The Keynote speakers have been confirmed for “Facing the Future: Librarians and Information Literacy in a Changing Landscape”, the IFLA Information
Literacy Section Satellite Meeting, August 14-15th 2014 in Limerick, Ireland:
- Dr Michael Stephens – Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, San Jose State University, USA;
- Dr Nancy Fried Foster – Senior Anthropologist at Ithaka S+R, New York, USA;
- Dr Conor Galvin – Director of Graduate Studies at University College Dublin College of Human Sciences, Dublin Ireland.
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Proposal submission deadline is February 28, 2014
Dr
Michael Stephens is Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University and designs and conducts the online
postgraduate course, The Hyperlinked Library, focused on the powerful emerging trends, tools and processes driving change in library and information communities. He was the 2009 CAVAL Visiting Scholar in Australia, consulted for US Embassies in Germany, Switzerland,
and Turkey, and presented to both national and international audiences about emerging technologies, innovation, and libraries.
Since 2010, Dr Stephens has written the monthly column "Office Hours" for Library Journal exploring the issues, ideas,
and emerging trends in library and information science education. For more than ten years, his research has focused on the use of emerging technologies in libraries and technology learning programs, and he is inspired by library structures and virtual spaces
that support users, participation, creating content, and encouraging the heart.
Dr
Nancy Fried Foster is Senior Anthropologist at Ithaka S+R, where she helps libraries and organizations use ethnographic and participatory methods to
understand their users and then design spaces, services, and technologies to meet their needs. For almost ten years, Dr. Foster directed anthropological research at the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries. Projects there included eXtensible Catalog,
IR+, the Camelot Project, and other technologies, as well as the Gleason Library and the Messinger Graduate Studies.
Dr Foster edited Studying Students: A Second Look, about a recent re-study of undergraduates at the University of Rochester.
With Susan Gibbons, she co-edited the 2007 book, Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester. Dr Foster holds a PhD from the Joint Program in Applied Anthropology at Teachers College, Columbia University; a Diploma
in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford; and BA from Barnard College
Dr
Conor Galvin is Director of Graduate Studies at UCD Dublin College of Human Sciences where he also works on various education, development practice,
ICT and research programmes. He regularly speaks at conferences and events in Ireland and Europe about the information society, education policy, the politics of education, new literacies, and technology enhanced learning. In the past few years he has keynoted
Media & Learning, IADIS e-Society, LILAC, EUN, British Council, Apple, and Microsoft Innovative School events. His research interests include the politics of professionalism, literacy in an information age, technology enhanced learning, and the impact of new
and emerging technology on learning and society.
Dr Galvin holds The President's Award for Teaching Excellence at UCD Dublin. Before joining UCD Dublin he worked at University of Wales Swansea and University of Cambridge, England.
IFLA 2014 Satellite Meeting on Information Literacy Organizing Committee:
IFLA Information Literacy Section Standing Committee:
Sharon B. Mader, Committee Chair: Dean of University of New Orleans Library, USA
Min Chou, Primary Convener: New Jersey City University Library, USA
Jaclyn Jye Ling, Assistant Convener: National Library, Singapore
Dilara Begum, Assistant Convener: East West University, Bangladesh
IFLA 2014 Satellite Meeting on Information Literacy Local Committee:
Jerald Cavanagh: Local Committee Co- Chair Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland
Padraig Kirby: Local Committee Co- Chair Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland
Padraig Kirby MSc (LIS) BA (Hons) HdipLIS
Senior Library Assistant
The Library
Limerick Institute of Technology,
Moylish park
Limerick
Ireland
00353 61 293516
Padraig Kirby MSc (LIS) BA (Hons) HdipLIS
Senior Library Assistant
The Library
Limerick Institute of Technology,
Moylish park
Limerick
Ireland
00353 61 293516