From sisun at rutgers.edu Fri Mar 21 18:58:13 2014 From: sisun at rutgers.edu (Si Sun) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 18:58:13 -0400 Subject: [Sighlth-l] ASIS&T SIG Health Informatics Call for Participation and Reviewers Message-ID: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SIG HLTH is looking for reviewers to read panel proposals for the 77th ASIST Annual Meeting. You can nominate yourself or someone else. Please submit names and a short paragraph on the nominee's expertise to the SIG HLTH officers listed at the end of this email. The deadline of nomination is April 30th. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ABOUT SIG HLTH The special interests group of health informatics at ASIS&T is concerned with the application of information science principles, information technology, and communication to biomedical science and health care and their related social and ethical issues. It brings together members of various disciplines to evaluate the needs and problems of developing and managing medical information systems that can handle their complex utilities. It also provides a forum for sharing and managing knowledge as a strategic resource for improving the quality, effectiveness, and use of biomedical information, data transfer, and communication through rigorous application of medical informatics. GENERAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities 77th ASIST Annual Meeting October 31 - November 4, 2014 Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA http://www.asis.org/asist2014/ SUBMISSION URL https://www.conftool.pro/asist2014/index.php?page=login The Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology is the premier international conference dedicated to the study of information, people, and technology in contemporary society. The ASIST AM gathers leading scholars and practitioners from around the globe to share innovations, ideas, research, and insights into the state and future of information and communication in play, work, governance, and society. ASIST AM has an established record for pushing the boundaries of information studies, exploring core concepts and ideas, and creating new technological and conceptual configurations -- all situated in interdisciplinary discourses. The conference welcomes contributions from all areas of information science and technology. The conference celebrates plurality in methods, theories and conceptual frameworks and has historically presented research and development from a broad spectrum of domains, as encapsulated in ASIST's many special interest groups: Arts & Humanities; Bioinformatics; Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts; Classification Research; Critical Issues; Digital Libraries; Education for Information Science; Health Informatics; History & Foundations of Information Science; Human Computer Interaction; Information Architecture; Information Needs, Seeking and Use; Information Policy; International Information Issues; Knowledge Management; Library Technologies; Management; Metrics; Scientific & Technical Information; Social Informatics; and Visualization, Images & Sound. IMPORTANT DATES Reviewer Nomination: April 30th (Please contact SIG HLTH officials listed at the end of this email for nominations) Papers, Panels, and Workshops: Submissions: April 30th Notifications: June 11th Final copies: July 15th Posters: Submissions: July 1th Notifications: July 30th Final copies: August 20th (All deadlines: midnight, Hawaii Standard Time) -- Si Sun PhD Candidate Library and Information Science School of Communication and Information Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: