Internet Librarian International is the innovation and technology conference for information professionals. The conference attracts hundreds of library and information professionals from around the world.

Internet Librarian International 2012 will take place at Olympia in London 30-31 October (with pre-event workshops scheduled for 29 October). We invite participation from a wide range of professionals - new and established - from all over the world to share their experiences of developing and delivering innovative information services. We seek dynamic speakers from all types of libraries - public, academic, government, national or commercial - as well as those working outside a ‘traditional’ library setting.

Share your success stories. Tell us what lessons you've learned if things didn't turn out quite as expected. This is your chance to help others to rethink and recharge, and to benefit from the insights of others.

Re-imagine, Renew, Reboot: Innovating for Success

This year the conference will focus on how information and library professionals are successfully delivering innovative products and services to ever more demanding customers in a fast-changing technology landscape. Library patrons, users and customers now expect access to information wherever they are, on a variety of devices. Budgets remain under pressure. Access to information, data and knowledge is becoming more open and transparent, with partnerships and new social media contexts expanding knowledge sharing in new and surprising ways.

With all this going on, librarians need to stay at the leading edge of service provision. What innovative and imaginative solutions can make a real impact on our ability to serve our customers and our institutions? Share your experiences with your peers at Internet Librarian International.

Possible topics fall under the following headings.

Meeting the ‘everything everywhere’ demands of customers
New and innovative uses of technology
Managing and maximising resources
Redesigning services and products
Using the internet for research and reference
Marketing the service and reaching new audiences
Educating and mentoring users
Career opportunities - new skills and new roles
Ideas for full or half day workshops

How do I participate?

If you would like to be considered as a speaker, please submit your ideas here. The deadline for submissions is 12 April 2012.

The advisory committee will review all submissions and you will be notified in May 2012. If your proposal is selected, the primary speaker will receive a free registration to the full conference, which includes lunches and a drinks reception.

We're looking forward to receiving your suggestions and ideas.

Val Skelton, Programme Director

Katherine Allen, Conference Director

Please note that the expenses of attending Internet Librarian International (including travel, accommodation, and any other expenses) will be the responsibility of the presenter. By submitting your proposal, you acknowledge that you accept this financial responsibility.

Possible topics include:

21st century collection management
Big data initiatives; open data
Content management
Creating new products
Demonstrating impact; influencing management; working with customers
Development and rollout of library apps
Digital libraries; digitisation projects; digital curation
E-learning, information literacy; training skills
E resources; ebooks; ejournals; creating digital collections; ebook policies; acquisition management; contract negotiation
Financial challenges; new sources of funding; innovative ways to manage costs
Future planning; service redesign; mashups; marketing the service; raising the profile, collaboration and partnering
Gamification initiatives; location awareness
Information legislation; copyright; data protection; managing digital rights
Leading edge technologies
Librarians as agents of social change; community development and cohesion
New ways of skills development; developing unconferences; managing tweetups
New roles for information professionals
Mobile, multiplatform information provision; working with tablet devices
New ways of creating content; crowdsourcing; user generated content
Managing information flows
Open access; open source
Open data; linked data
Outsourcing, offshoring, insourcing
Publishing trends
Redesigning websites; usability; optimisation
Semantic web
Supporting the mobile workforce
Taxonomies; ontologies
Using social media tools to maximum effect; podcasting; Twitter/YouTube techniques
Using the internet for research; search tips and techniques; new search tools
Web publishing; web technology; the cloud
Web scale discovery
Sector specific case studies - we are interested in case studies from a range of settings including academic libraries, public libraries, corporate settings, government libraries, health/medical libraries, law libraries, and non-traditional information settings