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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.

18Apr, 2019

Meropi Tzoufi on the program “Libraries FM”

In an interview with our program on Monday, April 15, 2019, the Deputy Minister of Education, Research, and Religious Affairs, Mrs. Meropi Tzoufi, outlined the initiatives and next goals of the Ministry of Education for the support of the Public Libraries. Specifically, she mentioned:

The “effort to integrate a project into the ESPA Program, a project that requires the cooperation of 46 Public Libraries and the National Library for the development of a unified catalog in the Program “Public Sector Reform”.
“Investigating a series of possibilities to meet the urgent need for automated systems at the 46 Public Libraries.”
Additionally, Mrs. Tzoufi noted that “both the Minister Mr. Gavroglou and I recognize the need to strengthen the library personnel and I think that we will be in a position to speak more specifically about this issue in the very near future.”

Mrs. Tzoufi referred specifically to the International Library Conference, IFLA, which is being coordinated by the Association of Greek Librarians and Information Scientists (AGLIS) and by the National Library of Greece and which will take place in Athens August 24 – 30, 2019. Mrs. Tzoufi said that “we are trying to motivate librarians to go this very important event.: Specifically, she noted that “we are looking for solutions to cover the registration fees so that there will be a large enough number of librarians from the Public Libraries.”

In conclusion, Mrs. Tzoufi emphasized that “the Europeans reality shows that Public Libraries can and should play a key role in life—long learning and in adult education. Based on this, “we should do whatever we can to restore and modernize the libraries”, keeping in mind always that the country’s financial circumstances are still difficult.

Also on the program was Mrs. Eugenia Vasilakaki who is the coordinator for the group of volunteers at the 85 th International Library Conference, IFLA WLIC 2019, which will take place from August 24 t0 August 30, 2019 at the Megaron Athens Conference Center. Mrs. Vasilakaki referred to the training for herself and Christina Katsinika in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during the 84 th International Library Conference. In September 2018, a group to manage the volunteers was set up including Matina Tsafou, Christos Papatheodorou, Eleni Mamma, Aristea Protonotariou, Athanasios Kotsovos, Fotini Abdelli, and Mariangela Christopoulou. The group was set up to define a professional approach to organizing the 300 volunteers who will volunteer for the 10 days of the conference – their privileges, the posts to which they will be assigned, and the values of offering to volunteer, teamwork and cooperation, that should characterize each volunteer.

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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.

28May, 2018

The Results of the Election of Officers on June 6, 2018

To:

The Regular Members

Of AGLIS

Dear Colleagues,

The elections took place as planned on June 6, 2018, in Athens and in Thessaloniki, for the election of the Board of Directors and for the Audit Committee in accordance with the AGLIS Charter (Articles of Association) and in the presence of a legal representative.

The Central Electoral Committee met immediately after the elections and counted the results of the elections in Athens. The legal representative requested that the original ballots of the elections held in the Regional Departments be collected.