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IFLA Social Science Libraries Section Programs of Interest in Lyon

 Social Science Libraries Section: Meetings and Programs of Interest:

 Session 10: Sat. 16 August 2014. 9 .45-12.15 | Room Foyer Gratte-Ciel Parc

First Social Science Libraries Standing Committee Meeting

Session 103: Mon. 18 August 2014. 13 .45-15.45 | Room Salle Gratte-Ciel 1-3

Religious Libraries in Dialogue Special Interest Group Meeting

Session 129: Tues. 19 August 2014. 11 .30-13.00 | Room: Salle Tête d’Or 2

Second Social Science Libraries Standing Committee Meeting

Session 166: Wedn. 20 August 2014. 9 .30-12.45 | Room Auditorium Lumière

Social Science Libraries & Women, Information & Libraries Special Interest Group

Librarians as Change Agents: Finding, Using and Managing Data for Social Change for Women

• The socially responsive design for a library catalogue and thesaurus in a non-profit community organization

LANA SOGLASNOVA and MARY HANSON (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)

• ESMT Information Center- School and Services for Sustainable Business

KAREN LA MACCHIA (European School of Management and Technology, Berlin, Germany)

• Information Literacy + Service Learning= Social Change

TIFFINI TRAVIS and JENNIFER GRADIS (California State University, Long Beach, CA, United States)

• Librarians contribution to social change though information provision: the experience of Makerere University library

. MARIA MUSOKE and LYDIA NAMUGERA (University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda)

• LandWise: A Women & Land Library

. JENNIFER CHANG (Anneal, Inc. on behalf of Landesa, Seattle, WA, United States)

• Targeting Disadvantaged Women – Advancing Women’s Empowerment through Library Entrepreneurship Workshops

GIANINA ANGELA CELINE CABANILLA (School of Library and Information Studies, University of the Philippines

Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines)

• The librarian as agent of change in contexts of social vulnerability: an experience with young women in Uruguay

. MARTHA SABELLI and PAULINA SZAFRAN (Departamento de Información y Sociedad. Instituto de Información.

Facultad de Información y Comunicación. Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay)

• Memory: Feminine Noun

. SIMONETTA PASQUALIS DELL & APOS; ANTONIO (Università degli Studi di Trieste Trieste, Italy) and MARINA

ROMI (Consiglio Regionale del Friuli Venezia Giulia/Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Trieste, Italy)

Session 217: Thu. 21 August 2014. 11.30-13.00 |Room Salle Tête d’Or 2

Religious Libraries in Dialogue Special Interest Group Business Meeting

Session 96 – Poster Session: Mon. 18 August 2014. 12.00-14.00 | Exhibition Hall

Session 132 – Poster Session: Tues. 19 August 2014. 12.00-14.00 | Exhibition Hall

Complete List of Poster Presentations

Presentations by Social Science Libraries Section Standing Committee Members:

KAYO DENDA. “Documenting the Past and Engaging Young Women with Digital Humanities: Library as a confluence for

intergenerational Women at Rutgers.” Poster Presentation.

KINGO JOTHAM MCHOMBU AND CHIKU MNUBI-MCHOMBU. “The role of Information and Knowledge in Poverty Eradication in Africa: the Case Study Namibia.”

Session 189: 20 August 2014. 13.45-15.45 | Room: Amphithéâtre

Access to Information Network – Africa (ATINA) Special Interest Group

Effective Access to Information as Key to Sustainable Poverty Reduction and Thriving in Africa

Satellite Meeting in Paris, August 25-26, 2014

Sponsored by the Religious Libraries in Dialogue Special Interest Group:

Libraries at the Heart of the Dialogue of Cultures and Religions  

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New Book from IFLA RELINDIAL

The IFLA Religious Libraries in Dialogue Special Interest Group (RELINDIAL) is dedicated to libraries serving as places of dialogue between cultures through a better knowledge of religions. This book shows the contribution of libraries to the dialogue between cultures, a dialogue which is always closely linked to the dialogue between religions. With the urgent need for dialogue on a worldwide scale, libraries have a significant role to play. And they are meeting this challenge.

Congratulations to Odile Dupont, Editor,  for all her work!

Libraries Serving Dialogue
Edited by: Odile Dupont
Berlin/Munich: De Gruyter Saur, 2014
ISBN 978-3-11-031693-3
(IFLA Publications; Nr 163)
Euro 89,95* / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 126.00

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SIG RELINDIAL Satellite Conference: Libraries at the Heart of the Dialogue of Cultures and Religions

SIG RELINDIAL Satellite Conference Program 

Libraries at the Heart of the Dialogue of Cultures and Religions – Paris, France. 25 and 26 August 2014. 

This program is organized in collaboration with the Theologicum of the Catholic University of Paris and the following institutions:

  • ABCF (Association des Bibliothèques Chrétiennes de France),
  • Biblioteca de Teología de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica (Chile),
  • Bibliothèque de la Société de Port Royal (France),
  • Bibliothèque universitaire de l’Institut Catholique de Toulouse (France),
  • Library of the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (Lebanon),

For more information, please see Event Flyer: prog_colloque_IFLA_ANG_2014_20140515_web_

Event Website in English

Event Website in French

We look forward to seeing you in Paris!

Please contact Odile Dupont, Convenor of the IFLA -SIG RELINDIAL for information. (EmailL 0.dupont548@gmail.com. Tel +33 (0)6 67 12 83 70)

Revised IFLA Social Science Libraries Section Schedule for Lyon

Social Science Libraries Section Schedule for Lyon and Satellite Meeting in Paris

16 Aug 9.45-12.15  1st Standing Committee Meeting

18 Aug 13.45-15.45 Religious Libraries in Dialogue Special Interest Group  Session

19 Aug  11.30-13.00 2nd Standing Committee Meeting

20 Aug 9.30-12.45  SSLC & Women Information & Libraries Session

25 -26 Aug 2014 Religious Libraries in Dialogue Special Interest Group -Satellite meeting- Paris

 

Social Science Libraries Section Schedule in Lyon

The Social Science Libraries Section final schedule for the conference in Lyon:

Saturday 16 August. 9-45-12:15. Standing Committee 1st meeting

Monday 18 August  13.45-15.45. RELINDIAL Session

Tuesday 19 August 11:30-13:00. Standing Committee 2nd Meeting

Wednesday 20 Aug 9.30-12.45  SSLC & Women Information & Libraries Conference Session

 

Satellite Meeting in Namibia (2015)

Chiku Mchombu, Chair of Social Science Libraries Section, announced that the Satellite Meeting proposal in Namibia (2015) has been accepted. The Namibia Information Workers Association will start fund raising activities looking for sponsors for the venue. Congratulations to Chiku and her Namibian colleagues. This satellite meeting will take place in conjunction with the IFLA Congress in Cape Town, South Africa in 2015.

REMINDER: Call for Papers – IFLA Social Sciences Libraries Section with IFLA Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group

World Library and Information Congress: 80th IFLA General Conference and Assembly

“Strong Libraries, Strong Societies”.

16-22 August 2014, Lyon, France  

IFLA Social Sciences Libraries Section with

IFLA Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group

CALL FOR PAPERS

Theme:  “Librarians as change agents: finding, using and managing data for social change”

IFLA Social Sciences Libraries Section in collaboration  with Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group is seeking papers on the topic of “Librarians as change agents: finding, using and managing data for social change”

Librarians, by collecting, organizing, storing and providing access to data, serve as change agents,   helping organizations and individuals access and use data in order to develop more successful societies.

We request submissions  which demonstrate how  libraries and librarians, working with data, support and engage in social change that impact communities.  In effect, has your library been actively engaged in providing data for social purposes?  If so, please share your story with us. All aspects of this topic will be considered, for example:

  •  Examples of how providing access to data facilitated social change
  •  Examples of library projects which have facilitated / are facilitating social change by providing access to data for/related to women and girls
  •  Libraries/librarians and their role in privacy, big data and data mining issues
  • Impact on society of new technologies related to data and the role of libraries/librarians
  • New roles for libraries/librarians in data: learning this new role and its importance
  • Why data management and access to data means better social science/science inquiry  and leads to better societies
  • Librarian roles in facilitating data literacy and its importance to citizens
  • Examples of partnering with social scientists/researchers and the impact of doing so
  • Examples of libraries providing social data in order to facilitate better laws

(PLEASE NOTE:  We prefer submissions that demonstrate real experiences/case studies – papers that tell a story.  Please structure your paper in this way.  Tell us your story).

The papers in this session should provide a series of vibrant examples of the broad concept of librarians as change agents working with data.  The ultimate objective is to build a body of literature on this topic that will help to guide other librarians with these issues. The session will be in two parts – Part 1 will be 2 hours devoted to papers on the general theme and Part 2 will be 1 hour devoted to papers related  to library projects which have facilitated / are facilitating social change by providing access to data for/related to women and girls.

How to submit a proposal

Proposals should include:

  • An abstract of paper approximately 500 words
  • A summary of the author(s) details (name, institution, position) and brief biographical statement of no more than 50 words.

Proposals should be submitted electronically to Sylvia Piggott: seapiggott@gmail.com  copy to Dr. Chiku Mnubi-Mchombu: cmchombu@unam.na ; WIL SIG: wilsig@googlemail.com ; Beba Stankovic:bebapozarevac@yahoo.com  no later than March 10, 2014 and indicate ‘IFLA proposal’ in the subject line.

Selected presenters will be notified by March 31, 2014.

Papers should reflect the 2014 conference theme, “Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge” and IFLA President Sinnika  Sipila’s theme, “Strong Libraries, Strong Societies”.

Full papers

The deadline for the final version of the full papers accepted for the session is May 14, 2014.  Papers should be in English (or in one of the official IFLA languages[1], with an English translation attached).  The language of the session will be English. Presenters will have 20 minutes in the programme session to deliver their papers, and time will be allowed for an open forum to allow audience interaction.

Please note that the Programme Committee has no funds to assist prospective authors: abstracts should only be submitted on the understanding that the expenses of the attending the Lyon conference (including travel, expenses and conference fee) will be the responsibility of the authors(s)/presenter(s) of accepted papers. At least one author will be expected to attend conference to deliver the paper. Some national professional associations may be able to help fund certain expenses, and a small number of grants for conference may be available at: http://www.ifla.org/funds-grants-awards