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CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION FOR THE
‘INFORMATION SOCIETY’

5th World Conference on Continuing Professional Education for
the library and information professions, 14-16 August 2002.


SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

Highlights

·   This unique professional event celebrates its fifth occasion.

·   Speakers with valuable perspectives on issues, ideas, solutions,
    and trends in this vital topic.

·   Participants with international experience to share.

·   A volume of proceedings to take away, reflect on, and
    disseminate amongst your colleagues.

·   A network of contacts to help develop your CPE activities.

Theme:  Continuing professional education for the ‘Information
Society’.

Sub-themes

Ø   CPE  for information management skills and techniques
Ø   Local or global delivery mechanisms
Ø   Making global CPE relevant in a local context
Ø   Quality control and assurance by providers
Ø   Qualifications and rewards for participants
Ø   Assessment of learning and evaluation of teaching
Ø   CPE in information literacy for other professions.

Location

The Conference will take place in the new Faculty of Management
building of The Robert Gordon University, Scotland’s premier
vocational university.

Abstracts

Abstracts should be no more than 250-300 words, and should be
informative, i.e. they should do more than indicate the general theme
of the paper.  They should inform the editorial panel about its
purpose, its likely contents, and its conclusions.

Abstracts and Papers for presentation will be assessed against the
following criteria:

relevanceof the paper to the Conference theme
originality
intellectualrigour
levelof authority and/or scholarship demonstrated
validityof the results of any empirical research

Papers should normally be 5,000-7,000 words maximum (excluding
abstract and references).  Papers significantly larger than this will be
returned to the author for editing to a more appropriate length.

Conference Language: English.

Deadlines

Abstracts                                       -       15th July 2001

Decisions to proposers                  -       15th September 2001

Draft papers from invited contributors  -       1st December 2001

Final confirmation of acceptance                -       1st February 2002


(The papers will be published by K G Saur in the IFLA publication
series)

Editors of the Conference Proceedings

Ian M Johnson, Head, School of Information and Media, The Robert
Gordon University,
Aberdeen, Scotland

Diann Rusch-Feja, Library and Research Documentation, Max
Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

Abstracts and papers will be considered by a panel of experts, who
will decide which proposers should be invited to develop and submit
draft papers. Invitations to present papers at the Conference will be
subject to the receipt and approval of the full paper by the Editorial
Advisory Panel, who may require some revisions.  The early
submission of draft papers for comment is encouraged.

Presentation

Invited contributors will be allowed 20 minutes to make a presentation
of their paper during the conference.  Further guidelines will be
provided for this.

All Sessions will be held in plenary in one of the University’s large
modern lecture theatres, which are equipped with a full range of the
latest audio visual and computer technology.  The IT environment is
based on Microsoft Office 97 and Windows NT.  Speakers seeking
to use alternative systems or to develop participative sessions should
discuss these in advance with the conference organisers.

Submission of abstracts and papers

Abstracts and papers must be submitted in electronic format, by
email, or on 3.5 inch diskette using a generally available word-
processing software (such as Microsoft Word, Lotus, Ami Pro) or in
MS-DOS text (ASCII).

Papers consisting solely of photocopies of slides for Powerpoint or
similar projection systems will not be accepted.

Address for submission

By email:  [log in to unmask]

Hard copy:      I.M. Johnson
                Head of School
                School of Information and Media
                The Robert Gordon University
                Garthdee Road
                Aberdeen  AB10 7QE
                Scotland
                UK.

Fax:            International +44 1224 263939 or 263553


Registration Fee

All participants, including the invited speakers, must pay the
registration fee expected to be about £140.  The registration fee
covers a set of conference papers, lunch, mid-morning and mid-
afternoon refreshments, and the conference dinner.

Registration fees should be paid by 31 July 2002.  Late applicants
and day visitors must pay on arrival.  Advance payments may be
made by bank transfers or cheque.  Participants registering on arrival
must pay in cash.

Free student registration

One free registration and accommodation is to be awarded as a prize
for the best paper offered by a current student at a School of LIS.
The student may be at any level (Bachelors, Masters or PhD) but
must be not more than 30 years old.  The accommodation will be on a
room only basis in a University student residence.  The student will be
responsible for transport to the UK and all other expenses.

Accommodation

A wide range of accommodation is available in Aberdeen.  Within 10
minutes walking distance is the Norwood Hall Hotel (approximately
£70 per night room and breakfast).  Charges for other guesthouses
and hotels in Aberdeen range from £30 to £110 per night.

Local organisational support

The Conference will be organised by Mr. Ian Johnson, Head of the
School, with support from other academic staff, in consultation with
the CPERT Executive Committee.

Administrative staff support will be provided by the School of
Information and Media.  There will be a number of audio-visual and
computer technicians based in the building.

For further information about the School, the University and
Aberdeen, point your Web browser at:

               URL: http://www.rgu.ac.uk/~sim/sim.htm

Website

The conference web site will soon be found at URL -
htpp://www.ifla.org

It will contain details of the programme, abstracts of papers, and links
to other important information, all updated regularly.

The IFLA Conference in Glasgow

The Conference has been organised taking the participants’
constraints into account.  In particular, it is arranged to enable
participants to travel on to Glasgow to take part in the IFLA
Conference.  IFLA was founded in Scotland in 1927, and celebrates
its 75th anniversary in Glasgow, August 2002.

Delegates wishing to participate in the IFLA Conference in Glasgow
and seeking further information should visit the Web site at URL -
http://www.ifla.org

or write to:

        IFLA 2000 Conference Secretariat
        The Library Association
        7 Ridgmount Street
        London  WC1E 7AE
        UK

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