[Siguse-l] Information Seeking In Context Conference CFP

[Peiling Wang]

FYI. 
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Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 23:38:11 +0000 (GMT)
From: Crystal Fulton <crystalsafulton at yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: Crystal.Fulton at ucd.ie

Information Seeking in Context - ISIC 2004 Call for Papers: ISIC
2004 in Dublin, Ireland offers researchers and practitioners the
opportunity to hear results of the latest research in the field of
information seeking, to debate methodological issues, and to discuss
emerging and further areas of research.  Previous ISIC conferences have
been held in Tampere, Finland 1996 Sheffield, U.K. 1998 Göteborg, Sweden
2000 Lisbon, Portugal 2002 The 5th ISIC conference will be held from
September 1st to 3rd, 2004 in Dublin, Ireland at University College
Dublin, Belfield, Dublin.  A 1-day doctoral workshop will precede the
conference on August 31, 2004. Themes of the conference include the
following: 1. Theories and models of information seeking 2. Research
approaches and methodologies, including ethnomethodology 3. Information
seeking and use in specific contexts e.g., health care, education, etc. 4.
Organizational structures and processes and information seeking and use -
The impact of structures and processes on the information seeking
behaviour of organizational members, and the relationship of information
seeking behaviour to work tasks and their complexity 5. Information
behaviour in everyday life, including its role in community activities and
processes, as well as the role of the Web in supporting such behaviour and
the development of virtual communities e.g., information seeking to
support citizenship, parenting, career development, etc.  6. Integrating
studies on information seeking and retrieval e.g., research into the
relationship between information searching and retrieval and the broader
field of information seeking, including the role of Web-based searching in
the overall information seeking process; task-based information searching
etc. 7. Information use – the nature of information and how information is
used to help solve an original problem or satisfy an initial need 8.
Information communities, including virtual communities

Deadlines:
February 15, 2004 – Submission date for papers for review
April 1, 2004 – Notification of acceptance of papers
July 1, 2004 – Submission date for final versions of accepted papers.
All participants in previous ISIC Conferences are welcome to join the conference in Dublin in 2004, as are other researchers from information-related fields.
For further information about ISIC 2004 and submission of papers, visit the conference web site at http://www.ucd.ie/~isic2004.

Conference Contact:
Dr. Crystal Fulton
Department of Library and Information Studies
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
Ireland
Telephone: +353 1 716 7593
Fax: +353 1 716 1161
Email: ISIC2004 at ucd.ie