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"Win-Win: building strong education, training and continuing professional development together with strong library associations" Deadline for proposals: 28 February 2018
"Collaboration in LIS education in developing countries using social media" Submit proposals by 18 March 2018
Call for Papers on the "Tricks of the Trade of a Data Librarian: Learning it ALL" Deadline for proposals: 8 March 2018
Save the date! The results from the world's first-ever global discussion across the library community are to be launched very soon!
Bring your ideas, your experience, and your energy to Barcelona!
For the purpose of writing new guidelines a survey is beeing conducted in order to gather examples of modern day practice in the organization of library programmes and services that meet needs of people who are deaf, hard of hearing and deafblind. The survey is conducted internationally from February 10th to March 31st 2018 - EXTENDED DEADLINE UNTIL APRIL 30TH 2018.
Library Services to People with Special Needs Section joint with Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section invite presenters from a wide range of countries to discuss how to promote inclusive library services for children and young adults, leaving no one behind, in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Conference date: 23 August 2018 Deadline for Submissions: 28 February 2018
ARL Satellite Meeting " Digital Humanities" - Collection of Papers are now available online
The session theme is "collaboration in LIS education in developing countries using social media"
Theme: Libraries as Drivers for Open Access
IFLAPARL Call for Presentations, WLIC 2018, Kuala Lumpur The Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments (IFLAPARL) has issued a call for presentations for its open session at WLIC 2018. This interactive knowledge sharing session will focus on the theme "Transforming Library & Research Services for Parliamentary Impact".
2018 has been declared the European Year of Cultural Heritage. While libraries are active in preserving our heritage every day of every year, this is a valuable opportunity to raise awareness of the unique contribution our institutions are making. This brief offers some ideas of how to get involved.
We invite anyone with an interest or experience related to this theme to submit abstracts, and later full papers, particularly those which provide transferable examples of current practice, or which outline the developments needed to build skills, partnerships and resilience.
Libraries guarantees people access to knowledge through literacy, innovation and creativity. Through the work of libraries, users young and old are empowered to discover, better their lives and stay safe online. They guarantee a strong and democratic society and they enable an open and informed citizenry.