[Sigtis-l] CFP: The Ethics of Information Organization (reminder)

[Michael Zimmer]

** Reminder: Abstracts due: January 1, 2009 **


The Ethics of Information Organization – Conference Call for Papers,  
Updated
Web Site: http://www.cipr.uwm.edu/ioethics.html

May 22-23, 2009
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Information organization (IO), like other major functions of the  
information profession, faces many ethical challenges. In the IO  
literature, ethical concerns have been raised with regard to, for  
example, the role of national and international IO standards,  
providing subject access to information, deprofessionalization and  
outsourcing of IO, education of IO professionals, and the effects of  
globalization. These issues, and others like them, have serious  
implications for quality and equity in information access. The Center  
for Information Policy Research and the Information Organization  
Research Group at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee join in  
presenting this conference to address the ethics of information  
organization.

The themes of the conference may include, but are not limited to,  
ethical aspects of and approaches to:

     * The role of standards in IO
     * Subject access to information
     * Description and Metadata
     * Folksonomies and social tagging as IO
     * Day-to-day practice in IO
     * Professionalism and IO
     * Education for IO
     * Culture and IO
     * Economic, social and political factors in IO
     * International, multicultural and multilingual aspects of IO

The keynote speakers will be:
Clare Beghtol
     Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
José Augusto Chaves Guimarães
     Professor, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil
Janet Swan Hill
     Professor, Associate Director for Technical Services, University  
of Colorado at Boulder Libraries, USA

We invite interested participants to submit proposals for papers to  
include: name(s) of presenter(s), title(s), affiliation(s), contact  
information and abstracts of 300-500 words. Presentations will be 30  
minutes. Time will be set aside for questions as well as broader  
discussion. All abstracts will be published on the Web site of the UW- 
Milwaukee Center for Information Policy Research. Full papers will be  
further reviewed and selected for publication in a special issue of  
Cataloging and Classification Quarterly.

Abstracts due: January 1, 2009
Notification of acceptance by: February 1, 2009
Full papers due: April 3, 2009

Submit proposals electronically to: Hur-Li Lee, Chair of the Program  
Committee (hurli at uwm.edu)

The Program Committee:
Grant Campbell
     Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Allyson Carlyle
     Associate Professor, University of Washington
Clara M. Chu
     Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Edwin Michael Cortez
     Professor/Director, University of Tennessee
C. Olivia Frost
     Professor, University of Michigan
Birger Hjørland
     Professor, The Royal School of Library and Information Science  
in Denmark
Hur-Li Lee, Chair
     Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Steven J. Miller
     Senior Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Hope A. Olson
     Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Sandra Roe
     Editor, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly
     Bibliographic Services Librarian, Milner Library, Illinois State  
University
Richard P. Smiraglia
     Professor, Long Island University
Michael Zimmer
     Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee


Sponsors:
Center for Information Policy Research, UW-Milwaukee
Information Organization Research Group at UW-Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Milwaukee Public Libraries

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Michael Zimmer, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
Associate, Center for Information Policy Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
e: zimmerm at uwm.edu
w: www.michaelzimmer.org