[Siguse-l] CAIS 41st Annual Conference, Victoria, BC, June 6-8, 2013

[Eric Meyers]

Please distribute widely to colleagues.  We hope to see you in Victoria in June 2013!
For more information, please visit: http://www.diigubc.ca/cais-acsi/en/index.html or http://www.diigubc.ca/cais-acsi/fr/index.html

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Canadian Association for Information Science
41st Annual Conference, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, June 6-8th, 2013
Tales from the Edge: Narrative Voices in Information Research and Practice 

Call for Proposals

Storytelling is an essential part of human history and culture, a powerful tool for learning, sense making and knowledge transmission. A tale may be a narrative account of an event, asserted fact, or circumstance; a cautionary fable used to educate; a boast of one’s accomplishments. At its most basic level, stories comprise a succession of events, and storytelling is the activity of relaying those events through personal communication or artefacts such as movies, novels, reports. Increasingly, our tales are encoded, distributed, appreciated and preserved in digital media: the emails, texts, tweets and status updates that comprise our
everyday stories.

We construct narratives around and through the information products and applications we use on a daily basis.  As researchers, we attempt to capture these stories in order to inform the design, evaluation, and use of information systems and resources, As library and information professionals, we use stories to understand and engage our communities in our services and organizations.      

Our conference theme, Tales from the Edge: Narrative Voices in Information Research and Practice, reflects both the geographic location of our host city, Victoria, British Columbia, as well as our intention to showcase leading edge research and practice. As narrative is critical to the development of meaning, delegates to the conference are encouraged to surface their subjectivities and give voice not only to their users or participants, but to themselves. Each scholar has a unique story to tell the Information Science field and profession. Our theme supports diverse approaches to inquiry, and seeks to recognize not only research that pushes the boundaries of the field, but also those voices residing at the margins of research and practice. 

We seek papers and presentations that address this broad theme, but also pose the following questions for consideration:

How is technology affecting the way we analyze personal and social narratives?
What methods do we use to capture our users’ and participants’ stories?
How can we better represent marginalized voices in our research?     
What new techniques allow us to tell stories with data?
How do we use narrative to bridge the divide between research and practice?
What is the researcher’s role as raconteur?

We welcome studies that explore any of these issues, or analyses that more broadly address the theme of
narrative at the boundaries.

Proposals for papers, posters, and alternative events may be submitted in English or French. The conference committee strongly encourages submissions from professional and academic researchers.  Further instructions and guidelines will be available by on the conference website at http://www.diigubc.ca/cais-acsi. 

Submission Deadline for all proposals is January 14, 2013. Proposals should be submitted via https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=caisacsi2013. Conference proposals will be refereed by the Programme Committee. Authors will be notified of the Committee’s decision no later than February 25th, 2013.  All presenters must register for the conference. Abstracts will be published on the CAIS/ACSI Website once registration has taken place. Final versions must be submitted no later than April 15th, 2013.

The CAIS/ACSI Conference 2013 planning committee:
Drs. Eric Meyers (eric.meyers at ubc.ca) and Heather O'Brien (h.obrien at ubc.ca)
Conference Co-Chairs
iSchool, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1

Kristin Hodgins (kristin.hodgins at gov.bc.ca)
Local Arrangements Chair
Attorney General Law Library, Ministry of Justice, Victoria, B.C.


Eric M. Meyers Ph.D.
Assistant Professor | School of Library, Archival & Information Studies | The iSchool at UBC
The University of British Columbia | Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
470 – 1961 East Mall, Vancouver BC  Canada V6T 1Z1
eric.meyers at ubc.ca  | 604.827.3945

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