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.
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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: 85th 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Session 153a Data Challenges in Libraries - Preservation and Conservation with Big Data SIG
Published papers: IFLA Library
30-31 Aug., Vatican City-Rome, Italy
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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: 84th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
August 24-30, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Themes:
Thu 23 Aug, University of Malaya
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: 83th 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: 82st 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
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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
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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: 81st IFLA General Conference and Assembly
August 17-23, Cape Town, South Africa
Themes:
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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: 80th 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:
- Semantically Guided, Situation-Aware Literature Research. T. Heuss, et al.
- Following the user's flow in the Digital Pompidou. E. Bermès
- Customized OPACs on the Semantic Web: the OpenCat prototype. P. Le Bœuf.
- Using Linked Library Data in Working Research Notes. R. Shaw, et al.
- Building interfaces on a networked graph. M. Malmsten and N. Lindström.
- 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:
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Theme: Continuity in the face of digital disasters: Disaster planning and recovery for digital libraries
Information Technology Section
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Theme: Usability and accessibility - the mobile challenge
Information Technology with Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section
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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
conference proceedings
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
2003-2007 Conference Proceedings
Last update: 6 December 2020