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#IOLUG2019

Annual Conference

TACKLING DATA IN LIBRARIES
Opportunities and Challenges in Serving User Communities

Libraries and librarians work with data every day, with a variety of applications – circulation, gate counts, reference questions, and so on. The mass collection of user data has made headlines many times in the past few years. Analytics and privacy have, understandably, become important issues both globally and locally. In addition to being aware of the data ecosystem in which we work, libraries can play a pivotal role in educating user communities about data and all of its implications, both favorable and unfavorable.
The IOLUG Spring 2019 Conference, will be held May 10th in Indianapolis, Indiana. Submissions are welcomed from all types of libraries and on topics related to the theme of data in libraries.
  • Using tools/resources to find and leverage data to solve problems and expand knowledge
  • Data policies and procedures
  • Harvesting, organizing, and presenting data
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Learning analytics
  • Metadata/linked data
  • Data in collection development
  • Using data to measure outcomes, not just uses
  • Using data to better reach and serve your communities
  • Libraries as data collectors
  • Big data in libraries
  • Privacy
  • Social justice/Community Engagement
  • Algorithms
  • Libraries as positive stewards of user data

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Keynote Address

Jerica Copeny

Past, Present, Future of Trailblazing with Data for Social Change
Living in our current society where data is all around us, how can it be used as a tool for social change? Jerica Copeny explores a cross disciplinary approach on working to build civic data science projects in environments where this work is being newly developed. Her talk will explore how data has been used as a tool for social change from the past examination information trailblazers as Ida B. Wells, Jane Addams and W.E.B. Du Bois, and discuss presently how various types of organizations have begun to define how they are working to have an impact with data. In a TEDx style reflective discussion, Copeny will go over lessons learned, poignant discoveries in being one of the first data scientist in the United States to work in a public library. Her work seeks to answers, what is the public library’s role in utilizing data science for social change? Through the sharing of her experiences she will explore techniques on how each of us can work to answer how we can influence social change for the future with data.

Important Dates

February 25, 2019

Accepting Proposals for presentations and lightning talks

March 1, 2019

Conference Registration Opens

May 10, 2019

IOLUG Spring 2019 Conference