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

Recording of the new Webinar Series “Projects in the Libraries – Ideas, Innovations, Initiatives”

We continue to collaborate with the IFLA Division IV Support of the Profession in its Webinar Series for Library and Information Science Students “Projects in the Libraries – Ideas, Innovations, Initiatives”.

This Webinar had a huge number of attendees, but if you have not been able to see it live, or if you want to relive the best moments, we leave you here the recording of the event.

We are waiting for you at the next Webinar!

Call for Proposals: “Projects in the Libraries – Ideas, Innovations, Initiatives”

Hi LIS students!

Many of you attended in a first webinar “Getting Engaged with Library Associations – Benefits, Issues, Factors” (April 22, 2021; recording is here). What do you think about being a speaker at the next webinar? Sounds interesting? Let’s see details.

May’s theme is: “Projects in the Libraries – Ideas, Innovations, Initiatives”

We are interested in hearing about the innovative out-of-the-box projects you have created or helped create for your library or LIS studies. Your proposal could also include abstract ideas that you believe would be a great project. The proposal may speak to:

• Project goals
• Innovative aspect of the project
• Benefits of the project for library patrons
• New possibilities for the library through the project
• Outcome of the project
• Project assessment

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)

Submit your proposals to Albina Krymskaya (krymskayaalbina@gmail.com) and Paria Tajallipour (paria@library.tamu.edu) 

Accepted participants will receive a certificate from IFLA Division IV 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:

Deadline for submission is 12 May 2021. 

Three proposals will be accepted for presentation and the accepted participants will be notified by 19 May 2021. 

This month’s webinar is held on 26 May 2021 (Time will be confirmed depending on the time zones of the speakers). 

For further questions, contact: Albina and Paria !

Registration link: https://bit.ly/33S1GCZ

New IFLA/ALA webinar: “Libraries changing the world: educating and promoting understanding for Climate Action”: April 26th

There is a new webinar which we organize in cooperation with CPDWL and ALA! Our guests will talk what SDG no. 13 means and how libraries can take care about climate.

Date: April 26, 2021

Time: 5:00-6:30 PM CEST

Registration: https://www.runtheworld.today/app/invitation/20326?ticketType=FREE

New Webinars for LIS Students

The IFLA Division IV, where NPSIG belongs, organizes a series of webinars where LIS student have an opportunity to have a presentation, talk more about their research with IFLA members and meet librarians from all over the world. The first webinar will be held on April 22 and the topic will be: “Getting Engaged with Library Associations – Benefits, Issues, Factors“. More info below.

Photo:  by Brooke Cagle on Unsplash

New IFLA/ALA webinar “Open Access and libraries: Lessons from COVID-19 and our path towards the future” & recording

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Webinar recording

Speakers’ presentations to download:

Open Scholarship: A new urgency / Chris Bourg, Director MIT Libraries: Download

Open Access, COVID-19 and IFLA. Positions and Priorities / Stephen Wyber, IFLA Manager, Policy and AdvocacyDownload

Lessons from COVID-19 and Our Path Towards the Future / Nick Shockey, Director of Programs & Engagement, SPARCDownload

Open-access.network–a competence and networking platform in the field of open accessDownload

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We invite you to attend the first IFLA / ALA Webinar of the year. This time it is a very current and certainly very interesting topic: “Open Access and libraries: Lessons from COVID-19 and our path towards the future”
Here are the most important data to join this great Webinar:

Date:
January 12, 10:00 AM New York / 4:00 PM Berlin 

Zoom link:
https://ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jSw7eivYS6StIy-D16N1WA

Topic:
IFLA has affirmed that comprehensive open access to scholarly literature and research documentation is vital to the understanding of our world and to the identification of solutions to global challenges and particularly the reduction of information inequality.  Coalition S which is hosted by the European Science Foundation, has stated that full and immediate Open Access to research results can provide fast answers to protect lives and curb disasters. It is time to make full use of that potential for other global crises that are threatening us.  UNESCO is promoting and supporting the online availability of scholarly information to everyone, free of most licensing and copyright barriers—for the benefit of global knowledge flow, innovation and socio-economic development.  

Join us for an event with library leaders and learn about how they are managing Open Access efforts in the midst of COVID-19 to move forward research and access to information free of barriers during these times when libraries are deeply impacted by the pandemic. 

Speakers:

• Chris Bourg, Director MIT Libraries
• Stephen Wyber, IFLA Manager, Policy and Advocacy 
•  Nick Shockey,  Director of Programs & Engagement, SPARC 
• Agnieszka Zofia Wenninger,  Open-Access-Büro Berlin, Open-Access-Referentin im Projekt open-access.network

Moderator: Loida Garcia-Febo, CPDWL Consultant, International Library Consultant

We will wait for you!