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Call for Proposals: 12th Annual Symposium on Scholarship and Practice

Bridging the Spectrum:

The 12th Annual Symposium on Scholarship and Practice

 

Time:  Friday, February 14, 2020.  

Place: Pryzbyla Student Center, Catholic University of America                                     

 

The Symposium Planning Committee invites researchers, practitioners and students to submit proposals for the 2020 Bridging the Spectrum Symposium, a forum for sharing research findings, best practices, and works in progress in library and information science. The submission system is now open at http://cuaslis.org/openconf/author/submit.php   

 

The Symposium will include three types of presentations: briefings, panels, and posters. Briefings are 15-minute descriptions of an innovative practice, project, or research activity. There will be morning and afternoon briefing sessions. 

 

Authors can organize panels of speakers to present and discuss a theme or a topic. Panels are typically one hour in length. 

 

Posters are exhibits describing a practice, project, or research activity. Posters will be viewable throughout the day, and there will be a lightning talk during which presenters will highlight their projects. In addition, poster presenters will attend a poster session to discuss their work with attendees.

 

The submission system is open at http://cuaslis.org/openconf/author/submit.php and the deadline for submission is October 23, 2019.

    

Proposal topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: 

  • Community engagement and outreach, including marketing and advocacy for library and information services
  • Information services against misinformation and propaganda
  • New developments in information organization (linked data, semantic web, etc.)
  • Preservation and management of born-digital and digitized resources 
  • Management and analysis of data and information
  • Library networks and international collaboration
  • Technology trends and impact on information services
  • Management of information services in cultural institutions

 

Questions may be directed to the Committee at [email protected]. 

 

Important Dates

Proposal Submissions Open: August 23, 2019
Proposals Due: October 23, 2019
Notification of Acceptances: November 15, 2019
Final Program Abstracts Due: December 5, 2019

Final Program released, registration opens: December 16, 2019

Symposium: February 14, 2020

More information about the 2020 Symposium is available at https://lis.catholic.edu/news-events/symposium/2020/index.html

 

Overviews of past symposia are available on the Symposium website  at https://lis.catholic.edu/news-events/symposium/index.html

 

Please feel free to contact the Symposium Committee at [email protected] if you have questions.

 

Symposium Committee:

Drs. Ingrid Hsieh-Yee (chair), Sue Yeon Syn, and Jane Zhang