[Asis-l] CFP: Canadian Association for Information Science, June 6-8, 2013

[O'Brien, Heather]

1st CFP: 41st Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science
Tales from the Edge: Narrative Voices in Information Research and Practice
June 6-8th, 2013, Victoria, British Columbia
Website: http://www.diigubc.ca/cais-acsi/

Storytelling is an essential part of human history and culture, a powerful tool for learning, sense making and knowledge transmission. A tale may be a narrative account of an event, asserted fact, or circumstance; a cautionary fable used to educate; a boast of one’s accomplishments. At its most basic level, stories comprise a succession of events, and storytelling is the activity of relaying those events through personal communication or artefacts such as movies, novels, reports. Increasingly, our tales are encoded, distributed, appreciated and preserved in digital media: the emails, texts, tweets and status updates that comprise our everyday stories.  We construct narratives around and through the information products and applications we use on a daily basis.  As researchers, we attempt to capture these stories in order to inform the design, evaluation, and use of information systems and resources, As library and information professionals, we use stories to understand and engage our communities in our services and organizations.

Our conference theme, Tales from the Edge: Narrative Voices in Information Research and Practice, reflects both the geographic location of our host city, Victoria, British Columbia, as well as our intention to showcase leading edge research and practice. As narrative is critical to the development of meaning, delegates to the conference are encouraged to surface their subjectivities and give voice not only to their users or participants, but to themselves. Each scholar has a unique story to tell the Information Science field and profession. Our theme supports diverse approaches to inquiry, and seeks to recognize not only research that pushes the boundaries of the field, but also those voices residing at the margins of research and practice.

We seek papers and presentations that address this broad theme, but also pose the following questions for consideration:

·       How is technology affecting the way we analyze personal and social narratives?

·       What methods do we use to capture our users’ and participants’ stories?

·       How can we better represent marginalized voices in our research?

·       What new techniques allow us to tell stories with data?

·       How do we use narrative to bridge the divide between research and practice?

·       What is the researcher’s role as raconteur?

Call for proposals: We welcome proposals for CAIS/ACSI 2013 in the form of extended abstracts in the following categories: papers, posters, and alternative events (panels, ignite talks, fishbowl conversations).  For more information on preparing extended abstracts, please visit: http://www.diigubc.ca/cais-acsi/en/submissions/submissions.html.  Proposals may be submitted in English or French. The conference committee strongly encourages submissions from professional and academic researchers.

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: January 14th  2013
Notification of acceptance: February 25th  2013
Final version of accepted abstracts: April 15th, 2013.
Student-to-CAIS award (see http://www.cais-acsi.ca/student.htm): April 15th, 2013

For further information, please contact CAIS/ACSI 2013 Conference Co-chairs: Drs. Heather O’Brien (h.obrien at ubc.ca<mailto:h.obrien at ubc.ca>) and Eric Meyers (eric.meyers at ubc.ca<mailto:eric.meyers at ubc.ca>), iSchool, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., or Local Arrangements Chair: Kristin Hodgins (kristin.hodgins at gov.bc.ca<mailto:kristin.hodgins at gov.bc.ca>), Attorney General Law Library, Ministry of Justice, Victoria, B.C.


Dr. Heather O'Brien
Assistant Professor
The iSchool, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
h.obrien at ubc.ca
http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/hobrien/

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