2025 MLAS Midterm in Berlin, Germany
31 March 2025
The 2025 MLAS Midterm took place in Berlin Germany from February 3-4, 2025.
Thanks:
To Hella Klauser, MLAS Member and International Officer for the German Library Association for the invitation and coordination with MLAS working group to make the meeting a reality.
To Volker Heller, Chair of the German Library Association and Director of the public library Zentral und Landesbibliothek Berlin, Berliner Stadbibliothek, Germany, for hosting the event.
To the German library leaders who joined our sessions as speakers sharing interesting information about various initiatives and to many German librarians who hosted library tours for MLAS.
MLAS Midterm – February 3 to 4, 2025
| Venue: Zentral und Landesbibliothek Berlin Berliner Stadtbibliothek Breite Straße 30-36 10178 Berlin-Mitte 2nd floor, Rm 205 https://www.zlb.de/en/branches/berlin-public-library-bstb/ https://g.co/kgs/968PY8f |
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| Monday, February 3, 2025 | ||
| Time | Session | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 AM | Welcome MLAS Chair Loida Garcia-FeboHella Klauser, MLAS Member, German Library AssociationVolker Heller – Director of the Library and Chair of the German Library AssociationThe German Library Association and Structure of library associations in Germany |
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| 9:30 – 10:30 AM | Advocating for Libraries / Before and After Elections: the role of library associations Verena Harpe, Political Communication German Library Association Loida Garcia-Febo, former ALA-PresidentAdvocacy Impact Evaluation Project Input, summary from the conference session in Croatia10 steps to get started with advocacy impact evaluation
Dijana Machala – MLAS member, chair of working group |
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| 10:30-10:45 AM | Break | |
| 10:45 – 11:45 AM | Collaborating with New Professionals for successful library associations
Inputs from a German perspective by: Lena Konrad, NPSIG member Laura Heller, NPSIG member
Moderated by LGF |
Inputs and discussion on how MLAS members can work with their new professionals, attract them to association work, collaborate, include them in association work, etc.
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| 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM | Lunch on site | |
| 1:00-2:15 PM | Strategic planning for library associations
Kathrin Hartmann – German Library Association Helene Voldner – President Norway Library Association Loy Jyoon Chin – Librarians Association of Malaysia and CONSAL (Congress of Southeast Asia Librarians) |
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| 3:00-5:00 or later | Library visit: Deutscher Bundestag BibliothekPlatz der Republik 1 11011 Berlin Eingang: Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders Haus Pforte https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/bibliothek |
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| Tuesday, February 4, 2025 | ||
| 9:30 – 11:00 AM | Library visit: Humboldt University Library – Grimmzentrum Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 1/310117 Berlin https://www.ub.hu-berlin.de/en/locations/jacob-und-wilhelm-grimm-zentrum/jacob-und-wilhelm-grimm-zentrum?set_language=en Foyer; linke Holztheke |
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| 11:45-12:30 | Lunch | |
| 12:30 – 13:15 PM | Library Visit: ZLB Berliner Stadtbibliothek https://www.zlb.de/en/branches/berlin-public-library-bstb/ Meeting point: in front of Rm 205 |
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| 14:00 -15:00 PM | MLAS Business Meeting
Including review of activities for the rest of the year (until August 2025) https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85664173561?pwd=lrbciUAoMHjk35JHNiS24JKmPbBUZ4.1 |
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| 16:00-17:30 PM | Library Visit: Staatsbibliothek unter den Linden https://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/en/ |
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