Conferences

2021

The 2021 World Library and Information Congress will be held online. See IFLA annoucement.

2020

World Library and Information Congress has been cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemy. See IFLA annoucement.

Nevertheless, the open joint session prepared with Preservation & Conservation Section has become an online event included in the Professional Units Virtual Events.

• Preservation of Digital Complex Objects - P&C Section and IT Section
  Video montage of the double session (18th and 19th november) in IFLA Youtube Channel : https://youtu.be/THoGhEBYGW0
  Papers and presentation slides available on the event news page : https://www.ifla.org/node/93467

2019

World Library and Information Congress: 85^th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
August 24-30, Athens, Greece

Meetings sponsored by IT section and Big Data SIG

21-22 Aug, Technische Hochschule Wildau, Berlin, Germany

• Satellite meeting: Robots in Libraries: Challenge or Opportunity? - Information Technology
  Website: https://en.th-wildau.de/university/central-facilities/university-library/ifla-wlic-preconference-satellite-meeting/ (last check March 2020)

22-23 Aug. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB), Frankfurt, Germany

• Satellite meeting: Data intelligence in libraries: The actual {human} and artificial {machine} perspectives. - Big Data SIG
  Presentations and papers: https://sites.google.com/view/wlic2019-big-data/home/program (last check March 2020)

Wed 22 Aug. Central Library Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

• Satellite meeting: Metadata specialists in the machine age - Cataloguing joint with Information Technology and Subject Analysis and Access and Bibliography

Mon 27 Aug, 09:30 – 11:30, Trianti

• Session 100 Emerging Technologies for Libraries: Smart Cities and Blockchain - Information Technology (SI) with Metropolitan Libraries
  Published papers: IFLA Library

Mon 27 Aug, 11:45 ‐ 13:15, Mitropoulos

• Session 114 Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining to transform knowledge management and information services in libraries and information organizations - Knowledge Management with Information Technology and the Big Data
  Published papers: IFLA Library

Tue 28 Aug, 10:40 ‐ 11:40, Mitropoulos

• Session 153a Data Challenges in Libraries - Preservation and Conservation with Big Data SIG
  Published papers: IFLA Library

30-31 Aug., Vatican City-Rome, Italy

• Satellite meeting Transforming LIS education for professionals in a global information world: digital inclusion, social inclusion and lifelong learning - Library Theory and Research with Education and Training and Information Technology
  Website : https://iflasatellitevatican2019.wordpress.com/ (last check March 2020)

2018

World Library and Information Congress: 84^th IFLA General Conference and Assembly

August 24-30, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Themes:

Thu 23 Aug, University of Malaya     

• Joint satellite with Reference & Information Services Section on Reinventing Reference with Technology Transformations

Sat 25 Aug, 13.45‐15.45, Plenary Theatre

• Joint session with Audiovisual and Multimedia Section on Winning strategies for collecting, cataloguing, providing, playing, and preserving video games in libraries

Sun 26 Aug, 13.45-15.45, Ballroom 1

• Main session on Celebrating IT innovations in libraries

Mon 27 Aug, 13.45‐15.45, Ballroom 1

• Joint session with Preservation and Conservation Section on Planning digital preservation: in for the long run

Mon 27 Aug, 16.15‐18.45 Room 302

• Linked Data SIG Business Meeting

Tue 28 Aug, 13.00-13.30 Plenary Hall

• Joint session with IFLA HQ on Blockchain – is it worth the fuss?

Wed 29 Aug, 12.00‐13.00, Ballroom 2

• Big Data SIG Business meeting and Open Session

2017

World Library and Information Congress: 83^th IFLA General Conference and Assembly

August 19-25, Wrocław, Poland

Consolidated lists of events and sessions associated with the IT section.

2016

World Library and Information Congress: 82^st IFLA General Conference and Assembly

August 13-19, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Themes:

• Skills and Knowledge for Citizens in an Open Data and Technology Environments
• Here Today, Gone Tomorrow; The Current State of Born Digital News
  Information Technology Section joint with Preservation and Conservation Section and News Media Section.
• Let´s make IT usable! Formats, systems and users
  Cataloguing Section joint with Information Technology Section
• Improvement of the discoverability of AV and Multimedia by transforming raw data into linked open data
  Audioviual and Multimedia Section joint with Information Technology Section and Classificationa and Indexing Section
• All about E-learning: Connection. Collaboration. Community.
  Education and Training Section joint with Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section and Information Technology Section. ​

Satellite meetings

• Data in Libraries; the big picture.
  August 10, University of Chicago, Chicago
• Women and Library Technology - Empowering Women´s Participation in Open Technology & Culture.
  August 11, Nortwestern University Library, Evanstone, IL, USA
• Dublin Core, 19 August, TBA​

2015

World Library and Information Congress: 81^st IFLA General Conference and Assembly
August 17-23, Cape Town, South Africa

Themes:

• Technology facilitating access to information : libraries supporting development
  Information Technology Library and Research Services for Parliaments Public Libraries and Asia and Oceania Sections
• 10 years of development to collect preserve and access Web-Sites: Ready to go for everyone!?
  Preservation and Conservation with Information Technology

2014

World Library and Information Congress: 80^th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
16-22 August 2014, Lyon, France

Themes:

• New technologies, information, users and libraries: Looking into the future
• Cloud services for libraries - safety, security and flexibility

2013

Preconference: "User Interaction Built On Library Linked Data" 

Papers and abstracts:

1. Semantically Guided, Situation-Aware Literature Research. T. Heuss, et al.
2. Following the user's flow in the Digital Pompidou. E. Bermès
3. Customized OPACs on the Semantic Web: the OpenCat prototype. P. Le Bœuf.
4. Using Linked Library Data in Working Research Notes. R. Shaw, et al.
5. Building interfaces on a networked graph. M. Malmsten and N. Lindström.
6. Library linked data and its relationship to knowledge organization systems. A. Slavic, et al.

World Library and Information Congress: August 2013, Singapore

• Theme: Inspiring solutions emerging from open source
• Theme: Preserving for the future: integrating physical and digital preservation

2012

World Library and Information Congress: August 2012, Helsinki, Finland:

• Theme: Continuity in the face of digital disasters: Disaster planning and recovery for digital libraries
  Information Technology Section

• Theme: Usability and accessibility - the mobile challenge
  Information Technology with Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section

• Theme: The influence of new developments of information technology on professional development in libraries
  Information Technology with Education and Training Section

2011

World Library and Information Congress: August 2011, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Theme: e-Legal deposit: from legislation to implementation; from ingest to access pt. 1 | pt. 2
Bibliography Section with IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Digital Strategies Programme (ICADS), Information Technology, National Libraries and Knowledge Management

World Library and Information Congress: August 2011, San Juan Puerto Rico

Theme: Education for Digital Curation
Education and Training Section with Preservation and Conservation, Information Technology; co-sponsored by ICA Section for Archival Education and Training

2010

World Library and Information Congress: August 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden
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2009

World Library and Information Congress: August 2009, Milan Italy

Theme: New repositories: architectures interoperability and data exchange

Theme: Statistics for cultural heritage

Statistics and Evaluation, Information Technology and Preservation and Conservation

World Library and Information Congress: August 2009, Milan Italy
Theme: Social computing tools for learning and knowledge sharing
Knowledge Management, Library and Research Services for Parliaments and Information Technology

2008

World Library and Information Congress: August 2009, Québec, Canada
Theme: Enabling access to the global library - Small is Beautiful: Distributed deployment of library services for small and special libraries

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Session 1: Digital objects on physical carriers, Session 2: Preservation infrastructures
Preservation and Conservation, (PAC), Information Technology, IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards (ICABS) and Law Libraries

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Last update: 6 December 2020