From caryn.anderson at gmail.com Mon Jan 12 10:52:31 2015 From: caryn.anderson at gmail.com (Caryn Anderson) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:52:31 -0600 Subject: [Sigiii-l] Funding opportunity: Building resources for action-oriented team science through syntheses of practices and theories. Closes March 9, 2015 Message-ID: Please forgive cross-posting. For information scientists interested in making research and research methods more accessible across disciplines, particularly for complex social problems, the opportunity below may be of interest. (full RFP on SESYNC website ) I have worked with Professor Bammer in her efforts to collate, organize and develop theory and methods for transdisciplinary research. I outlined some of the philosophies that underpin this funding opportunity in an 2008 ASIST Bulletin article . Her book on Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods is an example of one kind of research methods synthesis. Professor Bammer is very keen to see a team of information scientists participate in this effort to synthesize research methods and has asked to share this RFP with ASIST members. The expectation is that multiple teams in different subject areas will generate aggregated transdisciplinary research methods toolkits, databases, and/or curricula for training inter-disciplinary research teams. An information science team should be able to assist with determining how to organize and distribute such information (the output of all the teams supported by this SESYNC project) for effective discovery and use by all researchers working on complex social problems. Information science teams may also be able to design strategies for finding and aggregating methods across disciplines generally or in support of the other teams in the project. This may be of particular interest to information scientists focused on scholarly communication, information needs/use, knowledge management, and science and technical information. There is also potential for classification and digital libraries specialists. Funding is for travel, accommodation & meals for teams to meet at SESYNC in Maryland multiple times over two years. Cheers, Caryn Anderson Research Information Specialist & PhD Student University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign clndrsn2 at illinois.edu caryn.anderson at gmail.com ------------------------------ *Funding opportunity: Building resources for action-oriented team science through syntheses of practices and theories. Closes March 9, 2015* *Details:* http://www.sesync.org/opportunities/enhancing-socio-environmental-research-education Proposals are invited for synthesis projects focused on tools, methods, and other practices applicable to actionable team research on socio-environmental problems. Multiple teams will be supported, and together their syntheses will contribute towards the development of new toolkits, roadmaps, curricula, and other practical advice. Effective team science is key to finding solutions to socio-environmental problems. Many tools have been developed for integrating ideas, data, and methods across the diverse disciplines involved when researching complex problems. Similarly, practices have been identified that facilitate the linkage of research results with informed policy decisions. Relatively few of these tools and practices have been assessed and optimized for addressing socio-environmental challenges. We invite proposals for synthesis and refinement of the tools and practices of team science from all disciplinary sources for use in socio-environmental applications. The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) will fund up to six international teams (up to 12 members each) to meet over two years (approximately four three-day meetings per team) to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize the practices, tools, methods, and strategies of transdisciplinary team science to significantly improve research teams? effectiveness at understanding socio-environmental problems and informing socio-environmental decisions. The focus may be on improving research methods, on educating new generations of researchers, or both. This call is open to researchers and educators with expertise in all aspects of the practice and scholarship of actionable team research, including diverse areas of environmental and social investigation and other areas that have not traditionally engaged in socio-environmental contexts, such as public health, international development, security, or other research areas. Successful proposals could include participants from a variety of relevant disciplines including environmental science, ecology, social psychology, systemic intervention, political science, organizational management, implementation science, cognitive science, operations research, information science, and computer science. *Purpose* The aim of the synthesis teams to be established under this proposal is to aggregate and synthesize the tools, methods, and other practices used in action-oriented team research as applicable to socio-environmental science. We encourage proposals that address issues across all stages throughout the lifecycle of an interdisciplinary project from problem formulation to approach design, data gathering analysis and synthesis, publication and other dissemination, implementation, and assessment, although individual teams might only work on a subset of these. Many types or combinations of synthesis approaches are possible and many sources of data for aggregation and analysis are appropriate, including diverse case study examples, concepts, methodologies, procedures, protocols, computational applications, or theoretical foundations. *Additional Info* Visit http://www.sesync.org/opportunities/enhancing-socio-environmental-research-education for complete details. Proposals must be received by March 9, 2015, at 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). *Questions?* For general inquiries, or contacts from individuals who are interested but are not currently part of a team, please contact Gabriele Bammer ( Gabriele.Bammer at anu.edu.au) or David Hawthorne (dhawthorne at sesync.org). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This year's conference theme is: LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD: OPEN REPOSITORIES AT THE CROSSROADS OR2015 is the tenth OR conference, and this year?s overarching theme reflects that milestone: Looking Back/Moving Forward: Open Repositories at the Crossroads. It is an opportunity to reflect on and to celebrate the transformative changes in repositories, scholarly communication and research data over the last decade. More critically however, it will also help to ensure that open repositories continue to play a key role in supporting, shaping and sharing those changes and an open agenda for research and scholarship. OR2015 will provide an opportunity to explore the demands and roles now expected of both repositories and the staff who develop, support and manage them - and to prepare them for the challenges of the next decade. We welcome proposals on this theme, but also on the theoretical, practical, organizational or administrative topics related to digital repositories. We are particularly interested in: 1. SUPPORTING OPEN SCHOLARSHIP, OPEN SCIENCE, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE ONLINE 2. MANAGING RESEARCH (AND OPEN) DATA 3. INTEGRATING WITH EXTERNAL SYSTEMS 4. RE-USING REPOSITORY CONTENT 5. EXPLORING METRICS AND ASSESSMENT 6. MANAGING RIGHTS 7. DEVELOPING AND TRAINING STAFF 8. BUILDING THE PERFECT REPOSITORY Submissions that demonstrate original and repository-related work without these themes will be considered, but preference will be given to submissions which address them. KEY DATES * 30 January 2015: Deadline for submissions * 27 March 2015: Submitters notified of acceptance to general conference * 10 April 2015: Submitters notified of acceptance to Interest Groups * 8-11 June 2015: OR2015 conference SUBMISSION PROCESS * General Conference: * DSpace Interest Group: * EPrints Interest Group: * Fedora Interest Group: SUBMISSION SYSTEM: PDF format is preferred for submissions. CODE OF CONDUCT: SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME: PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS * Holly Mercer, University of Tennessee * William J Nixon, University of Glasgow * Imma Subirats, FAO of the United Nations contact: LOCAL HOSTS * Indiana University Bloomington Libraries * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library * Virginia Tech University Libraries contact: CONFERENCE WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA * website: * twitter:@OR2015Indy and #or2015 * Facebook: From Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu Tue Jan 20 13:12:51 2015 From: Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu (Selenay Aytac) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 18:12:51 +0000 Subject: [Sigiii-l] Deadline Approaching! Please Promote the IFLA/OCLC Fellowship Program Message-ID: <4E341855441A604ABC4A3B69110F00739A622471@U-EXH-MBX3.liunet.edu> Application deadline 13 February 2015 for 2016 Jordan IFLA/OCLC Fellowship The deadline for applications for the 2016 Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program is 13 February 2054. The Fellowship Program provides early career development and continuing education for library and information professionals from countries with developing economies. The program gives Fellows opportunities to meet with leading information practitioners, visit libraries, and explore topics including information technologies, library operations and management, and global cooperative librarianship. Interested persons who meet the program qualifications are encouraged to apply. Program guidelines and applications for the 2016 Fellowship program are available via this link: http://oclc.org/about/fellows.en.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu Mon Jan 26 10:33:08 2015 From: Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu (Selenay Aytac) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:33:08 +0000 Subject: [Sigiii-l] The Commonwealth and its People: Diasporas, Identities, Memories Conference: 24-25 June 2015 Old University Campus, Valletta, Malta Message-ID: <4E341855441A604ABC4A3B69110F00739A623A14@U-EXH-MBX3.liunet.edu> The Commonwealth and its People: Diasporas, Identities, Memories Conference and Art Exhibition Affiliated with the People's Forum of CHoGM 2015 Conference: 24-25 June 2015 Old University Campus, Valletta, Malta Exhibition: November 2015, Valletta, Malta Web: www.um.edu.mt/events/dim2015 Facebook: www.facebook.com/dmi2015 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Selenay Aytac (Long Island University, USA) Nilufer Bharucha (University of Mumbai, India) Milena Dobreva (University of Malta, Malta) Joanne Evans (Monash University, Australia) Neil Forbes (University of Coventry, England) Lorna Hughes (National Library of Wales, Wales) Marinos Ioannides (Technical University Cyprus, Cyprus) Gabriella Ivacs (Open Society Archives, Budapest, Hungary) Marc Kosciejew (University of Malta, Malta) Triantafillia Kourtoumi (Archives Thessaloniki, Greece) Alice Nemcova (OSCE Archives, Czech Republic) Gillian Oliver (Victoria University, New Zealand) Anthony Ross-Hellauer (Vienna, Austria) Seamus Ross (University of Toronto, Canada) Maria Roussou (Hellenic Diaspora Archive, UK) Daniela Sime (University of Strathclyde, Scotland) Beverley Wood (The University of the West Indies, Barbados) OBJECTIVES The Commonwealth is one of the most striking examples of extensive relocation and migration on a world-wide scale. This proposal aims to bring together two ways of exploring the topic of Diasporas, Identities and Memories - as a subject for academic study and discussion, and as a theme captured in artistic expression. The concept behind the conference is to bring for discussion state-of-the-art research related to the theme which will inspire the exhibition taking place during the CHoGM forum. The conference aims to bring together academics specializing in social history, history, information science, art history as well as curators, archivists and librarians interested in the theme. INVITED SPEAKERS: Terry A. Barringer (Cambridge University Library, UK) Dr John Ashley Burgoyne (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Professor Stanley Fiorini (Malta) Professor Daniel Paul O'Donnell (University of Lethbridge, Canada) TOPICS OF INTEREST: The conference welcomes contributions that focus on, but are not limited to the following themes: - What role do researchers have in the capturing and articulation of diasporas, memories and identities? - How do memory institutions support engagement with researchers and the general public? - How the artistic expression captures identity and changes and conflicts related to it? - How to capture and convey trans-generational and community memories? - How does the right to forget manifest in the diasporas' memories? - What are the specific issues around capturing memories and experiences of children and young people? - What has been the role of Commonwealth institutions or Commonwealth-based supra-national organisations in the formation of memory/identity/diasporas? - How do memory institutions contribute to the development and management of heritage? - How memory institutions across the Commonwealth countries could cooperate better to serve diasporas? - What educational activities targeting memory institutions across the Commonwealth could help cooperation? - How social media are transforming engagement and participation in archival processes? - How is transnationalism influencing the transmission of cultural values? - How much can technologies be of help in capturing memories/nostalgia and in representing identities? EXHIBITION: The conference will help with the concept and coverage of an art exhibition which will address the emotional fabric of communities, their memories and expressing identities. The exhibition will be one of the highlights of the social programme of CHOGM. Those interested in the exhibition component should contact Mr Alexander Debono,, National Museum of Fine Arts, alexander.debono at gov.mt. SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers related to the aforementioned topics. We invite: - regular papers (8 to 12 pages) - short papers (2 to 6 pages) All submissions are required to be in PDF format. Long and short paper submissions must be formatted according to Springer's LNCS format (www.springer.com/computer/lncs). Please submit your manuscript using the EasyChair online submission system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dim2015. All submissions will be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. All papers accepted for the conference should be presented during the event. Papers will be published in open access proceedings, with selected papers will be published as a special issue of a journal (currently negotiated with The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs. IMPORTANT DATES: - Deadline for submissions: 15 February 2015 - Acceptance notification: 20 March 2015 - Camera-ready papers: 30 April 2015 - Conference: 24-25 June 2015 FURTHER INFORMATION: For further information please contact Prof. Milena Dobreva, milena.dobreva at um.edu.mt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From imma.subirats at gmail.com Wed Jan 28 04:53:30 2015 From: imma.subirats at gmail.com (Imma Subirats) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:53:30 +0100 Subject: [Sigiii-l] Open Repositories Conference Update: OR2015 Proposal Deadline Extended Message-ID: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 28, 2015 A message from the Open Repositories 2015 Conference organizers Indianapolis, United States. The final deadline for submitting proposals for the Tenth International Conference on Open Repositories (@OR2015Indy and #or2015) has been extended until Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. The conference is scheduled to take place June 8-11 in Indianapolis and is being hosted by Indiana University Bloomington Libraries, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library and Virginia Tech University Libraries. The theme this year is "LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD: OPEN REPOSITORIES AT THE CROSSROADS". You may review the call for proposals here: http://www.or2015.net/call-for-proposals/ . * Submit your proposal here: https://www.conftool.com/or2015/ by Feb. 6, 2015 * We look forward to seeing you at OR2015! Imma Subirats ------------------------------------------------------------- Information Management Officer OPCC, FAO of the United Nations Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome (Italy) From Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu Fri Jan 30 09:09:59 2015 From: Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu (Selenay Aytac) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:09:59 +0000 Subject: [Sigiii-l] The winners of the InfoShare awards for 2015 Message-ID: <4E341855441A604ABC4A3B69110F00739A623F60@U-EXH-MBX3.liunet.edu> Dear Colleagues, On behalf of all our fellow officers of the Special Interest Group for International Information Issues (SIG-III) of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), we are pleased to announce the winners of the InfoShare awards for 2015. Information professionals from developing countries, where the cost of ASIS&T membership would be a burden, are eligible to receive one year of membership. SIG-III officers vote on a roster of candidates nominated by ASIS&T colleagues or others. These memberships are funded by monies raised at the International Reception during the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. 2014 was a very successful year for the reception in Seattle and we are thrilled to be able to offer memberships to 5 outstanding professional candidates and 2 student candidates: Professional members Dwaymian Brissette, Jamaica Elsab? Olivier, South Africa Olufunmilayo Iyabo Fati, Nigeria Shima Moradi, Iran Vesna Vuksan, Serbia Student members Amjid Khan s/o Lakhkar Khan, Pakistan Jiban K. Pal, India Please welcome these new members into the ASIS&T community! You can learn more about the InfoShare program at the SIG-III web site: (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/) Kindest regards, Selenay Aytac and Christine Hagar InfoShare SIG-III ASIS&T Dr. Selenay Aytac Associate Professor LIU Post B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library 720 Northern Blvd Brookville NY 11548 516 299 3443 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: