Provisional Programme
| Tuesday 12 October | |
| 08:00– 09:00 | Registration |
| OPENING SESSION | |
| 09:00- 09:10 | Welcome |
| 09:10 – 09:20 | Opening |
| 09:20-10:00 | Keynote address: Prof Kanshukan Rajaratnam, Director of the School for Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University |
| 10:00-10:15 | DISCUSSION |
| 10:15-11:00 | REFRESHMENTS |
| SESSION 1: Changing landscape of higher education in research, teaching and learning | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Topic: The “new normal”: online learning in higher education |
| 11:30-12:00 | Topic: Teaching in virtual environments |
| 12:00-12:30 | Topic: Conducting research in digital environments |
| 12:30-13:00 | DISCUSSION |
| 13:00-14:00 | LUNCH |
| SESSION 2: The agility of academic libraries during a time of crisis | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Topic: Academic libraries’ support for teaching, learning and research during COVID-19 |
| 14:30-15:00 | Topic: When crises converge: managing academic libraries during times of crises |
| 15:00-15:15 | REFRESHMENTS |
| 15:15-15:45 | Topic: Information and media literacy during COVID-19 |
| 15:45-16:15 | Topic: Open access to the rescue: how COVID-19 amplified the role of open access |
| 16:15-16:30 | DISCUSSION |
| Wednesday 13 October | |
| SESSION 3: Innovative technologies in libraries and beyond | |
| 08:00-08:30 | Registration |
| 08:30-09:00 | Topic: Trends in artificial intelligence research |
| 09:00-09:30 | Topic: Innovation and collaboration through makerspaces in libraries |
| 09:30-10:00 | Topic: Strangers in our midst: robotics in academic libraries |
| 10:00-10:30 | DISCUSSION |
| 10:30-11:00 | REFRESHMENTS |
| 11:00-11:30 | Topic: Ethics in artificial intelligence / algorithm biases |
| 11:30-12:00 | Topic: Technologies enabling open science |
| 12:00-12:30 | DISCUSSION |
| 12:30-13:30 | LUNCH |
| SESSION 4: Data-intensive services in libraries | |
| 13:30-14:00 | Topic: Data intelligence for library decision-making |
| 14:00-14:30 | Topic: Research Data Management in academic libraries |
| 14:30-15:00 | REFRESHMENTS |
| 15:00-15:30 | Topic: Libraries as data intermediaries |
| 15:30-16:00 | Topic: Library collections as data for computational science |
| 16:00-16:30 | DISCUSSION |
| Thursday 14 October | |
| SESSION 5: Academic libraries of the future | |
| 08:00-08:30 | Registration |
| 08:30-09:00 | Topic: The future of work |
| 09:00-09:30 | Topic: Virtual services in academic libraries |
| 10:00-10:30 | Topic: Future library technologies |
| 10:30-10:45 | REFRESHMENTS |
| 10:45-11:15 | Topic: Future collection development practices in libraries |
| 11:15-11:30 | DISCUSSION |
| 11:30-12:30 | PANEL DISCUSSION |
| 12:30-13:00 | Q&A |
| 13:00-14:00 | LUNCH |
| CLOSING SESSION | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Guest speaker |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Closing of the symposium |