Conference Session 97

New Professionals beyond New Professionals - skills, needs and strategies of a new generation of LIS professionals

New Professionals Special Interest Group

15 August 2011 09:45 - 12:45 | Off-site

• Job Search 2.0: where Web 2.0, libraries & the great job search collide, issues and opportunities for MLIS graduates
  CANDICE MELINDA LAPLANTE (St. Catherine University, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA)
• The library grows with me! - Summer school for young Romanian librarians
  CRISTINA VAILEANU and ANCA RÂPEANU (IREX Romania, Biblionet Program, Bucharest, Romania) and MONICA AVRAM (Mures County Library, Târgu-Mures, Romania)
• The essence of modern LIS professionals
  TEEMU RAUHALA (School of Information Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland)
• Rafting in a library: navigating the development of new tools and services
  MILAN VASILJEVIĆ (Library Development Department, Belgrade City Library, Belgrade, Serbia)
• Lead more, manage less - creating change in a research library
  NADINE NEWMAN (Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica)
• The diversity imperative for cultivating 21st Century librarians: the Knowledge River Model
  JESSICA HERNANDEZ (FDA Biosciences Library, U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA) and SANDY LITTLETREE (School of Information Resources and Library Science, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA)
• Key skills and competencies of a new generation of LIS professionals
  Translations: [Français]
  PUSSADEE NONTHACUMJANE (Department of Library Science, Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University Chiang Mai, Thailand)
• Shaping new generation of LIS professionals in the 21st Century
  Translations: [Français]
  LILI LI (Georgia Southern University Library, Statesboro, Georgia, USA)
• Living in an e-only world
  PATRICK DANOWSKI (e-Library, IST Austria, Kloserneuburg, Austria)
• El community manager en bibliotecas
  JUAN JOSÉ PRIETO GUTIÉRREZ (Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain), ALICIA MORENO CÁMARA (Madrid, Spain) and JULIÁN MARQUINA ARENAS (Baratz, Madrid, Spain)
• Uso de la Web 2.0 para la enseñanza-aprendizaje a nivel de postgrado en bibliotecología y ciencias de la información en la Universidad de Puerto Rico
  NITZA M. HERNÁNDEZ LÓPEZ and CARLOS SUÁREZ-BALSEIRO (Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technologies (GSIST), University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico)
• The new LIS professional from the interdisciplinarity and Colombian context perspective
  Translations: [Español]
  ALEJANDRO TINOCO CARILLO and DANIEL GORDILLO SÁNCHEZ (Javeriana University, Bogotá, Colombia)
• Creativity and innovations in Ugandan libraries: case of Makerere University Library
  Translations: [Français]
  CAROLINE ILAKO and ROBERT IKOJA-ODONGO (Makerere University Library, Kampala, Uganda)
• Congratulations! You've landed an interview: what do hiring committees really want?
  MEGAN HODGE (Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA, USA) and NICOLE SPOOR (Hampton University, Hampton, VA, USA)

Location:
The off-site session will be hosted by the Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technologies in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Monday, August 15, from 9:45 to 12:45. It will take place in the conference room of the Madre María Teresa Guevara Library, University of Sacred Heart (208 Ponce de León Ave. Popular Suite 1501. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico)

How to get there:
To get to the venue, we will meet at 8:15 in front of the Convention Center and take Bus #10  to Estacion Sagrado Corazon (train station). From there it is only a short walk. Don’t worry about the transportation, there will be someone to guide you from the Convention Center to the venue. Please make sure you carry two 50 cent coins with you for the bus rides from and to the convention center. The bus driver accepts coins only.

As seats are limited, all participants are required to register for this event. Please use the online registration form for this purpose.

For detailed information about the programme, our speakers, and the latest updates please visit the official event page.

Contact:
Sebastian Wilke, Convenor, New Professionals Special Interest Group
E-mail: [email protected]