The International Association of University Libraries (IATUL) will be held online.

Topic: Bridging Universities and Society Libraries as Connectors

Please register for free and check the programme. Sessions will be publicly streamed through IATUL’s YouTube Channel.

LIBER is Europe’s largest association of research libraries, representing 450 university, national and research libraries. It is celebrating its 50th annversary.

Topic: Libraries and Open Knowledge: from vision to implementation

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IFLA WLIC 2021 will be held across three days spanning three time zones. Look at the theme and subthemes and register. Sign up to IFLA WLIC Newsletter to receive regular updates on sessions, speakers and more.

Topic: Building Connections Together

The conference will focus on concrete ways that linked data impacts GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) institutions, and will share pathways that allow others to participate in linked data.

Register now and view the programme.

For their 2021 Annual Conference, the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) is collaborating with FORCE11 and other participating organizations to present FORCE 2021: Joining Forces on the Future of Scholarly Communication in October. The collaborative event will take the form of a curated virtual conference with pre-selected topics and speakers. ICSTI will prepare an additional program of member-to-member presentations and General Assembly meeting.

This year’s American Libraries Association’s Annual Conference brings together an exciting lineup of speakers and educational sessions designed to engage members in a week of collaboration and connection. Tune in to hear from leading authors, thinkers, and activists, and explore the schedule and panel discussions devoted to the library workplace, issues relating to equity, diversity, and inclusion, and more. Former President of the United States Barack Obama will close the conference.

Registration.

The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) conference brings together world experts in web archiving. It is also intended for a wide audience interested in working with digital content.

Free registration

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This four-hour virtual event will bring together stakeholders concerned with the improvements needed to more efficiently and effectively create and transfer metadata between information systems.

Topic: Interoperability: Enabling Better Discovery

Registration is open and free.

The Z39.4 standard, created by the NISO Criteria for Indexes Working Group and now in the process of approval as an ANSI/NISO standard, provides guidelines for the content, organization, and presentation of indexes used for the retrieval of documents and parts of documents. The motivations of this project will be discussed, as well as the expected impact, and the process followed in ensuring that the eventual ANSI/NISO standard will be as up-to-date and useful as possible. The call is free and anyone is welcome to participate.

In this program, the challenges from both a management and a technology perspective will be explored, considering how the information community can develop systems that continue to add value to scholarly communication and success.

Registration closes on June 16, 2021 09:30am