Posted November 10, 2015
The Library Research Round Table of the American Library Association announces the 2016 Jesse H. Shera Award for the Support of Dissertation Research. This award provides recognition for proposed dissertation research employing exemplary research design and methods. The deadline for submitting entries is January 31, 2016. The LRRT Shera Award Committee will judge the entries for…
Posted November 7, 2015
It is with great pleasure that we announce that the eighth annual Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI) will be hosted by the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, USA from July 8 to July 12, 2016. The Institute is sponsored by the Archival Education and Research Initiative, which is…
Posted November 7, 2015
website: http://sexi2016.org/email: [email protected] Submissions due: November 30, 2015 Conference Location: San Francisco WORKSHOP OVERVIEW Adult content is pervasive on the web, has been a driving factor in the adoption of the Internet medium, and is responsible for a significant fraction of traffic and revenues, yet rarely attracts the attention of researchers. This half-day workshop on Search and…
Posted November 6, 2015
Call for Papers (CFP):The Serendipity Factor: Evaluating the Affordances of Digital Environments SEADE (pronounced “seed”) Workshop at CHIIR 2016 (ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval) http://sigir.org/chiir2016/ March 17, 2016, 9:00am-5:00pm, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States For two decades, research has sought to understand serendipity and how it may be facilitated in…
Posted November 5, 2015
*Important Dates**Abstract submission?: November 15, 2015**Full paper submission: November 22, 2015*Review notification: January 9, 2016Final camera-ready version: January 31, 2016 Overview: Big Data computing and service is becoming a very hot research and application subject in academic research, industry community, and government services. Today, with the fast advance of big data science,analytics and technology, big data researchers and…
Posted November 5, 2015
31 January 2016 – Paper submission deadline Submissions shall be made through the Semantic Web journal website at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/. Prospective authors must take notice of the submission guidelines posted athttp://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors. Note that you need to request an account on the website for submitting a paper. Please indicate in the cover letter that it is for the special issue on Mining…
Posted October 31, 2015
Extended Deadline: November 20, 2015 Submissions shall be made through the Semantic Web journal website at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net. Prospective authors must takenotice of the submission guidelines posted at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors. Note that you need to request an account on the website for submitting a paper. Please indicate in the cover letter that it is for the Special Issue on Quality Management of…
Posted October 31, 2015
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Biennial International Conference LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2016 Conference Theme: Digital Library Curation and Collections Zadar, Croatia, 13-17 June 2016 University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia Full CFP can be found here: http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/ Email: [email protected] Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) addresses the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in…
Posted October 31, 2015
Call for Papers: Inaugural IssueTheme: Why is the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies needed today? The Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies is a peer-reviewed open access journal which addresses the need for critical discourse in library and information science and associated domains such as communication and media studies. It critically engages the cultural forms, social practices,…
Posted October 31, 2015
The organizers of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2016 invite proposals for workshops. Workshops are intended to draw together communities of interest both those in established communities and those interested in discussion and exploration of a new or emerging issue. They can range in format from formal, perhaps centering on presentation of refereed papers, to informal, perhaps centering…
