Travel grants applications for IFLA 2022 WLIC now open

IFLA ARL Section, with generous sponsorship by Ex Libris and SAGE, is offering attendance grants for the 2023 World Library and Information Congress in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Two awardees will be selected from each of these regions:

• Africa
• Latin America
• Asia/Pacific region

Each grant covers the early registration fee and support for travel and/or accommodation.

Please browse the details on the dedicated page of our website.

Blog flow keeps you in touch

The ARL Section's lively blog offers (at least) monthly diverse news and views from academic and research librarians around the world. 

• LITTE_BOT, a theatrical chatbot: Conversing with Molière’s Dom Juan through dramaturgical strategies 
• My WLIC experience: The library gave a special and different meaning to my life
• The Fourth Attempt: A Chronicle of a Filipina Librarian’s WLIC Journey

Call to action webinar: online material available now!

ARL’s latest global webinar organized last November addressed “The call to action: academic libraries’ responses to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals”.

Our speakers Roxanne Missingham, University Librarian, Australian National University; and Najmeh Shaghaei, Head of Library, Campus Sønderborg, University of Southern Denmark brought us bright case studies to give thought to.
You will find Roxanne's and Njameh's slides on Slideshare, and the complete video on our website.   

 

Enjoy ARL activities from home !

The IFLA Academic and Research Libraries Section has been hosting webinars on topics relevant to academic and research libraries and sharing perspectives from around the world since 2019. All webinar recordings and slides are available on YouTube and SlideShare.

You can also enjoy online here our 2022 World Library and Information Congress contribution, with the Hot Topic session, “Truth, Evidence and Memory: Academic Libraries as Cultural Rights Defenders”.

From one year to the next...

As we are now working on the 2023 IFLA WILC programme, we may tap on the rich material gathered as an overview of various ARL Country Trends. 

You may want to have a global view of the ARL field on our website, a summary of which is also available  here. 

So stay alert for the Hot Topics to come!

See you online!

There are lots of ways to keep in touch with the latest news and views from the global academic and research libraries community.

ARL offers you the following channels:

• ARL web site
• ARL blog
• Facebook
• Twitter
• ARL mailing list

Get amongst it and join the conversation!