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“Balancing Towards the Future, Expanding Boundaries, Connecting Communities”

In an era where openness and the democratization of education and research remain paramount in international academia, AI technologies and applications are permeating all fields, bringing about significant changes affecting academic libraries. The upcoming challenges indicate that in the following years a transformation is eminent, regarding the tools, the library services and quite possibly the very nature of information scientists. In our country, where academic libraries survive with continually diminishing financial and human resources plus an inadequate institutional framework for education and research, the boundaries of flexibility, extroversion, and their social role need to be exhausted.

This conference, marking in 2024, thirty years of continuous presence, aims to trace these emerging changes and highlight the issues presented for academic libraries. The ultimate goal of the conference is to facilitate productive dialogue, ideally among communities, to generate comprehensive proposals that address the emerging needs of academic life and society.

Subject Areas

  1. Open Science: Open Access – Open Data – Open Scientific Communication- Open Research – Open Educational resources – Citizen Science
  2. Standard Datasets & Library Data – Linked Data
  3. Artificial Intelligence & Information Services
  4. Research Infrastructure & support tools for Academic research
  5. Administration & Organization issues: Collaborative models & other forms of management. The Nature & Skills of the Profession
  6. Legal & Ethical Issues: Research Ethics – Copyright – Data protection, Plagiarism, Research Integrity
  7. Innovative Information Services: Information Literacy , bibliographic management tools & software, Lifelong learning
  8. Development & sustainability of academic Libraries infrastructure
    8.1. Digital infrastructure: Institutional repositories , digital collections, virtual reality applications, digital assistants, geospatial data, applications for people with disabilities, e-reading Rooms, free software applications
    8.2. Building Infrastructure: existing situation, green buildings, accessibility, risk management, buildings designed for extrovert & collaborative activities
  9. Extroversion, communication, participation & connection with society
  10. Access equality , inclusion