IFLA to Live-stream Selected WLIC Sessions

August 24, 2019

IFLA, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, has announced that selected sessions of the 2019 World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) will be live-streamed.

To access the live streaming, access this playlist in YouTube and select the session.

Recordings will be made available afterwards on the IFLA YouTube channel and the WLIC 2019 website after the sessions.

Sessions to be live-streamed include:

Sunday, August 25

Opening Session

10:30 am to 12:00 pm (Athens time)
Toronto: 3:30 am to 5:00 am
Vancouver: 12:30 am to 2:00 am

The Opening Ceremony will reflect the theme for IFLA WLIC 2019 ‘Libraries: dialogue for change’ and our presence in the ancient city of Athens.

Programme Outline:

• • Welcome Remarks by Co-Chairs of the National Committee:  Alexandra Papazoglou, President of the Association of Greek Librarians and Information Scientists and Filippos Tsimpoglou, Director General of the National Library of Greece
  • Opening Speech by Gloria Perez-Salmeron, IFLA President
  • Speech by Gerald Leitner, IFLA Secretary General
  • Announcement of WLIC 2020
  • Cultural Performance by Sofia Spyratou
  • Keynote Address by Dr. Loukas Tsoukalis, Professor Emeritus of the University of Athens and President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)
  • Official Opening by Glòria Pérez-Salmerón, IFLA President

Twenty Years of the IFLA Intellectual Freedom Statement: Constancy and Change

1:45 pm to 3:45 pm (Athens time)
Toronto: 6:45 am to 8:45 am
Vancouver: 3:45 am to 5:45 am

IFLA’s Intellectual Freedom statement was adopted 20 years ago this year, underlining the commitment of libraries to fundamental freedoms.

In the intervening years, the opportunities to exercise this freedom, as well as the threats to it, have evolved rapidly. New issues and understandings have emerged, forcing libraries to reflect on how their values – as well as the terms of the Statement itself – should be interpreted and applied.

To mark the anniversary, IFLA’s Advisory Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression is looking at the continued relevance of the statement, and where changes may be necessary in order to reflect the times.

Come along and hear both about recent work associated with the Intellectual Freedom Statement – IFLA’s Statement on Censorship, and Guidelines on public internet access in libraries – and to hear expert speakers share their views on what intellectual freedom, and its defence, look like today.

Presentations

• • Censorship: What We’re Trying to Say…
    Brent Roe, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada
  • IFLA Guidelines on Public Internet Access in Libraries
    Louise Cooke, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
  • Many Faces of the Freedom of Information Threats in Turkey
    Ahmet A. Sabanci, Turkey
  • Fighting for Privacy-Enhancing Technology
    Gennie Gebhart, Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • The library’s place in an open future
    Catherine Stihler, ex-Member of the European Parliament / Executive Director, Open Knowledge Foundation, United Kingdom

Monday, August 26

IFLA Highlights Session

8:30 am to 9:30 am (Athens time)
Toronto: 1:30 am to 2:30 am
Vancouver: 10:30 pm to 11:30 pm (Sunday)

What’s on at IFLA? Get the summary in just 45 minutes! The Highlights Session is opportunity to hear about IFLA’s main projects and initiatives, plan your week, and meet the IFLA President, the IFLA Secretary General and the team from IFLA Headquarters.

IFLA President`s Session – Dialogues for Change : Inspiring, Engaging, Enabling and Connecting the Motors for Change

9:30 am to 11:30 am (Athens time)
Toronto: 2:30 am to 4:30 am
Vancouver: 11:30 pm to 1:30 am (Sunday)

In order to deliver fully and consistently on the potential of libraries as motors of change, we need to change our ways of working, our engagement with the world, and our mindsets. IFLA’s new strategy provides a framework for achieving this.

With an eye to the theme of the Congress in general, in her final President’s Session, Glòria Pérez-Salmerón will therefore bring a selection of people with whom she has worked over her time as President and President-Elect, in order to share some of the most inspiring conversations in which she has been involved.

Through this, participants will themselves gain insights into the thousands of individual conversations that are making up the global conversation that is driving IFLA forwards. Join us – join the conversation!

Panel 1 – Dialogues to Break Down Silos
Moderator: Vicki McDonald, IFLA Governing Board
Antoine Torrens-Montebello, Compiègne City Libraries, France
Lorin Pai, Fiji Library Association, Fiji
Sonia Poulin, Executive Director, Justice Education Society, McGill University, Vancouver, Canada

Panel 2 – Dialogues to Realise the Sustainable Development Goals
Moderator: Stephen Wyber, IFLA Policy and Advocacy Manager, The Hague, Netherlands
Randa Chidiac, Kaslik Holy Spirit University, Lebanon
Maria-Angelica Fuentes, Library of Congress, Chile
Alejandro Santa, Library of Congress, Argentina

Panel 3 – Dialogues to Build a Global Vision
Moderator: Gerald Leitner, Secretary General, IFLA
Mandla Ntombela, Msunduzi Municipality, South Africa
Catharina Isberg, Helsingborg City libraries, Sweden
Deborah Jacobs, ex-Global Libraries, United States

From Vision to Implementation – IFLA’s Strategy

11:45 am to 12:45 pm (Athens time)
Toronto: 4:45 am to 5:45 am
Vancouver: 1:45 am to 2:45 am

Building on the Global Vision discussion – the biggest and most inclusive conversation ever in the history of our field – IFLA now has a new five year Strategy.

This is very much your Strategy, based on the tens of thousands of contributions to the Global Vision discussion, and the thousands of ideas submitted to the IFLA Ideas Store.

It sets a clear vision and direction for the work of our organisation, and all those who engage in it. Yet more than this, it is designed as a reference point, facilitating cooperation and supporting alignment across borders, library types, and levels of work.

Indeed, just as it could not have been developed without the contributions of the field, it can only be delivered collaboratively, with the support of associations, institutions and individuals.

Come along to this session in order to find out about what’s in the Strategy, and how it can help you in your work.

Legislators’ Panel: What Lawmakers Think about Libraries

1:45 pm to 2:45 pm (Athens time)
Toronto: 6:45 am to 7:45 am
Vancouver: 3:45 am to 4:45 am

Libraries depend heavily on the decisions taken in councils, parliaments and ministries. The success of our institutions requires us to understand, and win the support of decision-makers.

But in turn, libraries are great ways for governments to achieve their own goals in education, culture, health, and across the board.

This panel – a first for IFLA – will discuss how people in power see libraries contributing to their agendas, how they perceive libraries in general, and what we can do to ensure that decision-makers go from awareness, to support to action on our behalf.

Presentations:

• • Rabih Azad-Ahmad, Aarhus City Council, Alderman, Aarhus Kommune
  • Catherine Stihler, ex-Member of the European Parliament / Executive Director, Open Knowledge Foundation, United Kingdom

Strengthening the Global Voice: Securing the Future of Libraries

2:45 pm to 3:45 pm (Athens time)
Toronto: 7:45 am to 8:45 am
Vancouver: 4:45 am to 5:45 am

IFLA is the global voice of libraries, working hard to ensure recognition of, and support for libraries in international discussions. Yet we can only truly secure the future of our institutions by taking action at all levels, in all spaces.

As part of its new Strategy, IFLA will be working to make every librarian an advocate through new tools and support.

Come along to this session in order to hear more about key IFLA projects over the past year, what they mean for you, and how to use them in your work.

Innovation in Changing Times

4:00 pm to 6:00 pm (Athens time)
Toronto: 9:00 am to 11:00 am
Vancouver: 6:00 am to 8:00 am

The Section of Latin America and the Caribbean (IFLA LAC) will approach the topic of innovation in LAC libraries considering not only innovation in the technological area, but aspects related to education, services, users, among others.The session will discuss projects, programs, plans that aim to include innovation and continuous improvement in libraries to respond to universal changes in the sector. These innovations should make it possible to offer a quality service adapted to the digital era and other trends, positioning and defending the role played by libraries and librarians in social development and the defense of the UN Agenda 2030.

Sub topics include: Innovation in services, Innovation in LIS Education, Innovation in Users training, and other related topics.

Presentations:

• • Welcome-Summary of IFLA LAC activities for the Development of Libraries: Buenos Aires Meetings, May 2019
    Ana María TALAVERA-IBARRA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
  • It [library tour] wasn’t what do you do when you need to make a literature review…” Proactively Positioning the Library in the Life of the User
    Lynn Silipigni Connaway, OCLC Research, Dublin, OH, United States
  • Prácticas de innovación abierta para impulsar propuestas novedosas en bibliotecas (Paper in Spanish)
    Priscila Machado Borges Sena, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
    Ana Clara Cândido, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
    Ursula Blattmann, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
    José Antonio Moreiro González, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
  • El Plan “S” en la perspectiva de la bibliotecología de América Latina: análisis y propuestas para la implementación e innovación (Paper in Spanish)
    Juan Miguel Palma Peña, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, D.F., Mexico
  • La Biblioteca universitaria como espacio de vivencia y aprendizaje en la reconexión entre el agricultor familiar y el consumidor: enfoque en la Agenda 203 (Paper in Spanish)
    Claudiane Weber, Biblioteca Universitaria de la Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil
    Paula Schoenfeldt Patta, Biblioteca Universitaria de la Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil
    Fernando Leipnitz, Biblioteca Universitaria de la Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil
  • Descentralizando la infraestructura bibliotecaria de Latinoamérica: Pruebas e implementación piloto de un sistema de préstamo descentralizado de bibliotecas basado en credenciales de usuarios soberanas e interoperables construida con tecnología Blockchain (Paper in Spanish)
    Felipe Vera-Lobos, Director de Proyectos e Innovación, Prodigio Consultores, Santiago, Chile
    Hernán Lagos-Lagos, Director de Tecnologías, Prodigio Consultores, Santiago, Chile
  • Bibliotecas líquidas para comunidades sólidas: la experiencia de co-creación de biblioteca experimental en Colombia
    Santiago Villegas-Ceballos, Bibliotecario 3.0, Medellín, Colombia
  • Generación de capacidades de innovación para bibliotecarios de América Latina y el Caribe
    Sebastián Vargas-Jimenez, e-Tech Solutions Corp., West Palm Beach, United States
    Diego Mauricio Fino-Garzón, e-Tech Solutions Corp., West Palm Beach, United States

Thursday, August 29

Legal Implications of Disruptive Technologies in Libraries

8:30 am to 10:30 am (Athens time)
Toronto: 1:30 am to 3:30 am
Vancouver: 10:30 pm (Wednesday) to 12:30 am 

Libraries have long played a leading role in providing democratic access to new technologies for accessing and using knowledge. In doing so, they help ensure that technological advances do not leave anyone behind.

From access to 3D printers and support for text and data mining in research settings for patrons, to the role that blockchain and artificial intelligence can play in support of better back-end services, innovation is a key part of the lives of libraries. Yet keeping up with change raises new legal challenges.

The session will explore key legal aspects around disruptive technologies that libraries are – or should be – thinking about.

Presentations

• • Learning analytics
    Kyle Jones, Indiana University, United States
  • [tbc]
    Prodromos Tsiavos, Administrative Council of the Industrial Property Organisation (OBI)
  • AI bias and its impact in the developing world, especially Africa
    Sabelo Mhlambi, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, United States
  • Anticipating governance, unintended consequences, and disruptive technologies: What recent developments mean for libraries
    Fiona Bradley, University of New South Wales, Kensignton, Australia

Library Love Stories

10:45 am to 12:45 pm (Athens time)
Toronto: 3:45 am to 5:45 am
Vancouver: 12:45 am to 2:45 am

Presentations:

• • Keynote: Library Love Stories from Down Under
    Robert Knight, Australian Library and Information Association, Canberra, Australia
  • Libraries and Love Stories through the Lens of Malaysian Film, Television and Novel Publishing
    Noryana Ahmad Khusaini, University Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia
    Mohd Shamsul Bin Daud, University Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia
    Noraini Abd Rahman, Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Kedah, Malaysia
  • Management of feelings: case study of some libraries in West Africa
    Adjovi Essenam Fumey, Institut français de Dakar, Senegal
    Fatima Oury Sow Gueye, Institut français de Dakar, Senegal
  • Quand bibliothécaires et usagers n’ont plus de limites: les comportements professionnels à l’épreuve du sexe et des affects / When Librarians and Users Cross the Line: Relationship, Sex & Professional Behaviour (Paper in French)
    Amandine Wallon, SCD Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, France
  • The library touched my heart: a case analysis
    Demet Soylu, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Turkey
    Tunç Durmuş Medeni, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Turkey
  • The study of perceptions of love in the telling of the love story of Leilly and Majnoon – using images of the products derived from it among adolescents in the library of the 5th district of Ekbatan, Tehran
    Esmat Momeni, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
    Farnaz Daneshjoo, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Closing Session

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm (Athens time)
Toronto: 9:00 am to 10:30 am
Vancouver: 6:00 am to 7:30 am

After a week of learning and networking, come along to reflect on the successes of the conference, the contributions of outstanding colleagues, and to look ahead to the future.

The Closing Session is the opportunity to say farewell to outgoing IFLA President Glòria Pérez-Salmerón, and to welcome her successor, Christine Mackenzie and the new Governing Board that will support her. We’ll announce the recipients of IFLA awards, as well as the location of WLIC 2021!

See you there!

Programme Outline:

• • Address by the President Glòria Pérez-Salmerón
  • Presentation of IFLA Awards
  • Thank you to the outgoing Governing Board
  • Introduction of the incoming Governing Board
  • Announcement of the WLIC 2021 location
  • Vote of thanks WLIC 2019
  • Invitation to WLIC 2020
  • Address by incoming President, Christine Mackenzie
  • Close of the Assembly

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For more information about WLIC, visit https://2019.ifla.org.

(Via International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)