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HCT Libraries eVolunteering Program
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-14) Suaybaguio, Vergel; Djukic, Miljana; Casas, MaryAnn
HCT Libraries' PPE (Pivot, Perform, Excel) model implementation provided continuity of services through our e-Volunteering Program in response to the COVID-19 lockdown, enabling it to Connect, Inspire, Enable & Engage with students. We will demonstrate the advantages of using HCT educational technologies, such as LibGuide, Blackboard Learn, and library e-resources, to enable the libraries to Pivot from students' face-to-face volunteering to an online iteration. A Library e-Volunteering Program trial ran in May 2020. It continues to Perform post-lockdown and generate activities that engage students and support them to earn volunteering hour credits to graduate. Our innovative e-Volunteering solution inspired many students to participate and gained strong support from HCT's central Student Life Department. The program synchronized the libraries' efforts to support students while connecting with other departments across 16 campuses. The Program Excelled, growing from 220 e-Volunteers in 2020, completing 797 hours, to 1,282 e-Volunteers in 2021 who completed 1,678 hours. As a result of the Program, students have gained life skills and improved their technical knowledge, communication, and soft skills, such as time management. It is a dedicated platform enabling students to enjoy lifelong learning, find their abilities, and share their passions.
Developing a student-centred approach to academic referencing support for postgraduate distance learners
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-14) Byrne, Ann; O’Dowd, Irene
In Hibernia College, students are expected to take primary responsibility for maintaining academic integrity in their studies. However, lecturers and support staff have an important role to play in educating students about academic integrity and helping them develop the skills needed to practise it. This poster describes a project initiated by the Digital Learning Department (DLD) to improve the College’s online referencing supports, in response to the high volume of referencing queries being received daily by the Digital Librarian. Recent changes to the focus of capstone research projects on Hibernia’s Professional Master of Education programmes, combined with the move to fully online instruction during the Covid-19 pandemic, further highlighted the urgency of ensuring that these resources met students’ needs. The project consisted of a comprehensive update of the College’s core Referencing Guide and the delivery of a series of live drop-in webinar workshops to address specific referencing queries. The project was informed by research literature on online social presence and academic literacies. A preliminary data analysis provides indications of student engagement with and responses to the new supports.
Cracking the Astrid Lindgren Code: A Showcase of a Librarian-Researcher-Crowdsourcing Collaboration
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-14) Andersdotter, Karolina; Nauwerck, Malin
In this poster, the research project the Astrid Lindgren Code is used to showcase how libraries can play an active role in facilitating connections and infrastructure for researchers and the public to create fruitful citizen science projects. In the Astrid Lindgren Code, expert crowdsourcing has been used to transliterate a selection of the shorthand manuscripts of the world-famous author. The crowd's expertise in stenography has been crucial for the project's success and the results will be used to study Lindgren's writing process as well as to train an HTR (hand-written text recognition) model for shorthand which will enable easier access to the other Lindgren manuscripts as well as other collections written in shorthand. The poster will especially highlight the role librarians played in setting up a transcription platform, educating the crowd in using it, and the iterative process between librarian-researcher-crowd which can be a model for libraries in future similar endeavours.
How the Portuguese school libraries integrate the action plans for the digital development of schools
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-15) Oliveira Ramos, Maria Raquel Medeiros
Developing the digital competence of educational organizations is nowadays a key dimension in the quality of schools' work. To answer the need to create digitally competent organizations, schools were invited to develop a Digital Development Action Plan. The school library, as a school structure that integrates and fosters innovation, contributes significantly to the success of these action plans, and teacher librarians have an important role to play in their design and implementation. A survey conducted by the SLN let us conclude that 85% of the 811 school clusters integrate the Action Plan for the Digital Development. The digital content and teaching digital literacy are the topics most school libraries are dealing with at the moment. However, teacher librarians are also commited to play a role in the teaching and learning practices, integrating technology in their daily work. 57% os school libraries design actions that have to do with teacher development, providing training to other teachers or receiving training and investing in the infrastructure and equipment. School libraries are no so involved in leadership and governance practices nor are they in the assessment practices, areas that need to be improved. Accordingly, in 2020/2021, the School Libraries Network (SLN), a structure of the Ministry of Education, responsible for the management of 2541 school libraries, created a guideline document («The school Library in the Action plan for the Digital Development of Schools») to support the work of teacher librarians (1373). Moreover, to facilitate their work and to involve them in this digital transition process, the Intercity Coordinators (Coordinators that are a link between the Central Office and the teacher librarians) received training on this matter and trainded most of the teacher librarins (1104 trainees, out of the 1373). In 2021/2022, the work done by the teacher librarians was monitored and good practices were identified and disseminated.
Come in, we’re open! Managing opening hours, especially in uncertain times
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-15) Gütling, Johannes; Illig, Steffen; Lappe, Jannik
Managing opening hours is a constant challenge. In the case of Bamberg University Library, we have to deal with six branch libraries spread all over the city area with quite different opening hours. It has always been a challenge to deal with public holidays and special opening hours during semester breaks, but during the pandemic the ability to plan became significantly worse. While trying to keep the libraries open throughout, we had to react quickly to short-term legal restrictions on opening hours and seat capacity. These latest changes always had to be communicated immediately to our users and also become visible in other services that rely on this information. Due to the frequent changes, the effort was considerable. To meet this challenge, we decided to develop a central, easy-to-use web application to manage and schedule both opening hours and available seats. Changes are possible at any time, even on the same day without any coding skills. We are now integrating the information from this application into various services. These services include our communication channels (e.g., information displays in the libraries) and our website. We also use this information for our room booking system. This allows users to book rooms only during opening hours. When the strictest restrictions applied, we also developed booking systems for individual pick-up appointments and workplaces in the libraries utilising this information. These functions already make our colleagues' work much easier. To simplify further work steps, we also plan to connect external services such as Google Business Information to our application. Additionally, the reporting of the total opening hours for the German Library Statistics (DBS) may in future also be processed automatically with our application.
School Libraries and Open Communities for Sustainable Development
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-15) Lujanac, Antonija
Open Communities for Sustainable Development (OUTSIDE) is an international project co-founded by Erasmus+ program of the European Union and developed by organizations from Croatia, UK, Belgium, Italy and Lithuania. The poster presents how the school library in Croatia participated in the project through the research and implementation into the school curriculum. Inspired by the Irish clover the results are available by scanning the QR codes. Results of the project are the research, a professional paper, the teacher Toolkit and the multilingual OER. Topics of the project are SDGs, sustainable entrepreneurship, outdoor learning and Open Schooling as a modern concept in Europe.
Student’s Internship and Community Service: Enabling students in uncertain times
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-15) Levy, Karen
The University of the West Indies Mona Library has long been a place where students from various educational institutions flock to complete their required internship and community service. With COVID-19 restrictions and a number of UWI and Library teaching and services going virtual, the UWI Mona Library, up to May 31 2022 operated with average opening hours of 8:30 am – 4:30 pm week days only. Nothwithstanding our limitations and restrictions, during the period June 1 2020 – May 31 2022, the Library continued to accommodate students from the University of the West Indies and other educational institutions to complete periods of internship and community service as many other locations were closed or inaccessible to students for these purposes. Internship is often a requisite part of higher education programs and students may avail scholarships from various financial institutions and government agencies by undertaking community service at an established organization. By Facilitating students in this manner, the Library provided ongoing support and enabled students throughout 2020 – 2022. Although the number of hours for internship and the accommodation of community service students was greatly reduced over the period under review, the actual number of students facilitated did not significantly diminish. Key words: Enabling Students; Internship; Community Service;
When the Local Matters Globally: Beginning Cataloguing Roadmap
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-15) Welsh, Anne
This poster highlights work undertaken by Beginning Cataloguing in 2020-22 to train public library workers in original cataloguing. It covers: • publications for which the public library is the only known repository • materials for which the primary (and sometimes only) audience is local • formats that are common in local studies collections such as privately printed books, oral history recordings, maps and gazetteers, and the output of local exhibitions • the similarities and differences in cataloguing archival materials that are unique by design (e.g. manuscripts) and publications that can be considered unique by survival rate UK public libraries began outsourcing metadata work in the 1980s, so by the 2020s they exemplified Manuel and Oppenheim's 2007 prediction that "Economies of scale take precedence where budgetary constraints are in operation, but loss of key skills may have long-term implications." The image on the poster is of the Beginning Cataloguing Roadmap, which forms the basis for the trainings we have developed for each local authority.
Being inspired by reading
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-19) Saidembayeva, Aliya
In school libraries in Kazakhstan, special attention is paid to supporting and developing interest in reading among students. Ministry of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan has been implementing the Reading School project in schools since 2021. It did have a positive effect on activities of school libraries: - The number of library users increased, which is now 213 861 children, i.e., 6.7%. - The fund of fiction literature increased by 2 million 439 thousand 376 copies; - 1 000 comfortable coworking centers were opened in schools for scientific and cognitive purposes for students, where they can study, read, and exchange opinions on the books they have read - 4 045 events were held to form students' reading literacy, increase their motivation to read literature. The Republican Scientific Pedagogical Library (RCPL) organized several activities under the auspices of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan. They are: - "The National reading competition 2022" was organized in cooperation with the Booketition company among high school students of Almaty in hybrid format (online and offline). As a slogan for the competition the following phrase was chosen: "Motivation to read through competition". 3 099 students joined the project. 256 students participated and 11 winners were selected. - In cooperation with the Daria Development Center (Almaty) reading competition TulgaBolam ("I will be intellectual person") was organized, which consisted of three stages. Various age groups of children participated in the competition. Two stages of this reading competition were already held. 50 000 readers participated in the first stage and 100 000 readers in the 2nd stage. The grand prize at the 2nd stage, a one-room apartment in the capital city Nur-Sultan, was given to the reader from Shymkent region. The RCPLis involved in the project called "Reading on holidays", within which the lists of recommended books for all ages of students were prepared. After reading the books, students shared their opinions and views in social networks: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok under #OukugaKushtarMektepZhazgyDemalysta. Strategic directions of activities that need to be implemented by school libraries of the Republic of Kazakhstan to support and develop students’ reading skills: 1) Further popularization and development of reading as a way of intellectual, spiritual and moral development of students as well as organizing their leisure time; 2) development of reading skills, media and information literacy of students; 3) developing school libraries as resource centers for gaining educational, cultural, and recreational information. They should ensure the development and support of the reading culture of students; 4) combining the efforts of the teaching staff, the library and the parent community in order to improve the status of reading, reader activity and the quality of reading of students.
Digital Research Topics: Reimagining Digital Collections to Facilitate Student Research
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-19) Brannock, Jennifer; La Beaud, Elizabeth
This presentation focuses on creating curated digital collections in response to the pandemic. The Digital Research Topics (DRT) provide 15-20 images for each subject with curated items representing a variety of perspectives and primary source formats. The DRTs help inexperienced student researchers engage with primary sources in a pre-packaged way that eliminates the initial stress of the research process and helps students connect with the sources. Through the curation of the images, librarians have compiled lists of sources that allow researchers to engage with the digital collections in a unique way, outside the standard process of searching and getting results.
Every Week is a Children’s Week-from Personal to Virtual and Vice Versa
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-20) Rajić, Jelena
The “Every Week is a Children’s Week-from Personal to Virtual and Vice Versa“ poster presents programs for children in the “Radislav Nikčević” Public Library in Jagodina, Serbia. It is a continuous program that lasts for more than a decade and has been developed by the library professionals-teachers and educationist by trade. They have a range of skills, competencies and expertise necessary for running the programmes for children effectively and professionally. The program includes a range of services and workshops for preschool and primary school children aiming at children’s cultural development, life-long learning, finding their artistic side, preserving nature, expressing love for animals, being good listeners and speakers, overcoming challenges and adapting to drastic changes in the time of COVID-19 outbreak. The programs in person include recycling workshops, mother tongue and literature lessons, introduction to print and electronic literary magazines for children, foreign languages workshops, celebration of important holidays, art workshops and exhibitions, coding lessons, puppet theatres, reading diaries, etc. In the time of a pandemic, the Library demonstrated its adaptability to changing circumstances and the programs shifted from in person (personal) to virtual. The librarians connected with children through social networks and they took part in the following activities from home: presenting their favourite books, writing poems or short essays on different topics, art contests, recitation activities, introducing pets, etc. They made photos or videos and posted them on the Library’s Facebook page and engaged in discussions in the comments.
Finding the Joy of books: Kuopio City Library's Reading Project for Special Classes
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-20) Rossi, Lissu
The aim of Reading Project Lukukirjo is to support children’s literacy, especially of those with reading problems. The project organizes workshops for special classes in primary schools. A literary art instructor offers tips on books using action methods and invites children to share their favourite books with others. Under professional guidance, each child can find interesting reading. The workshops also feature a trained Reading Dog (R.E.A.D), named Sylvi. Her presence helps calm down an insecure reader. She doesn’t mind potential errors and is always attentive. Online reading tasks and lists including simplified books, e-audiobooks and book-based movies help in taking up reading. The pages also include book assignments that deepen the reading experience and encourage children in making their own texts. They can be completed alone or with classmates or family members. The project is run by Kuopio City Library in collaboration with Word Art School Aapeli and three Kuopio-based primary schools. It is funded by the Regional State Administrative Agency for Eastern Finland, and will run from 2021 to 2023.
Gazi Husrev-beg Library Book Museum
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-20) Ćurovac, Ejla; Ćurovac, Adnan
Gazi Husrev-bey Library in Sarajevo is one of the oldest cultural institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was founded on January 8, 1537 and has since continuously served the mission for which it was created. With the installation of the "Book Museum" to the visitors of the Gazi Husrev-bey Library and to book lovers in general will be presented an interesting story about the attitude of the inhabitants of Bosnia and Herzegovina towards books in the past, which is told through museum artifacts. Museum's collection is divided into fourteen topical units includes The oldest book in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Scriptorium in Foca in the 16th century; The first printing house in the Ottoman Empire; The first printed books and newspapers in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Madrassas and Libraries; Qur'an manuscripts; The Library during the wartime in the period from 1992 to 1995; Calligraphy; Lapidarium and few others. This poster will serve as an inspiration to other libraries to present their most important manuscripts, incunabulas and rarities to the public. It will also provide an opportunity for all congress visitors to get to know the Gazi Husrev-bey Library and its nearly half-millennium-long journey. Gazi Husrev-bey library, given its age and the valuable manuscripts and books it protects in its holdings, can be a great inspiration to other libraries around the world to present and offer their literary treasures to the public.
Improving linguistic equality in national infrastructures
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-20) Hyvönen, Nina; Koikkalainen, Riitta; Partanen, Niko
The National Library of Finland (NatLibFI) has launched a project to improve support for Northern Sámi in its digital services Finna, Finto and Kotoistus. Digital infrastructures in NatLibFi are maintained for Finnish and Swedish, the official languages of Finland. Up until now, there has been no support for Sámi languages despite their status as official regional languages. At the core of the project are the permanent national infrastructures maintained by NatLibFi: 1) the search service Finna, 2) the terminology and ontology service Finto, and 3) Kotoistus, the service promoting the use of ICT products and services in the native language of the user. Creating support in Nothern Sámi to these services enables more correct and clearly defined description of the Sámi resources. Organizations, including museums, libraries, and language communities, can use the results of the project in their work. The key partners are the Sámi Parliament of Finland, the Sámi Museum and Nature Centre Siida, the libraries in the Sámi area, the Giellagas Institute for Sámi Studies, the language authority Sámi Giellagáldu, and UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. In the future, the services will provide persistent support for the Nothern Sámi through relevant cooperation networks.
#Tip_of_the_week
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-21) Bedeir, Rabab Shaker
When the pandemic forced libraries to shut their doors for quite some time, Bibliotheca Alexandrina “BA”, among other libraries, transferred lots of the provided services and activities to be online. Using Facebook as the main channel, Professional Development Programs, powered by BA, started providing free online content such as online sessions, short videos, infographics, animated videos, lives. This content targets Libraries and Information Science “LIS” professionals, as well as the public users of BA, by raising their awareness regarding the latest trends in the field, enhance their professional and technical skills; providing information to help the users to enhance their knowledge regarding the different open-access resources, information literacy, as well as contributing in the non-formal education. This content was the main reference for #Tip_of_the_Week. #Tip_of_the_Week was crucial to help the users of BA, and precisely Professional Development Programs users, sort through a sea of information. It is a series of tips, provided each week, to highlight some tips in the categories of Information awareness, as well as professional development. Using the hashtag to make it easier for the audience to navigate through the available content easily, referring to the main references used in each design, and tip.
Are Librarians Cat People?
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-21) Delaune, Camille; Gaffet, Mathilde; Papon-Vidal, Laure
If we have a lot of stereotypes about our own library professions, owning a cat is one of the most common clichés. Who hasn't seen this representation of librarians with a bun, a cardigan, glasses and cats? Starting from this very broad statement, we wondered whether there is a connection between being a librarian and owning/loving cats: Is there a gender bias considering there are more female librarians than male librarians? Is there a social factor or a group-think phenomenon that would explain that librarians might own more cats than the average? To answer these questions, we designed and implemented a large-scale survey (the first step in a research project) addressed to library professionals in France. On one hand, this study aims to assess whether there is indeed a disproportionate over representation of cat owners among librarians. On the other hand, it aims to analyse the gap of the actual representation in regards to clichés and to offer clues to ensure a better understanding. Also, to address these questions, we will base the study on interdisciplinary research literature to offer a wider understanding by using different approaches such as psychology, sociology or animal studies.
Expanding digital access to literature by Black Canadians
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-21) Walsh, Benjamin
Academic library collections serve each broad discipline as either the raw material for research or the overarching structure that places its scholarly production in context. Within the humanities, the raw materials of research that are available to scholars are often biased towards a Western literary canon. This is especially true of the digital humanities where scholarship can only reflect what it is possible for scholars to see. Historian Kim Gallon (Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities, 2016) describes a digital humanities that frames human culture and society through digital library collections that lack equity in their representation of Black experience. Black studies, she argued, cannot leverage the opportunities digital humanities affords if this problem with digital collections remains. This poster will first present an overview of the methods library staff used to assess the digital collections at a large Canadian university library to identify the gaps that exist in its holdings of the literature of Black Canadians. Next this poster will describe how these gaps need to be addressed both through traditional commercial acquisition and through direct partnerships with publishers and authors to ensure this important work can be digitized, preserved, and shared.
Librarians and Distance Education: Perspectives of the Digital Environment
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-21) Filipeti, Antonija; Matijević, Marta; Pikić Jugović, Aleksandra
Since 2002, the Training Center for Continuing Education of Librarians in the Republic of Croatia (CSSU) has been organizing continuing education programs in the physical environment, and since 2018, in order to make education more accessible throughout Croatia, it has introduced webinars. The COVID-19 disease pandemic caused far-reaching changes - the sudden "migration" to the digital environment has encouraged the library community to develop new services and increase their quality. Accordingly, most of the training organized by CSSU took place online. In the context of new circumstances and methods of teaching, from 1 July to 1 September 2021, CSSU conducted a survey on the attitudes and participation of the Croatian library community in continuing professional development during and before the pandemic and expectations for the future. The poster will present part of the research related to the attitudes of the library community on distance learning in terms of its frequency, quality, time management, opportunities to develop competencies for the labor market such as self-discipline, entrepreneurship, initiative etc. Opinions on the advantages and disadvantages of distance education in relation to education in a physical environment (lack of communication and personal contact, easy loss of focus...) will also be taken into account.
Connections through service
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-21) Wöckel, Claudia
One major stakeholder of university libraries is researchers of every level. Services for this group of library users need to be smooth, direct, and beneficial to succeed. Interviews with professors, post-docs, and Ph.D. students at the medical department of Leipzig university, revealed several desiderata in the publication process. One of them is being supported by experts in graphic design, typesetting, and handling of data formats. Media designers can provide such support. The medical and sciences branch restructured the staff and implemented a media designer as a service provider in the publication process. Researchers now hand over manuscripts for typesetting or raw graphical data for polished graphics to the media design service and receive the final product. The service was first established with selected working groups and will be available for the whole faculty after evaluation. The services enabled a deep collaboration between the subject librarian, media designer, and researchers, resulting in several workshops and consultations on publication-related topics (e.g., research data, open access, literature research).
From Access to Action
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-09-21) Wu, Jingjing; Henry, Cynthia
Research data services have grown fast in academic libraries during the past decade. Our libraries have offered data services like research data plan, instructions on data sources, and data archiving and preservation for years. Our currently enrolled survey results show that students were looking for workshops on Python, Tableau, R, and other data manipulation, analysis, and presentation tools. Visualization of data became apparent as a need from the students and faculty at Texas Tech University. No one was addressing visualization as a service need across campus. There was a gap in our services to which would help people produce better research by shifting focus from data access to data action, then to production and visualization. Two librarians saw this need and acted. Both decided to attend a Carpentries training independently, and then decided to work together to develop a service for the library by helping to fill the gap between theory and a more practical approach. Libraries moving from services that promote access to data to more of an interaction with the data for analysis.

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