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ARL Standing Committee Elections: thirteenth candidate

Thirteenth candidate statement: Marga Koelen.  IFLA Standing Committee elections are currently underway, and the ARL Standing Committee is excited to be welcoming new members. We have invited our candidates to submit short biographies so that those of you who are voting members will have some background in making your selections.

“Science belongs to all of us and should be available to all of us”.  I would be very happy to become a member of the IFLA ARL Standing Committee and to support the idea that everybody can benefit from science progress and their results. Academic and Research Libraries play an important role in the progress of science.  There are many key issues the coming years where we could work together worldwide: open access to scientific publications, access to research data for re-use, open science and all its implications, standardization regarding systems and infrastructure. At the same time, we should realize that open science means open when possible and closed when necessary.  In an open science environment research integrity and research ethics are closely linked.  Academic and Research Libraries have their role in the information society and support the process of knowledge management, which facilitates the knowledge production and utilization and as such Academic and Research Libraries will also contribute to the attainment of the sustainable development goals.

With these ambitions in mind I hope to be selected to join the ACR Standing Committee. My name is Marga Koelen and I work at the University of Twente Library in the Netherlands where I am responsible for Research Support and a member of the LISA (Library, ICT services & Archive) management team.

 

ARL Standing Committee Elections: twelfth candidate

Twelfth candidate statement: Jonas Ake. IFLA Standing Committee elections are currently underway, and the ARL Standing Committee is excited to be welcoming new members. We have invited our candidates to submit short biographies so that those of you who are voting members will have some background in making your selections.
I am interested  to join the section “academic and research libraries” because firstly I am librarian in this field and secondly I am a holder of a Master’s degree in archival and a license(Bachelor’s degree) in science of the documentary information.  I am a librarian – archivist in office to the Ministry of Culture and the Francophony of Ivory Coast since July, 2011. I am at present in service to the higher National Institute of the Arts and the Cultural action ( I.N.S.A.A.C). This is an institute of university education and a direction(management) of the aforementioned ministry. I adhere to the AIFBD on May 02nd, 2013.
In 2015, I am retained for the program Young Leaders (www.bsfcampus.org ) of Libraries without Borders ( BSF). This program aimed at reinventing the libraries of tomorrow through the strengthening of the public and community libraries of French-speaking Africa in their role of conduct of the innovation and the transformation.
I will be glad to share my experience in this job.

 

ARL Standing Committee Elections: eleventh candidate

Eleventh candidate statement: Adetoun Oyelude. IFLA Standing Committee elections are currently underway, and the ARL Standing Committee is excited to be welcoming new members. We have invited our candidates to submit short biographies so that those of you who are voting members will have some background in making your selections.

The last seventeen years, I have experienced working in an academic library, Kenneth Dike Library, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria; and before that, five years of working in a Special library, the Women’s Research and Documentation Centre (WORDOC) library in Nigeria. It is a plus for me that I can also contribute to library education by teaching cataloguing and classification in the Department of Library, Archival and Information Studies of my University. Being a Visiting Scholar at the LoveJoy Library, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville (SIUE) for eighteen weeks in 2008, and also attending academic conferences and workshops worldwide has given me international exposure. Though currently in the Organizing Committee of the Women, Information Libraries Special Interest Group (WILSIG) of IFLA for the 2017 IFLA Conference, I have never worked in an ARL Committee. I therefore look forward to working and committing my energy to serving in all capacities that I can, given the opportunity. I enjoy working collaboratively to achieve developmental goals and would be able to further connections and collaborations of Africa with the rest of the world, and also bring ideas forward to make ARL more vibrant. Some of my recent publications are:

Journal Articles:
Oyelude, A. A. 2016. What’s trending in libraries from the internet cybersphere – digital clutter, Library Hi Tech News, 33.2:15-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-02-2016-0008.

Akullo, W. N. and Oyelude, A. A. (2016). Standing Conference of Eastern, Central, and Southern African Library Associations XXII 2016. International

Thank you.

 

Jim Neal comments about leadership and R&D

Academic and research libraries are expanding their leadership in research and development activities. R&D is about new knowledge creation and progressive results.  A successful R&D agenda should build on individual interests, organizational priorities, professional importance, and national need.  A R&D enterprise in the library creates a laboratory for experimentation.  It is a magnet for new staff with new skills and capabilities.

It is a venue for collaboration with faculty and with the private sector.  It helps to address process, information, and technology problems.  A R&D enterprise in the library opens opportunities for capitalization and technology transfer, and for foundation and government funding.  It expands library credibility and visibility.  It supports decision making. It creates a more entrepreneurial and risk taking culture in the library.

R&D contributes to library innovation:  applying new knowledge to new resources to produce new goods or new services (Market), the lowering of costs so as to increase the benefits (Value), and forcing us to think deliberately about challenges and unmet needs (Solutions).  R&D is about organizational transformation: changing in composition and structure, that is what we are and what we do; changing the outward form or appearance, that is how we are viewed and understood; and changing in character of condition, that is how we do it.

 

ARL Standing Committee elections – tenth candidate

Tenth candidate statement: Silvia Stasselová. IFLA Standing Committee elections are currently underway, and the ARL Standing Committee is excited to be welcoming new members. We have invited our candidates to submit short biographies so that those of you who are voting members will have some background in making your selections.

Dear colleagues,

I am interested to become an active member of IFLA Academic and Research Libraries Section, as I became the Director General of the University Library in Bratislava, the oldest research library in Slovak Republic since 1st October 2015.  Short time after my inauguration the United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon visited the University Library in Bratislava: https://www.ulib.sk/files/Aktuality/un-secretary-general_uni-lib_svk_2015.pdf

Photos from UN Secretary general visit:  https://www.ulib.sk/sk/spravy/archiv/generalny-tajomnik-osn-vcera-navstivil-ukb.html

I find it very important to become a part of IFLA international academic and libraries network and I would like to support their international cooperation worldwide. I am ready to offer our attractive facilities for organizing IFLA ARLS section standing committee meeting, workshop or other events.

University Library in Bratislava will host will host the Electronic Books On Demand (EOD) Consortium meeting in May 201 and our library will also host the IFLA WIL SIG Satellite conference in August 2017.

Currently I am an active member of IFLA Management of Library Associations since 2007 and I served at the position IFLA MLAS Secretary, elected for this position twice (2009 – 2011, 2011 – 2013). I have translated more than 40 IFLA guidelines and manifestos to Slovak language to help librarians in Slovakia who are not fluent in English.

I am ready to share my knowledge and international experience at Standing Committe of IFLA Academic and Research Libraries Section.

Best wishes from Bratislava and I am looking forward to our cooperation!

Silvia Stasselová
Director General
University Library in Bratislava
President
Slovak Librarians and Libraries Association

 

Additional information by Leo Ma – candidate for ARL Standing Committee

Leo F. H. Ma is currently Head of Upper Campus Libraries at The Chinese University of Hong Kong including both the New Asia College Ch’ien Mu Library and the United College Wu Chung Multimedia Library. Prior to his current position, he served as Head of the Serials and Electronic Resources Department (2001-2006) and Head of the New Asia College Ch’ien Mu Library (2006-2014) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library. Apart from managing these two libraries, he spearheads various digitization projects and initiatives including Joint University Libraries Video-on-Demand Project on Radio Television of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Visual Arts Archive, New Asia College Collection Digitization Project, Hong Kong Literature Database, Modern Chinese Literature Research Portal, etc.

Internationally, he was a member of the INSPEC Asia Pacific Library Advisory Committee (2004-2006), the International Customer Advisory Board of Swet (2006-2012), the IEEE Library Advisory Council (2012-2013), and has been serving as a member of the IFLA Standing Committee of Academic & Research Libraries Section as well as the Hong Kong Ambassador of International Librarians Network since 2013. Locally, he served as a Council Member and the Training and Education Officer of the Hong Kong Library Association in 2007-2009. He is currently Fellow of the Hong Kong Library Association, and a member of the Advisory Board for BSc[IM] and MSc[LIM] Programmes of the Faculty of Education of The University of Hong Kong, the Academic Committee of the library programs of the School of Professional and Continuing Education of The University of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Literature Research Center Management Committee of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

He writes actively on library & information science and literary studies. In the past ten years, he authored and edited more than 15 monographs, and presented more than 50 papers in international, regional and local conferences. He has served as Associate Editor of Journal of Technologies and Human Usability, Ubiquitous Learning: An International JournalThe International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, and Electronic Journal of e-Learning.

Further information at https://blogs.ifla.org/arl/2017/03/30/arl-standing-committee-elections-second-candidate-statement/