Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section
& Information Literacy Section

Date

8-10 August 2012

Location

Tampere, Finland

The IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section (CPDWL) and the IFLA Information Literacy Section (IL) invite proposals for presentations – research reports, smaller scale interactive roundtable discussions, train-the-trainer sessions, workshops, and poster sessions. Some proposals will be considered for publication in the proceedings, which will be distributed at the Satellite Meeting.

First-time presenters and new professionals are encouraged to apply. Students in the final year of studies are also invited to participate.

All proposals must be submitted by November 9, 2011 to Iflasatellite2012@gmail.com.

• Proposal sumbission form [DOC]

Conference Theme and Focus

We are interested in exploring issues such as: how to provide professional development to librarians in all types of libraries so they can help their user communities become information literate; tools to support and promote information literacy; information literacy in a work context; and the importance of the information literacy concept to the role of library/information professionals regardless of type of information organization.

We are interested in these issues as they cut across a variety of organizational structures, library types, different cultures and geographical regions. We encourage a diversity of voices.

The conference organizing committee wishes to showcase examples of best practices in strategies for developing a library work force that uses information literacy skills, both through research based scholarly presentations and experiential and practical stories of successes and lessons learned. The organizers are particularly interested in receiving proposals for presentations on any of the following, or related, key themes and issues:

General Themes

• Strategies for designing and implementing a professional development information literacy program for librarians.
• To help them become effective information literacy guides for their community
• To foster their own conceptual understandings and practical applications of information literacy in their work
• What works best in institutionalizing information literacy in workplace training programs?
• How do we sell information literacy as a necessary practice to librarians and administrators?
• What tools and resources are needed to support information literacy development for librarians?
• What information literacy standards and competencies should be incorporated into a staff development program?
• The role of library associations and library education programs in preparing librarians for information literacy and education roles.

Success Stories and Lessons Learned

• What qualities and skills are needed to become skilled at information literacy?
• What are the roles of librarians in successful information literacy programs?
• How does one evaluate librarians as facilitators of learning?
• What are the challenges in including information literacy in a staff development program
• Are there any cultural or regional differences in developing an information literacy staff development program?

Thinking Outside the Box Themes

• How do we promote modeling of good information literacy practices in libraries?
• What are strategies for teaching librarians to be excellent communicators?
• What type of feedback is most helpful to librarians implementing an information literacy program?

Please note

All expenses, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation etc., are the responsibility of the authors/presenters. No financial support can be provided by IFLA, but a special invitation can be issued to authors.

Congress Attendance Grants

The Finnish National Committee and IFLA have worked hard to secure funds for Conference Participation Grants. Up-to-date information is available on our Conference Participation Grants webpage.