Empowering Library Leaders  and Diversity Worldwide- the Asia & Oceania Experience
Channel: IFLA Special Interest Group - New Professionals
Date: 2022-06-26

IFLA’s Management of Library Associations Section (MLAS) in collaboration with the New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) presents a recording of the webinar with the Asia and Oceania experience organised in June 21, 2022.
This meeting was a part of a new webinar series to empower new library leaders worldwide and foster diversity within the profession.  The insights gained from this webinar will then inform and enrich the MLAS Open Session at WLIC 2022 in Dublin, which will focus on the same theme.  

Agenda:
1. Introduction: Loida Garcia-Febo (IFLA MLAS)
2. Librarians Map: Magdalena Gomułka (IFLA NPSIG)
3. Presentation of Librarians Association of Malaysia (Malaysia) Dr. Rashidah Bolhassan 
4. Presentation of Macau Library Association:  Raymond Wong Kwok Keung,
Director of Macau Library and Information Management Association, with Anna Au, PhD Candidate
5.  Presentation of ILA (India): Professor Mohan Kherde, President, India Library Association 
6. Presentation of LIANZA (New Zealand): Kim Taunga, President-Elect LIANZA President-elect The New Zealand Library Association Inc. Head of Community Delivery Te Tonga/South, Auckland, New Zealand
7. Presentation of Fiji Library Association (Fiji):  Lorin Pai, Secretary, Fiji Library Association. Coordinator Library Information Services, University of the South Pacific (PacTAFE)
8.  Presentation of Bangladesh Library Association (Bangladesh) Dr. Dilara Begum, Bangladesh Library Association. Associate Professor and Chairperson, ISLM & Librarian at East West University
9. Interactive rooms: private
10. Presenting of leadership experience: Cathie Warburton, CEO ALIA Australian Library and Information Association
11. Presenting of leadership experience: Bryan Boy C. Cortez, President of the Association of Special Libraries of the Philippines