[Eurchap] 1 Webinar - 3 Presentations: Meet your Library & Information Science colleagues

[Tamara Heck]

The ESC webinar comes with exciting topics and the chance to meet colleagues
and collaborators from the library & information science field.

Webinar info:

Time: September 24th, 2013, 6 pm UTC+2 (6 pm e.g. in Sweden, Spain, Italy,
Germany; 5 pm e.g. in UK, Ireland)

How to join:

Write an e-mail to tamara.heck(at)hhu.de to get access to the webinar and
join us at any place you want to. If you tell us your name and your research
interests, we will put you on the participants list, which will be provided
to all participants after the webinar.

 Presenters:

*	1st talk (10 min): “What ASIS&T can do for you: connections and
engagement with your professional community”:  Adam Girard, University
College Dublin, Ireland, chair of ASIS&T European Chapter.

ASIS&T is a well respected and vibrant “association for information
professionals leading the search for new and better theories, techniques,
and technologies to improve access to information”. Adam Girard, current
Chairperson of the European Chapter will discuss the benefits of
involvement, as well as various roles that might be right for you. ASIS&T
has an organisational structure that allows involvement at several levels,
including Regional Chapters, Special interest Groups (SIGs), Committees,
Task Forces. Adam will speak about his personal experiences, and the value
of ASIS&T as a rich professional resource.

*	2nd talk (20 min): “How far are we to the “enhanced” doctoral
dissertations?”: Gema Bueno de la Fuente, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,
Spain.

This presentation is a reflection on the future of doctoral dissertations as
documents, or better yet as scientific digital objects. Theses and
dissertations, as scientific information sources meant to disseminate new
contributions to scholarly knowledge, cannot be left out of the evolutions
in the scientific communications landscape. Electronic publishing is moving
away from the simple replication of the print model, towards maximizing the
potential of technologies, especially those of the Semantic Web. Enhanced
publications, liquid publications, nanopublications, or research objects,
are real proposals towards richer scholarly communications, compound digital
objects that integrate nor only the digital text file, but also research
data, extra materials, post-publication data and other resources,
meaningfully and dynamically integrated and annotated thanks to
technologies, vocabularies and standards as RDF and OAI-ORE.

*	3rd talk (20 min): “Pathways and Opportunities for Early Career
Researchers in Library and Information Science.”: Anna Hampson Lundh,
University of Boras, Sweden.

In this presentation, Anna Hampson Lundh will talk about the transition from
doctoral studies to developing a sustainable postdoc career. This transition
would form an integral step to a senior academic service.

About the presenters:

Dr Anna Hampson Lundh is a Senior Lecturer at the Swedish School of Library
and Information Science and active researcher within the Linnaeus Centre for
Research on Learning, Interaction, and Medicated Communication in
Contemporary Society at the University of Borås. Her specific research
interests lie in the areas of information and reading practices; information
literacies; and the history of reading. She is the First Chief Investigator
of Reading, Traditions and Negotiations: Reading Activities in Swedish
Classrooms 1967-1969 funded by the Swedish Research Council 2013-2015.

Gema Bueno de la Fuente holds a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science
(2010) . Assistant Professor at the Library and Information Science
Department, University Carlos III of Madrid, she teaches since 2005 in many
Undergraduate and Master programs, e.g. the Master on Digital Libraries and
Information Services.  She has participated in many research projects as a
member of the Tecnodoc group, and published in national and international
journals mainly in the area of Library and Information Science. She has made
several research stays as a visiting scholar in the University of Minho
(Portugal), the School of Information and Library Science of UNC-Chapel Hill
(USA) and CAPLE/CETIS (UK). Her teaching and research focuses on open access
to science and education, digital libraries, digital preservation,
vocabularies, semantic web standards and linked data.

Adam Girard is PhD student working at the University College Dublin in
Ireland and current chair of the ASIS&T European Chapter.

 

 

best wishes, tamara

 

Tamara Heck

Institute for Language and Information

Dep. of Information Science

Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

Universitätsstraße 1

40225 Düsseldorf

Phone: 0049-211-81-10803

 

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