IFLA Conference LIT - Facing the Future: Librarians and Information Literacy in a Changing Landscape

Irish Library News

August 14th-15th 2014, proposals open for submission until 28th February

Limerick IT Library will become the first Irish Library to host the IFLA Satellite meeting on information literacy of the IFLA World Library and Information Congress when it hosts this event in August 2014.

The IFLA World Library and Information Congress is the largest library conference in the World and is an international flagship professional and trade event for the library and information services sector. It brings together over 3,500 participants from more than 120 countries. It sets the international agenda for the profession and offers opportunities for networking and professional development to all delegates.It is an opportunity for the host country to showcase the status of libraries and information science in their country and region as well as to have their professionals experience international librarianship and international relations in a unique way.

Keynote Speakers Confirmed

Dr Michael Stephens is Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, San Jose State University

Dr Michael Stephens – Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, San Jose State University, USA .

Dr Michael Stephens is Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University and designs and conducts the online postgraduate course, The Hyperlinked Library, focused on the powerful emerging trends, tools and processes driving change in library and information communities. He was the 2009 CAVAL Visiting Scholar in Australia, consulted for US Embassies in Germany, Switzerland, and Turkey, and presented to both national and international audiences about emerging technologies, innovation, and libraries.

Since 2010, Dr Stephens has written the monthly column "Office Hours" for Library Journal exploring the issues, ideas, and emerging trends in library and information science education. For more than ten years, his research has focused on the use of emerging technologies in libraries and technology learning programs, and he is inspired by library structures and virtual spaces that support users, participation, creating content, and encouraging the heart.

Dr Nancy Fried Foster, Senior Anthropologies at Ithaka S+R

Dr Nancy Fried Foster – Senior Anthropologist at Ithaka S+R, New York, USA.

Dr Nancy Fried Foster is Senior Anthropologist at Ithaka S+R, where she helps libraries and organizations use ethnographic and participatory methods to understand their users and then design spaces, services, and technologies to meet their needs. For almost ten years, Dr. Foster directed anthropological research at the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries. Projects there included eXtensible Catalog, IR+, the Camelot Project, and other technologies, as well as the Gleason Library and the Messinger Graduate Studies.

Dr Foster edited Studying Students: A Second Look, about a recent re-study of undergraduates at the University of Rochester. With Susan Gibbons, she co-edited the 2007 book, Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester. Dr Foster holds a PhD from the Joint Program in Applied Anthropology at Teachers College, Columbia University; a Diploma in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford; and BA from Barnard College.

Dr Conor Galvin, Director of Graduate Studies at UCD Dublin College of Human Sciences

Dr Conor Galvin – Director of Graduate Studies at University College Dublin College of Human Sciences, Dublin Ireland.

Dr Conor Galvin is Director of Graduate Studies at UCD Dublin College of Human Sciences where he also works on various education, development practice, ICT and research programmes. He regularly speaks at conferences and events in Ireland and Europe about the information society, education policy, the politics of education, new literacies, and technology enhanced learning. In the past few years he has keynoted Media & Learning, IADIS e-Society, LILAC, EUN, British Council, Apple, and Microsoft Innovative School events. His research interests include the politics of professionalism, literacy in an information age, technology enhanced learning, and the impact of new and emerging technology on learning and society.

Dr Galvin holds The President's Award for Teaching Excellence at UCD Dublin. Before joining UCD Dublin he worked at University of Wales Swansea and University of Cambridge, England.

IFLA 2014 Satellite Meeting on Information Literacy Organizing Committee:

IFLA Information Literacy Section Standing Committee:

Sharon B. Mader, Committee Chair: Dean of University of New Orleans Library, USA 
Min Chou, Primary Convener: New Jersey City University Library, USA 
Jaclyn Jye Ling, Assistant Convener: National Library, Singapore 
Dilara Begum, Assistant Convener: East West University, Bangladesh

IFLA 2014 Satellite Meeting on Information Literacy Local Committee:

Jerald Cavanagh: Local Committee Co- Chair Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland 
Padraig Kirby: Local Committee Co- Chair Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland

Proposals open for submission

You are invited to submit a proposal for the IFLA Information Literacy Satellite Meeting here.

 For further information please visit the Satellite Meeting website.

Registration Is Now Open

 Proposal submission deadline is February 28, 2014.