Rarely is financial assistance offered to session speakers. Workshops Workshops are typically scheduled on Thursdays during the conference week and may be either one day or a half day in duration. Workshops are generally limited to 50 participants and often presented off-site. The purpose of a workshop is for exchange of ideas and thus the emphasis is on short speeches or panel presentations and a lot of dialogue. Poster programs are presented twice in two hour intervals typically on Tuesdays and Wednesdays of the conference week from 12 to 2.
Poster sessions combine content and appearance.
A presenter for a poster session should be informal perhaps with handouts tightly coupled to graphical elements in the poster display itself. These are groups coalescing around a particular topic and established on a two-year renewal basis. These are very informal with no designated speakers or published programs. They typically last two to five days and allow expanded coverage of a particular theme or a training course. They are held either directly before or immediately after the IFLA Conference either in the same city or in another city in the same or a neighboring country.