Save the date [ March 18, 2021: The Other Asia: Central Asia and Library Collections- 11:00 am to 12:30 pm PST]

 Dear Colleagues,

 

Please allow me to invite you to an interesting webinar related to Central Asian Studies Librarianship.

Opening Remarks: Professor David W. Roland-Holst, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley

 

Speakers: 

Mr. Andy Spencer, Librarian,  Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies Librarian, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Dr. Akram Habibulla, Librarian for Middle Eastern, Islamic, and Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University 

 

Dr. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Professor of History and the founding coordinator of the Middle Eastern Communities and Migrations minor, James Madison University

 

Emily Laskin, Ph.D. Candidate Slavic Languages and LiteraturesUC Berkeley

 

Organizer: Dr. Liladhar R. Pendse, UC Berkeley

 

Event Registration: http://ucblib.link/3c7

 

March 18, 202111 am-12:30 PST/ 1 pm-2:30 EST

IFLA Virtual Events - March

 

IFLA LIS Education in Developing Countries SIG - Challenges and opportunities

 

Thursday, 4-March – 6:00-8:00 CET/UTC+1 (Live AI Closed Captioning and transcription available)

Event Link: https://zoom.us/j/95885002605

 

This webinar is on the topic of LIS education in Developing countries and the challenges faced by LIS education before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It will highlight the opportunities that came out of these challenges. The webinar will include a case study on LIS education in Iran, where three speakers from different universities will share their views and experiences.

 

Speakers

• Dr. Hamid Keshavarz
  Information Science and Knowledge, Shahid Beheshti University
• Dr. Rahman Marefat
  Information Science and Knowledge, Semnan University
• Dr. Maryam Pakdaman Naeini
  PhD in Information Science and Knowledge

 

-Organised by the IFLA Library and Information Science Education in Developing Countries Special Interest Group (LISDEV SIG)

 

 

Strengthening Recovery and Accelerating Development through Informed Governments and Societies

 

Friday, 12-March – 12:15 CET/UTC+1 (Live AI Closed Captioning and transcription available)

Registration Link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8Cn2rRpKQlCPEQX9Kkf3wg

 

Meaningful access to information can have a decisive influence on the ability of individuals and communities to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. As a cross-cutting factor of development, it can drive progress across the board, enabling people to take better decisions, and seize opportunities connected to everything from escaping poverty to better governance.

 

This side-event of the UNECE Regional Forum on Sustainable Development will make the case for viewing information, including both access to it and the skills to use it, as a driver of recovery in the short term, and an accelerator towards UN 2030 Agenda success.  It will draw on the experience of libraries and others working to improve access, hearing about their work in providing this service during COVID, and how more can be done to realise the potential of information. 

 

Speakers

• Francisco Pisano, Director, UN Library, Geneva, Switzerland
• Paolo Lantieri, World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
• Raphaelle Bats, University of Bordeaux, France
• Franziska Baetke, Komision Biblio2030, Switzerland

-Organised by the IFLA Policy and Advocacy Team as a Side-Event of the UNECE Regional Forum on Sustainable Development 2021

 

 

Informed Citizens, Societies and Governments for Sustainable and Resilient Recovery

 

Tuesday, 23-March – 02:15-03:45 CET/UTC+1 (Live AI Closed Captioning and transcription available)

Registration Link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KZYgSQGgRVKTotG4VCufUQ

 

Governments, communities and individuals across the Asia-Pacific region will have many tough decisions to make if we are to achieve sustainable and resilient recovery from COVID-19. A precondition for doing this well will be to be well-informed. 

 

This side event, held at the time of the 8th Asia-Pacific Forum for Sustainable Development, will draw on experience from civil society, government and the research field to explore the case for a holistic approach to promoting meaningful and equitable access to information, and the challenges to overcome. It will look, in particular, at the role that libraries of all types can play in helping the region, and the world, to build back better.

 

-Organised by the IFLA Policy and Advocacy Team as a Side-Event of the 8^th Asia-Pacific Forum for Sustainable Development

 

 

Be sure to visit IFLA’s Calendar of Events for additional details, and our recordings of previous events playlist located on the IFLA YouTube channel.

The CDNLAO Newsletter

 NDL (BC) 2012101-4-7

February 25, 2021

Dear colleagues,

Apologies for cross-posting.

The CDNLAO Newsletter
(https://www.ndl.go.jp/en/cdnlao/newsletter/index.html) is published to
share information from national libraries in the Asia and Oceania
region. This newsletter is edited and distributed by the National Diet
Library of Japan on behalf of the members of the Conference of Directors
of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO).

The latest issue (No. 97) is focusing on library services during the
COVID-19 pandemic.

Special topic: Library services during the COVID-19 pandemic
• [China] Actions Taken by the National Library of China under the Pandemic
• [Indonesia] Online Library Services: Smart Solution from National
Library of Indonesia to Face Pandemic Issue
• [Japan] Offering user services and information from the National Diet
Library to the public under the spread of COVID-19
• [Papua New Guinea] 2020 National Book Week Activity Report
• [Singapore] Documenting COVID-19 in Singapore

Our upcoming issue No. 98 will feature articles about the legal deposit
system.

Thank you very much for your kind attention.

Best regards,

OSHIBA Tadahiko (Mr.)
Director
Branch Libraries and Cooperation Division
Administrative Department
National Diet Library

CDNLAO Newsletter
https://www.ndl.go.jp/en/cdnlao/newsletter/index.html

Russian History in Digital Format : a free online webinar

 Dear colleagues,

 

ASEEES CLIR's Subcommittee on Education and Access is inviting you to Russian History in Digital Format, a free workshop presenting three of the major Russian e-libraries. Please share this information with academic departments, affiliated groups and anyone who may be interested in attending.

 

Thank you,

 

Anna Rakityanskaya

 

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Russian History in Digital Format

 

Webinar of the Education and Access Subcommittee of Committee on Libraries and Information Resources of the American Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES CLIR).

 

March 19 19:00 (Moscow), 11:00 AM (EST)

 

The purpose of the event is to present major digital collections on Russian history to American scholars and librarians.

 

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://yalelibrary.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrduytqT0sHtXXCZE9S3HTMxe7gQWLU73t

 

Speakers:

 

B.N. Yeltsin Presidential Library  

Lyubov Zavyalova, PhD History, Senior Coordinator of the Department of Linguistic and Technological Support of the Presidential Library

 

The Presidential Library is a national library of the Russian Federation. It was opened on May 27, 2009. The library is a national electronic repository of documents on history, theory and practice of Russian statehood and on Russian as the state language of the Russian Federation. Presidential Library also serves as a multifunctional multimedia center for cultural, educational, research, learning, analytical and information purposes.

 

Electronic library of historical documents of the Russian Historical Society

Kirill Fesenko

The goal of the project is to create an open access electronic library of historical documents, in which researchers will be able to find all historical documents published in Russia since 1991. In addition to the archival documents the creators of the project will gradually add comments and notes from the published document collections to the resource.

 

Primary Sources on Russian Political History in the Open Access Electronic Library of the State Public Historical Library

Irina Novichenko, PhD History, Head of the Special Collections Department, GPIB of Russia,

 

In recent years, many new materials on the political history of Russia were added to the collection of the Electronic Library of the State Public Historical Library. Among them are materials that cover new and in-demand subjects, such as the revolutionary movement in Russia, the history of the world communist movement and rare publications by the authors who were repressed during the years of the Great Terror.

 

 

 

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Anna Rakityanskaya

Librarian for Russian and Belarusian collections

Americas, Europe, and Oceania Division (AEOD)

Widener Library, Room G-70

One Harvard Yard, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

Tel: (617) 495-4797 ; Fax: (617) 496-8704

Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Harvard : Library and Archival Resources

Harvard Library’s Slavic Blog

 

IRRT invites you to submit a Digital Poster session proposal!

 The ALA International Relations Round Table (IRRT) International Poster Sessions Committee invites you to submit  a Digital Poster session proposal on international themes for the 2021 ALA Annual Virtual Conference!

The 2021 ALA IRRT International Poster Session Committee invites everyone to share your best ideas and work with the international library community by presenting a poster at the 2020 ALA Annual Conference Virtual Poster Session.

Submissions are invited from international librarians at all types of libraries on any topic relevant to librarianship. Submissions are also invited from librarians in the US on any topic relevant to international populations, projects, and collaborations. Posters may include a description of an innovative library program, an analysis of a solution to a problem, a report of a research study, or any other presentation that would benefit the larger library community.

Poster session participants create digital posters with pictures, data, graphs, diagrams, narrative text, and audio descriptions.

The deadline for submitting an application is Monday, March 8, 2021. Following a double-blind peer review process, applicants will be notified by late April if their submission has been accepted for presentation at the conference. Start your application and view more information about the submission process now.

Additional questions regarding international poster sessions can be directed to: Michele Fenton and Richenda Hawkins, co-chairs of the IRRT International Poster Session Committee, mfenton@library.in.gov / hawkinr@linnbenton.edu.

For information about the ALA Annual Conference, please visit https://2021.alaannual.org/

Upcoming Virtual Events - IFLA Professional Units

 A first round of IFLA Professional Unit Virtual Events for late February, early March are here.  Check back soon for more.

 

 

IFLA Policy and Advocacy Team – Getting into WIPO’s work – 2 Sessions for time zone coverage

 

Session 1 - Tuesday, 16-February 9:00-10:00 CET/UTC+1 (Live AI Closed Captioning and transcription available)

Registration Link: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6138741/wipo-registration

 

Session 2 - Tuesday, 16-February 16:00-17:00 CET/UTC+1 (Live AI translation and transcription available)

Registration Link: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6138741/wipo-registration

 

As we look into 2021, IFLA is keen to build capacity around the world to engage in copyright issues, in particular in support of IFLA’s work at WIPO, given its unique role in creating and interpreting international law on copyright.  IFLA is, therefore, looking for dynamic and committed library professionals who are ready to bring the voice and needs of libraries on copyright to the intellectual property offices and ministries which define national positions at WIPO.  IFLA wishes enable libraries to have a stronger voice internationally, while also presenting an opportunity to learn about the possibilities created by working with WIPO.

 

-Organised by the IFLA Policy and Advocacy Team

 

 

 

IFLA LIS Education in Developing Countries SIG - Challenges and opportunities

 

Thursday, 4-March – 6:00-8:00 CET/UTC+1 (Live AI Closed Captioning and transcription available)

Event Link: https://zoom.us/j/95885002605

 

This webinar is on the topic of LIS education in Developing countries and the challenges faced by LIS education before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It will highlight the opportunities that came out of these challenges. The webinar will include a case study on LIS education in Iran, where three speakers from different universities will share their views and experiences.

 

Speakers

• Dr. Hamid Keshavarz
  Information Science and Knowledge, Shahid Beheshti University
• Dr. Rahman Marefat
  Information Science and Knowledge, Semnan University
• Dr. Maryam Pakdaman Naeini
  PhD in Information Science and Knowledge

 

-Organised by the IFLA Library and Information Science Education in Developing Countries Special Interest Group (LISDEV SIG)

 

Visit IFLA’s Calendar of Events for additional details, and recordings of previous events playlist located on the IFLA YouTube channel.

West African Research Center Fellowship, 2021

 If you are a student and interested in a summer internship in Dakar, Senegal in West Africa please continue reading:

​WARA Fellowships - Deadline February 15, 2021

WARC Library Fellowship
Interested in Africa? Considering a career as a Librarian? The WARC Library Fellowship program may be a good opportunity for you. The WARC Library Fellowship (open to U.S. citizens) is designed to provide experience in West Africa for practicing librarians and for the next generation of Africana librarians, and to assist in capacity building at the library of the West African Research Center (WARC) in Dakar, Senegal.​

 https://www.westafricanresearchassociation.org/fellowships/warc-library-fellowship/

Out now: December 2020 IFLA Journal

 IFLA Journal is an international journal publishing peer reviewed articles on library and information services and the social, political and economic issues that impact access to information through libraries.

 

The Journal publishes research, case studies and essays that reflect the broad spectrum of the profession internationally.

 

 

CONTENTS:

Articles

Privacy literacy instruction practices in academic libraries: Past, present, and possibilities

Sarah Hartman-Caverly and Alexandria Chisholm

 

Public libraries and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Marc Kosciejew

 

Libraries as promoters of environmental sustainability: Collections, tools and events

Lisa Beutelspacher and Christine Meschede

 

Iranian public libraries’ capacities in preserving and disseminating intangible cultural heritage

Leili Seifi and Marziyeh Soltanabadi

 

Skills, competencies and literacies attributed to 4IR/Industry 4.0: Scoping review

Chaka Chaka

Abstracts  (in IFLA’s seven official languages)

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IFLA Journal is an international journal publishing peer reviewed articles on library and information services and the social, political and economic issues that impact access to information through libraries. The Journal publishes research, case studies and essays that reflect the broad spectrum of the profession internationally. IFLA Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

To submit an article please visit IFLA Journal on the SAGE platform.

• Editor: Steven W. Witt
• Frequency: Quarterly
• ISSN: 0340-0352
• eISSN: 1745-2651
• List of previous issues

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Global Digital Humanities Symposium - Program Announced & Registration Open!

 Registration is open and the program is now available! Join us for a fantastic free and fully virtual event. Registration Deadline: Monday, April 5

We are pleased to support presentations in English, Spanish, and French this year, with live interpretation in these languages. Live captions will also be provided for presentations given in English.

In particular, we would like to point out keynote presentations from Chao Tayiana Maina (History is hiding – Digital humanities and the formulation of historical empathy in archival practice) and Gimena del Rio Riande (Equity in Digital Access and Digital Humanities in Latin America).

Full Program

All times listed are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Convert to your local time.

Monday, April 12, 2021

• 9:00-10:10am – Keynote Presentation: History is hiding – Digital humanities and the formulation of historical empathy in archival practice (Chao Tayiana Maina)
• 10:20-11:50am - The Programming Historian: A Global Case Study in Multilingual Open Access and DH Tutelage/Instruction – Daniel Alves, Jennifer Isasi, Sarah Melton, Sofia Papastamkou, Jessica Parr, Riva Quiroga, Nabeel Siddiqui, Brandon Walsh
• 12:00-1:00pm – Convergences of Past and Present in Games and Social Media
• Sojourners Trail: The First Afrofuturist Classroom Game – Walter Greason
• Reading between the Tweet-lines: Visas and their Discontents – Dharshani Lakmali Jayasinghe
• Storytelling as disinformation: Post-truth in Modi’s India – Nashra Mahmood

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

• 9:00-10:30am - Lightning Talks
• Closing Collection Gaps
• Long-term research endeavor: Developing trajectories for critical Cultural Analytics and Digital Humanities – Natalia Grincheva
• Recovering Spectral Presences in the “Universal” Digital Library – Eleanor Dickson-Koehl, J. Stephen Downie, Ryan Dubnicek, Maryemma Graham, Jade Harrison, John Walsh, Glen Worthey
• A Data Feminist Approach to Studying the C19 Social Network of German-Americans – Jana Keck
• Collaborative and Community-based Scholarship
• dLOC as Data: A Thematic Approach to Carribean Newspapers – Perry Collins
• Accessibility and Crip Community at a Distance – Jessica Stokes and Michael Stokes
• Continuing the Conversation around Afrofuturism: The Black Fantastic Bibliography Project – Clarissa West-White and Seretha D. Williams
• Power and Equity in Digital Systems
• “Tally Tracker Explorer”: Communicated Scholarship and Digital Humanities on Public Surveillance – Scott Bailey, Kelsey Dufresne, Micah Vandegrift
• Disrupting Digital Monolingualism – Paul Spence
• Adversarial examples y la resistencia a la clasificación de los sistemas de vigilancia y control algorítmico – Hugo Felipe Idárraga Franco
• 10:40-12:10pm –  The Articulation of #BorderlandsDH through Micro Approaches and Local Practices – Carolina Alonso, Sylvia Fernández, Verónica Romero, Joel Zapata

Wednesday, April 14

• 9:00-10:00am – Layers of Power and Difference: Structures, Agencies, and Gaze
• Babaylans from a Vantage Point: Gaze through the Virtual Space – jemuel jr. barrera garcia
• Drawing Queer Intersections Through Video Game Archives – Xavier Ho and Cody Mejeur
• Infrastructure as the Origin of Inequities: A Case of Global Digital Humanities – Urszula Pawlicka-Deger
• 10:10-11:10am - Ecologies and Modalities of Text
• Ottoman Transkribus: Training an HTR+ Model for 18th century Ottoman Paleography – Merve Tekgürler
• The Form of the Page: Preserving Standard Layout in Multimodal Presentations of Text – Joshua Waxman
• Teaching digital scholarly editing North and South in a Global Classroom – Romina De Léon, Gimena del Rio Riande, Nidia Hernández, Raffaele Viglianti
• 11:20am – 12:50pm – Multilingual Pedagogy in the Digital Humanities Classroom: Case Studies from 2020 – Quinn Dombrowski, Courtney Hodrick, Lakmali Jayasinghe, Eric Kim, Victoria Rahbar, Cecily Raynor, Merve Tekgürler

Thursday, April 15

• 9:00-10:00am – Digital, Social, and Interpretive Shifts: Imagining History and Text
• Investigating Indentured Servitude – Cynthia Heider, Nicôle Meehan, Bayard L. Miller
• Poetry about the 1968 Mexican Student Movement: An Approach from Testimony, Social Imaginaries, and Digital Humanities – Ricardo Huesca
• Voices from Sarajevo: Letters in the Digital Age – Una Tanovic
• 10:10-11:10am -  Project Showcase
• Round 1 (10:10-10:40)
• Collapse and Rebirth: A Living Archive on the Collapse of the USSR and Beyond – Sofi Cupal, Michael Downs, Chris Eyke, Lauren Johnson, Bridie McBride, Gage Moser, Martha Brill Olcott
• Crafting an Encyclopedia of Pandemic Activism: for the moment, for the future – Kayla LeGrand, Eliza McKissick, Kimberly Springer, Ellie Yousif
• El mismo texto, diferentes ediciones digitales. Resultados y experiencias de estudiantes de “Digital Publishing with Minimal Computing/Ediciones digitales con minimal computing” Global Classrooms (UMD/USAL) – Gabriel Calarco, Iñaki Cano García, Pamela Gionco, Rocío Méndez, David Merino Recalde, Federico Sardi, Maria Alejandra Sotelo, Gabriela Striker, Cristian Suárez-Giraldo
• Pauliceia 2.0 – Collaborative Mapping of the History of São Paulo (1870-1940) An experiment of open science in digital humanities – Andrew Britt and Luis Ferla
• Sudan Memory: Capacity Building in Digital Developments during a Revolution and a Pandemic – Marilyn Deegan and Katharina von Schroeder
• Teaching Compassion, Creating Safe Spaces, and Housing Black Identit(ies) through Conversational Artificial Intelligence – Philip Butler
• Round 2 (10:40-11:10)
• The Athens Death Project: Local History and Social Justice in Digital Form – Tracy L. Barnett, Ben Ehlers, Nicole Powell
• Archivo de Mujeres – Jonathan Girón Palau and Clara Inés Ramírez
• Creativity in the Time of COVID-19: Art as a Tool for Combating Inequity and Injustice – Soohyun Cho, Tushya Mehta, Jacob Okulewicz, Natalie Phillips, Carly Wholihan
• Developing Open Access Educational Video Games for the Humanities: The Durga Puja Mystery, an Educational Video Game for South Asian Studies – Xenia Zeiler
• Multi-institutional Implementation of Digital Humanities: Pedagogies for the Virtual Art Classrooms – Kyungeun Lim and Borim Song
• Producing An AR Memorial to São Paulo’s Church of the Remedies – Andrew G. Britt and Bob Keen
• SiRO, a Platform for Promoting Studies in Radicalism Online – Devin Higgins and Manasi Mishra
• 11:20am - 12:20pm - Keynote Presentation: Equity in Digital Access and Digital Humanities in Latin America (Gimena del Rio Riande)

Free Core webinar: COVID and Workplace Law: A Practical Primer

 Free Core webinar: COVID and Workplace Law: A Practical Primer

Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2021

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.

Please Note: This webinar will NOT be recorded to honor the need for privacy and confidentiality of the participants.

 

This open 60-minute session will cover the practical legal concerns of library workers and managers during the pandemic. When should you consult a lawyer? What kinds of legal support are available? What are your legal rights in the COVID-19 era workplace? Use this form to submit your questions of the presenter ahead of time.

 

Core is committed to the workplace safety of library workers and seeks to advocate for workers' holistic well-being across the profession. As the leading ALA division discussing libraries as spaces, we are committed to fostering dialogue and supporting workers during this challenging and perilous time.

 

To our members—thank you for your support and for doing all you do under challenging circumstances. We are committed to supporting you with programming and advocacy. Feel free to contact us and share your comments, questions, or suggestions with the Core staff.

 

To our nonmember colleagues—consider joining Core if you are not already a member—together we can help ensure that libraries are welcoming and safe spaces for their workers and communities. Programming like this is just one way we’re working to celebrate your labor and #ProtectLibraryWorkers. Together, we are more powerful!

Learning outcomes: 

At the end of this webinar, the attendees will have a better grasp on the rights and responsibilities of their libraries and institutions relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Who should attend?  

This webinar is for library workers and managers interested in the legal rights and responsibilities of their libraries as they relate to COVID-19.

Presenter:

Randi M. Cohen is a labor and employment counselor and litigator with over a decade of experience representing individuals and businesses. She has a passion for problem solving and believes in keeping things personal. She has said, “If you’re looking for a big, corporate firm to throw weight around and blindly bang on tables, I’m not your woman,” she explains. “But if you want someone who really understands your case, who will stand by you every step of the process, I can help.”

Her expertise is highly sought after by small and medium size businesses and her passion is advising, negotiating, and litigating on behalf of regular, everyday people from all walks of life. Randi litigates before federal, state, and administrative tribunals.

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FREE! This webinar is being offered at no charge as a courtesy to Core members and the library community as a whole as we seek new and better ways to adapt to the Covid19 pandemic.

Please Note: This webinar will NOT be recorded to honor the need for privacy and confidentiality of the participants.

Click here to register and receive a confirmation email with a link to join the webinar.

Core Code of Conduct

Please review the Statement of Conduct before registering.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling 1-800-545-2433 and press 1 or email registration@ala.org.

For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, please contact Core CE staff at corece@ala.org.

Posted on behalf of the Core Continuing Education Committee.

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Call for Proposals (CFP) for Presentations at the ALA IRRT Chair's Program

 Call for Proposals (CFP) for Presentations at the ALA IRRT Chair's Program

The American Library Association (ALA) International Relations Round Table (IRRT) Chair's Program Committee invites proposals for participation in a panel presentation that will take place at the annual ALA conference which will be held virtually.  The IRRT Chair's Program features speakers presenting on a specific theme related to international relations and the library. This year, the theme for the IRRT Chair's Program is: Libraries in a rapidly changing world

Changes in social structures, behaviors, values and organizations are inevitable and libraries are not immune to those changes. This has become even more true during the current pandemic.  Embedded in their unique communities, libraries are constantly responding to our rapidly changing world. At times, they are driving the change, and at others, they reflect and respond to the social changes affecting their communities. In the IRRT 2021 Chair's program panelists, representing national, public and academic libraries around the world, will share their experiences working toward justice and equity, leading social change, or cultivating sensitivity to marginalized groups, within their communities, at a grassroots level, or systemically. 

 

The Chair's Program Committee seeks proposals from speakers to be part of a panel that will describe and share the following:

Panelist presentations will discuss the individual library's role in leading and responding to rapid change and the impact this work has had on the city/region/country. The best proposals will speak to specific actions taken by their libraries. 

Examples of topics (presentations are NOT limited to these topics; creativity is encouraged):

• Providing programming or services that address social injustice issues during pandemics.

• Providing programming or services promoting gender equality and empowerment. 

• Providing programming or services that cultivate sensitivity and understanding to marginalized groups. 

• Providing programming or services that support access to information for immigrants, migrants and refugees. 

• Creating partnerships, programming, or services that contribute to a culture of welcoming for migrants, refugees and other marginalized groups. 

• Fighting poverty and hunger, allowing all to live with dignity, by supporting community needs.

IFLA's Library Map of the World Sustainable Development Goals Stories provides additional examples of topics of interest for presentations. 

Presentation Format:

Each panel presentation is between 10-15 minutes. Applicants are encouraged to consider creative and effective presentations to connect attendees with the topic and to share information that will let attendees know how they could implement similar solutions/programs for their library communities.  Since ALA has announced Annual 2021 is going to be a virtual conference, we are looking for proposals and panelists who are comfortable presenting virtually.  

Deadline:

All proposals must be submitted by February 28, 2021 for consideration. Applicants will be notified in March if their submission has been accepted for presentation at the conference.

Send submissions via email to Mary Oberlies, Chair, at mkoberlies@wm.edu 

Submission Guidelines:

Proposals should include two separate documents.

1. The first document should include: 

   • Title of the presentation

   • A 150- to 250-word biography of the presenters/panelists (If the program is accepted, biographies will be used in program advertising.)

   • Name, title, institutional affiliation, and full contact information of the presenters/panelists

2. The second document should not have any identifying information. This document should be an abstract of 300-500 words which addresses all of the following:

   • describe the library and its community 

   • Identify the social problem or issue and its background

   • describe how the library addressed the problem

   • discuss the impact on the library's city/region/country/community