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Posted November 19, 2016
View the full press release at: http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2016/11/submit-nomination-prestigious-kilgour-technology-research-award The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), and OCLC, Inc. invite nominations for the 2017 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology. The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2016. The Kilgour Research Award recognizes research relevant to…
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Posted November 17, 2016
Beta Phi Mu/LRRT Research Paper Award for 2017 This award is being jointly presented by the Beta Phi Mu International Honor Society (http://beta-phi-mu.org/) and the American Library Association’s Library Research Round Table (http://www.ala.org/lrrt/) to recognize excellent research in progress into problems related to the profession of librarianship. Any ALA member is eligible for this $500…
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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…
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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…
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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Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), is pleased to offer an award for the best unpublished manuscript submitted by a student or students enrolled in an ALA-accredited graduate program.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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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