{"id":1017,"date":"2024-07-08T11:10:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2024-07-09T13:12:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T12:12:50","slug":"arl-continues-to-support-attendance-at-ifla-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/2024\/07\/08\/arl-continues-to-support-attendance-at-ifla-events\/","title":{"rendered":"ARL Continues to Support Attendance at IFLA Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is by Mimi Calter, Vice Provost &amp; University Librarian, <a href=\"https:\/\/library.wustl.edu\/\">Washington University Libraries<\/a> in St. Louis and Chair of the ARL Section, for the ARL Division on the attendance grant Winners for the Information Summit, 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more than a decade, the Academic &amp; Research Libraries section, supported by SAGE and ExLibris, has been able to provide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifla.org\/g\/academic-and-research-libraries\/academic-and-research-libraries-attendance-grants-for-the-ifla-congress\/\">attendance grants for the WLIC<\/a>.\u00a0 We\u2019ve enjoyed managing this program and building relationships with our awardees over the years.\u00a0 Though there will be no WLIC in 2024, ARL wants to continue to enable young professionals to attend IFLA events, and <a href=\"https:\/\/us.sagepub.com\/en-us\/nam\/home\">SAGE<\/a> continues to support that work, so we are sponsoring attendance at two different programs this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">First, we sponsored attendance at our own Division D mid-term program, <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.ku.edu.tr\/ifla-midterm-meeting\"><strong>Libraries Bridging Boundaries: Challenges &amp; Strategies for Global Openness<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 We did not follow our traditional review format with this sponsorship, instead supporting the program overall to allow residents of T\u00fcrkiye to attend at a reduced rate.\u00a0 We were happy to learn that than half of the attendees at this very successful program were local.\u00a0 A great success.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/2024\/06\/13\/division-d-joint-mid-term-in-istanbul-turkiye\/\">this post<\/a> for more information about the mid-term event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, we are sponsoring three attendees to the 2024 IFLA Information Futures Summit in Brisbane, Australia.\u00a0 For Information Futures we have followed our traditional attendance grant model, though we limited the regional attendance to Oceania.\u00a0 The three attendees were chosen from the pool of applicants and will participate actively in the summit.\u00a0 Following the event, each will write a blog post about their engagement which will be featured here on the ARL blog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our winners are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ane Ah Poe, Knowledge Management Assistant, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme<\/li>\n<li>Pham Ba Toan, Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh, University of Science Library<\/li>\n<li>Adi Ela Radini Davuilevu, Library Information Assistant, Fiji National University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">We look forward to hearing more from our awardees after the Information Futures Summit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is by Mimi Calter, Vice Provost &amp; University Librarian, Washington University Libraries in St. Louis and Chair of the ARL Section, for the ARL Division on the attendance grant Winners for the Information Summit, 2024. 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