From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Sun Jun 1 06:54:47 2014 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 12:54:47 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Asis-l] CFP ACM MEDES 2014: Submission deadline approaching (8 June 2014) In-Reply-To: <1292551937.5812970.1400140245662.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> References: <1619833220.1063422.1378673582388.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> <1292551937.5812970.1400140245662.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> Message-ID: <2121393764.8237205.1401620087461.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The 6th International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective Intelligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2014) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/14/ September 15-17, 2014 Buraidah-Al Qassim, Saudi Arabi Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective IntElligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. MEDES 2014 calls for full papers presenting interesting recent results or novel ideas in all areas of Emergent Digital EcoSystems. At the same time, the conference calls for short papers presenting interesting and exciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and preferably include a system demonstration. Topics ------- MEDES 2014 seeks contributions in the following areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Green computing 3. Computational and Collective Intelligence 4. Services 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. Internet of Things and Intelligent Web 8. Human-Computer Interaction 9. Networks and Protocols 10. Open Source Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- Extended Submission Deadline: 8 June 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 5 July 2014 Camera Ready: 20 July 2014 Conference Dates: 15-17 September 2014 Keynote Speakers ---------------- Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France Ton Kalker, DTS Incorporation, USA Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA Youngjin Yoo, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Suwaiyel, President of KACST, Saudi Arabia Special Tracks: ---------------- Big Data Processing and Management Computational Intelligence Workshops ---------- - 2nd International Workshop on Security and Privacy Preserving in e-Societies (SECES) - Workshop on Advances in Intelligent Environmental Monitoring (AIEM) Special issues and Journal Publication --------------------------------------- Extended versions of selected papers will be published in several peer reviewed journals. The list of journals will be announced later. Main Conference Program Chairs ???????----------------------- Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada Saad Harous, United Arab Emirates University, UAE International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From Jeonghyun.Kim at unt.edu Sun Jun 1 20:38:44 2014 From: Jeonghyun.Kim at unt.edu (Kim, Jeonghyun) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 00:38:44 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIS&T Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award Nominations Due June 15 Message-ID: Call for nominations for the 2014 ASIS&T Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award This award recognizes substantive work performed by students in the field of information science and encourages research and writing. Since 1996, it has been sponsored by the Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, on behalf of the late David Severn, a 1968 Pratt Alumnus. Evaluated by the same rigorous standards as papers submitted for the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), the best student research paper is judged on technical competence, significance of findings, originality, and clarity of expression. The award shall consist of round-trip travel expenses and full registration for the ASIS&T annual meeting, not to exceed $500; a certificate; and possible submission of the paper for publication in JASIST. The nomination deadline is June 15, 2014. For more information on eligibility and nomination requirements, visit http://www.asis.org/awards/bestresearchpaper.html Jeonghyun (Annie) Kim Chair, 2014 ASIS&T Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award Assistant Professor Department of Library and Information Sciences College of Information University of North Texas Email) Jeonghyun.Kim at unt.edu Phone) 940-369-5408 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From h.obrien at ubc.ca Sun Jun 1 23:53:30 2014 From: h.obrien at ubc.ca (O'Brien, Heather) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 03:53:30 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Submissions - SIGUSE Awards 2014 Message-ID: <3D3C798747545C4293E710C70B9D97AE931FE1A0@S-ITSV-MBX02P.ead.ubc.ca> CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - SIGUSE AWARDS The Information Needs, Seeking, and Use Special Interest Group (SIG USE) of ASIST seeks submissions for six awards: 1. The Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award 2. The Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award 3. The Elfreda A. Chatman Research Proposal Award 4. The Student Travel Award 5. The Interdisciplinary Travel Award 6. The Innovation Award The deadline for submissions for all awards, which will be given at the 2014 ASIS&T meeting in Seattle, WA, is July 1, 2014. Details and criteria for each award can be found on the SIG USE website, at http://siguse.wordpress.com/awards/ All submissions and any questions should be directed to Heather O'Brien at h.obrien at ubc.ca We'll see you at ASIS&T 2014! Sincerely, Gary Burnett and Heather O'Brien SIGUSE Award Co-chairs 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/ From niso-announce at niso.org Mon Jun 2 11:23:29 2014 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 11:23:29 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] NISO June Virtual Conference: Transforming Assessment: Alternative Metrics and Other Trends Message-ID: <004901cf7e76$9c21df60$d4659e20$@org> NISO June Virtual Conference: Transforming Assessment: Alternative Metrics and Other Trends Virtual conferences are 5-6 hour conferences held online in webinar-like formats, with occasional breaks in the schedule for participants. The longer length allows the depth of coverage of a conference coupled with the convenience of a webinar. Date: June 18, 2014 Time: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm Eastern Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/virtual/assessment/ ABOUT THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE For decades, the landscape of assessment has been reasonably stable with traditional metrics, primarily the Journal Impact Factor (JIF), now provided by Thomson-Reuters. The JIF has served the community reasonably well for many decades, but with the growth of social media, open access mandates, and greater emphasis on articles over the journal "package," new methods of assessing quality and impact have exploded on the scene. The current metrics focus on the journal also leaves out a wide variety of non-traditional output of research such as data sets, software, visualization tools, or performance recordings, which are as-or even more-important than the journal article in some disciplines. The new "alternative metrics" are not without their own issues. As with any new measures, different interpretations of the definitions exist, the metrics are inconsistently applied, or data from comprehensive ranges of sources are limited. NISO initiated a project in 2013 to identify issues around the new altmetrics that could be solved with standards or best practices. Phase 2 of the project is to develop the prioritized standards and recommended practices identified by the community. This Virtual Conference will explore the range of new metrics forms and the infrastructure necessary to create reliable measures across the range of platforms, publishers, and authors. It will also discuss the current status of the NISO Altmetrics Initiative and what standards or best practices may be forthcoming in this area. TOPICS AND SPEAKERS . Keynote Address: Altmetrics at the Portfolio Level - Paul Groth, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at the VU University Amsterdam . Snowball Metrics: University-Owned Benchmarking to Reveal Strengths within All Activities - Dr. Lisa Colledge, Snowball Metrics Program Director, Elsevier . The Intersection between Library Management and Informatics Scholarship: Understanding, Assessing and Reporting Research Impact - Kristi L. Holmes, Ph.D., Director, Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine . What Do Alternative Metrics and the 'Flight of the Bumblebee' Have in Common? - Martha Kyrillidou, Senior Director of Statistics and Service Quality Programs, Association of Research Libraries (ARL) . Identifying the Invisible Impact of Scholarly Publications: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis Using Altmetrics - Ehsan Mohammadi, Ph.D. Candidate, Wolverhampton University . A Publisher's Perspective on Using Altmetrics - TBA . Virginia Tech's Response to Research Data Needs: The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship - Julie G. Speer, Associate Dean for Research and Informatics, University Libraries, Virginia Tech . NISO Altmetrics Initiative: A Project Update - Martin Fenner, Technical Lead for the PLOS Article-Level Metrics project . Conference Roundtable: Finding Acceptance and Value: Why Altmetrics Matter REGISTRATION Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 4:00 pm Eastern on June 17, 2014 (the day before the virtual conference). Discounts are available for NISO members and students. All virtual conference registrants receive access to the recorded version for one year. Can't make it on the day of the virtual conference? All registrants receive access to the recorded version for one year. Take advantage of the Virtual Conference subscription package (www.niso.org/news/events/2014/virtual/#subscription ) for all six of the 2014 Virtual Conferences and save 33%. (Previously held 2014 virtual conferences available in recorded versions.) 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URL: From youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr Mon Jun 2 17:29:19 2014 From: youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr (Youakim Badr) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 23:29:19 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Asis-l] CFP ACM MEDES 2014: Submission deadline approaching (8 June 2014) In-Reply-To: <1629017886.5213056.1401743989446.JavaMail.root@insa-lyon.fr> Message-ID: <1726414336.5213553.1401744559722.JavaMail.root@insa-lyon.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The 6th International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective Intelligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2014) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/14/ September 15-17, 2014 Buraidah-Al Qassim, Saudi Arabia Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective IntElligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. MEDES 2014 calls for full papers presenting interesting recent results or novel ideas in all areas of Emergent Digital EcoSystems. At the same time, the conference calls for short papers presenting interesting and exciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and preferably include a system demonstration. Topics ------- MEDES 2014 seeks contributions in the following 10 areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Green computing 3. Computational and Collective Intelligence 4. Services 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. Internet of Things and Intelligent Web 8. Human-Computer Interaction 9. Networks and Protocols 10. Open Source Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- Extended Submission Deadline: 8 June 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 5 July 2014 Camera Ready: 20 July 2014 Conference Dates: 15-17 September 2014 Keynote Speakers ---------------- Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France Ton Kalker, DTS Incorporation, USA Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA Youngjin Yoo, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Suwaiyel, President of KACST, Saudi Arabia Special Tracks: ---------------- Big Data Processing and Management Computational Intelligence Workshops ---------- - International Workshop on Security and Privacy Preserving in e-Societies (SECES) - International Workshop on Advances in Intelligent Environmental Monitoring (AIEM Special issues and Journal Publication --------------------------------------- Extended versions of selected papers will be published in several peer reviewed journals. The list of journals will be announced later. Main Conference Program Chairs ???????----------------------- Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada Saad Harous, United Arab Emirates University, UAE International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From jdownie at illinois.edu Tue Jun 3 06:47:21 2014 From: jdownie at illinois.edu (Downie, J Stephen) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 10:47:21 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] HathiTrust Research Center: Extracted Features, Alpha Release Message-ID: <612008895BFFF74BB7C7A74B2681CE6168F04223@CITESMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> Dear friends and colleagues, The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is proud to announce the alpha release of a new dataset, consisting of page-level features extracted from a quarter-million text volumes. HTRC Extracted Features Dataset: https://sandbox.htrc.illinois.edu/HTRC-UI-Portal2/Features Features are data attributes defined in such a way that they can be identified by a computer and analyzed at scale. The HTRC Feature Extraction alpha dataset has already processed the underlying text, identifying headers and footers, rejoining hyphenated words, and offering page-level details such as: - term-frequency counts, per section (head/body/footer), per page - occurrences of terms as different parts of speech - line counts and sentence counts - character counts at the start or end of lines Since it is currently in alpha version, we are looking for feedback on how data like this can help you in your research and how we can better serve the scholarly community. Today's dataset is built upon the HathiTrust's non-Google-digitized public domain volumes - that is, the original scanned representations of all the texts can be accessed through the HathiTrust. We have features for 67,932,813 pages from 250,178 volumes, spanning nearly six hundred years. The median date of the material is 1899, and the text is primarily English. While this alpha release originates from public domain data, this type of extracted feature dataset also provides a road map toward non-consumptive research on works not in the public domain, since the features, though useful for scholarly research purposes, are not sufficient to reconstruct the text itself. The HTRC is a collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois. In conjunction with the HathiTrust Digital Library, the HTRC team strives to meet the technical challenges that researchers face when dealing with massive amounts of digital text, by developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge. Questions? Please contact . ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Associate Dean for Research Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839 From chriskhoo at pmail.ntu.edu.sg Tue Jun 3 08:19:40 2014 From: chriskhoo at pmail.ntu.edu.sg (Khoo Soo Guan, Christopher (Assoc Prof)) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 12:19:40 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ISIC2014 Workshop on "Information Behavior on Social Media" (2nd Sep) -- call for paper proposals In-Reply-To: <2DFD6F2628C86648A043DF9E1CD6F6A205715D@EXCHMBOX33.staff.main.ntu.edu.sg> References: <2DFD6F2628C86648A043DF9E1CD6F6A205715D@EXCHMBOX33.staff.main.ntu.edu.sg> Message-ID: <2DFD6F2628C86648A043DF9E1CD6F6A2058133@EXCHMBOX33.staff.main.ntu.edu.sg> Sorry I'd like to withdraw this posting. Forgot to indicate location and URL ... ________________________________________ From: Khoo Soo Guan, Christopher (Assoc Prof) Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 8:00 PM To: asis-l at asis.org Subject: ISIC2014 Workshop on "Information Behavior on Social Media" (2nd Sep) -- call for paper proposals *ISIC2014 Pre-conference Workshop on "Information Behaviour on Social Media" (1/2 day workshop)* 2nd Sep 2014, 2:00-5:30pm Call for paper proposals Social media applications have encroached into all areas of our lives, and is having a major impact on how we live, work, play, learn, socialize and vote! Libraries and information services are using social media to promote their resources and services, and incorporating social media functions in their online catalogues and database systems. Social media in its various manifestations present a golden opportunity and rich environment to study information behaviour, as much of the information (in text, image and video format) are recorded and stored in publicly accessible repositories or on personal devices. *Fundamental questions that need to be answered include* - How does information behaviour on social media differ from other online and offline information behaviour? - Do social media applications promote particular kinds of information behaviour, and even engender new kinds of behaviour? - How does social media information behaviour interact with or complement other online and offline behaviour? - What research methods can be used to study social media information behaviour, and how should they be adapted to handle and exploit the characteristics of social media? Information behaviour research has traditionally focused on: - Models of information behaviour, including the information search process and interactive information retrieval - Information seeking, searching, browsing and encountering - Task-based user evaluation - Concepts of information need, serendipity, relevance, etc. - Information behaviour in particular contexts and of particular communities - Everyday life information behaviour. Do previous research findings on the above issues apply to social media use? Questions that library and information professionals might ask: - How has social media functions incorporated in library systems and online databases affected information seeking, searching and use? - How has social media affected information literacy and information literacy instruction? Social media encompass a wide range of applications including social networking, content sharing (e.g. YouTube), online journaling (e.g. blogging), social tagging, collaborative recommendation, discussion forum, collaborative authoring (e.g. Wikipedia), etc. Do these present opportunities for studying particular types of information behaviour in greater depth, and how they interact and complement each other? The Workshop will seek to address the above questions through short paper presentations, a panel discussion and a social media site set up for the Workshop. *Call for papers* Short papers (4 to 8 pages) are solicited for the Workshop. They can be conceptual papers on some of the issues outlined above, research proposals, or reports of ongoing and completed studies. Selected workshop papers will be published in a special issue of the LIBRES e-journal (http://libres.curtin.edu.au/). 1-page paper proposals (about 500 words) should be submitted to: LIBRESeditor at ntu.edu.sg with the subject ?ISIC2014 Workshop? by 23 June 2014. *Deadlines* - Submission deadline for 1-page paper proposal (about 500 words): 23 June 2014 - Acceptance notification: 30 June 2014 - Deadline for camera-ready paper: 1 Aug 2014 *Workshop registration fee* Early rate registration: ?50. *Organizers* Dr Chris Khoo Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Dr Theresa Anderson University of Technology, Sydney *************************************** ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY:This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged.If you are not the intended recipient,please delete it,notify us and do not copy,use,or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth:Print only when necessary.Thank you. From chriskhoo at pmail.ntu.edu.sg Tue Jun 3 08:00:00 2014 From: chriskhoo at pmail.ntu.edu.sg (Khoo Soo Guan, Christopher (Assoc Prof)) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 12:00:00 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ISIC2014 Workshop on "Information Behavior on Social Media" (2nd Sep) -- call for paper proposals Message-ID: <2DFD6F2628C86648A043DF9E1CD6F6A205715D@EXCHMBOX33.staff.main.ntu.edu.sg> *ISIC2014 Pre-conference Workshop on "Information Behaviour on Social Media" (1/2 day workshop)* 2nd Sep 2014, 2:00-5:30pm Call for paper proposals Social media applications have encroached into all areas of our lives, and is having a major impact on how we live, work, play, learn, socialize and vote! Libraries and information services are using social media to promote their resources and services, and incorporating social media functions in their online catalogues and database systems. Social media in its various manifestations present a golden opportunity and rich environment to study information behaviour, as much of the information (in text, image and video format) are recorded and stored in publicly accessible repositories or on personal devices. *Fundamental questions that need to be answered include* - How does information behaviour on social media differ from other online and offline information behaviour? - Do social media applications promote particular kinds of information behaviour, and even engender new kinds of behaviour? - How does social media information behaviour interact with or complement other online and offline behaviour? - What research methods can be used to study social media information behaviour, and how should they be adapted to handle and exploit the characteristics of social media? Information behaviour research has traditionally focused on: - Models of information behaviour, including the information search process and interactive information retrieval - Information seeking, searching, browsing and encountering - Task-based user evaluation - Concepts of information need, serendipity, relevance, etc. - Information behaviour in particular contexts and of particular communities - Everyday life information behaviour. Do previous research findings on the above issues apply to social media use? Questions that library and information professionals might ask: - How has social media functions incorporated in library systems and online databases affected information seeking, searching and use? - How has social media affected information literacy and information literacy instruction? Social media encompass a wide range of applications including social networking, content sharing (e.g. YouTube), online journaling (e.g. blogging), social tagging, collaborative recommendation, discussion forum, collaborative authoring (e.g. Wikipedia), etc. Do these present opportunities for studying particular types of information behaviour in greater depth, and how they interact and complement each other? The Workshop will seek to address the above questions through short paper presentations, a panel discussion and a social media site set up for the Workshop. *Call for papers* Short papers (4 to 8 pages) are solicited for the Workshop. They can be conceptual papers on some of the issues outlined above, research proposals, or reports of ongoing and completed studies. Selected workshop papers will be published in a special issue of the LIBRES e-journal (http://libres.curtin.edu.au/). 1-page paper proposals (about 500 words) should be submitted to: LIBRESeditor at ntu.edu.sg with the subject ?ISIC2014 Workshop? by 23 June 2014. *Deadlines* - Submission deadline for 1-page paper proposal (about 500 words): 23 June 2014 - Acceptance notification: 30 June 2014 - Deadline for camera-ready paper: 1 Aug 2014 *Workshop registration fee* Early rate registration: ?50. *Organizers* Dr Chris Khoo Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Dr Theresa Anderson University of Technology, Sydney *************************************** ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY:This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged.If you are not the intended recipient,please delete it,notify us and do not copy,use,or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth:Print only when necessary.Thank you. From Joy.Davidson at glasgow.ac.uk Tue Jun 3 11:27:27 2014 From: Joy.Davidson at glasgow.ac.uk (Joy Davidson) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 15:27:27 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] DLM Forum 7th triennial conference - call for contributions Message-ID: *With apologies for cross posting* The DLM Forum will hold its 7th triennial conference in Lisbon from Wednesday, 12th November to Friday, 14th November 2014. Sessions will focus on the latest challenges and innovation in Information Governance. The conference programme consists of plenary sessions for all participants and breakout sessions that will be divided into three streams representing different challenges in information governance: * Stream 1: Managing information for control, access and compliance * Stream 2: Records Management in transition * Stream 3: Archival initiatives for ingest, preservation and access We hope to see you in Lisbon, http://dlmlisbon2014.dlmforum.eu/ The DLM Forum Lucie.Verachten at consilium.europa.eu Tel 02 281 64 18 JL-05-70-FK-50 Rue de la Loi 175 B-1048 Brussels General Secretariat of the Council Directorate-General F: Communication and Transparency Directorate 2: Transparency Unit 2 B, Records Management and Central Archives Disclaimer: "The views expressed are solely those of the writer and may not be regarded as stating an official position of the Council" Clause de non responsabilit?: ?Les avis exprim?s n'engagent que leur auteur et ne peuvent ?tre consid?r?s comme une position officielle du Conseil? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rsandusky at gmail.com Tue Jun 3 12:11:33 2014 From: rsandusky at gmail.com (Robert Sandusky) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 11:11:33 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] DMPTool v2 workshop at the DataONE Users Group Meeting Message-ID: DMPTool v2 workshop at the DataONE Users Group Meeting The DMPTool partners are pleased to announce a half-day workshop at the upcoming DataONE Users Group meeting in Frisco, CO July 6th and 7th. Reduced rate hotel reservations can be made at: http://inntopia.travel/aspnet/09/packageselect.aspx?salesid=912471&packagecode=1677 until Thursday June 5th. The half day workshop on the afternoon of Monday July 7th will introduce the recently released version 2 of the widely used DMPTool. It will introduce new and existing users to data management plan requirements, features of the new tool for the completion of comprehensive Data Management Plans that meet funder requirements, highlight key features for specific user groups, and will culminate with hands-on practice using the tool. All stakeholders are invited, with particular emphasis on researchers, research administrators, funders, and librarians/IT managers. Registration for the workshop, and the broader DataONE User Group (DUG) meeting, is free. Further information on the DUG, meeting and workshop agendas (see also below) and registration information is available at: http://www.dataone.org/dataone-users-group. Attendees can register directly at: http://www.dataone.org/dataone-users-group-meeting-registration-2014. The workshop will be led by Andrew Sallans (Center for Open Science), Patricia Cruse (California Digital Library) and Amber Budden (DataONE). We look forward to seeing you there. Agenda 1. Overview of data management planning requirements 2. Creating a plan with the DMPTool; funder templates, collaborative workspace, supporting materials 3. Specialized tracks (hands-on section): Researchers: writing and collaborating on data management plans Research administrators/funders/librarians/IT managers: customization of the DMPTool for institutions, funders, etc. 4. Next Steps and feedback; round table discussion exploring usability of the current tool and desired functionality for v3. -- Robert J. Sandusky, Ph.D. Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Associate Professor and Associate Dean UIC University Library From jlorince at indiana.edu Tue Jun 3 14:23:45 2014 From: jlorince at indiana.edu (Jared Lorince) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 14:23:45 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] WebSci14: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Message-ID: The 6th ACM Web Science Conference will be held 23-26 June 2014 on the beautiful campus of Indiana University, Bloomington. Web Science continues to focus on the study of information networks, social communities, organizations, applications, and policies that shape and are shaped by the Web. The WebSci14 program includes 29 paper presentations, 35 posters with lightning talks, a documentary, and keynotes by Dame Wendy Hall (U. of Southampton), JP Rangaswami (Salesforce.com), Laura DeNardis (American University) and Daniel Tunkelang (LinkedIn). Several workshops will be held in conjunction with the conference on topics such as Altmetrics, computational approaches to social modeling, the complex dynamics of the Web, the Web of scientific knowledge, interdisciplinary coups to calamities, Web Science education, Web observatories, and Cybercrime and Cyberwar. Conference attendees will have an opportunity to enjoy the exhibit Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, meant to inspire cross-disciplinary discussion on how to track and communicate human activity and scientific progress on a global scale. Finally, we will award prizes for the most innovative visualizations of Web data. For this data challenge, we are providing four large datasets that will remain publicly available to Web scientists. For more information on the program, registration, and a full schedule please visit http://WebSci14.org and follow us on Twitter (@WebSciConf) or like us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WebSci14). -- Jared Lorince PhD student, ABC West Lab Cognitive Science // Psychological & Brain Sciences Indiana University, Bloomington https://mypage.iu.edu/~jlorince Co-Founder, motivateplay.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Social media in its various manifestations present a golden opportunity and rich environment to study information behaviour, as much of the information (in text, image and video format) are recorded and stored in publicly accessible repositories or on personal devices. *Fundamental questions that need to be answered include* - How does information behaviour on social media differ from other online and offline information behaviour? - Do social media applications promote particular kinds of information behaviour, and even engender new kinds of behaviour? - How does social media information behaviour interact with or complement other online and offline behaviour? - What research methods can be used to study social media information behaviour, and how should they be adapted to handle and exploit the characteristics of social media? Information behaviour research has traditionally focused on: - Models of information behaviour, including the information search process and interactive information retrieval - Information seeking, searching, browsing and encountering - Task-based user evaluation - Concepts of information need, serendipity, relevance, etc. - Information behaviour in particular contexts and of particular communities - Everyday life information behaviour. Do previous research findings on the above issues apply to social media use? Questions that library and information professionals might ask: - How has social media functions incorporated in library systems and online databases affected information seeking, searching and use? - How has social media affected information literacy and information literacy instruction? Social media encompass a wide range of applications including social networking, content sharing (e.g. YouTube), online journaling (e.g. blogging), social tagging, collaborative recommendation, discussion forum, collaborative authoring (e.g. Wikipedia), etc. Do these present opportunities for studying particular types of information behaviour in greater depth, and how they interact and complement each other? The Workshop will seek to address the above questions through short paper presentations, a panel discussion and a social media site set up for the Workshop. *Call for papers* Short papers (4 to 8 pages) are solicited for the Workshop. They can be conceptual papers on some of the issues outlined above, research proposals, or reports of ongoing and completed studies. Selected workshop papers will be published in a special issue of the LIBRES e-journal (http://libres.curtin.edu.au/). 1-page paper proposals (about 500 words) should be submitted to: LIBRESeditor at ntu.edu.sg with the subject ?ISIC2014 Workshop? by 23 June 2014. *Deadlines* - Submission deadline for 1-page paper proposal (about 500 words): 23 June 2014 - Acceptance notification: 30 June 2014 - Deadline for camera-ready paper: 1 Aug 2014 *Workshop registration fee* Early rate registration: ?50. *Organizers* Dr Chris Khoo Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Dr Theresa Anderson University of Technology, Sydney *************************************** ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY:This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged.If you are not the intended recipient,please delete it,notify us and do not copy,use,or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth:Print only when necessary.Thank you. From cdumas at albany.edu Thu Jun 5 08:09:11 2014 From: cdumas at albany.edu (Dumas, Catherine L) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 12:09:11 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP Silent Auction Donation Message-ID: <1401970150321.67083@albany.edu> Call for Participation: Donate Items for the Silent Auction in Seattle, WA, 77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting 10/31 - 11/4 2014 It is not too early to start thinking about what you would like to donate to the silent auction held each year at SIG III's International Reception. This event is always one of the highlights of the Annual Meetings. The money that is raised by this event is used to help fund SIG III's InfoShare project which awards 1-year ASIST memberships to Information Professionals in developing countries for whom the cost of membership would be a financial burden. This year we are going to have a page on the SIG III website for you to showcase your items months in advance of the silent auction. The first step in the process is to go to this form http://www.formpl.us/form/0B4nZCvpgLedRRlhjb3NWeVB2YUE/ and provide a description and an image of the item(s) you wish to donate. We plan to post some of these items and their pictures on the SIG III website around the end of August. We are looking forward to all of your wonderful donations. For more information contact Catherine Dumas at asistsigiiiauction at gmail.com ? Catherine Dumas PhD Student - Informatics College of Computing & Information University at Albany, State University of New York Co-Chair Advisory Board ASIS&T, UAlbany Student Chapter http://ualbanyasist.com/ http://www.facebook.com/groups/ualbanyasist/ CCI Women in Technology on FB: http://www.facebook.com/groups/cciwit/ Cyber Behaviors in Information Seeking -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Copeland, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Library & Information Science School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University 755 W Michigan Street, UL3100C Indianapolis, IN 46202 (317) 274-0114[X](317) 274-0114 Call Send SMS Add to Skype You'll need Skype CreditFree via Skype -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From srichards at lac-group.com Thu Jun 5 14:50:12 2014 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 18:50:12 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Librarian (Research & Training) San Francisco, CA Message-ID: Apologies for the cross postings . . . . LAC Group seeks a dynamic and experienced Librarian (Research & Training) for our client, a prestigious international law firm's San Francisco office. The Librarian will provide an expert level of reference, research and training to the attorneys and staff using electronic research platforms. This is an excellent opportunity for a professional to work directly for a top organization and with creative and innovative information professionals. Responsibilities: * Provide expert-level of reference, research and support for local office(s) and act as a subject matter expert in specialized practice areas for all US offices; * Deliver research training to attorneys and staff and assist in the development of new research and reference offerings; * Evaluate information resources to optimize library collections in coordination with the information resource team; * Compile and organize information obtained in print and electronic resources/databases; * Work beyond scheduled hours as required and travel as needed; * Handle additional related projects as assigned or requested. Qualifications: * Advanced degree (MLS, MLIS) in library science, library information science or related field (required); * Expert proficiency in online research and legal databases; * Expert proficiency in the English language, including punctuation, spelling, grammar and writing skills; * Advanced proficiency in providing training on the use of electronic research platforms; * Advanced proficiency in integrated library management systems; * Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite; * Expert knowledge of legal and business research resources employed by global law firms; * Advanced knowledge of specialized practice areas (preferred); * Advanced knowledge of database structure and theory; * At least 5 years of experience providing reference and research, preferably in a law or business library; * At least 3 years of experience providing training on use of electronic research platforms; * At least 2 years of experience in specialized practice areas (preferred). Apply at: http://goo.gl/npxnc3 LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. LAC Group is a premier provider of information curation and knowledge management services for information professionals at U.S. and global organizations including prominent government agencies, Fortune 100 companies, law firms, pharmaceutical companies, and large academic institutions. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jqin at syr.edu Fri Jun 6 09:08:32 2014 From: jqin at syr.edu (Jian Qin) Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 13:08:32 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] The Capability Matruity Model for Research Data Management (CMM4RDM) is released! Message-ID: <4a05cce2f7a24eb2a8e8467ede24e2a3@EX13-MBX-09.ad.syr.edu> ------------This announcement has been posted to multiple lists. Please excuse the duplicates------------ We are very pleased to announce the official launch of a new wiki for the Capability Maturity Model for Research Data Management, at http://rdm.ischool.syr.edu. Is your institution, organization, or project trying to evaluate improvements that are needed for your research data management process? The guidelines and rubrics included in this wiki can help with the evaluation of each individual practice within the overall research data management process. This capability maturity model is an aspirational model which helps you to see not only how far you've come, but also what steps you can continue to take to improve your research data management process. Now, we need your feedback! Are there practices in your research data management process that we did not address? Can you provide additional concrete examples at any maturity level? Can you provide any tips on how your institution was able to overcome a particular hurdle with regards to the research data management process? Can you help us to prioritize the weight of each different practice, to help us turn this model into a more quantitative tool? If so, the wiki is waiting for your contributions. You can leave comments, add tags, and even edit or add to pages. With your interaction, we hope this wiki will be a valuable resource for the research data management community. You can read more about it at: http://rdm.ischool.syr.edu/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/CMM4RDM+v10+is+officially+launched. Sincerely, The CMMRDM Team Jian Qin, PI Kevin Crowston, Co-PI Charlotte Flynn, Doctoral RA Arden Kirkland, Masters RA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From agruzd at gmail.com Tue Jun 10 18:07:25 2014 From: agruzd at gmail.com (Anatoliy Gruzd) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:07:25 -0300 Subject: [Asis-l] HICSS minitrack on SOCIAL NETWORKING & COMMUNITIES (full papers are due June 15) Message-ID: <5397819D.70604@gmail.com> *Apologies for cross-posting* This is just a quick reminder that only 5 days left to submit your full paper to the SOCIAL NETWORKING & COMMUNITIES minitrack at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). This is one of the most popular and largest minitracks at the conference! Full Papers Due: June 15, 2014 Conference Location: Kauai, Hawaii, USA Conference Dates: January 5-8, 2015 More info: http://SocialMediaLab.ca/?page_id=9308 Minitrack co-chairs: Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia Karine Nahon, University of Washington Please contact Anatoliy Gruzd if you have any questions or if you are interested in being a reviewer for the minitrack. -- Anatoliy Gruzd, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Management Director, Social Media Lab Faculty of Management / Faculty of Computer Science Dalhousie University Canada Phone: 902-494-6119 Fax: 902-494-2451 E-mail: gruzd at dal.ca Research Lab: http://SocialMediaLab.ca Homepage: http://AnatoliyGruzd.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/gruzd From Joy.Davidson at glasgow.ac.uk Wed Jun 11 07:49:22 2014 From: Joy.Davidson at glasgow.ac.uk (Joy Davidson) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 11:49:22 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] IDCC15 - Save the Date In-Reply-To: References: <53983A6B.1020200@ukoln.ac.uk> Message-ID: ************************************************************* IDCC15- Save the Date "Ten years on: highlighting achievements, lessons learned and continuing challenges for data curation." We are delighted to announce that the 10th International Digital Curation Conference will be held from Monday 9 February to Thursday 12 February 2015 at 30 Euston Square, London. http://30eustonsquare.co.uk/ The main conference will take place over the first two days followed by 2 days of workshops and other related events. The Call for Papers will be announced in July and further details will be added to the Conference website over the coming months. http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc15 Sent on behalf of the Co-Chairs of the IDCC15 Programme Committee. ********************************** Joy Davidson Associate Director Digital Curation Centre (DCC) HATII, University of Glasgow 11 University Gardens Glasgow G12 8QJ Tel: 0141 330 8592 Email: joy.davidson at glasgow.ac.uk http://www.dcc.ac.uk http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii From fichman at indiana.edu Sat Jun 7 08:00:30 2014 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 12:00:30 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP HICSS minitrack Collective Intelligence and Crowds: Structure, Roles, and Identity Message-ID: <8BC75D93-F4D2-466B-9B73-8E18C1A8A014@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] CFP HICSS minitrack Collective Intelligence and Crowds: Structure, Roles, and Identity Track: Digital and Social Media Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 48, January 5-8, 2015, Kauai, Hawaii http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ Papers Due: June 15, 2014 via the HICSS conference system http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm We live surrounded by socially constructed identities. Some examples are organizations, nations, websites, companies, products and even persons. These identities are constituted through a complex interplay of interactions, a kind of distributed cognition. Communication requires not only a representation in an individual?s mind but also the knowledge that there is a similar representation in the minds of others. Platforms built on top of the Internet have changed the way we can create such shared representations. They allow people to aggregate knowledge from socially distant areas. They also allow diverse groups of people ? and maybe machines in the form of artificial intelligences ? to negotiate identities. We can build collective intelligences that themselves will steer the quest for knowledge. The collectives can be self-catalyzing, deciding individually or collaboratively what to do next, out of which novel and practical ideas emerge. While these open design collectives rely on organic growth and slow embedding of members in the network, alternative structures based on crowds can be assembled more rapidly. Between the two extremes are a host of different organizational structures, in which already committed members of a community are deployed to create or improve ideas. And the traces of these new organizations are also varied, ranging from ephemeral short messages to curated collaborative knowledge repositories. The output often takes the form of digital media. We are interested in papers that observe, analyze, or visualize these organization structures and the innovations they produce, papers that simulate this production through software, papers that analyze the phenomena of crowdsourcing, collective intelligence and collaborative mass knowledge production, and design research that creates and evaluates new tools and processes. We are particularly open to papers that explore unusual ways of modelling emergent organizations: models that demonstrate or reflect the influence of social systems on user behaviours, models that consider the multiple connections between people, technology, and institutions, models of technological and social affordances, models that break personal identity into sub-relations, and models that examine the emergence of roles, identity, and institutions. We are interested in applying the ideas of James March, Mark Granovetter, Harrison White, Charles Tilly and related scholars to information systems. We are looking for papers about the mechanisms (in the sense of Bhaskar) that explain the emergence of collective identity. In sum, the content of the track is open to analysis of collective intelligence, new knowledge creation, and crowdsourcing. Included also is the analysis of social interaction as a way of describing underlying social structure, and in particular the social construction of identity and roles.. Thus the track is open to a wide range of content areas that lend themselves to the analysis of relations between people, collectives, and machines, as well as the products produced as a result of these relations. In this minitrack, we are aiming to attract an audience from five groups: first, those interested in collective intelligence and crowdsourcing and who find a home in information systems departments; second, those in information schools who study these topics; third, computer scientists who are interested in the analysis of network and crowd processes, fourth, those who use social networks to describe social structure and fifth, industry practitioners. Minitrack Organizers: Donald Steiny, The Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy; steiny at steiny.com Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington; fichman at indiana.edu Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology; jnickerson at stevens.edu About HICSS conferences: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm Now in its 48th year, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is one of the longest-standing continuously running scientific conferences. This conference brings together researchers in an aloha-friendly atmosphere conducive to free exchange of scientific ideas. Unique characteristics of the conference include: ? A matrix structure of tracks and themes that enables research on a rich mixture of computer-based applications and technologies. ? Three days of research paper presentations and discussions in a workshop setting that promotes interaction leading to additional research. ? A full day of Symposia, Workshops, and Tutorials. See Program Components for additional detail. ? A truly international experience with participants usually from over 40 countries, (approximately 50% non-US). ? Papers published in the Proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press and carried in the IEEE digital library Xplore. Access to HICSS papers is in the top 2% of IEEE Conferences. ? Paper presentations and discussions which frequently lead to revised and extended papers that are published in journals, books, and special issues. ? A keynote address and distinguished lecture which explore particularly relevant topics and concepts. ? Best Paper Awards in each track which recognize superior research performance. ? HICSS is the #1 IS conference in terms of citations as recorded by Google Scholar. Recent research that shows HICSS ranked second in citation ranking among 18 Information Systems (IS) conferences, ranked third in value to the MIS field among 13 Management Information Systems (MIS) conferences, and ranked second in conference rating among 11 IS conferences. The Australian Government's Excellence in Research project (ERA) has given HICSS an "A" rating. Important deadlines for authors: ? June 15: Submit full manuscripts for review. Review is double-blind. ? Aug 15: Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors. ? Oct 1: Early Registration fee deadline. (Fees will increase on Sept 16 and Dec 1.) Early Registration fee: $625 ? Oct 2: General Registration Fee begins: $695 (Registration price remains through December 1, 2014) ? Oct 15: Papers without at least one registered author will be deleted from the Proceedings; authors will be so notified. ? Dec 2: Late Registration fee beings: $795 (Registration price remains through conference) ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 East 10th Street, Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington, 47408 Phone (812) 856-1587 E-Mail fichman at indiana.edu Web http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ ________________________________________ Asis-l mailing list Asis-l at asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Globalization has historically been tied to technological innovation, and the present era of a networked information society is no different. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have provided the infrastructure for multinational businesses, created new cultural connections irrespective of geographic boundaries and distances, and allowed an increasingly mobile global population to be connected to their friends, families, and cultures no matter where they are. The issues surrounding global, international, and cross cultural issues in Information Systems (IS) attracted much scholarly attention and have been explored under myriad contexts. The minitrack welcomes submissions that relate to all aspects of global IS, or IS research situated in a global, international or cross-cultural context. The minitrack is open to all methodological approaches and perspectives. We are interested in empirical and theoretical work that addresses these and related socio-technical issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Research that considers the impacts of cultural values (e.g. on adaptive user interfaces) * Research on global Cloud sourcing strategies * Cross-national and cross-cultural comparisons of ICT adoption, use and development (e.g. Internet diffusion and impacts compared between different economies) * Effects of global social computing on organizational work organization and practices (e.g. pricing strategies) * Issues relating to globally distributed teams (e.g. the adoption and use of social media by cross-national virtual teams, worker motivation, and human error diversity) * Issues relating to Internet adoption and the digital society at the national level (e.g. digital infrastructure sophistication across countries) *Issues relating to global knowledge management (e.g. different knowledge-sharing cultures in multi-national corporations) *Issues relating to cross-national legislation and regulation (e.g. implications of different regulations governing Green IT in the EU vs. US or Asian countries) * Issues relating to global ICT governance (e.g. sustainable strategies for standardization and harmonization in evolving business networks) * Single country studies showing implications for other locations or results different from other contexts (e.g. impact of ICT policies on a transition economy) * Multi-country studies of ICT adoption, use, and development (e.g. e-commerce adoption involving multiple countries) * Global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations Minitrack Organizers: Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington; fichman at indiana.edu Edward W.N. Bernroider, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Institute for Information Management and Control, Vienna, Austria; edward.bernroider at wu.ac.at Erran Carmel, Kogod School of Business, American University, Washington D.C.; carmel at american.edu About HICSS conferences: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm Now in its 48th year, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is one of the longest-standing continuously running scientific conferences. This conference brings together researchers in an aloha-friendly atmosphere conducive to free exchange of scientific ideas. Unique characteristics of the conference include: * A matrix structure of tracks and themes that enables research on a rich mixture of computer-based applications and technologies. * Three days of research paper presentations and discussions in a workshop setting that promotes interaction leading to additional research. * A full day of Symposia, Workshops, and Tutorials. See Program Components for additional detail. * A truly international experience with participants usually from over 40 countries, (approximately 50% non-US). * Papers published in the Proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press and carried in the IEEE digital library Xplore. Access to HICSS papers is in the top 2% of IEEE Conferences. * Paper presentations and discussions which frequently lead to revised and extended papers that are published in journals, books, and special issues. * A keynote address and distinguished lecture which explore particularly relevant topics and concepts. * Best Paper Awards in each track which recognize superior research performance. * HICSS is the #1 IS conference in terms of citations as recorded by Google Scholar. Recent research that shows HICSS ranked second in citation ranking among 18 Information Systems (IS) conferences, ranked third in value to the MIS field among 13 Management Information Systems (MIS) conferences, and ranked second in conference rating among 11 IS conferences. The Australian Government's Excellence in Research project (ERA) has given HICSS an "A" rating. Important deadlines for authors: * June 15: Submit full manuscripts for review. Review is double-blind. * Aug 15: Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors. * Oct 1: Early Registration fee deadline. (Fees will increase on Sept 16 and Dec 1.) Early Registration fee: $625 * Oct 2: General Registration Fee begins: $695 (Registration price remains through December 1, 2014) * Oct 15: Papers without at least one registered author will be deleted from the Proceedings; authors will be so notified. * Dec 2: Late Registration fee beings: $795 (Registration price remains through conference) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Mon Jun 9 14:52:38 2014 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 14:52:38 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: First Monday June 2014 Message-ID: __________ NEW ADDRESS AS OF Feb. 16, 2014 Richard Hill ASIS&T Executive Director 8555 16th Street, Suite 850 Silver Spring, MD 20910-3560 FAX: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 rhill at asis.org -----Original Message----- From: Readership of First Monday [mailto:FIRSTMONDAY at LISTSERV.UIC.EDU] On Behalf Of Valauskas, Edward J. Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 2:28 PM To: FIRSTMONDAY at LISTSERV.UIC.EDU Subject: First Monday June 2014 Readers: First Monday has just published the June 2014 (volume 19, number 6) issue at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current. The following papers are included in this month's issue: First Monday Volume 19, number 6 - 2 June 2014 Heteromation and its (dis)contents: The invisible division of labor between humans and machines by Hamid Ekbia and Bonnie Nardi The effect of the Internet on civic engagement under authoritarianism: The case of Azerbaijan by Katy E. Pearce, Deen Freelon, and Sarah Kendzior Enclosing the public domain: The restriction of public domain books in a digital environment by Alex Clark and Brenda Chawner Death and the Internet: The implications of the digital afterlife by Nicola Wright Different spaces: Exploring Facebook as heterotopia by Robin Rymarczuk and Maarten Derksen The new role of radio and its public in the age of social network sites by Tiziano Bonini ------- With the contents of the June 2014 issue, First Monday has published, since May 1996, 1,374 papers in 217 issues, written by 1,877 different authors. Thanks for your continuing interest in our work, Edward J Valauskas Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday From jqin at syr.edu Mon Jun 9 20:18:40 2014 From: jqin at syr.edu (Jian Qin) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:18:40 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] The Capability Matruity Model for Research Data Management (CMM4RDM) is released! Message-ID: <6abe40f7796d47b9aaf931e9f8baae7f@EX13-MBX-09.ad.syr.edu> Update on the wiki site: The CMM4RDM site had a server problem late Friday afternoon and was down for the weekend. It is now back up and running. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope you will enjoy navigating the site. Jian Jian Qin, Ph.D. Professor School of Information Studies Syracuse University 311 Hinds Hall Syracuse, NY 13244, USA Tel: +1 (315)443-5642 http://jianqin.metadataetc.org/ From: Jian Qin Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 9:09 AM To: asis-l at asis.org (asis-l at asis.org); rdap at asis.org (rdap at asis.org); 'sigsti-l at asis.org'; DCMI Community (DC-SCIENCE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK); sts-l at ala.org Subject: The Capability Matruity Model for Research Data Management (CMM4RDM) is released! ------------This announcement has been posted to multiple lists. Please excuse the duplicates------------ We are very pleased to announce the official launch of a new wiki for the Capability Maturity Model for Research Data Management, at http://rdm.ischool.syr.edu. Is your institution, organization, or project trying to evaluate improvements that are needed for your research data management process? The guidelines and rubrics included in this wiki can help with the evaluation of each individual practice within the overall research data management process. This capability maturity model is an aspirational model which helps you to see not only how far you've come, but also what steps you can continue to take to improve your research data management process. Now, we need your feedback! Are there practices in your research data management process that we did not address? Can you provide additional concrete examples at any maturity level? Can you provide any tips on how your institution was able to overcome a particular hurdle with regards to the research data management process? Can you help us to prioritize the weight of each different practice, to help us turn this model into a more quantitative tool? If so, the wiki is waiting for your contributions. You can leave comments, add tags, and even edit or add to pages. With your interaction, we hope this wiki will be a valuable resource for the research data management community. You can read more about it at: http://rdm.ischool.syr.edu/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/CMM4RDM+v10+is+officially+launched. Sincerely, The CMMRDM Team Jian Qin, PI Kevin Crowston, Co-PI Charlotte Flynn, Doctoral RA Arden Kirkland, Masters RA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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They will receive the $300 award, in recognition of their winning paper, at the STI business meeting during the ASIS&T annual conference. 2. Purpose of the award The purpose of the award is to recognize the best paper in the library and information science literature that falls within the scope of Scientific and Technical Information, which was published during the previous calendar year in either a peer reviewed journal or a conference proceeding. 3. Eligibility criteria for the award * Paper must have been published in a peer reviewed journal or conference proceeding within the last calendar year. * At least one author must be a current member of SIG STI. * At least one author must register for the ASIS&T annual conference and attend the SIG STI business meeting during the ASIS&T annual conference. * The subject of the paper must fall within the scope of Scientific and Technical Information. 4. Administration of the award The Paper Award is sponsored by SIG STI. It is administered by the SIG STI Awards Jury. 5. Nominations for the award Nominations shall be sent by email to the Award Jury Chair, Professor Qin Jian, at jqin at syr.edu. The nomination must include: a full citation; brief explanation why the paper was nominated; copy of the article. An individual may nominate himself or herself. 6. Selection of the Awardee Jury members will have access to copies of the nominated papers. Content of each eligible paper shall be appraised and the maximum number of points each paper can accumulate is 100. Each paper will be evaluated in terms of the following criteria: a. Theoretical framework and/or conceptual relevance to Scientific and Information Technology - 10 points maximum b. Problem statement, appropriateness of the methodology and references - 20 points maximum c. Significance and implications of the findings - 30 points maximum d. Innovation and originality - 30 points maximum e. Clarity of expression - 10 points maximum. 7. Presentation of Award The award shall be announced and presented to the winning author by the Jury Chair during the SIG-STI business meeting at the annual conference of the Society. 8. Publicity The award announcement has been posted on the SIG STI listserv and other related mailing lists, the SIG STI web site (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGSTI/wordpress/?page_id=33), and SIG STI social media site. 9. Deadline * The Call for Submissions for the SIG STI Paper Award shall be published during the spring. * The Submission Deadline is June 30th. * Selection of the awardee shall be notified two months before the start of the ASIST annual meeting. Jian Qin, Ph.D. Professor School of Information Studies Syracuse University 311 Hinds Hall Syracuse, NY 13244, USA Tel: +1 (315)443-5642 http://jianqin.metadataetc.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We will also be honoring Sari Feldman, executive director of the Cuyahoga County Public Library, and former iSchool adjunct professor, on her ALA presidential win. Stop by our booth on Saturday between 3:00 and 4:00 PM to congratulate Sari and have a slice of cake with her. Exhibit hours at ALA are: Friday, June 27, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM; Saturday, June 28, 9:00 AM ? 5:00 PM; Sunday, June 29, 9:00 AM ? 5:00 PM and Monday, June 30, 9:00 AM ? 2:00 PM. We would also like to invite ALA Annual Conference attendees to join iSchool faculty member Scott Nicholson at several different events during the conference: Pre-conference (ticketed event) - Friday, June 27, 9:00 AM ? 12:00 PM : Using Meaningful Gamification to Motivate Library Users: A Hands-on Workshop Meaningful Gamification is the use of game design elements to help someone find meaning in a real-world setting. It is focused on using concepts like play, reflection, and engagement instead of rewards to engage users. In this workshop, Dr. Scott Nicholson, director of the Because Play Matters game lab at the iSchool, will lead attendees through the process of developing library campaigns around reward-based gamification and meaningful gamification for a program, service, or other need. Attendees should come prepared with some aspect of a library that they would like to motivate patrons to engage with through game elements. Registration information can be found at http://ala14.ala.org/ticketed-events#GAMERT ALA Play - Friday, June 27, 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Caeser's Palace - Florentine ALA Play is a free, open evening of gaming, graphic novels and cosplay ALA Play combines gaming, comics, and cosplay for an evening of fun while exploring new, social game offerings and collection development / programming ideas, while meeting and sharing ideas with librarians from across the country. It is sponsored by the Games and Gaming Round Table and the Graphic Novels Members Interest Group. Nicholson will be doing Face Painting and teaching his new game, Going, Going, GONE! Presentation - Saturday, 3:00 PM -4:00 PM, Convention Center, S222 : Come Make a Game: Library Game Jams Ever wanted to make a game? You have many users who feel the same way Help turn gamers into creators! Game Jams are intense game-creation experiences where participants create a game in a short period of game. Tabletop Game Jams require little more than poster board, index cards, and markers, and Digital Game Jams can be done with free game creation software. Libraries can use Game Jams to bring together a group of patrons to address a local need through the power of play. At this session, Nicholson and members of the Games and Gaming Round Table will facilitate a Game Jam, where you will be making a game! Once you have participated in a game jam, you will have the knowledge and experience to bring this low-cost, high-impact and flexible gaming program back to your library! 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In Phase 1 of the project, three in-person meetings were held and 30 in-person interviews conducted to collect input from all relevant stakeholders, including researchers, librarians, university administrators, scientific research funders, and publishers. The draft white paper is the summary of the findings from those meetings and interviews, along with the identification of potential action items for further work in Phase II of the project. "Citation reference counts and the Journal Impact Factor have historically been the main metric used to assess the quality and usefulness of scholarship," explains Martin Fenner, Technical Lead Article-Level Metrics for the Public Library of Science (PLOS) and consultant to NISO for the project. "While citations will remain an important component of research assessment, this metric alone does not effectively measure the expanded scope of forms of scholarly communication and newer methods of online reader behavior, network interactions with content, and social media. A movement around the use of alternative metrics, sometimes called 'altmetrics,' has grown to address the limitations of the traditional measures. With any new methodology, however, issues arise due to the lack of standards or best practices as stakeholders experiment with different approaches and use different definitions for similar concepts. NISO's Altmetrics project gathered together the variety of stakeholders in this arena to better understand the issues, obtain their input on what issues could best be addressed with standards or recommended practices, and prioritize the potential actions. This white paper organizes and summarizes the valuable feedback obtained from over 400 participants in the project and identifies a road forward for Phase II of the project." "More than 250 ideas were generated by participants in the meetings and interviews," states Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive Director. "We were able to condense these to 25 action items in nine categories: definitions, research outputs, discovery, research evaluation, data quality and gaming, grouping and aggregation, context, stakeholders' perspectives, and adoption. The highest priority items focused on unique identifiers for scholarly works and for contributors, standards for usage statistics in the form of views and downloads, and building of infrastructure rather than detailed metrics analysis. We are now soliciting feedback on the draft white paper from the wider community prior to its completion. The white paper will then be used as the basis for Phase II: the development of one or more of the proposed standards and recommended practices." The White Paper is open for public comment through July 18, 2014. It is available with a link to an online commenting form on the NISO Altmetrics Project webpage (www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative/), along with the detailed output documents and recordings from each of the meetings and related information resources. Cynthia Hodgson Technical Editor / Consultant National Information Standards Organization chodgson at niso.org 301-654-2512 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From srichards at lac-group.com Thu Jun 12 11:43:39 2014 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:43:39 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Law Library Assistant Inspector / Washington, DC (Capital Hill) Message-ID: Apologies for the cross postings . . . LAC Group seeks a Law Library Assistant Inspector to inspect library book batches and compare call numbers against the Voyager ILS online catalog, MARC records, and shelf list cards in order to flag critical or important errors for problem resolution and proper inventory. This is a full-time position at a prestigious Federal law library located in Washington, D.C. (Capitol Hill). This is part of an on-going federal government contract with LAC Group. Qualifications: * Demonstrated experience reviewing the completed work of others for quality control; * Previous experience working in a law library environment; * Experience using Voyager ILS is preferred; * Knowledge of online catalogs, MARC records and basic cataloging; * At least six (6) months experience working in a research library; * Skill in operating keyboards and computers; * Strong attention to and ability to work with great detail. Apply at: http://goo.gl/Nzi7vM LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. LAC Group is a premier provider of recruiting and consultancy services for information professionals at U.S. and global organizations including Fortune 100 companies, law firms, pharmaceutical companies, large academic institutions and prominent government agencies -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Amy.Wallace at csuci.edu Thu Jun 12 13:27:21 2014 From: Amy.Wallace at csuci.edu (Wallace, Amy) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:27:21 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting CA: Library Web Services Programmer Message-ID: <3FF41A8574B5AD40850C0BAECD12019D131FF7BA@MISSILE.csuci.edu> California State University, Channel Islands (CI) is the newest campus in the California State University system. CI has been named a Great Campus to Work For by the Chronicle of Higher Education for four consecutive years. CI's John Spoor Broome Library is a digital teaching library, which strives to deconstruct traditional library technical and public services in order to provide innovative services for its students, faculty, and staff. There is no one way that something has been done before, and a culture of why would we want there to be. CI is looking for a Library Web Services Programmer to support the web based application development needs of the Library. The position is responsible for the development and integration of web based applications that support the needs of the Library, and will focus on all aspects of the development process including the: design, development, implementation, enhancement, documentation and support of web applications that provide access to the Library's digital content collections. Duties include web-based Software development and integration particularly focused on the implementation and enhancement of access to the Library's digital content; providing technical assistance to and consultation with Library faculty and staff; creating both internal and end-user documentation; and serving as a liaison between the Library and Technology & Communication. Requirements include a BS in Computer Science or related degree experience, and experience building and supporting modern web based applications with an excellent command of web standards and modern web development practices; excellent interpersonal and communication skills. We a looking for a friendly, collaborative and personal engaging approach to supporting user needs, and the ability to work in a team environment and independently. We are also looking for someone with experience supporting the technical needs of Academic Libraries and their patrons, common and open source web application programming/scripting languages (PHP, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, .NET, AJAX), and responsive Web Applications using modern web standards (HTML5 and CSS3). Plus experience building, managing and using custom, open or vendor supplied API's, especially ExLibris and Serial Solutions; connecting, using and manipulating data from databases (MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle); using code repositories (SVN, github, CVS, etc.); and supporting systems (content management systems, digital asset managers, cloud services, etc.). We probably also want other things too, but don't know it yet. So do submit an application letting us know that you have all of the above plus some extra added bonuses that can help us meet our goals. 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Keynote speaker is Barbara Bickart from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, an interdisciplinary video artist whose work is project-based. Her projects are informed by the disciplines of media studies, performance and documentary practice and take the form of video installation, video performance and experimental documentary. Her address for DOCAM'14, titled "Monuments, Memory, and the Art of Found Choreography," presents WHEN, an ongoing series of large-scale video installations that explores the histories of institutionalized violence that persists in our national landscape in the form of landmarks and monuments. It documents the pilgrimage of visitors to these sites, illuminating the resonance of the past through the found choreography of visitors in the present. The keynote presentation will include screenings of WHEN: Memphis, WHEN: Philadelphia, and WHEN: Kent State. For complete details about the conference and a link to registration, visit http://www2.kent.edu/docam14/index.cfm. All the best, Flo <~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~> Flo Cunningham Marketing Communications and Public Relations Specialist School of Library and Information Science Kent State University 330-672-0003 fcunning at kent.edu www.kent.edu/slis Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ksuslis Twitter: @KentStateSLIS I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From collmart at indiana.edu Mon Jun 16 09:09:31 2014 From: collmart at indiana.edu (Martin, Colleen A) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:09:31 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Dr. Pnina Fichman named as new chair of IU ILS Message-ID: <83666A2571770447AAF8D8849116D359254F3A0E@IU-MSSG-MBX110.ads.iu.edu> Dr. Pnina Fichman Named as New Chair of Indiana University Department of Information and Library Science The School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University has announced the appointment of Dr. Pnina Fichman as the new chair of the Department of Information and Library Science (formerly the School of Library and Information Science). She takes over the position from Dr. Debora Shaw, who retired at the end of May. Dr. Fichman brings substantial academic and administrative experience to her new position. She serves as the Director of the MLS Program, and is also co-director of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics and the Doctoral minor in Social Informatics. Dr. Fichman has been at IU since 2004. She earned her PhD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and her research focus has been in social informatics. Just within this past year, Dr. Fichman has published three books with colleagues: Social informatics: Past, present and future published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing; Global Wikipedia: International and cross cultural issues in online collaboration published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; and Multiculturalism and information and communication technology published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. Dean Bobby Schnabel noted Fichman's compelling vision for progress and growth in a time of exciting opportunities for the department of information and library science (ILS) and the School as a whole. "The leadership of the chair, working effectively with the faculty, will have a major impact," he said, "and Pnina is an excellent person to assure that ILS sustains and builds upon its well-deserved national excellence, and evolves with the changing times in the world of information and library science." In 2013, U.S. News & World Report ranked the Bloomington ILS program eighth nationally. ILS has a long history of success, graduating over 8,000 students since it opened its doors in 1946. Now merged with the School of Informatics and Computing, the department is able to take advantage of new opportunities for collaboration between disciplines in education and research. The school is a top tier institution that offers Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. degrees in a wide breadth of areas, such as Computer Science, Informatics, Information Science, and Library Science. Indiana University has one of the biggest iSchools, with 152 faculty (100 on the Bloomington campus and 50 on the Indianapolis campus), 1,875 undergraduates and 1,185 graduate students. The school is ranked #17 in funding from the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate from the National Science Foundation. Faculty research areas include artificial intelligence, data science, health informatics, information organization and retrieval, digital libraries, social informatics, human computer interaction, and more. Dr. Fichman looks forward to contributing to the future of the department and the school, with its commitment to innovation in the education of librarians and other information professionals, the creation of knowledge, and service in a diverse and changing global information environment. Dean Schnabel and Dr. Fichman have emphasized continuing this tradition of excellence in the MLS, MIS, and PhD programs, as well as focusing on the growth and development of the department and the school. Colleen Martin Administrative Assistant to the Chair School of Informatics and Computing Department of Information and Library Science Wells Library, Room 011c Bloomington, IN 47405 collmart at indiana.edu toll free: 888.335.7547 telephone: 812.855.2018 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca Mon Jun 16 13:34:27 2014 From: agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca (Greenwood, Audrey) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:34:27 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Now available at Project MUSE - Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, Volume 38, Number 1, March 2014 Message-ID: Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science Volume 38, Number 1, March/mars 2014 http://bit.ly/CJILS381 This issue contains: Knowledge Construction and Information Seeking in Collaborative Learning / La construction des connaissances et la recherche d?information dans l?apprentissage collaboratif Jeonghyun Kim, Jisu Lee http://bit.ly/CJILS381a This study aims to better understand the complex dynamics of knowledge construction and information seeking in a collaborative learning setting. A total of 34 graduate students who participated in a collaborative research project were asked to complete process surveys in the initiation, midpoint, and completion phases of the project. The process survey for this study comprised closed questions that sought to measure students? perceptions of knowledge and difficulty as well as open-ended questions that asked students what they knew about the topic and what they considered difficult at each phase of the project. The results revealed growth in individual students? knowledge as they proceeded through the project. When the results of this study are compared to findings from studies focusing on individual information seeking, students who participated in the collaborative research project began the project with confidence as they developed a shared understanding of the topic in the early phase of the project. However, students became more stressed as the project progressed as they carried out their information-seeking activities in individual ways. Cette ?tude a pour objectif de mieux comprendre la dynamique complexe de la construction des connaissances et de la recherche d?information dans la situation de l?apprentissage collaboratif. Nous avons demand? ? trente-quatre ?tudiants des cycles sup?rieurs ayant particip? ? un projet de recherche collaborative de participer ? une enqu?te sur le processus lors des phases de d?but, de milieu et de fin du projet. Aux fins de cette ?tude, l?enqu?te comprenait des questions ferm?es qui avaient pour but de mesurer les connaissances acquises ainsi que la difficult? telles que per?ues par les ?tudiants, et des questions ouvertes qui demandaient aux ?tudiants ce qu?ils savaient sur le sujet et ce qu?ils consid?raient comme difficile ? chaque phase du projet. Les r?sultats ont montr? une croissance des connaissances des ?l?ves au fur et ? mesure qu?ils avan?aient dans le projet. En comparant les r?sultats de cette ?tude avec les r?sultats d'?tudes portant sur la recherche individuelle d?information, les ?tudiants ayant particip? ? un projet de recherche collaborative ont d?marr? le projet avec une confiance due au fait qu?ils avaient d?velopp? une compr?hension commune de la question d?s la premi?re phase du projet. Toutefois, les ?tudiants ressentent plus de stress quand le projet avance et qu?ils doivent effectuer leurs activit?s de recherche d?information individuellement. Ranking the Libraries of the University of Ni? Faculties Using the VIKOR Method / Le classement des biblioth?ques des facult?s de l?Universit? de Ni? par la m?thode VIKOR Mirjana D. Man?ev http://bit.ly/CJILS381b This article analyses the quality of services provided in the libraries at the University of Ni? and establish a ranking by applying an exact scientific method of multi-criteria analysis (the VIKOR method?a multi-criteria compromise ranking method). The libraries are ranked according to different criteria: the time it takes to search the library holdings through available electronic databases on computers, the number of users, and the size of the library holdings. Based on the presented example, it can be concluded that the library of the Faculty of Medicine provides the highest quality of customer service. Cet article a pour objectif d?analyser la qualit? des services fournis dans les biblioth?ques de l?Universit? de Ni? et d'?tablir un classement en utilisant une m?thode scientifique exacte d?analyse multicrit?res : la m?thode VIKOR, m?thode de classement de compromis selon plusieurs crit?res. Les biblioth?ques sont class?es d?apr?s diff?rents crit?res : le temps n?cessaire pour une recherche dans le fonds documentaire en utilisant les bases de donn?es ?lectroniques dans les ordinateurs, le nombre d?utilisateurs ainsi que la taille du fonds documentaire de la biblioth?que. Sur la base de l?exemple pr?sent?, on peut conclure que c?est la biblioth?que de la Facult? de m?decine qui offre aux utilisateurs la meilleure qualit? de service. How Accurate Are Wikipedia Articles in Health, Nutrition, and Medicine? / Les articles de Wikip?dia dans les domaines de la sant?, de la nutrition et de la m?decine sont-ils exacts ? Norman J. Temple, Joy Fraser http://bit.ly/CJILS381c Previous studies of Wikipedia have reported mixed results regarding the quality of information on health-related topics. We investigated the accuracy of Wikipedia entries in the areas of health, nutrition, medicine, and complementary and alternative medicine. We formulated 32 statements which are often stated but are probably incorrect ("common misconceptions"). Using Google we found 49 Wikipedia entries that provided information on these 32 statements. Most entries are accurate, but deficiencies are present in a minority. The information provided by Wikipedia has a high degree of accuracy for 23 (72%) of the 32 common misconceptions (19 had a score of 5, the highest mark possible, and 4 had a score of 4.5?4.7). Seven of them (22%) had a score of 4?4.1, indicating that the entry has a minor error or that significant information is missing. Two had a low score (3.5), which indicates a more serious problem. Of all the 49 Wikipedia entries that were evaluated, four had a score of only 3, indicating that the accuracy is seriously flawed or that no information is given. These findings together with those from other studies indicate that the information provided by Wikipedia is mostly of high quality but that significant errors and omissions are fairly common. Des ?tudes ant?rieures portant sur les articles Wikip?dia ont fait mention de r?sultats in?gaux concernant la qualit? de l?information sur les sujets li?s ? la sant?. Nous avons ?tudi? l?exactitude des entr?es de Wikip?dia dans les domaines de la sant?, de la nutrition, de la m?decine et des m?decines parall?les et compl?mentaires. Nous avons d?fini trente-deux ?nonc?s qui sont souvent propos?s, mais qui sont probablement incorrects (conceptions courantes mais fausses). Une recherche Google a trouv? quarante-trois entr?es Wikip?dia fournissant des informations sur ces trente-deux ?nonc?s. La plupart des entr?es fournissaient des informations exactes, mais nous avons constat? des lacunes dans une minorit? d?entre elles. Pour les trente-deux conceptions courantes mais fausses, vingt-trois (72 %) des entr?es Wikip?dia atteignaient un degr? ?lev? d?exactitude (dix-neuf avaient un score de 5 [note la plus ?lev?e] et quatre atteignaient 4,5?4,7). Sept des entr?es (22%) atteignaient un score de 4?4,1, ce qui indique que l?entr?e comportait une petite erreur ou que des informations essentielles ?taient manquantes. Deux entr?es atteignaient un score faible (3,5). Sur les quarante-trois entr?es de Wikip?dia qui ont ?t? ?valu?s quatre atteignaient un score de seulement 3, ce qui indique que l?entr?e ?tait soit gravement inexacte soit lacunaire. Ces r?sultats ainsi que ceux d?autres ?tudes indiquent que les informations fournies par Wikip?dia sont g?n?ralement de haute qualit?, mais que des erreurs et des omissions importantes sont assez fr?quentes. La diffusion scientifique de la cr?ativit? publicitaire de 1965 ? 2012 / The Scientific Dissemination of Creativity in Advertising from 1965 to 2012 Jorge del R?o P?rez, Pablo Medina Aguerrebere http://bit.ly/CJILS381d La cr?ativit? est un sujet fondamental pour le processus publicitaire. Elle aide les marques ? bien communiquer avec ses publics. N?anmoins, la communaut? scientifique ne s?int?resse gu?re ? ce domaine, ce qui a donn? lieu ? un vide scientifique sur la cr?ativit? publicitaire. Ce travail analyse tous les articles publi?s depuis 1965 jusqu?? 2012 par les meilleures revues scientifiques sp?cialis?es en publicit? : Journal of Advertising, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising et International Journal of Advertising. La conclusion de l?article est que 1,19% des 4 261 articles analys?s traitent de la cr?ativit?. Creativity is a fundamental issue in the advertising process. It helps brands communicate effectively with their targets. However, the scientific community has little interest in this field, which has resulted in a scientific vacuum about creativity in advertising. This paper analyzes all articles published between 1965 and 2012 by the best scientific journals specializing in advertising: Journal of Advertising, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Current Issues & Research in Advertising and International Journal of Advertising. The paper?s conclusion is that 1.19% of 4,261 articles reviewed deal with creativity in advertising. Book Reviews Career Q & A: A Librarian?s Real-Life Practical Guide to Managing a Successful Career by Susanne Markgren and Tiffany Eatman Allen (review) Deborah Hicks http://bit.ly/CJILS381e Expert Internet Searching by Phil Bradley (review) Jacqueline MacDonald http://bit.ly/CJILS381f Exp?rimentations et ?valuations en fouille de textes : un panorama des campagnes DEFT ?dit. by Cyril Grouin et Dominic Forest (review) Luc Grivel http://bit.ly/CJILS381g The Accidental Law Librarian by Anthony Aycock (review) Megan K. Beard http://bit.ly/CJILS381h A respected source of the most up-to-date research on library and information science, The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science is recognized internationally for its authoritative bilingual contributions to the field of information science. 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When: At 12 noon Second Life Time, which is 8pm UK time, see http://tinyurl.com/nsuae36 for times elsewhere on Tuesday 17 June 2014 Where: Infolit iSchool, in the virtual world, Second Life http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/133/46/22 A Sheffield iSchool Centre for Information Literacy Research event -------------- Sheila Webber, Senior Lecturer & Director of the Centre for Information Literacy Research, Information School, The University of Sheffield, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield, S1 4DP. UK s.webber at sheffield.ac.uk Phone: +44 114 222 2641 Second Life & Twitter: Sheila Yoshikawa The Information Literacy Weblog http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Qualifications & Responsibilities: * Master's degree from an ALA accredited library school; * Previous experience working in a law firm or corporate environment; * Knowledge of and experience with online databases such as LEXIS, Westlaw and other resources; * In-depth law reference and research experience, including competitive intelligence (CI); * Two years library or related experience preferred; * Possess strong customer communication skills; both oral and written and be able to multi-task as workloads and priorities shift; * Must be self-motivated, and able to work independently as well as in a team environment; * This position also includes tasks and responsibilities related to some areas of technical services support, including receiving, processing and ordering materials, as well as pushing out emails and assisting attorneys in using online resources * This is a service-oriented position and the successful candidate must have the demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with all library users and staff, in a friendly, courteous, and professional fashion. 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The grant is led by Dr. Eileen G. Abels, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College along with partners Dr. Linda C. Smith, Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Dr. Lynne C. Howarth, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. In other news, GSLIS has launched UNBOUND, library futures unfettered: a blog by Simmons GSLIS: http://gslis.simmons.edu/blogs/unbound/ For more GSLIS news, visit the InfoLink newsletter, Summer issue: http://simmons.edu/gslis/for/current/news/blog/infolink/summer-2014/ -- Alisa M. Libby Communications Assistant Simmons College, GSLIS 300 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 t 617-521-2816617-521-2816 f 617-521-3192 For details about Alisa's young adult fiction, visit www.alisalibby.com. Call Send SMS Add to Skype You'll need Skype CreditFree via Skype -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Nominations letters should be sent to Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba at indiana.edu) or Pnina Fichman (fichman at indiana.edu) by August 15, 2014 and must include a full citation, a brief explanation for the nomination, and a copy of the article. Self nominations are acceptable. Winners will be notified by August 30, 2014. For more information about the Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI): http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com For more information about the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI): http://rkcsi.indiana.edu Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Chair, Department of Information and Library Science Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Director, Master of Library Science School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ruyhliu at gmail.com Tue Jun 17 00:22:08 2014 From: ruyhliu at gmail.com (Ying-Hsang Liu) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:22:08 +1000 Subject: [Asis-l] Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship (Due July 1, more details at http://bit.ly/1fKwidE) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <22919996-6B2D-415C-AD2D-5AC252D51BE0@gmail.com> Just a reminder. > On 6 Jun 2014, at 10:06 am, Ying-Hsang Liu wrote: > > The purpose of this scholarship is to foster research in information science by encouraging and assisting doctoral students in the field with their dissertation research. The scholarship consists of an award of $1,500, administered by the ASIS&T Information Science Education Committee and sponsored by the Thomson Reuters. > > Please note that ?[t]he scholarship recipient must meet the following qualifications: > (a) Be an active doctoral student in the information science area in a doctoral degree-granting institution; > (b) Have had a dissertation proposal accepted by the institution or achieved the equivalent in their institution.? > > For more details about the eligibility, nominations and selection processes, please see http://bit.ly/1fKwidE. > > Chair, ASIS&T 2014 Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship Committee > > Dr Ying-Hsang Liu > Lecturer, School of Information Studies > Charles Sturt University > Locked Bag 588 > Wagga Wagga NSW 2678 > Australia > Tel. 02 6933 2171 (International: +612 6933 2171) > Email yingliu at csu.edu.au > Web http://bit.ly/W6l57Z | http://bit.ly/ZPujKn From srichards at lac-group.com Mon Jun 16 17:16:58 2014 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 21:16:58 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Cataloger / Chicago, IL Message-ID: Apologies for the cross postings . . . . LAC Group seeks a Cataloger for a temporary project at our client, a national law firm's Milwaukee, WI OR Chicago, IL office. The selected candidate will work to assist the law library and on-site cataloger focusing on updating the library's catalog to ensure all resources are recorded and easily found. Candidates must have prior experience working in cataloging, preferably in a law firm or corporate library setting. In addition, previous experience working with the Liberty ILS is highly desired. This is a temporary position until the firm's cataloging is complete and updated, but has the potential to turn into a long-term position. Responsibilities: * Merge and update current bibliographic records into a single bibliographic record per title, with all firm offices attached to each record; * Perform cataloging of all firm materials using AACR2, MARC21, RDA, LCSH, LCC, using the Liberty Integrated Library System; * Perform Authority control for all records; * Troubleshoot cataloging problems and database maintenance; * Create reports and statistical and narrative reporting as necessary; * Create electronic resource records for all electronic resources in the Liberty (ILS) module; * Additional cataloging and database maintenance tasks as assigned; Qualifications: * MLS/MLIS Degree and/or a minimum of 2 years of experience in the areas cataloging (technical services); * Previous experience working with the Liberty integrated library system is highly preferred; * Familiar with using OCLC, MARC records, AACR2, RDA, LOC Subject Headings and other cataloging methodologies; * Must be detailed oriented; * Must be able to multi-task. Apply at: http://goo.gl/9c3RVL LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. LAC Group is a premier provider of recruiting and consultancy services for information professionals at U.S. and global organizations including Fortune 100 companies, law firms, pharmaceutical companies, large academic institutions, National Libraries and prominent government agencies. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From garciam at denison.edu Wed Jun 18 11:51:07 2014 From: garciam at denison.edu (Moriana Garcia) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:51:07 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Framework for information literacy for higher education - Revised draft released by ACRL Message-ID: **Please excuse cross-posting** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Association of College and Research Libraries? (ACRL) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education Task Force seeks feedback on the revised draft of the association?s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education . The Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education , adopted by ACRL in 2000, has become an essential document related to the emergence of information literacy as a recognized learning outcome at many institutions of higher education. These, like all ACRL standards, are reviewed cyclically. In June 2012, the ACRL Board of Directors approved a unanimous recommendation that they be significantly revised. A task force charged with creating the Framework has been working since March 2013 and shared a first draft this spring. ?The revision of the ACRL information literacy standards is vital in order for our libraries and librarians to think about, understand, and use new methods of incorporating information fluency in our curricula. I?m pleased with the work of the task force thus far and look forward to the completion ? and implementation ? of the new Framework,? said ACRL President Trevor A. Dawes of Washington University in St. Louis. Since the publication of the first standards, the information environment has evolved into a fragmented, complex information ecosystem that demands greater sense-making and metacognition from the student. The new Framework seeks to address the interconnected nature of the abilities, practices and dispositions of the student, moving away from the hierarchical and formulaic approach of the current standards. The revised draft Framework, along with questions to guide the review and feedback process, is now available on the task force website . An in-person hearing is scheduled for 10:30 am ? 11:30 am on Saturday, June 28, at the 2014 ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas. Two additional online hearings will take place on Monday, July 7, and Friday, July 11, 2014. Sign-up for the July online hearings is available on the task force website . Please provide feedback on the revised draft by 5pm Central on Tuesday, July 15, 2014, via an online form . Contact ACRL Senior Strategist for Special Initiatives Kara Malenfant with questions. Full press release at http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/8911 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Posted on behalf of ACRL Liaisons Assembly Committee* Moriana Garcia (ACRL-STS Liaison to ASIS&T) -- Moriana L. M. Garcia, MS, PhD, MLIS Natural Sciences Liaison Librarian Denison University Libraries P.O. Box 805 Granville, OH, 43023 Phone: 740-587-5714 Online profile: http://libguides.denison.edu/morianagarcia "...creativity is undefinable, possibly unteachable, largely unassessable, and becoming the most valuable commodity in the 21st-century market." Anne Harris, 2014, p. 2-3. Harris, A, (2014). The creative turn: Toward a new aesthetic imaginary. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dcharbon at wayne.edu Wed Jun 18 13:51:01 2014 From: dcharbon at wayne.edu (Deborah H. Charbonneau) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:51:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: 2015 ALISE Gender Issues SIG In-Reply-To: <1694036034.1300364.1403113673654.JavaMail.root@wayne.edu> Message-ID: <1086916835.1300989.1403113861811.JavaMail.root@wayne.edu> Call for Papers ? Association of Library and Information Science Education ( ALISE ) 2015 ALISE 2015, Chicago, IL, USA -- January 27 -30, 2015 Gender Issues Special Interest Group - Call for Papers Conference Theme: Mirrors & Windows: Reflections on Social Justice and Re-imagining LIS Education Call for Paper or Panel Presentation ? DEADLINE: July 7, 2014 In keeping with the 2015 ALISE Conference Theme, ?Mirrors & Windows: Reflections on Social Justice & Re-Imagining LIS Education,? the Gender Issues SIG invites submissions for individual papers for a panel program that explore issues of gender and sexuality in LIS education or how these issues apply more broadly to the profession. Submit abstracts of 300 to 500 words to the Gender Issues SIG Convenor Dr. Deborah Charbonneau ( dcharbon @ wayne . edu ) by July 7, 2014 . Deborah H. Charbonneau , Ph .D. Assistant Professor Wayne State University School of Library and Information Science Detroit, Michigan 48202 dcharbon @ wayne . edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hrosenba at indiana.edu Wed Jun 18 16:35:00 2014 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Howard Rosenbaum) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:35:00 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP> The 10th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: Connecting (Epistemic) Cultures and (Intellectual) Communities Message-ID: First Call for Papers and Participation The 10th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: Connecting (Epistemic) Cultures and (Intellectual) Communities Sponsored by: ASIS&T SIG Social Informatics and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, Indiana University Saturday, October 30, 2014, 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM Sheraton, Seattle Hotel, Seattle Washington, USA Organizers: Pnina Fichman, Indiana University (fichman at indiana.edu) Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University (hrosenba at indiana.edu) School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington This year we are celebrating a decade of successful and vibrant SIG-SI Research Symposia. Since 2004, established scholars, young researchers and doctoral students interested in the study of people, ICT and work and play have gathered at the SIG-SI ASIS&T Annual Research Symposium to share their work and ideas. Approximately 100 papers, posters and panels have been presented and for the past three years, we have given awards for the best papers published by Social Informatics (SI) faculty and students in the preceding years. This year we gather to celebrate a decade of intellectually challenging and engaging work in SI and hope that you will join us. Our goal remains the same: to disseminate current research and research in progress that investigates the social aspects of information and communication technologies (ICT) across all areas of ASIS&T. Building on the success of past years, the symposium includes members of many SIGs and defines ?social? broadly to include critical and historical approaches as well as contemporary social analysis. It also defines ?technology? broadly to include traditional technologies (i.e., paper), state-of-the-art computer systems, and mobile and pervasive devices. Submissions may include empirical, critical and theoretical work, as well as richly described practice cases and demonstrations. We are particularly interested in work that assumes a critical stance towards the Symposium?s theme but are also soliciting research on other related social informatics topics. We encourage all scholars interested in social aspects of ICT (broadly defined) to share their research and research in progress by submitting an extended abstract of their work and attending the symposium. Papers that take social informatics further in theoretical conceptualization or empirical grounding are of particular interest to SIG-SI this year as we celebrate a decade of Symposia in ASIS&T. This year?s conference theme is ?Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities.? In keeping with this theme, the symposium is also soliciting work that focuses on the question of understanding and analyzing connections between social informatics and cognate epistemic cultures and intellectual communities from a social informatics perspective. Some of the questions we ask include: ? What are the social and technological forces that enable and constrain connections between SI and cognate intellectual communities? ? What are some of the ways in which we can begin to establish and maintain connections among SI and cognate epistemic cultures and intellectual communities? ? What can a social informatics approach tell us about the nature of the boundaries among SI and cognate epistemic communities? ? What are the challenges and opportunities of engaging in SI work? The schedule for the workshop will involve the presentations of papers and the best social informatics paper awards for 2013 (call to follow). We expect an engaging discussion with lively interactions with the audience. Deadlines: August 9, 2014: Submit a short paper (2000 words), a poster (500 words), or a panel (1000 words) by email to Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba at indiana.edu) and Pnina Fichman (fichman at indiana.edu). September 2, 2014: Author notifications (in time for conference early registration (NOTE: this timeline may be adjusted when the registration dates are announced). Fees: To be determined From h.obrien at ubc.ca Thu Jun 19 13:18:58 2014 From: h.obrien at ubc.ca (O'Brien, Heather) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 17:18:58 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] 2nd Call for Submissions - SIGUSE Awards 2014 Message-ID: <3D3C798747545C4293E710C70B9D97AE93207BBB@S-ITSV-MBX02P.ead.ubc.ca> CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - SIGUSE AWARDS The Information Needs, Seeking, and Use Special Interest Group (SIG USE) of ASIST seeks submissions for six awards: 1. The Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award 2. The Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award 3. The Elfreda A. Chatman Research Proposal Award 4. The Student Travel Award 5. The Interdisciplinary Travel Award 6. The Innovation Award The deadline for submissions for all awards, which will be given at the 2014 ASIS&T meeting in Seattle, WA, is July 1, 2014. Details and criteria for each award can be found on the SIG USE website, at http://siguse.wordpress.com/awards/ All submissions and any questions should be directed to Heather O'Brien at h.obrien at ubc.ca We'll see you at ASIS&T 2014! Sincerely, Gary Burnett and Heather O'Brien SIGUSE Award Co-chairs 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/ From kimsch at illinois.edu Fri Jun 20 14:59:13 2014 From: kimsch at illinois.edu (Schmidt, Kimberly Rae) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:59:13 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Join GSLIS at ALA 2014 Message-ID: Faculty, staff, and students from GSLIS at Illinois will participate in the American Library Association's 2014 Annual Conference from June 26 - July 1 in Las Vegas. Visit us in the exhibits hall at Booth #1923. In addition to the presentations listed below, please join us for the GSLIS Reception on Sunday, June 29, from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at Bally?s, Skyview 2. Prospective students are invited to learn about the GSLIS doctoral program at the Leaders Wanted / LIS Doctoral Program Options Fair, ALA's seventh annual minority student recruitment event. It will be held on Saturday, June 28, at the Las Vegas Hotel, Paradise South. Co-sponsored by the ALA Office for Diversity and the University of Washington iSchool, this event will offer opportunities for prospective students to talk one-on-one with current PhD students and faculty from the nation's best library and information science schools. GSLIS Assistant Professor Nicole Cooke will moderate a panel at this event. Friday, June 27 ?Making the Financial Case for Genealogical Librarianship: Fast and Affordable Methods for Training Genealogy Staff,? History Genealogy Preconference, 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m., Caesar?s Palace Hotel, Milano V. Presented by Nicole Wedemeyer Miller, GSLIS adjunct lecturer. ?Faculty Perceptions of the Value of Library Instruction Services,? Library Assessment Forum, 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., Flamingo Las Vegas. Speakers include Lisa Hinchliffe, adjunct professor. Saturday, June 28 Library and Information Science Education Interest Group (ACRL), 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m., Bally?s, Palace 3. Panelists include Lisa Hinchliffe, adjunct professor. Hinchliffe will also speak at the Technical Services Interest Group (ACRL) meeting from 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. at the Las Vegas Convention Center, N236. ?Leaders Wanted / LIS Doctoral Program Options Fair: Cultivating Diversity in LIS Education,? 10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Las Vegas Hotel, Paradise South. Panel moderated by GSLIS Assistant Professor Nicole Cooke. ?Finding Dead People: Genealogy and Local History Resources for the ILL Practitioner,? 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Las Vegas Convention Center, N232. Speakers include Cheri? Weible (MS ?00), GSLIS doctoral student. ?Diverse Identities: Serving Oakland?s Asian and Asian-American Teens,? 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Las Vegas Convention Center, North Building, Exhibit Hall Special Events Area. Poster presented by Jeanie Austin, GSLIS doctoral student. ?Values, Ourselves: Examining Our Values and What Others Value About Us,? RUSA President?s Program, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., Las Vegas Convention Center, Rooms N255/257. Speakers include Wayne Bivens-Tatum, GSLIS adjunct lecturer. Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Literature Awards Banquet, 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., KJ?s Dim Sum & Seafood Restaurant. As chair of the young adult literature award committee, Karla Lucht, GSLIS doctoral student and academic advisor, will present awards for the winning books in the young adult category. Sunday, June 29 ?Evidence Based Decision Making in Library Technology,? 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m., Las Vegas Convention Center, S232. Panelists include LaTesha Velez, GSLIS doctoral student. ?Extreme Customer Service: Reference at Its Finest,? 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m., Las Vegas Convention Center, N117. Discussion forum moderated by Jeanne Holba Puacz (MS ?92), GSLIS adjunct faculty member. ?Power, Privilege, and Positionality: Applying a Critical Lens to LIS Education,? 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Las Vegas Convention Center, N116. Speakers include GSLIS Assistant Professor Nicole Cooke, who is also moderating the session, and Safiya Noble (MS ?09, PhD ?12), GSLIS-affiliated faculty member. -- Kim Schmidt Director of Publications and Media Relations Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel Street Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 265-6391 www.lis.illinois.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wilsontd at gmail.com Thu Jun 19 10:48:25 2014 From: wilsontd at gmail.com (Prof. T.D. 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URL: From sandy.hirsh at sjsu.edu Fri Jun 20 12:56:45 2014 From: sandy.hirsh at sjsu.edu (Sandy Hirsh) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:56:45 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] Position Announcement: San Jose State University SLIS Coordinator-Teacher Librarian Program Message-ID: San Jos? State University San Jos?, California ANNOUNCEMENT OF POSITION AVAILABILITY School of Library and Information Science Subject to Budgetary Approval Coordinator-Teacher Librarian Program Job Opening ID 22933: The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) is part of the College of Applied Sciences and Arts at San Jose State University. It is fully accredited by the American Library Association. It has 1900 students and since Fall 2009 delivers its degrees only online. In addition to the online Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree SLIS offers an online masters degree in Archives and Records Administration (MARA), a gateway Ph.D. program with Queensland University of Technology, a postmaster's certificate in library and information science, and a Teacher Librarian (TL) program. The goals and objectives of the Teacher Librarian Services Credential Program are to educate teacher librarian candidates who are prepared to provide leadership in the establishment of effective learning partnerships with teachers and administrators. The AASL Student Learning Standards and the California Model School Library Standards form the foundation for our curriculum. The program is National Commission for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) approved. Rank: Assistant Professor. Qualifications: * An earned doctorate (completed by the time of application) * A record of scholarly and professional achievement * Awareness of and sensitivity to the educational goals of a multicultural population as might have been gained in cross-cultural study, training, teaching and other comparable experience * Experience with administering a teacher librarian program preferred * 100% online teaching experience preferred Responsibilities: The successful applicant will: * Teach online courses in administration, instruction, and common core in K-12 school libraries * Coordinate the Teacher Librarian program including preparing extensive assessment and accreditation reports * Supervise fieldwork placements. Due to the geographic diversity made possible by the entirely online format of our program, Teacher Librarian candidates perform their fieldwork in a wide variety of school environments and work with very different groups of students, teachers, and parents. Our TL candidates do fieldwork in rural, highly urban, and suburban locations; with populations for whom English is a first or a second or even a third language; and in communities where prevailing income levels range from some of the highest in the country to very low income. * Participate in state, national, and international professional organizations. * Conduct research in at least one of the following areas: digital media, networked youth services, learning in digital contexts; teen content creators. All SLIS faculty: * Work 100% online using the School?s rich technological environment (Canvas Learning platform, Blackboard Collaborate Web conferencing, WebEx, Blackboard IM, Panopto, and Web 2.0 tools such as social networking, blogs, wikis, podcasts, and collaborative environments) * Collaborate with the School?s grant writer to develop fundable research proposals * Address the needs of a student population of great diversity ? in age, cultural background, ethnicity, primary language and academic preparation ? through course materials, teaching strategies and advisement Salary Range: Commensurate with qualifications and experience. Starting Date: Fall 2015 Eligibility: Employment is contingent upon proof of eligibility to work in the United States. Application Procedures: For full consideration send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching interests/philosophy and research plans, and at least three original letters of reference with contact information by November 5th 2014. Please be sure to address in detail the responsibilities and qualifications listed above. Application material should be sent electronically (pdf or a URL) to: Dr. Linda Main, Chair of the Search Committee at: Linda.Main at sjsu.edu Please include Job Opening ID: 22933 For more information about the School please go to: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu San Jos? State University is California?s oldest institution of public higher learning. The campus is located on the southern end of San Francisco Bay in downtown San Jos? (Pop. 945,942), hub of the world-famous Silicon Valley high-technology research and development center. Many of California?s most popular national, recreational, and cultural attractions are conveniently close. A member of the 23-campus CSU system, San Jos? State University enrolls approximately 29,000 students, a significant percentage of whom are members of minority groups. The University is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty so our disciplines, students and the community can benefit from multiple ethnic and gender perspectives. San Jos? State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or disability. This policy applies to all San Jos? State University students, faculty, and staff as well as University programs and activities. Reasonable accommodations are made for applicants with disabilities who self-disclose. Note that all San Jos? State University employees are considered mandated reporters under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and are required to comply with the requirements set forth in CSU Executive Order 1083 as a condition of employment. The latest San Jos? State University Safety 101 Uniform Campus Crime and Security Report is available. You may request a copy of San Jos? State University?s annual safety report by contacting the University Police Department at (408) 924-2222 or by visiting the University Police Department website at (http://www.sjsu.edu/police.) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Nominations letters should be sent to Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba at indiana.edu) or Pnina Fichman (fichman at indiana.edu) by August 15, 2014 and must include a full citation, a brief explanation for the nomination, and a copy of the article. Self nominations are acceptable. Winners will be notified by August 30, 2014. For more information about the Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI): http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com For more information about the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI): http://rkcsi.indiana.edu Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Chair, Department of Information and Library Science Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Director, Master of Library Science School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The requirement is for a librarian primarily responsible for preparing bibliographic records or metadata to represent the resources in the collections of the agency, including description, subject analysis, access to information, authority control, metadata application, quality control, and metadata-related decision making. Responsibilities: * Provide descriptive cataloging, subject cataloging, classification, authority control, and bibliographic control of all materials in the library collections; * Prepare bibliographic records or metadata to represent the resources in the collections including description, subject analysis, access to information, authority control, metadata application, quality control, and metadata-related decision making; * Cataloging and classification shall be performed in accordance with established library policies using the latest editions of: Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR), Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Input Standards and OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards, National Library of Medicine (NLM) and Library of Congress (LC) classification schedules and subject headings; * Evaluate solutions and recommend best practices to resolve issues, maintain data integrity, and expand access to library collections; * Participate in and recommend solutions and best practices for retrospective conversion projects; * Identify and resolve integrated library system and database maintenance problems; * Ability to create effective original cataloging records and authority files where little or no precedent cataloging exists; * Provide guidance and recommendations for data policy and quality control; * Establish bibliographic controls and maintain authority file; * Serve as Cataloging and Metadata Librarian and subject specialist for public health and occupational safety and health materials. Qualifications: * A Master's Degree in Library or Information Science (MLS/MLIS) from an ALA accredited University is required; * Five years of experience performing cataloging using MeSH and NLM subject classification in a health sciences research library or biomedical research library environment; * Knowledge of standard library practices, precedents and techniques; * Ability to communicate orally and in writing; * Knowledge of the theory and technique of librarianship as applied to descriptive and subject cataloging of library materials including cataloging rules and guidelines; * Knowledge of the use and application of cataloging tools, standards, classification schedules, expansion tables, and subject headings, including the National Library of Medicine Classification, Library of Congress Classification, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), Library of Congress subject headings, MARC and non-MARC systems; * Have an understanding and the ability to define and analyze bibliographic relationships and applying bibliographic maintenance, data cleanup and/or correction procedures in the integrated library system (ILS), which is Voyager; * Assist in collection development, identifying new books and resources within scope for possible addition to the collection verification of electronic links; * Work with the serials librarian and other catalogers to make sure all electronic resources are reflected in the online catalog; * Review donations received by the Library for possible addition to the collection; * Training of staff and cataloguers as needed. Apply at: http://goo.gl/z9Uimw LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. LAC Group is a premier provider of recruiting and consultancy services for information professionals at U.S. and global organizations including Fortune 100 companies, law firms, pharmaceutical companies, large academic institutions and prominent government agencies. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alaninouye.lists at gmail.com Mon Jun 23 19:39:14 2014 From: alaninouye.lists at gmail.com (Alan Inouye) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:39:14 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] James Neal, Future of Digital Content, Featured at ALA Conference Message-ID: Those of you attending the 2014 ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas: ASIST list members may be interested in our session ?Digital Content 2020: What?s Important?? that features James Neal, University Librarian and VP of Information Services at Columbia University. The session will also cover ALA strategies and activities related to digital content and ebook advocacy at the national level. We hope to see you there on Saturday, 1:00 p.m. in room N255 of the convention center. Regards, Alan Alan S. Inouye, Ph.D. Director, Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) Program Manager, Digital Content & Libraries Initiative American Library Association 1615 New Hampshire Avenue NW First Floor Washington, DC 20009 ainouye at alawash.org http://www.ala.org/oitp 202-628-8410 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mcmason at umd.edu Mon Jun 23 15:44:49 2014 From: mcmason at umd.edu (Mary E. Carroll-Mason) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:44:49 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Lilead Fellows Webinar to be Held July 8 Message-ID: Lilead Fellows Webinar to be Held July 8 The Lilead Project at the University of Maryland, College Park will host an Information Session through Adobe Connect on?Tuesday, July 8, 2014, 4pm ? 5pm EDT?to explain the application process for the Lilead Fellows Program. The Lilead Team will speak on how to apply for the Fellows Program, the various application requirements and important due dates, as well as field any questions from session participants about the Fellows Program, the application, or the application process. ? The Lilead Fellows Program is an intense 18-month professional development program starting in January 2015 that is designed to empower, enable, and equip school district library supervisors to think differently about their role as leaders in their school districts and to tackle difficult issues with the ultimate goal of promoting positive change and success for all members in their school districts. ? The Lilead Fellows Program is an extension of the Lilead Project ? a 3-year study conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Maryland?s College of Information Studies ? and is made possible in part through funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Its objective is to learn more about the roles, responsibilities, demographics, and impact of the school district library supervisor position. For more information, please visit:?http://lileadproject.org/. Mary Carroll-Mason Communications Coordinator College of Information Studies, Maryland's iSchool University of Maryland 4105J Hornbake Building College Park, MD 20742 mcmason at umd.edu (301) 405-1260 ischool.umd.edu Twitter: @I_UMD From srichards at lac-group.com Tue Jun 24 11:05:34 2014 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:05:34 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Librarian / Downtow, Los Angeles, CA Message-ID: Apologies for the cross postings . . . . LAC Group seeks an experienced Librarian for a full-time, temporary (approximately 6 month) position for corporate library located in downtown Los Angeles. This position will work with the Subscriptions & Book Services team of 5 people, in the corporate library, which has a global staff of 28. The main responsibilities will be to perform administrative tasks supporting the acquisition, distribution and management of print and electronic publications used by the company's employees. We are looking for professionals familiar with a corporate environment and skilled in a variety of tasks related to subscriptions. Previous experience working with SydneyPLUS is highly desired. Responsibilities: * Renew subscriptions in library automation system (SydneyPLUS) * Create records for orders and receive items in SydneyPLUS * Update library user records in SydneyPLUS (i.e. location changes and departures) * Assist with claiming missing periodical issues * Email clients to request subscription renewal decision * Prepare books for the collection (apply labels and book covers) * Fill article requests * File invoices and other paperwork * Shelve books and journals * Take inventory of book collection using shelf list Qualifications: * Working knowledge of library administrative processes and procedures and ability to apply it to work assignments * Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and library automation systems * Understands and follows written and oral instruction * Demonstrates sound judgment in resolving routine matters * Prioritizes assigned work and completes in a timely manner * Effective written and oral communication skills * Attention to detail * Alphabetical filing skills * Ability to shelve books in Library of Congress call number order * Interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in a team environment * Customer service orientation * Physical demands: bending, lifting, carrying Apply at: http://goo.gl/vxxHcp LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. 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Alvaro La-Web 2014 Demo Track October 24th, 2014 http://www.decom.ufop.br/Spire-La-Web2014/#LaWebDemoTrack Call for Demo Papers: Starting this year, the Latin American Web Congress (La-Web'2014 - http://www.decom.ufop.br/Spire-La-Web2014) will have a demo track in order to provide a venue for presentation of practical work in the field of Web and its related areas. LA-Web 2014 is the ninth of a series of refereed conferences aimed at providing a venue in Latin America for researchers and technologists from around the world to present, demonstrate and discuss the latest Web developments. LA-Web 2014 will be held in the beautiful and historical city of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil, from October 22nd to 24th. LA-Web 2014 is endorsed by the IW3C2 International World Wide Web Conference Committee. This year, the first day of LA-WEB will hold joint sessions with SPIRE (International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval) 2014. Demo papers must be in English (4 pages) and formatted in accordance with the instructions provided on the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) (For your submission you can use the standard IEEE conference templates - http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html). Submissions are single-blinded (not anonymized). Accepted papers for the demo track will be published in the La-Web'2014 proceedings by the CPS and be submitted to the Digital Library. Demo papers must be submitted exclusively through LA-WEB 2014 demo paper submission Web site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=laweb14). By submitting a paper, its authors commit to having the paper presented at the conference and demonstrating the system during the demo session. The scope of the La-Web 2014 Demo Track is the same as for the World Wide Web Conference. The instructions on the characteristics of the expected demo paper were taken from the WWW'2014 Call for Demo Papers (http://www2014.kr/calls/call-for-demos/). The Demo Track allows researchers and practitioners to demonstrate new systems in a dedicated session. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference. Demos from the traditional research community are of course strongly encouraged, but proposals from other activity areas are also welcome. Software (including games or learning platforms) and hardware demos will also be considered, as long as they show innovative use of Web-based techniques. Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how. They should strive to state the significance of the contribution to Web technology or applications. Demos will be peer-reviewed by members of the Demo Track Program Committee, who will judge the originality, significance, quality, and clarity of each submission. To better identify the value of demos, as well as to reach out to external audiences, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a screencast, using web-accessible platforms such as Vimeo or Youtube. The maximum duration of screencasts is 10 minutes. Running systems demonstrated are also welcome. Important Dates: Paper submission: July 14, 2014 Notification of acceptance: August 2, 2014 Camera-ready: August 9, 2014 Demo Track: October 24, 2014 La-Web 2014 Demo Track Chair: ?lvaro R. Pereira Jr. Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto - Brazil alvaro at iceb.ufop.br ( https://carvalho.ufop.br/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=felamimail.uidisplay.displayBody&uid=1383&part=&mailbox=SU5CT1guU2VudA%3D%3D#) La-Web 2014 Demo Track Program Committee: to be announced soon. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From slis at ualberta.ca Wed Jun 25 16:08:18 2014 From: slis at ualberta.ca (- slis) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:08:18 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] Dr. Ali Shiri Message-ID: *Dr. Ali Shiri Promoted to Full Professor at the University of Alberta* The School of Library and Information Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. Ali Shiri has been promoted to the rank of Professor effective July 1, 2014. This promotion recognizes Dr. Shiri?s outstanding research, service, and teaching contributions to the School, to the Faculty of Education, to the University of Alberta, and to the library and information field at large. Dr. Shiri obtained his PhD in Information Science from the University of Strathclyde Department of Computer and Information Sciences in Glasgow, Scotland. He joined the School in 2004 as Assistant Professor. Dr. Shiri teaches in the areas of digital libraries and digital information organization and retrieval, and metadata. His research areas include digital libraries, user interaction with digital information, search user interfaces, social media, and big data. He is the author of a monograph published by ASIS&T and of more than 70 refereed articles in various information science books, conferences, and journals including *JASIS&T*, *Journal of Documentation*, *Journal of Information Science*, *Online Information Review*, and *Knowledge Organization*. In 2008, Dr. Shiri was awarded the *Coutts-Clarke Research Fellowship* supported by the Faculty of Education, in recognition of his scholarly reputation as one of the top researchers in the Faculty. At the national level, Dr. Shiri?s research has been funded by a Strategic Research Grant and an Insight Grant both from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and by a *Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Knowledge Synthesis Grant.* Dr. Shiri?s research articles have received ?Highly Commended Awards? from both the *Journal of Documentation* and *Library Review*. In 2008, he was the recipient of the prestigious award of the ASIS&T Digital Libraries Special Interest Group, which recognized his leadership in promoting discussion and scholarly communication within the area of digital libraries in North America. *Dr. Shiri has served the School as Chair of the Curriculum Committee, Chair of the Admissions Committee, and currently as Graduate Coordinator. * Dr. Shiri is on the editorial board of the *Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science,* the* Journal of Digital Information,* and *Library Review*. For a list of Dr. Shiri?s publications please check out the following page: http://www.ualberta.ca/~ashiri/publications.html -- ______________________________________________________ *Emilia Koukouvanova, GDBA * Office Administrator School of Library and Information Studies 3-20 Rutherford South University of Alberta Edmonton, AB T6G 2J4 Phone: (780)492-4578, Fax: (780)492-2430 E-mail: slis at ualberta.ca ______________________________________________________ *CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This email message, including any attachments, is intended only for the exclusive view of named recipient(s) and may contain information that is confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this message in error, or are not the named recipient(s), or it has been inappropriately forwarded to you, please immediately notify the original sender by reply email and delete this email message, including any attachments. 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If you are interested in what it's like to work towards a PhD, you may want to attend this session. * Simmons Reception Saturday Evening, June 28, hosted by ALA President and Simmons Alumna Courtney Young '97LS, 7-8:30pm, Las Vegas Hotel, Suite 2938. * Assistant Professors Laura Saunders and Mary Wilkins Jordan will be presented the 2014 Reference & User Services Association (RUSA) Press Award for their article "Significantly Different?: Reference Services Competencies in Public and Academic Libraries." The award will be presented at the RUSA Annual Conference in Las Vegas, NV on Sunday, June 29. * Professors Laura Saunders and Mary Wilkins Jordan will present "Crash Course in Evaluation Research" on Monday, June 30, 8:30-10 a.m., Las Vegas Convention Center, N111. -- Alisa M. Libby Communications Assistant Simmons College, GSLIS 300 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 t 617-521-2816617-521-2816 f 617-521-3192 For details about Alisa's young adult fiction, visit www.alisalibby.com. 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Fellows will be funded to attend three consecutive plenaries (18 months) to carry out a topic of research, outreach, or education of their proposing. This could include, but is not limited to, the following: - Study RDA social/organizational dynamics, - Develop course content for use in a classroom, - Develop a software tool that utilizes one or more RDA products in a demonstration of interoperability, - Represent your scientific or scholarly discipline in one or more of the RDA working groups and demonstrate how RDA products could advance the discipline, and - Bring your dataset, with goal to adopt technology, practices and services to enable its sharing *Criteria for selection:* the review committee will look for overall strong ideas that are achievable within an 18 month timeframe and can be done under the limited terms of the Fellows program; it will look for ideas that benefit the proposer?s career trajectory and advance RDA?s vision. It will look for ideas for which a mentor within the RDA/US membership can be found. It will look at the quality of the application materials. The program will begin with travel to the 4th RDA Plenary in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Sept 22-24, 2014. The first round of Fellows funding will select three Fellows. RDA/US Fellows will be recognized at the Plenary meetings. Their fellowship will culminate with a poster at their third Plenary. *Eligibility: *Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers at institutions of higher education in the United States, and early career researchers at U.S.-based research institutions who graduated with a relevant master?s or PhD and are no more than three years beyond receipt of their degree. *To apply: *Interested candidates are invited to submit their curriculum vitae and a 300-500 word statement that briefly describes their education, research, or outreach interests and the project or topic that they will be pursuing during the fellowship to Inna Kouper at inkouper at indiana dot edu. Candidates are encouraged to browse the RDA website and pages of interest and working groups to identify relevant topics and mutual interests. *Deadline:* 20 July 2014 *Applicant notification:* 31 July 2014 *The RDA/US Scholars Program is led by Professor Beth Plale and Dr. Inna Kouper of Indiana University. 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The group's final publication includes guidelines to content providers on disclosure of level of participation, the minimum set of metadata elements provided for indexing, linking practices, and technical formats. Recommendations for discovery service providers address content listings, linking practices, file formats and methods of transfer to be supported, and usage statistics. The document also provides background information on the evolution of discovery and delivery technology and a standard set of terminology and definitions for this technology area. "An increasing number of libraries, especially those that serve academic or research institutions, have invested in the new generation of discovery services that use an aggregated central index to enable searching across a wide range of library related resources," explains Marshall Breeding, an independent library consultant and Co-chair of the ODI Working Group. "These libraries expect their entire collection, including licensed and purchased electronic content, to be made available within their discovery service of choice. But it is often not clear which resources are available and which are indexed in full text, by citations only, or both. Libraries deserve a clear explanation of the degree of availability of the content they license in their discovery service-and they need usage statistics to help assess the effectiveness of their discovery tool." "Index-based discovery services involve a complex ecosystem of interrelating issues and interests among content providers, libraries, and discovery service creators," states Jenny Walker, an independent publishing consultant and Co-chair of the ODI Working Group. "The ODI Working Group included participation and input from all three stakeholders in the development of these recommendations. These recommendations are intended to encourage participation by the content providers in providing their content for indexing, transparency for libraries with regard to the level of indexing for different collections in the discovery services, and implementation of best practice by the discovery services regarding unbiased linking to source material, the neutrality of algorithms for generating result sets, relevance rankings, and link order." "NISO and the ODI Working Group intend to support the Recommended Practice with follow-up efforts," states Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive Director. "Areas of further investigation potentially include collaborative discussion mechanisms, discovery of content via application programming interfaces, handling of restricted content, on-demand lookup, and interaction with COUNTER about usage statistics related to discovery services." Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery (NISO RP-19-2014) is available for free download from the ODI Working Group webpage on the NISO website at: www.niso.org/workrooms/odi/. Cynthia Hodgson Technical Editor / Consultant National Information Standards Organization chodgson at niso.org 301-654-2512 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From srichards at lac-group.com Thu Jun 26 13:34:14 2014 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:34:14 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Library Cataloger / Baltimore, MD Message-ID: Apologies for the cross postings . . . LAC Group is looking for an experienced Library Cataloger to complete a cataloging project in support of a digitization effort. This position is located in Baltimore, MD and will be working with our client, a federal government agency, on a temporary basis. This position works 32 hours per week. 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Details and criteria for each award can be found on the SIG USE website, at http://siguse.wordpress.com/awards/ All submissions and any questions should be directed to Heather O'Brien at h.obrien at ubc.ca We'll see you at ASIS&T 2014! Sincerely, Gary Burnett and Heather O'Brien SIGUSE Award Co-chairs 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/ From lapark at scem.uws.edu.au Sun Jun 29 23:51:49 2014 From: lapark at scem.uws.edu.au (Laurence Park) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:51:49 +1000 Subject: [Asis-l] [Call for Papers] ADCS 2014 Message-ID: <20140630035149.GB36517@mac-lapark.scem.uws.edu.au> ======================= CALL FOR PAPERS ======================= NINTEENTH AUSTRALASIAN DOCUMENT COMPUTING SYMPOSIUM (ADCS 2014) http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/adcs2014/ IMPORTANT DATES --------------- 29 Sep 2014 - Submission deadline 13 Oct 2014 - Notification of acceptance / rejection 24 Oct 2014 - Final camera ready due 27/28 Nov 2014 - ADCS in Melbourne, Australia LOCATION -------- Melbourne, Australia AIM OF THE SYMPOSIUM -------------------- ADCS 2014 is an opportunity for researchers and practitioners in document management and information retrieval to meet and present their work. The symposium aims to cover all aspects of Document Computing - issues ranging from the fundamentals of document architectures and standards for markup, through storage, management, retrieval, authentication and workflow, to active and virtual documents. The symposium emphasises both commercial and academic issues by encouraging a variety of submissions. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ The symposium topics include (but are not restricted to) the following: - Cognitive Aspects of Documents - Digital Libraries - Document Databases - Document Standards (XML, SGML, etc.) - Document Summarisation - Enterprise Search - Evaluation - Information Retrieval - Multimedia Document Management - Multimedia Resource Discovery - Natural Language Techniques and Documents - Personalised Documents - Retrieval Models and Ranking - Search Engine Architectures and Scalability - User Studies Involving Documents - Web Documents - Web Search SUBMISSIONS ----------- All submissions must be original work, not previously published elsewhere, and not currently submitted to any other conference or journal. Electronic copies of accepted papers will be made available through the ACM Digital Library as part of the ICPS collection. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically, in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. Full papers have a maximum of length of 8 pages including all references, and short papers have a maximum length of 4 pages including references. All submissions will be fully refereed using a single blind refereeing process, at their full published length, and will comply with DEST criteria for fully-refereed conference papers (category E1). Papers will be submitted using Easy Chair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adcs20140 Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the symposium to present the work. Note also that it is insufficient for an author to register and pay for the symposium to be regarded as fulfilling this obligation. Authors of accepted papers will have to sign the ACM rights management form to comply with publication in the ACM digital library. For more information see the ACM authors page. FULL PAPERS ----------- Full papers should describe new contributions or analyse research issues. Submissions should be at most eight pages long (around 4000 words); over-length submissions risk immediate rejection. Refer to the guidelines for papers for details of the required format. POSTERS, SHORT PAPERS AND INDUSTRY STATUS REPORTS ------------------------------------------------- To encourage participation by industry and to provide a place for work of a more speculative nature, ADCS invites submissions for short papers, up to a maximum of four pages (around 2000 words). A typical proposal might describe a leading-edge solution to a practical problem in document management. Short papers follow the same format as for full papers. STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS --------------------- Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, students will be able to receive travel support to attend and present at ADCS 2014. General Chair Falk Scholer, RMIT Program Chairs Shane Culpepper, RMIT Laurence Park, UWS Guido Zuccon, QUT PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Peter Bailey, Microsoft Peter Bruza, Queensland University of Technology Wray Buntine, NICTA Mark Carman, Monash University Shane Culpepper, RMIT University Sally Jo Cunningham, Waikato University David Eyers, University of Otago Shlomo Geva, Queensland University of Technology David Hawking, Microsoft Timothy Jones, RMIT University Sarvnaz Karimi, CSIRO Yun Sing Koh, University of Auckland Irena Koprinska, The University of Sydney Bevan Koopman, CSIRO Alistair Moffat, The University of Melbourne Laurence Park, University of Western Sydney Mark Sanderson, RMIT University Falk Scholer, RMIT University Laurianne Sitbon, Queensland University of Technology James A. 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