From chirags at rutgers.edu Sat May 2 17:22:32 2015 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 17:22:32 -0400 Subject: [Students-l] NJ ASIST Distinguished Lecture Series Award to Prof. Michael Buckland Message-ID: The New Jersey Chapter of ASIS&T is pleased to announce that this year?s Distinguished Lecture Series Award will be presented to Prof. Michael Buckland, Emeritus Professor, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley. To honor and celebrate Prof. Buckland, we invite you to join a reception at Rutgers University on Wednesday, May 13. See details below. NJ ASIS&T & RU ASIS&T present 2015 Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Michael Buckland "Information Science Past and Future: A Personal View." Wednesday, May 13 2015, 5:00 p.m. Rutgers Club (199 College Ave, New Brunswick, NJ 08901) Kindly RSVP to http://bit.ly/1I4nlIx The event is $5/$10 for students (ASIS&T members, non-members) and $10/$15 for professionals (ASIS&T members, non-members) to be paid by cash/check at the event. NJ ASIS&T in partnership with RU ASIS&T are hosting a distinguished lecture series featuring esteemed scholar Dr. Michael Buckland on Wednesday, May 13th from 5-7 p.m. at the Rutgers Club. Join us as Dr. Buckland reflects on how his experiences influenced his view of the field at the intersection of digital libraries and digital humanities. To this lecture, Dr. Buckland brings 50 years of experience in the study of library services, bibliographical access, cultural heritages, and the history of documentation. His books include Library Services in Theory and Context (Pergamon, 1983; 2nd ed. 1988), Information and Information Systems (Praeger, 1991), Redesigning Library Services (American Library Association, 1992), and a biography, Emanuel Goldberg and his Knowledge Machine (Libraries Unlimited, 2006). His principal project currently is ?Editorial Practices and the Web? which makes historians? working notes accessible at editorsnotes.org . The lecture series will be followed by a Q&A period and a reception honoring Dr. Buckland?s distinguished career. We hope you can join. Questions? Contact: rutgersuasist at gmail.com About NJ ASIS&T: The New Jersey Chapter is a four-time winner of the ASIS&T Chapter-of-the-Year Award. The chapter aims to connect information professionals in both academia and industry to the latest in research and practice relating to information science and technology. The chapter has held presentation and dinner meetings featuring prominent scholars and presented Distinguished Lectureship awards to thought leaders in the field, including Gerald Salton, Karen Sparck Jones, and Eugene Garfield. For more information, please visit: http://www.asis.org/Chapters/nj/ About RU ASIS&T: Comprised of MLIS and PhD students, this group focuses on studying the relationship between information behaviors and technology, and how people interact with both. The group holds activities ranging from technology workshops to conference practice talks to job workshops. RU ASIS&T plans to hold additional distinguished lecture series, a career panel, and tutorials in the fall semester. For more information, please visit: http://ruasist.rutgers.edu/ ****** Chirag Shah, PhD Chair, NJ ASIS&T Faculty Advisor, RU ASIS&T Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science Rutgers University 4 Huntington St, New Brunswick NJ 08901 p. (848) 932-8807 f. 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URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Tue May 5 04:52:18 2015 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 10:52:18 +0200 Subject: [Students-l] Fwd: [Sigifp-l] CFP: First Annual Information Ethics and Policy Best Student Paper Award In-Reply-To: <36DF838FDB1BE048866CF3ACE977294EB3052E0F@MB3.drexel.edu> References: <36DF838FDB1BE048866CF3ACE977294EB3052E0F@MB3.drexel.edu> Message-ID: <554884C2.6040301@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Sigifp-l] CFP: First Annual Information Ethics and Policy Best Student Paper Award Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 19:05:29 +0000 From: Unsworth,Kristene To: sigifp-l at asis.org , asis-l at asis.org CC: Kristen Schuster , BossallerJ at missouri.edu , Goggins, Sean Patrick (GogginsS at missouri.edu) *First Annual Information Ethics and Policy Best Student Paper Award* *Call for Submissions* ** *SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JUNE 30, 2015* ** ** The Special Interest Group for Information Ethics and Policy (SIG-IEP) (formally SIG-IFP) is proud to announce its first Best Student Paper Award. The winner will receive a Best Student Paper award and a $200.00 cash prize. *Who is Eligible?* Authors must be either Master?s or pre-candidacy PhD students. Only single author submissions are accepted. All submitted work must be previously unpublished. Authors do NOT need to be members of ASIS&T or SIG-IEP. The paper must be original work and purely the work of the student. A paper that has developed from work in a class, during an internship experience, or as part of a thesis project is eligible. *Requirements and Selection Criteria* The paper may address any topic dealing with an aspect of information ethics and / or information policy. The papers will show an appropriate level of writing style and should include a clear argument and or analysis of the issue. Paper submissions must adhere to the following guidelines: ?Word .doc or .docx format ?Approximately 5,000 words, 12 pt. font and follow a standard citation style (APA preferred). Tables, graphs, images, etc. can appear within the body of the paper and need not be submitted as separate files ?Author names should not appear anywhere in the main text ?A separate cover page with title, author names, institutional affiliations, and an abstract of 250 words or less The Best Student Paper will be selected based on the following criteria: clarity of issue, originality of argument and /or analysis, and quality of student writing. *Submission and Deadline* Authors are invited to submit papers, based on the requirements and selection criteria above, by emailing the final paper and cover page to *Kris Unsworth at unsworth {at} drexel.edu. Subject line: IEP Best Student Paper Award before 11:59 pm EST, June 30, 2015*. The Best Student Paper award will be made under blind review by panel of judges. If you have any questions, please contact Kris Unsworth at unsworth {at} drexel.edu. We are looking forward to your submissions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *Kristene Unsworth, PhD. */Assistant Professor/ / /The College of Computing & Informatics *Drexel University *3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6016 | Fax: 215.895.2494 Drexel.edu/cci -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chirags at rutgers.edu Tue May 5 17:03:04 2015 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 17:03:04 -0400 Subject: [Students-l] CFP: iConference 2016 Message-ID: <16B3198D-3588-48FE-B25D-8ABFC29E2908@rutgers.edu> CFP: iConference 2016 | Partnership with Society Call for Participation: iConference 2016 Philadelphia, PA, USA March 20-23, 2016 http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ iConference 2016 takes place Sunday, March 20 through Wednesday, March 23, 2016, in historic Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. This year?s theme of ?Partnership with Society? examines the dynamic, evolving role of information science and today?s iSchool movement, and the benefits to society. The conference includes peer-reviewed papers, posters, workshops and sessions for interaction and engagement, interspersed with multiple opportunities for networking. Early career and next generation researchers can engage in the Doctoral Student Colloquium, Early Career Colloquium and Undergraduate Student Showcase forums. The iConference brings together scholars and researchers addressing critical information issues in contemporary society. The iConference pushes the boundaries of information studies, explores core concepts and ideas, and creates new technological and conceptual configurations?all shaping interdisciplinary discourses. Visit our website for more information, including sample topics and links to past proceedings: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ iConference 2016 is hosted by Drexel University?s College of Computing & Informatics. Our conference venue, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, is located in Philadelphia?s bustling center city. The historic 33-story building is hailed as America?s first skyscraper, and is in easy walking distance of the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, birthplace of the United States Constitution. Other nearby attractions include the Rodin Museum and the Philadelphia Art Museum. The iConference is presented by the iSchools (www.ischools.org ), a worldwide association of Information Schools dedicated to advancing the information field, and preparing students to meet the information challenges of the 21st Century. Affiliation with the iSchools is not required?all information scholars, researchers, and practitioners are welcome at the iConference. The Champion Sponsor of iConference 2016 is Microsoft Research. IMPORTANT LINKS * Conference Home: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ * Past Proceedings: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/about-the-iconference/ * Facebook: IConference: https://www.facebook.com/IConference * Twitter: @iConf | #iconf16 SUBMISSION INFORMATION We will begin accepting submissions in summer of 2015. All submissions must be in English using our official template. All work should be original and not previously published. Complete guidelines and the official iConference template can be found on our Author Instructions page: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/author-instructions/ * PAPERS: We invite papers falling into two categories: completed research, and early work/preliminary results. Completed research papers should be a maximum of 10 pages, including references; early work/preliminary results papers should be a maximum of 6 pages, not including references. Each paper will be refereed in a double-blind process. The author(s) of the completed research paper judged the best of the conference will receive the Lee Dirks Award for Best Paper and $5,000. More at http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/papers/ Submission deadline: September 9, 2015 Papers Chairs: Yong Ming Kow, City University of Hong Kong; Bonnie Nardi, University of California, Irvine; Chirag Shah, Rutgers University * POSTERS We welcome submission of posters presenting new work, preliminary results and designs, or educational projects. Submitted posters should be a maximum of 1,500 words, not including references. These posters will undergo a double-blind review. Poster abstracts will be published in the proceedings. More at http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/posters/ Submission deadline: October 5, 2015 Posters Chairs: Elke Greifeneder, Humboldt University; Kalpana Shankar, University College Dublin * WORKSHOPS Workshops can be half- or full day, and are intended to foster interactive discussions focusing on the particular topic within the purview of the iSchools, namely, the relationships among information, people and technology. Workshops provide a great opportunity for attendees who share common interests and want to have intensive discussions. Workshop proposals should be less than 750 words, and follow the guidelines on our website: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/workshops/ Submission deadline: September 28, 2015 Workshops Chairs: Denise Agosto, Drexel University; Sam Oh, Sungkyunkwan University; Nicole A. Cooke, University of Illinois * SESSIONS FOR INTERACTION AND ENGAGEMENT (SIE) These sessions provide an excellent opportunity to present ideas, facilitate discussions, and foster knowledge-sharing in unconventional ways. Formats can include panels, fishbowls, performances, storytelling, roundtable discussions, wildcard sessions, demos/exhibitions, and more. All should be highly participatory, informal, engaging, and pluralistic. SIE proposals should be less than 750 words, and follow the guidelines on our website: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/sessions-for-interaction-and-engagement/ Submission deadline: October 5, 2015 SIE Chairs: Karen E. Fisher, University of Washington; Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University OTHER EVENTS SCHEDULED * DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM The Doctoral Colloquium provides doctoral students the opportunity to present their work to senior faculty and engage with one another in a setting that is relatively informal but that allows for the fullest of intellectual exchanges. Students receive feedback on their dissertation, career paths, and other areas from participating faculty and student peers. More at http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/doctoral-colloquium/ Application deadline: September 28, 2015 Doctoral Colloquium Chairs: Greg Leazer, UCLA; Iris Xie, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee * DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD Recognizing the outstanding dissertation of the preceding year, this competition is open to all member iSchools. Each school may submit one dissertation for consideration. The winner will receive a cash prize of $2,500, the runner up $1,000; both will be honored at the iConference. More at http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/dissertation-award/ Submission deadline: October 12, 2015 Dissertation Award Chairs: Michael Seadle, Humboldt University; Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba * EARLY CAREER COLLOQUIUM This half-day event is intended for assistant professors, post-docs, or others in pre-tenure positions and builds on the tradition of highly successful events at past iConferences. Participants will sign up at registration. More at http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/early-career-colloquium/ Early Career Colloquium Chairs: Virginia Ortiz-Repiso Jimenez, University Carlos III-Madrid; Kristin Eschenfelder, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Eric Myers, University of British Columbia *UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT SHOWCASE FORUMS The undergraduate showcase will feature iSchool undergraduate research. Such examples include senior design, senior projects, STAR (Students Tackling Advanced Research) Scholars Program students, etc. Details will be posted to our website as they become available. ADDITIONAL ORGANIZERS Conference Chairs: David Fenske and Jane Greenberg, Drexel University Technical Program Chairs: Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University; Spiros Mancoridis, Drexel University Proceedings Chairs: Xia Lin and Mick Khoo, Drexel University More at: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ **** Chirag Shah, PhD Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science Rutgers University 4 Huntington St, New Brunswick NJ 08901 p. (848) 932-8807 f. (732) 932-6916 http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~chirags **** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Wed May 6 02:48:10 2015 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 08:48:10 +0200 Subject: [Students-l] Fwd: Re: [Asis-l] Call for I-Stories: SIG History and Foundations of Information Science In-Reply-To: <554692FF.8040907@univ-amu.fr> References: <554692FF.8040907@univ-amu.fr> Message-ID: <5549B92A.9020109@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [Asis-l] Call for I-Stories: SIG History and Foundations of Information Science Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 23:28:31 +0200 From: IBEKWE-SANJUAN Fidelia To: sighfis-l at asis.org, asis-l at asis.org, ISKO UK , isko-l at lists.gseis.ucla.edu , eurchap at asis.org *Reminder*.Please circulate this to your colleagues, students, virtual and physical communities of peers. I'm sure many will have hilarious, funny and witty encounters with information to share. > > *Call for I-Stories > * > > ** ** ** ** ** **** *SIG History & Foundations of Information Science > * > > http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGHFIS/ > > ** > > Information and communication phenomena are at the heart of our daily > lives. They are how we know things and yet our understanding of these > concepts and underlying phenomena are at best slippery. Just when we > think we?ve pinned or penned them down nicely with a few well chosen > phrases, we discover that those phrases are inadequate, that others > disagree with our definitions or that many other conceptions abound. > Not to bore you with the many varied conceptions of information, the > aim of this call for I-Stories is to bring forth, through everyday > experience, the many different things information can mean to > different people or to the same person in different circumstances in a > lively and entertaining manner. > > The SIG History & Foundations of Information Science solicits stories > on how information and its understanding affect our daily lives, be it > in work situations, in our private lives, in our research. The stories > of information and around information should showcase how effective or > ineffective the concept may be, how it can mean different things to > different people, how that may have got you into > misunderstandings//and how that has got you thinking about information > in general. The stories may concern an event, something that happened > to you or to someone you know, a talk you heard or involve well known > scholars and how they have grappled with this open-ended question. > > We encourage scholars, practitioners, and especially students to send > us a text of at most, 1000 words which can be illustrated with drawings. > > A jury chosen from SIG HFIS members will choose 5 stories that shed > startling, informative and unexpected insights into our understanding > of the phenomenon we call information and of the field we call > information science/studies. > > Stories by students will receive particular attention and if selected, > their authors will receive a 1 year free membership to ASIST and to > HFIS. Membership benefits are varied and can be consulted at > http://www.asis.org/. > > Stories written by practitioners or faculty members if selected will > receive a gift card of $30 as well as 1 year free membership to SIG HFIS. > > Please send your stories to fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr > by 30^th may. > > The jury will render the result of its deliberation by 30^th June. > > Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan > > HFIS chair (2014-2015) > > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Ph.D.) Full Professor (Professeur des Universit?s) School of Journalism & Communication (EJCAM) http://ejcam.univ-amu.fr/ Aix-Marseille University - France. Homepage:http://fidelia1.free.fr/ IRSIC research team:http://irsic.univ-amu.fr/ ----------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Wed May 6 04:34:19 2015 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 10:34:19 +0200 Subject: [Students-l] Fwd: Re: [Asis-l] Call for I-Stories: SIG History and Foundations of Information Science In-Reply-To: <554692FF.8040907@univ-amu.fr> References: <554692FF.8040907@univ-amu.fr> Message-ID: <5549D20B.1090700@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [Asis-l] Call for I-Stories: SIG History and Foundations of Information Science Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 23:28:31 +0200 From: IBEKWE-SANJUAN Fidelia To: sighfis-l at asis.org, asis-l at asis.org, ISKO UK , isko-l at lists.gseis.ucla.edu , eurchap at asis.org *Reminder*.Please circulate this to your colleagues, students, virtual and physical communities of peers. I'm sure many will have hilarious, funny and witty encounters with information to share. > > *Call for I-Stories > * > > ** ** ** ** ** **** *SIG History & Foundations of Information Science > * > > http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGHFIS/ > > ** > > Information and communication phenomena are at the heart of our daily > lives. They are how we know things and yet our understanding of these > concepts and underlying phenomena are at best slippery. Just when we > think we?ve pinned or penned them down nicely with a few well chosen > phrases, we discover that those phrases are inadequate, that others > disagree with our definitions or that many other conceptions abound. > Not to bore you with the many varied conceptions of information, the > aim of this call for I-Stories is to bring forth, through everyday > experience, the many different things information can mean to > different people or to the same person in different circumstances in a > lively and entertaining manner. > > The SIG History & Foundations of Information Science solicits stories > on how information and its understanding affect our daily lives, be it > in work situations, in our private lives, in our research. The stories > of information and around information should showcase how effective or > ineffective the concept may be, how it can mean different things to > different people, how that may have got you into > misunderstandings//and how that has got you thinking about information > in general. The stories may concern an event, something that happened > to you or to someone you know, a talk you heard or involve well known > scholars and how they have grappled with this open-ended question. > > We encourage scholars, practitioners, and especially students to send > us a text of at most, 1000 words which can be illustrated with drawings. > > A jury chosen from SIG HFIS members will choose 5 stories that shed > startling, informative and unexpected insights into our understanding > of the phenomenon we call information and of the field we call > information science/studies. > > Stories by students will receive particular attention and if selected, > their authors will receive a 1 year free membership to ASIST and to > HFIS. Membership benefits are varied and can be consulted at > http://www.asis.org/. > > Stories written by practitioners or faculty members if selected will > receive a gift card of $30 as well as 1 year free membership to SIG HFIS. > > Please send your stories to fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr > by 30^th may. > > The jury will render the result of its deliberation by 30^th June. > > Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan > > HFIS chair (2014-2015) > > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Ph.D.) Full Professor (Professeur des Universit?s) School of Journalism & Communication (EJCAM) http://ejcam.univ-amu.fr/ Aix-Marseille University - France. Homepage:http://fidelia1.free.fr/ IRSIC research team:http://irsic.univ-amu.fr/ ----------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Fri May 8 05:19:28 2015 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 11:19:28 +0200 Subject: [Students-l] Fwd: [Eurchap] ASIS&T History Fund Research and Best Paper Awards In-Reply-To: <554BB117.6020108@univ-amu.fr> References: <554BB117.6020108@univ-amu.fr> Message-ID: <554C7FA0.80104@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Eurchap] ASIS&T History Fund Research and Best Paper Awards Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 20:38:15 +0200 From: IBEKWE-SANJUAN Fidelia To: asis-l at asis.org, isko-l at lists.gseis.ucla.edu , sighfis-l at asis.org, sig-l at asis.org, eurchap at asis.org **The Advisory Board announces the following two competitive awards for 2015: ** *The ASIS&T History Fund Research Award * This award will be for a maximum of $2,000 and will be awarded for the best research proposal submitted by June 20, 2015. All topics relevant to the history of information science and technology may be proposed. The proposal should include: the central topic or question to be researched and an extended abstract, qualifications of the researcher (brief vita should be included), a budget and how the funds will be expended. All funds must be expended by June 30, 2016. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *The ASIS&T History Fund Best Paper Award * This award will be for a maximum of $500 and will be awarded for the best paper submitted by June 20, 2015. All topics relevant to the history of information science and technology will be considered. The paper may have been previously published or submitted to a journal. The paper should not exceed 30 pages double-spaced, including notes and references, using APA Style Manual. Nominations or self-nominations can be made from anywhere. *Webpage for the awards and submission link here:* https://www.asist.org/about/awards/history-fund-awards/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ASIS&T History Fund was established by the ASIS&T Board of Directors in June, 2000 for the purposes of supporting and encouraging research and publication in the history of information science and technology. The Fund is supported by donations (including book royalties) from ASIS&T members and others with interest in the history of information science and technology. The Fund Advisory Board encourages further donations from anyone interested in supporting historical study of information science and technology. Members of the ASIS&T History Fund Advisory Board for 2015 are: Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Chair SIG HFIS) Ken Herold (chair-elect SIG HFIS) Robert Williams Michael Buckland Kathryn La Barre Trudi Bellardo Hahn -- ----------------------------------------------------- Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Ph.D.) Full Professor (Professeur des Universit?s) School of Journalism & Communication (EJCAM) http://ejcam.univ-amu.fr/ Aix-Marseille University - France. Homepage:http://fidelia1.free.fr/ IRSIC research team:http://irsic.univ-amu.fr/ ----------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Fri May 15 15:30:00 2015 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 21:30:00 +0200 Subject: [Students-l] Fwd: [Sigiii-l] Libri competition for Best Student Paper Award 2015 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <55564938.4040804@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Sigiii-l] Libri competition for Best Student Paper Award 2015 Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 09:09:49 +0000 From: IAN JOHNSON (0616285) /Please distribute to students//directly and/or through faculty members/ *Libri competition for **Best Student Paper Award 2015* Since 1950, through 64 volumes, /Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Services/ (ISSN: 0024-2667) has been a leader among scholarly journals in the international library world. As part of its strategy to remain one of the premier library journals, /Libri/ is issuing a call for "Best Student Paper of 2015." This annual competition supports /Libri/'s goal of publishing the best articles from the next generation of library and information science professionals. We are proud once again to recognize the very best article with this special award. Students at all levels* are invited to submit articles with clarity and authority. There is no stated theme. Research papers should address one of the significant issues facing today's librarians and information professionals. Case studies, best practices, and pure research papers are all welcome. Length: approx. 5000 words Language: English Deadline: June 30, 2015 The best paper will be selected by an independent panel consisting of selected members of the Editorial Board, the Advisory Board and other international experts. Submissions will be judged on the basis of - originality of thought and observation - depth of research and scholarship - topicality of problems addressed - the international readership of the journal The article will be published in the 2015:4 issue. The author of the winning article will be honoured with an award of 500.00 ? and with a complimentary subscription to Libri for 2016. If the quality of competition warrants, some papers may be designated as honourable mention and the authors will receive complementary subscriptions to Libri for 2016. The normal provision to the author of e-prints applies to all winners. Manuscripts should be submitted, preferably in MS Word or a compatible format, to _http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/libri_. *When submitting a paper for the Best Student Paper Award, please choose "Library Student Award" at the drop down menu "Manuscript Type".* Author instructions and further indications of the scope of papers suitable for publication in /Libri/ are available at the /Libri/ site at _http://www.librijournal.org/authorinst.html_ . *All submissions should include a cover sheet confirming:* * the name of the institution where the student is or was enrolled * the dates when the student is or was enrolled * the date when the paper was written and the course for which it was prepared if no longer a student * Exception: Senior information scholars returning to school for additional degrees outside the field of library and information science are not eligible for this award. Professor Ian Johnson, Joint Editor, Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Services, Aberdeen, Great Britain Phone: +44 1224 740785 Mobile: +44 7719 859239 Skype: ian.m.johnson45 Libri: Read at http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/libr Submit manuscripts at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/libri Please consider the environment before printing this email Robert Gordon University is the top university for graduate jobs in the UK (HESA 2013 & 2014) Robert Gordon University, a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC 013781. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. 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URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Wed May 20 15:34:23 2015 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 21:34:23 +0200 Subject: [Students-l] Fwd: [Sighfis-l] Award for Ongoing Doctoral Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <555CE1BF.2010108@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Sighfis-l] Award for Ongoing Doctoral Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 07:24:28 -0700 From: Rory Litwin To: StanleyK at yahoogroups.com, Library and Information Science Information and Discussion List , is-phd-chat at lists.gseis.ucla.edu, announce-iacap.org at iacap.org, president at iacap.org, executivedirector at iacap.org, icie at zkm.de, sighfis-l at asis.org, Luciano Floridi Award for Ongoing Doctoral Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information ? **Note the June 1st deadline.** 1. Nature of the Award 1.1 The award shall consist of $1,000, given annually to a graduate student who is working on a dissertation on the philosophy of information (broadly construed). As we see it, the range of philosophical questions relating to information is broad, and approachable through a variety of philosophical traditions (philosophy of mind, logic, philosophy of information so-called, philosophy of science, etc.). 2. Purpose of the Award 2.1 The purpose of this award is to encourage and support scholarship in the philosophy of information. 3. Eligibility 3.1 The scholarship recipient must meet the following qualifications: (a) Be an active doctoral student whose primary area of research is directly philosophical, whether the institutional setting is philosophy or another discipline; that is to say, the mode of dissertation research must be philosophical as opposed to empirical or literary study; (b) Have completed all course work; and (c) Have had a dissertation proposal accepted by the institution. 3.2 Recipients may receive the award not more than once. 4. Administration 4.1 The Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Doctoral Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information is sponsored and administered by Litwin Books, LLC, an independent scholarly publisher. 5. Nominations 5.1 Nominations should be submitted via email by June 1, to award at litwinbooks.com . 5.2 The submission package should include the following: (a) The accepted dissertation proposal; (b) A description of the work done to date; (c) A letter of recommendation from a dissertation committee member; (d) An up-to-date curriculum vitae with current contact information. 6. Selection of the Awardee 6.1 Submissions will be judged on merit with emphasis on the following: (a) Clarity of thought; (b) Originality; (c) Relevance to our time; (d) Evidence of good progress toward completion. 7. Notification 7.1 The winner and any honorable mentions will be notified via letter by July 1. Advisory Board Jonathan Furner, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA Ron Day, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University John Budd, School of Information & Learning Technologies, University of Missouri Past Winners 2014: Patrick Gavin, of the University of Western Ontario FIMS, for his dissertation propsoal, titled, "On Informationalized Borderzones: A Study in the Politics and Ethics of Emerging Border Architectures." 2013: Steve McKinlay, of Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia, for his dissertation proposal, titled, "Information Ethics and the Problem of Reference." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jiajing.guo1231 at gmail.com Mon May 25 04:56:19 2015 From: jiajing.guo1231 at gmail.com (Jenny Guo) Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 02:56:19 -0600 Subject: [Students-l] What do you think "Folksonomies" in the library Message-ID: <9BE05B29-55A3-47A2-85B9-DD828C368EA6@gmail.com> Hello, I am a current student in University of Denver LIS program. I am working on my cataloging assignment and would love to hear your thoughts on an article that I read recently - ?Folksonomies in the library: their impact on user experience, and their implications for the work of librarians". It's about the implication of folksonomies in the library. In the article, the author discusses the following four questions through his literature review and research: 1. How have folksonomies been incorporated into libraries? 2. Doe the use of tag clouds and folksonomies add value to the user?s experience of the library catalogue? 3. Is it possible for folksonomies to supplant traditional ?top-down? taxonomies? 4. What implications does the use of folksonomies have for the work of librarians? As we all know, the advantage that folksonomies have is that they can reflect users? language, needs and conceptions of information, rather than requiring them to yield to centrally-imposed top-down system.Ironically their advantages are also their shortcomings, which are a result of their lack semantic and linguistic control. So the author thinks it's hard that folksonomies replace traditional top-down classification schemes. But the benefits that folksonomies can provide cannot be completely discounted. So the future implications for librarians is coexistence of both formal taxonomies and user-created categories. In addition, based on Peterson?s study, there was very little overlap between the library of congress subject headings and folksonomies. In literature the coexistence allows them to counteract each other?s flaws, facilitating both discovery and collocation. But because the effectiveness of folksonomies is reliant on the contribution of a large number of diverse individuals, librarians have responsibility to maintain the balance between structured classification and ad-hoc categorization so that users will be able to reap the benefits of both. Thank you, Jenny Guo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chirags at rutgers.edu Wed May 27 15:13:54 2015 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 15:13:54 -0400 Subject: [Students-l] NJ ASIST Distinguished Lecture Series Award to Prof. Michael Buckland In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <02A71D27-CC05-479C-AC63-D3A40487982F@rutgers.edu> A follow-up: The 2015 NJ ASIST Distinguished Lecture Series event was held on May 13, 2015 at Rutgers University. The event honored Dr. Michael Buckland, Professor Emeritus Professor, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, for his outstanding research in the field of Information Science. The details of the event and the video of the talk by Prof. Michael Buckland can be found at http://www.asis.org/Chapters/nj/2015-distinguished-lecture-series-honoring-dr-michael-buckland/ ****** Chirag Shah, PhD Chair, NJ ASIS&T Faculty Advisor, RU ASIS&T Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science Rutgers University 4 Huntington St, New Brunswick NJ 08901 p. (848) 932-8807 f. (732) 932-6916 http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~chirags ****** > On May 2, 2015, at 5:22 PM, Chirag Shah wrote: > > > The New Jersey Chapter of ASIS&T is pleased to announce that this year?s Distinguished Lecture Series Award will be presented to Prof. Michael Buckland, Emeritus Professor, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley. To honor and celebrate Prof. Buckland, we invite you to join a reception at Rutgers University on Wednesday, May 13. See details below. > > NJ ASIS&T & RU ASIS&T present 2015 Distinguished Lecturer > Dr. Michael Buckland > "Information Science Past and Future: A Personal View." > Wednesday, May 13 2015, 5:00 p.m. > Rutgers Club (199 College Ave, New Brunswick, NJ 08901) > Kindly RSVP to http://bit.ly/1I4nlIx > The event is $5/$10 for students (ASIS&T members, non-members) and $10/$15 for professionals (ASIS&T members, non-members) to be paid by cash/check at the event. > > NJ ASIS&T in partnership with RU ASIS&T are hosting a distinguished lecture series featuring esteemed scholar Dr. Michael Buckland on Wednesday, May 13th from 5-7 p.m. at the Rutgers Club. Join us as Dr. Buckland reflects on how his experiences influenced his view of the field at the intersection of digital libraries and digital humanities. To this lecture, Dr. Buckland brings 50 years of experience in the study of library services, bibliographical access, cultural heritages, and the history of documentation. His books include Library Services in Theory and Context (Pergamon, 1983; 2nd ed. 1988), Information and Information Systems (Praeger, 1991), Redesigning Library Services (American Library Association, 1992), and a biography, Emanuel Goldberg and his Knowledge Machine (Libraries Unlimited, 2006). His principal project currently is ?Editorial Practices and the Web? which makes historians? working notes accessible at editorsnotes.org . The lecture series will be followed by a Q&A period and a reception honoring Dr. Buckland?s distinguished career. > > We hope you can join. > > Questions? Contact: rutgersuasist at gmail.com > > About NJ ASIS&T: The New Jersey Chapter is a four-time winner of the ASIS&T Chapter-of-the-Year Award. The chapter aims to connect information professionals in both academia and industry to the latest in research and practice relating to information science and technology. The chapter has held presentation and dinner meetings featuring prominent scholars and presented Distinguished Lectureship awards to thought leaders in the field, including Gerald Salton, Karen Sparck Jones, and Eugene Garfield. For more information, please visit: http://www.asis.org/Chapters/nj/ > > About RU ASIS&T: Comprised of MLIS and PhD students, this group focuses on studying the relationship between information behaviors and technology, and how people interact with both. The group holds activities ranging from technology workshops to conference practice talks to job workshops. RU ASIS&T plans to hold additional distinguished lecture series, a career panel, and tutorials in the fall semester. For more information, please visit: http://ruasist.rutgers.edu/ > > ****** > > Chirag Shah, PhD > Chair, NJ ASIS&T > Faculty Advisor, RU ASIS&T > Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science > Rutgers University > 4 Huntington St, New Brunswick NJ 08901 > p. (848) 932-8807 f. (732) 932-6916 > http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~chirags > > ****** > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Sun May 31 06:04:58 2015 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 12:04:58 +0200 Subject: [Students-l] Fwd: [Asis-l] FW: Libri competition for Best Student Paper Award 2015 In-Reply-To: <510A263725F71048BDEDF1E3655B566F576F7CA4@CAE145EMBP06.ds.sc.edu> References: <510A263725F71048BDEDF1E3655B566F576F7CA4@CAE145EMBP06.ds.sc.edu> Message-ID: <556ADCCA.8080006@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Asis-l] FW: Libri competition for Best Student Paper Award 2015 Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 16:28:38 +0000 From: ALBRIGHT, KENDRA To: asis-l at asis.org *From:*IAN JOHNSON (0616285) [mailto:i.m.johnson at rgu.ac.uk] *Sent:* Friday, May 15, 2015 5:10 AM *Subject:* [IFLA-L] Libri competition for Best Student Paper Award 2015 /Please distribute to students directly and/or through faculty members/ *Libri competition for Best Student Paper Award 2015* Since 1950, through 64 volumes, /Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Services/ (ISSN: 0024-2667) has been a leader among scholarly journals in the international library world. As part of its strategy to remain one of the premier library journals, /Libri/ is issuing a call for "Best Student Paper of 2015." This annual competition supports /Libri/'s goal of publishing the best articles from the next generation of library and information science professionals. We are proud once again to recognize the very best article with this special award. Students at all levels* are invited to submit articles with clarity and authority. There is no stated theme. Research papers should address one of the significant issues facing today's librarians and information professionals. Case studies, best practices, and pure research papers are all welcome. Length: approx. 5000 words Language: English Deadline: June 30, 2015 The best paper will be selected by an independent panel consisting of selected members of the Editorial Board, the Advisory Board and other international experts. Submissions will be judged on the basis of - originality of thought and observation - depth of research and scholarship - topicality of problems addressed - the international readership of the journal The article will be published in the 2015:4 issue. The author of the winning article will be honoured with an award of 500.00 ? and with a complimentary subscription to Libri for 2016. If the quality of competition warrants, some papers may be designated as honourable mention and the authors will receive complementary subscriptions to Libri for 2016. The normal provision to the author of e-prints applies to all winners. Manuscripts should be submitted, preferably in MS Word or a compatible format, to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/libri. *When submitting a paper for the Best Student Paper Award, please choose "Library Student Award" at the drop down menu "Manuscript Type".* Author instructions and further indications of the scope of papers suitable for publication in /Libri/ are available at the /Libri/ site at http://www.librijournal.org/authorinst.html . *All submissions should include a cover sheet confirming:* ?the name of the institution where the student is or was enrolled ?the dates when the student is or was enrolled ?the date when the paper was written and the course for which it was prepared if no longer a student * Exception: Senior information scholars returning to school for additional degrees outside the field of library and information science are not eligible for this award. Professor Ian Johnson, Joint Editor, Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Services, Aberdeen, Great Britain Phone: +44 1224 740785 Mobile: +44 7719 859239 Skype: ian.m.johnson45 Libri: Read at http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/libr Submit manuscripts at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/libri Please consider the environment before printing this email Robert Gordon University is the top university for graduate jobs in the UK (HESA 2013 & 2014) Robert Gordon University, a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC 013781. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. 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URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Sun May 31 08:31:08 2015 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 14:31:08 +0200 Subject: [Students-l] Fwd: [ciresearchers] Prato Conference 2015: Open to MS/MA students; and a few other slots still available; title list In-Reply-To: <1431437073.2954380.266628185.6D5794EF@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1431437073.2954380.266628185.6D5794EF@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <556AFF0C.5000305@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [ciresearchers] Prato Conference 2015: Open to MS/MA students; and a few other slots still available; title list Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 15:24:33 +0200 From: larry stillman Reply-To: ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net, larry stillman To: ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net, communityinformatics at vancouvercommunity.net Dear Colleague, this is a further call for the 12th CIRN Prato Conference 2015, "Privilege, Information, Knowledge & Power: An endless dilemma" . We still have some spaces for papers. Please note: we now welcome submissions from MA/MSc studies into a Graduate Student Colloquium-- as with PhDs, this is a wonderful opportunity to get exposure and international conference experience. Further Information, including a link for uploading abstracts and key dates, is via http://cirn.wikispaces.com/Conference+2015. Please distribute this invitation to colleagues and students. We seek refereed and non-refereed papers, practitioner reports and works-in-progress, posters, workshops and panels, and PhD /MA/MSc symposium presentations. KEYNOTES We are pleased to confirm that the Keynotes will be -- *Kiera Ladner,* University of Manitoba /Canada Research Chair. Dr. Kiera Ladner is an expert in the field of indigenous politics and the competing visions of indigenous self-government in Canada. Her community based research into constitutional reconciliation and decolonization is creating a deeper understanding of these rival ideas and the tensions they have created, both within communities and between First Nations and Canada. & *S**hawna Ferris*, University of Manitoba. She researches in the areas of violence against women, critical race and feminist cultural studies, and sex work studies. Her current research examines anti-violence, anti-racism, and decolonization-oriented activism stemming from the growing number of missing and murdered people?many of whom are Indigenous women?in urban centres across Canada. As part of this research, she is working with Dr. Kiera Ladner on the Digital Archives and Marginalized Communities Project. *Safiya Noble,* UCLA. She conducts research in socio-cultural informatics; including feminist, historical and political-economic perspectives on computing platforms and software in the public interest. Her research is at the intersection of transnational culture and technology in the design and use of applications on the Internet. CONFERENCE THEME Information and knowledge are socially constructed artifacts located and often literally inscribed-- within particular relations of information and knowledge production. Such relations of information and knowledge production can reflect unequal distributions of power and privilege, whether manifested in gendered activity; the primacy given to formalized expertise or particular language codes; restricted access to information, knowledge and production for those not in positions of institutional control; or the production of particular artifacts (such as ICT systems) that privilege one group over another. Critical Community Informatics (CI), Development Informatics (DI), and Community Archiving (CA) education, research, and practice seeks to recognize these relations and openly challenge privileged statuses and practices. They recognize that a pluralistic approach to the problem of information and knowledge production and its preservation as different forms of activity and memory is a critical step to moving beyond approaches that result in privilege to those with skills and power in information and knowledge production across time and space in different environments. Such a critical perspective also works to move beyond an apolitical approach and utilitarian approach to information and knowledge production or the romanticize and colonization of communities (whether urban, indigenous, or traditional and so on) as unitary, and easy-to-label collectivities. Instead, it sees information and knowledge as inherently contested and political at all societal levels and to see communities as heterogeneous and likewise, political. Critical scholarship also raises ethical dilemmas as we consider the privilege given to lineal written language in academic work, as the warrant for particular informational or knowledge truth and procedures. We thus question the role of the academy in defining terminology and appropriate technologies of memory, and we recognize the ways such privileging of the academy serves as a form of epistemological colonization that flows on into different forms of institutional and organizational practice. How to move beyond this privilege is a grand challenge, and in fact, can we move beyond it? Our aim for the conference is for it to be an active community practice in, and not just discussions about, pluralism. We therefore encourage participation from a wide range of cultures, races, ethnicities, religions, socio-economic statuses, gender identities, disabilities, and ages. We also encourage proposals for different ways of knowing and sharing. We especially seek to foster dialog across difference rather than presentation and preservation of homogeneity, when new ICTs in particular allow the existence and fruitful production of multiverses of information and knowledge. Key questions arising from the conference theme can be found at this link, and abstract submissions made to the conference database via http://cirn.wikispaces.com/Conference+2015+Themes A list of proposed papers and workshops (subject to change) is listed here, with a few more in the pipline. A New Kind of Digital Literacy Program: Discovering Viewpoints on Technology and Impact of the Digital Literacy Abstract: Pre-digital Jerusalem: diversity and the preservation of unique identities Affect, Community, and the Queer Archives An ?Ethics of Care? Approach to Infomediary Practice An exploration of Historical Distance and Social Justice on the formation of a Community Archive based on the microhistories of the Archival Imaginaries in the Wake of Ferguson: A Requiem in Two Acts Assessing the effectiveness of Mobile Phone Aided Health Services for improving Maternal Healthcare Bridging the divide: Working together for More Challenges for community organisations in building and promoting digital image collections via social media Designing for Africa Guantanamo Bay Detention Center Detainees Exploring Continuum Theory Enhancing doctoral students' research skills: Digital literacy and library support Foucault?s contribution to debates about power and knowledge Offshore Detention of Refugees Rights in Records By Design The Internet technology @ rural: TV White Spaces The Sri Lankan Knowledge Network The Tag is the Record: Creating and deploying tagging folksonomies in DAMC Toward a CIRN Statement on Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion Towards developing Capability Approach based framework for CI initiatives evaluation Transforming Archival Studies: Preparing Practitioners to Demilitarize Knowledge Will the Prosumer Survive in Digital Society, or it is/was just an utopia Workshop: CIRN Statement on Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion / Part III. OTHER PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS: We will also consider papers related to any aspect of Community Informatics, Development Informatics or Community Archiving. We are particularly interested in papers from researchers and practitioners that can address the challenges of locating community-based research within wider theoretical and practice frameworks. KEY DATES: Call for papers and proposals. FINAL CALL NOW OPEN. Acceptance/modification/ rejection notices As soon as possible thereafter Full papers and abstracts for all streams due 31 July 2015 Referee reports to participants by 30 September 2015 Final version of papers, based on peer review and committee decisions due 1 November 2015 Conference proceedings Online/downloadable post- conference with ISBN Registrations available from 1 July Abstracts can ONLY be uploaded through the conference database system available via the website. http://cirn.wikispaces.com/Conference+2015+Themes -- ********************** Larry Stillman, PhD Senior Research Fellow Monash University Visiting Fellow, University of South Africa -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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September 2015 in Katlenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fb3/institute/iwist/veranstaltungen/asirf2015/ The Autumn School for Information Retrieval and Information Foraging 2015 (ASIRF) provides unique opportunies to learn about the the latest developments in the area of Information Retrieval Models, Systems, Evaluation, as well as about Information Iteraction and Human Information Foraging Behaviour. And meet other participants working in these areas! *Apply for a comprehensive student grant* The grants for students from outside of Germany will cover most of the costs for travel, room and board, depending on the rates defined for different countries of residence by the DAAD. Some 20 international students can be invited. https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/media/fb3/informationswissenschaft/Herbstschule/ASIRF_2015-_Application_for_Stipend_2.pdf German students can register at a very competitive price. ASIRF takes place in the historical environment on the castle Burg Katlenburg (close to G?ttingen). One confirmed tutor will be Prof. Dr. Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg-Essen), a Salton-Award winner. Other speakers will be Prof. Henrich (University of Bayreuth), Prof. Ritter (Technical University of Chemnitz) and the organizers. *Topics* - Models - Evaluation - Modelling Interactive IR - Information Behavior - IR interfaces and user oriented design - expert search - multimedia IR ... ASIRF will also take place in 2016 and it will again offer student grants. *Organisation* Prof. Thomas Mandl & Dr. Ben Heuwing Universit?t Hildesheim, Germany mandl att uni - hildesheim dott de Dr. Ingo Frommholz University of Bedfordshire, UK German Special Interst Group IR -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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