[Sighfis-l] Announcing the International Calendar of Information Science Conferences

[Michel J. Menou]

** Please excuse duplicate postings **

The Special Interest Group on International Information Issues 
(SIG/III), the European (ASIST/EC) and the New England (NEASIST) 
chapters of ASIS&T (American Society for Information Science & 
Technology) are pleased to announce:

The International Calendar of Information Science Conferences (ICISC)
http://icisc.neasist.org/

This centralized, master calendar of relevant conferences being held 
around the world serves three primary purposes:

- to help information science researchers and practitioners (and their 
colleagues in related disciplines) to discover which conferences are 
planned that might fulfill their need to communicate their knowledge and 
experience and learn from others; and,

- to help conference organizers avoid time or topic conflicts, or 
coordinate with other groups, leading to more interaction and coherence 
among professional groups; and,

- to contribute to facilitating interaction among like-minded 
professionals working on information problems around the globe.   

This calendar is meant as a cooperative venture. Any organization or 
conference organizer is cordially invited to submit relevant 
conferences, either confirmed or planned, to the ICISC Calendar. 
Detailed instructions for registering a conference directly, through a 
submission form, or by Email can be found on the Web site. The site is 
moderated and the sponsoring organizations reserve the right to discard 
entries that would not be deemed appropriate.

The calendar is in English at the moment. We hope that more languages 
and/or mirror sites could be added in the future. Announcements can be 
passed in any language that can be presented in Latin characters, 
provided an English translation of at least the conference place and 
title is also included.

In addition to the dynamic and searchable calendar available for viewing 
in both block and list style, there is a "Quick Calendar" listing all 
the events on a static HTML web page useful for printing, or for those 
with slower internet connections. ICISC further offers the option to 
subscribe to an RSS feed to keep up to date on the latest additions.

The web site further includes lists of electronic fora, organizations, 
networks and rotating conferences in Information science. Suggestions of 
relevant entries will be most welcome. 

We hope that you will find this calendar useful from an organizational 
and/or individual stand point. We encourage you to contribute to the 
calendar and offer your suggestions.  Be sure to subscribe to the 
RSS/XML feed to stay up to date on new additions to the calendar.

Your colleagues from,
SIG/III (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/)
ASIST/EC (http://www.asis.org/Chapters/europe/About.htm)
NEASIST (http://www.neasist.org/)

International Calendar of Information Science Conferences (ICISC)
http://icisc.neasist.org/
Contact: icisc at neasist.org



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