The basic goal of the symposium is to reflect on the current state of librarianship in Slovakia and abroad, outline the development of library science and practice in the near future, and name new challenges in the hypermodern domain. This is referred to as a time of paradoxes - on the one hand, culture is the highest of the company's values, on the other hand, its funding is undersized. On the one hand, education is extremely important, on the other hand, we admit the right to an opinion, even though it contradicts science and knowledge, and so we could continue calculating other paradoxes. Society, including libraries and other fund and memory institutions, is in the vortex of the fourth industrial revolution and a complex of cultural and social changes. The aim of the symposium is to highlight new challenges in contrast with our reality. We consider it important to share experiences, innovations and ideas with each other.
In the individual areas (elements), we would like to reflect the following circles, which correspond with each other and in their practical outputs, intertwine with each other: profession, innovation and client.
Circuits in individual blocks:
- Strategies for library development and information practice (at different levels – national, sectoral, institutional; concepts, possibilities, challenges and their contribution);
- An efficient national library system (libraries of all types and their roles in within the structure) or how to find the key to functioning and cooperation;
- The issue of sharing basic library data (absence of a national collective catalog; register of digitized documents; sharing of information resources at the national level, etc.)
- Further education of librarians – uniform methodology for the development of competences and skills (problems of primary librarian education; accredited courses; digital competences, etc.)
- The problem of professional ethics a its application in practice;
- Libraries - a place of open science a information... but? (copyright issues; equal access; resources and competences, etc.);
- Librarian = Superhero before burnout/extinction?
- Artificial intelligence - boundaries in boundless possibilities – ethical dimension;
- AI in librarianship services;
- Concerns vs. benefit (examples of good practice in the use of technological innovations in libraries);
- Sharing digitized resources - dream, vision, reality?
- Yes, it makes sense - libraries in the digital age
- Client needs and requirements vs. our capabilities and limitations;
- Digital services of the state - libraries as an "extended hand";
- More does not mean better... or how to distribute forces in relation to public services;
- Looking for islands of silence or new experiences?
- Is the library really a place for everyone or just a slogan?
- The library - your better side (we believe that it is not the only one) - marketing and its use in everyday practice.
The target groups of the symposium are library workers - librarians, information professionals, methodologists, managers and founders of libraries, students of librarianship and information sciences, researchers, representatives of other memory and fund institutions from Slovakia and abroad