Topics

LIBRARY AND COMMUNITY:  innovation, inclusiveness, diversity and sustainability

  1. Libraries and artificial intelligence: opportunities and challenges
  • Subtopics
    • Artificial intelligence: opportunities and challenges (social context)
    • A new kind of literacy: AI literacy and the role of libraries in overcoming the new digital divide
    • Transforming library systems with the help of artificial intelligence: innovations in information organization and processing
    • Personalizing the user experience: how artificial intelligence can improve library use
    • Ethical aspects of the application of artificial intelligence in librarianship: privacy, bias and responsibility
    • Protecting intellectual property vs promoting innovation and wide availability of AI technologies: old problem, new context.
    • Collections as data: strategies for managing digital collections in the context of artificial intelligence
    • Inclusive library services: removing barriers with the help of artificial intelligence
    • Interdisciplinary approaches to innovations in librarianship
    • Education and training of librarians to work with advanced technologies
    • Transformation of libraries and librarians in the context of artificial intelligence
  1. Libraries in a multicultural context: inclusiveness, diversity and sustainability
  • Subtopics
    • Multiculturality in libraries: empowering community integration through diversity
    • Inclusivity in libraries: accessibility for all in the context of sustainable migration
    • The role of libraries in sensitizing the public and advocating support for vulnerable groups in society
    • Financial sustainability: funding models for library support programs in the new context of economic, climate and war migration
  1. Green transition - the role and contribution of libraries and library services to the sustainable development of society
  • Subtopics
    • Green initiative in librarianship: motivation and educational needs
    • Sustainability in libraries - cooperation and networking with local communities
    • Green innovations in library spaces and architecture
    • Digital transformation of library resources - green technologies and practices
    • Eco-activism and advocacy through libraries
    • Citizen science and libraries

Participation and participation with a presentation must be registered via the link.


The presentation and e-poster presentation are applied for through the participation application form available at link.

The summary should contain between 200 and 400 words in Croatian and English, with five key words in addition to the title. For the work of several authors, it is sufficient to enter the abstract in the application form for the participation of one of the authors.

All received summaries undergo a double review process.


Important dates:

Deadline for submission of abstracts: no later than August 31, 2024.

Notification to authors about accepted presentations: no later than October 1, 2024.

Papers that will be accepted and presented can be prepared for publication in Vjesnik bibliotekara Hrvatske. Authors must comply with the Guidelines for authors. All submitted papers undergo a review.

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