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The Best Pieces from Public Libraries Section Webinar

Many of us, myself included, have a tough time coping with the corona crisis. Sometimes however, this crisis also presents us with possibilities and opportunities that we have not thought before. The midterm webinars is such an example.

Between 12-15 April the Literacy and Reading and Public Libraries Sections jointed offered mid-term webinar program offered. You can see all the webinars here.

Normally we would have our mid-term meeting with our section, in my case, the Public Libraries Section and share our knowledge and experiences there with each other. But with the webinars we were able to share this much broader, with more than 1000 participants from over 40 countries as it turns out. Also, this time we had an opportunity to offer a webinar in a different language. Thanks to my colleague in the Public Libraries Section, Adriana Cybele Ferrari, we were able to provide a separate webinar in Portuguese, which was very well received. In our section we try to take steps in achieving the IFLA strategy. These webinar series are a good example how we inspire by sharing knowledge and how we can connect with the field.

I was a co-facilitator at the Public Library Innovations in COVID and enjoyed sharing very different experiences from colleagues around the world. You can find the recording of the webinar here.

Casey and Amanda presented their tutor bus, where they reached kids that were not able to go to school on the off days. You can find their presentation here. A great way to go out and connect to community.

Whitney presented how she connected with elderly people trough their elders check-in calls. A great way for a public library to show how they can make a difference in people’s lives. You can find her presentation here Elder Calls Project Presentation.

Binoy from India explained how his library used social media to reach a huge number of citizens and creating a great number of products as a result. Great to see how a small team of one, can make a huge impact. You can find his presentation here.

Catharina told us about innovations and a different way of working in her public library in Sweden. Her library reacted to the pandemic with a more flexible and agile way of working. You can find her presentation here

At the end we had some great questions from the participants. I enjoyed it very much and hope we can host a webinar like this soon.

Sander van Kempen

Member of SC Public Libraries

Refletindo sobre o passado e pensando no futuro é o tema da Seminário Intermediário

Refletindo sobre o passado e pensando no futuro é o tema da Seminário Intermediário

13 de abril de 2021 às 14 horas (horário de Brasília) – 7 p.m. horário de Amsterdam

Pela primeira vez haverá um painel em português com o tema “Bibliotecas Públicas e inovação em tempos de COVID” com relatos sobre os desafios e as alternativas encontradas para atender as comunidades durante a pandemia.

Nossos convidados são:

Isadora Cristal de Souza e Silva Escalante, Rede de Bibliotecas Comunitárias, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Mestranda em Ciência da Informação no Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (IBICT) em convênio com a Escola de Comunicação (ECO) da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Especialista em Alfabetização e Letramento pela Universidade Cândido Mendes (UCAM). Graduada em Biblioteconomia e Gestão de Unidades de Informação pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Atualmente é bibliotecária da Rede de Bibliotecas Comunitárias Baixada Literária em convênio com o Centro Comunitário São Sebastião de Vila de Cava (CECOM).

Marilena Nakano, Rede Beija Flor de Bibliotecas Comunitárias, São Paulo, Brasil

É presidente da Rede Beija-flor de Pequenas Bibliotecas Vivas de Santo André. Cursou Pedagogia e História. Fez mestrado e doutorado na área de Educação, Estado e Sociedade pela Universidade de São Paulo e pós-doutorado pela Université Paris 13 (França). Até 2016, foi professora universitária na área de educação. Também foi professora da rede pública de São Paulo do Ensino Fundamental 1 ao Ensino Médio. Atuou na África no campo da alfabetização de jovens e adultos. Na França, foi professora de educadores sociais, trabalhando na área da mediação de território.

Nuno Marçal, Biblioteca Municipal de Proença a Nova, Portugal.

Especialista em Ciências Documentais, variante de Bibliotecas concluída na Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias. Licenciatura em Sociologia concluída, na Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias. Bibliotecário-Ambulante responsável pela “Bibliomóvel” da Biblioteca Municipal de Proença-a-Nova desde o dia 26 de junho 2006. Bibliotecário da Biblioteca Municipal de Proença-a-Nova desde o dia 3 de janeiro de 2002.

Pierre André Ruprecht, SP Leituras, São Paulo, Brasil

Graduado em administração de empresas pela Escola de Administração de Empresas FGV-SP. Foi professor de Metodologia da Pesquisa na área de Comunicação. Coordenou a área de multimeios e formação na Fundap, e ministrou cursos na área para o Senac, Fundação Cenafor, e outros. Foi coordenador geral da assessoria da Secretaria Municipal de Cultura de São Paulo e Gerente de Planejamento e dirigente em empresas, entre elas a Editora Brasiliense e, mais recentemente, gerente de projetos na área cultural. É tradutor e, desde 2011, exerce o cargo de diretor executivo da SP Leituras – Associação Paulista de Bibliotecas e Leitura, organização não-governamental responsável pela gestão da Biblioteca de São Paulo, da Biblioteca Parque Villa-Lobos, do Sistema Estadual de Bibliotecas Públicas do Estado de São Paulo e de outros programas ligados a bibliotecas e leitura.

Facilitadora: Adriana Ferrari

Bibliotecária com especialização pela PUC Campinas e MBA pela POLI USP. Assessora e Coordenadora da Unidade de Bibliotecas e Leitura da Secretaria da Cultura do Estado de São Paulo (2007-2015). Assessora do Gabinete do Reitor da Universidade de São Paulo (2015-2018). É Diretora da Biblioteca Florestan Fernandes da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da USP, Vice Presidenta da FEBAB e Membro do Comitê de Bibliotecas Públicas da IFLA.

Esperamos ver todos vocês em nosso evento virtual!

Faça sua inscrição aqui: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pIoOA9c_T56egeBkYeMjRw

Speakers announced for the Public Libraries Innovations in Covid Panel Reflecting Back and Thinking Forward – Webinar

Join IFLA Public Libraries and Literacy Reading Sections for our Reflecting Back and Thinking Forward Mid-term Seminar from 12-14 April 2021. We look at how public libraries have responded to COVID and how the lessons learnt will impact the future. We will also explore some of the great initiatives around reading and literacy that have emerged during this time and how we can expand on this. There will also be an opportunity to ‘meet’ the world’s Children’s Laureates/Ambassadors and hear of their vision for the future.

The exciting program is listed below.

All times listed in Amsterdam Time:

April 12, 2021 – 9.30am – 10.30am: Meet the Children’s Laureates/Ambassadors
April 13, 2021 – 10am – 11.30am: Public Library innovations in COVID
April 13, 2021 – 12:00pm – 13.30pm: Literacy and Reading during COVID
April 13, 2021 – 19:00pm – 20:30pm: Public Library innovations in COVID (Portuguese)
April 14, 2021 – 10:00am – 11.30am: The future of libraries in a post COVID world
April 14, 2021 – 12:00pm – 13.30pm: Reading together during a pandemic
April 15, 2021 – 10am – 12pm: Public Libraries Business Meeting – an open meeting for all to attend

We are very excited to hear from Public Libraries from around the world on their changing

services in response to Covid-19:

Panel: Public Libraries Innovations in Covid: April 13^th 10am – 11.30am

Whitney Oakley, Branch Manager, USA

Whitney was born and raised in Colorado USA. She has her B.S. in Human Services and currently works as the Branch Manager of the Anythink Bennett Library. Whitney is passionate about community and national service and sits on the Town of Bennett Board of Trustees as a Trustee Member. She currently lives in Bennett, CO with her husband, daughter and their many animals.

Whitney will share with us her library’s Elders Check-In Calls program and the impact it had on her community.

You can find out more about her library here: https://www.anythinklibraries.org/location/anythink-bennett

Casey Bruck, Programming Librarian USA

Casey Bruck is the Programming Librarian at the McCall Public Library in Idaho, USA. Casey calmly navigates all kinds of library programs—from kids’ maker-space robotics to adult travelogues. Ask him about any ideas you might have to keep our library a dynamic place of learning in our community. He is also leading the way in our Idaho Room’s digital history project, to make all our local history records available online.

Casey and his Tutor Mobile partner Amanda Keaveny will share with us how they developed a new service: The Tutor bus for their community

You can find out more about McCall Public Library team here: https://www.mccall.id.us/library-staff

Binoy Mathew Librarian Selection Grade at the Valapattanam Grama Panchayat Library, Kerala, India

Binoy Mathew is Librarian, Special Grade of Valapattanam Grama Panchayat Library in Kannur District, Kerala, India. He has a Postgraduate Degree in Economics and Bachelor Degree in Library and Information Science. He currently lives in Kannur district with wife,son and mother.

Catharina Isberg Library Director, Helsingborg City Libraries, Sweden

Catharina has previously worked as a Deputy Director and Manager for an academic library and as manager and vice president on an international level for a pharmaceutical industry library. Catharina’s wide variety of different library fields has brought a wealth of different ideas to her work in public libraries. Catharina has also been an active participant for IFLA and is has taken on a number of roles over the past 10 years with her current roles including Governing Board Member 2019-2021, Congress Advisory Committee Member 2019-2021, and a Professional Committee Member 2019-2021. You can find our more about the Helsingborg City Libraries here https://www.bibliotekfh.se/service-och-tj%C3%A4nster?refId=guxzYT&culture=sv

Panel Facilitator: Martin Memet Könick

Martin is Library Director of Ängelholm Libraries in the South of Sweden. Martin is an elected member of IFLA:s SC for the Public Libraries Section.

Panel Moderator: Sander van Kempen

Sander is a Senior Advisor at the Royal Dutch Library in the Netherlands. Sander is an elected member of IFLA’s Section committees: the Public Libraries Section

We look forward to seeing you all at our virtual catch up.

Reflecting back and Thinking Forward

Join IFLA Public Libraries and Literacy Reading Sections for our Reflecting Back and Tinking Forward Mid-term Seminar from 12-14 April 2021. We look at how public libraries have responded to COVID and how the lessons learnt will impact the future. We will also explore some of the great initiatives around reading and literacy that have emerged during this time and how we can expand on this. There will also be an opportunity to ‘meet’ the world’s Children’s Laureates/Ambassadors and hear of their vision for the future.

The exciting program is listed below.

All times listed in Amsterdam Time

April 12, 2021 – 9:30 – 10:30: Meet the Children’s Laureates/Ambassadors
April 13, 2021 – 10:00 – 11.30: The future of libraries in a post Covid world
April 13, 2021 – 12:00 – 13.30: Literacy and Reading during COVID
April 13, 2021 – 19:00 – 20:30: Public Library innovations in COVID (Portuguese)
April 14, 2021 – 10:00 – 11.30: Public Library innovations in COVID April 14, 2021 – 12:00 – 13.30: Reading together during a pandemic
April 15, 2021 – TBD: Public Libraries Business Meeting

Our speakers include:

Panel: The Future of Libraries in a post Covid world

Mr Gene Tan, Assistant Chief Executive, National Library of Singapore https://www.linkedin.com/in/gene-tan-32316b63/?originalSubdomain=sg

Gene Tan is an Executive and Creative Director who has helmed 3 national projects working at the highest level of government & across people and private sectors – Singapore’s Bicentennial, SG50 Capstone Exhibition The Future of Us and the Singapore Memory Project. Top librarian who was Director of the National Library and President of the Library Association.

Ms Liz Jolly, Chief Librarian, British Library.

Liz Jolly has been Chief Librarian at the British Library since September 2018. She is responsible for teams delivering core activities such as collection development; services for researchers, learners, businesses and entrepreneurs; research strategy and digital scholarship; an extensive cultural programme of exhibitions, events, and the Library’s online presence. Liz has over twenty years’ experience in a variety of institutions in the university sector, most recently as Director of Student and Library Services at Teesside University. An Honorary Professor at Teesside, Liz is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow both of the CILIP and the RSA. She was Chair of SCONUL, the UK university library directors’ group, from 2014-16 and is a member of the Board of Governors at the University of Portsmouth. Liz is a Vice Chair of the SCONUL Content Strategy Group and a member of the Editorial Board of the New Review of Academic Librarianship.

Ms Christine McKenzie

Christine is the President of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) from 2019 to 2021, leading the library field under the theme “Let’s work together”.^[4]^[5] Her mandate takes the results of projects as the IFLA Global Vision where librarians around the world created a bottom – up strategy^[6] where one of the highlights and opportunities are related to focus on our communities and work more collaborative and develop strong partnerships.

Margaret Allen, State Librarian, State Library of Western Australia, Chair Public Libraries Section Committee. ALIA President 2011, ALIA Fellowship 2014, Public Service Medal 2018

Through her role as CEO of the State Library of Western Australia, Under Margaret’s leadership the State Library works in partnership with Aboriginal people through the Storylines Project to ‘build and maintain an online database of digitised heritage material from the library’s collections relating to Aboriginal history’ and through its Aboriginal Family History project offers training in information literacy, and research skills to support clients with family history research.

Margaret a long term contributor to IFLA, was engaged in the 2012 IFLA International Leaders Programme. As Chair of the Australian Libraries Copyright Committee (ALCC) and a member of the Australian Digital Alliance (ADA) Board of Directors Margaret is an active participant in the Australian copyright reform debates committed to copyright reform that enables fair access. Margaret was ALIA President for the 2011-2012 term of office. She represented libraries on the government’s Book Industry Collaborative Council and she is a valued member of the ALIA ebooks and elending Reference Group, presenting at think tanks across Australia during 2013.

Panel Facilitator: Erik Boekesteijn

Erik Boekesteijn is a senior advisor at National Library of the Netherlands as well as a facilitator and consultant for the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions and a SLIS Fellow. Boekesteijn got his start in the Netherlands’ DOK Library in Delft, recognized as one of the most innovative public libraries in the world.