Posted March 30, 2017
Note that the deadline for submissions is extended until April 15, 2017, 10pm EST. For more information, visit the symposium website at: https://www.idiversitybydesign.com/ *** CALL FOR SUBMISSIONSDIVERSITY BY DESIGN: REFRAMING DIVERSITY DISCOURSE IN CANADATWO-DAY SYMPOSIUM September 13-14, 2017 (Toronto, ON, Canada) We will hold a two-day Symposium in Toronto in September 2017 on the state…
Posted March 24, 2017
2017 Digital Commonwealth Annual Conference “Charting the Digital Future” April 4, 2017, at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MAEarly Registration Deadline March 28, 2017 This year’s keynote addresses are: Fake News Literacy: What Is the Role of Libraries and Other Cultural Heritage Institutions? with Mary Minow.Sham sites, misleading news, highly partisan manipulations, clickbait,…
Posted March 20, 2017
It is our great pleasure to invite you to CENTERIS 2017 – International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems, an AIS Affiliated Conference, which will be held in Barcelona, one of the most beautiful cities in Spain and Europe. Being part of Catalunya, it has its very own language, cultural background and also a great of…
Posted March 20, 2017
The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.We are now accepting proposals for publication in our 37th issue. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to share your ideas and experiences. To be included in the 37th issue, which is scheduled…
Posted March 20, 2017
Download a PDF version of the Call for Papers for the issue on Information/Control <http://bit.ly/2mNGObJ> *Guest Editors: Stacy E. Wood & James Lowry* In his 1992 Postscript on the Societies of Control, Gilles Deleuze diagnosed our society as a control society. He argued that the closure and containment that characterized the subject and the state – previously described by…
Posted March 20, 2017
You are invited to participate in the 2nd Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced IR and NLP for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL), to be held as part of 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017) in Tokyo, Japan on 11th August 2017. <http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/birndl-sigir2017/> We are happy to announce that the past…
Posted March 17, 2017
APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED to April 7th! The Cultural Immersion for Information Professionals course will run from June 12 to June 21, 2017. Designed to help students develop the unique skills, knowledge, and abilities needed to provide the library services that have become increasingly valuable in our diverse communities, this competitive study abroad program will bring students to Jamaica for a cultural experience filled with…
Posted March 15, 2017
Special issue of Knowledge OrganizationGuest editor: Melissa Gill Knowledge Organization (KO) invites proposals for a special issue focused on knowledge organization within the museum domain. Museums, like libraries and archives, are information institutions for material culture. Museum knowledge organization is object- and context-centric, focusing on the unique instantiation of a particular object and its historical and cultural…
Posted March 10, 2017
The Learning and Knowledge System Curator and Administrator will be a self-driven creative type who is passionate about data organization, is not afraid to think outside the box or roll up their sleeves and jump in, and who will thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. Your challenge: Selling and implementing the product, technology and services…
Posted March 3, 2017
Cognitive and Autonomous Test Vehicle (CAT Vehicle) Are you interested in being paid to learn how to program a car to drive itself this summer? Or learning how cognitive radio technology is enabling inter-vehicle communication? This research experience for undergraduates (REU) permits students to engage with the myriad of applications that are related to autonomous…
