If you are involved in infomation literacy, why not submit proposals for presenting at the “Road to Information Literacy: Librarians as Facilitators of Learning IFLA Satellite Conference” in Tampere, Finland  August 2012?. It is being sponsored by IFLA’s Continuing Professional Education and Workplace Learning and Information Literacy Sections.
The satellite conference will be held immediately prior to the World Library and Information Congress in Helsinki, Finland, August 2012. Proposals for presentations (including research reports, smaller scale interactive roundtable discussions, train-the-trainer sessions, workshops, and poster sessions) are invited. Some proposals will be considered for publication in the proceedings, which will be distributed at the Satellite Meeting.
General Themes include strategies for designing and implementing a professional development information literacy program for librarians. Proposals are also invited that detail success stories/ lessons learned and explore information literacy from outside the box.
More information on themes and how to submit proposals can be found here.
Proposals should be submitted (no later than November 9, 2011) to Iflasatellite2012@gmail.com

Professor Alan Smeaton of the School of Computing, Dublin City University is a worthy winner of this prestigious award with sustained contributions to the field of natural language processing techniques for textual information retrieval as well as to the indexing and retrieval of image, audio and video data. He now leads a research team at the University of 40 researchers working in areas including life-logging, video analysis, summarization and search, data aggregation in environmental sensor networks, collaborative search techniques, data fusion from sensor networks and using sensors in media applications.  He was founding director for the Centre for Digital Video Processing, a world-leading research centre for video processing and retrieval. Professor Smeaton was also the founding coordinator of TRECVid, which started as an independent evaluation exercise of the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) in 2001 – an initiative that has clearly been instrumental to the progress of the field of digital video retrieval. 
The presentation of the ‘Owl’ Trophy and a certificate will take place before the coffee break on Monday 24^th October at the Enterprise Search Europe event at the Hilton London Olympia. Martin White (UKeiG Chair), Doug Veal (Chair of the Strix Award Panel) and David Hawking, the Keynote Speaker for the opening day, will preside over the presentation. They will be joined by representatives of the UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award’s two sponsors: ASLIB and the Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Further information about the award, as well as a list of winners, can be found at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards.

How can RFID help libraries face dual challenge? -CILIP’s RFID in Libraries Conference 2011, Tuesday 8 November 2011, The Bloomsbury Hotel, London.
Libraries everywhere are facing the dual challenge of delivering improved services with diminishing budgets. The contribution technology can make to squaring this circle has possibly never been more important, and RFID is at the heart of it.
The conference on 8^th November 2011 in London will explore changes in world of RFID and how the latest decision by providers to adopt a single common standard changes will enable new buyers the freedom to pick and choose the RFID devices they prefer.
This year’s conference will bring:

• 17 expert speakers from across the RFID Community
• RFID technology demonstrations from leading suppliers
• RFID Alliance Panel– your chance to ask the experts questions
• The BIC/CILIP RFID in Libraries Innovation Award 2011
• Open forum discussion sessions.

Make sure you take advantage of our registration offers by visiting the conference website www.cilip.org.uk/rfid2011 and book your place today. Places are strictly limited are will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.

Explore what’s on at the National Library of Ireland during October:

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Táin Bó Cuailnge: Ireland’s National Epic? Tuesday 11 October 7pm (10/11/2011)

Join us for the Irish Texts Society Lecture

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Post-famine Perceptions of the Irish Landlords Wednesday 12 October 7pm (10/12/2011)

RI Best Memorial Lecture

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Young Adults & Dystopian Literature Friday 14 October 5:30pm (10/14/2011)Children’s Books Ireland/NLI Event

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Remember, there are free public tours of the award-winning exhibition Yeats: The Life and Work of William Butler Yeats every Wednesday at 1.00pm and every Saturday at 11.00am and 3.00pm as well as Discover your National Library guided tours  every Saturday 2.30pm
Learn about the NLI’s history and architecture. All welcome. Booking not required.
National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.