Content tagged New Professionals

Every librarian who likes singing and would like to show how libraries are important, needs to record a song and send it to the IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group. You can also invite...

News - 25 May 2021

Tags: Awards, contest, librarian, music, New Professionals

Save the date and celebrate #InternationalVolunteersDay in December 4-6 with us & New Professionals Special Interest Group! We are excited for our first library meme contest...

Event - 16 November 2020

Tags: New professionals, Social, New Professionals

​ Perfectly aligned with the IFLA’s Strategy Key Initiative 3.2, the IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) is proving its significance every single day...

News - 16 September 2020

Tags: IFLA Professional Units, IFLA Strategy, IFLAFromHome, WeAreIFLA, New Professionals

In this webinar, experts from the field will highlight five different aspects of music librarianship. The presentations will only cover a fraction of the wide scope of music libraries,...

Event - 7 September 2020

Tags: Audiovisual collections, Music Librarianship, Music research, Webinar, New Professionals

IFLAcamp #7 at Ilioupolis library and Megalo Kavouri beach! Thursday, August 22nd at Media Lab (Ilioupoli Library) Friday, August 23rd at Megalo Kavouri Beach See...

News - 10 August 2019

Tags: 2019 WLIC, New professionals, New Professionals

The IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) and Management and Marketing Section is seeking proposals for papers to be presented at a two-hour session at the next IFLA General...

News - 5 February 2019

Tags: Library marketing, Management, New professionals, Social inclusion, Society, Women’s issues, New Professionals

Que doit être le métier de bibliothécaire aujourd’hui et demain ? Pour y réfléchir, le Comité français international biblioth...

Event - 8 January 2018

Tags: Advocacy, France, Seminar, New Professionals

The IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) in collaboration with Management of Library Associations Section (MLAS) and Public Libraries Section (PLS), invites proposals to be...

News - 29 December 2017

Tags: New Professionals

NPSIG objectives for 2017-18 are related to the following IFLA’s Strategic Directions 2016-2021 (Strategic Direction 1: Libraries in Society, Strategic Direction 2: Information and Knowledge...

Publication - 1 November 2017

Tags: Publications, New Professionals

Please find here NPSIG's annual Activities report: Web version PDF version

News - 14 August 2017

Tags: report, New Professionals

NPSIG objectives To empower new professionals to be involved in their national associations and with IFLA to become new local and international leaders. To...

Publication - 14 August 2017

Tags: Publications, New Professionals

Explore the IFLAcamp #5 website to find out more and let us know if you have any cool suggestions that could spice up this adventurous event. Day 1 Unconference at the Library...

News - 14 August 2017

Tags: New Professionals

Please join us on Sunday, May 21st at 5pm CET for our 10th NPSIG Virtual Business Meeting! This will be the first business meeting featuring our new leadership team: Vesna Vuksan (Convenor),...

News - 18 May 2017

Tags: New Professionals

Please join us on Sunday, May 21st at 5pm CET for our 10th NPSIG Virtual Business Meeting! This will be the first business meeting featuring our new leadership team: Vesna Vuksan (Convenor),...

Event - 18 May 2017

Tags: Meeting, New professionals, New Professionals

IFLAcamp is a two-day satellite meeting in the mode of an unconference that provides plenty of space for ad-hoc sessions and group discussions. The participant-driven approach allows for active...

News - 9 March 2017

Tags: New Professionals

Registration is now closed. 52 professionals from 30 different countries registered! Follow the updates on our Facebook event page. Day 1 Unconference at the Library...

Event - 9 March 2017

Tags: Associations, camp, Communities of practice, Education, Education and training, IFLAcamp, iflacamp2017, Information professionals, Meetings, New professionals, Poland, Satellite Meeting, New Professionals

Join us for the webinar on 8 March at 11:00 am EST (5:00 pm CET) with Loida Garcia-Febo and George Needham! People around the world have been transforming the unused capacity of things...

Event - 8 February 2017

Tags: #newlibgc, career development, Library outreach, Partnerships, sharing economy, skills, Webinar, webinar, New Professionals

While partnerships have been an instrumental part of the library’s success in serving the needs of their communities, they now offer librarians profound opportunities for developing new...

Event - 2 October 2016

Tags: #newlibgc, career development, Library outreach, Partnerships, skills, Webinar, webinar, New Professionals

Unit member list - 29 September 2016

Tags: New Professionals

The New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) were awarded joint-winners of the 2016  IFLA Professional Unit Communication Award at the Closing Ceremony of the WLIC 2016 for the...

Informational Page - 9 September 2016

Tags: Communications, IFLA Professional Unit Communication Award, New Professionals

The New Professionals Special Interest Group is in Columbus, Ohio, from August 11th to August 19th, 2016. And there will be many opportunities to meet! IFLAcamp⁴...

News - 9 August 2016

Tags: Big data, happy hour, IFLA MLAS, IFLA WLIC 2016, iflacamp2016, New professionals, newcomers, nightspot, Open Session, President-elect, United States of America, New Professionals

The IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) and the IFLA Education and Training Section (SET) invites you to participate in the Survey of Library and Information Science New...

News - 2 August 2016

Tags: Education and training, Library and information science education, LIS students, new librarians, New professionals, New Professionals, Professional development, survey, New Professionals

Este es un nuevo Blog Post Andrés Reinoso, con la colaboración de Nancy Monzón en la traducción al inglés. Ambos son voluntarios del NPSIG. Nuestras...

News - 30 July 2016

Tags: IFLA WLIC 2016, Information professionals, New professionals, New Professionals, Open Session, New Professionals

This is a Guest Blog Post by Andrés Reinoso, in collaboration withNancy Monzón for the English translation. Andrés and Nancy are both NPSIG volunteers. In our...

News - 30 July 2016

Tags: IFLA WLIC 2016, New professionals, New Professionals, Open Session, New Professionals

Our Action Plan outlines the key objectives for our Special Interest Group in the upcoming year. Take a look at our News feed to read updates on our progress. If you have...

Publication - 13 July 2016

Tags: IFLAcamp, New professionals, newlibgc, NPSIG, Social Media, WLIC, Publications, New Professionals

We are happy to share with you the recording and slides of the IFLA/ALA "New Librarians, Global Connection Webinar Series" about “Big Data: new roles and opportunities for new...

News - 24 June 2016

Tags: Big data, data librarian, data science, data visualization, New professionals, newlibgc, New Professionals

Interview with Courtney Young, American Library Association Immediate Past President, the youngest President the ALA had in the last 80+ years. For the full post, please visit the NPSIG...

News - 10 June 2016

Tags: ALA, leadership, Library associations, New professionals, New Professionals, New Professionals

Save the date for a super fun happy hour with new professionals, grant awardees, WLIC 2016 volunteers, and IFLA leadership!  We will be adding more details as we approach the date, but...

Event - 24 April 2016

Tags: New professionals, New Professionals, Social, social events, wlic2016, New Professionals

This is a blog post by Katia Shklyar, NPSIG Information Co-Coordinator. For the full post, please visit the NPSIG blog.

News - 16 April 2016

Tags: new librarians, New professionals, New Professionals, Special Interest Groups, volunteering, New Professionals

Please join us on Saturday, April 30th for our 9th NPSIG Virtual Business Meeting! This will be the second virtual meeting featuring our new leadership team: María...

Event - 16 April 2016

Tags: Meeting, new librarians, New professionals, New Professionals, virtual business meeting, New Professionals

NPSIG warmly welcomes you to IFLAcamp 2016, the WLIC2016 unconference for new and established professionals! After stops in Finland, Singapore and Lyon in previous years, the IFLAcamp...

Event - 26 March 2016

Tags: IFLAcamp, new librarians, New professionals, NPSIG, Satellite Meeting, wlic2016, New Professionals

IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section (CPDWL) and the New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) have partnered with the American Library Association (ALA)...

News - 28 February 2016

Tags: Immigrants, immigrants, Library Services, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Public Libraries, Refugees, New Professionals

IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section (CPDWL) and the New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) have partnered with the American Library Association (ALA)...

Event - 28 February 2016

Tags: Immigrants, immigrants, Library Services, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Public Libraries, Refugees, Webinar, New Professionals

Call for Papers: Open Session New Professionals Special Interest Group [version française] [versión en español] [versão em português] [...

News - 10 January 2016

Tags: Call for Papers, IFLA WLIC 2016, New professionals, Open Session, Professional development, WLIC 2016, New Professionals

This is a guest post by Petar Lukačić and Maja Krulić Gačan from Public library “Fran Galović”, Koprivnica, Croatia. For the full post, please visit the NPSIG blog.

News - 13 December 2015

Tags: Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Conferences, Croatia, E-learning, ted, tedx, New Professionals

Join us on Saturday, December 19th for our 8th NPSIG Virtual Business Meeting! This will be the first virtual meeting featuring our new leadership team: María Violeta...

Event - 7 December 2015

Tags: iflacamp2016, New professionals, newlibgc, NPSIG, vitual business meeting, Webinar, wlic2016, New Professionals

IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and the New Professionals SIG with the Management of Library Associations Section have partnered with the American Library...

News - 29 November 2015

Tags: Advocacy, Development, Sustainability, Sustainable development, Sustainable Development Agenda, UN 2030 sustainable development goals, New Professionals

For the fourth consecutive year, IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group are partnering with the...

Event - 25 October 2015

Tags: #newlibgc, ALA, CPDWL, Lifelong learning, New professionals, NPSIG, Webinar, webinar, New Professionals

Dear colleagues: We are planning our 2016 #newlibgc webinars and we need your help to identify new topics! For the fifth consecutive year, IFLA Continuing...

News - 25 October 2015

Tags: #newlibgc, ALA, Conferences, CPDWL, New professionals, NPSIG, webinar, New Professionals

  We are proud to present the last session of the 2015 webinar series “New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations.” The...

News - 25 October 2015

Tags: #newlibgc, ALA, CPDWL, Lifelong learning, New professionals, New Professionals, NPSIG, webinar, New Professionals

Estimados colegas, Estamos muy contentos de proveer una oportunidad para nuevos bibliotecarios de afuera de Norteamérica (Estados Unidos y Canadá) para asistir al Congreso de...

News - 25 October 2015

Tags: becas, Conferences, New professionals, nuevos profesionales, United States of America, wlic2016, New Professionals

Dear colleagues, We are so happy to provide an opportunity for new librarians from outside North America (U.S. and Canada) to attend the IFLA 2016 Congress in Columbus, Ohio. I would...

News - 25 October 2015

Tags: Conferences, Grants, New professionals, New Professionals, United States of America, wlic2016, New Professionals

This is a guest post by NPSIG volunteer Michelle Gibeault, an academic librarian at the University of Arkansas (USA). For the full post, please visit the NPSIG blog.

News - 25 October 2015

Tags: facebook, Privacy, Twitter, New Professionals

10 Years! This year the IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The group was founded in 2004 during the IFLA Congress in Buenos...

News - 13 August 2014

Tags: anniversary, business meeting, New professionals, NPSIG, WLIC2014, New Professionals

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Event - 15 July 2014

Tags: France, Preconference, New Professionals

      We are excited to announce the second installment of this year’s webinar series “New Librarians Global Connection: best...

Event - 4 April 2014

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Archives, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Benchmarking, Best practices, Databases, design, Digital divide, Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Information technology, International cooperation, Internet access, Knowledge management, user design, User experience, ux, Webinar, New Professionals

registration (EN+RU) | program plus latest updates: EN / RU We are happy to invite you to IFLAcamp Library Creative Laboratory: “A Hero of Our...

Event - 14 March 2014

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Associations, Collection development, Communications, Communities of practice, Conference, Conferences, Cooperation, Copyright, Cultural heritage, cycling, Development, Digital divide, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Digitisation, Education and training, IFLAcampLab, Information professionals, Information technology, International cooperation, Knowledge society, Library as place, Library collections, Library history, Meetings, Members, Networking, New professionals, NPSIG, Policy, Professional development, Russian Federation, unconference, New Professionals

Update:  The recording of our successful IFLA/ALA webinar on 14 January is now available. We are proud to present the first session of the 2014 webinar series “New Librarians...

Event - 7 November 2013

Tags: New professionals, NPSIG, Success stories, United States of America, Webinar, New Professionals

A recording of the event which took place 3 October is now available. #newlibgc is a series of free quarterly webinars on issues of interest to new librarians, models of...

Event - 1 October 2013

Tags: Copyright, Webinar, New Professionals

#newlibgc is a series of free quarterly webinars on issues of interest to new librarians, models of library associations and library schools working with new professionals, and...

Event - 30 June 2013

Tags: Webinar, New Professionals

Have a look at this recent article featuring joint efforts by IFLA Management of Library Associations Section and IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group. Expanding horizons—...

News - 1 August 2012

Tags: international cooperation, New Professionals

New Professionals are great networkers and community builders. This has already lead to a large number of groups for and by new librarians around the globe. We compiled a list of initiatives for you...

News - 27 July 2012

Tags: New professionals, new professionals groups, worldwide, New Professionals

“New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations“ is a new series of free quarterly webinars on issues of interest to new librarians, models of library...

News - 4 July 2012

Tags: New professionals, webinar, New Professionals

July 17, 2012 (webinar length is ONE hour) 2:00 p.m. CST 3:00 p.m. EST 8:00 p.m. CET (21:00 Central European Summer Time) 7:00 a.m. EDT (next day) World Clock...

Event - 17 June 2012

Tags: New professionals, Webinar, New Professionals

“New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations“ “New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations“ is a...

News - 25 March 2012

Tags: E-learning, Information professionals, Lifelong learning, New professionals, New Professionals, webinar, New Professionals

Save the date! April 10, 2012 2:00 p.m. CST 3:00 p.m. EST 9:00 p.m. CET  (21:00 Central European Time)  7:00 a.m. EDT (next day) (Also see the ...

Event - 9 March 2012

Tags: Best practice, New professionals, New Professionals, Webinar, New Professionals

Below, the date and time of the first webinar. Save the date! January 17, 2012 2:00 p.m. CST 3:00 p.m. EST 9:00 p.m. CET (21:00 Central European Time) 7:00 a.m....

News - 21 December 2011

Tags: New professionals, NPSIG, New Professionals

This is how it works: think of a challenging topic; record a video and explain your idea; upload it to YouTube (preferable); tag your video with IFLAcamp; be a part of IFLAcamp...

News - 21 December 2011

Tags: Finland, New professionals, NPSIG, New Professionals

This is how it works: think of a challenging topic; record a video and explain your idea; upload it to YouTube (preferable); tag your video with IFLAcamp; be a part of IFLAcamp...

Event - 21 December 2011

Tags: Finland, New professionals, NPSIG, Workshop, New Professionals

This said, we are more than happy to offer you another exciting NPSIG workshop this year! OnWednesday, 25 Jan, 11:30-13:00, you are invited to explore the spirit of New Professionals with us...

Event - 21 December 2011

Tags: bobcatsss, Netherlands, New professionals, NPSIG, Workshop, New Professionals

As of 1 April, Federica Marangio is the new Advocacy Support Officer at IFLA Headquarters. Recently graduated from the International Master's Program in Digital Library Learning (DILL...

News - 4 May 2010

Tags: Library and information profession, New professionals, Staffing, New Professionals

Loida García-Febo, assistant coordinator of the New Americans Program & Special Services at the Queens Library (N.Y.), is the 2010 recipient of the American Library Association (ALA)...

News - 20 March 2010

Tags: New professionals, Professional development, New Professionals

Themes and Focus New librarians are positioning themselves as library leaders inacademia, libraries, and professional associations. This event aims toaddress key themes and leading trends to...

Event - 11 March 2010

Tags: Boras, global, New professionals, Satellite Meeting, Sweden, Sweden IFLA 2010, New Professionals

Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section and New Professionals Discussion Group Bologna, Italy 18-20 August 2009 Theme: "Moving In, Moving Up, and Moving On:...

Event - 11 March 2010

Tags: Italy, New professionals, New Professionals and CPDWL Satellite meeting Bologna 2009, Satellite Meeting, New Professionals

The NPSIG’s IFLA web pages are constantly growing and being updated. Now one of the core parts underwent a general revision: Based on the recent experiences at BOBCATSSS and at IFLA...

News - 10 March 2010

Tags: mission statement, Networking, New Professionals, recruitment, New Professionals

In early February an exciting working meeting took place at IFLA Headquarters in The Hague. The intention of the meeting was to think about the future look and feel of IFLA’s online...

News - 6 March 2010

Tags: Access to information, brainstorming, Communications, Information Technology, Library outreach, Membership, Networking, online services, Professional development, New Professionals

from January 25 to 27, BOBCATSSS 2010 will take place in Parma, Italy. The New Professionals SIG will actively participate in the symposium by offering a workshop as well as a presentation. The...

Event - 18 January 2010

Tags: bobcatsss, bobcatsss2010, Italy, Italy, New professionals, Parma, Workshop, New Professionals

Call for Papers New Professionals Special Interest Group  & Management of Library Associations Section Theme:  The Global Librarian Boras, Sweden 9...

News - 16 January 2010

Tags: Boras, cfp, New professionals, preconference, Sweden, New Professionals

This year starts good, very good actually. We have a new convenor for our Special Interest Group! Sebastian Wilke is a student at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt...

News - 11 January 2010

Tags: Convenor, Germany, New professionals, NPSIG, New Professionals

As a special interest group within IFLA, NPSIG works as an open network with a flexible structure. By interacting with us online and at our events, you can stay up to date with the group....

Informational Page - 31 March 2009

Tags: goals, mission statement, New Professionals

IFLA’s New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG), founded in 2004, is an open global network for library and information science (LIS) new professionals and supporters...

IFLA Group or Activity - 31 March 2009

Tags: Library and information profession, motivation, Networking, New professionals, Special Interest Groups, New Professionals