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IFLA New Professionals
Special Interest Group NPSIG
GREAT OPORTUNITY FOR COLLABORATION AND
EXCHANGE OF IDEAS
NPSIG Business Meetings Week 25-28 August, 2020

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❖IFLA NPSIG – what does it mean?
❖NPSIG – what we do?
❖Webinars
❖Congress sessions, Satellite meetings and IFLAcamp
❖Projects: Map of New Professionals, NPSIG Music Contest
❖What are the benefits?
❖How to get involved?
❖Contact
❖Q&A
Agenda

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❖IFLA NPSIG – International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions: New Professionals Special Interest Group
❖When?
❖Founded in 2004 on the IFLA WLIC in Buenos Aires (16th
Anniversary)
❖What is it?
❖Open global network for library and information science new
professionals and supporters from all over the world
IFLA NPSIG – what does it mean?

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❖Where is NPSIG within IFLA hierarchy?
❖Special interest group within IFLA affiliated with the Management
of Library Associations Section (MLAS)
❖How does it work?
❖LIS professionals are in charge of managing and coordinating
activities of NPSIG (Convenor, Information coordinator, Volunteer
coordinator, Social media coordinator and Associates)
IFLA NPSIG – what does it mean?

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What we do?
Photo by Esteban Lopez/ Unsplash

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IFLA NPSIG main activities:
❖ Webinars,
❖ Congress sessions and Satellite meetings,
❖ IFLAcamp,
❖ Online communication – blog and web page, social networks,
communication with NPSIG worldwide,
❖ and other cool stuff.
NPSIG – what we do?

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❖Webinars
❖Held more than 25 webinars on different topics
❖With more than 100 speakers from all over the world
❖With more than 400 participants all over the world
❖Successful cooperation with different IFLA bodies (such as CPDWL, ALA, IAML and
others)
Webinars

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❖ Congress sessions and Satelite meetings
❖ WLIC 2010 Satellite Meeting by New Professionals Special Interest Group & Management of Library
Associations Section in Borås, Sweden.
❖ WLIC 2011 Satellite Meeting, "New Professionals beyond New Professionals - skills, needs and strategies of a
new generation of LIS professionals" in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
❖ IFLA WLIC 2012 „Strategies for library associations: include new professionals now!” by Management of
Library Associations with the New Professionals Special Interest Group in Helsinki, Finland.
❖ WLIC 2013 "New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations", the joint
NPSIG / CPDWL session in Singapore.
❖ WLIC 2014 "Residency models on the rise - chances and challenges for new librarians, educators and
employers„ in Lyon, France.
❖ WLIC 2016 Satellite Meeting, „Failing successfully in a librarian's career” open session in Columbus, Ohio,
USA.
❖ IFLA WLIC 2017 Library Theory and Research Section and NPSIG Joint Session “Engaged communities –
transforming the librarian role” in Wroclaw, Poland.
❖ IFLA WLIC 2018 „Librarian Fashion: What does the way we dress say about us?” in Kuala Lumpur, Malasya.
❖ IFLA WLIC 2019 IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) and Management and Marketing
Section „Library Love Stories” in Athens, Greece.
Congress sessions and Satellite
meetings

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Looking
back

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❖IFLAcamp
❖IFLAcamp - “New Professionals Now!” in Hämeenlinna, Finland 2012,
❖IFLAcamp#2 – at Li Ka Shing Library, Singapore Management University in Singapore
2013,
❖IFLAcamp#3 - at Enssib, the School of Library and Information Science in Lyon, France
2014,
❖IFLAcamp Library Creative Laboratory: “A Hero of Our Time’ in a Library” in Saint
Petersburg, Russia 2014,
❖IFLAcamp#4 - at OCLC Headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, USA 2016,
❖IFLAcamp#5 - at Dolnośląska Biblioteka Publiczna im. Tadeusza Mikulskiego - the
regional public library of Wroclaw in Poland 2017,
❖IFLAcamp#6 – at Raja Tun Uda Library, Shah Alam (Selangor Public Library)
in Selangor, Malasya 2018,
❖IFLAcamp#7 - at Municipal Library in Ilioupoli, Athens, Greece 2019.
IFLAcamp

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Looking
back

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What are the
benefits?

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❖ What are the benefits?
❖ Free
❖ Learning opportunities
❖ Good networking opportunities
❖ Good information source
❖ WhatsApp group, instant networking on social media
❖ Social and cultural development
❖ Diversity in LIS area
What are the benefits?

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❖ Future tasks:
❖Blog: https://npsig.wordpress.com/
❖translate posts into different languages,
❖interview fantastic librarians from your country,
❖write an article about interesting event for new professionals etc.
How to get involved?

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❖NPSIG Music Contest: a first music competition for librarians organized in
cooperation with IAML,
❖Tasks:
❖take part in preparing social media campaign,
❖write to sponsors and partners.
How to get involved?

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❖IFLAcamp #8 in Rotterdam:
❖plan an event in another country,
❖promoting event in social media,
❖preparing a special website and materials,
❖looking for partners,
❖Map of New Professionals:
❖contact library associations and groups,
How to get involved?

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NEW IDEAS always come:
implementation of interesting project or programme

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❖ NPSIG/IFLAcamp – Share your experience!
https://youtu.be/vncTtqkqeKk
NPSIG - Share your
experience!

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Contact
Check out our blog and social media!
https://npsig.wordpress.com

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Questions
&
Answers