Monthly Archives: January 2008

Libraries without borders: Navigating towards global understanding

IFLA
Libraries without borders: Navigating towards global understanding
10-14 August 2008, Qu�bec, Canada

CALL FOR PAPERS
Information Literacy and Academic and Research Libraries Sections

The Information Literacy (IL) and the Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Sections of IFLA will be holding a joint open program at the IFLA General Conference in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, August 10-14, 2008. IL educators or practitioners are invited to submit proposals for papers related to the theme:

Return on Investment: Learners’ Outcomes in Information Literacy. Do they really learn?

From high school to university current trends indicate a small but growing number of studies about learning outcomes for IL. Effective assessment of student learning outcomes is a critical component to improving information literacy programs.

In this call for papers, we are interested in a wide range of techniques that provide objective measures for assessing students’ information competencies. We are looking for speakers who can relate experiences from a practitioner’s perspective, as well as presentations of research on assessment of IL programs. The focus can be on diagnoses concerning incoming students, evaluating students’ progress towards achieving IL skills or exit assessments. Here are some questions to consider:

How are they used to evaluate the IL courses quality and their cost-effectiveness?
What indicators should be identified to measure competency or fluency?
What comparison can be made between different contexts, levels or disciplines?
Do assessment tools vary according to program needs?
What is the impact on pedagogical methods?

PAPER REQUIREMENTS:
The proposal should include a title, an abstract of 200-400 words and a one-page biographical sketch for each author, with current employment information and title, containing a selected list of previous presentations and publications. Submissions will be rated on how well they fit with the program theme. The abstract should be submitted as a MS Word file by e-mail, in English, no later than 30 January 2008 to:

Agnes Colnot
Service commun de documentation – CS 64302
Universit� Rennes 2 – Haute Bretagne
F-35043 RENNES Cedex
Email : agnes.colnot@wanadoo.fr

Submissions will be acknowledged by return email. Successful applicants will be informed of the outcome of the review panel by 1 March 2008. Papers (3-21 pages) are required to meet IFLA guidelines posted at: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/callinfo-en.htm . Presentations at the conference will be limited to approximately 20-30 minutes and will be a summary of the original paper and may use PowerPoint. An electronic version of this call will be posted at http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/call-papers-en.htm

The full paper is due no later than 1 May 2008 and must be an original submission not published elsewhere. Papers may be written and presented in any of the IFLA working languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish) however, simultaneous translation is not guaranteed.

Please note that all fees, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation, etc., are the responsibility of the authors of accepted papers. For additional information, please contact Agnes Colnot.

ACRL Women’s Studies Section Poster Session Proposal

The Women’s Studies Section will hold its first annual Research Poster Session during our General Membership Meeting at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA, Saturday, June 28, 2008, 4:00-5:30 p.m. The forum seeks to provide beginning and established researchers and librarians an opportunity to present research or work in progress, and receive collaborative feedback and recommendations for future publishing and/or new initiatives.

The potential scope of the topics includes, but is not limited to, teaching methods, instruction, information technology, collection development, interdisciplinarity, and collaboration with academic faculty. For research ideas, see the Women’s Studies Research Agenda.(http://www.libr.org/wss/committees/research/resagenda.html)

Attendees at the forum will find an arena for discussion and networking with their colleagues interested in related issues and trends in the profession.

The committee will use a blind review process.

Selection criteria:

1. Significance of the topic. Priority will be given to Women’s Studies Section members and/or women’s studies topics.

2. Originality of the project.

Proposal submission instructions:

1. Proposals should include:
Title of the proposal
Proposal narrative (no more than 2 pages, double spaced, 12 pt. font)
Name of applicant(s)
Affiliation
Applicant address(es), Phone number(s), Email address(es), Fax number(s)

Are you a member of Women’s Studies Section? ___Yes ___ No
If you would like to become a member, go to: http://www.libr.org/wss/join.html

2. Submission deadline: March 15, 2008

3. Proposals should be emailed to: Cindy Ingold. Chair, Research Committee
(cingold@uiuc.edu)

4. The chair will notify the applicants by April 15, 2008.

MERLOT – Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching

8th International Conference
August 7 – 10, 2008
Minneapolis Hilton

The MERLOT International Conference (MIC) provides numerous opportunities to share, learn, and participate in conversations about teaching and learning with technology from experts and MERLOT users from around the world.

Trailblazers do more than keep people on the right path. They help people see where to begin and provide direction. How can educators and users of instructional technology around the world prepare for a future filled with technology that provides content at a faster-and-faster pace? How can instructional technology be used to enhance teaching and learning? Who will organize all this change? This year’s Conference Committee expects that we will all do this together.

MIC08 offers a full day of pre-conference workshops followed by two-and-one-half days of colleague to colleague presentations. The Conference also includes Corporate Sponsor presentation and exhibits, presentations from MERLOT Award winners, and opportunities to gather over food and beverage. The Pre-conference sessions begin on Thursday morning, August 7. The full conference agenda begins with a Welcome Reception Thursday evening and ends at noon on Sunday, August 10.

The Conference Committee invites proposals on the tracks listed below. Proposal deadline is February 15, 2008.

“Blazing the Trail” Conference Tracks

The MIC08 Conference invites proposals based on the tracks below. The Committee encourages proposals from diverse constituents (faculty, students, administrators, librarians, etc) in a variety of disciplines based on the Tracks below.

Track 1 – Adopting, Adapting, and Authoring Digital Learning Resources
Track 2 – Committed and Connected International Communities of Learning through Technology
Track 3 – Researching New Learning Paradigms and New Teaching Models
Track 4 – New Paths: Expanding Teaching and Learning Opportunities with Web 2.0 Track 5 – Reinventing Libraries in the Digital Age
Track 6 – Engaging and Emerging Faculty Development Processes
Track 7 – Community of Practice: Harvesting the Promise of Technology in Education

For 2008, the MERLOT Conference Committee has selected to highlight Education as the featured Community of Practice. Teacher education, Libraries, and Faculty Development comprise this featured Community of Practice. Committee members hope that many faculty members will share this highlighted track with students involved in Pre-K through 16 classrooms and will propose joint sessions, panels, posters, and under/graduate research related to the conference theme.

For more information go to: http://mic08.merlot.org/

TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism i

TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism is now accepting submissions for two issues:

issue #7/8, an open double issue: deadline June 13, 2008.
see our submission guidelines at http://www.triviavoices.net

issue #9, *Are lesbians going extinct?* : deadline December 12, 2008.

In an essay written in 1983, Nicole Brossard wrote: “/Une lesbienne qui ne reinvente pas le monde est une lesbienne en voie de disparition./” (A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian going extinct.) At that time, the phrase made very good sense. As writers, thinkers, activists, and in our day-to-day lives we felt (many of us) compelled to reinvent a world in which we were for the most part invisible if not unthinkable, a world whose values we largely rejected. Today, over 20 years later, we are accepted, even embraced, by mainstream culture– as co-workers, wives, mothers, talk show hosts– in ways we could not have imagined then. But are we still reinventing the world? Is there still a radical edge to the word “lesbian”? Or are we now, by Brossard’s definition, a disappearing species?

We want to hear from young lesbians as well as anyone who ever embraced and/or lived this notion of lesbians as political trailblazers, radical visionaries. If you still identify as lesbian, what does it mean to you to be a lesbian today? In what relationship do your politics stand to your sexuality? Do you still see lesbians as a vanguard? See yourself as reinventing the world? If you no longer identify as lesbian, are there political/cultural reasons for this? Are there aspects of lesbian existence that you miss? Are glad to be free of? Do you still identify as a political trailblazer, a radical visionary? We welcome responses in the form of essays, poems, stories, creative nonfiction, and any in-between genres.

TRIVIA, a free twice-yearly online literary journal, publishes literary essays, experimental prose, poetry, translations, and reviews. We encourage writers to take risks with language and form so as to give their ideas the most original and vital expression possible. TRIVIA’s larger purpose is to foster a body of rigorous, creative and independent feminist thought. See our submission guidelines for details : http://www.triviavoices.net

TRIVIA : Voices of Feminism is an online relaunch of TRIVIA: A Journal of Ideas, an award-winning international feminist literary magazine published from 1982 to 1995. The online journal is a team effort by veteran feminist editors Lise Weil, founding editor of Trivia: A Journal of Ideas, and Harriet Ellenberger, founding editor of Sinister Wisdom, the world’s longest running lesbian journal, in collaboration with feminist geek web developer Susan Kullmann.

Information for Social Change – Science and Technology for Utopias

INFORMATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE (ISC) ISSN 1364-694X

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Summer 2009 issue of the online journal Information for Social Change (ISC) will focus on the theme of SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOR UTOPIAS.

This issue of ISC aims to document 21st century science and technology initiatives designed for utopian societies. The intended audience is hands-on Utopian makers, as well as those individuals and groups who share in the vision of Utopian futures.

ISC seeks submissions in the following two areas aimed at encouraging adaptations, constructive intercultural dialogue, and international participation:

1) General action research, development based participatory action research, case studies, and DIY (do-it-yourself) aspects of creating low cost, long term science and technology solutions to our present ecological mess, which also make for viable long term social justice (e.g., ethical aid, alternative transportation, living labs, green housing, and slow food movements) and the role of library and information workers and work therein.

2) Thoughts on information ecology, sharing, and recycling as they relate to the production of human and natural resources and how best to achieve egalitarian societies in which there is free flow of information (e.g., social, cultural, communication, and information systems which combine ICT within egalitarian decision making processes in the context of non-proprietary systems and free information movements).

Anyone interested in contributing work related to the above expressed theme is invited to share their ideas with issue co-editors Martyn Lowe (martynlowe@usa.net) & Toni Samek (toni.samek@ualberta.ca).

Whilst encouraging rigorous debate, the journal exists primarily for workers and practitioners, so simple and clear English is preferable. Articles should, where possible, be between 500 and 2500 words. This is to ensure a wide coverage of topics in each issue. However, longer articles may be excerpted in the journal and the full text made available from the author(s), if you wish. As well as articles we are also interested in shorter pieces (including letters, review articles, and poems).

The closing date for final submission is December 10 (HUMAN RIGHTS DAY), 2008.

For more information about ISC, see: http://libr.org/isc/

Breaking Boundaries, Forging Connections: Feminist Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice

A conference sponsored by the Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies Mount Saint Vincent University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

April 11 – 13 2008

Keynote Speaker:
Dr Marsha Hanen
former President of the University of Winnipeg,and pioneer in the development of interdisciplinary studies in Canada.

The host of this conference, the Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies, was endowed by well-known Toronto-based feminist and philanthropist Nancy Ruth, to raise awareness of women’s issues by bringing to campus distinguished scholars in women’s studies and activists who have contributed to the advancement of women.

Mount Saint Vincent University, the home of the Nancy’s Chair, has a proud history as a leader in innovative and creative learning approaches with an emphasis on women, academic excellence, distinctive programs, and a personal approach to education.

Women’s studies and feminist theory are boldly, creatively interdisciplinary in establishing strong connections between scholarly inquiry and women’s lives. They are reconfiguring disciplinary boundaries and academic structures while honouring scholarly integrity and activist commitments in universities and other post-secondary institutions, and in the world outside the academy. Feminist scholars and activists have developed innovative ways of navigating within traditional academic disciplines and institutional structures, and drawing on the resources of multiple, often diverse, disciplines, practices, and ways of knowing.

Breaking Boundaries, Forging Connections will explore the promise and the challenges of interdisciplinarity in feminist and women’s studies, and in the activism it informs and is informed by at the beginning of the twenty-first century, in Canada and internationally. We welcome contributions that present interdisciplinarity at work in diverse formats and modes of address, critical reflections on interdisciplinarity as such, performance, video and narrative presentations, workshops, roundtables and panels, and contributions that attest to the prospects and productive collaborations interdisciplinary commitments can animate.

Proposals might:

* celebrate some of the successes – the triumphs – of interdisciplinary work, showing by example how it can be greater than the sum of its parts

* show by example how the very idea of interdisciplinarity reconfigures fixed conceptions of “expertise”

* illustrate how new forms of interdisciplinarity have succeeded in bringing together the “two cultures”: the sciences and the humanities

* present possibilities for combining insights and issues derived from several disciplines

* contrast interdisciplinarity that derives from group connections and interdisciplinary work engaged individually

* consider how interdisciplinary inquiry helps to cross an (imaginary) divide between the university or college and the community

* present research that has developed out of inquiry that crosses two or more disciplines

In short, we welcome contributions that demonstrate the creative potential of interdisciplinary work, that show how interdisciplinarity counteracts the narrowness that can result from over-specialization in the academy and in professional schools, and/or that explore interdisciplinarity in public responses to research and practice. And we welcome proposals that expand on, challenge, or depart from the possibilities outlined here. Given the nature of this theme, we particularly welcome panel presentations or poster sessions that pose questions for discussion, mini-workshops, and mixed-media presentations.
Single papers will be allocated a maximum of 25 minutes’ reading time.
Panels may be allocated a longer presentation time.

Conference presentations may be considered for publication in
Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal.

Submission deadline: Friday, January 25, 2008

Submission format: Please submit either a complete paper (not to exceed 3000 words), a long abstract (1000 words), or a 1000-word detailed description of a panel or workshop, listing participants and indicating any special presentation requirements.

Submit paper copies only to:

Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies
ISW 4, Mount Saint Vincent University
166 Bedford Highway
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3M 2J6

Please direct all inquiries to Dr. Lorraine Code at :lorraine.code@msvu.ca

This conference will be preceded by a one-day conference, Epistemic
Bridges: Interdisciplinarity in the Academy, at Dalhousie University, on April 10, 2008, organized by the Interdisciplinary PhD Students’ Society. Inquiries about this one-day conference should be directed to Nancy Salmon at nsalmon@dal.ca

WOMEN’S HEALTH & URBAN LIFE: AN INTERNATIONAL & INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL

Papers are invited for a Special Issue on “Drug use and the health consequences for urban women”, edited by Dr. Diana L. Gustafson, Faculty of Medicine and Dr. Donna Bulman, Faculty of Nursing both of Memorial University. Manuscripts may address the full range of health issues of the journal as they relate to drug use (see below). Particularly welcome are papers that address the social determinants of health for women who inject drugs or for the women who care for those who do. Also welcome are manuscripts that address issues relating to public education, healthy public policy, and health care programs and services that meet the specific needs of diverse groups of women living and working in urban areas.

The Special Issue is scheduled for publication in November 2008.

For more information or to submit a manuscript, send an e-copy followed by four copies of your manuscript to:

Dr. Diana L. Gustafson
Associate Professor of Social Science and Health
Division of Community Health and Humanities
HSC 2834, Faculty of Medicine
Memorial University
St. John’s, NL A1B 3V6
e-mail: diana.gustafson@med.mun.ca

Women’s Health &Urban Life is located at the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto. The journal addresses a plethora of topics relating to women’s and girls’ health from an international and interdisciplinary perspective and link health to globalization and urbanization issues. General topics include but are not limited to: Women’s health in general; Health related to reproduction; Health related to sexuality; Health related to paid or unpaid labour; Health related to parenthood; Health and the environment; Health and social policy; and Health related to urbanization and globalization issues. The orientation of the journal is critical, feminist and social scientific. Both qualitative and quantitative manuscripts, and theoretical or empirical works are welcome. Papers should not exceed 30 pages including all references, tables and appendices. All submissions will be peer reviewed by anonymous reviewers. For more details about the goals, substantive basis and submission guidelines of this journal, please contact:

Professor Aysan Sev’er, General Editor
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto at Scarborough
1265 Military Trail, Scarborough
Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4
Fax: 416-287-7296; e-mail: sever@utsc.utoronto.ca

or visit: http://utsc.utoronto.ca/~socsci/sever

8th Annual Brick and Click Libraries – An Academic Library Symposium

Friday, November 7, 2008

Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri

“Brick and Click” is a one-day symposium of practical relevance to academic libraries supporting traditional and online resources/services. The symposium provides a forum for considering the evolving needs of library users.

Presenters receive a reduced registration fee ($100) to the symposium and an opportunity to publish a paper as well. For more information, go to: http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/brickandclick/presenters.htm. Presentations may cover, but are not limited to, the topics listed at: http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/brickandclick/sampletopics.htm.

Submit your presentation proposal at http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/brickandclick/presenterform.htm. All submissions must be received by February 29, 2008.

NEW THIS YEAR: Lightning Rounds, where each presenter speaks for 10 minutes. For more information visit http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/brickandclick/lightningGuide.htm. Lightning Round proposals are also open to graduate students. Students who are selected to present will be supported by a stipend and free registration.

Send any additional questions about presentation proposals to Kathy Ferguson: mailto:juliah@nwmissouri.edu

We look forward to receiving your proposal!

Cordially Yours,

Kathy Ferguson & Carolyn Johnson

Symposium Co-Coordinators

http://brickandclick.org

Feminist Pedagogy: Transforming Silence Into Action

The Midwest Modern Language Association conference will be held
November 13-16, 2008 in Minneapolis. The Women’s Caucus invites 250
word abstracts on the following topic:
“Feminist Pedagogy: Transforming Silence Into Action.” The question
here is how do we as feminist teachers, especially teachers of
language and literature, engage our students in the rich and
meaningful relationship between theory and practice, teaching and
activism? We invite papers that explore strategies for achieving
this goal, for example service learning, teaching language as
activism, community research, and campus organizing.

Please send abstracts to me privately, via email at the address
below, by April 15, 2008. Additional information about the
conference can be found at
http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/

Linda S. Coleman
Professor of English and Women’s Studies
Eastern Illinois University
600 Lincoln Ave.
Charleston, Illinois 61920
lscoleman@eiu.edu
217-581-5015

ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS (AKCSN) BOOK SERIES

CALL FOR BOOK VOLUME PROPOSALS:

ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS (AKCSN) BOOK SERIES
http://www.igi-global.com/bookseries

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Hakikur Rahman
PUBLISHER: IGI Global < http://www.igi-global.com >

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR:

The AKCSN is an international book series that publishes high-quality original research about knowledge communities and social networks. This book series calls for a knowledge based perspective adopting concepts belonging to advancement on information science, knowledge communication and knowledge management pertaining to multi-disciplinary aspects. This series will cover, but not limited to knowledge management, knowledge communications, knowledge economy, information society, information dynamics, information processing, information retrieval, digital divide, grass-roots communities, developing countries, mobile computing, e-governance, e-commerce, e-society and e-applications.

To improvise the effects of information revolution and reach out to the general community, this book series will try to establish innovative model of approaches in understanding the dynamics of knowledge communication, drawing upon knowledge gains from the various branches of information science and the cognitive arena. The book series will try to provide an analytical approach to the holistic situation of the newly emerged knowledge perspectives featuring innovative models of technology transfer focusing upon the concepts of knowledge communication processes. When knowledge is a good to exchange through technological communication, then understanding of the dynamics influencing knowledge intelligibly become the premier issue to initiate high-end researches. In this context, the book series will aim to investigate which functions the knowledge-intensive services will form a major research area within the process of knowledge communication. It will also promote a systemic focus on the communication process underlying knowledge transmission, within the broader framework of the knowledge-based economy.

By becoming a contributor to the Advances in Knowledge Communities and Social Networks (AKCSN) Book Series, you will be granted an opportunity that a few have ever gained. Your work will be showcased in a collection that finds wide acceptance by both libraries and international indexes, and a diverse international editorial advisory board will support it. As major audience of books under this book series will be comprised of academics, scientists, technologists, and policy makers, it is highly likely that your edited book will be used as guide in the national and regional development processes reinforcing different tiers of knowledge implementations. I welcome you to consider submitting your research to this series in hopes of providing the field of E-Government with collections of pivotal applications, methods and technologies.

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD:

Advances in Knowledge Communities and Social Networks (AKCSN) Book Series

Editor-in-Chief: Hakikur Rahman, ICMS, Bangladesh

Associate Editors:
Baanda A. Salim, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
A.V.Senthil Kumar, CMS College of Science and Commerce, India
Yanbo J. Wang, The University of Liverpool, UK

International Editorial Advisory Board:
Anne-Marie Oostveen, Oxford Internet Institute, UK
James Piecowye, Zayed University, Dubai
Ali Serhan Koyuncugil, Capital Markets Board of Turkey, Turkey
Robert A. Cropf, Saint Louis University, USA
Arla Juntunen, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland
Deborah L. Wheeler, United States Naval Academy, USA
Vincenzo Ambriola, University of Pisa, Italy
Tsegaye Tadesse, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Alemayehu Molla, RMIT University, Australia
Subhajit Basu, Queen’s University, UK
Claude Ghaoui, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Teresa Sancho Vinuesa, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Lucas Walsh, Deakin University, Australia
Agusti Cerrillo Martinez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

NEXT SUBMISSION DUE DATE: FEBRUARY 15, 2008

MISSION OF AKCSN:
The Advances in Knowledge Communities and Social Networks (AKCSN) Book Series is a multi-disciplinary international book series that aims to publish high-quality, original research about knowledge management. The AKCSN will provide an analytical approach to the holistic situation of the newly emerging knowledge dynamics featuring innovation in knowledge acquisition, knowledge communication and knowledge management focusing upon the concepts of the knowledge communities and social networks.

COVERAGE of AKCSN:
The coverage of AKCSN Book Series is international and focused on original research in knowledge communications, applications, management, policies and implications. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

· Knowledge Management and Business Improvement
· Knowledge as Capacity for Action
· Knowledge as a Symbol/Model of Development
· Knowledge as an Empirical Problem Solving Tool
· Agent-mediated Knowledge Management
· The Framework of a Pragmatic Conception of Knowledge
· Knowledge as a Competitive Force
· Flourishing Knowledge Creation Environments
· Measuring and Evaluating Knowledge Assets
· Technology Orientation and Capitalization of Knowledge
· Current State and Future Development of the Institutional Knowledge Management
· Knowledge Management Practices and Future Perspectives
· Challenges of Knowledge Management
· Methods, Measures and Instruments of Knowledge Management
· Conceptual Role of ICTs in Knowledge Communication and Management
· Organizational Knowledge Communication and Knowledge Transfer as the Focal Point of Knowledge Management
· Distributed Knowledge Management Business Cases and Experiences
· Knowledge Management System Architectures, Infrastructure and Middleware
· Strategic Management and Business Process Analysis
· Networks as Institutionalized Intermediaries of KC
· Organizational Knowledge Communication
· Communication of Knowledge in Organizations
· Knowledge Communication and the Role of Communities and Social Networks
· General Importance and Role of Knowledge Communities
· Importance and Role of Knowledge Communities in R&D and Innovative Knowledge Creation
· Supporting Virtual Communities of Practice and Interest Networks
· Methodologies to Analyze, Design and Deploy Distributed Knowledge Management Solutions
· Social Models to Design and Support Knowledge Intensive Collaborative Processes
· Meta-data Representation and Management (e.g., semantic-based coordination mechanisms, use of ontologies, etc.)
· Knowledge Acquisition Systems and Networks
· Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Deployed Systems
· Networks and Knowledge Communication in R&D Environments
· Communication and Management of Knowledge in R&D Networks
· Application of Social Network Analysis as a Knowledge Management Tool
· Leveraging Knowledge Communication Networks – Approaches to Interpretations and Interventions
· Whole-Network Properties and Knowledge Communication
· Knowledge Communication and Impact of Network Structures
· Roles and Positional Models of Knowledge Communication Networks
· Leveraging Knowledge Communication in Social Networks
· Epistemology of Knowledge Society
· Citizens’ eParticipation in Local Decision-Making Processes
· eCapacity Building Programmes to Ensure Digital Cohesion and Improved eGovernment Performance at Local Level
· Broadband Infrastructure and the New Wireless Network Solutions
· Local eGovernment Interoperability and security
· Generation of Municipal Services in Multi-Channel Environments
· Introduction to Mobile Computing
· Business Process Modeling
· Information and Data Management
· Communication and Agent Technology
· Best Practices for Mobile Computing
· Information Policy Overview
· Communications and the Internet
· Knowledge Chains
· Community Practices
· Learning Utilities
· Advanced Researches in Knowledge Communities

SUBMITTING TO AKCSN:
Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews and assessment of the publisher, IGI Global. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to email@hakik.org by ****** NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 15, 2008 ******

PROSPECTUS SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Your 5-10 page (not including your CV) book prospectus should contain the following information:

1. 3-5 SUGGESTED TITLES for your proposed publication
2. A SYNOPSIS of your proposed publication, including a concise DEFINITION of the subject area
3. INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBJECT AREA
4. 5-10 INDEXING KEYWORDS for your proposed subject area
5. Overall OBJECTIVES AND MISSION of your proposed publication
6. SCHOLARLY VALUE AND POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION to information science, technology and management literature
7. PURPOSE AND POTENTIAL IMPACT on your field of research
8. UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS of your proposed publication
9. PROSPECTIVE AUDIENCE for such a publication
10. POTENTIAL BENEFITS readers will gain from your proposed publication
11. EXISTING COMPETING PUBLICATIONS and their advantages and disadvantages in comparison to your proposed publication
12. TENTATIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS
13. PROJECTED TOTAL PAGE/WORD COUNT for proposed publication
14. TENTATIVE TIMETABLE for the entire project
15. POTENTIAL CHANNELS OF CALL DISTRIBUTION for the procurement of submissions and contacts (List-Servs, Universities, etc.)
16. COMPLETE MAILING ADDRESS, phone, fax and e-mail information FOR EACH EDITOR/AUTHOR
17. A COPY OF YOUR VITAE, listing education and publication records FOR EACH EDITOR/AUTHOR

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER:
The Advances in Knowledge Communities and Social Networks (AKCSN) Book Series is published by IGI Global, publisher of the “IGI Publishing,” “Information Science Publishing,” “IRM Press,” “CyberTech Publishing” and “Information Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.

All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of:

Please forward proposals and submission inquiries to:
Hakikur Rahman
Editor-in-Chief
Advances in Knowledge Communities and Social Networks (AKCSN) Book Series
http://www.igi-global.com/bookseries
Direct link:
www.igi-global.com/akcsn
Email: email@hakik.org