INTEGRATING PRACTICE AND RESEARCH
LIBRARY RESEARCH SEMINAR V
October 13-16, 2010
College Park, Maryland
Call for Juried Proposals
The fifth Library Research Seminar (LRS-V) will bring together a diverse community of scholars from academia and practitioners from libraries and archives who are interested in research that informs policy-making, decision-making, and best practices. Participants will share research projects and explore ways to develop future research agendas, refine research methods, and facilitate successful completion of research projects.
The LRS-V Program Committee invites proposals for various types of contributions (types are described below) on topics related to libraries and archives including but not limited to:
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Possible types of contributions:
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Doctoral and Masters’ students are especially encouraged to submit proposals.
Send submissions to lrs-v@umd.edu in either MS Word or PDF format. Proposals must be no more than 1000 words in length and additionally must include: title; author/organizer name, affiliation, and contact information; names and contact information for any other participants. lrs-v@umd.edu may also be used for inquiries and questions.
Important dates:
Proposal submissions: February 15, 2010
Notification: April 15, 2010
Conference dates: October 13-16, 2010
Venue: University of Maryland, College Park (http://ischool.umd.edu)
LRS-V co-chairs: Diane L. Barlow and Trudi Bellardo Hahn, University of Maryland
Sponsored by: Library Research Roundtable of the American Library Association and the Institute of Museum and Library Services
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LIBRARY TRENDS
International Journal of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue
Information literacy beyond the academy: towards policy formulation
Edited by
Dr. John Crawford,
Glasgow Caledonian University
Information literacy has not been chosen as a subject for an issue of Library trends since 1991 vol. 39 (3) Winter 1991: Toward Information Literacy — Innovative Perspectives for the 1990s � http://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/2142/5379/browse?type=dateissued
The issue was heavily focused on the Higher education sector. Since then research, development and practitioner activity has moved on and activity and research and development work around information literacy also takes place in career choice and management, employability training, skills development, workplace decision making, adult literacies training and community learning and development, public libraries, school and further education, lifelong learning and health and media literacies. Information literacy has matured sufficiently to have become a national and international policy issue as evidenced by President Obama’s proclamation http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/2009literacy_prc_rel.pdf � and such international statements as the Prague Declaration of 2003. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=19636&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
The planned issue which will contain 8-10 papers will celebrate this broadening of the agenda by calling for papers on the above subject areas and also those focusing on national and international policy making. Papers submitted must reflect on the wider policy implications of their content and suggest how findings can be more widely applied. Individual case studies and exemplars of good practice without a wider context will not be appropriate. While papers on the HE sector will be welcomed they must focus on information literacy training and activity in a wider or cross sectoral context such as employability training or working with other education sectors such as schools or colleges or the workplace and other non-educational environments. Papers are invited from all information sectors and academia.
Proposals of no more than 300 words to be sent by 15 January 2010 to:
John Crawford at jcr@gcal.ac.uk � or polbae2003@yahoo.co.uk
In framing proposals intending authors may wish to be view author guidelines on the journal website at http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/guidelines.html
Decisions will be communicated to contributors no later than 26 February 2010.
Deliver date of manuscripts: 30 November 2010 . Each article will be in the range 3,000-10,000 words. All copyright permissions must be obtained by the author. Proof of permission must be sent at the same time that the manuscript is submitted. Articles will be published in Volume 60:1 Summer/August 2011.
Edited by Eric Pardede (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)
To be published by Springer
in Information Science and Knowledge Management Series (http://www.springer.com/series/6159)
Book Aims and Summary
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Communities have built collections of information in collaborative manners in the forms of encyclopaedias for centuries. More recently, Wikipedia has demonstrated how collaborative efforts can be a powerful feature to build a massive data storage. It is known that Wikipedia has become a key part of many corporations’ knowledge management systems for decision making. Wikipedia is only one example brought about by Web 2.0 with the goal of creating communities of users.
While Web 2.0 has many benefits, there are many more opportunities to be unleashed. Imagine if one could use information gathered by many people for critical decision making. There is great potential for creating and sharing more structured data through the web. To make it more regulated and more realistic, the data will be limited to the community scale rather than the global scale, for example, a community of academic research group. Each community can create a large database, in which each member can contribute information freely and can use the information with higher levels of confidence.
The general motivation for the project is to enable various communities to develop such databases. In more specific, this publication has the following aims:
* To provide a comprehensive list of issues and challenges for research in community-built database.
* To disseminate the latest developments on community-built databases in various domains that can be used as a successful template to other community-built database development project.
* To provide visionary ideas for future community-built database research and application.
* To provide solid references on current research topics in community-built database, that can be useful for literature survey research.
Invitation for Proposals
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We invite proposals from academic, researchers and industry practitioners in the area of collaborative information systems, databases, social web and other domains. The proposal should contain the tentative title, authors details, and brief description on the chapter.
Tentative Sections
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The book will consist of these folowing sections. Each of the sections can include between 4 to 6 chapters.
Section I : Community-Built Databases: Standard and Technologies
Section II : Community-Built Databases: Storage and Modelling
Section III : Social Aspect of Community-Built Databases
Section IV : Community-Built Databases Applications
Section V : The Future of Community-Built Databases
Important Dates
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Proposal Deadline : 21 November 2009
Notification of Proposal Outcome : 05 December 2009
Final Chapter Deadline : 15 March 2010
Camera Ready Deadline : 15 August 2010
Editorial Board
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Hamideh Afsarmanesh (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Barbara Carminati (University of Insubria, Italy)
Gillian Dobbie (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Lyndon Kennedy (Yahoo, USA)
Ee-Peng Lim (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Irena Mlynkova (Chales University, Czech Republic)
Mirella Moura Moro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Wenny Rahayu (La Trobe University, Australia)
Maytham Safar (Kuwait University, Kuwait)
Lorna Uden (Staffordshire University, UK)
Contact
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For further info, please contact the editor:
Eric Pardede
Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
La Trobe University
Melbourne VIC 3083
AUSTRALIA
Email: E.Pardede@latrobe.edu.au
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(BenchmarX’10) – April 4, 2010 – Tsukuba, Japan
http://ulita.ms.mff.cuni.cz/ws/benchmarx10/
to be held in conjunction with DASFAA 2010
http://dasfaa2010.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/
The successful first year of the workshop (BenchmarX’09) was devoted to benchmarking
of XML and Semantic Web applications. However, since the amount of related approaches
is wide and, at the same time, new technologies occur while the obsolete ones vanish,
the general strategy of BenchmarX is to extend and modify the target areas and topics
to follow the modern trends. XML still is one of the most common data formats, however,
there are applications that are not based on it or use it only marginally. On the other
hand, Semantic Web is only part of a bigger research area of web technologies oriented
on data. Hence, this year we want to go beyond the borders of pure XML and Semantic Web.
BenchmarX’10 is aimed at benchmarking (and related issues) of all stages of data
processing in the context of up-to-date database management systems and data-oriented
web technologies in general. Typical (but not the only) representatives of such
applications and technologies can be web services and semantic web services, Web 2.0
applications, social networks etc. Similarly, new data types, such as data streams,
sensor data or imprecise/uncertain data, triggered proposal and implementation of new
strategies for their storage, processing and management that need to benchmarked, tested
and compared specifically.
Even though data management and data-oriented applications are involved in topics of
many conferences around the world, the community dealing with benchmarking of such
applications and related issues is still scattered. The aim of BenchmarX is to bring
it together and provide a platform for common discussion of all the related topics.
We invite submission from both research and industrial communities dealing with different
theoretical and applied aspects of benchmarking of database management systems and
data-oriented web applications. Areas of interests include, but are not limited to:
– Benchmarking:
* Benchmark projects and suites
* Benchmarking metrics, criteria and methodologies
* Analysis and/or comparison of performance of selected applications
* Experiences and lessons learned
* Exploitation of benchmarking results
– Gathering of testing data:
* Data synthesis
* Inference of schemas, integrity constraints etc.
* Data/operation repositories
– Real-world requirements:
* Analysis of real-world data, operations etc.
* Evolution of real-world data
* Synthetic vs. real data
* Specific requirements of real-world applications
Important Dates
* Abstract and paper submission: December 1, 2009
* Author notification: February 2, 2010
* On-site paper deadline: February 16, 2010
* Camera-ready paper submission: April 26, 2010
* Author registration: To be specified…
* Workshop: April 4, 2010
* Main conference: April 1 – 4, 2010
Organizers
* Jiri Dokulil, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
* Irena Mlynkova, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
* Martin Necasky, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Program Committee Chairs
* Martin Necasky, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
* Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
Program Committee
* Radim Baca, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
* Geert Jan Bex, Hasselt University, Belgium
* Martine Collard, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
* Sven Hartmann, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
* Agnes Koschmider, Institute AIFB, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany
* Kazuhiro Inaba, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
* Michal Kratky, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
* Sebastian Link, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
* Sebastian Maneth, University of New South Wales, Australia
* Alexander Paar, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany
* Incheon Paik, The University of Aizu, Japan
* Sherif Sakr, University of New South Wales, Australia
* Dmitry Shaporenkov, University of Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Proceedings
Authors should submit papers reporting original works that are currently not
under review or published elsewhere. The paper should be submitted in PDF
format, with maximum length twelve (12) pages, following Springer-Verlag’s
LNCS manuscript submission guidelines, available at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
The review process will be two-round. During the first round each paper
will be reviewed by 2-3 PC members for its technical merit, novelty and
relevance to the workshop. On the basis of the reviews the PC chairs will
prepare the list of accepted, borderline and rejected papers. During the
second round the PC members will be asked to comment the list as well as
all reviews. On the basis of this discussion the PC chairs will make the
final decision.
All papers accepted by BenchmarX’10 will be published in a combined volume
of Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series published by Springer in the
form of conference post-proceedings. At the workshop site, informal on-site
proceedings will be handed out as well.
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