. We will talk in English, French, Spanish, Polish, Croatian, Serbian and Persian as well! Just only check when the meeting in your language is organizing and come!

Schedule

Day	Time (CEST)	Language	Place
25 August	3 pm	English and Persian	NPSIG Youtube
26 August	6 pm	Croatian, Polish and Serbian	NPSIG Youtube
27 August	6 pm	French	NPSIG Youtube
28 August	8 pm	Spanish	NPSIG Youtube

All meeting hours are in the CEST time zone (the Central European Summer Time). Please check your time in the Time Zone Converter.

Registration

There is no registration. You don’t have to register to our meetings and download apps. Our meetings will be held at our channel on the Youtube platform: the NSPIG IFLA channel.

How to participate in the online meeting

There are five tips which help you connect during our business meetings:

First of all, you need to go to Youtube platform and search our profile: NPSIG IFLA
Streaming will be situated on the home and then on “Videos” tab as well.
Find the window with our conversation and start watching.
There will be a live meeting so you can write down all questions in comments. We will answer them at the end of our meeting.
Enjoy the meeting!

Recordings of our business meetings will be available on the NPSIG IFLA channel on Youtube.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us.

See you soon!