[Asis-l] CORRECTION re: Call for Participation: 11th Annual SIG-USE Research Symposium at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)

[Maria Souden]

Hello all,

Correction to previous email- if you are interested in participating
in the workshop via options 1-4 below, please send your information to
Maria Souden at maria.souden at ucd.ie.

Thanks and hope to hear from you!
Maria
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Maria Souden, MSI, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Information and Library Studies
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
Ireland
+353.1.716.7660
maria.souden at ucd.ie
maria.souden at gmail.com

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WHERE YOUR WORLD MEETS MINE: INFORMATION USE ACROSS DOMAINS

Date: October 12, 2011
Location: ASIS&T Annual Meeting at the New Orleans Marriott, New
Orleans, LA, USA
Conference website: http://asis.org/asist2011/am11cfp.html

  The 11th Annual SIG-USE Research Symposium at the 2011 Annual
Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology
(ASIS&T) will explore the intersections of information seeking and use
with domains outside of information science.  In the last decade,
information science’s attention to cross-disciplinary questions has
remained a central focus of the field.  To some degree, working in
information science inherently means working across boundaries.  As
information behavior researchers and practitioners, we must not only
be immersed in information science practices and perspectives, but
able to entertain, incorporate, and challenge the perspectives of the
various other domains in which we work.

  This Symposium invites researchers, graduate students, and
practitioners to reflect on and discuss experiences in their own work
of boundary crossing, boundary living, and boundary pushing.  A series
of keynote dialogues will pair information behavior researchers with
practitioners from related domains of study, with the goal of
stimulating lively and focused discussion sessions among participants.
 Participants will emerge with new understandings of and reflections
on how working across a wide range of disciplines and domains enables
synergies between our world and the worlds of our collaborators.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
  An advance written submission is encouraged, but not required.
Advance written information will enable workshop organizers to create
working groups based on participants’ shared interests.  Workshop
attendees may choose any of the following options for participating:

1. REGISTRATION PLUS POSITION PAPER.  Those interested in writing
brief papers are invited to submit one-page position papers explaining
how your work involves other domains outside of information science,
including research, practice, service, collaboration, and teaching.
Position papers will be posted on the SIG USE website prior to the
workshop (with authors’ permission).

2. REGISTRATION PLUS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS/PROBLEM IDENTIFICATIONS. In
lieu of writing a position paper, registrants may submit two or three
discussion questions or problems related to the idea of information
seeking and use across domains. These may be general questions and
problems, or questions and problems closely related to your own work
(e.g., “How are changing information practices affecting the field of
digital humanities?” or “information privacy issues in organizational
contexts”).  The organizing committee is particularly interested in
questions or problems that would be useful for guiding small group
discussions at the workshop.

3. REGISTRATION PLUS IDENTIFICATION OF DOMAIN(S) OF INTEREST.  Those
with interests in specific domains can choose to list up to three
domains of interest for the organizing committee to consider as topic
areas for small group discussion.

4. REGISTRATION PLUS ANY COMBINATION OF OPTIONS 1 – 3, ABOVE.  You may
choose to submit any two or all three of the above items (position
paper, discussion questions/problem identifications, and domains of
interest).

5. REGISTRATION ONLY. Those interested in attending the workshop
without submitting written materials may register at any time prior to
the beginning of the workshop, provided that workshop spaces remain.

For advance submissions, please use the following submission guidelines:

* Submit all files as pdf documents.
* Put your name, title, and institutional affiliation in the upper
left-hand corner of the first page.
* Put page numbers in the upper right hand corner of all pages.
* Name your file as follows:
       2011_SIGUSEworkshop_yourlastname.pdf

N.B.: Indicate in your email message whether or not you would like
your submission to be posted publically on the SIG USE website as a
part of the pre- and post-workshop materials.  Submissions are due by
midnight local time on SEPTEMBER 9, 2011.  Email submissions to:
Maria Souden (maria.souden at ucd.ie).

REGISTRATION FEES
  * $105 for SIG USE members.
  * $110 for nonmembers.

The registration fee will cover workshop costs, a light breakfast,
coffee breaks, and lunch.

STUDENT BLOGGERS
  SIG USE will pay the registration fees for two graduate students to
attend the workshop and provide live blogging during the event.  If
you are interested in serving as a student blogger, indicate your
interest via email to Maria Souden at maria.souden at ucd.ie.  Student
bloggers will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
  * Denise Agosto, Drexel University (chair) (dea22 at drexel.edu)
  * Maria Souden, University College Dublin (maria.souden at ucd.ie)
  * Barbara Wildemuth, University of North Carolina (wildemuth at unc.edu)
  * Xiaojun Yuan, University at Albany, State University of New York
(xyuan at albany.edu)