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NPSIG Community Needs & Priorities Survey

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The IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) invites you to complete our Community Needs & Priorities Survey — especially if you’re at the start of your career.

Your input on professional interests, challenges, and priorities will directly shape NPSIG’s future activities, resources, and collaborations, helping us deliver what matters most to new professionals worldwide.

Take the survey here (deadline: 30 October): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZmUa6Nof8I9rB_2XPihcnw9tuQlJyagd9FnY7f9-UV4/preview

Thank you for helping us build a stronger, more connected professional community!

IFLA/ALA webinar: “Library Services to Teenagers in the Digital Age”

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We are proud to present the first session of the 2019 webinar series “New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations.”

Please join us for the upcoming webinar: “Library services to teenagers in the digital age”

Join us and hear about inspiring services from librarians serving communities and teens including online content, podcasts, gaming, coding and much more!

These are twenty-first century skills that will make an impact on teenager’s careers and personal interests. Continue reading →

When a door closes, a window opens

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Courtney YoungInterview with Courtney Young, American Library Association Immediate Past President, the youngest President the ALA had in the last 80+ years.

Courtney Young graduated with MS in Library Science from Simmons College in August 1997 and began first librarian position in September 1, 1997. After being a librarian for 16 years, Courtney was inaugurated as ALA President in 2014. She was and still is the youngest librarian to be elected as ALA President, proving that newer librarians can have the skills, leadership and capabilities of leading a large library association such as the ALA which has more than 55,000 members in the USA and internationally.

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Call for papers: NPSIG open session at WLIC 2016 in Columbus

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The IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) invites you to submit a proposal for its open session to be held in Columbus, Ohio, USA, in August 2016.

Theme: “Failing successfully in a librarian’s career: is a setback an opportunity to grow, or just an unwelcome incident on the road to success?”

Management of failure is a critical topic when referring to innovation and creativity. If failure will be a natural occurrence in every creative and innovative librarian’s professional life, management of failure should be discussed in the library world. Continue reading →

8th NPSIG virtual business meeting is Saturday, December 19th!

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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 Bertolini (Convenor), Milan Vasiljević (Co-Convenor), Antoine Torrens (Information Coordinator), and Katia Shklyar (Co-Information Coordinator).

We’ll be going over our new NPSIG Action Plan 2015-16 and sharing status reports. We will also share news about upcoming events like the IFLAcamp 2016, #newlibgc webinar in April 2016, Open Programme Session and Open Business Meeting at WLIC 2016, and we welcome any other announcements, past events reports, as well as ideas and proposals for NPSIG work in 2016!

Date: Saturday December 19th, 2015
Time:
10am EST UTC-5 (New York)
1pm UTC-2 (Rio de Janeiro)
3pm GMT UTC (London)
4pm CET UTC+1 (Berlin)
12am UTC+9 (Tokyo)
2am EST (Sydney, next day)

current agenda (feel free to add comments and items)

Google Hangout Air (don’t forget to sign up!!!)

See you soon!!!

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Help us identify topics for the 2016 IFLA/ALA #newlibgc free webinars

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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 Professional Development and Workplace Learning and IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group are partnering with the American Library Association to present a series of free quarterly webinars on issues of interest to new librarians, library associations and library schools, library-decision makers, and all library workers.

The webinars are a great opportunity for membership participation via new worldwide online programming. Don’t miss this great opportunity to be connected!

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To make sure we include topics of interest to you, please leave your suggestions by November 1st:

  • Which topics would you like to see included on the 2015 IFLA/ALA free webinars?
  • Do you know an expert for the topic?
  • Are you willing to present yourself?

You can have your say in many ways: by answering our online poll, commenting below, tweeting #newlibgc, and/or emailing us: [email protected].

Our committee really appreciates your suggestions! We shall announce the topics and speakers for the next webinar by mid-December.

Thank you!

Loida Garcia-Febo, Series Coordinator