Join us at one of IFLA’s upcoming June virtual events!
Evidence-Based Librarianship: Building the Base as We Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic/Infodemic
Wednesday, 9 June, 15:00 – 16:00 CEST/UTC+2
Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__znlbi3gSfi49RajPSTmCA
IFLA Evidence for Global and Disaster Health Special Interest Group (E4GHD) are pleased to invite you to this webinar in our 2021 webinar series.
The Librarian Reserve Corps is an international volunteer network of over 140 medical and public health librarians from 14 countries, working in partnership with the World Health Organization in response to public health emergencies.
The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a dramatic increase in publishing, including the dissemination of scientific research in preprints, press releases and news stories, as well as the creation of new and specialised databases and search portals. This challenged traditional systems and standards for organization and searching.
This webinar will describe the primary initiatives undertaken by the Librarian Reserve Corps to streamline efforts and encourage sharing and collaboration among partners to inform the evidence-base health information response to COVID-19, focusing on the evolution and preliminary results of two key projects:
- The development of best practices for searching during public health emergencies
- A database validation study of specialized COVID-19 literature databases, jointly led with the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health
Speakers:
- Sara Loree, MSLS, AHIP, Medical Library Manager, St. Luke’s Health System (Idaho, US) and Co-Director of the Librarian Reserve Corps
- Robyn Butcher is a MLIS-research information specialist at Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)
- Stacy Brody, MI, reference and instruction librarian, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC
Facilitator: Maria Cotera, BA, MCLIP, Programme Lead, IFLA Evidence for Global and Disaster Health SIG.
- Organised by the IFLA Evidence for Global and Disaster Health (E4GDH SIG) Special Interest Group
How to get published in scholarly journals – New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific
Wednesday, 9 June, 03:00 – 04:00 CEST/UTC+2/ Auckland, New Zealand – 13:00 – 14:00 NZST
Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Tom_UdPQScO3YB7GR3MrAA
Moderator:
Dr. Anne Goulding, Professor of Library and Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Speakers:
- Dr. Amanda Cossham, Principal Lecturer, Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
- Dr. Anne Goulding, Professor of Library and Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Jayshree Mamtora, Scholarly Communications Librarian, James Cook University, Australia
The aim of this webinar is to provide guidance on being published in academic and professional journals, with a particular focus on the IFLA Journal. The audience will gain insights on the topics of choosing a journal, the editorial and peer review process, IFLA Journal scope and content, and authors' experience for publications through the peer review process. The webinar will be held in four IFLA regions with local times to enable the participation in these webinars. Webinar participants will have ample opportunities in conversations with the IFLA Journal Editor, learn more from Editorial Committee members on reviewing process, and listen to accomplished authors who will share their experience through peer-review process for publications.
Repeated for different time zone coverage (with different speakers and moderators):
Speakers:
IFLA Journal Editor, Head, International and Area Studies Library and Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Professor, Information Science Department, Helwan University, Egypt
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
Moderator: Dr. Perla Innocenti, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Information Science, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Speakers:
IFLA Journal Editor, Head, International and Area Studies Library and Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Retired Professor, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Professor and Associate Dean at the School of Information Management, Wuhan University, China.
Dean of Libraries, Shanxi University, China
Moderator: Dr. Lihong Zhou
Speakers:
IFLA Journal Editor, Head, International and Area Studies Library and Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Professor, School of Information, Pratt Institute, United States
CEO, Information Smart Consulting, Jamaica
Moderator: Dr. Egbert J. Sanchez-Vanderkast, Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas y de la Información, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
- Organised by the IFLA Journal Editorial Team
Division IV – LIS Event Series
Wednesday, 23 June, 15:00 - 18:00 CEST/UTC+2 (Live AI Closed Captioning and transcription available)
Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PcUD28K5QnuV1kDNDtcfLA
This series of webinars aims to create a place for students to share their projects, research, and ideas about different topics related to libraries. Each month – April through June 2021 – will address a different theme and a new call for proposals will be issued for that month. Proposals are being reviewed with speakers announced 18-June.
-Organised by the IFLA Division IV – Support of the Profession
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Be sure to visit IFLA’s Calendar of Events for additional details. Recordings of previous virtual events can be found on the IFLA YouTube channel.
