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Nov 28 from 10:00 -11:30 am CET

 

IFLA’s Management of Library Associations Section (MLAS) in collaboration with the New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG), the Women, Information and Libraries (WILSIG), and the IFLA European Regional Division is proud to announce the first event in its new webinar series, Building Strong Library Associations.

 

The mission of the Management of Library Associations Section (MLAS) is to build and support strong, well-managed library associations. The Section on Management of Library Associations (MLAS) includes dynamic leaders from library associations who seek to advocate for the interests, aspirations and concerns of the library associations represented among IFLA members.

This year MLAS is presenting webinars under the theme Building Strong Library Associations and its priority areas: information integrity, library advocacy, membership retention, financial sustainability, and strategic planning. Each webinar will feature different priority areas according to the needs of library associations in each region of the world. The webinars format includes interactive opportunities to engage attendees in conversations in languages spoken in the regions. This new webinar series by MLAS and its collaborators is for all library associations across regions of the world. 

The webinar with IFLA Europe Regional Division focuses on the theme “How to internationalize the work in Library Associations?” The goals of the webinar are twofold, to demonstrate how international work benefits members and libraries at national and local levels, and how this work also supports membership retention, financial sustainability and strategic planning. 

We are pleased to feature library associations and librarians from all regions of the world in this webinar series.

Big Thanks to IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group for their significant collaboration managing zoom and the breakout rooms part of the webinar series. 

The webinar will be recorded.

Speakers:

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Loida Garcia-Febo, Chair IFLA MLAS, Member IFLA Governing Board

Ertuğrul Çimen, Kütüphane Direktörü / Library Director, Chair Europe Regional Division Committee, IFLA

Moderator: Hella Klauser, Germany

Since 2005 responsible for international cooperation within the Network of Excellence forLibraries (knb) at the German Library Association (Deutscher Bibliotheksverband dbv) in Berlin, Germany between 2013 – 2016 Head of the 'Libraries' Department at the Goethe-Institute (German cultural Institute), Head Office in Munich, Germany 1991 – 2003 Head of the libraries of the Goethe-Institutes in Tokyo, Japan, and Paris, France 1989-1991 Library Director at the German-American Institute in Heidelberg Member of the Standing Committee in IFLA section ‘Management of Library Associations’ (since 2017) Since August 2021 representing Germany in IFLA’s Regional Division Europe Council (EURDC). Member of the Executive Committee in EBLIDA (European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations and Institutions) 2019 – 2024; 2021 – 2024 as EBLIDA’s vice-president Various publications and lectures on international library topics Contact: [email protected] Studies of library science (diploma) and comparative literature and linguistics (M.A.) atStuttgart University, Germany

Lucia Werder, Director, Bremen Public Library (Germany)

Lucia Werder has been Director of Bremen Public Library since October 2023, before that she was Deputy Director since 2016. Previously she was director of the public library in Leverkusen and director of the public library in Eislingen, a medium-sized town in Germany. She studied at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne, Germany, and has a Diploma in Library Science.

Silvia Ernhagen, Secretary General, The Swedish Library Association (Sweden)

Silvia Ernhagen is the Secretary General of the Swedish Library Association. She has a background in civil society, working with advocacy and communications on the rights of the child as well as on women’s rights and health both nationally and internationally. Before entering the library sector, Silvia was head of communications at The Living History Forum, a Swedish public agency working for democracy and equality using lessons learned from the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity. The red thread through Silvia’s work life has evolved around human rights as well as issues concerning freedom of speech, the right to information and intellectual freedom.

Argyro Tzormpatzaki, Vice President Association of Greek Librarians and Information Scientists University 1996-2002, Crete, Chania for 6 years. Joined the library of the University of Macedonia on 2002. Experienced at Open Science, Digitization Projects and Open Information Library Systems. Held various positions such as 6 years at Acquisitions Department, 10 years at Technical Services, 2 years at Reference & Interlibrary-loan Department, 3 years CirculatiLibrary Director @Library and Information Centre of the University of Macedonia.

Vice president of the Association of Greek Librarians and Information Scientists (AGLIS) since 2019. In 1994, I graduated from the Department of Librarianship of the Technological Educational Institution of Athens. In 2022, I received my Master's degree in Public Management from the University of Macedonia and my thesis topic was “Sustainable development goals, higher education and libraries: the case study of University of Macedonia”. I speak English fluently and trying to improve my Spanish and Italian. Worked at the Technical University of Crete and the Hellenic Mediterranean on and User Services, 2 years at HRM Department of the University. 10 years Organizing Committee at the International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries, Scientific & Organizing Committee of Panhellenic Congress of Academic Libraries and AGLIS Conference.

Moderators of Breakout rooms discussions:

Jelisaveta Blagojevic, Convenor of the Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group

Borna Udatny, Member New Professionals Special Interest Group

Lena Konrad, Member New Professionals Special Interest Group