Transforming: Customer and User Expectations

Rewriting the Future of Libraries - inaugural program specially curated by ALA IRC Asia & Oceania, IFLA Asia & Oceania and CALA.

On Demand

ALA Unit/Subunit: IRO

Speaker(s)

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Katherina Lee

Deputy Director
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore, Singapore

Moderator(s)

Ven B. Basco

Engineering and Computer Science Librarian
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida

Speaker(s)

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Tina Yang

Associate Librarian, Learning and Research Services
University of Hong Kong Libraries, Hong Kong
Hong Yao

Director of Technical Services
Queens Public Library, New York

Inaugural Program specially curated by ALA IRC Asia & Oceania, IFLA Asia & Oceania and CALA. At the end of this session, participants will gain an insight knowledge from the various speakers and benchmark their libraries from infrastructure, library services, library professional development, outreach activities, community development, digitisation in remaking future of libraries with the new dynamic era; including the library's role in achieving the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this session, participants will gain an insightful knowledge of the Asia & Oceania libraries development; transformation experience and their remaking on future libraries
Upon completion, participants will be able to benchmark their libraries with the libraries in Asia & Oceania from infrastructure, library services, library professional development, outreach activities, community development, digitization etc.