CPDWL has a healthy membership. On December 31^st the section had 85 registered members. There were 16 Standing Committee members and 4 Corresponding members.

CPDWL has had a strong connection with the Knowledge Management Standing Committee over the years. In 2014, there was a Satellite conference in Lyon organized by CPDWL and KM titled “Knowledge Management as a vital tool for Change Management” on August 15^th 2014.

CPDWL also partnered with KM and the Library and Research Services standing committees on a program titled “Learning Challenges for Librarians and Library Managers: A Knowledge Cafe“ during the IFLA conference in Lyon. The session was very well attended. During the session, attendees were given the opportunity to choose from a number of topics such as team building, team leadership, mentoring and coaching, staff training, etc. Moderators of each table managed the discussion. A rapporteur at each table gave a short summary of the main topics at the end of the session and also wrote a summary for the CPDWL blog so colleagues who were not able to participate in Lyon had the chance to follow the program details afterwards.

For the third consecutive year, CPDWL and the IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group partnered with the American Library Association 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. The webinars are a great opportunity for membership participation via new worldwide online programming. The series title is: “New Librarians Global Connection: Best practices, models and recommendations.“ In October 2014, for the first time, series of seven webinars in Spanish and Portuguese were attended by 1769 participants.

Plans are also underway for the 2015 CPDWL Satellite conference in Milnerton, Cape Town, South Africa. The program “Taking charge of your LIS career: Personal strategies, institutional programs, strong libraries” will cover workshops, lectures, poster presentations etc. and will include the key initiatives of IFLA, the Trend Report and the Lyon declaration.

In addition, CPDWL will have a Satellite conference in 2016 in the United States, too. An organizing group is working on the program.

One last sad note is that Linden Fairbain, one of our standing committee members, passed away. We have happy memories of how positive Linden always was and her dedication to the library profession. We will miss her very much.

For more information, the CPDWL 2014 Annual Report is published on the website of CPDWL.

CPDWL 2014 Annual Report

To see what CPDWL has been up to in 2014, please take a look at CPDWL Annual Report 2014

Students of the Berlin School of Library and Information Science (IBI) at Humboldt University https://www.ibi.hu-berlin.de/startpage?set_language=en&cl=en are planning to give a presentation at the BOBCATSSS conference in Brno, Czech Republic in January 2015. The topic of the presentations will be:

“Challenge Accepted! Facing the Demographic Change: What does Demographic Change Mean for Libraries?”

Mainly they want to analyze activities of libraries and librarians facing the demographic change in different countries. The topic itself has its origins in a project seminar at IBI in the context of which a publication on the topic was produced; focusing on the situation in Germany. At the 2014 IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Lyon, this publication was presented in a poster session to an international audience. The resulting positive feedback confirmed that this issue is of great concern to many libraries and may affect even more in the future. For this reason, they decided to extend the project and take international perspectives and experiences on board.

In order to develop the presentation accordingly, they require further information about projects and initiatives which deal with demographic changes in countries other than Germany. This is where your support would make a real difference:

We are kindly asking if you could point us to any such project or initiative that you may know in your country, and/or to forward our request through your network, to share it with your national library association or with major libraries or to disseminate it via mailing lists, internet platforms and the like.

Your help would be highly appreciated!

For questions or further information about our project, please do not hesitate to contact us via e-mail :

Anika Wilde: [email protected]

Marten Grunwald: [email protected]

We would be extremely grateful for initial feedback before 8th December 2014.

Thank you very much in advance for your efforts,

With kind regards from Berlin

Anika and Marten

Join us in Cape Town, South Africa (August 12-14, 2015) at the WLIC satellite meeting — Taking Charge of your LIS Career: Personal Strategies, Institutional Programs, Strong Libraries. Proposals are now being taken for papers, research reports, interactive roundtable discussions, workshops and personal stories.

Proposals should be sent to Ewa Stenberg [email protected] by January 7. Full details can be found on the IFLA WLIC 2015 website

The organising committee invites proposals for papers, research reports, interactive roundtable discussions, and workshops.　 It also welcomes proposals to tell personal stories.

The objective of the event is to showcase examples of best practices for forging a vibrant library work force. The committee is interested in exploring how individual librarians have successfully managed their careers by embracing change, professional development, and training or by providing 　professional development opportunities for others.　 The organisers want to examine how enhanced library skills contribute to stronger libraries.

They are interested in these issues as they cut across a variety of organizational structures, library types, different cultures and geographical regions. The organisers would like to feature a diversity of voices.

You can find more information about the meeting at  http://conference.ifla.org/ifla81/node/969

Please contact Ewa Stenberg at [email protected] for more details.

Proposals are invited by 1 December 2014.