Posted March 27, 2019
The Doctoral Consortium forms part of the program of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), and takes place immediately preceding the technical program. JCDL 2019 https://2019.jcdl.org/ is held June 2-6, 2019 in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA. What is the Doctoral Consortium? The Doctoral Consortium is a workshop for Ph.D. students from all over the world…
Posted March 27, 2019
‘Technology and records management: disrupt or be disrupted?’ The Records Management Journal invites submissions for a themed issue focused on the opportunities and challenges of so-called disruptive technologies for archives and records management and records professionals. Technologies include but are not limited to: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, quantum computing IoT Blockchain and other distributed…
Posted March 25, 2019
Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) invites you to join Launching Your Career @ BBH! This will be held in our Jersey City office on Thursday evening, April 11, 2019. BBH is a privately held financial institution and, for 200 years, we have served our client’s needs while continuously adapting to the complex challenges of our…
Posted March 22, 2019
The School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University is excited to host the CSST Summer Institute June 18-22, 2019, supporting late-phase doctoral students, post-docs and early career emerging scholars in the socio-technical systems, social informatics and critical informatics research domains. Now 10 years running, the event will be co-organized by LIS professor Rebecca Reynolds and Dr….
Posted March 21, 2019
Are you interested in graphic medicine? Are you looking for concrete ways you can integrate graphic medicine into what you do? Registration is now open for the New England Graphic Medicine ComicCon on April 10, 2019: https://goo.gl/forms/jbUZNj27aqpzFhxM2. This event is free! What: New England Graphic Medicine ComicCon. For more details visit: https://news.nnlm.gov/ner/2019/02/15/youre-invited-new-england-graphic-medicine-comiccon/ Agenda: 8:30-9:00am…
Posted March 20, 2019
The SLA Information Technology Divisions’ 2019 Student Award, in honor of Joe Ann Clifton, is intended to promote participation in the SLA Annual Conference by an exceptional library science (or field related to the IT Division’s mission) student. The recipient of the award will receive: Student membership in SLA for one (1) year; Reimbursement for…
Posted March 20, 2019
The American Library Association (ALA) Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services seeks proposals for the Diversity Research Grant program. Applications may address any diversity-related topic which addresses critical gaps in the knowledge of diversity, equity and outreach issues within library and information science. The Diversity Research Grant consists of a one-time $2,500 award for original…
Posted March 19, 2019
Theme: Towards Critical Information Research, Education and PracticeLocation: St Mark’s National Theological Centre, 15 Blackall St, Barton, ACT.Conference Dates: 28-29 October 2019Submission Deadline: 30 June 2019Acceptance Notification: 31 July 2019 RAILS is the Australasian conference on Research Applications in Information and Library Studies, the main gathering in Australasia for academic and practitioner researchers and educators…
Posted March 19, 2019
The Digital Commonwealth Conference Committee invites you to register for its 13th Annual Conference, centered around the theme of “Responsibilities in the Digital Age“ When: Tuesday April 9th, 2019. Where: Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA Register online for the conference here. The keynote speaker is Peter Hirtle, Alumni Fellow of the Berkman Center…
Posted March 15, 2019
As Safiya Noble asserts in her seminal work Algorithms of Oppression “The cultural practices of our society…are part of the ways in which race-neutral narratives have increased investments in Whiteness” (p. 59). There is a need to disrupt these race-neutral narratives in Information Studies research and there is a growing body of work that does…
