From h.obrien at ubc.ca Sun Jun 1 23:54:51 2014 From: h.obrien at ubc.ca (O'Brien, Heather) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 03:54:51 +0000 Subject: [Siguse-l] Call for submissions - SIGUSE Awards 2014 Message-ID: <3D3C798747545C4293E710C70B9D97AE931FE1AB@S-ITSV-MBX02P.ead.ubc.ca> CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - SIGUSE AWARDS The Information Needs, Seeking, and Use Special Interest Group (SIG USE) of ASIST seeks submissions for six awards: 1. The Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award 2. The Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award 3. The Elfreda A. Chatman Research Proposal Award 4. The Student Travel Award 5. The Interdisciplinary Travel Award 6. The Innovation Award The deadline for submissions for all awards, which will be given at the 2014 ASIS&T meeting in Seattle, WA, is July 1, 2014. Details and criteria for each award can be found on the SIG USE website, at http://siguse.wordpress.com/awards/. All submissions and any questions should be directed to Heather O'Brien at h.obrien at ubc.ca. We'll see you at ASIS&T 2014! Sincerely, Gary Burnett and Heather O'Brien SIGUSE Award Co-chairs Dr. Heather O'Brien Assistant Professor The iSchool, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC h.obrien at ubc.ca http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/hobrien/ From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Sun Jun 1 06:54:47 2014 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 12:54:47 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Siguse-l] CFP ACM MEDES 2014: Submission deadline approaching (8 June 2014) In-Reply-To: <1292551937.5812970.1400140245662.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> References: <1619833220.1063422.1378673582388.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> <1292551937.5812970.1400140245662.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> Message-ID: <2121393764.8237205.1401620087461.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The 6th International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective Intelligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2014) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/14/ September 15-17, 2014 Buraidah-Al Qassim, Saudi Arabi Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective IntElligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. MEDES 2014 calls for full papers presenting interesting recent results or novel ideas in all areas of Emergent Digital EcoSystems. At the same time, the conference calls for short papers presenting interesting and exciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and preferably include a system demonstration. Topics ------- MEDES 2014 seeks contributions in the following areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Green computing 3. Computational and Collective Intelligence 4. Services 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. Internet of Things and Intelligent Web 8. Human-Computer Interaction 9. Networks and Protocols 10. Open Source Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- Extended Submission Deadline: 8 June 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 5 July 2014 Camera Ready: 20 July 2014 Conference Dates: 15-17 September 2014 Keynote Speakers ---------------- Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France Ton Kalker, DTS Incorporation, USA Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA Youngjin Yoo, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Suwaiyel, President of KACST, Saudi Arabia Special Tracks: ---------------- Big Data Processing and Management Computational Intelligence Workshops ---------- - 2nd International Workshop on Security and Privacy Preserving in e-Societies (SECES) - Workshop on Advances in Intelligent Environmental Monitoring (AIEM) Special issues and Journal Publication --------------------------------------- Extended versions of selected papers will be published in several peer reviewed journals. The list of journals will be announced later. Main Conference Program Chairs ???????----------------------- Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada Saad Harous, United Arab Emirates University, UAE International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From ajapzon at iupui.edu Thu Jun 5 16:20:16 2014 From: ajapzon at iupui.edu (Copeland, Andrea) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 20:20:16 +0000 Subject: [Siguse-l] Call for Nominations: Cretsos Leadership Award Message-ID: Please post Apologies for cross posting. Nominations for the Cretsos Leadership Award are being accepted until July 15. The Cretsos Leadership award recognizes a new ASIS&T member who has demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities in professional ASIS&T activities. Please find the complete award and submission information located here: http://www.asis.org/awards/leadershipaward.html If you know someone who has demonstrated exemplary leadership qualities, please consider nominating them. Individuals who have been members of ASIS&T for seven years or less are eligible. Thank you for your consideration and any questions, please contact the award jury chair, Andrea Copeland at ajapzon at iupui.edu. Andrea J. Copeland, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Library & Information Science School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University 755 W Michigan Street, UL3100C Indianapolis, IN 46202 (317) 274-0114[X](317) 274-0114 Call Send SMS Add to Skype You'll need Skype CreditFree via Skype -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From h.obrien at ubc.ca Thu Jun 19 13:19:35 2014 From: h.obrien at ubc.ca (O'Brien, Heather) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 17:19:35 +0000 Subject: [Siguse-l] 2nd Call for submissions - SIGUSE Awards 2014 Message-ID: <3D3C798747545C4293E710C70B9D97AE93207BD1@S-ITSV-MBX02P.ead.ubc.ca> The Information Needs, Seeking, and Use Special Interest Group (SIG USE) of ASIST seeks submissions for six awards: 1. The Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award 2. The Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award 3. The Elfreda A. Chatman Research Proposal Award 4. The Student Travel Award 5. The Interdisciplinary Travel Award 6. The Innovation Award The deadline for submissions for all awards, which will be given at the 2014 ASIS&T meeting in Seattle, WA, is July 1, 2014. Details and criteria for each award can be found on the SIG USE website, at http://siguse.wordpress.com/awards/. All submissions and any questions should be directed to Heather O'Brien at h.obrien at ubc.ca. We'll see you at ASIS&T 2014! Sincerely, Gary Burnett and Heather O'Brien SIGUSE Award Co-chairs Dr. Heather O'Brien Assistant Professor The iSchool, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC h.obrien at ubc.ca http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/hobrien/ From nadia.caidi at utoronto.ca Thu Jun 19 12:45:20 2014 From: nadia.caidi at utoronto.ca (Nadia Caidi) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:45:20 -0400 Subject: [Siguse-l] ASIST 2014 - Poster Submission deadline: July 1, 2014 Message-ID: Dear All, A friendly reminder that the deadline for submitting posters to ASIST 2014 (in Seattle, Oct 31-Nov 1) is upon us. Please refer to the website for more information about submission ( http://www.asis.org/asist2014/) Posters Posters are a vehicle for face-to-face presentations and interactions using traditional posters, short videos, or live demonstrations. These formats provide opportunities for interactive discussion and feedback about the work. Poster presentations are expected to invite questions and discussion in a personal and less formal setting. Posters offer a unique opportunity to present late-breaking results, work in progress, or research that is best communicated in an interactive or graphical format. Please note, however, that posters describing work that is simply a proposal will not be accepted. Submissions for refereeing should be in the form of an extended abstract of up to 4 pages. The reviewers will use similar criteria for judging the Posters submission as for any other categories, namely the scope of the work, the quality of the research and of the presentation, the perceived impact of the work presented, citations' adequacy and the overall quality of the submission. See you in Seattle! 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URL: From bmehra at utk.edu Tue Jun 24 17:42:46 2014 From: bmehra at utk.edu (Mehra, Bharat) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:42:46 +0000 Subject: [Siguse-l] FW: Call for Chapter Abstracts: Critical Theory and Social Justice in Library and Information Science In-Reply-To: <451F3359-DDEF-4FF8-91ED-003D1864C566@gmail.com> References: <451F3359-DDEF-4FF8-91ED-003D1864C566@gmail.com> Message-ID: Please distribute widely, thanks! ####################################### Bharat Mehra, PhD Associate Professor School of Information Sciences University of Tennessee # 454 Communications Building, 1345 Circle Park Drive Knoxville, TN 37996-0341 Telephone: (865) 974 5917 (O) E-mail: bmehra at utk.edu Homepage: http://www.sis.utk.edu/users/bharat-mehra; https://web.utk.edu/~bmehra/ (cut and paste the URL in your web browser). ####################################### ________________________________________ From: Rory Litwin [rlitwin at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 3:08 PM To: Mehra, Bharat Subject: Call for Chapter Abstracts: Critical Theory and Social Justice in Library and Information Science Call for chapter abstracts for the forthcoming monograph: Mehra, B., & Rioux, K. (Eds.). (2015). Progressive community action: Critical theory and social justice in library and information science. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press. Editors Bharat Mehra and Kevin Rioux invite you to submit a 500-word abstract proposing a chapter for this edited volume by July 1, 2014. We seek original scholarship on the intersections of critical theory and social justice in library and information science, with a particular focus on progressive community action and community development outcomes. The frame of inquiry includes all types of libraries, museums, archives and other information settings. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ? The role of the progressive LIS professional in bringing about positive community changes; ? Social justice and critical theory as a guide for policy and action in education, information service design, ICT development, and programming; ? Social justice and librarianship in international contexts; ? The use of social justice and critical theory concepts in assessment to demonstrate relevance and accountability; ? Social and community impacts made by LIS research and practice; ? Development of social justice as a critical theoretical approach for the LIS professions; ? Other related topics. For a broad scholarly review of social justice in the information professions, see ? Mehra, B., Rioux, K., & Albright, K. (2009). Social justice in library and information science. In Bates, M., & Maack, N. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of library and information sciences (3rd ed.), 4820-4836. New York: Taylor & Francis. More information about the monograph and the editors can be found at the Library Juice site: http://libraryjuicepress.com/pca.php (cut and paste in web browser). Timetable: ? July 1, 2014: Deadline for 500-word abstracts proposing a chapter. ? September 5, 2014: Notification of acceptance of proposal. ? May 1, 2015: Deadline for submitting full chapter manuscripts. Authors should strive for 20-30 pages (5,000 to 7,500 words). ? August 1, 2015: Feedback from editors ? September 1, 2015: Deadline for revised chapter manuscripts About the Editors: Bharat Mehra, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee. His research furthers diversity and intercultural communication and addresses social justice and social equity agendas to meet the needs of minority and underserved populations (e.g., lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people; racial and ethnic minorities; international communities; low-income families; rural residents; amongst others). [More information about Mehra can be found at URL: www.sis.utk.edu/users/bharat-mehra]. Kevin Rioux, PhD, is Associate Professor of Library and Information Science at St. John's University, New York. In his teaching and research, he uses social justice metatheory, information behavior frameworks, and integrated human development models to explore issues related to information access and information technologies as tools of social and economic development in both local and international contexts. [More information about Rioux can be found at URL: www.stjohns.edu/academics/bio/kevin-rioux]. Please direct submissions and inquiries to Bharat Mehra (bmehra at utk.edu) and Kevin Rioux (rioux.kevin at gmail.com). Please Share Widely Apologies for Cross Postings Rory Litwin P.O. Box 188784 Sacramento, CA 95818 Tel. 218-260-6115 rlitwin at gmail.com http://libraryjuice.com/ http://rorylitwin.info/ From pmr at aber.ac.uk Tue Jun 24 08:43:16 2014 From: pmr at aber.ac.uk (Pauline Margaret Rafferty [pmr]) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:43:16 +0000 Subject: [Siguse-l] Call for papers - special issue NLW Message-ID: <15A39ACC27C7E14480DC01D1B927F49905FDDFF9@EXMB2.pau.local> Information Behaviour and Practice ________________________________________ Special issue call for papers from New Library World New Library World is planning to publish a special issue exploring Information Behaviour and Practice in general, with a focus more specifically on implications for library and information services. This issue will be jointly guest edited by Dr Allen Foster and Dr Pauline Rafferty of Aberystwyth University. Scope We are looking for articles which deal with both theoretical and practical aspects of information behaviour. Topics of interest include but are not restricted to: * Models and theories of information seeking behaviour * Information seeking behaviours in the digital age * The Google Generation * Information seeking behaviours of specific groups of information users * Reading, information behaviour and the library * Context in information behaviour * Everyday life information seeking * From information seeking behaviour to Information practice * Implications for academic libraries of students' information seeking behaviour * Information seeking in public libraries * Serendipity and incidental information acquisition * From information behaviour to designing information systems * Information behaviour: relationships between structure and agency * Information spaces and information behaviour * Convenience and information seeking * The impact of mobile devices on information behaviour * The affective dimension of information seeking Research papers, case studies and best practice papers will be considered. More about the special issue theme Information seeking behaviour remains an area of importance in information science and librarianship, perhaps even more so in the digital age. This special issue is an opportunity to share contemporary ideas in information behaviour, as well as practice models and methods which originate from (or are of relevance to) any branch of the LIS discipline, sub-discipline and wider information profession. More information can be found here: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/authors/writing/calls.htm?id=5339 Submission date: 31st July 2014 Dr Pauline Rafferty Department of Information Studies Aberystwyth University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From h.obrien at ubc.ca Mon Jun 30 10:16:32 2014 From: h.obrien at ubc.ca (O'Brien, Heather) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:16:32 +0000 Subject: [Siguse-l] Final Call for submissions - SIGUSE Awards 2014 Deadline July 1 Message-ID: <3D3C798747545C4293E710C70B9D97AE93208ACA@S-ITSV-MBX02P.ead.ubc.ca> Final call - Deadline July 1st! The Information Needs, Seeking, and Use Special Interest Group (SIG USE) of ASIST seeks submissions for six awards: 1. The Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award 2. The Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award 3. The Elfreda A. Chatman Research Proposal Award 4. The Student Travel Award 5. The Interdisciplinary Travel Award 6. The Innovation Award The deadline for submissions for all awards, which will be given at the 2014 ASIS&T meeting in Seattle, WA, is July 1, 2014. Details and criteria for each award can be found on the SIG USE website, at http://siguse.wordpress.com/awards/. All submissions and any questions should be directed to Heather O'Brien at h.obrien at ubc.ca. We'll see you at ASIS&T 2014! Sincerely, Gary Burnett and Heather O'Brien SIGUSE Award Co-chairs Dr. Heather O'Brien Assistant Professor The iSchool, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC h.obrien at ubc.ca http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/hobrien/