Collaboration in Collections: Libraries, Users and Information Providers: Call for Papers for ACD Section at IFLA 2013 in Singapore

World Library and Information Congress 2013

Acquisitions and Collection Development Section

79th IFLA General Congress and Assembly
Singapore 
17-23 August 2013

Conference Theme: Future Libraries: Infinite Possibilities

http://www.ifla.org/acquisition-collection-development

The Section’s 2 hour Open Session is: Collaboration in Collections: Libraries, Users and Information Providers 

Building and maintaining relevant collections requires innovation in these challenging times as libraries establish a greater digital footprint and explore different channels of scholarly communication and information delivery.? Working together with publishers and vendors to find ways to meet the diverse expectations and needs of library users demands new models of communication, programming, organizational infrastructure, reliance on multiple and changing technologies, and accompanying services.? This Open Session will emphasize how innovation and collaboration within libraries, among users and with the publishing and provider community will advance the role of collections.

Suggested subthemes, with a focus on innovation and best practices for potential speakers to consider:
Responding to users’ expectations  how & when?
Role of Open Access
Impact of eResources, challenges with acquisitions, licensing, pricing, perpetuity, use
 Cooperative collection development
 Resource relevance
 Relationships with information providers
 Collection assessment 
 Selection and de-selection
 Discovery of collections 
Promoting collections

The section invites speakers from all library environments (academic, public, government, school, special) who can address any of these themes in a 15 minute presentation at the WLIC meeting.? The goal is to create a diverse program of 4-5 speakers representing libraries from different parts of the world who have different experiences to share. Proposed papers must be original and not have been published elsewhere. It is hoped that all presenters will be able to prepare a formal paper, as well as a PowerPoint presentation; however IFLA realizes that it may be impractical to require that every speaker prepare a formal paper and PowerPoint slides. If that is the case, those speakers must prepare a substantial abstract, including references with URLs and bibliographies to accompany their presentation. All selected papers will have abstracts and links to full papers on the conference website. Presentations can be made in any of the official IFLA
 languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, but an accompanying translation of all papers into English must be provided. Discussion at the conclusion of the presentations will be highly encouraged.
Important Dates with which to comply: 31 January 2013  

Deadline for submitting 300 word proposals for papers and presentations, or substantial abstracts of 500 words if no paper will be prepared, plus a very brief biographical statement of speaker(s) Information should include: title of presentation; subthemes that it addresses, abstract, all authors, noting likely presenter; institutional affiliations; contact information, including all email addresses

28 February 2013  Announcement of final program and communication with all who submit proposals.? IFLA HQ notified of outcome from call.
1 May 2013 Deadline for submission of final paper.? Papers should be no more than 3,000 words and papers can be submitted in any of the official IFLA languages: Arabic, Chinese, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Russian, but an accompanying translation of all papers into English must be provided. Attempts will be made to provide translations into other official languages

30 June 2013 Deadline for all PowerPoint presentations from Speakers

June/July 2013. All speakers will be notified of the time of the program.
All proposals will be reviewed by a jury composed of members of the Acquisitions and Collection Development Section.

Please note that unfortunately, there are no funds to assist with your attendance at WLIC 2013. Please also note that in accordance with IFLA’s Open Access Statement, all papers that are presented at the WLIC 2013 should be available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

All submissions and any questions should be sent via email in a MS Word attachment to Julia Gelfand (jgelfand@uci.edu) by 31 January 2013. The receipt of all submissions will be acknowledged.

Please note that, the last date for proposal submissions is extended to February 15th, 2013.

Details from: [LIS-Forum]

Sponsorship for delegates of developing countries to attend IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2013

The Singapore Government is pleased to offer *partial sponsorship for delegates of developing countries to attend the IFLA annual conference.

*The amount of the sponsorship covers:

1. Accommodation at a designated hotel (check-in one day before the start of the conference, and check-out one day after the last day of the conference)
2. A daily per diem of SGD40/day from the first day to the last day of the conference
3. Local airport transfers
4. Group Accident and Hospitalisation Insurance during the stay in Singapore
5. Airport meeting services

(please note: the sponsorship does not cover conference fee and airfare)

Application Procedure

For more details kindly refer to the Sponsorship Guidelines [PDF]

Download the Application form [PDF]

Deadlines

Application deadline is 28 February 2013. All selected applicants will be notified via email by April 2013.

Offer is on first come first serve basis for eligible applicants. We apologise if we are unable to accept your application due to overwhelming response.

Call for Nominations: IFLA 2013 Honours and Awards

The IFLA Governing Board bestows Honours and Awards to recognise individuals contributing to IFLA and the international library and information services sector. All authorized representatives of Members and Personal Affiliates are eligible to make nominations.

DEADLINE: 1 March 2013
(late submissions shall not be considered)

Honorary Fellow

Honorary Fellow is IFLA's highest award, and is awarded on the basis of merit. It may not necessarily be awarded every year. A nomination for Honorary Fellow is required to be supported by at least threenominators who are current IFLA Members. Nominations must include evidence to support any claims against the criteria. A nomination must be accompanied by at least two written referee reports. Referees should not also be nominators, and at least one referee should be an IFLA Member. Referees should address the nominee's suitability for the award, in relation to the criteria and may provide further information relevant to the award if desired.

In making its decision, the Executive Committee will examine only the evidence and referee reports provided to it through the nomination. The evidence and referee reports you provide should be based on the following required criteria:

1. Length of service to IFLA;
2. Type(s) of service to IFLA;
3. Outstanding achievements within that service to IFLA; and
4. Service that has brought distinction to IFLA in the international arena.

IFLA Medal

IFLA Medal is conferred on a person who has made a distinguished contribution either to IFLA or to international librarianship. It is also anticipated that one medal would be awarded each year, to a nominee from the country hosting the IFLA WLIC.

A nomination for the IFLA Medal is required to have at least twonominators who are current IFLA Members. A nomination must include evidence to support any claims of the nominee's distinguished contribution either to IFLA or to international librarianship. Each nomination shall be accompanied by at least two written referee reports. Referees should not also be nominators, and at least one referee should be an IFLA Member.

In making its decision, the Executive Committee will examine only the evidence and referee reports provided to it through the nomination. The evidence and referee reports you provide should be based on the following required criteria:

1. Length of service to IFLA or the profession;
2. Nature of the contribution to IFLA or to international librarianship;
3. Significance of that contribution to IFLA or to international librarianship.

IFLA Scroll of Appreciation

IFLA Scroll of Appreciation is awarded annually by the IFLA Governing Board to the IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) National Committee for that year.  Additionally, any Member may nominate an individual who has given distinguished service to IFLA. Staff, including core activities staff, is eligible for nomination.

In making its decision, the Executive Committee shall examine only the evidence provided to it through the nomination.

The evidence provided should be based on the following required criteria:

1. Length of service to IFLA;
2. Nature of the service to IFLA;
3. Significance of that service to IFLA, and its impact on IFLA.

The Executive Committee of the Governing Board considers all nominations in committee and in confidence. The Executive Committee bases its decisions only on the evidence submitted with the nominations and any further evidence sought from the nominees or referees.

The Executive Committee and the Secretary General shall not enter into correspondence on individual nominations. Only successful nominations will be published.

Wherever possible honours and awards shall be announced and conferred at the annual WLIC.

NOMINATION FORMS:

• Honorary Fellow [DOC] | [PDF]
• IFLA Medal [DOC] | [PDF]
• IFLA Scroll of Appreciation [DOC] | [PDF]

Nominations for awards to be conferred in 2013 are invited, in confidence, on this form which may be sent by e-mail as an attachment, by FAX, or post:

e-mail: ifla@ifla.org

FAX: +31 70 3834827

Post:

HONOURS and AWARDS
IFLA
P.O. Box 95312
2509 CH The Hague
The Netherlands

World e-Parliament Report 2012

By Innocent Rugambwa

The Report, prepared by the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament, intends to help legislatures to harness the potential benefits of ICT for their work and establish key goals and priorities for exploiting this valuable resource.

EN

Dear colleagues,

We are very pleased to inform you that the United Nations and theInter-Parliamentary Union just released the World e-Parliament Report 2012.

The Report, prepared by the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament, intends to help legislatures to harness the potential benefits of ICT for their work and establish key goals and priorities for exploiting this valuable resource. While providing evidence of the complexities of e-parliament, the Report suggests ways to overcome some of the obstacles to the effective use of technology in parliamentary settings.

The findings presented in the World e-Parliament Report 2012are based on the results of the Global Survey of ICT in Parliaments conducted by the Global Centre between February and May 2012, to which 156 parliamentary assemblies responded.

The World e-Parliament Report 2012 is the third in a series that began in 2008. The first edition established a baseline of how parliaments were using ICT to help them fulfil their responsibilities and to connect to their constituencies. The second edition, in 2010, built on that work to evaluate the progress accomplished by parliaments during the intervening two years in their efforts to use modern technologies to strengthen their institutional role. The present 2012 edition documents the efforts of legislatures to use information and communication technologies (ICT) suggesting that, while many of the challenges to the effective use of ICT noted in the previous Reports are still present, there has been limited but nevertheless important progress in the state of e-parliament in the past two years.

The Report covers the following topics: Developments in ICT and parliaments since 2010; Communication and engagement with citizens; Achieving openness, transparency, and accountability through websites; Technology services for members; Management of parliamentary documentation; Libraries and research services; Human resources and technical infrastructure; ICT strategic planning and implementation for e-parliament; The state of e-parliament in 2012; 

Advances in international cooperation. In addition, the Reportfurther provides a methodology that can serve as a tool for parliaments to improve their performance in key areas of e-Parliament.

The cruciality of managing information effectively to support the work of the parliament, the opportunities and challenges that ICT tools offer to achieve this result, and the role that parliamentary library and research services can play in leveraging tecnologies to the benefit of the institution they serve, are widely adressed in chapter 6 of the Report. In addition to this dedicated chapter, the role of parliamentary Libraries and the state of their current adotpion of technology is assessed and discussed throughout other parts of the Report.

The importance of Interparliamentary cooperation is strongly addressed in the Report, which also highlights the activity of the IFLA parliamentary Section in this domain, as well as the work it undertakes to make its members aware of the opportunities offered by applying technologies in the library context, and the need for a stronger committment in this area.

The World e-Parliament Report 2012is available for download inEnglish on the Global Centre website. It will soon be available inFrench.  

We trust you will benefit from this publication and encourage you to share this information with colleagues in your Parliament.

Best regards,

Raissa Teodori 

Secretary, IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments

SOURCE: http://www.ifla.org/en/news/world-e-parliament-report-2012

Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Draft Recommendations Now Available for Comment

Dear Colleagues

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO Memory of the World Program, UNESCO, in collaboration with the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies and the University Library of the University of British Columbia (UBC), held an international conference on "The Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation" last week in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

IFLA was an organising partner of the conference, along with the International Council on Archives (ICA), the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). Over 500 people were in attendance, including large numbers of library and archive professionals, along with representatives from governments, civil society organisations and technology companies including Google and Microsoft. There was an intense focus on how to support the preservation of cultural heritage through digitisation efforts at national and international levels, and the programme tracks gave space for presentations and conversations about technique, technology and policy.

Ingrid Parent (IFLA President), Victoria Owen (Chair of the Copyright and other Legal Matters Committee), Christiane Baryla (Director of the Preservation and Conversation Programme) and Stuart Hamilton (Director, Policy and Advocacy) attended a number of sessions during the three day conference, and were able to make a number of contributions from the perspective of libraries. At the end of three days a document was produced which contains a number of recommendations for UNESCO, for Member States, for professional organisations and for industry. Comments on this document are now open for a period of two weeks, after which a final version will be produced and circulated.

IFLA urges you to read the document and make contributions—do you support the recommendations? Is something missing, or does something need correcting? UNESCO will take all submissions into account and revise accordingly.

See: Vancouver Declaration (draft recommendations)

 Comments/observations should be sent to:mowvancouver@unesco.org no later than 19 October 2012

New publication! The Road to Information Literacy : Librarians as facilitators of learning

By Roisin Gwyer, Ruth Stubbings & Graham Walton (Eds.)

Series: IFLA Publications Series 157
Publisher: Berlin/Munich: De Gruyter Saur, 2012

Information literacy has been identified as a necessary skill for life, work and citizenship - as well as for academic study - for all of us living in today's information society. This international collection brings together practitioner and research papers from all sectors of information work. It includes case studies and good practice guides, including how librarians and information workers can facilitate information literacy from pre-school children to established researchers, digital literacy and information literacy for citizens.

The Road to Information Literacy : Librarians as facilitators of learning
Edited by: Roisin Gwyer, Ruth Stubbings & Graham Walton
Berlin/Munich: De Gruyter Saur, 2012
ISBN 978-3-11-028084-5
(IFLA Publications; Nr 157)
Euro 99,95 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 140.00
Special price for IFLA members Euro 79,95 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 112.00

Publisher's link: The Road to Information Literacy : Librarians as facilitators of learning

Registration Open! for New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations By Loida Garcia-Febo

Registration Open! for New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations

Register today!

“New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations“

“New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations“ is a new series of free quarterly webinars on issues of interest to new librarians, models of library associations and library schools working with new professionals, and groups by and for librarians. The free webinars are presented by IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning  and IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group in partnership with the American Library Association.

new librarians global connection webinar

Save the date!

October 10, 2012
10:00 a.m. CST
11:00 a.m. EST
5:00 p.m. CET (17:00 Central European Time)

World Clock

Registration link: https://alapublishing.webex.com/alapublishing/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=666538815

Webinar length: one hour

Speakers:

Dr. R. David Lankes, Professor and Dean’s Scholar for the New Librarianship at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies and Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse. His book, The Atlas of New Librarianship won the 2012 ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Award for the Best Book in Library Literature. Lankes is a passionate advocate for librarians and their essential role in today’s society.

Melanie Chivers, Outgoing National Convener of the ALIA New Graduates Group (since March 2011), Member of the Marketing Committee for the ALIA New Librarians’ Symposium (2013). Learning Content Project Officer, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia; and Tamara Capper, Regional Convener, Western Australia, ALIA New Graduates Group. Featuring a model of library associations working with new librarians.

Annie Pho, Reference and Instruction librarian at Ivy Tech Community College. Managing Editor at Hack Library School. Featuring a group by and for librarians.

For more information or requests, contact:

Loida Garcia-Febo
Series Coordinator
loidagarciafebo@gmail.com
Source: http://www.ifla.org/en/news/registration-open-for-new-librarians-global-connection-best-practices-models-and-recommendation

The Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program for library and information science professionals

The Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program for library and information science professionals 

http://www.ifla.org/ifla-oclc-fellowshttp://www.oclc.org/community/careerdevelopment/fellows/guidelines-2014.pdf 

Pls go through the links for full details.

On an annual basis, up to five individuals are selected for participation in this intensive four-week Fellowship program based at OCLC's headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, USA. The program gives Fellows opportunities to meet with leading information practitioners, visit libraries, and explore topics including information technologies, library operations and management, and global cooperative librarianship.           

The Fellowship Program is for library and information science professionals who are in early stages of career development and from countries with developing economies. Eligibility is limited to those who are from a qualifying country, have a degree in library or information science obtained within the past five years, and have at least three years, but no more than eight years, of library or information science experience.

IFLA Communicator of the Year Award — 2012 Call for Nominations

DEADLINE: 14 August 2012

With the design and implementation of its new website in 2009, IFLA continues to follow modern communication trends and wants to stimulate new forms of news dissemination. Therefore the main professional communication channel for the Sections needs to shift from the traditional newsletters in print and PDF to the active use and maintenance of the Sections' web pages under the IFLA domain and the use of social media, such as blogging, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other relevant platforms by the Sections.

To stimulate this process, IFLA established the IFLA Communicator of the Year Award as a follow-up to the IFLA Newsletter of the Year Award.

This award focuses on IFLA activities of any communicator of any IFLA group. It is important to note that the award is not to be perceived as a personal reward. The communicator awarded will have to be strongly affiliated with identifiable units of the organisational structure of IFLA and s/he will receive the award to highlight the achievements within the professional context.

The first Award was presented during the IFLA Congress in 2011 and was assigned to Sebastian Wilke and Dierk Eichel, convener and information coordinator of the IFLA New Professionals SIG.  

The Award intends to:

• Stimulate the change in communication
• Promote new forms of communication
• Stimulate regular renewal (innovation) of information & communication work of a particular professional unit
• Review the activities of a particular professional unit from one conference to another

Criteria for evaluation

• The use of social technology on webpages
• The implementation of social technology in the website pages
• The innovative way of conference or group profiling
• The extension of outreach to a large audience that the group is able to establish
• The use of multilingualism, inclusiveness and aesthetics/attractiveness.
• The activities awarded will have to be identified for the year (12 months) between the IFLA conferences.

Who can win?

The new Award will go to a person instead of groups. This means that it can be handed to persons in the following roles:

• Standing Committee Members
• Section Members
• Special Interest Group Members
• Those active in Core Activities
• Governing Board Members

IFLA Staff and Professional Committee Members may nominate individuals, but are excluded from being nominated themselves. Self nomination is not permitted.

The IFLA Communicator 2012 Award will be announced at the Closing Session at the IFLA Congress in Helsinki, Finland on Thursday 16 August 2012 by the Chair of the Selection Committee for the IFLA Communicator of the Year Award.

The prize consists of a scroll and a tangible award.

2012 nomination form [DOC]

Nominations may only be submitted by means of the nomination form.

Please send as an attachment to awards@ifla.org by Tuesday, 14 August 2012.

IFLA Headquarters
The Hague, 9 July 2012

IFLA International Leaders Programme: Associates announced

The selection committee for the IFLA International Leaders Programme is delighted to announce the Associates selected to participate from 2012-2014. The Programme is a two-year IFLA strategic Key Initiative designed to increase the cohort of leaders who can effectively represent the wider library sector in the international arena, and to develop leaders within IFLA.

The Associates represent every major library sector and geographic region, and bring a range of international experiences to the projects that Associates will be attached to during the Programme.

The Associates are:

Margaret Allen (Australia) 

CEO and State Librarian, State Library of Western Australia; and immediate past-President of the Australian Library and Information Association

Atarino Helieisar (Federated States of Micronesia) 

Chief Law Librarian, Supreme Court; and President of the Pacific Islands Association of Libraries, Archives, and Museums (PIALA)

Sarah Kaddu (Uganda) 

Team Leader, World Digital Library project, National Library of Uganda; and Secretary General of the Uganda Library & Information Association (ULIA)

Jérémy Lachal (France) 

Executive Director, Libraries Without Borders (Bibliothèques Sans Frontières); and trainer on projects for International Francophone Association of Librarians and Documentalists (AIFBD)

Zola Maddison (USA) 

Program Coordinator, WebJunction; active member of the American Library Association’s International Relations Round Table, and past ALA Emerging Leader

Antonio Marquez Santos (Philippines) 

Director, National Library of the Philippines, and Executive Committee member of the Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians (CONSAL)

Victoria Okojie (Nigeria) 

Registrar/CEO, Librarians’ Registration Council of Nigeria; past-President Nigerian Library Association, and current Chair of the IFLA Africa section

Kgomotso Radijeng (Botswana) 

Resource Centre Coordinator, Botswana National Productivity Centre; convenor of the 2010 Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and South Africa Library and Information Associations (SCECSAL); President of the Botswana Library Association

Rosemary Shafack (Cameroon) 

University Librarian and Lecturer University of Buea; local trainer for the Building Strong Library Associations programme in Cameroon, and member of the IFLA Africa section

Irina Trushina (Russia) 

National Library of Russia, Head of Interlibrary Collaboration Department; past member of FAIFE working group on the Internet Manifesto, and Chair of Russian Library Association Round Table on Communication and Professional Ethics

Jorge Octavio Ruiz Vaca (México) 

Humanities Research Coordinator, National Autonomous University of México; and organiser of several major activities of the IFLA Latin America and Caribbean section

Dina Youssef (Egypt) 

Bibliotheca Alexandrina Director, IFLA Center for Arabic Speaking Libraries (IFLA-CASL); and regional trainer for the Building Strong Library Associations programme

The list of projects that Associates will work on includes Open Access, Copyright Exceptions and Limitations, Models for Regional Collaboration, Libraries as Agents for Development, and Access to Digital Content.

The Associates will begin their participation in the programme at the IFLA Congress in Helsinki. During the Congress, the Leaders Programme Associates will participate in eight days of activities including: seminar and workshop sessions on issues with a global impact led by leaders in the sector and related fields; participation in specified business meetings; attendance at specified professional programme sessions; working within groups to prepare presentations or reports; and liaison with IFLA Governing Board members.