Content tagged New professionals

Save the date and celebrate #InternationalVolunteersDay in December 4-6 with us & New Professionals Special Interest Group! We are excited for our first library meme contest...

Event - 16 November 2020

Tags: New professionals, Social, New Professionals

Literacy is a foundational skill. With it, doors are opened to countless other opportunities to learn and grow. Without it, people struggle to find work, to make the most of the internet, or to...

News - 7 September 2020

Tags: New professionals, Reading, Literacy and Reading

The University of the Philippines School of Library and Information Studies (UP SLIS) is the oldest library school in the Philippines. The 2020 virtual recognition rites for...

Event - 25 August 2020

Tags: Event, Library and information science education, New professionals, Philippines

IFLAcamp #7 at Ilioupolis library and Megalo Kavouri beach! Thursday, August 22nd at Media Lab (Ilioupoli Library) Friday, August 23rd at Megalo Kavouri Beach See...

News - 10 August 2019

Tags: 2019 WLIC, New professionals, New Professionals

The IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) and Management and Marketing Section is seeking proposals for papers to be presented at a two-hour session at the next IFLA General...

News - 5 February 2019

Tags: Library marketing, Management, New professionals, Social inclusion, Society, Women’s issues, New Professionals

Click here for the complete 2017-2018 IFLA LGBTQ+ SIG Annual Report.

Publication - 26 December 2018

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Advocacy, Communications, Communities of practice, Cooperation, Democracy, Development, Disadvantaged persons, Education, Education and training, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Guidelines, Human rights, LGBTQ library services, Libraries for development, Library and information science education, Library as place, Library buildings and equipment, Library outreach, Library services, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Networking, New professionals, Performance indicators, Privacy in libraries, Professional development, Risk assessment, Social inclusion, Staffing, Annual reports, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

Please join us on Sunday, May 21st at 5pm CET for our 10th NPSIG Virtual Business Meeting! This will be the first business meeting featuring our new leadership team: Vesna Vuksan (Convenor),...

Event - 18 May 2017

Tags: Meeting, New professionals, New Professionals

Registration is now closed. 52 professionals from 30 different countries registered! Follow the updates on our Facebook event page. Day 1 Unconference at the Library...

Event - 9 March 2017

Tags: Associations, camp, Communities of practice, Education, Education and training, IFLAcamp, iflacamp2017, Information professionals, Meetings, New professionals, Poland, Satellite Meeting, New Professionals

The New Professionals Special Interest Group is in Columbus, Ohio, from August 11th to August 19th, 2016. And there will be many opportunities to meet! IFLAcamp⁴...

News - 9 August 2016

Tags: Big data, happy hour, IFLA MLAS, IFLA WLIC 2016, iflacamp2016, New professionals, newcomers, nightspot, Open Session, President-elect, United States of America, New Professionals

The IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) and the IFLA Education and Training Section (SET) invites you to participate in the Survey of Library and Information Science New...

News - 2 August 2016

Tags: Education and training, Library and information science education, LIS students, new librarians, New professionals, New Professionals, Professional development, survey, New Professionals

Este es un nuevo Blog Post Andrés Reinoso, con la colaboración de Nancy Monzón en la traducción al inglés. Ambos son voluntarios del NPSIG. Nuestras...

News - 30 July 2016

Tags: IFLA WLIC 2016, Information professionals, New professionals, New Professionals, Open Session, New Professionals

This is a Guest Blog Post by Andrés Reinoso, in collaboration withNancy Monzón for the English translation. Andrés and Nancy are both NPSIG volunteers. In our...

News - 30 July 2016

Tags: IFLA WLIC 2016, New professionals, New Professionals, Open Session, New Professionals

Por Loida Garcia-Febo, Miembro de la Junta de Gobierno de la IFLA, Chair del Action for Development through Libraries Programme (ALP), Co-Fundadora del Grupo de Interés Nuevos Profesionales...

News - 17 July 2016

Tags: Associations, New professionals

This is a blog post by Loida Garcia-Febo, IFLA Governing Board Member, Action for Development through Libraries Programme (ALP) Chair, New Professionals Special Interest Group Co-Founder...

News - 17 July 2016

Tags: Associations, New professionals

Our Action Plan outlines the key objectives for our Special Interest Group in the upcoming year. Take a look at our News feed to read updates on our progress. If you have...

Publication - 13 July 2016

Tags: IFLAcamp, New professionals, newlibgc, NPSIG, Social Media, WLIC, Publications, New Professionals

We are happy to share with you the recording and slides of the IFLA/ALA "New Librarians, Global Connection Webinar Series" about “Big Data: new roles and opportunities for new...

News - 24 June 2016

Tags: Big data, data librarian, data science, data visualization, New professionals, newlibgc, New Professionals

This is a post by Antoine Torrens, IFLA NPSIG Information Coordinator. For the full post, please visit the NPSIG blog.

News - 10 June 2016

Tags: Associations, New professionals

Interview with Courtney Young, American Library Association Immediate Past President, the youngest President the ALA had in the last 80+ years. For the full post, please visit the NPSIG...

News - 10 June 2016

Tags: ALA, leadership, Library associations, New professionals, New Professionals, New Professionals

Save the date for a super fun happy hour with new professionals, grant awardees, WLIC 2016 volunteers, and IFLA leadership!  We will be adding more details as we approach the date, but...

Event - 24 April 2016

Tags: New professionals, New Professionals, Social, social events, wlic2016, New Professionals

This is a blog post by Katia Shklyar, NPSIG Information Co-Coordinator. For the full post, please visit the NPSIG blog.

News - 16 April 2016

Tags: new librarians, New professionals, New Professionals, Special Interest Groups, volunteering, New Professionals

Please join us on Saturday, April 30th for our 9th NPSIG Virtual Business Meeting! This will be the second virtual meeting featuring our new leadership team: María...

Event - 16 April 2016

Tags: Meeting, new librarians, New professionals, New Professionals, virtual business meeting, New Professionals

NPSIG warmly welcomes you to IFLAcamp 2016, the WLIC2016 unconference for new and established professionals! After stops in Finland, Singapore and Lyon in previous years, the IFLAcamp...

Event - 26 March 2016

Tags: IFLAcamp, new librarians, New professionals, NPSIG, Satellite Meeting, wlic2016, New Professionals

Call for Papers: Open Session New Professionals Special Interest Group [version française] [versión en español] [versão em português] [...

News - 10 January 2016

Tags: Call for Papers, IFLA WLIC 2016, New professionals, Open Session, Professional development, WLIC 2016, New Professionals

Join us on Saturday, December 19th for our 8th NPSIG Virtual Business Meeting! This will be the first virtual meeting featuring our new leadership team: María Violeta...

Event - 7 December 2015

Tags: iflacamp2016, New professionals, newlibgc, NPSIG, vitual business meeting, Webinar, wlic2016, New Professionals

For the fourth consecutive year, IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group are partnering with the...

Event - 25 October 2015

Tags: #newlibgc, ALA, CPDWL, Lifelong learning, New professionals, NPSIG, Webinar, webinar, New Professionals

Dear colleagues: We are planning our 2016 #newlibgc webinars and we need your help to identify new topics! For the fifth consecutive year, IFLA Continuing...

News - 25 October 2015

Tags: #newlibgc, ALA, Conferences, CPDWL, New professionals, NPSIG, webinar, New Professionals

  We are proud to present the last session of the 2015 webinar series “New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations.” The...

News - 25 October 2015

Tags: #newlibgc, ALA, CPDWL, Lifelong learning, New professionals, New Professionals, NPSIG, webinar, New Professionals

Estimados colegas, Estamos muy contentos de proveer una oportunidad para nuevos bibliotecarios de afuera de Norteamérica (Estados Unidos y Canadá) para asistir al Congreso de...

News - 25 October 2015

Tags: becas, Conferences, New professionals, nuevos profesionales, United States of America, wlic2016, New Professionals

Dear colleagues, We are so happy to provide an opportunity for new librarians from outside North America (U.S. and Canada) to attend the IFLA 2016 Congress in Columbus, Ohio. I would...

News - 25 October 2015

Tags: Conferences, Grants, New professionals, New Professionals, United States of America, wlic2016, New Professionals

10 Years! This year the IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The group was founded in 2004 during the IFLA Congress in Buenos...

News - 13 August 2014

Tags: anniversary, business meeting, New professionals, NPSIG, WLIC2014, New Professionals

For the third consecutive year, IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group are partnering with the American Library...

Event - 17 June 2014

Tags: Education and training, Event, New professionals, Professional development, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning

registration (EN+RU) | program plus latest updates: EN / RU We are happy to invite you to IFLAcamp Library Creative Laboratory: “A Hero of Our...

Event - 14 March 2014

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Associations, Collection development, Communications, Communities of practice, Conference, Conferences, Cooperation, Copyright, Cultural heritage, cycling, Development, Digital divide, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Digitisation, Education and training, IFLAcampLab, Information professionals, Information technology, International cooperation, Knowledge society, Library as place, Library collections, Library history, Meetings, Members, Networking, New professionals, NPSIG, Policy, Professional development, Russian Federation, unconference, New Professionals

The goal of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) special interest group is to adress the information needs of LGBTQ+ community members related to library services,...

IFLA Group or Activity - 13 January 2014

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Capacity building, Censorship, Classification and indexing, Collection development, Communities of practice, Data management, Digital inclusion, Education and training, Freedom of expression, Guidelines, Human rights, Indexing, LGBTQ library services, Library as place, Library collections, Library marketing, Library outreach, Library services, Library theory and research, Lifelong learning, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, New professionals, Privacy in libraries, Professional development, Reading, Social inclusion, Staffing, Subject analysis, Women’s issues, Young adults, Special Interest Groups, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

Update:  The recording of our successful IFLA/ALA webinar on 14 January is now available. We are proud to present the first session of the 2014 webinar series “New Librarians...

Event - 7 November 2013

Tags: New professionals, NPSIG, Success stories, United States of America, Webinar, New Professionals

[PDF] sponsored by IFLA and ekz.bibliotheksservice GmbH The IFLA Education and Training Section (SET) is pleased to announce the winner of the IFLA/ekz Library and Information...

News - 25 July 2013

Tags: Awards, New professionals, Press Release, Education and Training

Lynn Jibril, 2013 CILIP/IFLA Aspire award winner Lynn Jibril has been selected to receive the 2013 CILIP/IFLA Aspire award for a new professional. IFLA and CILIP launched...

News - 17 June 2013

Tags: Announcement, Awards, New professionals

L to R: David Ofili, Caroline Nyaga, Rozita Petrinska-Labudovikj, Chona San Pedro, Dwaymian Brissette On the 23rd of April, IFLA Headquarters welcomed the 2013 Jay Jordan ...

News - 23 April 2013

Tags: Cooperation, Jay Jordan, Netherlands, New professionals, OCLC, Professional development

العربية           IFLA and CILIP launched the Aspire Award in memory of CILIP's Chief Executive Bob McKee, who...

News - 20 March 2013

Tags: Awards, New professionals

A report from Yulia Kashpruk, 2012 CILIP/IFLA Aspire Award winner The largest and most important international conference of its kind in the world, the World Library and...

News - 17 December 2012

Tags: Awards, IFLA 2012 Helsinki, New professionals, Ukraine

Facebook Page:  Created in 2009 by Former Chair, Tone Eli Moseid, our Facebook Page is an OPEN Group and provides an INTERNATIONAL FORUM for the discussion of ideas, sharing...

News - 23 October 2012

Tags: Current Events, Facebook Page, Information professionals, Library and information profession, Library services to people with disabilities, Lifelong learning, LSN, Multicultural populations, New professionals, Performance indicators, Professional development, Services to the visually impaired, Success stories, Women’s issues, Library Services to People with Special Needs

New Professionals are great networkers and community builders. This has already lead to a large number of groups for and by new librarians around the globe. We compiled a list of initiatives for you...

News - 27 July 2012

Tags: New professionals, new professionals groups, worldwide, New Professionals

Yulia Kashpruk has been selected to receive the CILIP/IFLA Aspire award for a new professional in Ukraine in 2012. This award is made in memory of Bob McKee who had a strong belief in libraries as...

News - 16 July 2012

Tags: Announcement, Awards, New professionals, Ukraine

“New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations“ is a new series of free quarterly webinars on issues of interest to new librarians, models of library...

News - 4 July 2012

Tags: New professionals, webinar, New Professionals

July 17, 2012 (webinar length is ONE hour) 2:00 p.m. CST 3:00 p.m. EST 8:00 p.m. CET (21:00 Central European Summer Time) 7:00 a.m. EDT (next day) World Clock...

Event - 17 June 2012

Tags: New professionals, Webinar, New Professionals

“New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations“ “New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations“ is a...

News - 25 March 2012

Tags: E-learning, Information professionals, Lifelong learning, New professionals, New Professionals, webinar, New Professionals

Save the date! April 10, 2012 2:00 p.m. CST 3:00 p.m. EST 9:00 p.m. CET  (21:00 Central European Time)  7:00 a.m. EDT (next day) (Also see the ...

Event - 9 March 2012

Tags: Best practice, New professionals, New Professionals, Webinar, New Professionals

Below, the date and time of the first webinar. Save the date! January 17, 2012 2:00 p.m. CST 3:00 p.m. EST 9:00 p.m. CET (21:00 Central European Time) 7:00 a.m....

News - 21 December 2011

Tags: New professionals, NPSIG, New Professionals

This is how it works: think of a challenging topic; record a video and explain your idea; upload it to YouTube (preferable); tag your video with IFLAcamp; be a part of IFLAcamp...

News - 21 December 2011

Tags: Finland, New professionals, NPSIG, New Professionals

This is how it works: think of a challenging topic; record a video and explain your idea; upload it to YouTube (preferable); tag your video with IFLAcamp; be a part of IFLAcamp...

Event - 21 December 2011

Tags: Finland, New professionals, NPSIG, Workshop, New Professionals

This said, we are more than happy to offer you another exciting NPSIG workshop this year! OnWednesday, 25 Jan, 11:30-13:00, you are invited to explore the spirit of New Professionals with us...

Event - 21 December 2011

Tags: bobcatsss, Netherlands, New professionals, NPSIG, Workshop, New Professionals

Theme: Strategies for Library Associations: Include New Professionals now! In these days library associations are under pressure. Faced with multiple challenges, tight budgets and a lack...

News - 14 December 2011

Tags: Associations, New professionals, Management of Library Associations

A report from Oksana Rozmirovska, 2011 CILIP/IFLA Aspire Award winner In the very first instance, I would like to thank IFLA for giving me the opportunity to participate in the...

News - 7 December 2011

Tags: Announcement, Awards, IFLA 2011 Puerto Rico, New professionals, Ukraine

Oksana Rozmirovska has been selected to receive the CILIP/IFLA Aspire award for a new professional in Ukraine in 2011. This award is made in memory of Bob McKee who had a strong belief in libraries...

News - 22 June 2011

Tags: Announcement, Awards, New professionals

As of 1 April, Federica Marangio is the new Advocacy Support Officer at IFLA Headquarters. Recently graduated from the International Master's Program in Digital Library Learning (DILL...

News - 4 May 2010

Tags: Library and information profession, New professionals, Staffing, New Professionals

Loida García-Febo, assistant coordinator of the New Americans Program & Special Services at the Queens Library (N.Y.), is the 2010 recipient of the American Library Association (ALA)...

News - 20 March 2010

Tags: New professionals, Professional development, New Professionals

Themes and Focus New librarians are positioning themselves as library leaders inacademia, libraries, and professional associations. This event aims toaddress key themes and leading trends to...

Event - 11 March 2010

Tags: Boras, global, New professionals, Satellite Meeting, Sweden, Sweden IFLA 2010, New Professionals

Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section and New Professionals Discussion Group Bologna, Italy 18-20 August 2009 Theme: "Moving In, Moving Up, and Moving On:...

Event - 11 March 2010

Tags: Italy, New professionals, New Professionals and CPDWL Satellite meeting Bologna 2009, Satellite Meeting, New Professionals

from January 25 to 27, BOBCATSSS 2010 will take place in Parma, Italy. The New Professionals SIG will actively participate in the symposium by offering a workshop as well as a presentation. The...

Event - 18 January 2010

Tags: bobcatsss, bobcatsss2010, Italy, Italy, New professionals, Parma, Workshop, New Professionals

Call for Papers New Professionals Special Interest Group  & Management of Library Associations Section Theme:  The Global Librarian Boras, Sweden 9...

News - 16 January 2010

Tags: Boras, cfp, New professionals, preconference, Sweden, New Professionals

This year starts good, very good actually. We have a new convenor for our Special Interest Group! Sebastian Wilke is a student at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt...

News - 11 January 2010

Tags: Convenor, Germany, New professionals, NPSIG, New Professionals

Sven Fund, Managing Director of De Gruyter Saur and Jennefer Nicholson, IFLA Secretary General Invite submissions of papers for the De Gruyter Saur / IFLA Research Paper...

News - 8 December 2009

Tags: Announcement, Awards, New professionals

The Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program supports library and information science professionals from countries with developing economies. The program provides advanced...

News - 2 September 2009

Tags: Fellowships, Library and information science education, New professionals

 This volume comprises papers prepared for the 8th World Conference on Continuing Professional Development (Bologna, Italy, 18-20 August 2009). Within the broad theme of creating a positive...

News - 2 September 2009

Tags: Education and training, Information professionals, New professionals, Professional development

From 25 till 27 May, the 9th class of IFLA/OCLC Fellows visited the Netherlands. On Tuesday (26 May) they spent a full day in The Hague. During their visit at IFLA Headquarters...

News - 8 June 2009

Tags: Fellowships, Library and information science education, New professionals

IFLA’s New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG), founded in 2004, is an open global network for library and information science (LIS) new professionals and supporters...

IFLA Group or Activity - 31 March 2009

Tags: Library and information profession, motivation, Networking, New professionals, Special Interest Groups, New Professionals