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Posted September 26, 2017
*Call for workshop papers: Computational Archival Science: digital records in the age of big data.* *The workshop will be held on Wednesday, December 13, 2017 in Boston, MA, USA, in conjunction with the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2017 <http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/>. See call for papers at: http://dcicblog.umd.edu/cas/ieee_big_data_2017_cas-workshop/ <http://dcicblog.umd.edu/cas/ieee_big_data_2017_cas-workshop/>***** Submission Deadline: October 10, 2017 ***** The large-scale digitization…
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Posted September 26, 2017
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Special issue on Reproducibility in Information RetrievalExtended Submission Deadline: October 6, 2017 ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality (ACM JDIQ)http://jdiq.acm.org/ ** Guest editors ** Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy, [email protected] Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, [email protected] Rauber, Technical University of Vienna, Austria, [email protected] ** Aim ** Information Retrieval is a discipline that…
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Posted September 26, 2017
ACM CHIIR 2018 Call for Papers and Proposals http://sigir.org/chiir2018/ ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) (pronounced “cheer”) which will take place during March 11-15, 2018 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Conference Scope and Topics Users are central to the design, evaluation, and use of information retrieval systems. ACM CHIIR 2018…
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Posted September 26, 2017
Guest Editors: Marika Cifor and Jamie A. Lee Neoliberalism, as economic doctrine, as political practice, and even as a “governing rationality” of contemporary life and work, increasingly encroaches on the Library and Information Studies field. The shift towards more conscious grappling with social justice and human rights debates and concerns has led to LIS scholarship…
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Posted September 21, 2017
WorldCist’18 – 6th World Conference on Information Systems and TechnologiesNaples, Italy, 27 – 29 March 2018http://www.worldcist.org/ SCOPEThe WorldCist’18 – 6th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (http://www.worldcist.org/), to be held at Naples, Italy, 27 – 29 March 2018, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations,…
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Posted September 21, 2017
Information Discovery and Delivery aims to cover information discovery and access for digital information researchers. This includes educators, knowledge professionals in education and cultural organizations, knowledge managers in media, health care and government, as well as librarians. The journal publishes research and practice which explores the digital information supply chain ie transport, flows, tracking, exchange…
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Posted September 20, 2017
Charles Harmon, Rowman & Littlefield’s Editor for library and information services, is actively seeking proposals for books in the following areas. Should you have interest in writing or compiling/editing a book in one of these topics (or an allied topic), or know of someone who would be a good author in the area, please…
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Posted September 20, 2017
The Best Laid PlansDISASTER PLANNING IN THE DIGITAL AGEOctober 11, 2017 Historical Society of Cheshire County, 246 Main Street, Keene, NH Fall ’17 workshop.With digital materials claiming an ever-larger share of our archival collections, it’s time to re-examine our policies for securing those collections and managing disasters. Recently enacted state legislation allows municipalities to retain permanent…
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Posted September 19, 2017
Information Visualization for the Future Generation Catalog September 20, 2017, 1:00pm – 2:15pm EDT (17:00:00 – World Clock) The mass availability of large digital collections offered by libraries is partly forcing the online library catalog to become an information exploration and analysis tool. Over the past decade, the continuing transition towards discovery catalogs has provided…
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Posted September 19, 2017
ASIS&T Meet the Authors: 21st Century Skills Development – Through Fun and Effective Inquiry-Based Learning, September 22, 2017, 10:00am – 11:00pm EDT The speakers will share some core ideas in their new book titled “21st Century Skills Development Through Inquiry-Based Learning: From Theory to Practice”. The book brings together three of the most important contemporary topics…
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