From Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca Sat Oct 1 01:40:42 2016 From: Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca (Freund, Luanne) Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 05:40:42 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?windows-1252?q?FW=3A_SIGUSE_Symposium_2016_=93Informat?= =?windows-1252?q?ion_Behaviour_in_Workplaces=94_in_Copenhagen?= In-Reply-To: <1475242101986.90318@hioa.no> References: <1475242101986.90318@hioa.no> Message-ID: Dear All, If you happen to be I Copenhagen on Saturday, October 14, maybe you would like to join us? This year?s SIG USE symposium focuses on information issues at work. It acknowledges social, individual and technological perspectives on the roles and flows that information takes as part of physical and digital work. The broad approach relates to the ASIS&T AM 2016 conference theme ?Creating Knowledge, Enhancing Lives through Information & Technology? with a focus on information behaviour (IB) or on information practices (IP) in connection to workplaces. PROGRAMME Getting-Started featuring the SIGUSE posters: 12.45-13.45 13.45-14.45 Opening keynote Hazel Hall, University of Napier, UK ? Watching the workers: researching information behaviours in, and for, workplace environments 14.45-15.45 Short Paper Session Diane Pennington, University of Strathclyde, UK ? Supporting Workplace Information Needs of People with Dementia Morten Hertzum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark ? Information Behavior and Workplace Procedures: the case of emergency-department Triage Helena Vallo Hult, University West, Sweden ? The Emergence of Sharing and Gaining Knowledge: Towards Digital Collaboration in Everyday Work 16.00-17.30 Roundtable discussions based on papers & posters, including summary in plenum 17.30-17.45 SIG USE Awards session 2014 Award Winner Diane Sonnenwald, University College Dublin, Ireland ? Visioning a New Future for Rare Historic Books and Manuscripts 2015 Award Winner Debbie Rabina, Pratt University, USA ? Information needs of people in prisons and jails: A discourse analytic approach Presentation of 2016 Award Winners 17.45-18.00 Closing remarks SIG USE posters: David Allen, A. Norman, Carly Lightowlers, Fiona McLaughlin & Nicolas Malleson, Leeds University, UK ? Collaboration, Information Behaviour, Information Systems and Activity Theory: Building a Data Clearing House Katriina Bystr?m, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway ? Work in progress: The notion of peopleless offices or digital work Emma Forsgren, Leeds University, UK ? Finding a Place for Social Media at Work Isto Huvila, Uppsala University, Sweden ? Informational Metagames and their Implications in Workplace Anna Sigridur Islind, Livia Norstr?m & Helena Vallo Hult, University West, Sweden ? From Digital Fight to Digital Pride in Public Sector Aleksandra Irnazarow, Leeds University, UK ? Application of Activity Theory to study information behaviour and decision making in development of complex engineering systems Wade Kelly, Charles Sturt University, Australia ? Information Behaviour of Community-Engaged Scholars in Academia Anita Nordsteien, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway ? Workplace learning: transition of nursing practices Natalie Pang* & Stan Karanasios**, Nanyang Technological University*, Singapore; RMIT University**, Australia ? Helping the left behind: Understanding information practices and ICT use of the elderly from the eyes of first responders during crises Sarah Polkinghorne & Thane Chambers, Charles Sturt University, Australia ? Embodied information in workplace contexts Diane H Sonnenwald, University College Dublin, Ireland ? A darker side of human information behavior in the workplace: a call for research on workplace bullying information behavior Ella Schwab, Ben Heuwing, Christa Womser-Hacker & Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany ? Challenges of Digital Workplaces in practice: A Focus Group with middle mangers Eric Thivant, University of Lyon, France: Diversity of Information Workplace: the cross-cultural question in Information Behaviour The case study of French ITES rural firms ?se Kristine Tveit, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway ? The impact of digital information and online discussion fora on translators? work Gunilla Wid?n*, Jannica Heinstr?m*, Thomas Mandl** & Christa Womser-Hacker**, ?bo Akademi University*, Finland; University of Hildesheim**, Germany ? Exploring intergenerational information practices and knowledge sharing Barbara Wildemuth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA ? Social Dimensions of Information Practices in an Academic Workplace Register at ASIS&T AM website: https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/ FEES Members ? SIG-SI session: $120 Members ? SIG-USE session: $120 Members ? attending both SIG-SI and SIG-SI sessions: $200 Non-members ? SIG-SI Session: $140 Non-members ? SIG-USE Session: $140 Non-members ? attending both SIG-SI and SIG-SI sessions: $250 From faculty-recruit at ntu.edu.sg Sun Oct 2 21:38:54 2016 From: faculty-recruit at ntu.edu.sg (Faculty Recruit) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 01:38:54 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Application: Assistant Professor in Knowledge Management In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is ranked 13th globally. It is also placed 1st amongst the world's best young universities. NTU's Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information seeks new faculty colleagues with a strong record of high-quality research and a commitment to mentoring the next generation of communication and information scholars. Assistant Professor: Knowledge Management We are looking for a scholar-teacher working in the area of knowledge management with an interest in its application to marketing, customer management, and/or big data analytics. The candidate is expected to possess a doctorate in an appropriate field from a reputable university. The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information is a vibrant global leader in communication and information research and education. Recent hires and a high level of support reaffirm the School's pre-eminence in the disciplines under its aegis. Singapore is a vibrant cosmopolitan city/state with good weather, low crime, rich cultural attractions, exceptional food, and proximity to numerous points of interest in Southeast Asia. A faculty representative of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information will be attending the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology in Copenhagen, Denmark. He will be available to meet with potential candidates and would welcome your inquiries! Emoluments and General Terms and Conditions of Service Salary will be competitive and will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The University offers a comprehensive fringe benefit package. Information on emoluments and general terms and conditions of service is available in the section on Terms and Conditions (http://bit.ly/1V80Rf4) for Academic Appointments. Application Procedures To apply, please refer to the Guidelines (http://bit.ly/1LDnrKk) for submitting an Application for Faculty Appointment and send your application package [consisting of cover letter, curriculum vitae, personal particulars form, a statement of current and future research interest, teaching statement, effectiveness of teaching (If any), selected publications, and the names of 5 referees] by 31 December 2016 to: The Search Committee Nanyang Technological University Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information 31 Nanyang Link, WKWSCI Building Singapore 637718 Email: faculty-recruit at ntu.edu.sg Applications sent via email should include the reference "Application for Assistant Professor in Knowledge Management" in the subject line. Enquiries about the position can be addressed to the above email. Review of the applications will begin on 9 January 2017 and continue until the position is filled. The candidate is expected to start in July 2017 or December 2017. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified. From centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com Mon Oct 3 11:21:39 2016 From: centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com (Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 10:21:39 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Registration Now Open for CPN-DAM's Virtual Conference Message-ID: Please excuse the cross postings.******************** *Registration Now Open!* Planning and Digitizing Yesterday to Preserve it for Tomorrow Virtual Conference November 15th and 16th, 2016 9:00am-4:00pm Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management (CPN-DAM) two-day virtual conference will include presentations, poster presentations, and the opportunity to learn from the real-world experiences of others. With a focus on practical professional development in all stages of digital asset management, sessions will cover topics such as digital preservation, digital projects, and platforms. Learn, network, and share all from the comforts of your desk! The conference program will be available at the end of October. Visit http://tinyurl.com/cpndamconfinfo for more information. *REGISTRATION LINKS:* Day 1, Tuesday, November 15th, 2016 https://ksu.zoom.us/webinar/register/0d4cbe1b4cff1bdd34538d7d4481ef37 Day 2, Wednesday, November 16th, 2016 https://ksu.zoom.us/webinar/register/1a0db6366309fa8434538d7d4481ef37 This virtual conference is open to anyone and is free to attend. The recording and slides for each presentation will be made available at http://newprairiepress.org/cpndam/ for those who cannot attend. Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management (CPN-DAM) http://newprairiepress.org/cpndam/ centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com From hcomp16 at gmail.com Mon Oct 3 13:17:10 2016 From: hcomp16 at gmail.com (Human Computation Conference) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 11:17:10 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: HCOMP-16 Hotel & Registration Deadlines: Oct 3/7 In-Reply-To: References: <201609262319.u8QNJEao031766@easychair.org> Message-ID: ************************************************ October 3: Hotel block cut-off date October 7: Late registration deadline ************************************************ If you have not already registered for the Fourth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, the late registration deadline is Friday, October 7. Onsite rates will apply after that date so don't delay. HCOMP-16 will be held October 30 - November 3, 2016 at the AT&T Executive Conference Center on the University of Texas at Austin campus, in Austin, Texas, USA. For registration details, please go to the HCOMP-16 registration site at http://www.humancomputation.com/2016/registration.html. Or you can go directly to the Regonline page at http://www.regonline.com/hcomp16 to complete your registration. AAAI has reserved a block of rooms at the AT&T Conference Center hotel. Reservations can be made directly at https://resweb.passkey.com/go/ UTHCOM1016. Space is limited so attendees are encouraged to reserve early. The cut-off date for reservations is Monday, October 3. Technical paper presentations and a poster/demo session will be held October 31 and November 1, preceded by the Doctoral Consortium and Tutorial, "Crowdsourced Data Processing: Industry and Academic Perspectives" on October 30. The workshop program will follow the technical program on November 3 and will include the following three workshops: W1: CrowdCamp W2: Human Computation for Image and Video Analysis (GroupSight) W3: Mathematical Foundations of Human Computation See http://www.humancomputation.com/2016/participate.html for more details about the above programs. HCOMP-16 has an exciting lineup of keynote speakers, including the following: Iyad Rahwan (MIT) Ashish Goel (Stanford University) Nathan Schneider (University of Colorado Boulder) See http://www.humancomputation.com/2016/keynote.html for more information about the talks. The preliminary schedule can also be found at http://www.humancomputation.com/2016/program.html Please feel free to contact us at hcomp16 at aaai.org if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you in Austin! Regards, Carol Hamilton Executive Director, AAAI From nicole.purviance at sjsu.edu Mon Oct 3 13:28:41 2016 From: nicole.purviance at sjsu.edu (Nicole Purviance) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 10:28:41 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] Explore Libraries of the Future at Free, Online Conference Oct. 6 Message-ID: <03f001d21d9b$9637ee70$c2a7cb50$@SJSU.Edu> Take a break from your day-to-day work and shift your thoughts to the future at the Library 2.016 Worldwide Virtual Conference on Thursday, October 6, 2016, from noon to 3 p.m. U.S. Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7). Sponsored by the San Jose State University School of Information, the "Library 2.016: Libraries of the Future" will be a unique opportunity to learn from library experts and civic leaders, meeting at the intersection of information, education, technology, and community. Presentations will inspire creative thinking and provide practical applications for shaping the future of libraries. Topics to be discussed include: . Disruptive technologies . 3D virtual spaces . Trend scanning tools and methods . Library design . Open source solutions . STEM librarianship . Information visualization . And more! You are invited to participate at no charge, and all sessions will be recorded. Even if you can't attend the live online event, go ahead and register to receive links to the recorded sessions after the conference. Register now! Please visit the conference website for more information, including speaker biographies and presentation abstracts. You can also follow conference news on Twitter using the hashtag #library2016. The "Library 2.016: Libraries of the Future" mini-conference is being held in collaboration with the American Library Association's Center for the Future of Libraries. This event is part of the sixth annual Library 2.0 Worldwide Virtual Conference series, a global conversation about the future of libraries co-founded by the San Jose State University School of Information. Nicole Purviance Director of Marketing and Communications School of Information San Jose State University One Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192-0029 nicole.purviance at sjsu.edu http://ischool.sjsu.edu From tp5 at uwm.edu Mon Oct 3 13:34:59 2016 From: tp5 at uwm.edu (Timothy B Patrick) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 17:34:59 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Registration Now Open for CPN-DAM's Virtual Conference In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: L Get Outlook for Android ________________________________ From: Asis-l on behalf of Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management Sent: Monday, October 3, 2016 10:21:39 AM To: islandora at googlegroups.com; WEB4LIB at listserv.nd.edu; collib-l at lists.ala.org; uls-l at lists.ala.org; archives at forums.archivists.org; asis-l at asis.org; DC-GENERAL at jiscmail.ac.uk; fedora-community at googlegroups.com; diglib at infoserv.inist.fr; lita-l at lists.ala.org; oss4lib-discuss at lists.sourceforge.net; publib at webjunction.org; CODE4LIB at lists.clir.org; preserving-kansas at googlegroups.com; DLF-ANNOUNCE at lists.clir.org; MUSEUM-L at home.ease.lsoft.com Subject: [Asis-l] Registration Now Open for CPN-DAM's Virtual Conference Please excuse the cross postings.******************** *Registration Now Open!* Planning and Digitizing Yesterday to Preserve it for Tomorrow Virtual Conference November 15th and 16th, 2016 9:00am-4:00pm Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management (CPN-DAM) two-day virtual conference will include presentations, poster presentations, and the opportunity to learn from the real-world experiences of others. With a focus on practical professional development in all stages of digital asset management, sessions will cover topics such as digital preservation, digital projects, and platforms. Learn, network, and share all from the comforts of your desk! The conference program will be available at the end of October. Visit http://tinyurl.com/cpndamconfinfo for more information. *REGISTRATION LINKS:* Day 1, Tuesday, November 15th, 2016 https://ksu.zoom.us/webinar/register/0d4cbe1b4cff1bdd34538d7d4481ef37 Day 2, Wednesday, November 16th, 2016 https://ksu.zoom.us/webinar/register/1a0db6366309fa8434538d7d4481ef37 This virtual conference is open to anyone and is free to attend. The recording and slides for each presentation will be made available at http://newprairiepress.org/cpndam/ for those who cannot attend. Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management (CPN-DAM) http://newprairiepress.org/cpndam/ centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com ________________________________________ ASIS&T 2016 Annual Meeting Copenhagen, Denmark | Oct. 14-18, 2016 Creating Knowledge, Enhancing Lives through Information & Technology ________________________________________ Asis-l mailing list Asis-l at asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l From wes.ferguson at ischool.utexas.edu Mon Oct 3 13:09:25 2016 From: wes.ferguson at ischool.utexas.edu (Ferguson, Wes) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 17:09:25 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Texas iSchool hires two new faculty members Message-ID: The Texas iSchool is welcoming two new faculty members. In August, Assistant Professor Amelia Acker joined the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin from the University of Pittsburgh's iSchool, where she was lead faculty of the archives program. Acker studies digital records and data traces created by mobile devices. She is the co-recipient of a $109,399 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for research into public library support of youth data literacy. Assistant Professor Danna Gurari will begin teaching at the iSchool in Spring 2017. Her research interests span computer vision, crowdsourcing, applied machine learning and biomedical image analysis. The recipient of the 2015 Researcher Excellence Award from the Boston University computer science department, Gurari was most recently a postdoctoral fellow in UT Austin's computer science department. Find more information about Acker and Gurari's appointments at https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/news/two-new-faculty-members-join-ischool. WES FERGUSON Public Affairs Specialist II The University of Texas at Austin | School of Information 1616 Guadalupe Street Suite 5.202 Austin, Texas 78701 | D8600 wes.ferguson at ischool.utexas.edu | www.ischool.utexas.edu From alisa.libby at simmons.edu Tue Oct 4 12:47:03 2016 From: alisa.libby at simmons.edu (Alisa Libby) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 12:47:03 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Recent News from Simmons SLIS, September 2016 Message-ID: *Recent News from Simmons SLIS, September 2016* *Faculty* - Assistant Professor *Laura Saunders* ?01LS co-authored ?Librarian Copyright Literacy: Self-reported Copyright Knowledge Among Librarians in the United States.? *Public Services Quarterly, 12*(3), 214-227. She also wrote ?Teaching the Reference Interview through Practice-based Assignments.? *Reference Services Review*, 44(3), 390-410. *Adjunct Faculty* - *Abigail Baines* ?10LS had a book review in the *Journal **of Access Services*: "Wordpress for Libraries" published by Taylor and Francis. - *Cynthia Correia* ?96LS presented ?Smashing Silos: Boost Your Impact by Breaking Barriers > Driving Collaboration > Expanding Your Reach? at the SLA New England Fall Conference, September 30, 2016 in Southbridge, Massachusetts. - *Lisa Fagin Davis* was featured in the SLIS InfoLink for co-curating "Beyond Words, Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections." - *Anna Staniszewski*?s ?06GS novel for young readers, *Once Upon a Cruise*, was published by Scholastic on September 27, 2016. *Students* - Computer Science students spent an entire night programming at SharkHack , a Simmons Hackathon. *Alumni* - Dr. *Lisa Nathan* ?03LS, of the University of British Columbia iSchool, was awarded the Thomson-Reuters Information Science Teacher of the Year Award. - *Megan Potterbusch* ?16LS was chosen as one of five members to the 2016-2017 class of the National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) program, which offers valuable opportunities in digital preservation. According to the IMLS press release , ?Potterbusch will serve as a resident at the Association of Research Libraries working in partnership with the George Washington University Libraries and the Center for Open Science to prototype the process of linking the output from a university research unit to a library digital repository through the Open Science Framework, an open source tool that integrates and supports research workflow.? The residency was established by the Library of Congress in conjunction with the Institute of Museum and Library Services. -- *Follow SLIS on tumblr and twitter !* Alisa M. Libby Communications Assistant Simmons College, SLIS 300 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 t 617-521-2816 f 617-521-3192 Author, *The King's Rose* and *The Blood Confession* alisalibby.com From faculty-recruit at ntu.edu.sg Tue Oct 4 21:52:15 2016 From: faculty-recruit at ntu.edu.sg (Faculty Recruit) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 01:52:15 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Application: Assistant Professor in Data Visualisation Message-ID: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is ranked 13th globally. It is also placed 1st amongst the world's best young universities. NTU's Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information seeks new faculty colleagues with a strong record of high-quality research and a commitment to mentoring the next generation of communication and information scholars. Assistant Professor: Data Visualisation We are looking for a scholar-teacher working in the broadly-defined area of visual analytics or data visualisation. Ideally, the candidate's expertise straddles across the technical aspects of data visualisation (such as the design and implementation of systems) and the human aspects of data visualisation (such as human-computer interaction and perceptual psychology). The candidate is expected to possess a terminal degree in an appropriate field from a reputable university. The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information is a vibrant global leader in communication and information research and education. Recent hires and a high level of support reaffirm the School's pre-eminence in the disciplines under its aegis. Singapore is a vibrant cosmopolitan city/state with good weather, low crime, rich cultural attractions, exceptional food, and proximity to numerous points of interest in Southeast Asia. A faculty representative of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information will be attending the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology in Copenhagen, Denmark. He will be available to meet with potential candidates and would welcome your inquiries! You may contact Associate Professor Dion Goh at ASHLGoh at ntu.edu.sg to arrange for an appointment at the conference. Emoluments and General Terms and Conditions of Service Salary will be competitive and will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The University offers a comprehensive fringe benefit package. Information on emoluments and general terms and conditions of service is available in the section on Terms and Conditions (http://bit.ly/1V80Rf4) for Academic Appointments. Application Procedures To apply, please refer to the Guidelines (http://bit.ly/1LDnrKk) for submitting an Application for Faculty Appointment and send your application package [consisting of cover letter, curriculum vitae, personal particulars form, a statement of current and future research interest, teaching statement, effectiveness of teaching (If any), selected publications, and the names of 5 referees] by 31 December 2016 to: The Search Committee Nanyang Technological University Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information 31 Nanyang Link, WKWSCI Building Singapore 637718 Email: faculty-recruit at ntu.edu.sg Applications sent via email should include the reference "Application for Assistant Professor in Data Visualisation" in the subject line. Enquiries about the position can be addressed to the above email. Review of the applications will begin on 9 January 2017 and continue until the position is filled. The candidate is expected to start in July 2017 or December 2017. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified. From rjhall at uwm.edu Tue Oct 4 13:48:44 2016 From: rjhall at uwm.edu (Rebecca J Hall) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 17:48:44 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] The NonprofIT program at the UW-Milwaukee, School of Information Studies receives grant from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: For Immediate Release The NonprofIT program at the UW-Milwaukee, School of Information Studies receives grant from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. Milwaukee, WI. (Sept. 22, 2016) ? The NonprofIT program at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (UWM), School of Information Studies (SOIS) is pleased to announce it has received a $50,000 grant from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. These funds will support the expansion of the program which provides non-profit organizations in the Milwaukee area with Information Technology (IT) support and services. The NonprofIT program at SOIS empowers local non-profit organizations with comprehensive IT support while at the same time creating valuable internship opportunities for UWM students. Through the NonprofIT program, students work as a team along with local IT business mentors and SOIS staff to develop, implement, and evaluate a customized strategic IT project ? such as a new website, improved database, or a secure network. By addressing their technology needs and aspirations, small participating non-profits can focus their energy where it?s needed most ? by advancing their mission and helping the communities they serve. NonprofIT Program Coordinator, Senior Lecturer Adam Hudson has been leading teams of students since the program launched in the fall of 2014. Hudson is thrilled about the opportunity and support provided by Greater Milwaukee Foundation and states, ?The grant will allow us to grow the size of the NonprofIT program in a way which both benefits the non-profit community of greater Milwaukee and the students involved. The expansion means that NonprofIT will be able to work on more projects thus increasing our reach and assistance into the Milwaukee non-profit community. More students will be afforded the opportunity to engage in this unique undergraduate experience which helps them to build their tech skills, social skills, and confidence.? The collaborative nature of the NonprofIT program is strongly rooted in the mission of SOIS. As Dr. Tomas A. Lipinski, Dean of the School of Information Studies explains, ?NonprofIT relates to SOIS' mission of being a collaborative school that advances knowledge and prepares students to be successful information professionals within their communities. It is a collaborative venture, open to students across campus and in partnership with the local nonprofit and business IT community. It provides our students with first-hand experience, working in a team on a real world project and problem but foremost helps students connect their classroom skills with client?s real needs and solutions. It offers students an opportunity to test the waters so to speak in a learning environment under academic and professional tutelage. It also allows potential employers to observe our students at work and not just across the desk in an interview. In that sense it's the best interview a student could hope for as it provides an opportunity to demonstrate their true potential; we believe our IT mentors feel the same?. For more than a century, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation has helped individuals, families and organizations realize their philanthropic goals and make a difference in the community, during their lifetimes and for future generations. The Foundation consists of more than 1,300 individual charitable funds, each created by donors to serve the charitable causes of their choice. The Foundation also deploys both human and financial resources to address the most critical needs of the community and ensure the vitality of the region. Established in 1915, the Foundation was one of the first community foundations in the world and is now among the largest. ### The School of Information Studies (SOIS) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee offers several degree programs including a Bachelor's in Information Science and Technology, an ALA accredited Master of Library and Information Science and a PhD in Information Studies. With a growing student body of more than 900 students SOIS strives to be a premier international school that shapes knowledge and information technology through innovative research and teaching. SOIS is a leader in advancing knowledge and preparing students from diverse backgrounds to be successful information professionals within their communities. For more information about the School, its faculty and its programs, see ischool.uwm.edu or call 1-888-349-3432 Rebecca Hall Web Development & Marketing Director Instructor UW-Milwaukee, School of Information Studies PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201 Ph: 414.229.2855 | F: 414.229.6699 ischool.uwm.edu From agruzd at gmail.com Thu Oct 6 11:05:25 2016 From: agruzd at gmail.com (Anatoliy) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 17:05:25 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] CfP: 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) - Toronto, Canada - July 28-30, 2017 Message-ID: <01c101d21fe3$11f26060$35d72120$@gmail.com> Apologies for cross-postings ******************************** 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) WHEN: July 28-30, 2017 WHERE: Toronto, Canada (Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University) SUBMISSION DEADLINES: Dec 5, 2016: Workshops, Tutorials, & Panels Jan 16, 2017: Full & WIP Papers Mar 6, 2017: Poster Abstracts Conference website: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.org 2017 #SMSociety Theme: Social Media for Social Good or Evil CALL FOR PROPOSALS Our online behaviour is far from virtual--it extends our offline lives. Much social media research has identified the positive opportunities of using social media; for example, how people use social media to form support groups online, participate in political uprising, raise money for charities, extend teaching and learning outside the classroom, etc. However, mirroring offline experiences, we have also seen social media being used to spread propaganda and misinformation, recruit terrorists, live stream criminal activities, reinforce echo chambers by politicians, and perpetuate hate and oppression (such as racist, sexist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic behaviour). Furthermore, behind the posts are algorithms, power structures, commercial interests and other factors that surreptitiously influence our experiences on social media. So, we ask: * What does it actually mean to use social media for social good? * How can social media be further leveraged for social justice? What are the threats to meaningful participation and how can we overcome these threats? * What do we know about the 4 W's of who, what, why, where (and how) do people engage in anti-social behaviour online? * What theoretical and methodological tools can we use to study anti-social behaviour? Can we detect such behaviour automatically? * What are the ethics of algorithms (inclusion, accessibility, data discrimination, bots)? * What are the legal, policy, privacy, and ethical implications of using social big data? * Considering the proliferation of bots online, can we still trust social media data? * And more broadly, what are the major effects of using social media on political, economic, individual, and social aspects of our society? The 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) invites scholarly and original submissions that relate to the broad theme of Social Media & Society. We welcome both quantitative and qualitative work which crosses interdisciplinary boundaries and expands our understanding of the current and future trends in social media research, especially those that explore some of the questions and issues raised above. ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: The International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) is an annual gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 8th year, the 2017 conference will be held in Toronto, Canada at Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University on July 28-30. >From its inception, the Conference has focused on the best practices for studying the impact and implications of social media on society. Our invited industry and academic keynotes have highlighted the shifting questions and concerns for the social media research community. From introducing media multiplexity and networked individualism with Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman in 2010 and 2011, to measuring influence with Gilad Lotan and Sharad Goel in 2012 and 2013, to defining social media research as a field with Keith Hampton in 2014, to identifying our commitments as social media researchers in policy making with Bill Dutton in 2015, to exploring the future of social media technologies with John Weigelt in 2015, to highlighting the challenges of social media data mining in the context of big data with Susan Halford and Helen Kennedy in 2016. Organized by the Social Media Lab at Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, the conference provides participants with opportunities to exchange ideas, present original research, learn about recent and ongoing studies, and network with peers. The conference's intensive three-day program features workshops, full papers, work-in-progress papers, panels, and posters. The wide-ranging topics in social media showcase research from scholars working in many fields including Communication, Computer Science, Education, Journalism, Information Science, Management, Political Science, Sociology, Social Work, etc. SUBMISSION DETAILS: See online at https://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/ PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES: Full and WIP (short) papers presented at the Conference will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS) and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. All conference presenters will be invited to submit their work as a full paper to the special issue of the Social Media + Society journal (published by SAGE). TOPICS OF INTEREST: Social Media Impact on Society . Political Mobilization & Engagement . Extremism & Terrorism . Politics of Hate and Oppression . The Sharing/Attention Economy . Social Media & Health . Virality & Memes . Social Media & Social Justice . Social Media & Business (Marketing, PR, HR, Risk Management, etc.) . Social Media & Academia (Alternative Metrics, Learning Analytics, etc.) . Social Media & Public Administration . Social Media & the News Online/Offline Communities . Trust & Credibility in Social Media . Online Community Detection . Influential User Detection . Identity Social Media & Small Data . Case Studies of Online Communities Formed on Social Media . Case Studies of Offline Communities that Rely on Social Media . Sampling Issues . Value of Small Data Social Media & Big Data . Visualization of Social Media Data . Social Media Data Mining . Scalability Issues & Social Media Data . Social Media Analytics . Ethics of Big Data/Algorithms Theories & Methods . Qualitative & Quantitative Approaches . Opinion Mining & Sentiment Analysis . Social Network Analysis . Theoretical Models for Studying, Analysing and Understanding Social Media Social Media & Mobile . App-ification of Society . Privacy & Security Issues in the Mobile World . Apps for the Social Good . Networking Apps ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University, Canada - Conference Chair Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada - Conference Chair Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada - Conference Chair K. Hazel Kwon, Arizona State University, USA - Poster Chair ADVISORY BOARD: William H. Dutton, Michigan State University, USA Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Barry Wellman, INSNA Founder, The Netlab Network From faculty-recruit at ntu.edu.sg Tue Oct 4 21:52:23 2016 From: faculty-recruit at ntu.edu.sg (Faculty Recruit) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 01:52:23 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Application: Assistant Professor in Knowledge Management References: Message-ID: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is ranked 13th globally. It is also placed 1st amongst the world's best young universities. NTU's Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information seeks new faculty colleagues with a strong record of high-quality research and a commitment to mentoring the next generation of communication and information scholars. Assistant Professor: Knowledge Management We are looking for a scholar-teacher working in the area of knowledge management with an interest in its application to marketing, customer management, and/or big data analytics. The candidate is expected to possess a doctorate in an appropriate field from a reputable university. The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information is a vibrant global leader in communication and information research and education. Recent hires and a high level of support reaffirm the School's pre-eminence in the disciplines under its aegis. Singapore is a vibrant cosmopolitan city/state with good weather, low crime, rich cultural attractions, exceptional food, and proximity to numerous points of interest in Southeast Asia. A faculty representative of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information will be attending the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology in Copenhagen, Denmark. He will be available to meet with potential candidates and would welcome your inquiries! You may contact Associate Professor Dion Goh at ASHLGoh at ntu.edu.sg to arrange for an appointment at the conference. Emoluments and General Terms and Conditions of Service Salary will be competitive and will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The University offers a comprehensive fringe benefit package. Information on emoluments and general terms and conditions of service is available in the section on Terms and Conditions (http://bit.ly/1V80Rf4) for Academic Appointments. Application Procedures To apply, please refer to the Guidelines (http://bit.ly/1LDnrKk) for submitting an Application for Faculty Appointment and send your application package [consisting of cover letter, curriculum vitae, personal particulars form, a statement of current and future research interest, teaching statement, effectiveness of teaching (If any), selected publications, and the names of 5 referees] by 31 December 2016 to: The Search Committee Nanyang Technological University Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information 31 Nanyang Link, WKWSCI Building Singapore 637718 Email: faculty-recruit at ntu.edu.sg Applications sent via email should include the reference "Application for Assistant Professor in Knowledge Management" in the subject line. Enquiries about the position can be addressed to the above email. Review of the applications will begin on 9 January 2017 and continue until the position is filled. The candidate is expected to start in July 2017 or December 2017. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified. From JINGJING at mailbox.sc.edu Wed Oct 5 10:13:25 2016 From: JINGJING at mailbox.sc.edu (LIU, JINGJING) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 14:13:25 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Faculty position: Instructor (non-tenure track), University of South Carolina In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Forwarded on behalf of the search committee chair. ????? The University of South Carolina School of Library andInformation Science in Columbia invites applications for a non-tenure track instructor position to begin Fall 2017. Shape the future of library and information science. Pursue yourinterests in a diverse, intellectually stimulating, and multi-disciplinary environment that provides support andencouragement as part of a collaborative work culture. Anearned Masters in library and information science, information technology, or a related field is required, and doctoralcandidates who are ABD with a fixed graduation date are encouraged to apply. This position requires experience and enthusiasm for teaching in both online and face-to-face formats. Non-tenure track faculty at The University of South Carolina are engaged in research, service, instruction, and administration. The School is particularly interested in candidates with aspecialization in one or more of the following: ? library systems ? web development ? technology acquisitions ? system implementation Selected candidates will be expected to help with the school's commitment to diversity through research, teaching, and service. The School of Library and Information Science has a growingBachelor of Science in Information Science program and a jointCertificate of Health Communications with Public Health andCommunication. The School's MLIS degree program is fullyaccredited by the American Library Association. The schoollibrary preparation program is part of the University'sProfessional Education Unit which is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). TheSchool also offers three programs of advanced study beyondthe Master's degree (the Certificate of Advanced GraduateStudy in Library and Information Science, the Specialist inLibrary and Information Science, and the Ph.D. in Library andInformation Science). The School has a strong commitment to distance educationand is one of two Schools in the College of Information and Communications. The second is the School of Journalism and MassCommunications. The School is located on the campus' historicHorseshoe. It has nationally recognized programs in schoollibrary media, youth services, and medical librarianship. Sinceits inception, the School has emphasized the use of informationtechnology as a vital component of library and informationservices. Founded in 1801, the University of South Carolina-Columbia isthe flagship campus of an eight-campus, fully accredited, state-supported system. USC? Columbia has strong undergraduateand graduate programs and other highly regarded professionalschools including: medicine, law, education, engineering, socialwork, pharmacy, public health, arts and sciences, nursing, andbusiness administration. The University is a Carnegie ResearchI institution. Approximately 33,000 students are enrolled on theColumbia campus and more than 44,000 throughout thesystem. The City of Columbia is the state capital with ametropolitan area population of almost half a million. It is a statecenter of financial, transportation, and industrial development,and it has a rich historical and cultural tradition. It is locatedwithin easy driving distance of both mountains and coast. Responsibilities: ? Instruct undergraduate and graduate courses in both face-to-face as well as online environments ? Remain current in developments and trends in subject and research areas ? Establish a growing research agenda ? Provide service to the department, college, university, profession, and community Minimum Qualifications: ? Masters in library and information science, information technology, or a related field is required,and doctoral candidates who are ABD with a fixedgraduation date are encouraged to apply ? Ability to teach at the undergraduate and graduate level ? Knowledge in creating educational materials for face-to-face and online instruction Preferred Qualifications: ? Teaching experience at the collegiate level ? Teaching experience in an online or distance education environment ? Experience in management or teaching management courses Applications and nominations are invited for this positionavailable in August 2017. Salary is fully competitive. The Committee will begin fullreview of applications and nominations October 31, 2016 andwill continue until the position is filled. TO APPLY: Applicants should send a letter of application anda complete resume/CV including the names of threereferences to Ms. Angela Wright at slisadmn at mailbox.sc.eduor by mail to School of Library and Information Science,University of South Carolina, Davis College, 1501 GreeneStreet, Columbia, SC 29208. For further information, questions, or to submitnominations, send an email to Dr. Heather Moorefield-Lang, Committee Chair atmoorefield-lang at sc.edu or call at 803-777-0224 School Information is available at http://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/cic/library_and_information_science Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. TheUniversity of South Carolina is responsive to the needs of dualcareer couples. The University of South Carolina is an equal opportunityinstitution. -- Jingjing Liu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Science University of South Carolina 1501 Greene Street, Columbia, SC 29208 Tel.: (803) 777-1136 Fax: (803) 777-7938 jingjing at sc.edu From JINGJING at mailbox.sc.edu Wed Oct 5 10:10:38 2016 From: JINGJING at mailbox.sc.edu (LIU, JINGJING) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 14:10:38 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Faculty position: Assistant or Associate Professor in school librarianship and/or youth services, University of South Carolina In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: Forwarded on behalf of the search committee chair. ------------------ The University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science in Columbia invites applications and nominations for one tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level to begin fall 2017 in the area of school librarianship and/or youth services. Shape the future of library and information science. Pursue your interests in a diverse, intellectually stimulating, and multi-disciplinary environment that provides support and encouragement as part of a collaborative work culture. An earned doctorate in library and information science or a related field is preferred, while strong candidates who are ABD with a fixed graduation date will be considered. This position requires a clearly articulated research agenda, and enthusiasm for and excellence in teaching in both online and face-to-face formats. The School is particularly interested in candidates with a specialization in school libraries and/or youth services. Selected candidates will be expected to help with the school's commitment to diversity through research, teaching, and service. The School of Library and Information Science has a growing Bachelor of Science in Information Science program and a joint Certificate of Health Communications with Public Health and Communications. The School's MLIS degree program is fully accredited by the American Library Association. The school library preparation program is part of the University's Professional Education Unit which is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). The School also offers three programs of advanced study beyond the Master's degree (the Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in Library and Information Science, the Specialist in Library and Information Science, and the Ph.D. in Library and Information Science). Faculty teach across all degree programs. The School has a strong commitment to distance education and is one of two Schools in the College of Information and Communications. The second is the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. The School is located on the campus' historic Horseshoe. It has nationally recognized programs in school library media, youth services, and medical librarianship. Since its inception, the School has emphasized the use of information technology as a vital component of library and information services. Founded in 1801, the University of South Carolina-Columbia is the flagship campus of an eight-campus, fully accredited, state-supported system. USC? Columbia has strong undergraduate and graduate programs and other highly regarded professional schools including: medicine, law, education, engineering, social work, pharmacy, public health, arts and sciences, nursing, and business administration. The University is a Carnegie Research I institution. Approximately 33,000 students are enrolled on the Columbia campus and more than 44,000 throughout the system. The City of Columbia is the state capital with a metropolitan area population of almost half a million. It is a state center of financial, transportation, and industrial development, and it has a rich historical and cultural tradition. It is located within easy driving distance of both mountains and coast. Responsibilities: * Participate in instruction, research, publication, grant writing, and other scholarly activities * Instruct undergraduate and graduate courses in both face-to-face as well as online environments in the areas of school librarianship and/or youth services * Mentor and advise graduate students * Provide service to the department, college, university, profession, and community Minimum Qualifications: * Earned doctorate by time of appointment in library and information studies or related field * Ability to conduct scholarly research in the field * Ability to teach and mentor at the graduate level * Knowledge in creating educational materials for face-to-face and online instruction Preferred Qualifications: * Teaching experience at the collegiate level * Teaching experience in an online or distance education environment * Active involvement in one or more professional organizations appropriate to area of expertise * Experience in management or teaching management courses * Experience in procuring grants or external funding Applications and nominations are invited for this position available in August 2017. Salary is fully competitive. The Committee will begin full review of applications and nominations October 31, 2016 and will continue until the position is filled. TO APPLY: Applicants should send a letter of application and a complete resume/CV including the names of three references to Ms. Angela Wright at slisadmn at mailbox.sc.edu or by mail to School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina, Davis College, 1501 Greene Street, Columbia, SC 29208. For further information, questions, or to submit nominations, send an email to Dr. Heather Moorefield-Lang, Committee Chair at moorefield-lang at sc.edu or call at 803-777-0224 School Information is available at http://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/cic/library_and_information_science Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. The University of South Carolina is responsive to the needs of dual career couples. The University of South Carolina is an equal opportunity institution. -- Jingjing Liu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Science 1501 Greene Street Columbia, South Carolina 29208 jingjing at sc.edu (803) 777-1136 From marialemos72 at gmail.com Fri Oct 7 14:00:07 2016 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (ML) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 19:00:07 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP - WorldCIST'2017 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (Published by Springer) Message-ID: <201610071800.u97I05Mv015600@smtp2.dei.uc.pt> Please disseminate by your contacts. Thank you! *Best papers published in more than twenty SCI/SSCI-indexed journals --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WorldCIST'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal 11th-13th of April 2017 http://www.worldcist.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE The WorldCist'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held at Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal, 11 - 13 April 2017, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCist'17 (http://www.worldcist.org/). All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Software and Systems Modeling (SSM); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); H) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); I) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); J) Ethics, Computers and Security (ECS) K) Health Informatics (HIS); L) Information Technologies in Education (ITE); M) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR). TYPES of SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: - Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. - Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. - Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. - Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version. The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION & INDEXING To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 8th of January 2017, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. One registration permits only the participation of one author in the conference. Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company papers will be published by AISTI. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP and Google Scholar, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: - International Journal of Neural Systems (IF: 6.085 / Q1) - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (IF: 4.981 / Q1) - International Journal of Information Management (IF: 2.692 / Q1) - Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (IF: 2.139 / Q1) - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (IF: 2.092 / Q1) - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (IF: 1.759 / Q1) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 2.213 / Q2) - Journal of Business Research (IF: 2.129 / Q2) - Pervasive and Mobile Computing (IF: 1.719 / Q2) - Knowledge and Information Systems (IF: 1.702 / Q2) - Journal of Grid Computing (IF: 1.561 / Q2) - Special Issue on "Big Data" - Cluster Computing (IF:1.514 / Q2) - Special Issue on "Advanced Machine Learning in Parallel and Distributed Knowledge Discovery" - International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection (IF: 1.351 / Q2) - Expert Systems - Journal of Knowledge Engineering (IF: 0.947 / Q3) - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (IF: 0.942 / Q3) - Science of Computer Programming (IF: 0.828 / Q3) - Ethics and Information Technology (IF: 0.739 / Q3) - Annals of Telecommunications (IF: 0.722 / Q3) - Engineering Computations (IF: 0.691 / Q3) - Advances in Complex Systems (IF: 0.461 / Q3) - Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504 / Q4) - AI Communications (IF: 0.364 / Q4) - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology (SR: 0.672 / Q2) - Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (SR: 0.642 / Q2) - TEM Journal - Technology, Education, Management, Informatics (ISI - Emerging Sources Citation Index) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering - Imaging & Visualization (ISI - Emerging Sources Citation Index) - Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 13, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: December 25, 20156 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 8, 2017. Camera-ready Submission: January 8, 2017 - Website of WorldCIST'17 http://www.worldcist.org/ - Best regards, AISTI http://www.aisti.eu/ ---- PS: If you do not wish to receive any more notices from AISTI (http://www.aisti.eu) just reply to this message with the word REMOVE in the subject line. From rhill at asis.org Thu Oct 6 16:08:57 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (=?utf-8?Q?Richard=20B.=20Hill?=) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 20:08:57 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?All_the_Facts=3A_A_History_of_Information_in_t?= =?utf-8?q?he_United_States_Since_1870=C2=A0?= Message-ID: MEET THE AUTHOR SERIES All the Facts: A History of Information in the United States Since 1870 Join us for a discussion on Oct 10, 2016 at 12:00 PM EDT. FREE for ASIS&T members; $15 for non-members REGISTER NOW! (http://asist.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de58424ef2e609298efbb4a00&id=4881eba613&e=0ff68a2a9c) James W. Cortada discusses the key findings from his new book, All the Facts: A History of Information in the United States Since 1870. He will also introduce a framework for studying information history that can be applied at the national level and in more narrowly focused studies. His discussion will review the role of information in the private and public sectors, also how people used information in their public and private lives, and conclude with an argument in favor of understanding the role of information as a central theme in American history. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. View System Requirements (http://asist.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de58424ef2e609298efbb4a00&id=c17cfb3ee4&e=0ff68a2a9c) Copyright ? 2016 ASIST, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences (http://asist.us12.list-manage2.com/profile?u=de58424ef2e609298efbb4a00&id=b94c7f7e72&e=0ff68a2a9c) or unsubscribe from this list (http://asist.us12.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=de58424ef2e609298efbb4a00&id=b94c7f7e72&e=0ff68a2a9c&c=bd1f672d6f) ============================================================ From JINGJING at mailbox.sc.edu Wed Oct 5 10:12:12 2016 From: JINGJING at mailbox.sc.edu (LIU, JINGJING) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 14:12:12 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Two faculty positions: Assistant or Associate Professor in information science, University of South Carolina In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Forwarded on behalf of the search committee chair. ------------------------------------------ The University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science in Columbia invites applications and nominations for two tenure-track faculty positions at the Assistant or Associate Professor level to begin fall 2017. Shape the future of library and information science. Pursue your interests in a diverse, intellectually stimulating, and multi-disciplinary environment that provides support and encouragement as part of a collaborative work culture. Be a strong voice in the shaping of a growing information science undergraduate program. An earned doctorate in library and information science or a related field is preferred, while strong candidates who are ABD with a fixed graduation date will be considered. This position requires a clearly articulated research agenda, and enthusiasm for and excellence in teaching in both online and face-to-face formats. The School is particularly interested in two candidates with specializations in one or more of the following areas: ? Information Science ? Information Retrieval, Storage, and Access ? Human Computer Interaction ? Databases ? Knowledge Management ? User Experience and Service ? Web Systems ? Metadata ? Data Analytics Selected candidates will be expected to help with the school's commitment to diversity through research, teaching, and service. The School of Library and Information Science has a growing Bachelor of Science in Information Science program and a joint Certificate of Health Communications with Public Health and Communications. The School's MLIS degree program is fully accredited by the American Library Association. The school library preparation program is part of the University's Professional Education Unit which is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). The School also offers three programs of advanced study beyond the Master's degree (the Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in Library and Information Science, the Specialist in Library and Information Science, and the Ph.D. in Library and Information Science). Faculty teach across all degree programs. The School has a strong commitment to distance education and is one of two Schools in the College of Information and Communications. The second is the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. The School is located on the campus' historic Horseshoe. It has nationally recognized programs in school library media, youth services, and medical librarianship. Since its inception, the School has emphasized the use of information technology as a vital component of library and information services. Founded in 1801, the University of South Carolina-Columbia is the flagship campus of an eight-campus, fully accredited, state-supported system. USC? Columbia has strong undergraduate and graduate programs and other highly regarded professional schools including: medicine, law, education, engineering, social work, pharmacy, public health, arts and sciences, nursing, and business administration. The University is a Carnegie Research I institution. Approximately 33,000 students are enrolled on the Columbia campus and more than 44,000 throughout the system. The City of Columbia is the state capital with a metropolitan area population of almost half a million. It is a state center of financial, transportation, and industrial development, and it has a rich historical and cultural tradition. It is located within easy driving distance of both mountains and coast. Responsibilities: ? Participate in instruction, research, publication, grant writing, and other scholarly activities ? Instruct undergraduate and graduate courses in both face-to-face as well as online environments ? Mentor and advise undergraduate and graduate students ? Provide service to the department, college, university, profession, and community Minimum Qualifications: ? Earned doctorate in by time of appointment in library and information studies or related field ? Capacity to teach in an undergraduate program ? Ability to conduct scholarly research in the field ? Capacity to teach and mentor at the graduate level ? Knowledge in creating educational materials for face-to-face and online instruction ? Understand and appreciate information science?s connection to field of librarianship Preferred Qualifications: ? Teaching experience at the collegiate level ? Teaching experience in an online or distance education environment ? Active involvement in one or more professional organizations appropriate to area of expertise ? Experience in management or teaching management courses ? Experience in procuring grants or external funding Applications and nominations are invited for positions to be available in August 2017. Salary is fully competitive. The Committee will begin full review of applications and nominationsOctober 31, 2016 and will continue until the position is filled. TO APPLY: Applicants should send a letter of application and a complete resume/CV including the names of three references to Ms. Angela Wright at slisadmn at mailbox.sc.edu or by mail to School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina, Davis College, 1501 Greene Street, Columbia, SC 29208. For further information, questions, or to submit nominations, send an email to Dr. Heather Moorefield-Lang, Committee Chair at moorefield-lang at sc.edu or call at 803-777-0224 School Information is available at http://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/cic/library_and_information_science Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. The University of South Carolina is responsive to the needs of dual career couples. The University of South Carolina is an equal opportunity institution. -- Jingjing Liu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Science University of South Carolina 1501 Greene Street, Columbia, SC 29208 Tel.: (803) 777-1136 Fax: (803) 777-7938 jingjing at sc.edu From xh.gslis at gmail.com Sat Oct 8 12:32:08 2016 From: xh.gslis at gmail.com (Xiao Hu) Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 00:32:08 +0800 Subject: [Asis-l] Reminder and Gallery: Silent Auction at Annual Meeting Message-ID: Dear All, This is a gentle reminder and warmly invitation for donations and participation to the Silent Auction to be held in the International Reception in the ASIS&T AM: Oct. 17, 8pm. If you have interesting items from your culture and region, please bring them alone. It would be very helpful if you could print out the attached form and fill in the information for your items. There will be a box near the registration receiving donations. Here is a gallery of some items waiting for bids: http://www.asis.org/SIG/ SIGIII/silent-auction-2016-asist-annual-meeting more items will be added. If you could take simple pictures of your items, please kindly send them to me. I will upload them to the gallery. The income of the Silent Auction will be used to support the InfoShare program and International Paper Contest held by SIG III each year. Both programs are supporting students and professionals from developing countries. If you are not able to attend the AM in person, you may mail your donations to: Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers ASIS&T Annual meeting Attn: Vanessa Foss ?restads Boulevard 114-118 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark Hotel Front Desk: 45-88-776655 Please come and join this fun and very meaningful event! Thank you! Cheers, Xiao Hu, PhD Faculty of Education The University of Hong Kong Tel: 22194722 Email: xiaoxhu at hku.hk From rong.tang at simmons.edu Mon Oct 10 12:32:10 2016 From: rong.tang at simmons.edu (Rong Tang) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 12:32:10 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Invitation to ASIS&T Publications Committee Paper Presentation Message-ID: Dear all, As you may recall, back in February and March of this year, the ASIS&T Publications Committee conducted an online survey about ASIS&T publication users' perceptions of, and experiences with, ASIS&T publications. The Committee wishes to thank those of you who participated in the survey. In total there were 210 respondents who started the survey, with 190 identified as ASIS&T publications users. We are pleased to tell you that our paper entitled ?Needs Assessment of ASIS&T Publications: Bridging Information Research and Practice? was accepted to be presented at the upcoming ASIS&T Annual Meeting. The Committee would like to invite you to attend our paper presentation on Sunday (October 16, 2016) at 15:30pm ( https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/program/information-and-scholarly-association-papers /). After presenting key results of the study, the Committee plans to have an interactive period with the audience to collect feedback about your thoughts on future directions of ASIS&T publications. The audience will be asked to fill out a brief survey, either in a paper form or online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/asistpubspaper. This coming year, in addition to continuing with its needs assessment project by conducting follow-up interviews during ASIS&T or after ASIS&T, the Publication Committee's 2016-2017 goals are: (1) Explore ASIS&T publications users' thoughts on reviving *ARIST*, and develop specific plans for reviving *ARIST* (2) Discuss possible ways to make* the Bulletin* serving as a bridge between researchers and professionals/practitioners (3) Expand the impact of ASIS&T publications to geographical areas beyond North America (4) Conduct a comparative analysis of bibliometric and altmetric counts of publications occurring in recent JASIST and Proceedings volumes/issues We know that you care about and have a lot of thoughts about ASIS&T publications. Your feedback is very important to the Committee. Please come to our paper presentation session at ASIS&T AM if you are able to, or contact us during or after the conference if you wish to share your thoughts. We appreciate your valuable input and look forward to hearing from you! Sincerely, ASIS&T Publications Committee 2016-2017 Rong Tang (Co-Chair) (rong.tang at simmons.edu) Yuelin Li (Co-Chair) (yuelinli at nankai.edu.cn) Jamshid Beheshti (Board Liaison) (jamshid.beheshti at mcgill.ca) John Budd (BuddJ at missouri.edu) Samuel Chu (samchu at hku.hk) Alyson Gamble (agamble at ncf.edu) Lorri Mon (lmon at fsu.edu) Chaoqun Ni (chaoqun.ni at simmons.edu) Danielle Pollock (dpolloc2 at vols.utk.edu) Deborah Turner (dat49 at drexel.edu) Lu Xiao (luxiaoist at gmail.com) -- Rong Tang, PhD. Associate Professor School of Library and Information Science Director, Simmons Usability Lab Simmons College rong.tang at simmons.edu 1-617-521-2880 From brya at illinois.edu Wed Oct 12 10:18:31 2016 From: brya at illinois.edu (Brya, Cynthia Ann) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 14:18:31 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] iSchool at Illinois well represented at ASIS&T 2016 Message-ID: <1A0BC9C39CEB7F49AE6A91ECEB17921B5ED522D3@CITESMBX5.ad.uillinois.edu> Faculty and students from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will participate in the 2016 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, to be held October 14-18 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The involvement of iSchool faculty extends beyond participation in the event. Associate Professor Kathryn La Barre is a member of the ASIS&T Board of Directors, contributing to governance activities. La Barre also served as chair of the jury that selected the Best Information Science Book of the Year. Associate Professor Catherine Blake was paper co-chair for the conference as well as a member of the jury that selected the Research Award. Papers "Introducing the Author-ity Exporter, and a case study of geo-temporal movement of authors" Assistant Professor Vetle Torvik, Brent Fegley (PhD '16), and informatics doctoral candidate Mikko Tuomela Friday, October 14, 9:10 a.m., Loch Ness "Preparing a Workforce to Effectively Re-use Data" Doctoral candidate Ana Lucic and Associate Professor Catherine Blake Sunday, October 16, 3:30 p.m., Loire "The Durability and Fragility of Knowledge Infrastructures: Lessons Learned from Astronomy" Assistant Professor Peter Darch and UCLA researchers Christine Borgman, Ashley Sands, and Milena Golshan Sunday, October 16, 3:30 p.m., Loire "What Makes a Query Temporally Sensitive?" Doctoral students Craig Willis and Garrick Sherman and Associate Professor Miles Efron Monday, October 17, 8:30 a.m., Loch Ness "The Power of Imaginary Users: Designated Communities in the OAIS Reference Model" Postdoctoral research associate Rhiannon Stephanie Bettivia Monday, October 17, 1:30 p.m., Everest 2 "Toward Accessible Course Content: Challenges and Opportunities for Libraries and Information Systems" Doctoral students Katrina Fenlon and Ruohua Han, master's student Alex Kinnaman, Professor J. Stephen Downie, and Laura Wood (Tufts University) Monday, October 17, 3:30 p.m., Everest 3 "Music Subject Classification Based on Lyrics and User Interpretations" Doctoral student Kahyun Choi, Professor J. Stephen Downie, Jin Ha Lee (University of Washington), and Xiao Hu (University of Hong Kong) Tuesday, October 18, 8:30 a.m., Loch Ness "The Onion Routing: Understanding a Privacy Enhancing Technology Community" Assistant Professor Masooda Bashir and Hsiao-Ying Huang (Illinois Informatics Institute) Tuesday, October 18, 1:30 p.m., Loch Ness "The Public Will vs. the Public Trust: Early American Radio as a Public Information Resource" Doctoral student Stacy Wykle Tuesday, October 18, 1:30 p.m., Loire Panels "Information Behavior in Workspaces" Panelists include Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke Saturday, October 15, 1:30 p.m., Loire "Digital Sociology and Information Science Research" Panelists include Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke Monday, October 17, 3:30 p.m., Loire "Preserving Intangible Heritage: Defining a Research Agenda" Panelists include Associate Professor Jerome McDonough, Senior Lecturer Maria Bonn, and Associate Professor Lori Kendall Tuesday, October 18, 10:30 a.m., Everest 1 Symposia "Information Behavior in Workplaces (SIG/USE)" Chairs include Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke Saturday, October 15, 1:30 p.m., Loire Posters Presented during the President's Reception on Monday, October 17, 6:30 p.m., Everest Ballroom "Understanding the Needs of Scholars in a Contemporary Publishing Environment" Doctoral student Katrina Fenlon, Senior Lecturer Maria Bonn, library associate professor and iSchool affiliate Harriett Green, data analysis consultant Chris Maden, library assistant professor Aaron McCollough, and senior project coordinator Megan Senseney "Disambiguating Descriptions: Mapping Digital Special Collections Metadata into Linked Open Data Formats" Doctoral student Jacob Jett, library associate professor Myung-Ja Han, and library professor and iSchool affiliate Timothy Cole "Shopping for Sources: An Everyday Information Behavior Exploration of Grocery Shoppers' Information Sources" Postdoctoral research associate Melissa Ocepek "Towards a Seamless Multilingual Semantic Web: A Study on Constructing a Cross-Lingual Ontology" Doctoral student Jessica (Yi-Yun) Cheng and Hsueh-Hua Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Cindy Brya Assistant Director for Communications School of Information Sciences 207 LIS Building, MC-493 501 E Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 333-8312 From Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca Tue Oct 11 01:28:13 2016 From: Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca (Freund, Luanne) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 05:28:13 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Faculty openings at UBC - learn more at the ASIST Conference Message-ID: The iSchool at the University of British Columbia will be advertising two tenure track faculty positions this year in the areas of Information science and digital technologies and Public knowledge, information and society. We are eager to meet and discuss these opportunities with interested individuals at the ASIST Conference in Copenhagen. Luanne Freund, Acting Director of the UBC iSchool and Chair of the Search Committee, will be attending the conference. To schedule a time to meet please send a note to ischool.recruit at ubc.ca. Luanne Freund Associate Professor and Acting Director The iSchool, University of British Columbia luanne.freund at ubc.ca From kdali at ualberta.ca Wed Oct 12 10:20:18 2016 From: kdali at ualberta.ca (Keren Dali) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:20:18 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] IFLA webinar featuring speakers from three accreditation bodies Message-ID: <4D2A20526FC84C0193ECA8B950E7D432@tns0.com> Please excuse cross-postings *** Building Strong LIS Education (BSLISE) Webinar Developing an international quality assessment framework for LIS Education: experiences and opportunities from three accreditation programs The IFLA Building Strong LIS Education (BSLISE) Working Group invites you to a webinar that considers how associations cooperating internationally could create an international quality assessment framework for LIS education. The presentation will draw on the experience of delivering accreditation of library and information studies (LIS) education programs by the American Library Association (ALA), Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), and Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), and the wider international context for quality assessment. It will consider the challenges and opportunities in developing a framework and consider how it could promote parity between accreditation criteria used by national library associations to promote professional mobility globally. The FREE presentation will be followed by discussion. Moderator: Jaya Raju, Associate Professor and Head, Library and Information Studies Centre, University of Cape Town (South Africa) Speakers: Simon Berney-Edwards, CILIP (UK) Judy Brooker, ALIA (Australia) Karen O'Brien, ALA (USA) Date and Time: Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 2:00-3:00 pm CDT (Chicago) Time equivalents: London (England); November 3, 2016 at 7:00-8:00 pm GMT (5 hours ahead) Cape Town (South Africa); November 3, 2016 at 9:00-10:00 pm SAST (7 hours ahead) Canberra (Australia) Friday, November 4, 2016 at 6:00-7:00 am AEDT (16 hours ahead) Use https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html to determine your local time. Registration: http://tinyurl.com/juw38mp by *November 2nd*. Join us via Blackboard Collaborate (information will be provided after registration). The IFLA Building Strong LIS Education (BSLISE) Working Group https://lisedu.wordpress.com/ emerged out of deliberations at the 2016 IFLA Satellite Meeting (Dublin, Ohio, USA) https://publish.illinois.edu/ifla-set-ltr-2016/program/ on quality assessment of LIS education programs hosted by the IFLA Section on Education and Training & the Section on Library Theory and Research. The BSLISE Working Group is comprised of members from across the globe. *** Keren Dali, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Library & Information Studies University of Alberta 3-05 Rutherford South Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2J4 https://kerendali.wordpress.com/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Keren_Dali **************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail. The contents of this e-mail must not be disclosed or copied without the sender's consent. **************************************************** From ebailey at unc.edu Tue Oct 11 07:39:03 2016 From: ebailey at unc.edu (Bailey, Earl) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 11:39:03 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] What does it mean to be good at searching online? Be a part of finding the answer! Message-ID: <1476185943102.28158@unc.edu> Are you an expert online searcher? What makes you an expert? We want to find out! We are seeking online search experts to fill out a short (5-7) minute survey to help determine which qualities or experience might set you apart from other searchers. Your participation is vital in order to compare your responses to the responses of the average searcher. Please consider participating now - the survey will be available online for a limited time. Your participation will consist of answering a set of questions related to online searching, including some questions about your experience searching. Your answers to these questions will be anonymous and will be used to further refine the survey and to help determine what it takes to be an expert online searcher. This is a research study. To join the study is voluntary. You may refuse to join, or you may withdraw your consent to be in the study, for any reason, without penalty. Research studies are designed to obtain new knowledge. Participants who complete the survey will be entered into a drawing for one of two $25 Amazon gift cards as a thank you for participating. Thank you for your attention. I hope that you will choose to participate. Please click on the link below to participate. https://unc.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_e3a5di717PNtPHT Regards, Earl Bailey School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina From Dick at asis.org Wed Oct 12 12:09:41 2016 From: Dick at asis.org (Dick at asis.org) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 12:09:41 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Building Strong LIS Education (BSLISE) Webinar Message-ID: <8d679e892d2ae46d7452e5ef8e1dd7bc.squirrel@mail.asis.org> Please excuse cross-postings. Sent by request *** Building Strong LIS Education (BSLISE) Webinar Developing an international quality assessment framework for LIS Education: experiences and opportunities from three accreditation programs The IFLA Building Strong LIS Education (BSLISE) Working Group invites you to a webinar that considers how associations cooperating internationally could create an international quality assessment framework for LIS education. The presentation will draw on the experience of delivering accreditation of library and information studies (LIS) education programs by the American Library Association (ALA), Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), and Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), and the wider international context for quality assessment. It will consider the challenges and opportunities in developing a framework and consider how it could promote parity between accreditation criteria used by national library associations to promote professional mobility globally. The FREE presentation will be followed by discussion. Moderator: Jaya Raju, Associate Professor and Head, Library and Information Studies Centre, University of Cape Town (South Africa) Speakers: Simon Berney-Edwards, CILIP (UK) Judy Brooker, ALIA (Australia) Karen O'Brien, ALA (USA) Date and Time: Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 2:00-3:00 pm CDT (Chicago) Time equivalents: London (England); November 3, 2016 at 7:00-8:00 pm GMT (5 hours ahead) Cape Town (South Africa); November 3, 2016 at 9:00-10:00 pm SAST (7 hours ahead) Canberra (Australia) Friday, November 4, 2016 at 6:00-7:00 am AEDT (16 hours ahead) Use https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html to determine your local time. Registration: http://tinyurl.com/juw38mp by *November 2nd*. Join us via Blackboard Collaborate (information will be provided after registration). The IFLA Building Strong LIS Education (BSLISE) Working Group https://lisedu.wordpress.com/ emerged out of deliberations at the 2016 IFLA Satellite Meeting (Dublin, Ohio, USA) https://publish.illinois.edu/ifla-set-ltr-2016/program/ on quality assessment of LIS education programs hosted by the IFLA Section on Education and Training & the Section on Library Theory and Research. The BSLISE Working Group is comprised of members from across the globe. *** Keren Dali, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Library & Information Studies University of Alberta 3-05 Rutherford South Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2J4 https://kerendali.wordpress.com/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Keren_Dali From junus at mail.lib.msu.edu Fri Oct 14 17:59:54 2016 From: junus at mail.lib.msu.edu (Junus, Ranti) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:59:54 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Code4Lib 2017 Call for Proposals Message-ID: <13CEDD3CC20A8D40BC18DD7A7C9135EFB07267FE@mailbox1.lib.msu.edu> Code4Lib 2017 is a loosely-structured conference that provides people working at the intersection of libraries/archives/museums/cultural heritage and technology with a chance to share ideas, be inspired, and forge collaborations. For more information about the Code4Lib community, please visit http://code4lib.org/about/. The conference will be held at the Luskin Conference Center at UCLA http://luskinconferencecenter.ucla.edu/, from March 6, 2017 - March 9, 2017. More information about Code4lib 2017 will be coming soon. We encourage all members of the community to submit a proposal for a prepared talk. Prepared talks should focus on one or more of the following areas: -Projects you've worked on which incorporate innovative implementation of existing technologies and/or development of new software - Tools and technologies - How to get the most out of existing tools, standards, and protocols (and ideas on how to make them better) - Technical issues - Big issues in library technology that are worthy of community attention or development - Relevant non-technical issues - Concerns of interest to the Code4Lib community which are not strictly technical in nature, e.g. collaboration, diversity, organizational challenges, etc. This year, in order to provide increased opportunities for a diversity of speakers and topics, we'll be soliciting 10, 15, and 20 minute talks. You'll be asked to indicate which talk lengths you would be willing to accommodate for your proposal. We are also considering holding a poster session at this year's conference. If you would be interested in presenting your topic as a poster, please indicate so on the form. https://goo.gl/forms/GbM0jmSdXFkRdHAr2 In addition to "traditional" presentations and posters, we plan to include a panel session this year. If you have a topic you'd like to suggest for a panel, and are willing to work with the Program Committee to organize / recruit for the session, please use the following form. https://goo.gl/forms/q2KbVcO4ntkh6bPp1 As in past years, the Code4Lib community will vote on proposals that they would like to see included in the program. The top 10 proposals are guaranteed a slot of their preferred length at the conference. The Program Committee will curate the remainder of the program in an effort to ensure diversity in program content and presenters. Community votes will, of course, still weigh heavily in these decisions. Presenters whose proposals are selected for inclusion in the program will have conference registration slots held for them (up to 2 speakers per talk). In addition, panel participants will have registration slots held. The standard conference registration fee will apply. Proposals can be submitted through November 7, 2016 at midnight PST (GMT-8). Voting will start on November 16, 2016 and continue through December 7, 2016. The URL to submit votes will be announced on the Code4Lib website and mailing list and will require an active code4lib.org account to participate. The final list of presentations will be announced in December. Thank you, The Code4Lib 2017 Program Committee -- Ranti Junus, Systems/Electronic Resources Librarian Library Science Collection & Museum Studies Liaison Michigan State University Libraries 366 W. Circle Dr., East Lansing, MI 48824-1048 +1.517.884.0878 | @ranti From xh.gslis at gmail.com Fri Oct 14 00:02:58 2016 From: xh.gslis at gmail.com (Xiao Hu) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:02:58 +0800 Subject: [Asis-l] Final Call: Silent Auction at Annual Meeting Message-ID: Dear All, As the AM meeting will officially start in just hours, please let us send one more call for participation and donations to the Silent Auction. It will be held in the International Reception in the ASIS&T AM: Oct. 17, 8pm. We have updated the gallery of items waiting for bids: http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/silent-auction-2016-asist-annual-meeting If you have items and would like them to be featured there, please send me their pictures. Also, may I remind you to print and fill out this form for the items you'd bring to join the auction? https://drive.google.com/file/d/ 0B2mgBBUMBns8Qy1xa2VmeGhHMUk/view?usp=sharing No worries if you forgot the form. We will do that for you. When you arrive the conference, please put your items to the box near the registration that is for receiving donated items for the silent auction. And, most of all, please do come to the international reception! Thanks very much for your support! Looking forward to seeing you in the event! Cheers, Xiao Hu, PhD Faculty of Education The University of Hong Kong Room 329, Hui Oi-Chow Science Building Tel: 22194722 Email: xiaoxhu at hku.hk From alisa.libby at simmons.edu Thu Oct 13 15:29:43 2016 From: alisa.libby at simmons.edu (Alisa Libby) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:29:43 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Simmons SLIS at ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2016 Message-ID: Associate Professor Naresh Agarwal and Associate Professor Rong Tang will represent Simmons SLIS at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark, October 14-18. They will present their research papers during the Information and Scholarly Association Papers session on Sunday, October 16. Tang will present a paper titled "Needs Assessment of ASIS&T Publications: Bridging Information Research and Practice," which reports the results of a 2016 online survey on perceptions and uses of ASIS&T publications. Tang is a co-Chair of ASIS&T Publications Committee 2016-2017, and the Committee will conduct follow-up interviews with a number of survey respondents during the Annual Meeting. Agarwal will co-present a paper, "How Can Professional Associations Continue to Stay Relevant? Knowledge Management to the Rescue," about what professional associations can do to stay relevant. -- *Follow SLIS on tumblr and twitter !* Alisa M. Libby Communications Assistant Simmons College, SLIS 300 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 t 617-521-2816 f 617-521-3192 Author, *The King's Rose* and *The Blood Confession* alisalibby.com From lis at ntu.edu.tw Thu Oct 13 02:26:44 2016 From: lis at ntu.edu.tw (Dept. of LIS, National Taiwan University) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 06:26:44 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / LIS Faculty Position / National Taiwan University Message-ID: Dept. of Library and Information Science in National Taiwan University is seeking to employ one full-time faculty 1. Qualification: Doctoral degree in library and information science related fields 2. Documents Required: *Photocopy of doctoral diploma; Those who have not yet received the diploma at the time of application must provide a formal statement from the degree granting institution indicating that it will be in hand by the time of appointment *official transcripts of the master's and doctoral studies * Photocopy of working experience certification *resume *at least one academic work published within 5 years (published after Apr. 1, 2012, doctoral dissertation included) *a list of publications *a list of courses taught or course plan with detail course outlines, syllabi and bibliography 3. Other Requirements: *Ability to teach in Mandarin Chinese and English on library and information science related subjects *The applicants who pass preliminary review by our review board will be invited to give a presentation to our faculty (travel expenses to be paid by applicant) *All applications will not be returned. 4. Date of appointment and position official rank: Appointment begins on August 1, 2017. Official rank appointed is according to working experience and qualifications. 5. Application deadline: January 25, 2017 6. How to apply: All the documents must be prepared in printed format and mailed to Department of Library and Information Science Address: Professor Chi-Shiou Lin Department of Library and Information Science, National Taiwan University No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan, R. O. C. Email: lis at ntu.edu.tw Tel: 886-2-3366-2958 Fax: 886-2-2363-2859 -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: National Taiwan University Faculty Position.txt URL: From bs740 at comminfo.rutgers.edu Wed Oct 12 14:43:00 2016 From: bs740 at comminfo.rutgers.edu (Brenda Sheridan) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 18:43:00 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Rutgers, School of Communication and Information Faculty and Students to Attend Annual ASIS&T Meeting Message-ID: Rutgers, School of Communication and Information faculty members and students will attend the Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology?s (ASIS&T) in Copenhagen, Denmark from Oct. 14-18. At the international conference, scholars and practitioners in the fields of information science and technology will gather to share research, innovations, and insights through paper, poster, panel, and workshop discussions. SC&I professors and students will present their research throughout the conference. SESSIONS Sunday, October 16 15:30 Health Information Behavior (Paper Session) Managing Personal Information Over the Long-term, Or Not? Experiences by Type 1 Diabetes Patients Si Sun, (SC&I Doctoral Student) Rutgers University Nicholas J. Belkin Ph.D., Rutgers University Impact of Patient-provider Communication on Online Health Information Behaviors in Chronic Illness Kaitlin Costello Ph.D., Rutgers University 17:30 Qualitative Methods for Studying Health Information Behaviors (Panel Session) Sanghee Oh, Florida State University Kaitlin L. Costello Ph.D., Rutgers University Annie T. Chen, University of Washington Barbara M. Wildemuth, University of North Carolina Monday, October 17 8:30 The Science of Queries (Paper Session) Exploring the Relationships Between Search Intentions and Query Reformulations Eun Youp Rha (SC&I Doctoral Student), Nicholas J. Belkin Ph.D., Matthew Mitsui (CS Doctoral Student), Chirag Shah Ph.D., all of Rutgers University 13:30 Searching for Relevance (Paper Session) Using Affective Signals as Implicit Indicators of Information Relevance and Information Processing Strategies Roberto I. Gonz?lez-Ib??ez Universidad de Santiago de Chile Chirag Shah Ph.D., Rutgers University 16:45 (Room: Thames 1): Information Session, new Special Interest Group: SIG Information and Learning Sciences (Incoming Chair, Rebecca Reynolds Ph.D., Rutgers University, pending approvals). This is an information session on the scope and goals for this exciting new SIG at ASIS&T proposed by Dr. Reynolds and colleagues. 18:30 President's Reception Featuring Posters Perceptions of Accessibility and Usability by Blind or Visually Impaired Persons: A Pilot Study Shannon M. Tomlinson (SC&I Doctoral Student), Rutgers University What Social Media Data Should I Use in My Research?: A Comparative Analysis of Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, and the New York Times Comments Dongho Choi (SC&I Doctoral Student), Ziad Matni (SC&I Doctoral Student) and Chirag Shah Ph.D., all of Rutgers University Deconstructing the Failure: Analyzing the Unanswered Questions within Educational Q&A Manasa Rath (SC&I Doctoral Student) and Chirag Shah Ph.D., both of Rutgers University Exploring Support for the Unconquerable Barriers in Information Seeking Yiwei Wang (SC&I Doctoral Student) and Chirag Shah Ph.D., both of Rutgers University Information Worth Spreading: An Exploration of Information Sharing from Social Q&A to Other Social Media Platforms Jiqun Liu (SC&I Doctoral Student) and Yiwei Wang (SC&I Doctoral Student), both of Rutgers University Which Team Benefits from Collaboration?: Investigating Collaborative Information Seeking Using Personal and Social Contextual Signals Dongho Choi (SC&I Doctoral Student), Chirag Shah Ph.D. and Vivek Singh (Ph.D.) all of Rutgers University Tuesday, October 18 13:30 Spanning Languages and Cultures (Paper session) Chair: Chirag Shah (Ph.D.), Rutgers University Plagiarism-free Inquiry Project-based Learning with UPCC Pedagogy Celina Wing Yi Lee, Samuel Kai Wah Chu, Joanna Oi Yue Cheng The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China), Rebecca Reynolds Ph.D., Rutgers University 15:30 Ethical Tensions in Research: The Influence of Metatheoretical Orientation on Research Ethics (Panel Session) Sarah Barriage (SC&I Doctoral Student), Rutgers University Wayne Buente, University of Hawai?i at Ma?noa Elke Greifeneder, Humboldt-Universitaet, Berlin Devon Greyson, University of British Columbia, Canada Miraida Morales (SC&I Doctoral Student), Rutgers University Ross Todd Ph.D., Rutgers University Poster Presentations by SC&I Doctoral Students: Yiwei Wang; Shannon Tomlinson; Miraida Morales; Dongho Choi; Sarah Barriage Jiqun Liu; Eun Youp Rah; Manasa Rath; Ziad Matni For more information, click here. View the full program here. Brenda Sheridan, EdD Director of Strategic Communications School of Communication and Information Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 p: 848-932-7078 c: 856-261-0089 From marialemos72 at gmail.com Wed Oct 19 13:04:20 2016 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (ML) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 18:04:20 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Papers - WorldCIST'17 Workshops - Porto Santo Island Message-ID: <201610191704.u9JH4MC3016470@smtp.dei.uc.pt> Please disseminate by your contacts. Thank you! *Best papers published in SCI/SSCI-indexed journals --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WorldCIST'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal 11th-13th of April 2017 http://www.worldcist.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- WorldCIST 2017 will feature a total of 18 Workshops. Paper submission for all Workshops must be performed at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=worldcist_workshops2017 selecting the desired Workshop. Workshop papers (Full ? 10 Pages and Short ? 7 Pages) will be published by Springer AISC series and the authors of the best Workshop paper will be invited to extend their work for publication at top International Journals (indexed by ISI Web of Knowledge and SCOPUS). Paper submission is open until November 27th for all Workshops. WORKSHOPS ? BIO - Business Intelligence in Organizations ? CMAIPA - Computational Methods and Applications for Image Processing and Analysis ? CSQA - Computer Supported Qualitative Analysis ? ESG - Educational and Serious Games ? ETCBPM - Emerging Trends and Challenges in Business Process Management ? HISISE - Workshop on Healthcare Information Systems Interoperability, Security and Efficiency ? HMInARMM - Human-Machine Interfaces in Automation, Robotics, Mechanics and Mechatronics ? ICDSS - Intelligent and Collaborative Decision Support Systems for Improving Manufacturing Processes ? ICTwithUAV - ICT solutions with Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles ? IoT4Health - Workshop on Internet of Things for Health ? ISM - Intelligent Systems and Machines ? ISTA - Information Systems and Technologies Adoption ? MAMM&MJ - Managing Audiovisual Mass Media (governance, funding and innovation) and Mobile Journalism ? NPAT - New Pedagogical Approaches with Technologies ? PIS - Workshop on Pervasive Information Systems ? RSPPI - Resources Sharing between Private and Public Institutions ? SIdEWayS - Social Media World Sensors ? TinW - Technologies in the Workplace - Use and Impact on Workers IMPORTANT DATES ? Deadline for paper submission: November 27th, 2016 ? Notification of paper acceptance: December 25th, 2016 ? Deadline for final versions and conference registration: January 8th, 2017 ? Conference dates: April 11 -13, 2017 SUBMISSION AND PAPER FORMAT Please Submit your paper at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=worldcist_workshops2017 Two types of papers can be submitted to workshops (both will be published at the Springer AISC proceedings): - Full papers: Finished or consolidated R&D works. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. - Short papers: Finished or consolidated R&D works and also Ongoing work but with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference, workshop or publication. Paper should not include any information leading to the authors? identification (in order to enable double blind review). Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two/three members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the latter case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers. PUBLICATION AND INDEXING Workshop papers will be published in the AISC Springer Conference Proceedings. To ensure that a paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by 11th of January 2017, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. Full and short papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in renowned international journals indexed by ISI, SCOPUS and DBLP (see the information available at the main conference CFP for more details). Website of WorldCIST'17: http://www.worldcist.org/ Best regards, Maria Lemos AISTI http://www.aisti.eu/ From asis at gwizdka.com Mon Oct 17 06:09:07 2016 From: asis at gwizdka.com (Jacek Gwizdka) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:09:07 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] [Extended deadline] 3rd CfP: Special Issue on Search As Learning Message-ID: 3rd Call: Special Issue of Springer's Information Retrieval Journal: Search As Learning. http://www.springer.com/10791 Guest editors: * Carsten Eickhoff, ETH Zurich * Jacek Gwizdka, University of Texas Austin * Claudia Hauff, Delft University of Technology * Jiyin He, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) *Extended Submission deadline: October 30, 2016* ======================================== 1. Call for Papers Search systems today are mostly viewed as tools to satisfy immediate information needs instead of complex information environments in which humans learn while interacting with information content. Research on the design, development and evaluation of search systems that foster learning and enhance the learning experience is scarce. Equally scarce is our current understanding of search as a human learning process. Opportunities exist today to not only observe and interpret users' behavior through the lens of search logs but also to enrich this information with detailed multimodal data streams gathered by tracking devices and sensors. 2. Topics of Interest * Log/lab-based studies on when and how learning occurs in the search process; * The relationship between the learning process and searchers' work task contexts; * Search system features that foster learning (both searching to learn and learning to search); * Search interface designs in support of learning; * The implications of search for learning for different populations (children, low-literacy searchers, etc.); * The roles of affect and engagement on learning whilst searching; * Methods and measures to assess searchers' learning; * Measuring learning outcomes to assess IR system performance; * Learning analytics for search contexts; * Collaborative aspects of search as learning; * Interaction monitoring, modeling and optimization for learning outcomes. 3. Submission guidelines Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference. Previously published or accepted conference papers must contain at least 30% new material to be considered for the special issue. All papers are to be submitted by referring to http://www.springer.com/10791 . At the beginning of the submission processin Editorial Manager, under 'Article Type', please select the appropriate special issue. All manuscripts must be prepared according to the journal publication guidelines which can also be found on the website provided above. Papers will be evaluated following the journal's standard review process 4. Important dates * Initial submission due (extended): October 30, 2016 * Initial reviewer feedback: November 21, 2016 * Revised submission due: December 21, 2016 * Final decision: February 15, 2017 Jacek Gwizdka, PhD (Toronto) http://gwizdka.com/research 'Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate' - William of Ockham (1285-1349) Research Talk on NeuroIR Assistant Professor at School of Information, University of Texas at Austin 1616 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX 78701, USA | Office 5.532 (5th floor) Information eXperience (IX) lab Co-Director | ACM Senior Member Distinguished Fellow of the Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists From ghislaine.chartron at lecnam.net Mon Oct 17 07:25:42 2016 From: ghislaine.chartron at lecnam.net (CHARTRON Ghislaine) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:25:42 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?iso-8859-1?q?Call_for_papers_/_revue_fran=E7aise_des_s?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ciences_de_l=27information_et_de_la_communication?= Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting Call for papers Revue Fran?aise des Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication (RFSIC) N?11 - Open access and open science - a debate Edited by G. Chartron (CNAM) and J. Sch?pfel (Lille 3) https://rfsic.revues.org/2504 (fran?ais) https://rfsic.revues.org/2505 (anglais) The objective of this special issue of the Revue Fran?aise des Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication (RFSIC) is to investigate the opportunities and risks of the transition of the academic publishing model and more globally, of open science. We solicit original contributions to inform and enrich the discussion on the following topics: Business models Policies Editorial mediation Societal and economic mediation Innovation in scientific work The submitted contributions (in French or English) should enhance the understanding of the actual transformation with empirical data, case studies, significant states of the art, historical perspectives, modelling or theoretical debates. A comparative approach will be particularly appreciated, of different scientific fields, countries or geopolitical regions. Important dates: 1th November: reception of proposals (abstracts) 1th December: feedback to authors about acceptation 30th March: reception of full papers 30th March-15th June: evaluation of full papers and final decision 30th August: reception of final versions for publication Contacts: Ghislaine Chartron (ghislaine.chartron at lecnam.net) and Joachim Sch?pfel (joachim.schopfel at univ-lille3.fr) Abstracts in french or in english are limited to 1200 words and must specify the issue, together with a brief overview of the literature, methodology and key findings. They will be sent in Word or .rtf format to the two editors of this issue. The journal RFSIC is 100% open access on the public French OpenEdition platform, without APCs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ghislaine CHARTRON Professeur du CNAM INTD-CNAM et labo DICEN-IDF 2 rue Cont?, Case 1D6000, 75003 Paris T : (33) 01 40 27 25 35 ghislaine.chartron at lecnam.net http://intd.cnam.fr http://www.dicen-idf.org/membre/chartron-ghislaine/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From Gillian.Oliver at vuw.ac.nz Mon Oct 17 20:46:37 2016 From: Gillian.Oliver at vuw.ac.nz (Gillian Oliver) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 00:46:37 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Lecturer/Senior Lecturer Vacancy in New Zealand Message-ID: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Information Studies School of Information Management Victoria University of Wellington Pipitea Campus An exciting opportunity to undertake teaching and research of high quality in Information Studies within the School of Information Management whilst establishing relationships with external practitioner communities. The School of Information Management (SIM) is seeking to appoint a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Information Studies to teach and conduct research of high quality, and to assist in programme development, particularly for the Master of Information Studies and the Postgraduate Certificate/Diploma in Information Studies programmes. Contributions to our growing undergraduate programme are also expected. You will be part of new teaching initiatives using a mixture of conventional face-to-face delivery along with flexible modes of delivery involving distance, online and asynchronous classes. The appointee will be an active researcher in his/her field with a clear record of research and scholarship activity and peer-reviewed journal publications commensurate with experience. We are interested in applications from individuals across the entire Library and Information Studies spectrum, especially those with Archives and Records Management expertise. We are particularly interested in candidates able to teach in the following areas: * Managing Archives * Records Management * Preservation in the context of archives and libraries Victoria University of Wellington is the only New Zealand university offering a post-graduate programme in Information Studies and as such it holds a special place nationally. It has successfully offered this programme for over 30 years. SIM is located in the Victoria Business School in New Zealand's capital city and is well positioned to develop close links with national institutions such as the National Library, the National Archives and Te Papa Museum. For more information on SIM, see www.victoria.ac.nz/sim. A completed or nearly completed PhD in a relevant domain is required. Reference: 1289 Applications close: Midnight, Sunday 13 November 2016 For further information and to apply online visit www.victoria.ac.nz/about/careers Gillian Oliver PhD Associate Professor Programme Director, Master of Information Studies School of Information Management Victoria University of Wellington PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand http://www.sim.vuw.ac.nz/staff/gillian-oliver.aspx Room RH 506 Phone (+ 64) (0)4 463 7437 From fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr Tue Oct 18 04:48:43 2016 From: fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr (IBEKWE-SANJUAN Fidelia) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 10:48:43 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Papers=3A_Open_access_and_open_scienc?= =?utf-8?q?e_=E2=80=93_a_debate?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > Apologies for cross-posting > > Call for papers > > Revue Fran?aise des Sciences de l?Information et de la Communication > (RFSIC) > > N?11 - Open access and open science ? a debate > > Edited by G. Chartron (CNAM) and J. Sch?pfel (Lille 3) > > https://rfsic.revues.org/2504 (fran?ais) > > https://rfsic.revues.org/2505 (anglais) > > The objective of this special issue of the Revue Fran?aise des > Sciences de l?Information et de la Communication (RFSIC) is to > investigate the opportunities and risks of the transition of the > academic publishing model and more globally, of open science. We > solicit original contributions to inform and enrich the discussion on > the following topics: > > Business models > > Policies > > Editorial mediation > > Societal and economic mediation > > Innovation in scientific work > > The submitted contributions (in French or English) should enhance the > understanding of the actual transformation with empirical data, case > studies, significant states of the art, historical perspectives, > modelling or theoretical debates. A comparative approach will be > particularly appreciated, of different scientific fields, countries or > geopolitical regions. > > Important dates: > > 1th November: reception of proposals (abstracts) > > 1th December: feedback to authors about acceptation > > 30th March: reception of full papers > > 30th March-15th June: evaluation of full papers and final decision > > 30th August: reception of final versions for publication > > Contacts: Ghislaine Chartron (ghislaine.chartron at lecnam.net > ) and Joachim Sch?pfel > (joachim.schopfel at univ-lille3.fr ) > > Abstracts in french or in english are limited to 1200 words and must > specify the issue, together with a brief overview of the literature, > methodology and key findings. They will be sent in Word or .rtf format > to the two editors of this issue. > > The journal RFSIC is 100% open access on the public French OpenEdition > platform, without APCs. > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Ph.D.) Full Professor (Professeur des Universit?s) School of Journalism & Communication (EJCAM) http://ejcam.univ-amu.fr/en Aix-Marseille University - France. Homepage: http://fidelia1.free.fr/ IRSIC research team: http://irsic.univ-amu.fr/Fidelia-IBEKWE-SANJUAN?lang=fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com Tue Oct 18 09:09:10 2016 From: centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com (Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 08:09:10 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Volunteers - Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management Executive Committee Message-ID: *** Excuse the cross postings *** Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management (CPN-DAM) invites volunteers to serve on the Executive Committee for a two-year term, November 2016-November 2018. The Executive Committee is the governing body of CPN-DAM that plans and considers future priorities and initiatives for the network that serves a five-state region of Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas. Members of the Executive Committee are required to be from an institution located in this five-state region (Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas). CPN-DAM would value your participation. If you are interested in serving on this committee, please contact the network?s Ad Hoc Executive Committee at centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com. The deadline to notify the committee of your interest is Friday, October 28, 2016. Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management www.newprairiepress.org/cpndam/ centralplainsnetworkcpndam at gmail.com From silvello at dei.unipd.it Tue Oct 18 10:34:46 2016 From: silvello at dei.unipd.it (Gianmaria Silvello) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 16:34:46 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] CfP: Keyword-based Access and Ranking at Scale Workshop co-located with EDBT/ICDT 2017 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <0BDCA757-E3CF-4383-BDDA-E87C1BA28364@dei.unipd.it> *** 2nd Call for Papers - KARS 2017 *** Keyword-based Access and Ranking at Scale (KARS 2017) Workshop co-located with EDBT/ICDT 2017 Venice, Italy, 21 March 2017 http://kars2017.dei.unipd.it/ * Paper submission deadline: November 14, 2016 * --- 1) Motivation Keyword search is the foremost approach for searching information and it has been successfully applied for retrieving non-structured documents such as text and multimedia files. Nonetheless, retrieving information from (unstructured or semi-structured) documents is intrinsically different from querying structured data sources with either an explicit schema, as relational databases or triple stores, or an implicit one, as tables in textual documents and on the Web. Consequently this model has left out the structured data sources which are typically accessed through structured queries, e.g. Structured Query Language (SQL) queries over relational databases or SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) queries over Linked Data graphs. Structured queries are not end-user oriented and far away from a natural expression of users' information needs by means of keywords, given that their formulation is based on a quite complex syntax and requires some knowledge about the structure of the data to be queried. Over the past several years, these facts triggered the research community and big data technology vendors to put a lot of effort into developing new approaches for keyword search over structured databases and it is still a primary research and industrial concern. There are three main issues currently hampering the design and development of next generation systems for keyword search over structured data able to effectively address the needs described above: (i) the lack of systemic approaches considering all of the issues of keyword search from the formulation and interpretation of the user needs, to the computation, retrieval, ranking and presentation of the results as well as the model by which iterative refinement is supported; (ii) the wide variety of tasks and domains (product to financial, public-record, health and drugs, scientific publications, hobby-related, and government, ?) which keyword search techniques need to address and which require the development of customized specific solutions. This make the design of a ?general purpose? keyword search application a complex task; (iii) the absence of a shared and complete evaluation methodology measuring user satisfaction, achieved utility, both effectiveness and efficiency, as well as required user effort for carrying out informative tasks on keyword-search systems on structured data. The aim of this multidisciplinary workshop is to bring together researchers from Databases, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, Human-Computer Interaction, and to combine their perspectives and research to address the above-mentioned issues. In particular, we wish to encourage researchers to discuss the opportunities, challenges, results obtained in the development and evaluation of ?complete?, ?ready-to-market? keyword search applications over structured data. We are in particular interested in proposal dealing with systemic approaches which manage all the phases of the keyword search, from the management of the data, query formulation, interpretation, computation, ranking and visualization of the results, as well as rigorous evaluation methodologies for such systems. --- 2) Topics We invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in relational databases, XML, RDF, Linked Open Data, information extraction, natural language processing, data warehouses, knowledge bases, and related areas to submit their original papers to this issue. The main topics include but are not limited to: - Keyword search on large graphs and knowledge bases; - Keyword search on XML data, RDF data, and Linked Open Data; - Keyword search on relational databases and data warehouses; - Keyword search semantics; - Conversational and spoken queries over structured data; - Learning to rank approaches for keyword search; - Integration of keyword search with other kinds of search tasks, e.g. unstructured search, multimedia search, semi-structured search, and more; - User interaction with keyword search systems; - Visualizations and user interfaces for keyword search query formulation and result presentation; - Keyword search for data integration; - Exploratory search and informative queries over keyword search; - Web tables extraction and search; - Highly scalable techniques, algorithms and data structures for keyword search; - Computational complexity of keyword search algorithms; - Semantic similarity, management, disambiguation and indexing; - Ranking schemes; - Top-K query processing; - Result snippet generation; - Result clustering; - Handling vagueness in users? information needs; - Query formulation, suggestion, and expansion; - Query cleaning; - User preferences and feedback; - Handling data uncertainty in keyword search; - Experimental evaluation: efficiency, effectiveness, effort, time-aware, user models, user satisfaction, and more; - Shared benchmarks and infrastructures for comparative keyword search evaluation; - Measures and analysis methods for keyword search evaluation; - Challenges in application domains of keyword search: product search, government, health and drugs, scientific data and publications, finance, and more. --- 3) Important Dates - Workshop paper submission deadline: November 14, 2016 - Workshop paper notification: December 20, 2016 - Workshop paper camera-ready: January 15, 2017 - Workshops: March 21, 2017 --- 4) Submission Instructions Papers should be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Papers should be two-four pages (maximum) in length. Papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee through single-blind peer review, i.e. authors do not need to be anonymized. Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality. Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kars2017 Accepted papers will be published online as a volume of the CEUR-WS proceeding series. --- 5) Organizers: - Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy - Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy - Zack Ives, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA - Gianmaria Silvello, University of Padua, Italy - Martin Theobald, Ulm University, Germany From niso-announce at niso.org Tue Oct 18 10:54:08 2016 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO Announce) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 10:54:08 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Provide your input for NISO publications priorities Message-ID: *[with apologies for cross-posting]* NISO is undertaking a substantive review of our publications portfolio to determine our best focus and attention in the future. To help us fully understand the broader impacts of the various standards, recommended practices, technical reports, white papers and other documents that NISO has published, we want include as much community input to this process as possible. *All are invited to participate in our publications portfolio survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/niso-portfolio .* The survey will be open through November 20. NISO publishes several types of documents: - *Standards*: The most formal, "fixed" documents that NISO publishes, providing rules, guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results. ANSI/NISO standards are approved by the American National Standards Institute and represent the highest form of stakeholder consensus. - *Recommended Practices*: "best practices" or "guidelines" for methods, materials, or practices in order to give guidance to the user. These documents usually represent a leading edge, exceptional model, or a proven industry practice. - *Technical Reports*: provide useful information about a particular topic, but do not make specific recommendations about practices to follow. They are thus "descriptive" rather than "prescriptive" in nature. - *White Papers, Primers, etc*.: contributed or solicited papers whose purpose is a call for action, a position paper, or an educational treatise on a specific issue. Your input to this survey, which will solicit your knowledge and attitudes about our varied publications, sorted by type, would be gratefully received. More than one representative from an organization may fill it out, as we recognize that there may be various perspectives represented, *and we appreciate these!* We anticipate that it will take 20-25 minutes to fill out the survey. You may pause the survey and come back to it at a later time, if you are using the same computer and browser. Thank you for your help. Please feel free to email any questions to nisohq at niso.org. ---------------------- Nettie Lagace Associate Director for Programs National Information Standards Organization (NISO) 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302 Baltimore, MD 21211 Mobile: 617-863-0501 Fax: 410-685-5278 E-mail: nlagace at niso.org From mcunha at ipca.pt Sat Oct 22 18:00:08 2016 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 23:00:08 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] ViNOrg 2016 - Int. Conf. on Virtual and Networked Organizations - Call for abstracts Message-ID: <201610222200.u9MM078M012825@mail.asis.org> Call for papers / abstracts / extended abstracts ViNOrg 2016 Fifth International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations: Emergent Technologies and Tools November 16-18, 2016 P?voa de Varzim, Portugal http://2100projects.org/conferences/vinorg16/ vinorg at 2100projects.org Full Papers/ Ext. Abstracts / Abstracts submission deadline: November 10, 2016 Notifications of acceptance within 24 hours after submission === Dear Colleague, we are pleased to invite you to consider submitting to the fifth edition of ViNOrg - International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations: Emergent Technologies and Tools. For more information please consult the conference webpage at http://2100projects.org/conferences/vinorg16/ Full paper or abstracts can be sent to vinorg at 2100projects.org Looking forward to meeting you in Povoa de Varzim next November, accept our best regards. The conference co-chairs, - Goran D. Putnik (putnikgd at dps.uminho.pt), University of Minho, Portugal - Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (mcunha at ipca.pt), Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal From kpearl at email.unc.edu Wed Oct 19 13:12:08 2016 From: kpearl at email.unc.edu (Perales, Katherine Pearl) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:12:08 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Mellon Foundation grant will support BitCurator expansion to improve analysis and accessibility of born-digital collections Message-ID: Mellon Foundation grant will support BitCurator expansion to improve analysis and accessibility of born-digital collections The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a grant for $750,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support BitCurator NLP, a project that will develop software and protocols for the application of natural language processing (NLP) methods to born-digital library, archives and museum (LAM) collections. The new tools created by the two-year project will enable professionals at LAMs to more effectively and efficiently curate digital materials, and ultimately make collections more accessible to individuals searching for information or documents. "We have repeatedly heard that LAMs need tools to help identify and explore information on specific entities such as people, places, organizations, and events that are of interest to curators and researchers," said UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Professor Christopher (Cal) Lee, principal investigator of the BitCurator NLP project. "This is particularly important for digital collections that contain thousands or hundreds of thousands of files, when it is impossible to manually inspect materials to determine which of the files are relevant for preservation." BitCurator NLP will build on the successes of the BitCurator and BitCurator Access projects, which developed and distributed tools to help LAMs manage the rapidly growing body of digital materials with cultural value. BitCurator produced an open-source software environment that facilitates the relocation of materials from portable media, such as floppy disks, flash drives, and hard drives, to more sustainable environments. Users can create disk images, analyze files and file systems, extract data and metadata, and identify and redact sensitive information, among other tasks. BitCurator Access further advanced these activities by producing BCA Webtools, which allows users to dynamically navigate file systems of disk images, as well as search the content of many common files types. BitCurator Access also developed tools for redacting sensitive information and experimented with emulation as an access mechanism for disk image content. The BitCurator and BitCurator Access products and associated communities are being sustained by the independent, member-driven BitCurator Consortium. BitCurator NLP will produce an open-source software that institutions can use to extract, analyze, and produce reports about relevant features found in the open text of digital materials in their collections. The software will also enable LAMs to improve or implement NLP capabilities to read files from their digital collections and produce reports for end users on demand. "While there are several existing and powerful open-source software NLP libraries and toolkits, no environment has been developed to deal with disk images or their content," Lee said. "Disk images are complex, often containing a variety of data and document types, and need considerable pre-processing to extract the content that can be interpreted and organized by NLP tools. This requires the type of underlying software that is already available through BitCurator and BCA Webtools. LAMs will be able to run BitCurator NLP independently, or within existing software environments." Kam Woods, Research Scientist at SILS, will be the co-principle investigator and technical lead for BitCurator NLP. The project will also employ Sunitha Misra as a full-time software developer and SILS doctoral student Jacob Hill as project manager. The project includes an advisory group of external partners with significant relevant experience to provide guidance and expertise. Katherine Pearl Perales Communications Coordinator School of Information and Library Science (SILS) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Manning Hall 04, CB# 3360 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 kpearl at email.unc.edu Phone: (919) 843-8337 SILS.UNC.EDU | SILS on Facebook | SILS on Twitter From asis at gwizdka.com Tue Oct 18 15:39:46 2016 From: asis at gwizdka.com (Jacek Gwizdka) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 21:39:46 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Faculty Openings at UT Austin's School of Information (iSchool) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The University of Texas at Austin's School of Information (iSchool) invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position, anticipated to start in Fall 2017. While we are most likely to hire at the Assistant Professor level, we will consider exceptional candidates for Associate, Full, or Endowed Professor positions. Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. *Faculty Opening Announcement*:https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/facultysearch *We will begin to review applications on November 1, 2016*. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. *Questions?* Email facultysearch at ischool.utexas.edu. *Learn More About * * UT Austin's iSchool: https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/about/about_us * Research in UT Austin's iSchool: https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/research ** *UT Austin*: *https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/about/about_ut_austin ** *Local Life in Austin: https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/about/about_austin =============== *Call for New Faculty* We only seek candidates with excellent research and teaching abilities and a commitment to shaping the future of the school and the discipline of information studies. We are especially interested in candidates who can augment our design or technical capabilities in ways that complement our existing strengths in Human-Computer Interaction, but we welcome applications from candidates who can enhance our current offerings in any area or extend our coverage into new areas of information studies. Our school is a unique mix of interdisciplinary expertise, offering cutting-edge research and education in the human, social, cultural, and technical aspects of information, broadly conceived. Our program is consistently ranked among the top programs in information nationally. We offer masters and doctoral degree programs, dual masters degree programs with various disciplines, an integrated bachelors in computer science/masters in information studies, and an undergraduate minor. Our Master of Science degree in Identity Management and Security is offered jointly with the UT Center for Identity. On our degree offerings, see https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/programs. *Qualifications* Candidates must hold a doctorate degree in a field that is relevant to their area of research and be able to articulate clearly in their application materials a research agenda that fits with the School?s core areas of focus. These areas are listed at https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/research. For the fullest consideration, please address this fit explicitly in your application. *Application Instructions* Interested candidates may apply via Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/37535. If you do not have a Dossier account with Interfolio, you will be prompted to create a free account prior to applying for the position. The University of Texas at Austin, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions. *Questions?* Email facultysearch @ischool.utexas.edu ------------ Jacek Gwizdka, PhD http://www.gwizdka.com Assistant Professor at School of Information, University of Texas at Austin Information eXperience (IX) lab Co-Director From hong1.cui at gmail.com Tue Oct 18 18:41:10 2016 From: hong1.cui at gmail.com (Hong cui) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:41:10 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] Assistant or Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction [University of Arizona] Message-ID: *Job Title:* Assistant or Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction (Tenure Eligible) *Posting Number:* F20703 *Job Description:* The University of Arizona (UA) is assembling a team of transdisciplinary artists and scholars who can provide national leadership in computational media studies, an emerging research and teaching area in which computation supports the broad spectrum of arts, humanities, and social sciences. The faculty in this cluster will become the lead facilitators of a campus-wide initiative to: (a) synchronize the study and teaching of mass and popular media that are digitally produced and/or digitally distributed; (b) produce and engage computationally-based compositions by both students and faculty in a variety of media (e.g., film, video, music, games, literature, sculpture, illustration); and ? coordinate the use of several valuable but underutilized media archives linked to the UA campus. The researchers in the Computational Media Cluster ? four new people and more than a dozen existing faculty who will be close affiliates ? will necessarily be transdisciplinary, that is, able to understand and appreciate projects that span the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences, engineering, and business, as well as to communicate that work to people outside the field, from other-field scientists to K-12 audiences. The successful candidate hired into the Human-Computer Interaction (Computational Media Cluster) position will work at the intersection of human behavioral studies, design, and computation. Specific areas of technological expertise are open, but applicants should demonstrate the innovative application of computational approaches to their research and practice in HCI. We are especially interested in candidates with expertise in areas such as information visualization, web or game design, interactive systems, virtual/augmented reality platforms, and/or robotics. A research profile that complements the iSchool?s emphasis on promoting healthy behaviors, access, social justice, and an informed citizenry will likely provide the best fit. For this reason, applicants whose work focuses on meeting the needs of underserved or underrepresented populations and communities, intervenes in problems tied to difference, inequality, and access, or studies how new technologies can work to bridge social divisions will be particularly welcome. It is important to note that we are looking for someone who uses computational methods and programming skills to conduct their work, that is, someone who develops and applies computational models to their HCI research. We are especially interested in candidates researching and designing alternative computer interfaces that are completely out of box. Examples might include hardware, firmware, and software hacking for innovative uses, novel robots, ambient computing environments, affective computing, biometrics, embedded systems, and so on. The cluster hire initiative in Computational Media is enabled by the University of Arizona?s Never Settle commitment to build cross-college collaborations that emphasize engagement, innovation, partnering, and programmatic synergy. In addition to working productively with the Computational Media cluster at the UA, the successful candidate for this position will find creative connections with other new UA Campus clusters focused on Technological Enhancements in Language Learning, Big Data, Space Situational Awareness, and related areas. Online teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, transdisciplinary team-based project funding and management, and academic leadership (e.g., program supervision, administrative duties within an academic unit) are all anticipated for this position. A commitment to the University of Arizona?s important Land Grant Mission is expected of all hires, and a distinguished career in research output (publications and sponsored research), teaching, and service is expected for hiring at the Associate Professor rank. The School of Information is an academic department and a professional school in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona, the state?s only public land grant university. The School of Information aims to inspire interdisciplinary understanding, and the diverse interpretation, creation, and use of emerging knowledge and information environments for innovative research and instruction. The iSchool is a place for the interdisciplinary study of information, broadly conceived, and is focused on preparing diverse students for living, thinking, and working in the digital age. The iSchool offers six degree programs and four graduate certificates: PhD in Information, MS in Information, MA in Library and Information Science, a BA in Information Science and eSociety, a BS in Information Science and Technology, and a BA in Information Science and Arts. The University of Arizona is located in beautiful Tucson, a vibrant multicultural city in the spectacular US Southwest. There is a thriving tech industry, including the UA?s three Tech Parks and incubator facilities for startups, as well as an established maker community with both on and off campus makerspaces. *Outstanding UA benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; UA/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; state and optional retirement plans; access to UA recreation and cultural activities; and more!* Accepting a new position is a big life step. We want potential candidates and their families to be able to make informed decisions. Candidates who are considering relocation to the Tucson or Phoenix area, and have been offered an on-site interview, are encouraged to use the free services offered by *Above & Beyond Relocation Services (ABRS)* .Ask your department contact to be introduced to ABRS prior to your visit. The University of Arizona has been recognized on Forbes 2015 list of America?s Best Employers in the United States and has been awarded the 2015 Work-Life Seal of Distinction by the Alliance for Work-Life Progress! For more information about working at the University of Arizona, please *click here* . Please contact the hiring department if you have any questions about the recruitment: Heather Liber hrsim at email.arizona.edu To apply, access https://uacareers.com/postings/14261 or search for the job on https://uacareers.com/postings/search using the *Posting Number:* F20703 -- Hong Cui, Ph.D Associate Professor, Information Technology Director of Graduate Studies School of Information (NOW on the 4th floor of the Harvill Building) University of Arizona ETC Bi-Weekly Hangout Member of Plazi.org Sustaining Member of NPR KUAZ Radio From ischoolumd at gmail.com Mon Oct 24 10:24:31 2016 From: ischoolumd at gmail.com (iSchool UMD) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 10:24:31 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Diversity in Children's Literature Short Course Coming in January - Register Today! Message-ID: *Diversity in Children?s Literature?An Online Short Course Offered by Maryland?s iSchool* Register now for *Diversity in Children?s Literature*?a fully online, 6-week short course designed for children?s and school librarians and K-12 teachers offered through the Professional Education program at the University of Maryland?s iSchool. Participants will explore diversity issues in literature written for children from birth through age 14. The course will focus on the definition, identification, characteristics, and evaluation of diverse books, and strategies for building and promoting diverse collections. At the completion of the short course, participants will receive a certificate of completion and earn eighteen (18) contact hours of continuing education units (CEUs), which fulfill professional development requirements for educators in the Maryland-DC-Virginia area. Instructor Edie Ching is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland?s iSchool with a wealth of knowledge and experience in literature and materials for children. She has worked as a K-12 educator, as a training specialist for the IRS, and as a school librarian. She is an active member of The Children?s Book Guild in Washington, DC, and is an author escort for authors visiting the Washington metropolitan area. *Short Course Details* ? Dates: January 9, 2017?February 5, 2017 ? Location: Online asynchronous course ? Price and Refunds o $349.00 (payable by debit or credit only) o Refunds will only be given under extreme circumstances at the discretion of the Professional Education Committee. *Registration Details* To register for this short course, visit http://go.umd.edu/ diversity-child-lit17. For more information, visit http://ischool.umd.edu/continuing-education. If you have any questions, please contact Tricia Donovan (donovant at umd.edu), Coordinator of Professional Education at Maryland?s iSchool. *The Professional Education program at Maryland?s iSchool is committed to providing quality professional and continuing education opportunities to library and information professionals. These opportunities include short courses, webcasts, workshops, and other experiences, both in-person and virtually. For more information, visit http://ischool.umd.edu/continuing-education .* From kalev.leetaru5 at gmail.com Wed Oct 19 21:40:06 2016 From: kalev.leetaru5 at gmail.com (kalev leetaru) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 21:40:06 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] news imagery metadata and iphones as news cameras Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. Thought many on this list that look at cataloging of imagery would find of great interest my latest that looks at a 48 hour period last week of over 1.3 million online news images from news outlets worldwide and ran them all through Image::ExifTool to pull all of the available metadata fields out of each image. In total there were more than 5,000 distinct metadata fields found across the collection. Various statistics on the average age of news images (just over a third of news images that contain date information are from the last 24 hours, while more than a quarter of news images are more than a year old, reflecting file and stock photos), while mobile phones are found to account for a growing fraction of news imagery: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/10/19/the-hidden-world-of-news-imagery-exif-metadata-iphones-as-news-cameras/ For those interested in deep diving, here is a special extract of just the metadata in JSON format: http://blog.gdeltproject.org/vgkg-2-0-metadata-stats-at-2-weeks/ ~Kalev http://kalevleetaru.com/ http://blog.gdeltproject.org/ From kdali at ualberta.ca Sat Oct 22 17:54:33 2016 From: kdali at ualberta.ca (Keren Dali) Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 17:54:33 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Reminder: IFLA webinar featuring speakers from three accreditation bodies Message-ID: Please excuse cross-postings. This is a reminder about the upcoming IFLA webinar. Please note a few changes (additions) to the previous announcement. The webinar will be recorded and will also be 15 min longer. *** Building Strong LIS Education (BSLISE) Webinar Developing an international quality assessment framework for LIS Education: experiences and opportunities from three accreditation programs The IFLA Building Strong LIS Education (BSLISE) Working Group invites you to a webinar that considers how associations cooperating internationally could create an international quality assessment framework for LIS education. The presentation will draw on the experience of delivering accreditation of library and information studies (LIS) education programs by the American Library Association (ALA), Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), and Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), and the wider international context for quality assessment. It will consider the challenges and opportunities in developing a framework and consider how it could promote parity between accreditation criteria used by national library associations to promote professional mobility globally. The FREE presentation will be followed by discussion. Moderator: Jaya Raju, Associate Professor and Head, Library and Information Studies Centre, University of Cape Town (South Africa) Speakers: Simon Berney-Edwards, CILIP (UK) Judy Brooker, ALIA (Australia) Karen O'Brien, ALA (USA) Date and Time: Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 2:00-3:15 pm CDT (Chicago) Time equivalents: London (England); November 3, 2016 at 7:00-8:15 pm GMT (5 hours ahead) Cape Town (South Africa); November 3, 2016 at 9:00-10:15 pm SAST (7 hours ahead) Canberra (Australia) Friday, November 4, 2016 at 6:00-7:15 am AEDT (16 hours ahead) Use https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html to determine your local time. Registration: http://tinyurl.com/juw38mp by *November 2nd*. Join us via Blackboard Collaborate (information will be provided after registration). Recording: A recording of the Webinar will be available on the BSLISE website: https://lisedu.wordpress.com/ The IFLA Building Strong LIS Education (BSLISE) Working Group https://lisedu.wordpress.com/ emerged out of deliberations at the 2016 IFLA Satellite Meeting (Dublin, Ohio, USA) https://publish.illinois.edu/ifla-set-ltr-2016/program/ on quality assessment of LIS education programs hosted by the IFLA Section on Education and Training & the Section on Library Theory and Research. The BSLISE Working Group is comprised of members from across the globe. *** Keren Dali, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Library & Information Studies University of Alberta 3-05 Rutherford South Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2J4 https://kerendali.wordpress.com/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Keren_Dali **************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail. The contents of this e-mail must not be disclosed or copied without the sender's consent. **************************************************** From sscoville at utpress.utexas.edu Thu Oct 20 14:25:30 2016 From: sscoville at utpress.utexas.edu (Scoville, Sheila L) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:25:30 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] New issue of Information & Culture Message-ID: <53ECDFC6-CCD5-48EB-8F42-0CBE90B2B86E@utpress.utexas.edu> Information & Culture Volume 51, Issue 4, Fall 2016 ARTICLES The History, Geography, and Economics of America?s Early Computer Clusters, Part 2: Explanations Florencia Garcia-Vicente, Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz, and Martin Campbell-Kelly Technological Innovation, Commercialization, and Regional Development: Computer Graphics in Utah, 1965?1978 James R. Lehning Blurred Lines: National Security and the Civil-Military Struggle for Control of Telecommunications Policy during World War II Jonathan Reed Winkler The Trial of Francisco Bilbao and Its Role in the Foundation of Latin American Journalism Pablo Calvi The Book and the Rocket: The Symbiotic Relationship between American Public Libraries and the Space Program, 1950?2015 Brett Spencer Out of Control: Telephone Networks, Visual Documents, and Management of Business Conversations at Renault, 1911?1939 Alain P. Michel http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/journals/information-culture Sheila Scoville Journals Promotion Coordinator University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 | Austin, TX 78731-7819 P: (512) 232-7618 | F: (512) 232-7178 sscoville at utpress.utexas.edu Visit the UT Press website. Follow us on Twitter, and friend us on Facebook. From rong.tang at simmons.edu Fri Oct 21 19:11:43 2016 From: rong.tang at simmons.edu (Rong Tang) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 19:11:43 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: Research Assistant position In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear students, Anyone interested in the position that Prof. Duty has open? Please see the position description below. Please let me know so I can connect you with her. Best, Rong ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Susan Duty Date: Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 9:26 AM Subject: TA position To: Rong Tang hi Rong here is the description It is posted on CA$H site Pay is $15/hr thanks sue Title: HPED Graduate Assistant Job description: Graduate assistant to conduct a market analysis of PhD programs in health professions education and to gather assessment data from current students. Proficient in Microsoft excel, Word, google docs, internet searching, qualtrics survey software (similar to survey monkey) and experience with scientific report writing. Prior experience with evaluation research desired but not required Work 4 hours per week (prefer to upfront hours early in semester if possible) Qualities desired: excellent time management skills, able to work independently, exceptional communication skills (oral and written). Term: Sept - Dec 2016 -- Susan Duty, MSN, ScD, RN, ANP-BC Associate Professor- Nursing Faculty Director Health Professions Education PhD Program https://duty.youcanbook.me/ -- Rong Tang, PhD. Associate Professor School of Library and Information Science Director, Simmons Usability Lab Simmons College rong.tang at simmons.edu 1-617-521-2880 From Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca Sun Oct 23 20:38:23 2016 From: Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca (Freund, Luanne) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 00:38:23 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] UBC iSchool - two open faculty positions Message-ID: Dear colleagues, we are seeking two faculty members to join our dynamic research and teaching community at UBC. Please see attached advertisements for a tenure track Assistant Professor position and a tenure track Instructor position. We look forward to receiving your applications! Sincerely, Luanne Freund Luanne Freund Associate Professor and Acting Director The iSchool, University of British Columbia luanne.freund at ubc.ca From chinnant at fsu.edu Tue Oct 25 23:51:21 2016 From: chinnant at fsu.edu (C. Hinnant) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 23:51:21 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Assistant Professor Position - School of Information at Florida State University Message-ID: <0ef28e1f-124a-34d9-cf06-2e2b88dde486@fsu.edu> The School of Information at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida is seeking to fill one (1) nine-month, tenure-track faculty position in Information Technology, at the Assistant Professor level. Qualified applicants will have a Ph.D. or equivalent doctorate in information science, information technology, computer science, or another relevant discipline. We are seeking faculty colleagues with a wide range of interdisciplinary, sociotechnical research interests, as well as the ability and desire to teach courses in one or more of the following areas: data analytics, interactive games and simulations, mobile application development, data visualization, human-computer interaction, network administration, or emerging technologies areas such as 3D printing. Preferred starting date is Fall 2017. How To Apply If qualified and interested in a specific job opening as advertised, apply to Florida State University at https://jobs.fsu.edu. Applications must include all work history up to ten years, and all education details even if attaching a resume. Applicants should also include a cover letter detailing their research and teaching interests, a curriculum vitae, and contact information for at least three references. Review of applications will begin November 15, 2016 and continue until the position is filled. Any inquiries should be directed to: Search Committee School of Information Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-2100 Attn: Jeannette Mitchell tel: 850-644-5775 email: jb.mitchell at cci.fsu.edu From jmartin at nedcc.org Wed Oct 26 11:28:27 2016 From: jmartin at nedcc.org (Julie Martin) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 15:28:27 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Audio Preservation Funding News - CLIR Regranting Program for Recordings at Risk Message-ID: <0FDFE2805DFBE2488C179AF8947DCEF9011187A6C3@NEDCC-Ex2010.NEDCC.local> AUDIO PRESERVATION FUNDING NEWS! ******************************* CLIR Receives $2.7 Million for New Program to Preserve Recordings at Risk The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) $2,725,000 for a regranting program to digitize "at risk" audio and audiovisual materials of high scholarly value. The program will run four competitions between January 2017 and September 2018, awarding a total of $2.3 million. To help develop guidelines and criteria for the new regranting program, CLIR will issue a pilot call for proposals, in partnership with NEDCC, in January 2017. The pilot call will focus only on the reformatting of magnetic audio media to be digitized through NEDCC's expanded audio preservation service.? CLIR will convene an independent review panel to assess applications.?After review, CLIR will disburse a total of $150,000, in awards ranging from $5,000 to $25,000, to cover direct costs of audio reformatting services provided by NEDCC. Following the initial competition for audio reformatting at NEDCC, CLIR will launch a series of three open competitions, disbursing $2.15 million in funds over two years. Calls for proposals will be issued in June 2017, December 2017, and May 2018. Awards from the open competitions will range from $10,000 to $50,000 and will cover direct costs of preservation reformatting for audio and audiovisual content by eligible institutions working independently or with qualified service providers.? LEARN MORE: https://www.clir.org/about/news/pressrelease/recordings-at-risk VISIT NEDCC's new "About Audio Preservation at NEDCC" https://www.nedcc.org/audio-preservation/about ***********************************************?? NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER - NEDCC Join the NEDCC?E-News List?for all the latest updates: https://www.nedcc.org/about/contact/sign-up-for-news From junus.msulibraries at gmail.com Thu Oct 27 12:55:10 2016 From: junus.msulibraries at gmail.com (Ranti Junus) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 12:55:10 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Reminder: Code4Lib 2017 Call for Proposals Message-ID: <01cf01d23072$e17e1ff0$a47a5fd0$@gmail.com> Reminder: Code4Lib 2017 proposals submission closes on November 7th. Thank you. ranti. > -----Original Message----- > From: Asis-l [mailto:asis-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Junus, Ranti > Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 6:00 PM > Subject: [Asis-l] Code4Lib 2017 Call for Proposals > > Code4Lib 2017 is a loosely-structured conference that provides people > working at the intersection of libraries/archives/museums/cultural heritage > and technology with a chance to share ideas, be inspired, and forge > collaborations. For more information about the Code4Lib community, please > visit http://code4lib.org/about/. > > The conference will be held at the Luskin Conference Center at UCLA > http://luskinconferencecenter.ucla.edu/, from March 6, 2017 - March 9, > 2017. More information about Code4lib 2017 will be coming soon. > > We encourage all members of the community to submit a proposal for a > prepared talk. Prepared talks should focus on one or more of the following > areas: > > -Projects you've worked on which incorporate innovative implementation of > existing technologies and/or development of new software > - Tools and technologies - How to get the most out of existing tools, > standards, and protocols (and ideas on how to make them better) > - Technical issues - Big issues in library technology that are worthy of > community attention or development > - Relevant non-technical issues - Concerns of interest to the Code4Lib > community which are not strictly technical in nature, e.g. collaboration, > diversity, organizational challenges, etc. > > This year, in order to provide increased opportunities for a diversity of > speakers and topics, we'll be soliciting 10, 15, and 20 minute talks. You'll be > asked to indicate which talk lengths you would be willing to accommodate for > your proposal. We are also considering holding a poster session at this year's > conference. If you would be interested in presenting your topic as a poster, > please indicate so on the form. > https://goo.gl/forms/GbM0jmSdXFkRdHAr2 > > In addition to "traditional" presentations and posters, we plan to include a > panel session this year. If you have a topic you'd like to suggest for a panel, > and are willing to work with the Program Committee to organize / recruit for > the session, please use the following form. > https://goo.gl/forms/q2KbVcO4ntkh6bPp1 > > As in past years, the Code4Lib community will vote on proposals that they > would like to see included in the program. The top 10 proposals are > guaranteed a slot of their preferred length at the conference. The Program > Committee will curate the remainder of the program in an effort to ensure > diversity in program content and presenters. Community votes will, of > course, still weigh heavily in these decisions. > > Presenters whose proposals are selected for inclusion in the program will > have conference registration slots held for them (up to 2 speakers per talk). > In addition, panel participants will have registration slots held. The standard > conference registration fee will apply. > > Proposals can be submitted through November 7, 2016 at midnight PST > (GMT-8). Voting will start on November 16, 2016 and continue through > December 7, 2016. The URL to submit votes will be announced on the > Code4Lib website and mailing list and will require an active code4lib.org > account to participate. The final list of presentations will be announced in > December. > > > Thank you, > The Code4Lib 2017 Program Committee > > -- > Ranti Junus, > Systems/Electronic Resources Librarian > Library Science Collection & Museum Studies Liaison Michigan State > University Libraries > 366 W. Circle Dr., East Lansing, MI 48824-1048 > +1.517.884.0878 | @ranti > From amber.cushing at ucd.ie Thu Oct 27 15:52:17 2016 From: amber.cushing at ucd.ie (Amber Cushing) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:52:17 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] UCD ICS is hiring Message-ID: Please follow this link to a vacancy for an assistant or associate professor of information and communication studies. Applications are due November 30th. Dr. Amber L. Cushing Lecturer/Assistant Professor Director, Msc & Graduate Certificate in Digital Curation PhD Programme Coordinator School of Information and Communication Studies University College Dublin Belfield Dublin 4 Ireland +353 01 716 8441 www.amberlcushing.info *new office location as of 6 Sept 2016-C117 Newman* From jodi.a.schneider at gmail.com Wed Oct 26 09:55:39 2016 From: jodi.a.schneider at gmail.com (Jodi Schneider) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 08:55:39 -0500 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: Command Lines: Software, Power, and Performance (deadline Dec 30th) Message-ID: In case of interest: Proposals for papers are due by December 30th for *Command Lines: Software, Power, and Performance*, to be hosted by the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California in March. See below or their website: http://www.sigcis.org/commandlines ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrew Russell Date: Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 8:08 AM Subject: [Air-L] CFP: SIGCIS meeting @ CHM, March 18-19, 2017 To: members , edith.sig at mit.edu, AoIR-L < air-l at listserv.aoir.org> Dear colleagues - We?re very happy to announce a special SIGCIS meeting on March 18-19, 2017, hosted and sponsored by the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. More information is below; for the full call for papers and registration information, please visit http://meetings.sigcis.org/. And please share widely! The purpose of the meeting, Command Lines: Software, Power, and Performance, is to draw together scholars from a variety of fields that study software, including the history of computing, science and technology studies, software studies, code studies, game studies, media studies, web and internet history, and computer science and engineering. The meeting hopes to explore the connections between the creation and use of software and ?power? in multiple senses, and the connection between software and conceptions of technical and cultural ?performance.? We are delighted that the meeting will begin with two keynote speakers - Kavita Philip of University of California, Irvine, and Tom Mullaney of Stanford University. The SIGCIS organizing committee now seeks proposals for short papers (15-20 min.) to present new work at the conference. We welcome work that hinges on, links to, or reacts against the themes of the meeting. We also welcome submissions that may not connect specifically with the themes but have bearing on the larger project of SIGCIS--the study of computing and sociotechnical change. We especially encourage submissions from graduate students and early career scholars. Deadlines and Submission Protocol Proposals for papers are due by December 30th, 2016. Decisions will be made by January 16th, 2017. Proposals should include: a one-page abstract (maximum 400 words) addressing the paper's topic, approach, sources, and relationship to existing literatures a one-page CV Please email your proposal to SIGCIS organizing committee by midnight (Pacific time) on December 30th to Conference Assistant kera [dot] allen [at] gatech [dot] edu. ?Financial Support SIGCIS and the Museum will be able to provide partial financial support to graduate students to present at the meeting. Please note in your proposal if you would like to be considered for a travel award. Location and Logistics The meeting events will be held at CHM at 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard, Mountain View, CA 94043. During the event, attendees will have access to CHM?s most recent major exhibit on software and its implications, Make Software: Change the World! There will be no official meeting hotel or transportation. The meeting has a $40 registration fee, waived for graduate and undergraduate students as well as independent scholars. Presenters and attendees may register here < https://www.eventbrite.com/e/command-lines-software-power-a nd-performance-tickets-28775183348>. We encourage early registration, as attendance will be limited. We hope to see you there! Organizing Committee David C. Brock, Computer History Museum Marie Hicks, Illinois Institute of Technology Laine Nooney, Georgia Institute of Technology Andrew Russell, SUNY Polytechnic Institute _______________________________________________ The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listi nfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From nancy.evans at ualberta.ca Fri Oct 28 11:36:35 2016 From: nancy.evans at ualberta.ca (Nancy J Evans) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:36:35 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] UAlberta SLIS Tenure-track Career Opportunity Message-ID: The School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) at the University of Alberta invites applications for one (1) full-time tenure track position. The date of the appointment will ideally be July 1, 2017. We seek candidates who are intellectually curious, excited about rigorous research and scholarship and its applications, committed to quality teaching and learning in face-to-face and online environments, and who extend our interests in the public good and the global information professions as they are practiced in diverse communities. The position requires an individual who can work effectively in a collegial environment with an earned PhD in Library and Information Science or a related field. Candidates near completion will also be considered. An MLIS or equivalent is highly desirable. The candidates will have demonstrated teaching experience relevant to the School?s evolving MLIS curriculum ( http://www.slis.ualberta.ca/Courses.aspx) and demonstrated expertise and scholarship in or informing library and information studies in the context of one or more of the following research areas: - Indigenous scholarship, with a particular focus on archival studies, protection of traditional knowledge and cultural expression, or indigenous studies of ICTs. - Information systems, with a particular focus on information retrieval, text analysis, and/or information visualization. - Records management, archives, and/or museums. For nearly 50 years, the School of Library and Information Studies has offered the only American Library Association (ALA)-accredited MLIS program on the Canadian prairies. The School has a combined MA/MLIS program with Humanities Computing (HUCO) and an MBA/MLIS program with The Alberta School of Business. Our PhD is individual and interdisciplinary and SLIS faculty serve as co-supervisors. The School also offers Canada?s only entirely online MLIS degree program. For additional information please visit our website at: http://www.slis.ualberta.ca . The University of Alberta (www.ualberta.ca) is one of the largest and most research productive universities in Canada. With more than 37,000 students from 143 countries, the U of A regularly ranks in the top 4 universities in the country and in the top 100 universities in the world according to the latest QS Worldwide university rankings (https://www.ualberta.ca/why-u alberta/rankings/news/2016/september/ualberta-maintains-stro ng-standing-among-worlds-top-100). The university offers highly competitive salaries and an excellent benefits package. Edmonton and the University of Alberta are situated on Treaty 6 territory, a traditional meeting ground and home for many Indigenous Peoples, including Cree, Saulteaux, Blackfoot, M?tis, and Nakota Sioux. The city of Edmonton has over one million residents and one of Canada's strongest economies. The University of Alberta has grown and thrived in step with its host for more than 100 years. Like the university, Edmonton is a place where people come together to build, create, and change things for the better. It is defined by an entrepreneurial spirit not only in business, but also in the arts and in social activism aimed at ensuring opportunity for all. It is a place where good ideas have the best chance to become reality. Edmonton boasts 78 arts and cultural organizations including the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton Opera, Citadel Theatre and more than 30 arts and cultural festivals taking place each year. 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From openings at higheredjobs.com Thu Oct 27 16:54:55 2016 From: openings at higheredjobs.com (Higher Ed Listserv) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:54:55 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Asis-l] Position Openings Message-ID: <968806662.7767552.1477601695228.JavaMail.zimbra@higheredjobs.com> The following positions were recently posted to HigherEdJobs: http://www.higheredjobs.com. We hope this is helpful! 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From samchu at hku.hk Fri Oct 28 10:14:38 2016 From: samchu at hku.hk (samchu) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 14:14:38 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] New book: 21st Century Skills Development through Inquiry-based Learning Message-ID: <1477664078288.58182@hku.hk> Introducing you our new book: Chu, S.K.W., Reynolds, R.B., Tavares, N.J., Notari, M. & Lee., C.W.Y. (2017). 21st Century Skills Development through Inquiry-based Learning: From Theory to Practice. New York: Springer Science. (eBook - http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811024795) The 21st century is characterized by the rapid progress in technology. It is also defined by the complex nature of problems we face in the world today. Hence, it is crucial for a learner to be information and computer-literate in order to tackle the challenges that lie ahead. The monotonous and burdensome nature of traditional teaching has failed to cultivate innovativeness and learning interest among students. This book offers the key to making learning environments fun and inspiring. The book explores the theoretical implications of inquiry-based pedagogical approaches and uses empirical evidences collected from comprehensive and well-designed research studies to offer innovative instructional interventions that support inquiry project-based learning as an approach to equip students with twenty-first century skills. The book contains the following chapters: 1. Introduction 2. Twenty-First Century Skills and Global Education Roadmaps 3. Twenty-First Century Skills Education in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China: Inquiry Project-Based and Collaborative Teaching/Learning Supported by Wiki 4. Twenty-First Century Skills Education in Switzerland: An Example of Project-Based Learning Using Wiki in Science Education 5. Twenty-First Century Skills Education in the U.S.: An Example of an Inquiry-Based Game Design Learning Approach 6. Teachers' Professional Development 7. Guides and Suggestions for Classroom Implementation 8. Assessment Instruments for Twenty-First Century Skills 9. Summary and Conclusions The book targets at academic researchers, education practitioners, policymakers, parents, and e-learning service providers who wish to support an evolving set of skills and knowledge in learners to prepare them well for active engagement in the drastic technological changes in the twenty-first century. Sam -------------------------------------------------- Samuel Kai Wah Chu, Ph.D. Associate Professor Head, Division of Information and Technology Studies Deputy Director, Centre for Information Technology in Education Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong (Ranked 6th best in the world - QS 2015, 2016) Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Managing Editor, Journal of Information & Knowledge Management Tel: (852) 2241-5894 | Fax: (852) 2517-7194 E-mail: samchu at hku.hk Skype Name - chukaiwahsamuel Homepage: http://web.edu.hku.hk/staff/academic/samchu -------------------------------------------------- Latest publications: Chu, S.K.W., Reynolds, R.B., Tavares, N.J., Notari, M. & Lee., C.W.Y. (2017). 21st Century Skills Development through Inquiry-based Learning: From Theory to Practice. New York: Springer Science. (eBook - http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811024795) Huang, H., Chu, S.K.W., & Chen, D. (2015). Interactions between English-Speaking and Chinese-Speaking users and librarians on Social Networking Sites. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 66(6), 1150-1166. (http://web.hku.hk/~samchu/docs/Huang-in-press-Interactions-between-English.docx) Ranked 13/85 in ISI's Information & Library Science category - top 15%; Impact Factor: 1.9 (JCR 2014) Cheng, E.W.L., Chu, S.K.W., & Ma, C.S.M. (2015). Tertiary students' intention to e-collaborate for group projects: Exploring the missing link from an extended theory of planned behaviour model. British Journal of Educational Technology. Ranked 61/262 in ISI's Education category - top 23%; Impact Factor: 1.3 (JCR 2014) From syn at cua.edu Tue Oct 25 14:10:45 2016 From: syn at cua.edu (Sue Yeon Syn) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:10:45 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] ICADL2016: Call for Participation Message-ID: ============================================================ ========================= Call for Participation 18th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2016) http://icadl2016.org/ Dates: December 7 to 9, 2016 Location: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Co-located Event: Asia-Pacific Forum of Information Schools (AP-IS) Dec. 5 to 6, 2016 Online Registration: http://icadl2016.org/#registration ** Early Registration Deadline: October 31, 2016 ** ============================================================ ========================= Aims and scope ----- Since its beginnings in Hong Kong in 1998, ICADL has become a premiere international conference for digital library research. ICADL 2016 in Tsukuba, the Japanese science city near Tokyo, offers a valuable opportunity for researchers, educators, and practitioners to share their experiences and innovative developments. ICADL 2016 will be held as a part of an international forum with the Asia-Pacific Forum of Information Schools (AP-IS) to promote exchange and collaboration among information schools in Asia-Pacific. AP-IS will include a doctoral consortium, workshops, panel discussions and meetings for students and faculties from Information Schools in the Asia-Pacific region. The main theme of ICADL 2016 is "Knowledge, Information and Data in Open Access Society." We solicit not only high-quality, original research papers, but also practitioner papers identifying research problems and future directions. Keynote Talks ----- - Donald L. Larsen, "Seismic Shifts in Professional Librarianship (tentative)", Dean and Professor / School of Information Sciences / University of Pittsburgh / Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - Ee-peng Lim, "Personalized Participatory Nation Through Data Analytics", Professor at the School of Information Systems of Singapore Management University (SMU) / co-Director of the Living Analytics Research Center (LARC) jointly established by SMU and Carnegie Mellon University - Katsumi Tanaka, Professor, Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics of Kyoto University Accepted Papers ----- A list of accepted papers can be found here: http://icadl2016.org/acceptedpapers.html Workshops (December 9, 2016) ----- - WS1: NKOS:Metadata Modeling and Knowledge Representation for Research Data - WS2: Rich Semantics and Direct Representation for Digital Collections - WS3: Data curator role and responsibilities in Open Access Conference Timetable (Tentative) ----- http://icadl2016.org/timetable.html Venue ----- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan About Tsukuba City ----- Tsukuba City is located approx. 50 km from Tokyo, only 45 min. by Tsukuba Express line (express railway) and 60 min. by car, which is an excellent accessibility from the central area of Tokyo. The topography is rather flat covered with rich nature, such as Mt. Tsukuba at the north which is familiar to many people, and Lake Kasumigaura at the east which is the second largest lake in Japan. The climate is relatively warm throughout the year, which makes a very comfortable environment. Online Registration: http://icadl2016.org/#registration ** Early Registration Deadline: October 31, 2016 ** ------ *Sue Yeon Syn, Ph.D.* *Assistant Professor* *Department of Library and Information Science* *Catholic University of America* *620 Michigan Ave. N.E.* *Washington, D.C. 20064* *Phone: 202-319-6277* *Email: syn at cua.edu * From weimao.ke at gmail.com Tue Oct 25 11:28:18 2016 From: weimao.ke at gmail.com (Weimao Ke) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:28:18 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] PhD in Information Studies at Drexel University Message-ID: PhD in Information Studies College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University http://drexel.edu/cci/PhDIS First Consideration Deadline: December 15, 2016 All, We have a new PhD program! This year we are launching our redesigned PhD program in Information Studies here at the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University. We are currently accepting applicants for a variety of funded research assistantship positions in areas of - information science, - human-centered computing (HCC), - data science. Some of our RA openings are highlighted here: http://drexel.edu/cci/programs/graduate-programs/phd-information-studies/Admissions-Requirements/, but this is not an exhaustive list of opportunities. It's a highly interdisciplinary program and would be a particularly excellent choice for students who are interested in research areas like social, health, decision informatics, archival studies, and areas of library and information science. Questions can be directed to PhD program director Andrea Forte ( aforte at drexel.edu). -- Weimao Ke Associate Professor College of Computing and Informatics Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA Phone: 215 895-5912 Fax: 215 895-2494 Web: http://lincs.ischool.drexel.edu/ From marialemos72 at gmail.com Sat Oct 29 17:06:00 2016 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (ML) Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 22:06:00 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] WorldCIST'2017 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies - Deadline: November 20 Message-ID: <201610292106.u9TL66IC010329@smtp2.dei.uc.pt> *Proceedings by Springer **Best papers published in SCI/SSCI-indexed journals --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WorldCIST'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal 11th-13th of April 2017 http://www.worldcist.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE The WorldCist'17 - 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held at Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal, 11 - 13 April 2017, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCist'17 (http://www.worldcist.org/). All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Software and Systems Modeling (SSM); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); H) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); I) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); J) Ethics, Computers and Security (ECS) K) Health Informatics (HIS); L) Information Technologies in Education (ITE); M) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR). TYPES of SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: - Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. - Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. - Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. - Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version. The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION & INDEXING To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 8th of January 2017, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. One registration permits only the participation of one author in the conference. Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company papers will be published by AISTI. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP and Google Scholar, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: - International Journal of Neural Systems (IF: 6.085 / Q1) - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (IF: 4.981 / Q1) - International Journal of Information Management (IF: 2.692 / Q1) - Telematics & Informatics (IF: 2.261 / Q1) - Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (IF: 2.139 / Q1) - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (IF: 2.092 / Q1) - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (IF: 1.759 / Q1) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 2.213 / Q2) - Journal of Business Research (IF: 2.129 / Q2) - Pervasive and Mobile Computing (IF: 1.719 / Q2) - Knowledge and Information Systems (IF: 1.702 / Q2) - Journal of Grid Computing (IF: 1.561 / Q2) - Special Issue on "Big Data" - Cluster Computing (IF:1.514 / Q2) - Special Issue on "Advanced Machine Learning in Parallel and Distributed Knowledge Discovery" - International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection (IF: 1.351 / Q2) - Expert Systems - Journal of Knowledge Engineering (IF: 0.947 / Q3) - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (IF: 0.942 / Q3) - Science of Computer Programming (IF: 0.828 / Q3) - Ethics and Information Technology (IF: 0.739 / Q3) - Annals of Telecommunications (IF: 0.722 / Q3) - Engineering Computations (IF: 0.691 / Q3) - Advances in Complex Systems (IF: 0.461 / Q3) - Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504 / Q4) - AI Communications (IF: 0.364 / Q4) - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology (SR: 0.672 / Q2) - Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (SR: 0.642 / Q2) - TEM Journal - Technology, Education, Management, Informatics (ISI - Emerging Sources Citation Index) - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering - Imaging & Visualization (ISI - Emerging Sources Citation Index) - Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 20, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: December 25, 20156 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 8, 2017. Camera-ready Submission: January 8, 2017 - Website of WorldCIST'17 http://www.worldcist.org/ - Best regards, ML From rhill at asis.org Mon Oct 31 11:28:28 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (=?utf-8?Q?Richard=20Hill?=) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:28:28 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] =?utf-8?q?Falling_Short_of_Their_Profession=27s_Needs=3A?= =?utf-8?q?_Education_and_Research_in_Library_=26_Information_Studi?= =?utf-8?q?es=C2=A0?= Message-ID: MEET THE AUTHOR SERIES Falling Short of Their Profession's Needs: Education and Research in Library & Information Studies Join us for a webinar on Nov 04, 2016 at 12:00 PM EDT. FREE for ASIS&T members; $15 for non-members REGISTER NOW! (http://asist.us12.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=de58424ef2e609298efbb4a00&id=1adbb4a103&e=0ff68a2a9c) In Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library (2015), Dr. Wayne A. Wiegand discovers people love their public libraries for three main reasons: access to practical information; the library as a place; and the transformative potential commonplace stories have for library readers. Because conventional LIS research and education mostly focus on the first, and largely overlook and undervalue the last two, he argues that by not having core courses in "reading and libraries" and "library as place" in American Library Association-accredited programs, and by not conducting much more research on the effects of both, LIS research and education fall short of the profession's needs. Come and join ASIS&T and Dr. Wiegand for what will be a riveting discussion. As a primer, this fascinating article will get you thinking about the salient attributes public libraries provide, not only for information studies, but sociologically and politically as well [more (http://asist.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de58424ef2e609298efbb4a00&id=076f3dfb39&e=0ff68a2a9c) ]. 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