[Sighfis-l] CFP: Libraries in the Digital Age 2007 (Dubrovnik, Croatia)

marija dalbello dalbello at scils.rutgers.edu
Fri Oct 27 23:42:03 EDT 2006 

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ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Annual International Course and Conference

LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2007
Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia
28 May – 1 June 2007
Inter-University Centre (<http://www.iuc.hr/>http://www.iuc.hr/ )
Don Ivana Bulica 4, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia, and
Hotel Odisej, island Mljet, Pomena, Croatia
(<http://www.hotelodisej.hr/>http://www.hotelodisej.hr)
Web site: <http://www.ffos.hr/lida/>http://www.ffos.hr/lida/
Email: <mailto:lida at ffos.hr>lida at ffos.hr

The general aim of the annual international
conference and course Libraries in the Digital
Age (LIDA), started in 2000, is to address the
changing and challenging environment for
libraries and information systems and services in
the digital world, with an emphasis on examining
contemporary problems, advances and solutions.
Each year a different and ‘hot’ theme is
addressed, divided in two parts; the first part
covers research and development and the second
part addresses advances in applications and
practice. LIDA seeks to bring together
researchers, 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.

Themes LIDA 2007
Part I: Users  and Use of Digital Libraries

Over the last decade numerous digital libraries
have been designed and developed world wide. One
can evaluate the importance of these projects in
terms of their resources, collections, services
access, and other related aspects. However, the
ultimate measure of success of digital libraries
is their acceptance and use in the work and every day life of their users.

The goal of the first part of LIDA 2007 is to
explore the behavior, place, and role of users of
digital libraries and the reasons, ways, and
means related to their use of digital libraries.
Special attention will be on users’ information
behavior and moreover, on the role of users
throughout the process of design, development,
and evaluation of digital libraries. The general
aim is to concentrate on works that increase our
understanding of the needs, interests, and
experiences of users in the context of digital
libraries. Many research approaches and
understanding users could be examined, e.g.,
behavioral, cognitive, affective, organizational, social.

Invited are contributions (types described below)
covering the following topics:
    * reasons for and approaches to use of
digital libraries; related experiences of various
categories of users. Why and how do users interact with digital libraries?
    * users’ experience with digital library
content in various forms of presentation (text,
audio, visual) and accessibility (mobile, handheld, wireless, wearable, etc.)
    * usability evaluation of digital libraries;
methodologies for and results of usability studies
    * impact of digital libraries on various
categories of user populations and in various
contexts (within specific cultures, countries,
disciplines, professions, age groups; with
various technology use levels, access problems, etc.)
    * cross-cultural and international studies of
the opportunities and barriers to development and use of digital libraries
    * use of various digital library services,
such as virtual and chat reference
    * users as interactive creators of a new generation of digital
libraries
    * application of various theories and models
in study of users and use of digital libraries
and associated human information behavior
    * relating such theories and user information
needs assessments to design and development of digital libraries.
  Part II: Economics and Digital Libraries

The goal of the second part of LIDA 2007 is to
address economic factors: costs, resources,
sharing, consortia, and the nature and control of
expenditures. Digital libraries, like all other
libraries, have costs that must be paid. In
addition to the familiar costs of providing
services, digital libraries assume a
responsibility to serve as portals, for their
complex communities of users and to the
exponentially expanding resources of the World
Wide Web. Finally, the costs of conversion from
older forms such as paper and microfiche, to new
digital forms, are of vital importance because,
increasingly, materials that have not been converted will not be used.

There are several approaches to library
economics, including most importantly so-called
unit cost, or functional cost analysis, and
econometric modeling. As most libraries are today
a mix of paper and digital, it is particularly
difficult to separate costs into the costs of
becoming digital, and the ongoing costs of
remaining digital. As libraries reference each
others’ materials, the collaborations dreamed of
in the 1970’s and 1980’s become a practical
reality. But the forms of operational
collaboration needed to make all of this both
efficient and effective are still being
discovered. At the same time, some dramatic
commercial initiatives are putting vast amounts
of material into digital searchable form.

The general aim is to bring together working
librarians, academic researchers, industry
representatives and government officials, to
review our present understanding of library
economics in the Digital Age, to identify needed
research, and to sketch a road map for the transition.

Invited are contributions (types described below)
covering the following topics:
    * application of library performance measures
to the digital realm, to new forms of service, and to new methods of delivery
    * methods for measuring or estimating the
costs of digital operations in a scalable and generalizable fashion
    * real world experience of moving from a
non-digital situation to a fully digital one,
with regard to some area of service, with
particular focus on the costs, both tangible and
intangible, of the transition. This can be from
the perspective of a library, a publisher, or an Internet firm
    * case studies of governmental intervention
to accelerate the digitization of national
resources, or of more specialized collections
    * other issues related to the economics of
digital libraries - novel approaches, are particularly welcome.
  Types of contributions

Invited are the following types of contributions:
    * Papers: research studies and reports on
practices and advances that will be presented at
the conference and included on the conference Web
site. Papers of up to 4000 words in length should
be submitted, following the American
Psychological Association
(<http://www.apastyle.org/index.html>APA) style,
followed, among others, by the Journal of the
American Society for Information Science and
Technology
(<http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/jasis.html>JASIST)
and Information Processing & Management
(<http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/244/description#description>IP&M).

The papers will be refereed and published in LIDA 2007 Proceedings.
    * Posters: short graphic presentations on
research, studies, advances, examples, practices,
or preliminary work that will be presented in a
special poster session. Awards will be given for
Best Poster and Best Student Poster. Proposals
for posters should be submitted as a short, one or two- page paper.
    * 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. These should involve some aspect of
users and use. Proposals for demonstration should
provide short description and a URL address, if available.
    * 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. Proposals for workshops should
include a short description, with indication of level and potential audience.
    * PhD Forum: short presentations by PhD
students in a session organized by the European
Chapter of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology (EC/ASIST).

Submissions should be sent in electronic format
(as an email attachment) to Prof. Tatjana Aparac
at <mailto:taparac at ffos.hr>taparac at ffos.hr.
Inquires can also be addressed to the Co-Chair of
the conference Prof. Tefko Saracevic and Program
Chairs (for Part I Prof. Sanda Erdelez. and for
Part II Prof. Paul Kantor). Full contact
information is provided below. All submissions will be refereed.
Deadlines:
For papers and workshops: 15 January 2007. Acceptance by 15 February 2007.
For demonstrations and posters: 1 February 2007. Acceptance by 1 March
2007.
Final submission for all accepted papers and posters: 15 March 2007.

Invitation to institutions
We are inviting libraries, information agencies,
professional organizations, publishers, and
service providers to consider participation at
LIDA by providing a demonstration, workshop, or
exhibit about their products, services or
advances, or by presenting a paper or poster
about their activities, as related to themes.
Sponsorship of an event is also invited.
Institutions can benefit as well: we will provide
course materials to participants so that they can
communicate and transfer topics of interest to
their institution. Thus, we are organizing LIDA to reach a wider audience.

Conference contact information
Course co-directors:
TATJANA APARAC-JELUSIC, Ph.D.
Department of Information Sciences
Faculty of Philosophy; J.J. Strossmayer University
31000 Osijek, Croatia
<file:///../../../Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/OLKE75B/taparac@ffos.hr>taparac at ffos.hr
(contact for general correspondence)
TEFKO SARACEVIC, Ph.D.
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies; Rutgers
University
New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 USA
<file:///../../../Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/OLKE75B/tefko@scils.rutgers.edu>tefko at scils.rutgers.edu
Program chairs:
For Part I:
SANDA ERDELEZ, Ph.D.
School of Information Science and Learning
Technologies; University of Missouri -- Columbia
Columbia, MO, 65211 USA
<file:///../../../Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/OLKE75B/ErdelezS@missouri.edu>ErdelezS at missouri.edu
For Part II:
PAUL B. KANTOR, Ph.D.
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies; Rutgers
University
New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 USA
<file:///../../../Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/OLKE75B/paul.kantor@rutgers.edu>paul.kantor at rutgers.edu

Organizing chairs:
Organizing committee:
MAJA KRTALIC
Department of Information Sciences
Faculty of Philosophy; J.J. Strossmayer University
31000 Osijek, Croatia
<mailto:mcujic at ffos.hr>mcujic at ffos.hr
Local organizing committee:
MARICA SAPRO FICOVIC
Dubrovnik Libraries
20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia
<mailto:msapro at dkd.hr>msapro at dkd.hr

Venues

The first part of LIDA 2007 will be held in
Dubrovnik and for the second part the conference
will move to island Mljet, less than a two-hour
ride from Dubrovnik on a fast catamaran.
Pre-conference workshops are planned for 28 May
2007 in Dubrovnik and post-conference workshops for 2 June 2007 on Mljet.

Dubrovnik, Croatia is recognized as one of the
World Cultural Heritage sites by UNESCO. It is a
walled city, preserved as it existed in medieval
times. A beautiful natural location on the
Adriatic Sea, a lavish architecture of squares,
palaces, and churches, small, intriguing
hill-hugging streets, pedestrian-only traffic
within the walls, outings to the enchanting
near-by islands - all these and more combine to
make Dubrovnik one of the most popular
destinations in Europe. For Croatia see
<http://www.croatia.hr/>http://www.croatia.hr/
and for Dubrovnik
<http://web.tzdubrovnik.hr/>http://web.tzdubrovnik.hr/
; travel information at
<http://www.dubrovnik-online.com/>http://www.dubrovnik-online.com/

Mljet is one of the most enchanting islands in
the Adriatic, a sea that abounds with beautiful
islands to start with. Hotel Odisej is in a small
harbor. Near the hotel is the entrance to Mljet
National Park with lush vegetation surrounding
three inland lakes, a small island with a
monastery in the middle lake, paths for walking,
and spots for swimming in the blue and green sea.
For Mljet National Park see
<http://www.np-mljet.hr/>http://www.np-mljet.hr/
and for hotel Odisej (with further information
about the surroundings) see
<http://www.hotelodisej.hr/>http://www.hotelodisej.hr.


-- 
 Marija Dalbello, Ph.D.
 Associate Professor
 Department of Library and Information Science
 School of Communication, Information and Library Studies
 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
 4 Huntington Street
 New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1071
 Voice: 732.932.7500 / 8215
 Internet: dalbello at scils.rutgers.edu
 http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~dalbello

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