[Sighfis-l] Information, 6th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2014) 27-30 May 2014, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey-new call

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Regarding the:
 
6th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International
Conference (QQML2014) 27-30 May 2014, Kadir Has University, Istanbul,
Turkey, http://www.isast.org <http://www.isast.org/>  
 
Please see below the replies to the main questions posed and more
information:
 
1.	Yes, you can participate and attend the conference without
presenting an abstract or paper. However, you should send the registration
form to ask for an attendance permission 
2.	An Abstract accepted is mandatory for an oral or poster presentation
3.	The paper is optional. If you submit a paper it will be considered
for the Conference Proceedings and the post-conference publications in Books
and the QQML Journal (www.qqml.net <http://www.qqml.net/>  ). Two new issues
have been added. The e-journal is included in EBSCOhost and DOAJ.
4.	The abstract submission deadline was extended to March 10, 2014 in
order to include submissions of abstracts to the special sessions proposed
and to the regular sessions as well.
5.	Submissions of abstracts to special or contributed sessions could be
sent directly to the conference secretariat at secretar at isast.org . Please
refer to the Session Number (see below) to help the secretariat to classify
the submissions.
6.	Session organizers should notify the conference secretariat by March
10 and include the abstracts collected for their special sessions. 
7.	If you already have submitted your Abstract and you have not
received a reply please notify the conference secretariat.
 
Conference Excursions
1.	A half day (14:30-19:30) conference excursion in the afternoon of
the second day of the conference (28 May 2014) is scheduled: Visit of the
classical Istanbul including some of Istanbul's major sights.
2.	A full day Excursion in the day following the last day of the
conference (31 May 2014).
 
For more information and Abstract/Paper submission and Special Session
Proposals please visit the conference website at: http://www.isast.org
<http://www.isast.org/>  or send email to: secretar at isast.org 
Looking forward to welcoming you in Istanbul,
With our best regards,
On behalf of the Conference Committee 
Dr. Anthi Katsirikou, Conference Co-Chair
University of Piraeus Library Director
Head, European Documentation Center
Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information
Professionals
 
 
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Special and Contributed Sessions Code No
 
1. Bibliographic Control 
1. Terminology project 
2. Multiple controlled vocabularies
3. Subject thesaurus 
4. Bibliographic utilities
5. New cataloguing rules, RDA and MARC21

2. Bibliometric research
1. Bibliometrics 
2. Analysis of patterns of information
3. Usage data 
4. Publication data 
5. Citation analysis 
6. Content analysis
7. Web sites
8. Databases

3. Change of Libraries and Managerial techniques
1. Human resources management
2. Organizational challenges
3. Strategic management
4. Re-engineering change in higher education
5. Fast-responded library
6. Learning organization

4. Changes in Learning, Research and Information needs and Behaviour of
Users
1. 21st century librarians for 21st century libraries 
2. New services for the research and learning communities 
3. Redefining the library service experience
4. Forging collaboration between librarians and students
5. Library in the digital workflow of research
6. Content analysis of academic libraries' Facebook profiles
7. Marketing the academic library through online social network advertising
8. International cooperation towards the development of technology in
academic libraries

5. Climate Change Data and Climate Change Impacts 
1. National greenhouse gas inventories 
2. Inventory submissions 
3. National communications 
4. Information sources and availability 
5. Socio-economic data
6. Definitions and methodologies
7. Climate change fund
8. Socio-economic data socio-economic data 
9. Climate-related risks and disasters
10. Regional centres and networks
11. Risk management and reduction
12. Adaptation strategies
13. Access to information
14. Public awareness and participation
15. International cooperation
16. Research dialogue
17. Systematic observation
18. Sustainable development

6. Communication Strategies
1. Working with faculty, students, and staff
2. Users - Non users
3. Alumni, Partners, Stakeholders
4. Groups / teams
5. Archives, historical societies, museums and art galleries
6. Consortia

7. Data Analysis and Data Mining
1. Content analysis
2. Ontologies
3. Knowledge discovery
4. Machine learning
5. Databases
6. Data visualization

8. Development and Assessment of Digital Repositories 
1. Preservation of records for the next generations
2. Demonstration on fiscal responsibility and sustainability
3. Development of new metrics of their usages
4. Evaluation and best practices

9. Development of Information and Knowledge Services on the Public Library 
1. Public libraries transformations 
2. Dynamic information market
3. Public library's role in the society 
4. Challenges before libraries today
5. Diversified societies 
6. Public library's policy
7. Communities and information market
8. Public libraries as creative industries
9. Production and consumption of knowledge

10. Digital Libraries 
1. Digitization
2. Museum and art digital objects
3. Archival digital objects
4. Public libraries digital projects
5. Digital content for teaching
6. Digital images
7. Metadata
8. Repositories 

11. Economic Co-operation and Development
1. Socio-economic, environmental and emissions data 
2. Energy statistics 
3. Economic and social development
4. Working parties and organizations
5. Education, training and public awareness
6. Financial mechanism
7. Green climate fund
8. Investments

12. Energy Data and Information 
1. Energy consumption, products, prices and taxes
2. Energy-related statistical data include coal, oil, gas, electricity and
heat statistics
3. Energy balances, prices and emissions
4. Emissions from fuel combustion from its energy data 
5. Data from firms, government agencies, industry organizations and national
publications 

13. Environmental Assessment 
1. International, national, regional, local core data sets
2. Integrated Environment Assessment
3. Global Environmental Outlook 
4. Statistical and geo-referenced historical data sets 
5. Emission database for global atmospheric research 
6. Socio-economic data
7. Ocean observation 

14. Financial strength and sustainability
1. Fund raising
2. Cost benefit analysis
3. Cost assessment
4. Value analysis

15. Health Information Services
1. Research by health information professionals
2. Role of librarians in implementing Evidence based medicine/practice
3. Prospects and challenges of implementing Research4Life in low income
countries

16. Historical and Comparative case studies related to Librarianship
1. Library historiography 
2. Agencies, people, and movements within the development of librarianship
3. Comparative case studies related to libraries, special collections, or
library programs/services

17. Information and Data on various aspects of Food and Agriculture 
1. Agricultural production and trade
2. Land use, and means of production
3. Trade indices and food supply
4. Population and labour force 
5. Food balance sheets 
6. Fertilizer and pesticides
7. Forest products
8. Fishery products
9. Agricultural machinery
 
18. Information and Knowledge Services
1.    Resource development policy
2.    Resource project description
3.    Research and development of the services
4.    Knowledge discovery and knowledge creation
5.    Knowledge mining
6.    Team building and management
 
19. Information Literacy: Information sharing, Democracy and Lifelong
Learning
1.    Information Literacy and citizenship
2.    Strategic approaches to Information Literacy
3.    New pedagogic challenges for libraries
4.    Collaborative work between librarians and academic staff
5.    Independent learning skills, online information skills and lifelong
learning
6.    Concepts of learning, teaching and the developments in networked
technology
7.    Staff development and Information Literacy
8.    New areas of practice and research
9.    Information literacy projects on special scientific disciplines
10.    Advocacy, marketing and promotion
11.    Benchmarking
12.    Evaluation and assessment
 
20. Library Cooperation: Problems and Challenges at the beginning of the
21st century
1.    Union catalogue and storage equipment
2.    Collection policy and collection development
3.    Joint acquisitions (purchasing, access, inter-library loan and
document delivery)
4.    Joint digitization's projects
5.    Local, regional and country heritage
6.    Human resource in local, regional and country level
7.    Organizational culture
 
 
21. Library change and Technology 
1.    Communicating change, scenarios and projections
2.    Adaptation technology
3.    Technology information
4.    Technology diffusion
5.    Technology needs assessment
6.    Technology research and development
7.    Technology transfer
 
 
22. Management
1.    Excellence and innovation
2.    Quality and benchmarking
3.    Measures and metrics
 
23. Marketing
1.    Marketing research
2.    Public relations
3.    Publicity
4.    Communication
 
24. Museums, Libraries and Cultural Organizations
1.    Networks and collaborations 
2.    Cultural policy, diversity and intercultural dialogue 
3.    Marketing & communications management
4.    Case studies 
5.    European integration
6.    Multiculturalism, interculturalism, transculturalism 
7.    National and international collaboration 
8.    Cultural policies, migration and mobility
9.    Identity, memory and heritage 
10.    Divergence and commonality 
11.    Visitor experiences in collaborative projects 
12.    Archiving, preservation and exhibition technologies
13.    Arts funding  
14.    Arts policy 
15.    Libraries, theaters, music, film industry, television etc 
16.    Libraries, archives and museums and their admission
 
25. Music Librarianship 
1.    Musical archives 
2.    Collections of music assessment 
3.    Copyright and broadcasting issues, copying costs 
4.    Librarianship and musicology 
5.    Music bibliography 
6.    Music library automation 
7.    Music publishing industry
8.    Presentation on the duties, challenges and satisfactions of
performance music librarians
9.    Collections of music preservation 
10.    Space and music collections 
 
26. Performance Measurement and Competitiveness 
1.    Criteria of performance indicators (PI) selection for libraries and
the kinds of PI
2.    Different methodologies proposed for library assessment
3.    The technological effect
4.    Financial indicators
5.    Organizational performance
6.    Comparison among governmental and non-governmental organizations'
performance
 
27. Publications 
1.    Internet Filtering
2.    Privacy and share of information in libraries
3.    The Read/ Write Web and the future of library research
4.    Digital rights, copyright management and libraries
 
28. Quality evaluation and promotion of info = documentary institutions
services methods 
1.    User education in informational recourses
2.    The importance of personal involvement
3.    Accreditation of digital libraries
4.    Development of a network of peers
5.    Cataloguing is changing
6.    Customer services
7.    Management/administration
8.    OPAC 2.0 - the catalogue on web
9.    The benefit of change
10.    Electronic library
11.    Digital repository management
 
 
29. Technology & Innovations in Libraries and their Impact on Learning,
Research and Users
1.    Creating webliographies
2.    Computing interfaces and how libraries need to adapt
3.    Creating materials samples collection to support the engineering
curriculum
4.    Embedding librarians in the classroom
5.    Teaching scholarly communication and collaboration through social
networking
6.    Sustainable development and the role of innovative & benchmarked
practices 
7.    Fostering innovation through cultural change
8.    Science & technology libraries as multi academic activities centres 
9.    Change as a service 
10.    Embedding innovation for  scholarly information & research 
11.    Trends, possibilities and scenarios for user-centred libraries
 
30. Technology Transfer and Innovation in Library Management
1.    Innovative management
2.    Human resources management
3.    Competence management
4.    Communications in organizations
5.    Intercultural management
6.    Information technology and knowledge management
7.    Library's ethics and social responsibility
 
31. Scientific, Technical and Socio-Economic Aspects of Mitigation of
Climate Change
1.    Stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations 
2.    Dangerous anthropogenic interference 
3.    Forest degradation 
4.    Afforestation and reforestation 
5.    Forest Management
6.    Land-use change
7.    Aviation and marine "Bunker Fuels"
8.    Research and systematic observation
9.    Methodological issues
10.    Socio-economic data and tools
 
 
 



 
 
 
 
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