Old and New Challenges for Librarians

***ATTENTION! THE DEADLINE OF THE CALL FOR APPLICATIONS HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO APRIL 28***

Are you a University Librarian looking for an interactive training programme with peers from all over Europe?  

Join the University of Bologna Staff Training Week (STW) 2024 "Old and New Challenges for Librarians" from 24 to 28 June 2024 in Bologna. 

This Staff Training Week will be an opportunity to discuss how some of the traditional services offered by Academic Libraries are undergoing a process of transformation and how new services are being developed, due to external and internal factors pushing toward new visions of the role of Libraries and Librarians. 

The topics we are going to explore together are: 

• Cooperative services: Participating or Coordinating national/regional/Inter-University/Intra-university services (OPACs, Digital Libraries, Discovery Tools etc.)  
• Information literacy: The service of the information landscape, including open science and artificial intelligence
• Cultural heritage: The role of libraries for the digitisation and the sharing of FAIR data 

Target Group: 

The University of Bologna STW 2024 in Bologna is addressed only to University Librarians familiar with /interested in one or more of the topics of the Staff Training Week.  

Selection Process: 

25 March - 28 April: Call for applications 

29 - 30 April: Selections 

2 May: Announcement of Selections 

The programme is free of charge. Accommodation, travel costs, lunches and dinners are not included and can be covered by participants by using Erasmus+ Staff Mobility grants. 

For detailed programme and registrations: https://eventi.unibo.it/staff-training-week