Monthly Archives: June 2010

2010 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX)

Greetings all:

The 2010 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) submission system is now open. This will be the 6th iteration of MIREX. We are looking forward to the most rewarding MIREX yet. Over the past 6 years MIREX has evaluated over 750 MIR algorithm runs on a wide variety of music-related tasks. There is a good chance that we might break the 1000 cumulative runs barrier this year!

The MIREX plenary and poster sessions will be convened on Wednesday, 11 August 2010 as part of the 11th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval(ISMIR) in Utrecht, Netherlands, from August 9th to 13th, 2010 (http://ismir2010.ismir.net/).

We have created a new submission system with new submission procedures for this year. Because of this, it is important that you take some time to review the documentation carefully.

We will be following up this message early next week with information about deadlines. Like last year, we will have rolling deadlines. However, do note that ISMIR is in early August. This means that we need to begin running algorithms as soon as possible. The first two deadlines will involve the Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval (AMS) and the Symbolic Melodic Similarity (SMS) tasks as both of these will require further human evaluation via the famous Evalutron 6000 system.

If you have general questions, feel free to post them to the EvalFest list <evalfest@lists.lis.illinois.edu>. Specific problem requests can be made to the MIREX team via <mirex@imirsel.org>.

Please begin the submission process by visiting:
http://music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2010:MIREX_2010_Submission_Instructions

Special comment: We are REQUIRING that EACH person involved in a MIREX 2010 submission MUST create an identity for themselves on the submission system. Identities are important to us as they help us better manage the submissions. Even if a colleague of yours is going to do the actual submitting, you still need to create an identity for yourself in the system. We have a video that will help you make better sense of this. So, even if you are not going to be the submitter, could can help your colleagues immensely by creating an identity for yourself on the system as soon as possible.

Until the final 2010 results are published, this will be the last MIREX 2010 message cross-posted. All further communications from MIREX Central will be made via the EvalFest list.

Cheers,
J. Stephen Downie on behalf of the MIREX team

2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2010)

Nov 30 ~ Dec 3, 2010, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
http://salsahpc.indiana.edu/CloudCom2010/
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Submission deadline: July 1st, 2010

“Cloud” is a common metaphor for an Internet accessible infrastructure
(e.g. data storage and computing hardware) which is hidden from users. Cloud
Computing makes data truly mobile and a user can simply access a chosen cloud
with any internet accessible device. In Cloud Computing, IT-related
capabilities are provided as services, accessible without requiring detailed
knowledge of the underlying technology. Thus, many mature technologies are
used as components in Cloud Computing, but still there are many unresolved and
open problems. This conference and workshop series, steered by the Cloud
Computing Association (www.cloudcom.org), aims to bring together researchers
who work on cloud computing and related technologies. Topics include but are
not limited to:

Topics include but are not limited to:
* Auditing, monitoring and scheduling
* Autonomic Computing
* Cloud /Grid architecture
* Cloud-based Services and Education
* Consistency models
* Data grid & Semantic web
* Fault tolerance and reliability
* Hardware as a Service (HaaS)
* High-performance computing
* Integration of Mainframe and Large Systems
* Innovations in IP (esp. Open Source) Systems
* IT Service and Relationship Management
* Load balancing
* Middleware frameworks
* New and Innovative Pedagogical Approaches
* Novel Programming Models for Large Computing
* Optimal deployment configuration
* Peer to peer computing
* Power-aware Profiling, Modeling, and Optimizations
* Scalable Fault Resilience Techniques for Large Computing
* Scalable Scheduling on Heterogeneous Architectures
* Security and Risk
* Software as a Service (SaaS)
* Utility computing
* Virtualization technologies
* Web services

General Chair
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA

Program Chairs
Gansen Zhao, South China Normal Univ., China
Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA

Program Vice Chair
Neal N. Xiong, Georgia State Univ., USA

Workshop Chairs
Rajiv Ranjan, UNSW, Australia
Martin G. Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway

Steering Committee
Chunming Rong, Uni.of Stav.,Norway(Chair)
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
Hai Jin, HUST, China
Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway
Frode Eika Sandnes, Oslo Uni. Coll., Norway
Gansen Zhao, SCNU, China

Advisory Committee
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ, CA
Chung-Ming Huang, NCKU, Taiwan
Rajkumar Buyya, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
Rajiv Ranjan, UNSW, Australia
Arne Jorgen Berre, SINTEF, Norway
Cho-Li Wang, Univ. of Hong Kong, China
Robert C. Hsu, Chung Hua Univ., Taiwan

Organizing Chair
Therese Miller, Indiana University,USA

Communications Chair
Daphne Siefert-Herron, Indiana Univ., USA

Award Chair
Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA

Panel Chair
Bob Grossman, UIC, USA (pending)

Organizing Chair
Therese Miller, Indiana University, USA

Technical Program Committee (TPC)
Complete list of TPC can be found at conference website.

Call for Workshops:
Proposals for workshops are welcome. Accepted papers will appear in the
conference proceedings. The conference and workshop proceedings
will be published by IEEE (pending). After the conference, extended and
revised versions of distinguished papers will be invited for possible
publication in a special issue of the Journals:
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal (Springer, SCI-indexed)
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Journal (Wiley, SCI-indexed)
Journal of Supercomputing (pending, Springer, SCI-indexed)
International Journal of Cloud Computing (IJCC, InderScience)

Keynote Speakers
Ian T. Foster, Director, CI, Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA
Kai Hwang, Professor, IEEE Fellow, Director, Internet and Grid Comp. Lab., USC, USA

Important dates

Submission deadline: July 1st , 2010
Author notification: Aug. 1st, 2010
Camera-ready manuscript: Sept. 1st, 2010
Author registration: Sept. 1st, 2010
Workshop proposal: May 1st, 2010

For more info: cloudcomsislab.no
Website: http://www.CloudCom.org/

Organized by the Indiana University,
Technically sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 Workshop on Web and Pervasive Security

WPS’10 (Miami, USA, 6-10 December 2010)
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/wps2010/
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1. Introduction
2. Topics
3. Important dates
4. Paper format & submission
5. Organizing Committee
6. History of WPS
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1. Introduction
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Web and Pervasive Environments (WPE) are emerging rapidly as an exciting new
paradigm including ubiquitous, web, grid, ubiquitous and peer-to-peer computing to
provide computing and communication services any time and anywhere.
In order to realize their advantages, it requires the security services and
Applications to be suitable for WPE. If they are realized, a user will be able to
remotely access and control all information and web appliances in the workplace
as well as at home and office, easily and conveniently use various services to
enable working at home, remote education, remote diagnosis, virtual shopping,
network gaming, and high quality VOD with no limitations on space and time.

WPS2010 is a successor of the 1st International Workshop on Application and
Security service in Web and pervAsive eNvirionments (ASWAN-07, HuangShan,
China, June, 2007), the 2nd International Workshop on Web and Pervasive
Security (WPS-08, Hong Kong, March, 2008) and the 3rd International Workshop
on Web and Pervasive Security (WPS-09, Galveston, Texas, March, 2009)

WPS2010 workshop is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art
research in the area of secure WPE including security models, security systems,
application services and novel security applications associated with its utilization.
Also, it offers the possibility to discuss protocols and protocol characteristics with
those people that are using them for solving their scientific problems. We plan to
publish high quality papers, which cover the various web and security issues and
practical applications in WPE.

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2. Topics
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Security web-based collaboration applications and services
* Model for secure web services
* Wireless sensor networks / RFID application and security for WPE
* Intelligent multimedia security services for WPE
* Key management and authentication in WPE
* Network security issues and protocols in WPE
* Access control in WPE
* Privacy Protection in WPE
* Cryptographic algorithms for WPE
* Data privacy and trustiness for WPE
* Forensics Issue for WPE
* Privacy and anonymity for WPE
* Security in P2P networks and Grid computing in WPE
* Trust management in WPE
* Commercial and industrial applications for WPE

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3. Important Dates
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Paper Submission: July 2, 2010
Decision notification: August 13, 2010
Camera-ready and registration due: August 31, 2010

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4. Paper format & submission
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Papers must be submitted electronically in Adobe PDF format to the submission
system.

http://edas.info/N8718

Papers must have authors’ affiliation and contact information on the first
page. Papers must be unpublished and not being considered elsewhere for
publication.

In particular, papers submitted to WPS2010 must not be concurrently submitted to
GLOBECOM in identical or modified form.

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit an IEEE conference style paper up to 5 pages
(including all text, figures, and references) through EDAS submission system

http://edas.info/N8718

One additional page will be allowed with additional publication fee.

An accepted paper must be registered before the registration deadline.
An accepted paper must be presented at the workshop. Failure to
register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of
the paper from the workshop proceedings and the program. All accepted
and presented papers will be included in the IEEE GLOBECOM proceedings
and IEEE digital library. GLOBECOM has the right to remove an accepted
and registered but not presented paper from the IEEE digital library.

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5. Organizing Committee
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Workshop Co-Chairs:

Jong Hyuk Park, Seoul National University of Technology, Korea
Robert C. H. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan

International Advisory Committee

Mohammad S. Obaidat (Monmouth University, USA)
Laurence T. Yang (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada)
Jianhua Ma (Hosei University, Japan)
Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Weijia Jia (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China)

Program committee

Alexander Lazovik (INRIA, France)
Andrew Kusiak (The University of Iowa, USA)
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini (Purdue University, USA)
Antonio Coronato (ICAR-CNR, Italy)
Apostolos N. Papadopoulos (Aristotle University, Greece)
Avinash Srinivasan (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
Cho-Li Wang (The University of Hong Kong, China)
Claudio Sartori (Universita’ di Bologna, Italy)
Do van Thanh (NTNU, Norway)
Fangguo Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
Gianluca Moro (University of Bologna, Italy)
Hiroshi yoshiura (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Huafei Zhu (Institute for Infocomm Research, A-star, Singapore)
Javier Garcia Villalba (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Jongsung Kim, Kyungnam University, Korea
Jean-Henry Morin (Korea University, KOREA)
Jean-Marc Seigneur (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Jian Yang (Macquarie University, Australia)
Katsaros Dimitrios (Aristotle University, Greece)
Ligang He (University of Warwick, UK)
Marco Aiello (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
Massimo Esposito (ICARCNR, Italy)
Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy)
Qi Shi (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
Raymond Li (CISCO, USA)
Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Tetsu Iwata (Nagoya University, Japan)
Tore Jonvik (Oslo Unversity College, Norway)
TRAORE Jacques RD-MAPS-CAE (France Telecom R&D, France)
Trevor Jim (AT&T Labs Research, USA)
Xiaofeng Meng (Renmin University of China, China)
Yufeng Wang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommuni-cations, China)

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6. History of WPS
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The 1st International Workshop on Application and Security service in Web and Pervasive Environments (ASWAN-07, HuangShan, China, June, 2007)
http://www.chu.edu.tw/~aswan07/
The 2nd International Workshop on Web and Pervasive Security (WPS-08, Hong Kong, March, 2008)
http://www.sersc.org/WPS2008/
The 3rd International Workshop on Web and Pervasive Security (WPS-09, Galveston, Texas, USA, March, 2009)
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/wps2009/

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For additional information, please send e-mail to
Prof. Robert C. H. Hsu (chh@chu.edu.tw) or
Prof. Jong Hyuk Park (parkjonghyuk1@hotmail.com)
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ACRL/Instruction Section (IS) Current Issue Discussion Groups

Updated link for the Call for Proposals:

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/about/sections/is/committees/discussiongroup.cfm

 

Have a instruction topic you’d like to discuss with your fellow librarians? Want to get some input on an instruction idea? Now’s your chance! Propose a topic for discussion at ALA’s Midwinter Conference in San Diego next year.

 

Deadline for submitting a proposal is June 9, 2010, so don’t delay!

 

 

ACRL/Instruction Section (IS)

Current Issue Discussion Groups

Call for Proposals for ALA Midwinter Conference, January 2011

 

Description

Current Issue Discussion Groups provide a way for IS members to introduce instruction-related topics of current importance, to promote discussion, and encourage further exploration.

 

What to Include in the Proposal

The following five elements need to be addressed and clearly stated in the proposal:

 


                     A clear description of the discussion topic’s issue/s

                     Rationale for convening a discussion on the topic’s issue/s

                     Importance of the topic’s issue/s for academic instruction librarians

                     At least three sample discussion questions that may be used to facilitate group discussion

                     Proposed strategies and structure that will maintain group discussion

 

The potential scope of issues includes, but is not limited to:

Teaching methods; Instruction and information technology; Assessment; Management of instruction programs; Outreach and collaboration; Research in academic information literacy. The topic should be focused enough to be covered reasonably well within the allotted time. (For example “Everything about WIKIs” would be too broad, while “Using WIKIs in Library Instruction at Academic Institutions” might be just the right scope).

 

Expectations for Current Issue Discussion Group Conveners

For the selected proposals, the proposal author(s) will serve as convener(s) and commit to:

 

                     becoming up-to-date and familiar with the discussion topic;

                     exploring possible discussion formats and selecting the appropriate format that allows for maximum discussion within the parameters and scope of the topic;

                     drafting an initial two-page to three-page, double spaced “Current Issue Digest” summarizing findings about the issue to be posted to ILI-L at least two weeks before the conference and handed out at the discussion;

                     identifying a few key readings, related organizations and/or programs to include in the “Current Issue Digest;”

                     facilitating one of two “Current Issue Discussions” at the ALA Midwinter Conference (in San Diego, C.A., January 7-11, 2011) or you may consider facilitating your session online shortly after the Midwinter conference;

                     revising and submitting a final “Current Issue Digest” to be posted on the IS web site within one month of the discussion;

                     distributing the final “Current Issue Digest” to the ILI Listserv after it is reviewed by the Discussion Group Steering Committee;

                     maintaining communication with an assigned liaison from the Discussion Group Steering Committee throughout the planning, program, and follow-up processes.

 

Who May Apply

Applications are welcome from any IS members.

 

How to Apply

Complete and submit the proposal form to the IS Current Issue Discussion Group Steering Committee co-chair by June 2, 2010. The proposal form is attached. Send the completed form to Merinda Hensley (mhensle1@illinois.edu).

 

Contact committee co-chairs Carrie Forbes (carrie.forbes@du.edu) or Merinda Hensley (mhensle1@illinois.edu) with questions.

 

Process

Selection will be based on the perceived importance and impact of the proposed topic. Additional selection criteria used in the selection process includes evaluating proposed topics for: timeliness, relevancy, currency, practicality (that the topic lends itself to a discussion), innovation, evidence of applicant’s knowledge, and clear focus. Proposals must be submitted by June 2, 2010 for ALA Midwinter in San Diego, C.A. Proposal writers will be notified right after 2010 Annual Conference as to whether or not their proposal was accepted and will be assigned a Committee liaison. Conveners are responsible for their own conference registration and travel expenses.

 


IS Current Issue Discussion Group

Proposal form

Proposals submitted by June 2, 2010, will be considered for one of two discussion groups to be held at the ALA Midwinter Conference in San Diego, C.A.

Brief title:                                                                                                                                                            

(Approximately 8 words, providing a succinct description)

 

Please attach a summary of the proposed discussion’s focus and its importance to the profession (Note: Keep in mind the selection criteria used: timeliness, relevancy, currency, practicality, innovation, evidence of applicant’s knowledge, and clear focus.):

(Up to 400 words)

 

Please attach a proposed outline as to how you will initiate and facilitate discussion, as well as how you will maintain a discussion format. Include a MINIMUM of 3 questions that will be posed in the discussion. (Up to 400 words)

 

Provide the following contact information for proposed discussion group convener(s): Name, Institution, Email Address and Phone


 

___ Please check to confirm that at least one convener is a current IS member.

 

___ Please check to indicate that you accept the responsibilities of discussion group conveners.

 

___ Alternative to the in-person sessions at the Midwinter conference: Please check to indicate if you would be interested in offering your session in an online format. Your session would be scheduled to be held shortly after the Midwinter conference. The committee would work with you on best practices for facilitating a discussion in an online forum.

 

If your proposal is selected, you will be notified immediately after Annual in Washington D.C.  At that time you will be assigned a liaison from the Discussion Group Steering Committee.

 

Please read the “Tips for Discussion Group Conveners” posted on the IS-DGSC webpage. It provides details on the Current Issue Digests, deadlines, and expectations!

 

Conveners and other participants are responsible for their own conference registration and travel expenses.

 

Submit your completed proposal form by email to Merinda Hensley (mhensle1@illinois.edu), co-chair of the IS Discussion Group Steering Committee, by June 9, 2010.

Desktop Search Workshop

** Due to requests, the deadline for submissions to the SIGIR 2010 Desktop Search (Understanding, Supporting and Evaluating Personal Data Search) Workshop has been extended to June 9, 2010.  In the interest of streamlining the review process we would request that you submit an abstract through the EasyChair system by June 6, 2010 so that other important dates will not be affected.**

 

 

Desktop Search Workshop

Understanding, Supporting, and Evaluating Personal Data Search

 A SIGIR 2010 workshop, July 23, Geneva, Switzerland

http://www.cdvp.dcu.ie/DS2010/

 

Desktop search refers to the process of searching within one’s personal space of information.  The information searched during a desktop search can include content that resides on one’s personal computer (e.g., documents, emails, visited Web pages, and multimedia files), and may extend to content on other personal devices, such as music players and mobile phones.  Despite recent research interest, desktop search is under-explored compared to other search domains such as the web, semi-structured data, or flat text. 

 

This workshop will bring together academics and industrial practitioners interested in desktop search with the goal of fostering collaborations and addressing the challenges faced in this area. The workshop will be structured to encourage group discussion and active collaboration among attendees. We encourage participation from people in the fields of information retrieval, personal information management, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, and related areas.

 

The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:

 

  • Understanding desktop search behavior

         Studies of desktop search behavior

         Desktop query log analysis

         Psychological aspects of re-finding (e.g., people’s memories of items)
 
  • Supporting desktop search

         Retrieval approaches (e.g., content analysis, search algorithms)

         Personalization to account for highly individual collections and needs

         Interfaces for desktop search and presentation of results
 
  • Evaluating desktop search

         Evaluation approaches (e.g., test collections, lab studies, log analyses)

         Test set creation  (e.g., common reference task, common corpora)
 
  • Other uses of desktop collections

         Life-logging

         Introspection and reflection using personal collections

 

Submission Guidelines

Short papers (max 4 pages) and short position papers (max 2 pages) describing significant work in progress, late breaking results or ideas / challenges for the domain are invited. Submissions should be in ACM SIGIR format. LaTeX and Word templates are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates (for LaTeX, use the “Option 2” style).

 

Anonymised papers in pdf format should be submitted to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=desktop2010 no later than midnight Pacific Daylight Time on June 9, 2010. Submissions will be subject to triple-blind reviewing.

 

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. These proceedings will be distributed to workshop participants and made available on-line. At the workshop we will discuss the possibility of publishing in a journal special issue or similar.

 

Important Dates

June 9, 2010 – Deadline for paper submission

June 27, 2010 – Notification to authors

July 5, 2010 – Camera-ready copy due

July 23, 2010 – Workshop

 

Further Information

Further information is available on the workshop website at http://www.cdvp.dcu.ie/DS2010/ or by emailing the workshop organizers.

 

Workshop Organizers

David Elsweiler – University of Erlangen, Germany (david@elsweiler.co.uk)

Gareth J. F. Jones – Dublin City University, Ireland (gjones@computing.dcu.ie)

Liadh Kelly – Dublin City University, Ireland (lkelly@computing.dcu.ie)

Jaime Teevan – Microsoft Research Redmond, USA (teevan@microsoft.com)

 

Program Committee

Leif Azzopardi – University of Glasgow, UK

Ofer Bergman – Sheffield University, UK

Rob Capra –  University of North Carolina, USA

Sergey Chernov – University of Hanover, Germany

Bruce Croft – University of Massachusetts, USA

Ed Cutrell – Microsoft Research, India

Susan Dumais – Microsoft Research, USA  

Diane Kelly – University of North Carolina, USA

Ian Ruthven – University of Strathclyde, UK

 

Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference (PETE&C)

Welcome to PETE&C!

The Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference (PETE&C) is a statewide event that provides quality programs focused on technology in the educational field. Each year, hundreds of exhibitors showcase their latest technology products and services to the vast audience of teachers, administrators, technology directors, school board members and more. Monday and Tuesday mornings kick off with keynote speakers that will both educate and inspire you. Throughout the three days, you can attend concurrent sessions, keystone poster sessions and student showcases. There is something for everyone at PETE&C!  <!–

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Submit PETE&C 2011 Proposals Here!

Use these links to submit a preconference and/or general session proposal for the 2011 PETE&C! The RFPs are very different this year, and will take more time than it has in the past.

The submission deadline for preconference proposals is midnight AUGUST 13, 2010! Preconference Session Sign Up

The submission deadline for general session proposals is midnight OCTOBER 10, 2010! General Session Sign Up

We are looking for general session proposal reviewers! Please submit here if you are interested in reviewing proposals for the 2011 PETE&C conference. It will require a small amount of preparation time in late summer 2010, and some proposal review time in mid to late October, 2010. The submission form is very brief! Thank you! Reviewer Sign Up

Crisis Information Management: Communication and Technologies

Call for Book Chapters

Editor:  Chris Hagar, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University, River Forest, IL, USA

Publisher: Chandos Publishing, Oxford, UK (part of Woodhead Publishing Ltd.)

Proposal Submission Deadline: June 30, 2010

Accepted Full Chapters Due: December 31, 2010

Introduction

Crisis situations have been studied from a risk communication perspective, from a management perspective, systems perspective, and more recently from an information perspective. Crises usually present complex information environments, and as events such as Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, the Haiti earthquake have demonstrated that there is a great need to understand how individuals, government, and non-government agencies organize, manage, access, and  disseminate information during crisis situations. Information management problems and information technology failures have been cited as significant factors in the failed responses to many crises. This book will explore the management and communication of information in crises, particularly the interconnectedness of information, people, and technologies during crises. It will bring together chapters written by researchers, academics, and practitioners from a variety of information perspectives in crisis response and management.

Book chapters are sought, but are not limited to the following:

The role of  ICTs during crisis response, the role of social media  tools in crisis response, citizen communication in crises, information system models, role of community and community networks during crises, integration and co-ordination of information  in crises, information needs and information seeking behaviours during crises, the role of sense-making in crises, trust and information in crises, government response to crises, disaster response and the role of libraries and archives in crises, and information lessons learned from crises.

Audience

This book will be of interest to a variety of practitioners, researchers and academics  in information science, information management, knowledge management, libraries, and  information systems, but  also  to other fields  e.g. government, state, local emergency management and planning; non government organizations; risk management; communications; community planners, and public health.

 Submissions

Potential contributors are invited to submit on or before June 30 2010, a 1-2 page  proposal  including background, structure, and an indication of outcomes. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by July 14th, 2010 and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Please send submissions to Dr Chris Hagar chagar@dom.edu <mailto:chagar@dom.edu>

Pennsylvania Library Association Poster Sessions

The 2010 PALA Conference Planning Committee invites you to present a poster session at the PALA Annual Conference to be held October 24 – 27, 2010 at the new Lancaster County Convention Center located on the square in downtown Lancaster.

What is a poster session?  It is an opportunity, set aside during the conference, when librarians, students, staff or others participating in the professional conference can present an idea, the outcomes of a completed project, or research results to an audience of their peers. The tone is casual and the mode is highly interactive.  The object is to gather feedback and to make connections with others interested in the same subject. This is a forum for library professionals from across the state to highlight their libraries and to share their successful ideas or innovations with colleagues.

This year’s conference theme is Rooted in Tradition, Growing the Future, representing both the traditional and new methods that libraries supply information and why libraries are such an important part of our communities.  For more information on poster sessions and to submit a poster go to the PaLA Web site and click on Poster Session Proposal

The deadline for proposals is June 27, 2010.   Come, join us in Lancaster to share your traditions and grow your future!