Daily Programme

Retention and job satisfaction: can professional development make a difference?

• What motivates LIS professionals in the institution of higher learning: a case of Pakistan
  Translations: [Français]
  NOSHEEN FATIMA WARRAICH and KANWAL AMEEN (Department of LIS, University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan)
• All change: job rotations as workplace learning in the Flinders University Library Graduate Trainee Program
  LIZ WALKLEY HALL (Flinders University, Flinders, Australia)
• Mandatory CPD and professional re-validation schemes and their role in motivating and re-energising information professionals: the UK and New Zealand experiences
  JUDITH BROADY-PRESTON (Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom) and AMANDA COSSHAM (The Open Polytechnic, Wellington, New Zealand)
• Bringing out the best of everyone: a systematic approach to the workplace coaching and learning at the Kuopio University Library, Finland
  Translations: [Français]
  JARMO SAARTI and ARJA JUNTUNEN (University of Eastern Finland Library, Kuopio, Finland)
• Personnel development programmes at the National Library of the Netherlands (KB)
  ELS VAN EIJCK VAN HESLINGA and DICK LANGBROEK (Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague, Netherlands)

Hot topics in Academic and Research Libraries: Radical new approaches for challenging times

Including: strategic rightsizing, radical collaboration, entrepreneurial strategies, research transfer

• New partnerships for improving student and academic staff support
  MIKE BERRINGTON (Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom)
• The Research Impact Measurement Service at the University of New South Wales Library
  ANDREW INMAN (University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia)
• Advancing from kumbaya to radical collaboration in the academic library
  JAMES G. NEAL (Columbia University Libraries, New York, United States)
• Journal big deals: trick or treat?
  DEBORA SHORLEY (Imperial College, London, United Kingdom) 

National libraries promoting open access to knowledge

• Open access: challenges for national libraries
  J. S. M. (BAS) SAVENIJE (National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague, Netherlands)
• Creative Commons licenses: strategic implications for national libraries
  OLIVIER CHARBONNEAU (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
• Beyond equality to better opportunity: new role and function of a national library in a knowledge society
  CHUL-MIN MO (National Library of Korea, Seoul, Korea)
• Open access resource management: a new role for the National Library of China
  WANG ZHIGENG, LIANG HUIWEI and ZHANG WENJING (National Library of China, Beijing, China)
• The role of the national library as a catalyst for an open access agenda
  JAN HAGERLID (National Library of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden)

Libraries promoting reading in a multicultural, multilingual society

• Introduction to the Session
  IVANKA STRICEVIC (Croatia, Chair of the Literacy and Reading Section) and MIJIN KIM (Canada, Chair of the Library Services to Multiculutral Populations Section)
• Keynote: Libraries promoting multimodal literacy in an intercultural society
  MAIJA BERNDTSON (Helsinki City Library, Helsinki, Finland)
• Building a culture for reading in a multicultural, multilingual world
  Translations: [Français]
  RAY DIORON (Faculty of Education, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada) and MARLENE ASSELIN (Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada)
• Intercultural library networking in Switzerland: sharing material and knowledge
  Translations: [Deutsch]
  RUTH FASSBIND-EIGENHEER (Bibliomedia Schweiz, Solothurn, Switzerland)
• Celebrating culture, Reading and family literacy @ the library with the Latino Reading and Literacy Programs "El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Día)" and "Noche de Cuentos"
  JAMIE CAMPBELL NAIDOO (University of Alabama, School of Library and Information Studies, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA), PATRICIA MONTIEL-OVERALL (University of Arizona, School of Information Resources and Library Science, Tucson, Arizona, USA), ORALIA GARZA DE CORTÉS (REFORMA: The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking, Austin, Texas, USA), LUCÍA GONZÁLEZ (REFORMA, Miami, Florida, USA) and IRANIA PATTERSON (Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA)
• "We are here because you were there": minority ethnic genre fiction in UK public libraries
  BRIONY BIRDI (Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom)
• "Come to your Library": BLA project for promotion of reading in West Bengal, India
  RATNA BANDYOPADHYAY (Department of Library and Information Science, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India), K.P. MAJUMDER (Department of Library and Information Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India), BITHI BOSE and PAPRI SENGUPTA (BLA, Kolkata, West Bengal India)
• Reading - what to purchase, and why?
  Translations: [Deutsch]
  INGRID ATLESTAM (Kultur i Väst Regionbiblioteket /the Västra Götaland Regional Library, Göteborg, Sweden) and RANDI MYHRE (Immigrant-institutet /The Immigrant Institute, Borås, Sweden)

IFLA’s new policy-based development programme: Building strong library associations

Strong, sustainable library associations help libraries to improve services for library users, promote equitable access to information, and develop the library and information profession.

Attend this session to learn more about IFLA's new capacity building programme, Building Strong Library Associations.

This session will be presented as a Q&A session, with opportunities to ask about opportunities for involvement in the programme and how to make use of the learning materials, online platform, and other components of the programme.

The session will be presented in English.

Greening the Library in a sustainable way

• Going green in North American public libraries? A critical snapshot of policy and practice
  RODNEY AL (University of Alberta and City of Edmonton, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) and SARA HOUSE (University of Alberta and Fort McMurray Public Library Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
• Ecological sustainability in libraries - a building concept
  DIERK EICHEL, et al.
• Développer la lecture: un axe essentiel du développement durable (How to make reading development sustainable)
  Translations: [English]
  PHILIPPE COLOMB (Relations internationales Bibliothèque publique d'information (BPI), Paris, France) and VINCENT BONNET (Bibliothèque du Merlan, réseau des bibliothèques de Marseille, Marseille, France)
• Library collection disposal: new tools for media management
  CHELSEA URNESS (University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada)

Library spirit in the Nordic and Baltic countries

• From volunteers to professionals - the origin and development of public librarianship in Sweden during the 20th Century
  MAGNUS TORSTENSSON (Swedish School of Library and Information Science University of Borås, Borås, Sweden)
• Scientific and research libraries in the late 20th Century
  TOMAS LIDMAN (National Archives, Stockholm, Sweden)
• Cooperation in the fields of book and library history in the Nordic and Baltic countries
  ILKKA MÄKINEN (Department of Information Studies and Interactive Media, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland)
• Kosova Libraries: history and development
  SALI BASHOTA (National and University Library of Kosova, Pristina, Kosovo) and BESIM KOKOLLARI (National and University Library of Kosova, Pristina, Kosovo)

Open access in Africa: trends and development

• Open access journal publishing in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
  EZRA SHILOBA GBAJE (Department of Library and Information Science, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria)
• Open access in institutions of higher learning in Botswana
  Translations: [Français]
  KGOMOTSO RADIJENG (Botswana National Productivity Centre, Gaborone, Botswana)
• Factors influencing the adoption of open access scholarly communication in Tanzanian public universities
  Translations: [Français]
  F.W. DULLE (Sokoine National Agricultural Library, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania), M.K. MINISH-MAJANJA (Department of Information Science, University of South Africa, South Africa) and L.M. CLOETE (Johannesburg, South Africa)
• The creation of an information repository: a perspective from Mozambican higher education sector
  AISSA MITHA ISSAK (Universidade Pedagógica, Maputo, Mozambique)

Inspiring interiors – creating and designing practical and exciting library spaces to promote use

• Color, materiales y luz en las bibliotecas de la Xarxa de Barcelona
  Translations: [English]
  IGNASI BONET and IMMACULADA SABATER (Architect of Library Architecture Unit, Diputacio Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
• Southwark's 'stunning exemplar' library: modest investment for maximum effect
  DAVID JENKIN (AMA - Alexi Marmot Associates, London, United Kingdom) and PAM USHER (Library Service, Southwark Council, United Kingdom)
• Redesigning the interior of an existing public library to inspire use
  Translations: [Français]
  ADRIAAN SWANEPOEL and CHRISTINE SWANEPOEL (Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa)
• The adventure of the ICMC/IKMZ-Building of Cottbus University (Germany)
  ANDREAS DEGKWITZ (Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus, Cottbus, Germany)

• Keynote speaker:
  ACTA Agreement and threats of censorship on Internet
  CHRISTIAN ENGSTRÖM (European Parliament for Piratpartiet, Sweden) and STUART HAMILTON (Senior Policy Adviser, IFLA, The Hague, Netherlands)
• The interactions between Google and librarianship: The experience of Mexico
  Translations: [Español] [Français]
  JONATHAN HERNÁNDEZ PÉREZ (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)
• The CyberNavigators of Chicago Public Library and the ‘informatics moment’: On a budget, democratizing information flows in low-income neighborhoods
  KATE WILLIAMS (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Urbana, Illinois, USA)
• Researching the information commons (RIC)
  KERRY SMITH (Department of Information Studies, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, Australia)
• Controversies of the new information environment - kiss goodbye for privacy
  PÄIVIKKI KARHULA (Library of the Finnish Parliament, Helsinki, Finland)

Libraries providing access to knowledge that supports democracy

• Enhancing democracy and good governance: the role of parliamentary library and research services
  INNOCENT RUGAMBWA (Library and Research Services, Parliament of Uganda, Kampala, Uganda)
• The role of parliamentary libraries in increasing citizens' access to knowledge and it's barriers in the developing countries
  ABDOLREZA NOROOZI CHAKOLI (Shahed University, Tehran, Iran), LALE SAMADI (Library and Information Center, Iranian Philosophy Institute, Tehran, Iran), LEILA CHEHRENEGAR (Ministry of Education, Tehran, Iran) and MEHRDAD ROSTAMZADEH (National Research Institute for Science Policy, Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Tehran, Iran)
• The role of the library in access to knowledge for democracy
  HAJI HATTAR (Pakistan)
• Visioning the role of a continental legislative library and research service: case of the Pan African Parliament
  MUYOYETA SIMUI (Pan African Parliament, Johannesburg, South Africa)
• What role for parliamentary libraries and research services in shaping how citizens will engage with parliaments in the future to participate in debating important issues or shaping legislation
  TRAORE NASSA DIALLO (Documentation and Archives, National Assembly, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
• How the Parliament of Zimbabwe Library and Research Services provide access to citizens to knowledge about parliament
  ISAIAH MUNYORO (Parliament of Zimbabwe Library, Harare, Zimbabwe)
• The Japanese Diet (Parliament) of the future and the progress of the services to the Diet
  JUNKO HIROSE (National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan)
• The public engagement strategy in the UK Parliament since 2006
  JOHN PULLINGER (House of Commons, London, United Kingdom) and ELIZABETH HALLAM-SMITH (House of Lords, London, United Kingdom)
• Managing information to support democracy in the Pacific: the work of the Pacific Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives
  MARK CROOKSTON (Pacific Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (PARBICA), New Zealand)

Renowned copyright experts HARALD MÜLLER (Library of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law, Germany) and RAINER KUHLEN (University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany) will:

• Explore the global state of copyright laws as they pertain to document delivery,
• Highlight some countries’ efforts to make copyright more effective for document delivery, and
• Propose an ideal copyright future for document delivery.

E-metrics: current challenges and activities

• Statistics from database vendors and from the library's microsites: the Singapore experience
  NGIAN LEK CHOH (National Library, Singapore, Singapore)
  
• Key performance indicators for library portals
  SEBASTIAN MUNDT (Stuttgart Media University, Stuttgart, Germany)
• Open access usage statistics: problems and solutions
  ABDOLREZA NOROOZI CHAKOLI (Shahed University, Tehran, Iran)