WLIC 2022 MLAS Open Session
Session 091 Empowering Library Leaders and Diversity Worldwide
Wednesday, July 27, 08:30 – 10:00
The Convention Centre Dublin, Room Liffey A
The aim of the session is to provide delegates with an insight into how Associations around the world are supporting leadership development in the library and information field. How do different countries or communities define ‘leadership’? How can we better support new and emerging professionals to take up leadership roles? How can we ensure that the leadership of our field is as open, inclusive and diverse as possible?
Speakers:
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Loida Garcia Febo, Chair and moderator
Santa Gudža, Deputy Director of the Bauska Central
Library and a new Board member of the Library Association of Latvia
Magdalena Gomulka, Chair, IFLA New Professionals SIG
Christine Honold, Librarian, Childrens Library Hassels, Dusseldorf, Germany
Oksana Boiarynova, Board members, Ukrainian Library Association
Magdalena Gomulka, Polish Library Association
Doreen Appiah, Programme Officer, African Library & Information Association
Jonathan Hernández Pérez, IFLA Governing Board Member, Researcher, Library and Information Research Institute
IIBI-UNAM, Mexico
Link to summary from the global webinars’ interactive conversations: soon
MLAS Open Session Working Group
Nick Poole, Chief Executive, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, UK- Chair Working Group
Susan Haigh, Executive Director, Canadian Association of Research Libraries
Ute Engelkenmeier, Department Head of User Services, Universitätsbibliothek Dortmund
Vidar Lund, President, Norwegian Library Association
Namutenya Hamwaalwa, Deputy Director, Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture, Namibia
Loy Jyoon Chin, Vice President, Librarians Association of Malaysia
Alicia Sellés Carot, President, FESABID, Spain
Magdalena Gomulka, IFLA New Professionals SIG liaison
Halo Locher, Interim Secretary General, IFLA (observer)
Loida Garcia Febo (corresponding member of Working Group and WG Webinars lead)