[Students-l] CORRECTION re: Call for Participation: 11th Annual SIG-USE Research Symposium at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)

[Maria Souden]

Hello all,

Correction to previous email- if you are interested in participating in the
workshop via options 1-4 below, please send your information to Maria Souden
at maria.souden at ucd.ie.

Thanks and hope to hear from you!
Maria
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Maria Souden, MSI, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Information and Library Studies
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
Ireland
+353.1.716.7660
maria.souden at ucd.ie
maria.souden at gmail.com



On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Agosto,Denise <dea22 at drexel.edu> wrote:

> WHERE YOUR WORLD MEETS MINE: INFORMATION USE ACROSS DOMAINS
>
> Date: October 12, 2011
> Location: ASIS&T Annual Meeting at the New Orleans Marriott, New Orleans,
> LA, USA
> Conference website: http://asis.org/asist2011/am11cfp.html
>
>  The 11th Annual SIG-USE Research Symposium at the 2011 Annual Meeting of
> the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) will
> explore the intersections of information seeking and use with domains
> outside of information science.  In the last decade, information science’s
> attention to cross-disciplinary questions has remained a central focus of
> the field.  To some degree, working in information science inherently means
> working across boundaries.  As information behavior researchers and
> practitioners, we must not only be immersed in information science practices
> and perspectives, but able to entertain, incorporate, and challenge the
> perspectives of the various other domains in which we work.
>
>  This Symposium invites researchers, graduate students, and practitioners
> to reflect on and discuss experiences in their own work of boundary
> crossing, boundary living, and boundary pushing.  A series of keynote
> dialogues will pair information behavior researchers with practitioners from
> related domains of study, with the goal of stimulating lively and focused
> discussion sessions among participants.  Participants will emerge with new
> understandings of and reflections on how working across a wide range of
> disciplines and domains enables synergies between our world and the worlds
> of our collaborators.
>
> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
>  An advance written submission is encouraged, but not required.  Advance
> written information will enable workshop organizers to create working groups
> based on participants’ shared interests.  Workshop attendees may choose any
> of the following options for participating:
>
> 1. REGISTRATION PLUS POSITION PAPER.  Those interested in writing brief
> papers are invited to submit one-page position papers explaining how your
> work involves other domains outside of information science, including
> research, practice, service, collaboration, and teaching.  Position papers
> will be posted on the SIG USE website prior to the workshop (with authors’
> permission).
>
> 2. REGISTRATION PLUS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS/PROBLEM IDENTIFICATIONS. In lieu
> of writing a position paper, registrants may submit two or three discussion
> questions or problems related to the idea of information seeking and use
> across domains. These may be general questions and problems, or questions
> and problems closely related to your own work (e.g., “How are changing
> information practices affecting the field of digital humanities?” or
> “information privacy issues in organizational contexts”).  The organizing
> committee is particularly interested in questions or problems that would be
> useful for guiding small group discussions at the workshop.
>
> 3. REGISTRATION PLUS IDENTIFICATION OF DOMAIN(S) OF INTEREST.  Those with
> interests in specific domains can choose to list up to three domains of
> interest for the organizing committee to consider as topic areas for small
> group discussion.
>
> 4. REGISTRATION PLUS ANY COMBINATION OF OPTIONS 1 – 3, ABOVE.  You may
> choose to submit any two or all three of the above items (position paper,
> discussion questions/problem identifications, and domains of interest).
>
> 5. REGISTRATION ONLY. Those interested in attending the workshop without
> submitting written materials may register at any time prior to the beginning
> of the workshop, provided that workshop spaces remain.
>
> For advance submissions, please use the following submission guidelines:
>  * Submit all files as pdf documents.
>  * Put your name, title, and institutional affiliation in the upper
> left-hand corner of the first page.
>  * Put page numbers in the upper right hand corner of all pages.
>  * Name your file as follows:
>       2011_SIGUSEworkshop_yourlastname.pdf
>
> N.B.: Indicate in your email message whether or not you would like your
> submission to be posted publically on the SIG USE website as a part of the
> pre- and post-workshop materials.  Submissions are due by midnight local
> time on SEPTEMBER 9, 2011.
>
> Email submissions to:
> Maria Souden (maria.souden at ucd.ie).
>
> REGISTRATION FEES
>  * $105 for SIG USE members.
>  * $110 for nonmembers.
> The registration fee will cover workshop costs, a light breakfast, coffee
> breaks, and lunch.
>
> STUDENT BLOGGERS
>  SIG USE will pay the registration fees for two graduate students to attend
> the workshop and provide live blogging during the event.  If you are
> interested in serving as a student blogger, indicate your interest via email
> to Maria Souden at maria.souden at ucd.ie.  Student bloggers will be accepted
> on a first-come, first-serve basis.
>
> WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
>  * Denise Agosto, Drexel University (chair) (dea22 at drexel.edu)
>  * Maria Souden, University College Dublin (maria.souden at ucd.ie)
>  * Barbara Wildemuth, University of North Carolina (wildemuth at unc.edu)
>  * Xiaojun Yuan, University at Albany, State University of New York (
> xyuan at albany.edu)
>
> ---------------------------
> Denise E. Agosto, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> 2011 ALISE Award for Teaching Excellence in the Field of Library &
> Information Science Education
> College of Information Science & Technology
> Drexel University
> 3141 Chestnut St.
> Philadelphia, PA  19104
>
>
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