Category Archives: General

June 2015 CPDWL Newsletter is now available

Highlights include an introduction to new CPDWL Standing Committee members, additional details about the CPDWL satellite meeting in Cape Town on ‘Taking Charge of Your LIS Career’, a report on the CPDWL and NPISG (New Professionals) webinars, and a thoughtful article on the challenges for librarians in participatory digital libraries. June 2015 CPDWL Newsletter

BOBCATSSS 2016 Call for Papers now open

The 2016 BOBCATSSS Conference will take place in Lyon, France, January 27  – 29, 2016 and will explore several key topics: The Role of Libraries in Democratic Cultures, Intellectual Freedom and Censorship, Libraries, Open Access and Open Data, and Protecting Privacy.

The Call for Papers is now open.

For further details please check the website

 

“New Librarians Global Connections” webinar recording now available

For the 4th consecutive year, IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group has partnered with the American Library Association (ALA) to present a series of free quarterly webinars on issues of interest to new librarians, library associations and library schools, library-decision makers, and all library workers. This is a great opportunity for membership participation via new worldwide online programming.
The latest session, held April 16 titled “Making the Leap to Library Leadership” is designed both for people who have been called upon to serve a leadership role and those who wish to take on more leadership responsibility. The session outlines essential skills for twenty-first century library leaders and helps participants gain a deeper understanding of their own role, as well as that of their department and library, within the larger picture of their umbrella organization. Topics such as emotional intelligence, professional comportment, understanding organizational culture, change management and intellectual agility are covered in a practical, non-theoretical way. This webinar is designed to be a small taste of what is offered at such institutes so that participants can begin to chart a course for personal leadership development.
Please contact Loida Garcia-Febo ([email protected]), Series Coordinator for questions and requests for information.
You can find a link to the recording of this webinar at: http://ala.adobeconnect.com/p19s5bcnhrh/

Take charge of your library career! Registration is now open.

The IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning satellite meeting, “Taking Charge of Your LIS Career: Personal Strategies, Institutional Programs, Strong Libraries” will take place August 12-14, 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa prior to the World Library and Information Conference and is currently taking registrations. Please join us to learn as well as share your stories. Registration can be found at https://iflasatellitemilnerton2015.wordpress.com/registration/ For more information, please contact Ewa Stenberg at [email protected]

Website for registration

Next week registration for the IFLA Satellite meeting Taking Charge of your LIS Career: Personal Strategies, Institutional Programs, Strong Libraries will open. A webpage will be set up for registration on April 8 with useful information that will be added successively. Watch for this next week, we look forward to receive your registration!

/Ewa Stenberg for CPDWL

Webinar April 16: “New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations”

For the 4th consecutive year, IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group are partnering with the American Library Association (ALA) to present a series of free quarterly webinars on issues of interest to new librarians, library associations and library schools, library-decision makers, and all library workers. This is a great opportunity for membership participation via new worldwide online programming.

This session is titled “Making the Leap to Library Leadership” and is designed both for people who have been called upon to serve a leadership role and those who wish to take on more leadership responsibility. The session will outline essential skills for twenty-first century library leaders and help participants to gain a deeper understanding of their own role, as well as that of their department and library, within the larger picture of their umbrella organization. Topics such as emotional intelligence, professional comportment, understanding organizational culture, change management and intellectual agility will be covered in a practical, non-theoretical way. This webinar is designed to be a small taste of what is offered at such institutes so that participants can begin to chart a course for personal leadership development.
Please contact Loida Garcia-Febo ([email protected]), Series Coordinator for questions and requests for information.