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11th Annual Brick and Click Libraries

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Friday, November 4, 2011

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Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri

“Brick and Click” is a one-day symposium of practical relevance to directors, librarians and paraprofessionals supporting traditional and online resources/services for academic library users. The annual symposium has been hosted by Northwest Missouri State University since its inception in 2001.

 

Presenter Benefits:

Presenters receive a reduced registration fee ($100) to the symposium and an opportunity to publish a paper in the symposium proceedings. 

 

Presentation opportunities include a 50 minute session, and/or a 10-minute “Lightning Round” presentation.  For more information, visit: http://bit.ly/BCformats. 

 

Topics suggested from the 2010 evaluation forms include: consortial purchasing, budget, embedded librarianship, RDA nuts & bolts, learning commons, mobile web, iPad applications, and reference trends. Sample topics are available at http://bit.ly/BCtopics.

 

Submit your proposal(s) by March 7, 2011 using the following link(s):

     50-minute presentation:  http://bit.ly/BC50mins

     10-minute presentation:  http://bit.ly/BC10min

 

If you have questions about presentation proposals, please e-mail Kathy Hart at:  mailto:juliah@nwmissouri.edu.


We look forward to receiving your proposal!


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Learning Styles and Critical Thinking in Library Instruction

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The Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) of the Pennsylvania Library Association is calling for proposals for presentations at the upcoming spring workshop, “Learning Styles and Critical Thinking in Library Instruction.” Presenters are requested to submit a proposal that discusses successful library instructional sessions that promote or employ critical thinking methods to a particular group (e.g. adults, children, students, etc.). Librarians from all types of libraries are encouraged to present.

 

The LIRT workshop will be held on Friday, March 11, 2011 at the Dixon University Center in Harrisburg from 9:30 a.m.to3:00 p.m.  The two selected presentations will be scheduled in the afternoon, from 1-3 p.m. with 45 minutes allotted for each presentation.

 

Interested presenters should submit a proposal that includes the following:

 

Title of presentation

 

Abstract (not more than 50 words)

 

Detailed Description (not more than 150 words)

 

Learning Outcomes (what attendees will take away from the presentation)

 

 The LIRT will review the submissions and invitations to present will be sent out by mid- February. Deadline for presenter submissions is February 1 2011.

 

Please submit proposals (and any questions) to Lizah Ismail, Chair, LIRT at lismail@maryu.marywood.edu.

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Women Writing on Family: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing

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Book Publisher: The Key Publishing House Inc., publisher of academic and non-academic books, Toronto, Ontario

Submissions are being sought for an anthology about writing and publishing by women with experience in writing and publishing about family. Possible subjects: using life experience; networking; unique issues women must overcome; formal education; queries and proposals; conference participation; self-publishing; teaching tips. Tips on writing about family: creative nonfiction, poetry, short stories, nonfiction, novels.

Practical, concise, how-to articles with bullets/headings have proven the most helpful to readers. Please avoid writing too much about “me” and concentrate on what will help the reader. No previously published, co-written, or simultaneously submitted material.

Foreword by Supriya Bhatnagar, Director of Publications, Editor of The Writer’s Chronicle, Association of Writers & Writing Programs, George Mason University.  Author of the memoir: and then there were threeŠ (Serving House Books, 2010)

Afterword by Dr. Amy Hudock, co-editor of Literary Mama chosen by Writers Digest as one of the 101 Best Web Sites for Writers. She teaches creative writing and co-edited American Prose Writers (Seal Press, 2006)

Co-Editor Carol Smallwood appears in Who’s Who of American Women, Michigan Feminist Studies, The Writer’s Chronicle. She’s included in Best New Writing in Prose 2010. Her 23rd book is Writing and Publishing: The Librarian’s Handbook (American Library Association, 2010). A chapter of newly published Lily’s Odyssey was short listed for the Eric Hoffer Prose Award; a book trailer of Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages is http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=8M6m7PXGQIU&feature=related

Co-Editor Suzann Holland, 2010 Winner of Public Libraries Feature Award,  secured the permission of the Laura Ingalls Wilder estate for the forthcoming: The Little House Literary Companion. Her masters degrees include history, library science:  she taught English composition, information literacy, at William Penn University, was a librarian at Milwaukee Public Library, a consultant in Davenport, Iowa. Her anthology contributions appear in: Greenwood Press, Neal-Schuman, the American Library Association

Please send 2-3 possible topics you would like to contribute each described in a few sentences and a 65-75 word bio using the format like the bio’s above. Please send in a .doc Word file by January 30, 2011 using FAMILY/Your  Name on the subject line to smallwood@tm.net. You’ll receive a Go-Ahead and guidelines if your topics haven’t been taken. Contributors will be asked to contribute a total of 1900-2100 words. Those included in the anthology will receive a complimentary copy as compensation.

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International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011),
Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter
27-29 June, 2011, London, UK
www.i-society.eu
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The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011)
is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter.
The i-Society is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort
that has its roots from both academia and industry. The conference
covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to information society,
which includes technical and non-technical research areas.

The mission of i-Society 2011 conference is to provide opportunities
for collaboration of professionals and researchers to share existing
and generate new knowledge in the field of information society.
The conference encapsulates the concept of interdisciplinary science
that studies the societal and technological dimensions of knowledge
evolution in digital society. The i-Society bridges the gap
between academia and industry with regards to research collaboration
and awareness of current development in secure information management
in the digital society.

The topics in i-Society 2011 include but are not confined to the
following areas:

*New enabling technologies
– Internet technologies
– Wireless applications
– Mobile Applications
– Multimedia Applications
– Protocols and Standards
– Ubiquitous Computing
– Virtual Reality
– Human Computer Interaction
– Geographic information systems
– e-Manufacturing

*Intelligent data management
– Intelligent Agents
– Intelligent Systems
– Intelligent Organisations
– Content Development
– Data Mining
– e-Publishing and Digital Libraries
– Information Search and Retrieval
– Knowledge Management
– e-Intelligence
– Knowledge networks

*Secure Technologies
– Internet security
– Web services and performance
– Secure transactions
– Cryptography
– Payment systems
– Secure Protocols
– e-Privacy
– e-Trust
– e-Risk
– Cyber law
– Forensics
– Information assurance
– Mobile social networks
– Peer-to-peer social networks
– Sensor networks and social sensing

*e-Learning
– Collaborative Learning
– Curriculum Content Design and Development
– Delivery Systems and Environments
– Educational Systems Design
– e-Learning Organisational Issues
– Evaluation and Assessment
– Virtual Learning Environments and Issues
– Web-based Learning Communities
– e-Learning Tools
– e-Education

*e-Society
– Global Trends
– Social Inclusion
– Intellectual Property Rights
– Social Infonomics
– Computer-Mediated Communication
– Social and Organisational Aspects
– Globalisation and developmental IT
– Social Software

*e-Health
– Data Security Issues
– e-Health Policy and Practice
– e-Healthcare Strategies and Provision
– Medical Research Ethics
– Patient Privacy and Confidentiality
– e-Medicine

*e-Governance
– Democracy and the Citizen
– e-Administration
– Policy Issues
– Virtual Communities

*e-Business
– Digital Economies
– Knowledge economy
– eProcurement
– National and International Economies
– e-Business Ontologies and Models
– Digital Goods and Services
– e-Commerce Application Fields
– e-Commerce Economics
– e-Commerce Services
– Electronic Service Delivery
– e-Marketing
– Online Auctions and Technologies
– Virtual Organisations
– Teleworking
– Applied e-Business
– Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

*e-Art
– Legal Issues
– Patents
– Enabling technologies and tools

*e-Science
– Natural sciences in digital society
– Biometrics
– Bioinformatics
– Collaborative research

*Industrial developments
– Trends in learning
– Applied research
– Cutting-edge technologies

* Research in progress
– Ongoing research from undergraduates, graduates/postgraduates and professionals

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Date: March 31, 2011
Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress): March 20, 2011
Notification of Paper Acceptance /Rejection: April 15, 2011
Notification of Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress) Acceptance /Rejection: April 10, 2011
Camera Ready Paper and Short Paper Due: April 30, 2011  
Participant(s) Registration (Open):  January 1, 2011
Early Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors only): February 1 to April 30, 2011
Late Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors only): May 1 to June 1, 2011
Conference Dates: June 27-29, 2011  

For more details, please visit www.i-society.eu

 

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New England Women’s Studies Association Conference

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UMass Dartmouth, April 29 th -30 th , 2011

 

Privilege 2011: Theories and Perspectives Inside/Outside the Classroom

 

The New England Women’s Studies Association is pleased to announce that Peggy McIntosh, Associate Director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, will be the keynote speaker at our 2011 conference. The keynote will include the showing of the new documentary film Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible.

 

NEWSA invites presentations theorizing privilege inside and outside the classroom. Possible topics include:

 

Sexual privilege — White privilege — Heterosexual privilege — Class privilege –Age privilege

 

� How do we think about privilege in the 21 st century?

 

� How does privilege operate in our world?

 

� How do we educate people about different types of privilege?

 

� How do different privileges continue to be a barrier in our work?

 

� What is our role as educators in dismantling systems of privilege ?

 

� How do different systems of privilege intersect and/or mutually reinforce one another?

 

� How can we betray our privilege(s)?

 

� How do we deal with resistance in the classroom to recognizing privilege?

 

 

 

We encourage papers that examine issues of privilege in tandem or from an interdisciplinary perspective. The conference also includes an embedded undergraduate student conference for presentations of undergraduate research and experiences in the discipline of Women’s Studies. Like the 2010 conference, we plan to embed undergraduate presentations throughout the program. We encourage proposals from undergraduate students; faculty and undergraduate panels are especially welcome.

 

 

 

500-word abstracts due by February 1st. Panel submissions welcome.

 

Submit electronically as .RTF, .DOC, or PDF attachment to: newsa@umassd.edu

 

 

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Expanding Our Horizons, Evaluating Our Parameters: The Third North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO)

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2nd Call for Participation Conference Venue: Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Conference Dates: June 16-17, 2011 Proposal submission deadline: January 31, 2011 CFP online at http://iskocus.org/nasko2011.php During the 2nd NASKO a workshop was conducted to elicit questions still unanswered in knowledge organization (KO). This is a small sample of questions that emerged from the workshop: Instruction: What should we be teaching in KO? Funding: What are the funding needs in order to pursue a future KO research agenda? Theory: How do we encourage cumulative theory building in KO? How does culture/language influence information retrieval practices? What relationships would be useful in organizing concepts/subjects? What is the best way to convey relationships within classification/KOS? Is there really a conflict between "ontological" and "epistemological" approaches to KO? What is a concept? Practice: Are there distinct "flavors" of KO in different international areas? Who do you need to be working with? What is a community? How do we visualize complex multidimensional classifications? How do we create crosswalks from one system to another? How do we create flexible systems for changing users and artifacts? Open research questions: How do artifacts evolve in terms of their use and representation? How do we handle the collapse of the artifact in inter-linked resources that provide access to internal parts, and to aggregated wholes? How can the potential of social tagging best be harnessed? How can social tagging and vocabulary control interact? How do we bridge the gap between theories and applications? How can we apply KO so that we meet those (???) interdisciplinary needs? The International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) - Canada/United States Chapter invites researchers to report on these and other open questions in KO research (e.g., domain analysis, synthesis of legacy KOSs and newer approaches, the intellectual culture of KO, etc.) at the 3rd NASKO through submissions of proposals for research papers, position papers, posters, and workshop proposals. Acceptable languages for conference submissions include English, French or Spanish. Doctoral students are especially invited to submit proposals. Proposal categories: Research and Position Papers: Proposals should include a title and be no more than 1500 words long. Proposals should be situated in the extant literature of knowledge organization and have a clearly articulated theoretical grounding and methodology. Those that report completed or ongoing work will be given preference. Diverse perspectives and methodologies are welcome. Posters: Proposals should include a title and be no more than 650 words long. Workshops: Proposals should include a title, an estimated time frame for the workshop, and a brief description (650 words maximum). Publication: All accepted papers will be published online. The papers most highly-ranked during the peer-review process will, with permission of the authors, be published, in full, in a future issue of Knowledge Organization. Deadline for proposals is January 31, 2011. Proposal format: Proposals should include the name(s) of the author(s), mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and fax numbers. Please send proposals in Word or .rtf format to Nicolas George: nasko2011@iskocus.org. Proposals will be refereed by the Program Committee. Authors will be notified of the committee's decision no later than March 11, 2011. All presenters must register for the conference. Papers to appear as full text in the electronic proceedings must be submitted no later than May 20, 2011. Planning Committee: Richard P. Smiraglia, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Abby Goodrum, Ryerson University Program Committee: Amelia Abreu, University of Washington Cl�ment Arsenault, Universit� de Montr�al Clare Beghtol, University of Toronto Thomas M. Dousa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jonathan Furner, University of California, Los Angeles Nicolas George, Indiana University, Bloomington Abby A. Goodrum, Ryerson University Rebecca Green, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Lynne Howarth, University of Toronto Michele Hudon, Universit� de Montr�al Elin K. Jacob, Indiana University, Bloomington Barbara Kwasnik, Syracuse University Kathryn La Barre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hur-Li Lee, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Aaron Loehrlein, University of British Columbia Christine Marchese, Long Island University Elaine Menard, McGill University Shawne Miksa, University of North Texas, Denton Hope Olson, University of Wisconsin, Milwakuee David M. Pimentel, Syracuse University Richard P. Smiraglia, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Rick Szostak, University of Alberta Joseph T. Tennis, University of Washington Nancy Williamson, University of Toronto

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1st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) has been the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries for 14 years. For the 15th year the conference was renamed into:
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

The conference will continue to bring together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2011 is organised by the Humboldt-Universit�t zu Berlin (Berlin School of Library and Information Science, the Computer and Media Services and the Department of Computer Science).

SCOPE/OBJECTIVES
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Over the last years, Digital Libraries have taken over a central role in our society. The process of acquiring, creating, processing, retrieving, disseminating, and using knowledge, information, data and metadata has undergone and still continues to undergo significant changes. This includes an ever increasing public access to on-line resources, an evolution in the amount and diversity of resources that are available through this channel, a social shift in the paradigm of how to experience information towards interactive, globally collaborative and personalized approaches, and many more.
In this spirit, TPDL 2011 aims at providing a forum for researchers, developers, content providers and practitioners for presenting and discussing novel results from innovative research and systems development on Digital Libraries.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Authors are invited to submit research papers describing original, unpublished research that is not (and will not be) simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere.

TPDL 2011 solicits the submission of full (12 pages max.) and short (8 pages max.) research papers. General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics, organized in four areas:
 
Foundations: Technology and Methodologies
– Digital libraries: architectures and infrastructures
– Metadata standards and protocols in digital library systems
– Interoperability in digital libraries, data and information integration
– Distributed and collaborative information spaces
– Systems, algorithms, and models for digital preservation
– Personalization in digital libraries
– Information access: retrieval and browsing
– Information organization
– Information visualization
– Multimedia information management and retrieval
– Multilinguality in digital libraries
– Knowledge organization and ontologies in digital libraries

Digital Humanities
– Digital libraries in cultural heritage
– Computational linguistics: text mining and retrieval
– Organizational aspects of digital preservation
– Information policy and legal aspects (e.g., copyright laws)
– Social networks and networked information
– Human factors in networked information
– Scholarly primitives

Research Data
– Architectures for large-scale data management (e.g., Grids, Clouds)
– Cyberinfrastructures: architectures, operation and evolution
– Collaborative information environments
– Data mining and extraction of structure from networked information
– Scientific data curation
– Metadata for scientific data, data provenance
– Services and workflows for scientific data
– Data and knowledge management in virtual organizations

Applications and User Experience
– Multi-national digital library federations (e.g., Europeana)
– Digital Libraries in eGovernment, elearning, eHealth, eScience, ePublishing
– Semantic Web and Linked Data
– User studies for and evaluation of digital library systems and applications
– Personal information management and personal digital libraries
– Enterprise-scale knowledge and information management
– User behaviour and modelling
– User mobility and context awareness in information access
– User interfaces for digital libraries

PAPER SUBMISSION
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All research papers must be written in English and follow the formatting guidelines of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Research papers must be up to 12 pages of length for long papers, up to 8 pages for short papers, and must be submitted via the conference submission system. All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the programme committee. Paper acceptance can be as long paper, short paper or poster.
The size of the poster should not exceed ISO A0 (portrait) size – maximum height of 1189mm (46.81 inches) and maximum width of 841mm (33.11 inches).
The proceedings will be published as a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series.
All papers need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference submission system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpdl2011

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CALL FOR DEMOS 1st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011
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Demos provide researchers with an opportunity to present their work in an informal and interactive manner, and obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience.
Demos showcase innovative digital libraries technology and applications, ranging from research prototypes to operational systems, allowing you to share your work directly with your colleagues in a high-visibility setting.

We invite the submission of demos on all topics mentioned in the Call for Research Papers.

– Demo submissions consist of a 4-page paper, which must be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS guidelines, and submitted via the conference submission system.
– Accepted demos will be allocated up to 4 pages for the written paper in the TPDL 2011 proceedings. The proceedings will be published as a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series.
– Accepted demos will be presented at a plenary poster and demo session during the TPDL 2011 conference.
– For demos, authors will be required to bring laptop computers or other appropriate equipment, as no equipment will be provided.

All abstracts for demos need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference submission system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpdl2011

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DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
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Continuing a tradition, the TPDL 2011 Doctoral Consortium (DC) serves as a forum for PhD students to share ideas about the development and use of Digital Libraries, compare approaches, discuss future research problems and receive feedback from the international Digital Library community. The Doctoral Consortium aims to:

– provide PhD students with a friendly and lively atmosphere for presenting their research ideas, exchange experiences with peers, and receive constructive feedback on their work from the international research community;
– help students and doctoral candidates formulate research questions and organise their research;
– help forge new relationships and collaborations within the International Digital Library community, promoting collaborative research; and
– support a new generation of researchers with information and advice on academic, research, industrial, and non-traditional career paths.

The TPDL 2011 DC invites PhD students whose doctoral research is related to digital libraries and at a stage of progress where feedback from the international community might be of value, to submit extended abstracts of up to 10 pages describing their work. It is expected that students who submit extended abstracts, will have finished the first part of their research (one-two years of their studies) and be still in the middle of their research work.

A panel of prominent researchers participating in the TPDL Programme Committee will conduct the workshop. They will review all the submissions and comment on the content of the work as well as on the presentation. Students will have 20 minutes to present their research, focusing on the main theme of their thesis, what they have achieved so far and how they plan to continue their work. Another 20 minutes are reserved for discussion and feedback from the panel of reviewers. The Doctoral Consortium will take place on a single full day. Up to 12 students will have the opportunity to participate.

Submissions should be related to one or more of the conference themes as stated in the Call for Papers. Moreover, they should be presented in a way that demonstrates the link to the chosen conferences theme(s), and they should contain:

– a clear formulation of the research topic and research hypotheses;
– an outline of the significant problems in the field and their current solutions;
– a description of the proposed approach and its expected contributions;
– a discussion of preliminary results; and
– an evaluation (-plan) of the research.

All papers must be written in English and follow Springer’s LNCS guidelines. Please send your submission directly by email to the doctoral consortium chair Milena Dobreva (milena.dobreva@strath.ac.uk). Abstracts of the papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract submission deadline (full and short papers): March 21, 2011
Research paper submission: March 28, 2011 (midnight HAST, GMT -10hrs)
Demo submission: March 28, 2011
Doctoral consortium submission: March 28, 2011
Notification of acceptance (research paper, poster, demo, doctoral consortium): May 23, 2011

Workshop proposal submission: February 14, 2011
Tutorial proposal submission: February 14, 2011
Panel proposal submission: February 14, 2011
Notification of acceptance (workshop, tutorial, panel): March 14, 2011

Submission of final version (research paper, abstract for poster, demo, workshop, tutorial, panel and doctoral consortium): June 6, 2011

All information can also be found on the website: http://www.tpdl2011.org

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Conference Officers
General Chair:
Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universit�t zu Berlin, Germany

Programme Co-Chairs:
Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland

Programme Committee
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TPDL 2011 – International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
(formerly known as ECDL)
Main conference: September 26-28, 2011
Tutorials, Workshops: September 25, 29, 2011
Venue: Erwin Schr�dinger-Zentrum Adlershof, Berlin, Germany
Conference Website: http://www.tpdl2011.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TPDL2011
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TPDL2011
Linkedin: http://events.linkedin.com/TPDL-2011-International-Conference/pub/504696
Xing: http://www.xing.com/events/international-conference-theory-practice-digital-libraries-2011-633977

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e-Cornucopia OPEN Digital University

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Call for Papers
The topic for the annual e-Learning and Instructional Support conference at Oakland University is openness in education. At this year’s conference the break-out sessions will be divided into three tracks: Open Education, Open Access (journals), and Open Source (computer code).
Date: Thursday May 26, 2011 in the Oakland Center at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.

The e-Cornucopia OPEN Digital University conference will have three tracks: Open Source, Open Access and Open Education.

Track One--Open Education
Possible Topics: (Any other topics relevant to Open Education also will be welcome.)

• The use of specific platforms for globally accessible educational content such as iTunes U or YouTube or homegrown webpages.
• Non-traditional learning spaces such as Hackerspaces.
• Implications for the economic future of the university  under the open education model
• What are the legal and intellectual property implications of open education for faculty?
• Global sharing of open digital learning objects and easily accessible resources for teaching.

Track Two–Open Access Possible Topics: (Any other topics relevant to Open Access also will be welcome.)

• Open Access Journals –  Benefits and challenges of publishing open access journals, from the publisher’s perspective.
• Open Access Publishing – Why faculty should care – tenure and impact factor
• Institutional Repositories – Development and current trends, role in OA.. Role of librarians in promoting OA and digital preservation..
• Open Access Research – Scientific and medical research – government mandates, Public library of science http://www.plos.org/, OA data sets.
• Open Access – Intellectual Property/Copyright & Creative Commons

Track Three–Open Source
Possible Topics: (Any other topics relevant to Open Source also will be welcome.)

• Linux – the most popular open source operating system. An intro to what Linux is, what uses it (you may be using it and not know it), how it’s made, and how it may be useful to you.
• Open Source Media Editing – an introduction to the Kdenlive video editor, Audacity audio editor, and GIMP Image editor.
• Open Social Networking – Run your own “Facebook” with Status.net.
• Open Hardware – the benefits of using Open Hardware like the Arduino micro-controller and 3D printers like the Reprap or Makerbot.
• Open Conferencing Software – Big Blue Button is a emerging Open Source competitor to dimdim, WizIQ, and Elluminate.
• Open Learning Management System – Moodle… “How we deployed it and why” or “Moodle 2.0”.
• Open Mobile – Android and Meego vs. iOS and Windows Mobile. Open vs. Closed. The pros and cons for the companies, the developers and the users.

Proposal Submission Deadline:  Please submit a 200 word abstract of your presentation proposal by Feb. 15, 2011. A presentation session will last 40 minutes with an additional 10 minutes for questions. A projector and laptop will be available.

Apply to the Call for Proposals at:
http://www2.oakland.edu/elis/conference.cfm?countrytabs=0

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Handbook of Research on ICTs for Healthcare and Social Services

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Call for Chapter Proposals ---------- Chapter proposal submission deadline: January 31, 2011 ---------- A book edited by Isabel Maria Miranda & Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha isabel.m.f.miranda@gmail.com ---------- Dear Professor/ Dr./Mrs./Mr., It is our pleasure to invite you to consider contributing to this handbook of research. Chapter proposals of 1-2 pages clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter are accepted until January 31, 2011. Proposals should be sent in Word format or PDF to isabel.m.f.miranda@gmail.com Please feel free to forward this message to colleagues / peers who might be interested. Kind regards, Isabel Miranda & Manuela Cunha ---------- ---------- Introduction: The healthcare and social care sectors are living a continuously growing importance in the past years throughout the entire world, and particularly in most Western countries, where we witness an increase of expenditure in health and social care per capita every year. This is related to many aspects of contemporary society, including an increase in life expectancy, the public demand for a better quality of life and better social and health services. This must be met with more cost-efficient approaches, and new technology-based solutions for providing health and social services. The ICT sector is highly present in this context, with a wide range of actions, interventions and developments, from research and development of new models for application and/or integration of existing technology, new technological advances, until the widespread reach of broadband internet access to all population (particularly remote areas) and overcoming the digital divide due to ability to use technology. Simultaneously specific public and private health and social actions are emerging, and the problematic issues of integrating the population with special care needs (such as elder people and the temporarily or permanently disabled) in the e-Health and e-Social care systems are being faced as emergent, and contemplated in the social development agenda. ---------- ---------- Overall objectives of this book: The handbook of research intends to introduce and discuss the main issues, challenges, opportunities and trends related to the recent ICT-based developments, applications and services in all embracing fields of social and healthcare. ---------- ---------- Recommended topics: The handbook is intended to cover the following aspects: - Emerging trends on the social and health care sectors, that can be addressed by ICT-based applications; - User needs analysis; - Technological aspects of solutions and applications; - Studies of preparedness, adoption and impact; - Applications and solutions under development or implemented in the sector, from the technological, social, organizational dimensions; - The human aspects, comprehending psychological aspects; behavioral effects; social effects; accessibility to technologies; trust; expectancies; motivations. ---------- ---------- Audience: The handbook of research is intended to support a professional audience of the health care and social care sectors of public and private institutions, ICT developers and researchers, ICT enterprise managers, and also an academic audience (teachers, researchers and students, mainly of post-graduate studies). ---------- ---------- Submission Procedure: Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before January 31, 2010, a one page proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. This proposal should be sent in Word format or PDF to isabel.m.f.miranda@gmail.com Authors will be notified by February 10 about the status of their proposals. Authors of accepted proposals will be sent guidelines to prepare the full chapter (7,000 - 10,000 words) to be submitted by May 20, 2011. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis by two or three reviewers. This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference" "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. 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9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics

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  C A L L  F O R  P A P E R S  

       9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics

        Toward useful services for elderly and people with disabilities

                                  ICOST 2011
                                20-22 June 2011
                                Montreal, Canada
                     http://pages.usherbrooke.ca/icost2011
                           www.icost-conference.org 
                       Email: icost2011@USherbrooke.ca

                 ***   IMPORTANT DATES   ****

January 22, 2011: Full papers submission
March 1, 2011:    Acceptance Notification
March 22, 2011:   Camera-Ready Papers and Registration

                 ***   SCOPE AND AIMS   ****

   A Smart Environments can be considered as an augmented environment capable of utilizing embedded computers, information appliances, micro/nano systems and multi-modal sensors, in which computational intelligence is ubiquitous to provide contextual, proactive and personalized services to people. Nowadays networks, microprocessors, memory chips, smart sensors and actuators are faster, cheaper and smaller. They are becoming pervasive in the physical environment. Current advances in such enabling technologies make it possible to build real Smart Environments and hence provide the opportunity for novel applications and services to be delivered for improving the quality of life and health of people in their home and outside. A Smart Environments allows people to perform tasks efficiently by offering unprecedented levels of access to information and assistance. In the near future, elderly and people with disabilities will avail of smart assistive technology to assist with carrying out daily living activities, to socialize, to enjoy entertainment & leisure activities all whilst maintaining good health and wellbeing. These Smart Environments are complemented through the role of health telematics. Health telematics approaches utilize advanced networks and telecommunication technologies to provide healthcare remotely. Combined with Ubiquitous technologies in Smart Environments, health telematics can radically transform the way health-related services (diagnosis, therapy and assistance) are conceived and delivered. 

   The goal of the ICOST 2011 conference is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, managers in academia, industry and government, as well as domain experts in health sciences, rehabilitation and gerontology to address recent research results in the field. ICOST 2011 invites participants to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on theoretical and practical advancements that have significant contributions in Smart Environments, Health Telematics and other Assistive Technologies.

                 ***   TOPICS OF INTEREST   *** 

   ICOST 2011 is accepting original research papers. Topics of interest included, but are not limited to:

**  Smart Home & Village:
     –  Intelligent Environments with emphasis on Smart Homes.
     –  Human-Machine Interface and Ambient Intelligence.
     –  Context Awareness/Autonomous Computing.
     –  Modeling of User, Physical and Conceptual Information in Intelligent Environments.
     –  Activity recognition in smart Environments.
     –  Digital Life Scenario & Life Style Engineering.
     –  Platforms, Middleware and Software Architectures for Intelligent Environments
     –  Sensing and actuating systems.
     –  Home Networks and Residential Gateways.
     –  User Acceptance & Evaluation of Smart Environments.
     –  User Interface and Universal Design.
     –  Universal Design for Smart Environments & Village.
     –  Privacy and Security Issues in Smart environments & Villages.
     –  Applications and services in Ambient Systems for smart Environments (homes, hospitals, schools & classrooms, etc.).

**  Health Telematics & Healthcare Technology:
     –  Personal Medical Data Collection and Processing (Health Vaults).
     –  Home Health Monitoring and Intervention.
     –  Tele-Assistance and Tele-Rehabilitation
     –  Middleware Support for Smart Environments and Health Telematic Services
     –  Real World Deployments and Experimentations in Smart Houses, Hospitals & Living Communities.
     –  User Perspectives on Health Telematics.
     –  Technology for Holistic Health and Independence.
     –  U-Health for Smart Global Village.
     –  Wireless body area network (WBAN) & Integrated Micro/Nano Systems 

** Wellbeing, Aging Friendly & Enabling Technology: 
     –  Devices, Systems and Algorithms for Vision, Hearing, Cognitive and Communication Impairments.
     –  Assistive and Rehabilative Robotics. 
     –  Smart Wheelchairs.
     –  User Perspectives on Smart Environment Technologies.
     –  Assistive Technology to Improve Quality of Life and health for seniors and their Caregivers.
     –  Gerontechnology, Social Science and Health Care.
     –  Universal Design Technology for Active Aging.
     –  Philosophy & Foundation for Age-Friendly Care.
     –  Enabling Homes for Next Generation.

**  Medical Health Telematics & Healthcare Technology: 
     –  Multi-Agent-Based U-Healthcare & Monitoring for Patient Care Management.
     –  U-Healthcare for Medical & Clinical Information Management.
     –  U-Healthcare for ICU & Emergency Patient Care.
     –  U-Healthcare for Point-Of-Care & Management System.

                 ***   PUBLICATION   ***

   ICOST 2011 Proceedings will be published by Springer (Pending Contract).  
   Distinguished extended papers may have the opportunity to be published in the following forums:    

* Gerontology (SCIE).
* International Journal of Control Automation and Systems (SCIE).
* Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (SSCI).
* Telemedicine and E-Health (SCIE).
 Others are still pending approval.

                 ***   SUBMISSION GUIDELINES   ***

   Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF or RTF/DOC format at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icost2011 
   Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submitted papers will be blindly peer reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. 
Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by Springer.
   The submitted papers should not exceed 8 pages and must follow the guidelines (http://pages.usherbrooke.ca/icost2011/index.php?id=33).

                 ***   Summer school *** 

For the first time a summer school will be held before the ICOST conference. The ICOST 2011 summer school program features technical workshops and lectures linked to ICOST topics: 1) Robotic programming, 2) sensor network programming, 3) Activity recognition approaches, 4) Platforms, Middleware and Software Architectures for Intelligent Environments, 5) Human machine interaction design, 6) User/aging perspective, 7) User modelling and 8) assistive technology Integration process and deployment learned lessons, among others.  

 
                 ***   CONTACT   ***

ICSOT2011 secretary 
Icost2011@Usherbrooke.ca

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