Conferences

2022 – Dublin, Ireland

• WLIC 2022 Session:Truth, Evidence and Memory: Academic Libraries as Cultural Rights Defenders.
• Session videos and slides available here.

2021 – Online Congress

• Here are a few reports on this experience.

2020 – No Congress

• Nice blog posts instead, such as this one.

2019 – Athens, Greece

• WLIC 2019 Hot Topics session

2018 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• WLIC 2018, Session 194 Hot topics
• Session 153b  – Reports from IFLA ARL Grant winners
• Session 126 Social Networks –  Blogging & Social Media for Library Marketing & Communications

2017 – Wroclaw, Poland

• Satellite meeting 15-17 August – Digital Humanities – Opportunities and Risks Connecting Libraries and Research.  Presentations now available
• Session 020 Standing Committee 1 ​
  • Agenda
  • Trends in research libraries
  • Information Coordinator’s Report 2016-2017
  • Report from the Digital Humanities Satellite Conference 
• Session 151 Hot Topics – Questions for the session – the document contains three sets of questions for each: Research Data | “Fake News” | Information Literacy.  A summary report from the session is now available
• Session 154 IFLA Awards Session – awards for our Grant winners
• Session 211 Demonstrating Value and/or Assessing the Impact of Different Types of Libraries and Information Services: Can You Spot the Difference? – Division 1 – Library Types
• Session 232 Being Open About Open (with FAIFE and Copyright and Other Legal Matters)
• Session 239 Standing Committee 2
  • Agenda (2nd page)

2016 – Columbus, Ohio, USA

• Satellite meeting 10 August – Data in libraries – the big picture
  • Slides are now available (in pdf): Angjeli,  Chapman, Choudhury, Destandau, Fons, Lagace, Laherty,  Morrissey, Oury, Payant, Pollack, Pouchard, Sanders, Schreur  (two presentations still need uploading)
• Session 021 Standing Committee meeting 1
  • Agenda
  • IFLA Action plan 2015-2016 – reviewed
  • Report on Section Activities
  • Opportunities for Academic and Research Libraries and Wikipedia
  • Digital Humanities – Opportunities and Risks, Connecting Libraries and Research 2017 Satellite in Berlin
  • Regional trends in academic & research libraries
• Session 080: Academic, metropolitan and school libraries: cooperation and sharing.  Joint session with Metropolitan Libraries. Papers are available from the IFLA Repository
• Session 094: Brave new world – the future of collections in digital times: services without content.  Joint session with Knowledge Management  Thank you to all our speakers: Klaus Ceynowa, Dan Cohen, Jeff Carroll, Martha Whitehead, Jim Neal and Mike Furlough  (absent from photo) – presentation available via link in name
• Session 166 – Hot topics – Re-envisioning or re-inventing – new journeys for academic and research librarians or emperor’s new clothes?  Slides now available: Dempsey, Whitehead, Risch, Allard
• Session 220 Standing Committee meeting 2

2015 – Cape Town, South Africa

• Session 91: What is value?  Joint session with Management & Marketing SC and E-Metrics SIG
• Session 199: Hot topics
• Satellite meeting, 13 & 14 August – The quest for deeper meaning of research support

2014 – Lyon, France

• WLIC 2014, Hot topics: radical collaboration

2013 – Singapore

• Hot Topics Session.
• Agile management: strategies for achieving success in rapidly changing times (with Knowledge Management Section)

2012 – Helsinki, Finland

• Satellite meeting (with Statistics & Evaluation & Management & Marketing Sections)
  Library’s Efficiency, Impact and Outcomes
• WLIC 2012, session 165: Hot topics in research support
• WLIC 2012, session 94:  Creating a culture for innovation and change
  (with Management and Marketing Section)
• ARL Essay contest 2012

2011 – Puerto-Rico, USA

• Conferencia Satélite (en Español)
  10-11 August 2011
  Guatemala City, Guatemala
• Essay Contest – Free Conference Registration 2011

2010 – Gothenburg, Sweden

• Hot topics in Academic and Research Libraries:
  Radical new approaches for challenging times
• Essay Contest – Free Conference Registration 2010

2009 – Milan, Italy

• Essay Contest – Free Conference Registration 2009

• Call for Papers for Satellite Meeting in Turin, Italy, 19-21 August 2009
  Theme: “Libraries as Space and Place“

2008 – Québec, Canada

• Call for Papers – World Library and Information Congress: 10-14 August 2008, Québec, Canada: Information Literacy and Academic and Research Libraries Sections
  Theme: “Return on Investment: Learners’ Outcomes in Information Literacy. Do they really learn?“

Previous years

• Papers Presented during IFLA Conferences: 2002-2007