Every year, a number of IFLA Professional Units (Sections and Special Interest Groups) organise unique Satellite Meetings prior to or just after the IFLA World Library and Information Congress.
These 1-3 day meetings are held either in the host country or in countries in the surrounding region.
Satellite Meetings are organised by different professional groups (Sections, Core Programmes and Special Interest Groups).
Calls are launched between December 2018 and January 2019 and are collected on this page as soon as they become available.
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Satellite Meetings
Acquisition and Collection Development Section
Theme: "Building Digital Libraries through International Collaboration"Deadline for proposals: 7 April 2019
Big Data Special Interest Group
Theme: "Data intelligence in libraries: the actual and artificial perspectives"Deadline for proposals: 15 April 2019
Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section
Theme: "Librarians and information professionals as (pro)motors of change: immersing, including and initiating digital transformation for smart societies"Deadline for proposals: 11 March 2019
Division V. (Regions) joint with Management of Library Associations Section and LIS Education in Developing Countries Special Interest Group
Theme: "Leadership roles in international librarianship: how can information professionals from Africa, Asia & Oceania, Latin America & Caribbean be part of it?"Deadline for proposals: 22 March 2019
Health and Biosciences Libraries Section
Theme: "International and local developments that enhance scholarly communication in the biomedical and social sciences"Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2019
Information Technology Section
Theme: "Robots in Libraries: Challenge or Opportunity?"Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2019
Knowledge Management Section joint with Digital Humanities – Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group
Theme: "Artificial intelligence and its impact on libraries"Deadline for proposals: 11 March 2019
Local History and Genealogy Section joint with Asia and Oceania Section
Theme: "1: Libraries as mediators, producers and partners in the development of community awareness and cultural understanding and 2: Local History and Genealogy in multiethnic societies, the impact of genetic mapping and digitized sources "Deadline for proposals: 15 April 2019
Management and Marketing Section
Theme: "Recruiting and managing the new generation of employees to attract new markets and create new services"Deadline for proposals: 1 March 2019
Science and Technology Libraries Section Joint with Evidence for Global and Disaster Health (E4GDH) Special Interest Group
Theme: "Library Services for Open Science"Deadline for proposals: 1 April 2019
Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section joint with National Libraries Section
Theme: "Grey Literature: Scholarly Communication in a Digital World"Deadline for proposals: 8 March 2019
Statistics and Evaluation Section
Theme: "More than numbers: Implementing new assessment methods for libraries"Deadline for proposals: 15 March 2019
