Organizing the Open Science Framework – Strategies and Legal Aspects
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Gdańsk University of Technology
Registration is now open!
Welcome to your IATUL Newsletter April 2019
INSIDE
Meet your IATUL Board Members
Upcoming Conferences
Directors’ Seminar
Special Interest Groups
Member Engagement
This Newsletter is a new format to inform all IATUL members and interested librarians about the association's ongoing activities. It will be sent out twice a year.
Please do not hesitate to contact any member of the Board to discuss initiatives highlighted in the Newsletter, as well as your thoughts around how you and the Association may advance our shared aspirations.
We would be delighted to hear from you.
We are thrilled to introduce you to the second of our keynote speakers for IATUL 2019 Perth, Professor Sharon Parker.
Sharon K. Parker is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Curtin University where she is currently Director of the Centre for Transformative Work Design. She has worked as a researcher and consultant in a wide range of public and private organizations.
Her research focuses on job and work design, and she is also interested in employee performance and development, especially in regards to proactive behaviour, change and well-being.
Professor Parker is also an Honorary Fellow at the University of Western Australia and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sheffield, where she was previously Director at the Institute of Work Psychology. She has published more than 100 refereed articles with over 17,000 citations and attracted competitive research funding worth over $40 million.
Professor Parker’s keynote on the Future of Work will open the day’s program on Tuesday 25 June.
Read more about Professor Sharon K. Parker on the Centre for Transformative Work Design.
Have you registered for 2019 IATUL Conference yet? Early bird registrations close on Saturday 20 April 2019!
Registration options include single day and full conference registration – with great rates for IATUL members.
View the exciting program featuring local and international speakers now available at the conference website, and register for your discounted early bird rate via the conference website.
Call for Participants:
The IATUL SIG-ALICE Coaching Programme invites applications from experienced library managers/leaders to act as coaches to Cambodian library directors/managers for a limited, one-year period beginning in June 2019.
Applications must include a CV and a brief statement addressing why you are interested in serving as a coach and what areas of expertise you would bring to the partnership.
Please send your application to Bethany Wilkes: bethany.wilkes@yale-nus.edu.sg, Chair, SIG-ALICE by 22 April 2019.
About the Programme:
The SIG-ALICE Coaching Programme aims to contribute expertise and support for the further development of library services in emerging countries such as Cambodia, our first focus. Coaching is task-oriented, performance driven and takes place within a defined one year time period.
General objectives for all partnerships:
We’re excited to introduce you to the first of our keynote speakers for the IATUL Conference 2019, Professor Seongcheol Kim. Professor Kim is a professor in the School of Media and Communication at Korea University, and the Korea University Librarian.
He is the founder and director of the Centre for Media Industry, a research centre focused on the Korean media industry. He is also the current president of the Korean Association for Information Society and a member of the Board of Directors for the International Telecommunications Society and the International Media Management Academic Association.
His research interests include Information and Communication Technologies management and policy. As of March 2019, he has published more than 100 papers in international and Korean journals and 21 books. He teaches in the areas of media management, new media and mobile media.
Professor Kim’s keynote topic is Transforming the Library through Social Innovation: A Case Study of Korea University Library.
