The 85th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology will focus on the theme: Crisis, Transition, Resilience: Re-Imagining an Information-Resilient Society.

The programme is online.
Mikael Laakso will be awarded for his paper Open is Not Forever: A Study of Vanished Open Access Journals co-written with Lisa Matthias and Najko Jahn, and published in Volume 72, Issue 9 of the Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology (JASIST).

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) held its sixth annual New Directions in Scholarly Publishing Seminar, 21–22 September in Washington, DC, and online.

This year’s seminar, Creating the New Possible: Shaping the Future from Lessons Learned, gathered experts in the field to review the latest developments and innovations, and discuss how to collectively take the best of the lessons learnt over the past few years into the future.

The last Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) took place in Cologne, Germany, 20 – 24 June 2022. The proceedings are online.

ALPSP is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2022 and has planned a range of activities throughout the year. Find out how you can get involved.

ALPSP is the international trade association which supports and represents not-for-profit organizations that publish scholarly and professional content, and those that work with them. ALPSP has nearly 300 member organizations across 30 countries.

The ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards will be held at the Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel, Manchester, UK from 14-16 September 2022.

Please register.

The 51st LIBER annual conference will take place in Odense, Denmark, from 6-8 July 2022.

The full programme is announced. Registration is closed.

The 87th IFLA World Library & Information Congress (WLIC) will take place in Dublin, Ireland, from 26-20 July 2022. The detailed programme is now available.

Follow IFLA WLIC in Twitter and Facebook to stay tuned, and don’t miss any #wlic2022 news!

iPres brings together information scientists, students, researchers, archivists, librarians, service providers, software developers and other experts to share cutting edge research and innovative practice across a wide variety of topics in digital preservation, from theory to implementation, from local to global, from industry, academia and all across the public sector. 2022 marks the 20th year of the Digital Preservation Coalition’s collaborative vision for the digital preservation community. The Indicative Program of the 18th International Conference on Digital Preservation is announced.

Register now to attend the event in Glasgow or online.

With the target date for the Library of Congress’s (LC) BIBFRAME 100 coming this fall, when most of LC’s cataloging staff will create descriptions in LC’s BIBFRAME system with MARC records created via conversion to MARC, this update forum will highlight some of the developments that could affect users of LC data.

Monday June 27, 2022, 1:00 – 2:00 pm (ET) / 10:00 – 11:00 am (PT)

This event will be held during the ALA Annual Conference.

Click to access program in Zoom(The presentation will be recorded)

Meeting ID: 160 327 6570
Passcode: 576692

The BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe is a forum for sharing knowledge about the practice of, production with, and planning of BIBFRAME implementation. It addresses to people working in the transition from MARC to Linked Data using the BIBFRAME model and related tools.
This is a hybrid event, either as an in-person two day workshop with broadcasting, being held on 20-21 September 2022; or as a virtual three day workshop, being held on 20-22 September 2022.

The call for proposals is now open, via the online submission form, before June 30, 2022.

Europeana 2022 will take place on 28 – 30 September 2022 and the call for proposals is announced. Like last year, 70% of the conference programme will be open to professionals working in and around the cultural heritage sector to share expertise, knowledge and experience in varied sessions.

To submit your application please read the detailed information on the call for proposals page and then complete our form.

The deadline for proposals is 27 May 2022.