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The slides and views from roundtable discussions are now available.  Thank you to our presenters and to everyone who contributed to the discussions.  The lively roundtable conversations is what our Hot Topics session is all about!

Academic and Research Libraries with Serials and Other Continuing Resources and Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM) are holding a session at the IFLA World Congress (Lyon) on August 19, 9.30-12.45.

Hope to see you there:

• Mining large data sets for the humanities
  PETER LEONARD (Yale University, New Haven, United States)
• Do we need to believe data/tangible or emotional/intuition?
  JEAN-LUC MARINI (Search’XPR, Lyon, France)
• Copyright law and text and data mining: the research community’s perspective
  CHRISTOPH BRUCH (Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany)
• Libraries at the centre of the debate on copyright and text and data mining: the LIBER experience
  SUSAN REILLY (LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, The Hague, Netherlands)
• Big data: the potential role of research data management and research data registries
  JOY DAVIDSON and SARAH JONES (Digital Curation Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

ARL’s Hot topics in academic and research libraries.  The session is scheduled for Wednesday 20 August 11:45-13:45  at the part of IFLA’s World Library and Information Congress : IFLA General Conference and Assembly

Put in your diaries now!

As in previous years, this session will comprise of invited speakers to present an overview of a hot topic.  At the conclusion of each presentation the speaker will pose up to three discussion topics / questions that will then be discussed and debated in small groups.  There is an allocation of one hour for the table discussion which includes the presenters moving between the tables and joining in the discussion.  Our invited guests and hot topic titles for Lyon are:

Larry Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, The New Media Consortium, Austin, Texas, USA
Announcing the Results of the 2014 Horizon Project for Academic and Research Libraries

Louise Jones, University Librarian, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Change management: is it working?

James G. Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University, USA
Radical Collaboration: Libraries Working Together In New Ways 

Madeleine Lefebvre, Chief Librarian, Ryerson University, Canada
Ryerson one-stop course readings service: partnership in action

Dr. Hildegard Schäeffler, Head of Serials, Licensing & Electronic Publishing, Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany
Open access monographs

The Attendance Grant continues to attract great interest and this year we received a record 91 entries. Our working group has reviewed all applications and advised that the 2014 recipients are:

• From Africa: Faraja Ndumbaro from Tanzania
• From Asia: Suchetan Kumar from India)
• From Latin America: Mariisa Rico Bocanegra from Mexico

The recipients will receive their award in Lyon at the IFLA Awards Presentation [session 133] to be held on Tuesday 19 August 12:45-13:45 in the Expo Pavilion.

The Attendance Grant continues to enable professionals from developing countries the opportunity to attend IFLA.  Through their attendance they are immersed in key issues in the library and information sector and equally importantly, develop relationships with their peers.  We greatly appreciate the support from Sage in enabling the presentation of this Award.

LIASA HELIG (South Africa) in collaboration with the Academic and Research Libraries (Standing Committee of IFLA) would like to invite you to an online presentation on agile management and how it has been used to achieve improvements and customer satisfaction at the library of UNSW Australia. In the current technological age where libraries are investing significant resources, including human resources, to meet the challenges for new roles and responsibilities, this webinar presents one of many interventions.  The webinar is aimed at librarians and library managers wishing to fully embrace the digital transition in order to enable innovation in space and other opportunities to experiment.

About the webinar

Date: 22 April 2014
Time: 08:30 – 09:30 South Africa Time (Time Zone Converter)
Venue: Virtual (will be confirmed when registering)
Registration:  Is required. Closes on 20 April 2014 – Click here for the registration process.
Costs: No costs

About the presenter

Andrew Wells is the University Librarian at The University of New South Wales.  Over the years Andrew has overseen major changes to the University Library’s services, organisation and buildings.  He has taken a strong interest in improving facilities and steering the Library through a period of rapid changes in scholarly information. Andrew has held senior positions in several major Australian libraries.  Prior to joining UNSW, Andrew was the Assistant Director General, Resource Sharing Division at the National Library of Australia (1996-2001).  At the State Library of New South Wales, he occupied senior positions in a variety of roles, building on major periods of service at the University of Queensland Library, Macquarie University Library and a previous stint at UNSW Library from 1982 to 1986.

Kind regards

On behalf of HELIG LIASA (SA) and the ARL

The annual report describes findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in education. Six key trends, six significant challenges, and six emerging technologies are identified across three adoption horizons over the next one to five years.

Among other findings, this year’s report identifies the “Integration of Online, Hybrid, and Collaborative Learning” and the “Growing Ubiquity of Social Media” as “fast trends” (over the next one to two years). The “Shift from Students as Consumers to Students as Creators” and the “Rise of Data-Driven Learning and Assessment” are expected to be mid-range trends (over the next three to five years). “Agile Approaches to Change” and the “Evolution of Online Learning” are seen as long-range trends (more than five years away).  Full details available.