Social Science Libraries Section Strategic Plan 2011 - 2012
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Mission
The Section of Social Science Libraries provides an international platform for professional communication and exchange of ideas among librarians, scholars, and professionals in the social sciences. To foment the integration of scholarship and the practice of librarianship within the social sciences, the Section explores and encourages the involvement of numerous sub disciplines.*
The Section also seeks to promote the concept of social science librarianship as an area of specialization by which knowledge and scholarship in the many social science disciplines are documented, organized, made accessible, disseminated and preserved for the current and future generations.
*Sub disciplines in the Social Sciences include but are not limited to the following:
"... anthropology, business and economics, communication studies, criminology, demography, development studies, education, environmental planning, geography, global studies; history, labour science, law, library and information science, linguistics, management science, philosophy, political science, public administration, psychology, social policy, sociology, statistics, science of religion, science of science, travel and tourism ..."
Strategic Plan 2011-2012
1. Sponsor the creation of a new Special Interest Group – Religions in Dialogue or RELINDIAL
Relates to:
- IFLA Strategic Direction: Transforming the Profile and Standing of the Profession
- IFLA Goal 3: Advancing the profession through the development of standards and the promotion of specialized knowledge within the professional practice
- IFLA Key Initiative 3: Outreach Programme for Advocacy and Advancement of the Profession: connecting, collaborating, representing strategically
2. Publish and edit a book related to best practices in open access and digitization developed from the proceedings of the SSLS satellite conference held in Havana, Cuba, August 8-10, 2011 – Social Science Libraries: A Bridge to Knowledge for Sustainable Development (http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/25649). This work will include expanded and updated chapters by conference participants and others interested in the topic. The chapters included in this work will be published in both English and Spanish, thus supporting the movement toward multilingualism.
Relates to:
- IFLA Strategic Directions: Transforming the Profile and Standing of the Profession; Representing the Interests of IFLA’s Members and Their Users Throughout the World
- IFLA Goal 3: Advancing the profession through the development of standards and the promotion of specialized knowledge within the professional practice
- IFLA Goal 4d: Stimulating and initiating activities to enable members to become advocates at local level for the value of libraries in their society
- IFLA Key Initiative 1: Digital Content Programme: Driving access to content, and digital resources, for library users
- IFLA Key Initiative 5: Multilingualism
3. Organize a conference program for the 2012 IFLA/WLIC in Helsinki, Finland related to the conference theme, “Libraries Now! Inspiring, Surprising, Empowering,” and the presidential programme theme, “Libraries a Force for Change.” Our draft program title is “Empowering Library Users to Solve Problems: Our Stories.”
Relates to:
- IFLA Strategic Direction: Representing the Interests of IFLA’s Members and Their Users Throughout the World
- IFLA Goal 4e: Implementing an advocacy structure that includes the Presidential Programme (Libraries a Force for Change)
- IFLA Key Initiative 3: Outreach Programme for Advocacy and Advancement of the Profession: connecting, collaborating, representing strategically
Last update: 5 October 2012