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For the second consecutive year, IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group are partnering with the American Library Association to present a series of free quarterly webinars on issues of interest to new\u00a0librarians, 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.<\/p>\n
Following our tradition of excellence, this year our keynote speakers for each of our quarterly sessions come from different regions of the world. They include IFLA Incoming President, Sinikka Sipil\u00e4, and the President of the Library Association of Singapore, Gene Tan.<\/p>\n
Below, the\u00a0date\u00a0and time of the next webinar.\u00a0Save\u00a0the\u00a0date!<\/p>\n
January 15, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:00 a.m. CST<\/p>\n 10:00 a.m. EST<\/p>\n 4:00 p.m. CET<\/p>\n 11:00 p.m. Singapore<\/p>\n 7:00 a.m. Sydney (next day)<\/p>\n World Clock\u00a0http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/worldclock\/<\/a><\/p>\n Prepare your computer and access the webinar\u00a0using the following link:<\/strong>\u00a0 http:\/\/ala.adobeconnect.com\/r5jykrkmz66\/<\/a><\/p>\n Webinar length is one<\/span> hour.<\/p>\n Speakers:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Robin Kear<\/strong>, Liaison Librarian at the University of Pittsburgh. International instructor, speaker and writer. Topic: Strategizing Your International Librarianship Career: Redux 2013.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Heikki Marjooma, <\/strong>Event-coordinator, Department of Events and Marketing, Helsinki City Library. Member of Nordic Gamebrarians. Topics: innovation, creativity, Library 10, new librarians and games in libraries.<\/p>\n The topics for the webinars were compiled from surveys, Proceedings from CPDWL Satellite Conference for WLIC 2012, topics presented by speakers during the NPSIG and MLAs program at the WLIC 2012 in Helsinki, NPSIG working group, and new librarians’ forums, listservs and online spaces.<\/p>\n The quarterly webinars will be presented in January, April, July and October 2013. Our Keynote for April is IFLA Incoming President, Sinikka <\/strong>Sipil\u00e4<\/strong>. Stay tuned for more news!<\/p>\n The webinars are archived, therefore you can join them, ask questions and participate in conversations with international colleagues live, or you can listen to them later, anywhere at any time.<\/p>\n For more information about the 2012 \u2018New\u00a0Librarians\u00a0Global\u00a0Connection: best practices, models and recommendations\u2019 series, visit http:\/\/npsig.wordpress.com\/webinars\/<\/a><\/p>\n Questions and requests for information:<\/p>\n Loida Garcia-Febo<\/p>\n Series Coordinator<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/files\/2012\/12\/GeneTan_-168x300.jpg\")
<\/a>Keynote by<\/strong> Gene Tan<\/strong>, Director of the National Library of Singapore. President of the Library Association of Singapore (LAS), Director of Singapore Memory Project. Gene is a renowned international speaker about librarian skills and innovative strategies for libraries and librarians. LAS conference this past September was titled \u201cLibrarians for Tomorrow.\u201d\u00a0 Keynote topics: Librarian skills, knowledge sharing, innovation, professional development, the new library, the unlibrary, library within a library.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/files\/2012\/12\/RobinKear.jpg\")
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