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Submissions are not yet open for IOLUG’s upcoming 2021 conference. Stay tuned!

The IOLUG Spring 2019 Conference, will be held in in Indianapolis, Indiana. Submissions are welcomed from all types of libraries.

Tackling Data in Libraries: Opportunities and Challenges in Serving User Communities
The Conference Planning Committee is seeking proposals on topics related to data in libraries, including but not limited to:
  • Using tools/resources to find and leverage data to solve problems and expand knowledge
  • Data policies and procedures
  • Harvesting, organizing, and presenting data
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Learning analytics
  • Metadata/linked data
  • Data in collection development
  • Using data to measure outcomes, not just uses
  • Using data to better reach and serve your communities
  • Libraries as data collectors
  • Big data in libraries
  • Privacy
  • Social justice/Community Engagement
  • Algorithms
  • Storytelling, an
  • Libraries as positive stewards of user data
The Conference Planning Committee encourages presentations that are practical, hands-on, and include take-awayable tools, techniques, and/or strategies that librarians, library staff, and information professionals can implement to improve their resources and services for patrons, students, faculty, etc.
We are especially interested in hearing from presenters who would like to lead a longer workshop around the conference theme. Workshops could cover multiple session times and have use of the on-site computer lab, if desired.
Presentations will be reviewed and selected by the Conference Planning Committee.
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