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Reminder — Register Now!

Register Now for the CPDWL Satellite Conference!

Save Your Space Now!

The Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section is pleased to announce that registration for our satellite conference “Transforming Libraries: What does this mean for continuing professional development and workplace learning?” is now open! The satellite conference takes place August 10-12, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio USA. The registration page can be found at . Please note that there will be a bus option from Cleveland to Columbus for the 82nd IFLA General Conference and Assembly.

Save the Date: Free IFLA/ALA webinar “Library Services to Immigrants and Refugees”

IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and the New Professionals SIG have partnered with the American Library Association to present a one-hour webinar about library services to immigrants and refugees including models and best practices from different regions of the world.

We believe in libraries serving all the groups in our communities. Therefore, we are glad to collaborate with various library groups to share the most current best practices and models to serve immigrants and refugees. IFLA’s Public Library Section has developed an impressive compilation of services from different regions of the world and a recent campaign about services to refugees. EBLIDA in Europe has developed a strong campaign to promote services to these populations. IFLA’s Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section has produced detailed guidelines and a toolkit about the topic.

This is a super team and we are so happy to be able to produce an online resource that will be recorded for colleagues to revisit and listen anywhere at any time. A summary of the online event including links to resources presented during the webinar will be shared later in the Spring.
Join us and hear our speakers:

• Jan Richards, Secretary/Information Coordinator, IFLA Public Libraries Section, and Manager of Central West Libraries, Australia
• Jukka Relander, President of EBLIDA, and President of the Finnish Library Association
• Jack Hang-tat Leong, Chair, IFLA Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section, and Director of University of Toronto Libraries, Canada

Event moderated by Loida Garcia-Febo, Webinar Series Coordinator, IFLA Governing Board Member, ALA Executive Board Member. Garcia-Febo will share early findings of her research about public libraries serving refugees in the U.S.A.

March 31, 2016
Time:
3:00pm Central time (Chicago)
4:00pm NYC
10:00pm Helsinki
7:00am Sydney
World Clock: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

Link to access the webinar

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Please join this important webinar!

Catharina Isberg and Ewa Stenberg, Cochairs CPDWL

Deadline Extension! CPDWL Call for Papers deadline extended to February 7, 2016

The IFLA CPDWL Section is seeking proposals to be presented at our IFLA Satellite meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, USA in August of 2016.

Theme: “Transforming Libraries: What does this mean for continuing professional development and workplace learning?”

Deadline for proposals is extended to February 7, 2106. Proposals should use the form found at: http://www.ifla.org/node/10137

Libraries, Advocacy and the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda

Free webinar on December 15, 2015.

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 Association to present a one-hour webinar supporting the new IFLA Toolkit, “Libraries and the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda.”

We believe libraries are extremely important for sustainable development and would like to encourage you to attend this online event featuring best practices and models to advocate for access to information.

IFLA has launched a new toolkit which will help you to advocate to your national and regional policy makers to make sure that libraries and access to information are included as part of national and regional development plans that will contribute to meeting the global 2030 Agenda.  As these plans are developed, the library community in each country will have a clear opportunity to communicate to their government leaders how libraries serve as cost-effective partners for advancing their development priorities. Advocacy is essential now to secure recognition for the role of libraries as engines of local development, and to ensure that libraries receive the resources needed to continue this work. The process will be different in each country, and many have already decided how the SDGs will be implemented nationally. http://www.ifla.org/node/9989

In order to help advocates, librarians and library associations show that they can drive progress across the entire 2030 Agenda, IFLA is encouraging all library advocates to take action now. Join us as our colleagues share information that would help you to place libraries on national development agendas.

  • Fiona Bradley, IFLA Manager of Development Programmes, will discuss the new IFLA Toolkit.
  • Niclas Lindberg, Secretary General of the Swedish Library Association and member of the Management of Library Associations Section, will share information about how their library association has contacted and is collaborating with their government.

Event moderated by Loida Garcia-Febo, Webinar Series Coordinator, IFLA Governing Board Member, ALA Executive Board Member.

December 15, 2015

Time:

9am Central time (Chicago)

10am NYC

3pm London

4pm Stockholm

World clock: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

Link to access the webinar: coming soon.

The webinar will be recorded.