The 9th Library Congress will take place from 24 – 27 June 2025 at the Congress Centrum Bremen (CCB) under the motto #LibrariesDevotedToDemocracy.
The Congress is organized by Bibliothek und Information Deutschland (BID) e.V. (Library and Information in Germany – Federal Union of German Library Associations), i.e. the member associations Berufsverband Information Bibliothek e.V. (BIB), the VDB – Verein Deutscher Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare e.V. and the Deutscher Bibliotheksverband dbv.
Presentations can be submitted from 16.09. to 13.12.2024. The Library Congress is becoming increasingly international, so we welcome submissions of presentations and events in English as well.
As organizers, we call on you, our colleagues as experts from academic and public libraries, information institutions, and representatives of relevant associations to submit proposals for lectures and panel discussions on the following topics.
Topic 1: Shaping Democracy
Here: Social cohesion, library as a public space and place of encounter and lifelong learning, libraries and politics, event work, networking, community building, diversity, the culture of discourse and debate, dealing with disinformation, promoting democracy, (digital) participation, citizens’ councils, educational justice, social media, volunteering, participation, ethical issues, censorship and “culture wars”, the influence of third parties, the concept of neutrality and controversy, legal framework to strengthen libraries as promoters of democracy
Topic 2: Library as an organization and profession
Here: Recruitment, personnel development, job profiles, professional ethics, organizational culture(s), organizational development, methods of project management, library as a people-centered organization, diversity, agility, new work and leadership cultures, leadership and self-leadership, success and failure as an experience, error culture, work and health, life-work balance
Topic 3: Change of Perspective – libraries, cooperation, and partnerships
Here: Developments in science communication, citizen science, Fediverse, research evaluation, working conditions in science, libraries and urban development, impulses from archives, cultural and further education institutions, and the education sector such as schools, KiTas, and political education organizations, creative bureaucracy, digital administration, meta-reflection and libraries from the perspective of other forms of cooperation, the international view
Topic 4: Libraries – services and offers
Here: Strategy development, task criticism and deprioritization, controlling, workflows, portfolio, library networks, library construction, work, research and learning locations, sustainability, information competence, media competence, library pedagogy, media pedagogy, mobile libraries, IT security in libraries
Topic 5: Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence
Here: Artificial intelligence, academic publishing, open access, DEAL, university publishers, research data management, open science, open educational resources, research software, next-gen library systems, NFDI, FID, digital humanities, statistics and bibliometrics, research information/FIS, legal framework (licensing law, copyright, data protection, data tracking), long-term archiving of publications
Topic 6: Preserving and activating cultural data and assets
Here: Conservation, emergency collections, digitization and presentation of digitized collections, restoration, indexing of old collections, provenance research and ethical handling of collections, legal framework (licensing law, copyright, restitution, expropriation), regulations, standards and metadata, linked open data, text recognition (OCR/HTR), long-term archiving, repositories, and portals.
For more information, visit https://2025.bid-kongress.de/call-for-papers-2/?lang=en