IFLA Knowledge Management Standing Committee Conference Activities
Upcoming
2019 Athens, Greece
Satellite Meeting: Call for Papers
Theme: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS IMPACT ON LIBRARIES
Date: August 23, 2019
Venue: Ionion University, 72, Ioannou Theotoki Str., 49100 Corfu, Greece (https://ionio.gr/en)
Organizers: IFLA Knowledge Management Section and Digital Humanities / Digital Scholarship SIG
Primary contacts: Program chair: Sylvia Piggott (seapiggott@gmail.com); co-chair: Xuemao Wang, SIG Convenor (x.wang@uc.edu)
Satellite Meeting focus
Artificial Intelligence (AI) generally envisions more technology and fewer people. Artificial Intelligence creates new possibilities for humans to leverage machines to complete complex tasks, sometimes tedious, repetitive, and even dangerous, with much-improved accuracy and speed. Its potential in advancing societies and in benefiting lives seems only subject to the limits of the imagination but at the same time AI introduces ethical and socioeconomic concerns. It is reasonable to predict that AI will mainstream in a number of critical areas including the library field in the near future; therefore, libraries must pay attention to the impact of AI.
The satellite conference will be dedicated to presenting and discussing examples showcasing how AI implementations in libraries are being used successfully to improve and to manage library processes. In addition, it is expected to bring together information professionals from a wide variety of library and information services to share knowledge and showcase AI research, including its current implementations and future possibilities.
Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting papers that illustrate research projects and results. Furthermore, the papers in this session should provide a series of vibrant examples of the broad concept of AI as it applies to information services, including contributions to librarianship in this evolving field. The ultimate objective is to build a body of literature on this topic that will help to guide other librarians with these issues.
All presentations should provide participants with a clear description of the AI system and its impact on the library service and its client, including how the measure of its success was assessed. We therefore prefer submissions that demonstrate real experiences/case studies – papers that tell a story. Please structure your paper in this way.
Proposals should include:
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An abstract of approximately 500 words
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A summary of the author(s) details (name, institution, position) and brief biographical statement of no more than 50 words.
Proposals should be submitted electronically to Elizabeth Turner (lizturner0304@gmail.com ) with a copy to Sylvia Piggott (seapiggott@gmail.com) no later than March 11, 2019 and indicate ‘KM Satellite Proposal” in the subject line.
Past conferences
2018 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Satellite: Is knowledge management the new library science?
- Date: Thursday 23 August, 2018
- Chair Prof. Long XIAO
- Location: Xiamen University Malaysia Campus (XMUM), Salak Tinggi, Selangor, Malaysia
- Final Report
Joint Open Session presented by the Knowledge Management Section (KM), Academic and Research Libraries Section (ARL) and Rare Books and Special Collections Section (RBSC)
- Theme: Digital scholarship and knowledge management: building confidence in the digital world
- Section Chair: Steffen Wawra
Knowledge Café
- Theme: 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.
- Chair: Monica Ertel
- Final Report
Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group (DH/DS SIG) - Sponsored by the KM Section
- Theme: The Transforming Digital Scholarship Model – From Service Provider to Interdisciplinary Partner.
- It featured “lightning talks” with speakers planned from five continents.
- Convener Xuemao Wang, Dean and University Librarian at the University of Cincinnati,
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: 26 November 2018