[Sigdl-l] Libraries in the Digital Age /LIDA/ 2009 Call for Participation

[marija dalbello]

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ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2009

Dubrovnik and Zadar, Croatia, 25 – 30 May 2009

Inter-University Centre (http://www.iuc.hr/ ) and
University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia (http://www.unizd.hr/)

Full information at:  http://www.ffos.hr/lida/  Email: lida at ffos.hr

The annual international conference and course Libraries in the Digital
Age (LIDA) addresses the changing and challenging environment for
libraries and information systems and services in the digital world. Each
year a different and ‘hot’ theme is addressed, divided in two parts; the
first part covering research and development and the second part
addressing advances in applications and practice. LIDA brings together
researchers, educators, practitioners, and developers from all over the
world in a forum for personal exchanges, discussions, and learning, made
easier by being held in memorable locations.

This is the tenth and last LIDA that will be held in Dubrovnik; after that
LIDA moves to University of Zadar (Croatia) on a biannual basis.

Themes LIDA 2009

Part I: REFLECTIONS: Changes Brought by and in Digital Libraries in the
Last Decade

Contributions are invited covering the following topics (types described
below):

•synthesis of research, practices, and values related to digital libraries
that were prominent in the past decade; conceptual frameworks and
methodological approaches that emerged
•reflections and evaluations of the impact digital libraries have had on
various social enterprises – particularly as related to scholarship,
education, and government
•reflections and evaluation of the impact digital libraries have had on
individuals in their everyday life; changes in use and users of digital
libraries
•assessment of changes that digital libraries brought to traditional
libraries and vice versa, changes in digital libraries based on
requirements of their host institutions
•growth in involvement with digital libraries of a variety of institutions
such as museums, professional and scientific societies, and other agencies
•emergence and effects of mass book digitization efforts, such as Million
Book Project, Google Books Library Project, and others; library
participation in these projects
•examples of good practices that emerged in a variety of efforts, such as
digitization, preservation, access, and others
•reflections on challenges and lessons learned from national, funded
digital library research and application projects such as US National
Science Digital Library Program, the European Delos and Digital Library
Project, and others
•examination of international aspects of digital libraries with related
trends in globalization and cooperative opportunities.


Part II: HERITAGE & digital libraries - digitization, preservation, access

Contributions are invited covering the following topics (types described
below):

•theories and taxonomies of heritage as related to digital libraries and
heritage libraries in a digital world
•dimensions of e-heritage and areas of significance (documents, monuments
- cultural and natural, as well as ancestry records broadly conceived to
encompass bio-cultural heritage)
•institutional perspectives on creation, dissemination, and access to
heritage including local, national, trans-national and global strategies
for digital heritage
•perspectives on heritage information: cultural, political, educational,
economic, legal, socio-technological, bio-technological
•surveys of preservation activities, programs, projects, best practices 
•technologies for heritage information management: solutions and
challenges
•forms of heritage, their representations, and connection to artifacts,
memories, and record-keeping practices
•specific concerns for library and information science (including but not
limited to digital curation, web archiving, automation of cultural
heritage archives, etc.)
•preservation efforts related to scholarly communication and the knowledge
continuum.

Types of contributions

Invited are the following types of contributions:

1.Papers: research studies and reports on practices and advances that will
be presented at the conference and included in published Proceedings

2.Posters: short graphic presentations on research, studies, advances,
examples, practices, or preliminary work that will be presented in a
special poster session. Proposals for posters should be submitted as a
short, one or two- page paper.

3.Demonstrations: live examples of working projects, services, interfaces,
commercial products, or developments-in-progress that will be presented
during the conference in specialized facilities or presented in special
demonstration sessions.

4.Workshops: two to four-hour sessions that will be tutorial and
educational in nature. Workshops will be presented before and after the
main part of the conference and will require separate fees, to be shared
with workshop organizers.

5.PhD Forum: short presentations by PhD students, particularly as related
to their dissertation; help and responses by a panel of educators.
Instructions for submissions are at LIDA site http://www.ffos.hr/lida/

Deadlines:

For papers and workshops: 15 January 2009. Acceptance by 10 February 2009.
For demonstrations and posters: 1 February 2009. Acceptance by 15 February
2009.

Final submission for all accepted papers and posters: 15 March 2009.

Conference contact information

Course co-directors:
TATJANA APARAC-JELUSIC, Ph.D. ;Department of Library and Information
Science University of Zadar; 23 000 Zadar, Croatia; taparac at unizd.hr

TEFKO SARACEVIC, Ph.D.;School of Communication, Information and Library
Studies; Rutgers University; New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 USA
tefko at scils.rutgers.edu

Program chairs:
For Theme I: ELIZABETH D. LIDDY, Ph.D.; Dean, School of Information
Studies, Syracuse University; Syracuse, NY 13210, USA; liddy at syr.edu

For Theme II: MARIJA DALBELLO, Ph.D. School of Communication, Information
and Library Studies; Rutgers University; New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA;
dalbello at scils.rutgers.edu



-- 
Marija Dalbello, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Communication, Information and Library   Studies
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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1071
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