1. • IFLA SATELLITE CONFERENCE, 8-10 August
• IFLA GENERAL CONFERENCE, 12-17 August

2.  The road to information literacy: librarians as
facilitators of learning
 Jointly
organised by the IFLA Continuing
Professional Development and Workplace
Learning and Information Literacy Sections
 Held in Tampere, Finland
 120 delegates
3 streams
 45 presentations, 7 workshops, 6 posters

3.  Papers of particular interest:
 A partner in research and learning: library staff and
PhD students / Eystein Gullbekk and Tove Rullestad
 Learning on the job, teaching on the job:
CPDWL for the research information-literate librarian
/Clare M. Walker
 The two way street of learning: how the professional
development of solo librarians influences their roles
as IL guides / Eva Hornung

4.  Presented paper:
Building an information literate research community
 Changing research landscape and challenges for Library
 Needs analysis – support required by researchers at all
stages, and disciplines
 Skills needed by librarians – communication, IL training,
evaluation, knowledge of research cycle, marketing, etc.
 Skills gap particularly in area of RDM – RLUK study
 CPD – formal and informal methods, PD Planning
 Current services to researchers - evaluation and impact
and connection to CPD
 CPD requirements for meeting changing needs of
researchers

5.  WorldLibrary and Information Congress,
12-17 August 2012
 Held in Helsinki, Finland
 4000 delegates
 From 119 countries
 86 exhibitors
 200 presentations
 Plenary session daily
7 streams, and 5 group meetings daily

6.  Invited
to present by IFLA Academic and
Research Libraries section
 One of three panellists invited to present:
 Meeting the needs of high impact researchers
/Jayshree Mamtora
 The German Academic Library Cloud / Andreas
Degkwitz, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
 Transliteracy and academic libraries / Ellen
Petraits, Rhode Island School of Design, USA.

7.  Keynote: Siva Vaidayathan
 Copyright and IP expert
 Academic and Research libraries –
 Creating a culture for innovation and change
 Open Access and digital resources –
 Open Access Forum
 Library buildings and equipment –
 Making the case for change through
evaluation: post-occupancy evaluation of
library buildings

8.  Attended two committee meetings and the
main RSCAO session on Innovative libraries:
transforming our communities – Asia and
Oceania
 Chairing Program Committee for IFLA 2013

11.  Number of Library visits
 Helsinki University Library was the most
impressive
 Tour for IFLA delegates three weeks before
official opening
 7 storey building
 Plus 4 levels below ground for storing
collections
 Across four campuses