Challenges of funding and staff training for smaller library. How to transit from one-off project-based digitization toward the systematic digitization.

Speakers: Olivera Nastic, Senior librarian, Belgrade City Library.

In this presentation, I’ll present a project at the royal library of Belgium to make bibliographic descriptions based on a scan of the title page in order to quickly identify the books in our stacks that are not yet in our online catalogue. I will also look at other cataloguing flows that can help in cataloguing our documents.

Speakers: Hannes Lowagie, Cataloging and data management employee, KBR (Royal Library of Belgium), Belgium.

Speakers: Anna Istók, Deputy Director, Municipal Library and Information Centre of Gödöllő.

Brief history of AI. AI - an 'Umbrella' term. Some of the different types of AI technologies and applications used in libraries. Robots and Libraries. Advantages and Disadvantages of AI in Libraries. Challenges. Creativity, Magic, Libraries and AI. The Future.

Speakers: Ruth Rikowski, Series Editor, Chandos Information Professional Series.

Library usage is a nuanced experience, intricately intertwined with the life situations of its users. Rarely confined to either the digital or analogue realm and solely about the social experience or completely disconnected from interactions with staff or other library users. Seismonaut will demonstrate this point through two distinct projects. The first involves an international literary review on the utilisation of digital collections, while the second delves into the impact analysis of library experiences.

Speakers: Nicklas Hilding Andersen, Chief Advisor, Seismonaut. Andreas Bonde Hansen, Chief Advisor, Seismonaut.

"The Network Colonial Contexts (Network for Sustainable Research Structures for the Processing of Collections from Colonial Contexts) addresses issues of digital aggregation, editing, and visibility, as well as accessibility and uses of digital materials and data from colonial contexts. A central working group within the network is concerned with the question of making the collections adequately accessible via vocabulary development. The working group aims to obtain an oversight of available vocabularies, to connect them and to debate questions of ethics when it comes to the naming of cultural groups in particular."

Speakers: Moritz Strickert, Cultural anthropologist/sociologist and academic librarian, University Library of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Speakers: Knut Skansen, Director, Deichman Biblo Tøyen, Oslo.

This presentation delves into the challenges and opportunities posed by community-driven demands for access to VR resources in academic libraries. From fostering inclusive learning environments to navigating the intricacies of virtual reality integration, this presentation explores how academic libraries can play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between cutting-edge technology and the student community.

Speakers: Hélène Brousseau, Digital Media and Visual Resources Librarian, Concordia University in Montreal.