CONFERENCE PROGRAM
WESTERN BALKAN INFORMATION & MEDIA LITERACY CONFERENCE – WBIMLC 2020“Information Literacy: know it, teach it, live it!
9TH INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT OF THE BOOK
“Beautiful soul weeps deep”
(quote of Ivo Andric, 1892-1975, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nobel Prize in Literature 1961)
Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina 9-10 December 2020
Wednesday, December 09, 2020 (CET) Day One
09:00 – 09:10
Opening Speeches & Welcome (Ratko Knezevic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jerald Cavanagh & Padraig Kirby, Ireland)
09:10 – 09:15
Conferences Opening – H.E. Myles Geiran (Ambassador of Ireland in Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina)
09:15 – 09:20
Welcome from Professor Vincent Cunnane, President of Limerick Institute of Technology (Ireland)
09:20 – 09:45
Keynote Speaker: Christine MacKenzie, IFLA President (Australia) – Books and libraries enabling a sustainable, fairer world through universal literacy
09:50 – 10:15
Keynote Speaker: Ismail Serageldin (Egypt) – Libraries in support of research and learning
10:20 – 10:40
Guest Speaker: Melius Weideman (South Africa Republic) – Drawing paying clients: the visibility of university Information Literacy Courses
10:45 – 11:05
Tatiana Sanches et al. (Portugal) – Improving information literacy in HE in an unorthodox way: the literature potential for ACRL framework application
11:10 – 11:30
Joseph Yap (Kazakhstan) –Practice what we reach: strengthening the librarian’s referencing competencies in teaching information literacy
11:35 – 11:55
Mojca Rupar-Korosec (Slovenia) – Libraries and challenges for the future: data mining and its purpose, benefits and meaning
12:00 – 12:20
Nikica Gardijan (Croatia) – Information literacy and Academic Writing course: University of Zadar case
12:25 – 12:45
Tunc Medeni et al. (Turkey)– Development of a needs hierarchy for organizations to complement needs hierarchy for individuals in today’s digital world
12:50 – 13:10
Cindy Li (USA) – Book and AR/VR
13:15 – 13:35
L.E. Eames (USA) – Is that perception or investigation? Information behavior in a Dungeons & Dragons actual play podcast as a surrogate for student research
13:40 – 14:00
Keynote Speaker: Tefko Saracevic (USA) – The book is dead! Long live the book! Reflections on e-books – diversity, growth, use
Reflections on e-books – diversity, growth, use
14:10
END OF DAY ONE
WESTERN BALKAN INFORMATION & MEDIA LITERACY CONFERENCE – WBIMLC 2020 “Information Literacy: know it, teach it, live it!
9TH INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT OF THE BOOK
“Beautiful soul weeps deep”
(quote of Ivo Andric, 1892-1975, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nobel Prize in Literature 1961)
Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina 9-10 December 2020
Thursday, December 10, 2020 (CET) Day Two
09:00 – 09:45
Keynote Speaker: Ismail Serageldin (Egypt) – Books, text and language
09:50 – 10:15
Keynote Speaker: Tamar Kintsurashvili (Georgia) – MIL for conscious media consumption
10:20 – 10:45
Guest Speaker: Dilara Begum (Bangladesh) – Media and Information Literacy movements in Bangladesh
10:50 – 11:10
Nikica Gardijan (Croatia) – Allevation of library anxiety through information literacy teaching
11:15 – 11:35
Demet Soylu et al. (Turkey) – The role of libraries and information centers in disaster management
11:40 – 12:00
Sara Pek et al. (Singapore) – Cross-sectorial and interdisciplinary collaboration and partnership for the advocacy of information literacy: The National Library Board, Singapore experience with the S.U.R.E.
12:05 – 12:25
Adekanmi Lawrence Adebiyi (Nigeria) – Information literacy and knowledge economy: the broad technical concepts for Nigerian libraries
12:30 – 12:50
Hanin Abueida et al. (UAE) – The role of the library in developing information literacy skills in Arabic language to Zayed university community
12:55 – 13:15
Alka Rai (India) – Library services during Covid-19: an attempt to bridging the learning gaps
13:20 – 14:05
Ismail Serageldin (Egypt), Frode A. Hegland (UK) & Vinton G. Cerf (USA) – The future of the text - Panel discussion
14:10 – 14:30
Hunter Murphy (USA) – Generation Z self-assessments and perceptions of information literacy sessions in the business school
14:35 – 14:55
M. Jacob Mangum (USA) – Harris Kempner correspondence ledger: digital preservation through the Portal to Texas History
15:00 – 15:20
Megan C. McShane (USA) – Archival repositories and special collections as tools for designing global pedagogical experiences in information literacy through virtual exchange
15:30
CLOSURE OF THE CONFERENCES