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German library conference 2019

The German library conference took place this year in Leipzig. It is the biggest annual librarian`s conference in Europe. More than 260 lectures, workshops and hand-on-labs were presented together with a huge exhibition of hard-, software and services. Under the title “Libraries for change”  4000 librarians from Germany, neighbouring countries and abroad met to discuss a huge variety of topics. Societies are changing and libraries have to follow these dynamics with innovative concepts and lifelong learning staff members.

The last three years ALA was partner of the German library associations. This year the official partnership switched to the Netherlands where the libraries are very active to promote “the library as a third place”.

One of the recurring themes were fake news and the best way to deal with. “Put the focus on the victims and the outcome instead of only looking at the offenders and give them another platform to be famous” a journalist proposed.

More and more frequently, false information is scattered across all communication channels in order to influence public opinion or to discredit other-minded people. Portrait photos with quotes take out of context, which are often distributed via social networks, are just the tip of the iceberg. In their role as information brokers, libraries must counter this and empower more and more people to distinguish fake news from actual news. There were plenty of suggestions for such formats for work on the ground – especially for the youth. And of course the education and strengthening of our own staff is very important not only in this context.

More than 400 presentations are already uploaded online for those who want to recap or had not the chance to participate in Leipzig. Most of the follow-ups are in German but some are in English, too.  And more will be uploaded in the next weeks. At the  BIB Opus publication server you can also find the presentations of the past German and Austrian library conferences, the articles of some German library journals in fulltext and more.

Key Takeaways from Library 2.019: Shaping the Future of Libraries with Instructional Design

As I mentioned in my previous blog post, library professionals are increasingly engaging in instructional design. The Library 2.0 virtual conference – Library 2.019: Shaping the Future of Libraries with Instructional Design –explored this topic on March 13, 2019, attracting close to 6000 registrants from around the world. The virtual conference consisted of an opening keynote, 16 concurrent crowd-sourced presentations, and a closing keynote. It explored how librarians are engaging in instructional design practices and how advances in technology are changing how instruction in libraries is being delivered.

Opening Keynote Panel

The conference kicked off with an opening keynote panel featuring three instructional design experts Dana Bryant (Emory University), Michael Flieri (Purdue University), and Lindsay O’Neill (California State University, Fullerton). The session was moderated by Steven Bell (Temple University) and John Shank (Penn State University). In advance of the conference, conference attendees helped pick which questions the keynote panel would address.

The keynote panelists were asked to give a one sentence definition of instructional design, identify what their “go to” educational technology is, provide suggestions for librarians who want to build instructional design skills, discuss how best to keep instructional design skills up to date, discuss how to plan for “one shot instruction,” provide their thoughts about how instructional designers can shape the future of libraries, and provide their perspective on how librarians who are not formally trained in instructional design can implement instructional design principles in their work.

In response to the question about giving a one sentence definition of instructional design, the speaker responses ranged from defining instructional design as an approach for creating learning environments that is conducive to student learning and student success to instructional design as solving an instructional problem with the tools and resources you have on hand.

Collection of Resources Mentioned by the Speakers

When answering the question about what “go to” educational technology is, many great resources were suggested by the keynote panel – and, through the chat, suggested by the participants as well. Peggy George, one of the participants, created a Wakelet collection of the resources that were mentioned during the keynote: http://wke.lt/w/s/zwHDc

How to Develop Instructional Design Skills

Lindsay O’Neill, who has a Master’s degree in Instructional Design, felt that this was a very good way to develop in depth skills and knowledge around instructional design. The speakers recommended several ways to keep instructional design skills up to date, particularly by attending conferences and getting involved in different instructional design communities. Their suggestions included Educause/ELI, Online Learning Consortium (OLC), eLearning Guild, Professional & Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), and International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSoTL).

For More Conference Highlights

There were many other useful tips that the speakers mentioned. For more highlights from the Library 2.019: Shaping the Future of Libraries with Instructional Design conference, I recommend reading this blog post: https://ischool.sjsu.edu/istudent-blog/highlights-library-20-instructional-design-conference

Conference Recordings are Free

I also recommend listening to the video recordings to learn more from the opening keynote session, as well as the other contributed sessions and the closing keynote. All of the conference recordings are free to watch, but you do have to sign up (for free) to the Library 2.0 network in order to access them.

Upcoming Library 2.019 Conferences

I hope you will participate in these upcoming free Library 2.019 virtual conferences (all 12-3pm Pacific Time) — one of these will focus on Open Data on June 5th and another will focus on Emerging Technology on October 30th.

Instructional Design is the next topic of the Library 2.019 Virtual Conference on March 13, 2019

Beginning in 2011, the Library 2.0 conference series was created as a free online conference for information professionals around the world. Three virtual mini-conferences are now offered each year; each mini-conference focused on a different topic. All conference presentations are recorded and freely available in the archive. Each conference typically attracts more than 5,000 registrants, with people from many different countries participating. It is an easy way to keep up with your continuing professional development and to engage with and learn from other information professionals from around the world.

Next week, the next Library 2.0 virtual conference — Library 2.019: Shaping the Future of Libraries with Instructional Design — will take place. Instructional design is an activity that library professionals are increasingly called upon to do. This conference explores how librarians are engaging in instructional design practices and how advances in technology are changing how instruction in libraries is being delivered. All library professionals, employers, LIS students, and educators who are interested in instructional design are invited to participate in this three-hour web conference.

The conference is free and will be held online on March 13th from 12-3pm Pacific Time.  You can register at https://libraryinstructionaldesign.eventbrite.com/

The conference will kick off with an opening keynote panel featuring instructional design experts. The keynote panelists will tackle many important questions about instructional design. The keynote panelists are:

  • Dana Bryant – Lead Instructional Technologist for Academic Technology Services, Woodruff Library, at Emory University
  • Michael Flieri – Assistant Professor of Library Science, Purdue University
  • Lindsay O’Neill – Faculty, California State University, Fullerton’s Master of Science in Instructional Design and Technology Program

In addition to this keynote panel, there are several concurrent, crowd-sourced sessions.  Some of these sessions include:

  • “Collaborating in the Cold: Connecting Learners Across a Canadian Province”
  • “Gamifying Instruction: Breakouts and Badges!”
  • “An Accidental Instructional Design Librarian”
  • “Designing, Delivering, and Evaluating and Interactive Online Learning Experience”

For more information about the Library 2.019: Shaping the Future of Libraries with Instructional Design conference, go to: https://www.library20.com/instructionaldesign

You may also be interested in speaking at and/or attending other upcoming Library 2.019 virtual conferences (all 12-3pm Pacific Time):

  • Library 2.019: Open Data – June 5th
  • Library 2.010: Emerging Technology – October 30th

CPDWL Satellite Meeting to be held in Zagreb, Croatia, 20-21 August 2019

Zagreb

CPDWL is working with the Croatian Library Association (Hrvatsko Knjižničarsko Društvo) to present their Satellite Meeting in Zagreb, Croatia.

The theme of the conference is ‘Librarians and information professionals as (pro)motors of change: immersing, including and initiating digital transformation for smart societies’.  The focus will be on discussing and sharing ideas about the impact of the digital world on our current and future skill sets.

Don’t miss this opportunity to submit your proposal now! See the conference website for more details.

The Satellite Meeting will be held on 20-21 August 2019. We will be welcoming many LIS professionals from Croatia and neighbouring countries at the conference: we hope to see you there too!

Submit your ideas for the joint CPDWL/E4GDH session in Athens!

CPDWL/E4GDH joint session

CPDWL is collaborating with the Evidence for Global and Disaster Health (E4GDH) Special Interest Group to offer an exciting session on strategies to build our knowledge using new and interactive ways to transfer skills, both within the profession and within our communities.

The theme of the joint session is ‘Active and interactive learning and development strategies to extend LIS practice: the need for new skills to meet the challenges of our world’.

For more information about the Call for Papers, please visit https://2019.ifla.org/cfp-calls/cpdwl-joint-with-e4gdh-sig/. Proposals are due by 15 March 2019.

CPDWL – Career and Professional Development Coaching at WLIC 2018

If you are attending IFLA WLIC in Kuala Lumpur later this month and would like to have guidance for your individual professional development, don’t miss this!

The section Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning is hosting a session with career and professional development coaching for the individual. This session takes place Sunday 26/08/2018 at 11.45‐13.30 in Conference Hall 1/2. The set up will be a drop-in session where the participants can choose between different coaching areas. The coaching will focus on one individual or a small group of individuals. Each coaching interaction will last approximately 15-30 minutes. The focus of these coaching sessions will be to help develop the individual’s career and professional development and/or develop the individual’s understanding of how involvement in the work of IFLA can help with the individual’s career and professional development.

During former CPDWL satellite conferences, career and professional development coaching has been part of the program. This has been very well received by the satellite delegates, and the CPDWL section now expands the coaching efforts into the WLIC.

The CPDWL standing committee invites all WLIC delegates to join this session, and would appreciate your help in promoting this coaching session widely.

See you in Kuala Lumpur!
/Catharina Isberg, Almuth Gastinger, Ulrike Lang, Ewa Stenberg for CPDWL standing committee

Information about the coaching session
● Sun 26/08/2018 11.45‐13.30 Conference Hall 1/2
● More information on CPDWL: https://www.ifla.org/cpdwl
● Contact: Catharina Isberg, secretary CPDWL, [email protected]

Look out for the CPDWL posters at the IFLA WLIC in Wroclaw!

The CPDWL team have developed a series of posters to communicate the importance of CPD – and that everyone in our profession needs to play a part.

The poster focuses on the IFLA Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices.

We all know that the future of the LIS sector depends on ensuring that our high quality professionals have the knowledge and expertise to design and deliver information services which meet the current and future needs of their communities. Our poster articulates the importance of CPD for all stakeholders: individual learners, employers, professional associations, LIS educators and training providers. It argues that to be a five-star profession, all players must commit to the principles of best practice in CPD and work together to create and support opportunities for ongoing learning and development.

The poster not only aims to increase awareness of the value of CPD in general and of the IFLA Guidelines for CPD resources in particular, but also to promote the work of the IFLA Section for CPDWL. It is designed to be displayed in libraries, information centres and training environments across the world. We have translations prepared in all the IFLA official languages – plus quite a few others! The CPDWL community has worked together to create the posters in English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Norwegian, Italian – and of course Polish!

If you are at IFLA, please visit the poster displays 179/180 to see the posters in all the different languages. The posters are on the IFLA CPDWL website [ https://www.ifla.org/cpdwl/conferences]

The Creative Commons licence allows for translation into other languages as well. If you are interested in translating your poster into your own language, please contact Gill Hallam [email protected] to get a copy of the master file.