Posted November 17, 2016
*** Deadline Extended: January 10, 2017 *** In order to improve the web experience of the users, classic personalization technologies (e.g., recommender systems) and search engines usually rely on static schemes. Indeed, users are allowed to express ratings in a fixed range of values for a given catalogue of products, or to express a query…
Posted November 17, 2016
The Warp & Weft of Knowledge: Information Threads Connecting Disciplines, Identities and Perspectives The conference theme The Warp & Weft of Knowledge: Information Threads Connecting Disciplines, Identities and Perspectives reflects the broad cross-disciplinary nature of information science. Information science research focuses on how information is structured, represented, organized, disseminated, and accessed. More than this, it examines how…
Posted November 12, 2016
The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), is pleased to offer an award for the best unpublished manuscript submitted by a student or students enrolled in an ALA-accredited graduate program. Sponsored by LITA and Ex Libris, the award consists of $1,000, publication in LITA’s refereed journal, Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) and a…
Posted November 12, 2016
The Library Research Round Table of the American Library Association announces the 2017 Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research. The deadline for submitting entries is January 31, 2017. The LRRT Shera Award Committee will judge the entries for the competition. The decision of the Committee will be announced by the LRRT Steering Committee…
Posted November 4, 2016
Are you an aspiring business librarian or do you know someone who is? Send us your nominations! Applications for the 2016 ALA BRASS Student Travel Award are being accepted until January 29, 2017. The BRASS SimplyMap Student Travel Award is a $1250 cash award given to a student enrolled in an ALA accredited master’s degree program…
Posted November 1, 2016
User experience remains a hot topic after NEASIST’s 2016 UX conference, and now you can deepen your understanding with a holistic view of service design. Do you want to tailor your entire ecosystem — personnel, spaces, and systems online and offline — to improve your users’ experiences? The New England Chapter of the Association for…
Posted October 27, 2016
The Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) sponsors the biennial Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award. The award, named in honor of a library historian widely known as a supportive advisor and mentor as well as a rigorous scholar and thinker, recognizes outstanding dissertations in English in the general area…
Posted October 27, 2016
Call for Participation http://icadl2016.org/ Dates: December 7 to 9, 2016Location: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, JapanCo-located Event: Asia-Pacific Forum of Information Schools (AP-IS) Dec. 5 to 6, 2016 Online Registration: http://icadl2016.org/#registration** Early Registration Deadline: October 31, 2016 ** ===================================================================================== Aims and scope—–Since its beginnings in Hong Kong in 1998, ICADL has become a premiere international conference for digital library research. ICADL…
Posted October 25, 2016
Occasional Paper Series (OPS) is one of the official publications (ISSN 1941-2037) of the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA). It is an open access publication which provides an opportunity for authors to publish article(s) on a peer-reviewed, official, and professional platform. It is a professional opportunity for you to publish your essays and will benefit…
Posted October 21, 2016
Information Ethics Roundtable 2017 April 21-22 Proposals Due: January 2, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: January 30, 2017 ier2017.wordpress.com In our knowledge society, our networked selves continually create and are created through data. In light of the ubiquity of data in the contemporary world, the ethical creation, dissemination, use, and storage of data…
