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30May, 2019

Job Opening – “Parnassos” Literary Society

Mr. Panagiotis Siskos, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and member of the Literary Society “Parnassos”, wishes to catalogue his personal library. To this end, he is looking to hire a librarian. For further information about this, please send an email to: siskos@chem.uoa.gr or contact the Literary Society “Parnassos” (St. George’s Karitsi Square 8), by telephone at 210 32 21 917 (extension 205) and by e-mail: bibliothikiparnassos@gmail.com

28May, 2019

Grants for Librarians to attend the IFLA WLIC 2019 Conference from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the Onassis Foundation

IFLA and the WLIC 2019 National Committee are delighted to announce additional grants to support the attendance of Greek librarians at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2019. The conference will open on 25 August 2019 and Athens will be inundated by thousands of librarians from all over the globe who will meet, discuss, exchange ideas and network at the world’s most international library conference. We want as many Greek librarians as possible to experience IFLA’s Congress in their home country. With the generous support of our lead donor, the Stavros Νiarchos Foundation and also the Onassis Foundation, additional grants covering registration at the Congress are now available. More information on eligibility and the application criteria can be found at:https://2019.ifla.org/congress-information/conference-participation-grants/. As the information required for each grant is the same, you only need to send one application. Applications containing all relevant information should be in English and submitted to grants@ifla.org by 14 June 2019. Meet colleagues from the region and the world and be part of this amazing professional experience.

17May, 2019

Announcement of 63 internship positions

This cycle of internships will begin in June 2019 and will end on January 15, 2020.

Types of internships

Internship – without educational qualifications: Three (3) positions which are for Administrative Services in the organizations. The selection of candidates for these positions will be done through a drawing of names in the presence of a notary public. All interested candidates will participate. No educational qualifications are required but there will be, following the drawing, a series of personal interviews with the management of the NLG, GNO and SNFCC Α.Ε.
Internship – with educational qualifications: Sixty (60) positions, which are for internships in the various departments of the organizations. The selection for these positions will be made through a pool of candidates that will result from a drawing of names in the presence of a notary public. For all the fields with the exception of the field “Library Science”, there will be a series of personal interviews with the management of the NLG, GNO και SNFCC Α.Ε. For this type of internship, educational qualifications are required as well as certified knowledge of the English language.

For more information, please click here.

17May, 2019

Deadlines for open calls and satellite meetings

Dear Colleagues,

Below please find a table with the open calls for papers, the title of each one and the deadline for submitting papers to the IFLA Conference which will take place at the Athens Concert Hall in Athens from August 24 – 30, 2019.

The table includes the deadlines of the open calls for papers for the Conference as well as where the satellite meetings will be held.

In the table, you will also find the links for both the papers, including the section and the theme of the papers, and the satellite meetings.

Best of luck,

We are available for any clarification you might require.

With collegial regards,

The Committee for Press and Promotion for the 85^th International IFLA Conference.

Section	Satellite/ Conference	Theme
https://2019.ifla.org/conference-programme/calls-for-papers/	https://2019.ifla.org/calls-for-papers-for-satellite-meetings/
Deadline 25 February 2019
Religions: Libraries and Dialogue Special Interest Group	Conference	Document religious conflicts without sustaining resentment
Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section	satellite, Zagreb, Croatia	Librarians and information professionals as (pro)motors of change: immersing, including and initiating digital transformation for smart societie”
Deadline 28 February 2019
Education and Training Section	Conference	LIS Education Role in Libraries Dialogue for Change
Acquisition and Collection Development Section joint with Digital Humanities – Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group	Conference	Digital Scholarship and Collection Development: Crossroads and Intersections
LGBTQ Users Special Interest Group	Conference	Let’s talk about change: How libraries and LGBTIQ communities are challenging stereotypes
Science & Technology Libraries Section joint with the Reference & Information Services Section and the Audio Visual & Multimedia Section	Conference	Moving beyond traditional collections & services: Supporting science in innovative ways
Preservation and Conservation Section joint with Big Data Special Interest Group	Conference	Data challenges in libraries
Preservation and Conservation Section joint with Rare Books and Special Collections Section and Strategic Programme on Preservation and Conservation (PAC)	Conference	Forward thinking to lessen the effects of disasters or all types, weather and/or man-made
Deadline 1 March 2019
Management and Marketing Section	satellite, Samos island, Greece	Recruiting and managing the new generation of employees to attract new markets and create new services

Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group	Conference	Let’s Change Now: Libraries Driving Sustainability
Division V. (Regions) joint with Management of Library Associations Section and LIS Education in Developing Countries Special Interest Group	satellite, Alexandria Library, Egypt	Leadership roles in international librarianship: how can information professionals from Africa, Asia & Oceania, Latin America & Caribbean be part of it?
Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section joint with the Committee on Standards	Conference	Standards Relating to Serials, Continuing Resources and Scholarly Communications
Deadline 3 March 2019
New Professionals Special Interest Group joint with Management and Marketing Section	Conference	Library love stories
Deadline 5 March 2019
Rare Books & Special Collections Section	Conference	The migration of books: cultural heritage (objects) and ideas on the move
Deadline 8 March 2019
Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section joint with National Libraries Section	satellite, National library of Greece	Grey Literature
Academic and Research Libraries Section with Health and Biosciences Libraries Section	Conference	Library Integration into the Research Lifecycle: A STEM Perspective
Government Libraries joint with Library and Research Services for Parliaments Sections	Conference	Libraries: dialogue for change – From gatekeeping to advocacy
Deadeline 11 March 2019
Knowledge Management Section joint with Digital Humanities – Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group	satellite, Corfu, Greece	Artificial intelligence and its impact on libraries
Deadline 15 March 2019
Acquisition and Collection Development Section	satellite, Alexandria, Egypt	“Building Digital Libraries through International Collaboration”
Women, Information, & Libraries Special Interest Group in partnership with Libraries without borders	Conference	“Building Best Practices to serve Women & Girls”
Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section joint with Evidence for Global and Disaster Health (E4GDH) Special Interest Group	Conference
Law Libraries Section	Conference	Access to the Law of the Countries of the World for Vulnerable Communities
Health and Biosciences Libraries Section	Conference	Health information professionals – Developing the dialogue, addressing the challenges of the future
Health and Biosciences Libraries Section	satellite , EKPA, Athens	International and local developments that enhance scholarly communication in the biomedical and social sciences
Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section	Conference	Informing dialogue, enabling change
Library Buildings and Equipment Section	Conference	Keeping it Real while Augmenting Reality: the Impact of Technology and Equipment on Library Design
Knowledge Management Section with the Information Technology Section and the Big Data Special Interest Group	Conference	Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining to transform knowledge management and information services in libraries and information organizations
Information Technology Section	satellite, berlin, Germany	Robots in Libraries: Challenge or Opportunity?
Government Information and Official Publications Section	Conference	International Financial Institutions, Governments, and Austerity: Banks, Bailouts, and Information on Global Debt Crises
Deadline 29 March 2019
Reference & Information Services Section	Conference	Debating the Impact and Reach of Reference & Information Services

22Apr, 2019

Summer School for Digital Humanities

The 1 st Summer School for Digital Humanities will take place at the Athens University of Economics and Business from July 15 – 19, 2019. The Summer School for Digital Humanities is being organized by the Digital Intelligence Unit of the Institute of Information Systems at the “Athena” Research Center and by the National Infrastructure for Digital Humanities and Arts and for Language Research and Innovation “Appolonis”. The course is free of charge but the spaces are limited and have already been filled.

Registration for the course has closed.

15Apr, 2019

The Catherine Laskaridis foundation will support attendance at the 85 th World Library and Information Conference

The Catherine Laskaridis Foundation will actively participate in the 85 th IFLA World Library and Information Congress which will take place in Athens from August 13 to August 30. In an effort to support Greek librarians and employees in libraries all over Greece, the Foundation has undertaken to cover the cost of attendance for 90 persons. All Librarians with a degree in library science, as well as all employees in public and private libraries that function in Greece can participate. The selections will be made by a drawing of applications on an online platform. If you wish to take part in the selection process, please complete the electronic application for participation by Friday, May 3, 2019. The applications who have been selected will be informed of their selection electronically by Monday, May 13, 2019.

Please note that the site for submitting an electronic request for participation in the selection process has closed.

10Apr, 2019

Workshop «The Role of the Librarian in the Library and in Society today»

The Regional Branch of the Association of Greek Librarians in Northern Greece was present on April 4, 2019 at the Workshop that was organized by the Association of Students in the Library Science and Information Systems Department at the Technical Educational Institution in Thessaloniki. Organizers included the President of the Branch Department in Northern Greece, Eleni Semertzidou and one of the members, Charalambos Tsolakis.

The subject of the educational workshop was «The role of the librarian in the library and in society today». The speeches of the two speakers was the first time that the students had contact with the Regional Branch of Northern Greece.

The collaboration and joint activities with the Library Science Department was considered essential and the event was successful. The Regional Branch of Northern Greece wishes to thank the student community from the Library Science and Information Systems Department for the warm reception that they received.

The Branch is open to their participation in other workshops that the students and their Technical University department will organize in the future.

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