[Asis-l] ASIS&T-Pacific Northwest Chapter 2006 Annual Meeting Call for Proposals (Due 7 April)

[Corey Harper]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: American Society for Information Science and Technology, Pacific Northwest
Chapter (ASIS&T-PNC) 2006 Annual Meeting

MEETING TITLE: Communication, knowledge and the Web: The evolving information landscape

MEETING LOCATION: University of Washington, Seattle

MEETING DATES: Saturday, May 6th, 2006

THEME: Recent years have seen great changes in scholarly communication, publishing and the
dissemination of information. In the academic world, the open access movement and the emergence of
institutional and discipline specific repositories of publications and data has raised a number of
questions about how research is communicated and has called into question the existing publication
model.

Similar changes have been seen outside of the academic sphere. The increased popularity of blogs
and blogging has changed the way many users find information. A recent Pew Internet and American
Life Project report tells us that 50% of teens have created their own online content. Increased
use of wikipedia as a reference resource has brought about questions about the reliability and
veracity of the information it contains. The maturation of resource tagging tools, social
bookmarking applications, and folksonomies has has influenced how content is organized.

Is there a unifying theme underlying these disparate trends? Is this movement toward a more
participatory web experience changing the way people interact with information? Is the idea of
'Web 2.0' a meaningless buzzword or is it evidence of something bigger? Are the steps that we
information professionals should be taking to facilitate (or to mitigate the effects of) these
changes?

PROPOSALS: Proposals for conference sessions are sought in a wide variety of areas include, but
not limited to:

* research findings or projects exploring changes in scholarly communication
* research findings or projects exploring the participatory web
* case studies of new services appealing to users expecting more interaction with information
resources
* the development of tools to help with the creation, organization and development of community
edited or end-user developed content
* research findings that illustrate social, cultural or political implications of this sort of
change
* usability studies of blogging, networking, bookmarking, tagging or other 'Web 2.0' tools

PROPOSAL DEADLINE: April 7th, 2006

PROGRAM SESSION PROPOSAL FORMAT: Send a proposal for a 20 to 40 minute long conference session,
including the session title, a brief abstract outlining session content and structure, relevant
background information for speaker(s), neand complete contact information for the individual(s)
submitting proposals. Submissions can be sent via web form at
http://www.asis.org/Chapters/asispnc/proposal.php or via email to: charper at uroregon.edu

POSTER SESSION PROPOSAL FORMAT: Poster sessions should be used to present concepts, ideas or
projects that are in-process. These topics can deviate from the general meeting theme. Poster
sessions offer an informal method for the presenter and attendees to meet and discuss current
research or projects. Poster session presenters will need to be available to discuss their
research during a 40 minute window. To submit a poster session, please include an abstract and
relevant background information for all speakers, including complete contact information for each
speaker. Submissions can be sent via web form at http://www.asis.org/Chapters/asispnc/proposal.php
or via email to: charper at uroregon.edu

-- 
Corey A Harper
ASIS&T Pacific Northwest 2005-2006 Chapter Chair
Metadata Librarian - CMET Team Leader
Metadata and Digital Library Services
University of Oregon
541/346.1854
charper at uoregon.edu 

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