Monday, July 10, 2017
Get involved

Call for Participation in IATUL Special Interest Groups

To complement the traditional IATUL annual conferences and to overcome the unavoidable time limitation of a yearly meeting, special interest groups are meant to provide a continuous opportunity to create new approaches to challenges in librarianship by joint international efforts.

Each task force focuses on a particular subject area and defines its own terms of reference, together with long and short-term goals. Task forces are chaired by senior librarians who will be appointed by the IATUL Board.

Special interest groups will be encouraged to present the results of their work at Annual IATUL Conferences. The standard means of communication for Special Interest Groups will be e-mail and video conferencing.

Following requests from its membership, the International Association of University Libraries offers the opportunity for IATUL member library personnel to participate in its

  • Special Interest Group for the Advancement of Library Services in Emerging Countries, SIG-ALICE
  • Special Interest Group for Library Services related to Research Impact Measurement, SIG-METRICS
  • Special Interest Group for Library Services related to Research...
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Monday, July 10, 2017
Strategic Library Management in Emerging Countries

IATUL Directors' Summit Phnom Penh 2017 – Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia (PUC), March 25, 2017 – March 27, 2017

IATUL Directors' Summit, Phnom Penh, March 2017

The current motto “One World Library” expresses IATUL’s endeavour to embrace all cultural differences and starting positions for approaches to challenges, even if these sometimes appear insurmountable.

IATUL’s ambition is to focus on the specific and down to earth, and, therefore, to provide assistance and additional inspiration where it is needed most.

The intention of the IATUL Directors’ Summit on “Strategic Library Management in Emerging Countries” was the analysis of the level of services and infrastructure at university libraries in Cambodia. The event was organised in cooperation with Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia (PUC) and Cambodia Librarians and Documentalists Association and was a great success.
IATUL Directors’ Summits use the World Café method of round table discussions to exchange ideas and experience in greater depth than is possible with the traditional presentation format of conferences.

During the two workshop days, March 25 – 26 March 2017, the discussions centred on six topics, which were introduced in 10-minute keynote presentations by experts from Belgium, Canada, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand:

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Thursday, June 8, 2017
Website Relaunch

Welcome to the new IATUL Website

A website and all pages attached are like a house or a library if you prefer. After a while, the technology used so far is outdated, everything looks old-fashioned, the floor squeaks in every corner. At some point, it is about time to modernise the whole complex. That is, what we have done at the IATUL Office. After many months of brainstorming, conceptualising, writing, erasing, rewriting, consultation with our friends from TUM Library IT & Technical Services, designing, texting, and 4729 cups of coffee, we are proud to present the new IATUL website to you. It offers you a fresh look, is optimized for mobile terminals and you can find here all important information on IATUL and its members. In a continuous development we aim to make the website a platform focusing on our members because they are IATUL’s core.We hope you like it and welcome any suggestion to make it even better.

Enjoy your new portal to the International Association of University Libraries!

Christine Friebolin, Annette Kiefer, Pia Ludwig, Marita Müller, Claudia Sand (Library IT), Kerstin Weinl (Library IT)

Thursday, June 1, 2017
IATUL Conference 2016 Halifax

2016 IATUL Conference Proceedings

The proceedings of the 2016 IATUL Conference in Halifax that have copyright clearance are now available at Purdue e-Pubs.

The 37th IATUL conference took place at the Dalhousie University Libraries in Halifax, Nova Scotia from 5 to 9 June 2016. The Conference was held under the heading "Library Leadership in a Sea of Change".

 

Thursday, June 1, 2017
Call for Applications

International Study Programme 2018

The International Association of University Libraries offers grants of up to € 2,000 to staff from member libraries to travel to other member libraries for periods of at least two weeks to investigate current issues of importance to IATUL libraries. Applications may be made by any staff member at an IATUL member library with the support of the university librarian. Only one application for a grant can be made from one member library in each calendar year. Applications for 2018 are accepted until 30 September 2017.

Find more information and the nomination form under International Study Programme.

Wednesday, May 17, 2017
The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Library Services in Developing Countries

IATUL Directors' Summit Windhoek 2017

IATUL Directors's Summit, Windhoek 2017, quiver trees

The two-day workshop aims to identify the ways in which the fast-paced world of information technology is influencing library services at southern African universities. It will also set the stage for potential IATUL initiatives to approach challenges universities libraries in the region might be experiencing in their service delivery and development. The workshop will be conducted in a World Café format to encourage discussion and the emergence of focus driven solutions. The target group of the workshop is university library directors only.

We look forward to welcoming you in Namibia! Go to event website (link is external) for further information and registration.

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