The webinar is organized by the IFLA Asia Oceania Regional Division Committee and is devoted to one of the most relevant topics of modern librarianship – discovery tools that ensure effective information search. The webinar presentations cover both the experience of using such tools in library practice and promising developments of commercial companies and non-profit organizations in the area.

The goal of the webinar is to familiarize the library community with promising technologies that improve the quality of information and library services, as well as to initiate the presentation and discussion of other interesting and effective projects in this area under the auspices of IFLA.

Moderator:
 Piotr Lapo, Deputy Director of the Kazakh National Women’s Teacher Training University Library, Kazakhstan, Member of the IFLA Asia Oceania Regional Division Committee

  • Blacklight: A Multi-Institutional Open-Source Collaboration Building a Better Discovery Platform Framework (Terence Ingram, Director Projects and Innovation, Digital, Kathryn Favelle, Director Reader Services at the National Library of Australia)
  • Using RDA to Improve Discovery (Haliza Jailani, Senior Deputy Director of the Resource Discovery and Management Division, Ng Hui Ling, Assistant Director for Metadata Services at National Library Board of Singapore)
  • SMU Libraries’ Experience with AI Search Software (Aaron Tay Chee Hsien, Head of Data Services at the Singapore Management University Libraries)
  • Imagining Library Futures Using AI and Machine Learning (Yu-Chen, Huang, the Senior User Services Specialist at OCLC)
  • Combining Trusted Contents and Generative AI in the Primo Research Assistant (Timothee Lecaudey, A&G Software APAC PreSales Team Leader at Clarivate company)