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SLA Europe Webinar – Talking about library value: impact measurement and new language

SLA Europe was pleased to welcome two guest speakers to discuss and share the importance of impact measurement. Our speakers outlined ways to leverage and use language when discussing the value of the library within a company or organisation. Kristīne Pabērza-Ramiresa explored why impact evaluation still such a struggle for many libraries. Although there are …

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SLA Europe Webinar – Resilience and being kind to yourself

SLA Europe was pleased to host a joint webinar with SLA Asia and welcome Nikhil Damle to explore the discussion on the “soft” and “hard” side of resilience, especially on how we can navigate the “new normal” in a post-COVID world. The past 18 months has shown that everyone’s individual situation has changed, particularly in …

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SLA Europe President Amy Stubbing recognised with SLA Rising Star Award

We are delighted to share that our 2021 SLA Europe President, Amy Stubbing, is one of ten award recipients this year, pulling together a fantastic list of achievements across the organisation. Amy has won the James M. Matarazzo Rising Star Award, recognising her as an “outstanding” SLA member that shows “exceptional promise of leadership and …

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SLA Europe President Amy Stubbing attends the 2021 ARLIS Conference

We delighted to share that our President, Amy Stubbing, recently attended the 2021 ARLIS / UK & Ireland Conference as a panellist for the final session, The Future of (Art) Libraries. The ARLIS Conference ran from 21 to 23 July and this year’s theme focused on ‘Reframing Art Libraries – from Challenge to Opportunity‘. The …

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SLA Board Election candidates announced

SLA Europe is delighted to announce that 2020 Past President, Seema Rampersad, will stand as a candidate for the upcoming SLA Board Election. The full list of candidates standing for election for 2023 SLA President are: Nabi Hasan (New Delhi, Delhi, India) Richard Huffine (Vienna, Virginia, United States) Seema Rampersad (London, England, United Kingdom) Shelly …

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SLA Europe welcome from 2021 President Amy Stubbing

Hello and a happy new year to all of our members – those current, lapsed or future! I stepped into 2021 with real trepidation about filling the shoes so expertly occupied by Seema in 2020 as President of SLA Europe, while also incredibly excited to have my chance to serve you all in 2021 – …

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Review of the year by 2020 President, Seema Rampersad

2020 started in a fairly normal way in the first few weeks of January, but the restructuring news announced by SLA Headquarters seemed initially overwhelming and daunting, especially on how it would impact us at SLA Europe. In hindsight, the changes have been beneficial with #OneSLA allowing for improved access to all Communities without extra …

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SLA Europe Webinar – Solid: An Ecology of Digital Being

SLA Europe was pleased to welcome Teodora Petkova to explore Solid, an exciting web decentralization project led by Professor Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. What if we could have all our digital artefacts and records in one place, a place of our own? Not scattered across platforms, or harvested by third-party machine …

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Welcoming our new President Elect – Claire Sewell

At SLA Europe, we are delighted to end another year with an excellent leadership team and events catalogue for 2020, especially in consideration of our “new normal” and shift to online spaces. As our 2021 President Elect Amy Stubbing moves to take on the mantle of SLA Europe President from our 2020 President Seema Rampersad, …

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Presidential Elect 2021

We are excited to announce that nominations are now open for the position of SLA Europe President-Elect for 2021. Please see below for more details from our current president, Seema Rampersad. As President for SLA Europe, I would like to request nominations for the position of SLA Europe President Elect for 2021. The role of …

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LMD/SLA Europe Mid-Career Award for SLA Conference 2020

LMD/SLA Europe Mid-Career Award for SLA Conference 2020 – Deadline extended to 4th October We are pleased to offer four Mid-Career Awards to the virtual SLA Conference (14-16 October 2020). SLA Europe and the Leadership and Management Development (LMD) and strongly believes in advancing the development of information professionals’ leadership and management abilities. In light …

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