IFLA KM SC Conference Activities
Upcoming
2018 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Satellite:
- Title: Is knowledge management the new library science?
- Date: Thursday 23 August, 2018
- Location: Xiamen University Malaysia Campus (XMUM), Salak Tinggi, Selangor, Malaysia
- Call for Papers: Proposals due: February 1, 2018
Joint Open Session:
- The Knowledge Management Section (KM), Academic and Research Libraries Section (ARL) and Rare Books and Special Collections Section (RBSC) will present a Joint Session on Kuala Lumpur.
- Theme: Digital scholarship and knowledge management: building confidence in the digital world
- The session will explore issues of trust in digital libraries, and the impact of those issues on digital scholarship. Knowledge management plays a critical role for libraries and organizations seeking to establish trustworthy digital repositories and to preserve reliable, verified content.
- What can Digital Scholarship and Knowledge Management do to make the future open and diverse, based on genuine verified content?
- Call for Papers: Proposals due February 2, 2018
Knowledge Café
- Please join us at the fifth Knowledge Café at the IFLA Conference in Kuala Lumpur (August 24-30, 2018). This year’s interactive session will focus on the essential role information professionals play in managing the knowledge within our organizations in order to best support our customers, whether they be public, university, governmental, parliamentary or corporate libraries. Continuous learning is key in preparing and building on the skills necessary to succeed. This session will be organized using round tables and facilitators with a number of different topics such as coaching and mentoring, change management and staff continuous learning. You will be able to learn from your colleagues and share your experiences. You are sure to be inspired and take away new ideas.
Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group (DH/DS SIG) - Sponsored by the KM Section
- The Transforming Digital Scholarship Model. DH/DS SIG Convener Xuemao Wang, dean and university librarian at the University of Cincinnati, is now forming a programming committee for next year's conference in Kuala Lumpur. The SIG will host its own two-hour program, an interactive and participatory session, incorporating feedback received from the Wrocław conference and the expertise of a diverse and international committee.
- The tentative program theme is “The Transforming Digital Scholarship Model – From Service Provider to Interdisciplinary Partner.” It will feature “lightning talks” with speakers planned from five continents. The session will capture emerging global development trends and DH/DS practices in library and information services settings, with particular attention given to new development trends to elevate a library-based DH/DS center from a service unit to an academic and research unit in a higher education environment. The session will be interactive, providing the audience with an opportunity to participate in a moderated discussion with the panelists, as well as the audience at-large. The SIG will also participate in joint sessions with the Special Collections Section, discussing digital scholarship core competencies for special collection librarians, and the Social Science Section, on text and data mining in the digital scholarship environment.
Past conferences
2017 Wrocław, Poland
Satellite New directions in Knowledge Management
Friday, 18 August 2017. University of Economics, Wrocław, Poland.
Co-Chairs: Eva Semertzaki and Elizabeth Freyre
Open Session How does knowledge management inform change agency?
Chair: Elizabeth Turner
Knowledge Café New Librarians for New Times: Continuous Learning to Become Change Agents in a Changing World
Held jointly by the Knowledge Management, Library and Research Services for Parliaments and Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Sections.
Co-Chairs: Monica Ertel, Jane Dysart and Karen Finer
Read the 2017 Knowledge Café Report
2016 Columbus, Ohio
Satellite Sharing Practices and Actions for Making Best Use of Organizational Knowledge in Libraries
Friday 12 August, 2016. Langsam Library, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Chair: Spencer Acadia
Open Session Using social media at work: How to share knowledge, improve collaboration and create a mutual savoir‐faire?
Co-chairs: Julien Sempere and Mary Augusta Thomas
Joint Session Brave New World ‐ the Future of Collections in Digital Times: Services without Content OR Content in Context?
Held jointly by the Knowledge Management, and Academic and Research Libraries Sections.
Co-Chairs: Steffen Wawra and Mary Augusta Thomas
Knowledge Café Continuous Learning in Libraries & their Communities
Held jointly by the Knowledge Management, Library and Research Services for Parliaments, and Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Sections.
Co-Chairs: Monica Ertel, Jane Dysart, and Karin Finer
2015 Cape Town, South Africa
Satellite Knowledge Management and Innovation: the transformation of 21st century library services
Friday, August 14, 2015. Goethe-Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
Chair: Eva Semertzaki
Open Session Change and sustainability - Breaking paths for a world of balance
Chair: Steffan Wawra
Knowledge Café Continuous innovation and Transformation of Libraries and their Communities
Held jointly by the Knowledge Management and Library and Research Services for Parliaments Sections.
Co-chairs: Ellie Valentine and Jane Dysart
2014 Lyon, France
Satellite Knowledge management as a vital tool for change management
Friday, August, 15, 2014. Lyon Gallo-Roman Museum, Lyon, France
Chair: Julien Semperé
Open Session Knowledge in the Digital Age – Libraries and Librarians are Managing the Digital Transformation
Chair: Dr. Klaus Ceynowa
Joint Session Knowledge Management initiatives and development in Asia and Oceania
Held jointly by the Asia & Oceania and Knowledge Management Sections.
Co-chairs: Leda Bultrini and Chihfeng P. Lin
Knowledge Café Learning Challenges for Librarians and Library Managers
Held jointly by the Knowledge Management, Library and Research Services for Parliaments, and Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Sections.
Chair:
2013 Singapore, Singapore
Open Session Open Access in the context of full lifecycle of Knowledge Management
Joint Session Building a learning and knowledge sharing organization
Held jointly Knowledge management, the Information Technology, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning sections.
Chairs: Brigadier General (Dr.) Shiang Long Lee, Head, Joint Communications and Information Systems Dept.- Singapore Armed Forces
Joint Session Agile management: strategies for achieving success in rapidly changing times
Held jointly by the Knowledge Management, and the Academic and Research Libraries Sections.
Knowledge Café Taxonomies & metadata rule
Held jointly by the Knowledge Management, and Library and Research Services for Parliaments sections.
Co-chairs Schubert, Foo Shou Boon and Jane Dysart
2012 Helsinki
Schedule of KM activities and sessions All papers on the conference website
Satellite Knowledge Management Theory in Action: how to plan, apply and assess knowledge management in libraries. August 10 2012
Open Session Potential of Knowledge Management in Public Libraries
2011 Puerto Rico
Schedule of KM Activities and Sessions All papers are on the conference website
Open Session Applied knowledge management: a panorama of success stories & case studies in libraries and lessons learned
Joint Session Promoting global access to law: developing and open access index for official, authenticated legal information
Held jointly by the Knowledge Management, the Law Libraries, and the Government Libraries, Government Information and Official Publications sections.
2010 Gothenburg, Sweden
Open Session Voice of Global Knowledge Management
Joint Session Librarians in action: Information policy and human rights:
Held jointly by the Knowledge Management, the Government Libraries, GIOPS, Preservation and Conservation, and the Law Libraries Sections.
Joint Session Global learning systems: how they foster learning and sharing of information
Held jointly by the Knowledge Management, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning, and the Information Technology sections.
Joint Session Libraries and the Semantic Web
Held jointly by the Knowledge Management, the Information Technology, and the Cataloguing, Classification and Indexing sections.
2009 Milan, Italy
Open Session Knowledge Management, Knowledge Advocacy
Joint Session Social computing tools for learning and knowledge sharing
Held jointly by the Knowledge Management, Library & Research Services for Parliaments, and the Information Technology sections.
2008 Québec, Canada
Open Session Towards understanding in the multicultural world
Last update: 29 January 2018