[Asis-l] CAIS/ACSI Conference

[Julien, Heidi]

42nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Information Science &
Inaugural Librarians’ Research Institute Symposium
Connecting Across Borders:
Globalization and Information Science Research
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario
May 28- 30th 2014

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Jennifer J. Preece, Professor and Dean, University of Maryland, U.S.A.



Dr. Preece (http://ischool.umd.edu/people/preece/) is Professor and Dean in the College of Information Studies – Maryland’s iSchool - at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses at the intersection of information, community and technology. She is particularly interested how technology can support citizen science and other volunteer activities. She has researched ways to support empathy and social support online, patterns of online participation, and reasons for not participating. Jennifer is author of eight books and numerous publications. Two recent books are: "Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability" (2000) and a co-authored best-selling text entitled "Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction" (1st Ed. 2002; 2nd Ed. 2007; 3rd Ed. 2011) www.id-book.com. Both books are published by John Wiley & Sons.



Keynote Talk Title: What HCI Can Do for Citizen Science and Other Volunteer Activities



In 2014 CAIS is partnering with the CARL (Canadian Association of Research Libraries) Librarians’ Research Institute (LRI) to present the Inaugural Librarians' Research Institute Symposium alongside the CAIS conference. We are pleased to be hosting these events together at Congress for the first time.


Registration
The conference will take place as part of the 2014 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. Registration will be available online through the Congress website (http://congress2014.ca/register). Register soon - earlybird Congress fees end March 31, 2014.



For further information, please contact the CAIS/ACSI & LRI 2014 Conference Co-chairs.

Matthew Griffis

Conference Co-Chair
Assistant Professor
SLIS, U of Southern Mississippi
USA

E: matthew.griffis at usm.edu<mailto:matthew.griffis at usm.edu>






Heidi Julien

Conference Co-Chair
Chair, Department of LIS,
Graduate School of Ed,
University at Buffalo, USA

E: heidijul at buffalo.edu<mailto:heidijul at buffalo.edu>



Lisa Given

Conference Co-Chair
Professor, School of Information Studies,
Charles Sturt University Australia

E: lgiven at csu.edu.au<mailto:lgiven at csu.edu.au>


Heidi Jacobs

Librarians’ Research Institute
Information Literacy Librarian
University of Windsor, Canada

E: hjacobs at uwindsor.ca<mailto:hjacobs at uwindsor.ca>








Selinda Berg

Librarians’ Research Institute
Librarian
University of Windsor, Canada

E: sberg at uwindsor.ca<mailto:sberg at uwindsor.ca>



Karen Bordonaro

Local Arrangements Chair Liaison Librarian/Teaching and Learning Librarian

Brock University, Canada

E: kbordonaro at brocku.ca<mailto:kbordonaro at brocku.ca>




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Heidi Julien, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair, Department of Library and Information Studies
Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo
534 Baldy Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260-1020 USA
Ph: 716.645.2412  Email: heidijul at buffalo.edu<mailto:heidijul at buffalo.edu>
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