[Sigiii-l] EUCLID/ALISE joint conference - Berlin, JULY 2003

[Ian Johnson (absimj)]

Coping with continual change - change management in SLIS
EUCLID/ALISE joint meeting, Potsdam, July 31 - August 1, 2003

In today's world of rapid and continual change, LIS-education faces challenges that take research and research based reflection to be handled adequately. The European Association for Library and Information Science Education and Research (EUCLID) <http://www.jbi.hio.no/bibin/euclid/>  and Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) <http://www.alise.org/>  invited researchers in the field to submit research based papers that deal with the above-mentioned theme.
 
Topics of the 21 selected papers include:
Recruitment - student diversity, expectations and capabilities
Pressures for curricular changes
Institutional change and its impact
Effectiveness of distance learning
The impact of new competitors
The role of consortia
The relationship between schools of library and information science SLIS and the field of practice
The scientific and epistemological foundation of LIS education and research
 
Date and venue
The conference will be hosted by the Department of Information Sciences (Fachbereich Informationswissenschaften) at the University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule PotHYPERLINK "http://www.FH-Potsdam.de" sHYPERLINK "http://www.FH-Potsdam.de" dam - FHP <http://www.FH-Potsdam.de> ), Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 4, 14467 Potsdam, Germany. The date has been chosen in order to allow participants to join the World Library and Information CongressHYPERLINK "http://www.ifla.org"  - HYPERLINK "http://www.ifla.org" 69HYPERLINK "http://www.ifla.org" thHYPERLINK "http://www.ifla.org"  IFLA General Conference and Council <http://www.ifla.org>  which takes place in Berlin (near Potsdam) seamlessly afterwards.

A draft programme, and further information about the venue and registration, can be found at: http://www.fh-potsdam.de/EUCLID


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