Full Programme

Training session for Officers (Chairs and Secretaries of IFLA Sections) and SIG Conveners; Information Coordinators are also invited. The session is intended to be an informal way of communicating all the information that leaders of IFLA’s Sections and SIGs need in order to fulfil their duties during the year, so questions and discussion are encouraged.

Presenter: HQ Staff and Professional Committee members.

The Division Leadership Forum – Library Types offers an opportunity for the Officers (Chairs and Secretaries) of IFLA Sections in Division I – Library Types to meet within their Division and with their Division Chair to discuss and share ideas.

The Division Leadership Forum – Library Collections offers an opportunity for the Officers (Chairs and Secretaries) of IFLA Sections in Division II – Library Collections to meet within their Division and with their Division Chair to discuss and share ideas.

The Division Leadership Forum – Library Services offers an opportunity for the Officers (Chairs and Secretaries) of IFLA Sections in Division III – Library Services to meet within their Division and with their Division Chair to discuss and share ideas.

The Division Leadership Forum – Support of the Profession offers an opportunity for the Officers (Chairs and Secretaries) of IFLA Sections in Division IV – Support of the Profession to meet within their Division and with their Division Chair to discuss and share ideas.

The Division Leadership Forum – Regions offers an opportunity for the Officers (Chairs and Secretaries) of IFLA Sections in Division V – Regions to meet within their Division and with their Division Chair to discuss and share ideas.

This session offers a brief introduction to various aspects of the IFLA congress and the IFLA organisation in an informal way.  The Newcomers’ session is a great opportunity to start building and expanding your international professional network!

Programme

08:30-09:00 Coffee and cake

09:00 Welcome & Introduction

by session chair Barbara Lison and IFLA Secretary General Jennefer Nicholson

09:10 Start first panel session on the topic:

What motivates me to go to an IFLA conference?

Examples

• What does it mean for my professional development?
• How do I get the most out of the programme?
• Opportunities to network
• Making friends and lifelong memories
• What to see in the host country, both professionally and recreational

Panellists:

• Randa Al-Chidiac
• Ellen Tise
• Ian Yap

9.30 Summary

9.35 Start second panel session on the topic:

What can I gain professionally and personally from an IFLA conference?

Examples

• what an international perspective brings to my professional practice
• first-timer/one-timer/many-timer – opportunities for ongoing participation in IFLA
• information exchange
• new perspectives

Panelists:

• Jérémy Lachal
• Glòria Peréz-Salmerón
• Kent Skov Andreasen

10:00 Summary and conclusion

The session will include:

• a welcome from Gérard Collomb, Mayor of Lyon and Bruno Racine, President of the National Library of France
• the opening address from IFLA President Sinikka Sipilä
• speeches from our guests of honour:
  • Benoît Hamon, Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research
  • Aurélie Filippetti, Minister of Culture and Communication
• Our Keynote Speaker is the renowned philosopher Bernard Stiegler, who will give a speech concerning “The Future of Reading.”
• and a special presentation of French national culture

Keynote Speaker: Bernard Stiegler

Bernard Stiegler is one of the leading French philosophers of our generation. He develops the work of Jacques Derrida, Gilbert Simondon and Andre Leroi-Gourhan in a wide-ranging analysis of our relationship with technology. Stiegler established himself in France in 1994 with the publication of the first volume of La Technique et Le Temps (‘Technics and Time’).

Throughout his life, Stiegler has published widely on the subjects of philosophy, technology, digitisation, and on the problem of individuation in consumer capitalism. Some of his most notable works include: two volumes of De La Misère Symbolique (‘Of Symbolic Misery’), three volumes of Mécréance et Discrédit (‘Disbelief and Discredit’) and two volumes Constituer l’Europe (‘Constituting Europe’). His 2009 publication Acting out is particularly well known.

Professor Stiegler has a long term engagement with the relation between technology and philosophy, not only in a theoretical sense, but also situating them in industry and society as practices. He is one of the founders (in 2005) of the political group Ars Industrialis based in Paris, which calls for an industrial politics of spirit, by exploring the possibilities of the technology of spirit, to bring forth a new “life of the mind”. Since 2013, Stiegler has also been a member of the Conseil national du numérique (CNNum—French Digital Council).

Bernard Stiegler is Director of the Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation (IRI), professor of philosophy at Université de Technologie de Compiègne and Professorial Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, and until 2009 was director of the Department of Cultural Development at the Pompidou Centre in Paris.

The aim of the session is to provide guidance on being published in academic and professional journals, including IFLA Journal and other IFLA related publications.

Topics include:

• Choosing a journal
• The editorial and peer review process
• IFLA Journal scope and content
• Publishing with IFLA
• Author support

Panelists: Paul Sturges (former FAIFE Chair), Jerry Mansfield (Chair of the IFLA Journal Editorial Committee), Steve Witt (incoming Editor of IFLA Journal), and Caroline Lock (Publisher, Sage Publications).

Mike Heaney (IFLA Publications Series Editor) will be available to answer questions about prospective publications with IFLA and De Gruyter.

IFLA’s priorities and strategic direction are defined by its Governing Board on behalf of its members and should be driven forward in part by the IFLA units. In order to do this effectively, IFLA units need first an understanding of these priorities, then the ideas, people and tools, to carry out activities that will benefit IFLA members and move IFLA forward as the leading international body representing library associations and institutions.

All professional units (Section Standing Committees, Special Interest Groups and Strategic Programme committees) should send one representative to this session to share ideas about identifying, planning and communicating projects and activities that will involve and bring benefits to the international IFLA member community. The session will be interactive and held primarily in English.

Want to increase the public visibility of libraries in your country? Come hear examples of how library associations and libraries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas have created their campaigns—and learn how you can participate in this IFLA/ALA partnership initiative to promote libraries.

IFLA publishes a wide selection of standards, covering a varied range of library activities and services. They are aimed at providing a common understanding of processes and methods in developing information and library services and products across all countries and library types. The standards are written and compiled by the IFLA professional units – sometimes working in their own specific area, sometimes collaborating with other professional units or organisations outside IFLA.

The Committee on Standards has produced a manual to help guide the production of these documents. It covers how to take the steps needed to produce an IFLA standard - from building a base of best practice, to writing a document, seeking input on the contents, correctly formatting it and finally seeking IFLA endorsement.

Representatives from all IFLA professional units (Sections, Special Interest Groups, Strategic Programmes) should attend this session to take back ideas from, and information on, the new procedures manual to their Standing Committees. They are also welcome to bring suggestions for improving the manual or the procedures around the production and publication of IFLA standards. It doesn’t matter if your unit already manages a list of its own standards, or if it has never produced any, this session will have information and ideas for everyone.

Join members of IFLA's Public Libraries and Library Buildings and Equipment Sections to hear about some of the public libraries nominated for the 1001 libraries to see before you die project. This online initiative aims to bring together best practice examples of public library buildings and spaces from around the world. It will also include links to relevant websites and other resources.

As part of this session, the two Sections are delighted to host the presentation of the inaugural, international architecture award by the Danish Agency for Culture and the Danish firm Schmidt hammer lassen architects with an prize of DKK 25,000 to the best Public Library of the Year 2014 for a library that has been opened between 2012 and early 2014.

Working together with the OCLC membership, the cooperative explores trends that shape the future of all libraries. Join OCLC to hear about its latest pioneering approach to metadata, to improve all library workflows and increase the visibility of libraries and library collections on the World Wide Web.

Speakers:

Skip Prichard, President and CEO;
Ted Fons, Executive Director, Data Services & WorldCat Quality and 
Richard Wallis, Technology Evangelist

Ensuring library access for disabled persons on the basis of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) The UN CRPD and library services, the role of libraries and librarians in developing accessible libraries, and France's success in developing library access.

(Business Meeting by Invitation only)

In the Exhibition Hall you’ll have a great opportunity to explore a wide range of library products, new technologies, books and online services available to libraries and librarians.

Come to the opening and you’ll also get a chance to meet IFLA President Sinikka Sipilä, IFLA President-Elect Donna Scheeder, and IFLA Secretary General Jennefer Nicholson. 

There will also be complementary food and drinks to enjoy!

Donna Scheeder will inaugurate the exhibition at 16:15.

(By invitation only)

The Officers Reception is kindly sponsored by Infor

with the generous support of Lyon City Hall

Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands

Founder and Honorary Chair of Stichting Lezen & Schrijven (Reading & Writing Foundation)

Princess Laurentien works on issues concerning the development of individuals and their impact on society. In particular, she is active in the fields of literacy and sustainability. In 2004 she founded Stichting Lezen & Schrijven (Reading & Writing Foundation), which works both in the Netherlands and internationally to prevent illiteracy among children and to reduce it among adults.

The Princess is UNESCO’s Special Envoy on Literacy and Development and served as Chair of the EU High Level Group of experts on Literacy, which presented its findings in 2012. Princess Laurentien has also been professionally engaged on sustainability and wildlife preservation for over a decade. She is Founder and Director of the Missing Chapter Foundation (MCF), which brings together children and (corporate) leaders to engage in dialogue aimed at changing mind-sets of both the adults and children.

Princess Laurentien is also the initiator and author of the Mr Finney series of children’s books.

08.30  Registration

09.15  Opening Keynote
ISMAIL SERAGELDIN (Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt)

10.00  Break

10.20  Panel One: LIS  Education and Training – A Leadership/Association Perspective

11.15  Ignite Session One:  Accessible  Education and Training

12.15  Lunch

13.15  Panel Two: Facing Our History, Shaping the Future of LIS Education and Training

14.10  Ignite Session Two: LIS Education in 2050

15.00  Break

15.30  Book Presentation
Professor S.B. GHOSH

15.45  Closing Keynote
LYNN SILIPIGNI CONNAWAY (Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research, United States)

16.30  Closing Remarks and Thank you

Registration:
Please register your attendance (with lunch, places limited).

More details and full programme.

Location:
École Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliothèques (ENSSIB)

Location: Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon

The presentations are followed by a tour of the Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon 
4 groups of 15 (2 in English; 2 in French)

Agenda

9.30 – 10.00  Launch of the Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development

The Lyon Declaration calls upon United Nations Member States to make an international commitment through the post-2015 development agenda for the Sustainability Development Goals to ensure that everyone has access to, and is able to understand, use and share the information that is necessary to promote sustainable development and democratic societies. It was prepared by IFLA and a number of strategic partners in the library and development communities. The Declaration will be launched by IFLA President Sinikka Sipilä and the Mayor of Lyon Gérard Collomb.  

10.00 – 12.45 Strong Libraries = Strong Societies: e-participation for strong information societies

Building on the IFLA Trend Report, invited speakers will further develop themes that contribute to a strong information society and in which libraries play a role, such as: the high value of literacy and information literacy skills; incorporating local content into creativity, entrepreneurship and publishing; and citizen and multi-stakeholder participation in civic engagement and the transformation of societies.  

Chair:

• Martyn Wade (Chair, FAIFE Committee)

Speakers:

• Sinikka Sipila (IFLA President): Introduction
• Maria-Carme Torras I Calvo (Member, IFLA Governing Board): Literacy - Essential for participation
• Catherine Lucet (Chief Executive, Nathan/Editis, representing the International Publishers Association): Local content publishing and participating
• Anriette Esterhuysen (Executive Director, Association of Progressive Communications): Participation and Multi-stakeholderism
• Ernesto Hartikainen (Foresight Specialist, Sitra: Finnish Innovation Fund, an independent think-and-do-tank): e-Participation and citizen-driven initiatives
• Andy Richardson (Information Specialist, International Parliamentary Union): Participation from the parliamentary perspective
• Martine Reicherts (EU Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship): The work of the Directorate-General for Justice in relation to citizen rights and participation

(With one hour break between 12.45-13.45)

In the Exhibition Hall you will find over 200 unique poster presentations. Together these form a kaleidoscopic and representative overview of library and information initiatives and projects—large and small—from around the world.

• Complete list of Poster Sessions

Posters will be on display in the Exhibition Hall throughout the week and will be presented with authors present during two, two-hour sessions: from 12:00 to 14:00 on Monday and Tuesday—18 & 19 August. Presenters often provide handouts, printed materials, leaflets or pamphlets for distribution.

How Relindial can help developing a cure information on the religious cultures thanks to new standards and semantic web?
Open access tools, religious dialogue knowledge oriented: sources, how to publicize them?

The meeting is expected as a “world café model”: 3 groups of questions with a facilitator dedicated to each table

All delegates are invited to attend the announcement of the 2014 Access to Learning Award, which recognizes the innovative efforts of public libraries and similar institutions outside the United States to connect people to information and opportunities through free access to computers and the Internet. The award has honored ground-breaking projects around the world that are improving people's lives through access to technology.

The award will be presented by a representative from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Florence Aubenas

Florence Aubenas is a Belgian born, French journalist who has worked for Le Monde since 2012. For nearly 20 years she worked at Libération as well as several years with Le Nouvel Observateur. As an international reporter and war correspondent, she has covered critical events in Rwanda, Kosovo, Algeria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya as well as many important criminal trials.

She gained public attention in France during the first Outreau trial in 2004. In this famous “judiciary disaster” she was one of the first to (correctly) question the guilt of some of those convicted.

Florence Aubenas was taken hostage in Iraq on January 5, 2005 along with her translator Hussein Hanoun Al-Saadi. Both were freed on June 11, 2005. Her abduction transformed Ms Aubenas into a rallying figure for press freedom advocates in France and beyond. The Paris-based group Reporters Without Borders worked tirelessly for her release. A photo of her and Hanoun Al-Saadi hung on walls in cities all across Europe. During their six-month period of captivity, French broadcasters regularly reminded viewers of their situation.

From July 2009 until June 2012, Florence served as President of L'Observatoire international des prisons (OIP), a French organization dedicated to ensuring decent conditions of confinement and the respect of fundamental rights for detainees.

In 2009 she embarked on an extensive piece of undercover journalism in Caen, Normandy that exposed the plight of temporary workers forced to subsist on below minimum wages—in a similar manner as Günter Wallraff did in Germany during the 1980s and Barbara Ehrenreich in the USA during the 2000s. Her goal was "to tell the story of the people in France who are going under.” After many temporary jobs, she worked as a cleaning lady on ferries on Ouistreham’s quays. The resulting book, “Le Quai de Ouistreham” became a bestseller in France.

Florence Aubenas regularly speaks publicly on her ideas and ambitions for journalism.

The session moderator will introduce different levels where green actions can take place. The main part of the workshop will consist in collecting ideas, best practices and results of studies from participants and discuss them. If participants wish, they can do a 3 to 5 minutes slide presentation. The results will then be published on our Facebook (and in the ENSULIB mailing list), and discussion will continue from there.

Moderators:
HARRI SAHAVIRTA and LEILA SONKKANEN (Helsinki, Finland)

Location:
Enssib, École Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliothèques
Room 1.13
17-21 bd du 11 novembre 1918
69 623 Villeurbanne Cedex
Lyon, France
see also: itinerary to get to enssib from the Lyon Convention Centre

Registration:
Signing up in advance is kindly requested by email to:
[email protected] with copy to [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]

However, if you can't sign up for any reason (no access to your email, no time, too late, etc.), but still wish to attend, you are welcome anyway!

Come and hear the latest news!

Curious about some of the most important work IFLA has been involved with in the last year? Would you like to learn more about the exciting directions in which we're headed? Stop by this now streamlined session and get some answers.

Topics to include:

• Introduction and Welcome from IFLA President Sinikka Sipilä and Bruno Racine (President National Library of France)
• Highlights and innovations in the Congress Programme (Donna Scheeder, IFLA President-Elect)
• Strategic partners meeting, new partnerships (IFLA President Sinikka Sipilä)
• IFLA and international advocacy (IFLA President Sinikka Sipilä and Deborah Jacobs)
• Overview of IFLA activities on access to digital information; Key Initiative achievements (IFLA Secretary General Jennefer Nicholson)
• Lyon Declaration (IFLA President Sinikka Sipilä)
• IFLA Trend Report: Next steps (Donna Scheeder, IFLA President-Elect)
• Announcement: 2015 IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Programme Fellows (Skip Prichard, OCLC President and CEO)

Congress delegates and all members of the Press are welcome and encouraged to attend.

NOTE: IFLA-related awards will be presented at a separate session later in the day.

In recent years, residency models seem to be on a rise in librarianship, providing an alternative model to the conventional concept of internships most of us know. But what are distinctive features of residencies? How do they differ from internships? What are potential benefits and downsides of both concepts for new librarians, educators and employers? Are there even other ways to let students and new graduates gain working experience at the beginning of their career? Let’s find out during this session!

Agenda:

• Introduction to residency models and related concepts (Bridgette Hendrix & Sebastian Wilke, Information Coordinator & Co-Convenor, NPSIG)
• Short reports by participants on their experiences with residencies
• Participants build their own residency model using the hackathon approach
• Presentation of final concepts

As the agenda suggests, this session is supposed to be open and based on the input of all participants. We encourage everyone to share their personal experience on the topic with each other and to actively contribute to hacking new residency models.

In the Exhibition Hall you will find over 200 unique poster presentations. Together these form a kaleidoscopic and representative overview of library and information initiatives and projects—large and small—from around the world.

• Complete list of Poster Sessions

Posters will be on display in the Exhibition Hall throughout the week and will be presented with authors present during two, two-hour sessions: from 12:00 to 14:00 on Monday and Tuesday—18 & 19 August. Presenters often provide handouts, printed materials, leaflets or pamphlets for distribution.

A number of important IFLA-related awards will be handed out during this session, including:

• 12th IFLA International Marketing Award
• ARL Attendance Grant by Sage/Ex Libris
• Brill/IFLA Open Access Award
• IFLA/ekz LIS Student Paper Award
• Dr. Shawky Salem Conference Grant
• Naseej Conference Grant
• EIFL-PLIP Innovation award

Programme change

Please note:
This Standing Committee meeting will be held on Wednesday, 20 August, from 08.00-09.30 in Room Tete d'Or 1.

• Question from the audience
• Conclusions – Chair

Moderator: DEVA ESWARA REDDY (Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States)

In this session, IFLA’s initiatives to promote sustainable development through libraries will be presented. These include the United Nations’ post-2015 development agenda, IFLA policy, and capacity building programmes delivered through ALP such as the Building Strong Library Associations programme and International Leaders Programme.

Speakers will include IFLA Governing Board members and representatives from BSLA projects in Africa, Asia and Oceania and Latin America and the Caribbean. The end of the session will include time for Q&A about ALP’s work and opportunities.

The debate over mass internet and telecommunications surveillance has intensified over recent months as individuals and institutions have become increasingly aware of the impact it is having on them.  In this timely session representatives from libraries, privacy campaigning and the internet industry discuss as a panel and with the audience the implications of mass surveillance on citizens, librarians and libraries.

Speakers:

• Louise Cook (Loughborough University)
• David Greene (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• Lionel Maurel (library curator at the BDIC (Bibliothèque de Documentation Internationale Contemporaine and member of La Quadrature du Net)
• Marco Pancini (Google)
• Loida Garcia-Febo (FAIFE Committee Member)
• Session Chair – Martyn Wade, Chair FAIFE

Promoting creative synergies between the arts and sciences is the motivation for STEM to STEAM initiatives in many countries. When coupled with the arts, the STEM disciplines--science, technology, engineering, and math--are empowered and STEM expands into STEAM. On the other side of the equation, artists, designers, and curators are witnessing the revolutionary impact of scientific thinking on their modes of practice. This session highlights collaborations between art practitioners and scientists as well as the library collections and services that support the intersection of these two spheres.

Moderator: SANDRA LUDIG BROOKE (Princeton University Princeton, United States)

International discussions surrounding diversity are paramount to the library profession. One patron group that commonly is overlooked, even during these conversations, is our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) library users. Professionals from around the world will discuss efforts in providing access and fulfilling information needs to this patron population at the first IFLA LGBTQ Users SIG session.

IFLA invites representatives of our National, International and Other Association Members (highest official, board members and staff attending the congress) to attend the Associations Members meeting. At this important meeting, IFLA’s strategy and activities with and on behalf of Member associations will be introduced. Representatives will be able to contribute suggestions on these directly to IFLA through roundtable discussions, and learn about opportunities for involvement in IFLA’s programmes and advocacy work. The meeting also provides a forum for associations to network with other associations from around the world.

An invitation will be issued to all IFLA Association members.

This session will be organized as an open discussion, the audience being split in smaller groups.

• standards and mappings
• linking and cooperation
• using and reusing Linked Data
• tools and recipes

This year's Cultural Evening is a not-to-be-missed event that will feature the best of local cuisine, music and dance.  All of this will take place at La Sucrière, a former sugar warehouse built in the 1930s on the banks of the Saône River in the Lyon Confluence district. 

Location

La Sucrière
49-50 quai Rambaud, Lyon 69002

Directions by public transport:

• From the Congress Centre take trolley bus C4 in the direction of Jean Macé and get off at Saxe Préfecture. Switch to tram T1 in the direction of Debourg and get off at Hôtel de Région - Montrochet.

Or:

• Take trolley bus C1 or C2 to the Part Dieu station, get off there and switch to tram T1. Get off at Hôtel de Région - Montrochet.

It is a short walk from Hôtel de Région to La Suicrière.

Or take the bus S1 right to La Sucrière.

Google maps

Pierre Dillenbourg

Topic: Ten surprises in our MOOC experience

A former elementary school teacher, Pierre Dillenbourg graduated with a degree in educational science from the University of Mons, Belgium and started research on learning technologies in 1984. He obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Lancaster (United Kingdom), in the domain of artificial intelligence applications for educational software. He has been an assistant professor at Technologies de Formation et d'Apprentissage (TECFA) at the University of Geneva. He joined the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in November 2002.

For ten years Mr. Dillenbourg was the director of the Centre de Recherche et d'Appui pour la Formation et ses Technologies (CRAFT), EPFL's pedagogical unit.  He is now the academic director of the EPFL Center for Digital Education and head of the Computer-Human Interaction for Learning & Instruction (CHILI) Lab.

Mr. Dillenbourg recently organized the European MOOC summit 2013, the first European congress on MOOCs (Massive open online courses).

OFF-SITE Workshop location: Bibliothèque Universitaire des sciences Lyon 1,
Salle de conférence,  Rez-de-chaussée
20, Avenue Gaston Berger
69622 Villeurbanne Cedex
http://www.facebook.com/bibliotheque.universitaire.lyon1

Please register via email: George Abbott [email protected]

Today’s library and information organizations are faced with shortages of funds and then subsequently people and resources. Managers have to make hard decisions and cope with fewer resources. Fulfilling the mission is requiring new considerations and techniques that include creativity, new stakeholders, leveraging partnerships, using existing data for decision-making and implementing targeted social media to maximize communications.

The presentations are followed by a Film and Tours.

Film: «RécRéation sur l’action culturelle à la Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon»

Setting up of the groups for the library tours: two English-speaking groups and one French-speaking group
For each group, three tours of 30 minutes each

Tour 1: Tour of the Public Library of Lyon
Location: Auditorium of the Library
A presentation on Lyon Municipal Library’s resources and services for children and their families (collections for educators, « Ask a librarian », « Numélyo », photographers in the Rhône-Alpes region…)  

Tour 2 : A library treasure : a heritage exhibition for small and big people
Location: Gallery of the Library
Discovery of the library’s treasures, from manuscripts to vinyl records, from contemporary prints to editions of Little Red Riding Hood : a surprising, playful trip to the secret collections in the library.

Tour 3: The World through Picture Books exhibition
Location: Children’s section
Presentation of this exhibition of librarian’s favourite picture books from their country, selected for this IFLA programme, and visit of the library spaces for children and their families.

The languages of the session are English and French. Successive interpretation will be provided for introductions and questions-answers. For presentations in English, the slides will be in French, and vice versa.

IMPORTANT: Participants must register at IFLA secretariat office at the main conference site (Palais des Congrès)

OFF-SITE location: Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon Part-Dieu, 30 boulevard Vivier-Merle, Lyon 3e

How to get there:
Métro: B station Part-Dieu
Bus: C1, C2, C6, C7, C9, C13, C25, 25, 37, 38, 70, 198, 296 stop Part-Dieu
Tramway: T1 & T3 stop Part-Dieu
Vélo’v (bicycle rental) stations: Cuirassiers (at the corner of rue Bouchut), Vivier Merle (behind the tramway station Part-Dieu / Gare SNCF

The information environment is evolving rapidly. In 2013, IFLA released the IFLA Trend Report, which drew on the expertise of educators, technologists, digital policy makers, IT professionals and academics to identify the high level trends shaping the role and services provided by libraries. This year, expert contributors to the Trend Report and new voices reflect on whether and how the information environment has moved on.

Speakers include:

ANRIETTE ESTERHUYSEN (Association for Progressive Communications)
DAVID GREENE (Electronic Frontiers Foundation)
PIERRE DILLENBOURG (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
DAVID SOUTER (ICT Development Associates)
LOIDA GARCIA-FEBO (ALA Councillor-at-large and IFLA Governing Board member)

The session will be moderated by:

GERALD LEITNER (Chair, Management of Library Associations Section [MLAS]) and MARTYN WADE (Chair, Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression [FAIFE])

Art Discovery is an open-access discovery tool developed by an international network of sixty art libraries and powered by OCLC’s WorldCat search engine. Users worldwide can search aggregated bibliographic data from the participating library’s holdings plus an OCLC metadata pool derived from thousands of commercial and freely-accessible collections, portals, and repositories. This session comprises a demonstration of Art Discovery and discussion about its ongoing development, and a brief introduction to the library of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.

Location: Bibliothèque, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
Palais Saint-Pierre, 20 Place des Terreaux
69001 Lyon

How to get there:
Accessible by C5 bus from Cité Internationale to Hôtel de Ville

Invited speakers present an overview of their hot topic. At the conclusion of their presentation they pose up to three discussion topics / questions that are then discussed and debated at tables of up to eight people. There is an allocation of one hour for the table discussion, which includes the presenters moving between the tables and joining the table discussion.

The IFLA School Libraries Section has, over the past two years, been working on the revision of the 2002 IFLA/UNESCO School Library Guidelines. BARBARA SCHULTZ-JONES, Chair of the Section, will summarize the work that has been done and present the revised Guidelines for consideration of IFLA members.

Working groups, moderated by members of the School Libraries Standing Committee, will evaluate the document and recommend changes needed to prepare the document for the next levels of approval (IFLA Governing Board and UNESCO).

What skills does the new LIS graduate need to become an information literacy practitioner?  To what extent do employer expectations align with the opportunities in teaching and learning education?  Are there significant differences between the foundation skills needed in the different areas of practice: public libraries, academic libraries, special libraries and school libraries?  Are there skills better developed on-the-job? What about connecting theory and practice? This highly interactive session has been designed to stimulate debate and discussion between educators and employers about curriculum models and desired student learning outcomes. Please bring examples of how you are contributing to education for information literacy practice - course syllabi, workshop outlines, mentoring programs, etc.!

NOTE: This program will use a "world café" format in a banquet style set-up, so there will not be individual speakers giving papers.

Round Table Discussion - an opportunity to join the presenters and organisers of the "Librarians as change agents: finding, using and managing data for social change for women" session for an extended Q&A and sharing of experiences.

Agenda

1. Opening by the President, Sinikka Sipilä
2. Appointment of Tellers
3. Establishment of a Quorum
4. Adoption of the Agenda
5. Draft minutes of the previous meeting, held in Singapore, 21–22 August 2013
6. In memoriam of those members who have died during the past year
7. Presentation of the Report of the President
8. Presentation of the Report of the Secretary General
9. Presentation of the Annual Accounts by the Treasurer
10. Motions and Resolutions
    10.1 Motion to approve the holding of the next General Assembly in August 2015 (Art 8.2 of the Statutes refers)
11. Address by the President
12. Motion to adjourn and reconvene at 16.15 on Thursday, 21 August 2014

Note: the General Assembly reconvenes at the Closing Session.

Moderator: CHRISTINE MACKENZIE (Yarra Plenty Regional Library, Australia)

Join IFLA President-Elect Donna Scheeder and speakers from around the world to discuss the evolving information environment and how libraries are developing their own action agendas to meet these changes.

The IFLA Trend Report was launched in August 2013 at the World Library & Information Congress (WLIC) in Singapore. 12 months have passed since then, and libraries around the world have begun their own discussions on the future for library and information sector professionals in their region, building on the Trend Report.

There will be lightning talks from libraries and library associations from Europe, Latin America, Africa, Australia, Asia and North America about how they’ve used the IFLA Trend Report to stimulate their own discussions. Following the lightning talks, you can contribute your views on the information trends shaping libraries in round table discussions led by IFLA President-Elect Donna Scheeder.

Speakers:

• The public library of the future: hub for knowledge, contact and culture
  Eelke Bosman, Policy Advisor, Netherlands Institute for Public Libraries
• Trend Report discussions in Asia-Oceania and Southeast Asia
  Ngian Lek Choh, Director, National Library of Singapore, Deputy CEO National Library Board of Singapore
• The Future of the Library and Information Science Profession in Australia
  Damian Lodge, President, Australian Library & Information Association (ALIA)
• The ALA Policy Revolution! Moving from Trends to Action
  James G Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian Columbia University
• Scholarly and professional insights from the IFLA Trend Report in Latin America
  Jaime Rios-Ortega, IFLA Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, IIBI-UNAM
• Trend Report insights from Africa
  Buhle Mbambo-Thata, Executive Director of Library Services, University of South Africa

Chair: Genevieve Clavel (Swiss National Library, Bern, Switzerland)

In keeping with the overall theme of the conference - 'Librarians, Citizens, Societies: Confluence of Knowledge' - the session aims to address the ways that libraries and information services in government agencies are putting in place projects where information and knowledge can be systematized and shared, contributing to solving particular public issues. Subjects of interest include experiences on information governance strategy in the public sector and digital library projects.

Each presenter will have approximately ten minutes to give a short presentation in English. Later, each presenter will lead a table discussion along with a member of the Government Libraries Section (GLS). Members of the audience will be free to attend a table according to their interests. The discussions may focus on the impact of these topics on their library services, how to replicate the plan / project introduced in the presentation, and more. The outcome of each group will be given by the Presenter or a GLS member who participated in the table.

Associates from IFLA’s International Leaders Programme will present the results of their projects on international issues including copyright, Open Access, access to digital content, development and regional collaboration. Speakers will include Nancy Gwinn (Smithsonian Institution, USA), and Associates who have participated from 2012-2014.

Agenda

• Presentation of Awards
• Invitation to WLIC 2015 in Cape Town
• Announcement of WLIC 2016 location
• Vote of thanks
• Close of the Assembly