Main theme 

Libraries Building Bridges of Hope

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Topics

 

• Technology and Manuscripts

• The future of reading: Paperback, hardback or augmented reality?

• Digital Scholarship and the Future of the Book

• Books & Cultural Exchange

• eBooks Versus Print Books

• Covid 19 and Book Industry Challenges in Europe

• The Future of Publishing: Challenges and Opportunities for Publishers

• Ecommerce, the eBook market and the Book industry

• Self-publishing and novel forms of book production

• Key trends in book readership, consumption, and demand

• Books- Online Discoverability & Sales

• Piracy, Fake News and the Book Industry

• Books, Reading and the Society

• History of the Book

• Books Texts and Language

• The crisis of the Book in developing countries

• Role of the book in human knowledge and culture

• Rare Books

• Literacy

• Preservation through digitization

• Archival repositories and special collections

• Preservation and the library as a sacred institution

• Book manufacture in modern times

• Etymology & history of the Book

• Information Explosion and the Book

• Libraries and challenges for the future

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Western Balkan Information and Media Literacy conference

“Media and Information Literacy in the age of Artificial Intelligence”

Main themes and topics

 

Information Literacy in the modern world

• From Information Literacy to Digital Scholarship

• Information Literacy and COVID 19

• Fake News and Information Literacy

• Information literacies (media literacy, Research Literacy, digital literacy, visual literacy, financial literacy, health literacy, cyber wellness, infographics, information behavior, trans-literacy, post-literacy)

• Information Literacy and academic libraries

• Information Literacy and adult education

• Information Literacy and blended learning

• Information Literacy and distance learning

• Information Literacy and mobile devices

• Information Literacy and Gamification

• Information Literacy and public libraries

• Information Literacy in Primary and Secondary Schools

• Information Literacy and the Knowledge Economy

• Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning

• Information Literacy and the Information Society

• Information Literacy and the Multimedia Society

• Information Literacy and the Digital Society

• Information Literacy in the modern world (e.g trends, emerging technologies and innovation, growth of digital resources, digital reference tools, reference services).

• The future of Information Literacy

• Workplace Information Literacy 

Librarians as support to the lifelong learning process

• Digital literacy, Digital Citizenship

• Digital pedagogy and Information Literacy

• Information Literacy Needs in the Electronic Resource Environment

• Integrating Information Literacy into the curriculum

• Putting Information Literacy theory into practice

• Information Literacy training and instruction

• Instructional design and performance for Information Literacy (e.g. teaching practice, session design, lesson plans)

• Information Literacy and online learning (e.g. self-paced IL modules, online courses, Library Guides)

• Information Literacy and Virtual Learning Environments

• Supporting users need through library 2.0 and beyond

• Digital empowerment and reference work

• Information Literacy across the disciplines

• Information Literacy and digital preservation

• Innovative IL approaches

• Student engagement with Information Literacy

• Action Literacy

• Information Literacy, Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Information Literacy and Academic Writing

Media and Information Literacy – theoretical approaches (standards, assessment, collaboration, etc.)

• The Digital Competence Framework 2.0

• Information Literacy theory (models, standards, indicators, Moscow Declaration etc.)

• Information Literacy and Artificial intelligence

• Information Literacy and information behavior

• Information Literacy and reference services: cyber reference services, virtual reference services, mobile reference services

• Information Literacy cultural and contextual approaches

• Information Literacy and Threshold concepts

• Information Literacy evaluation and assessment

• Information Literacy in different cultures and countries including national studies

• Information Literacy project management

• Measuring in Information Literacy instruction assessment

 

New aspects of education/strategic planning, policy, and advocacy for Information Literacy in a digital age

• Information Literacy and the Digital Divide

• Policy and Planning for Information Literacy

• Branding, promotion and marketing for Information Literacy

• Cross –sectorial; and interdisciplinary collaboration and partnerships for Information Literacy

• Leadership and Governance for Information Literacy

• Strategic planning for IL

• Strategies in e-learning to promote self-directed and sustainable learning in the area of Information Literacy skills.