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-----Original Message----- From: EAHIL-user [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 21 June 2007 11:00 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: call for papers EAHIL Helsinki 2008 The European Association for Health Information and Libraries - EAHIL The 11th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, Helsinki, Finland, 23rd - 28th June 2008 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS The International Programme Committee invites you to submit papers and posters for the 11th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries “TOWARDS A NEW INFORMATION SPACE – INNOVATIONS AND RENOVATIONS” to be held in Helsinki, Finland, 23rd - 28th June, 2008. The Committee invites research papers, innovative approaches, examples of best practice, case studies on the following topics: § Virtual communities and virtual libraries, for example: Collaborative information environments, Collaborative practices, Partnerships and alliances, Scholarly publishing, Contribution to e-science, Open access, Open archives, Changing information needs and services, Changing physical library space, Impact on physical library space, Value of library and information services § Innovative health information management, for example: Health informatics, Biomedical informatics, Semantic web, Ontologies § New technologies and applications, for example: Mobile technologies, Information visualization, Web 2.0 technologies § Health information policy, for example: Global health information, Community health information § Evidence-based practice, for example: Supporting evidence-based health care, Evidence-based library and information practice § Education and professional development, for example: Leadership, Changing roles, transferring skills § Medical humanities, for example: Ethical issues in information practice, History of medicine, History of medical libraries, Digitizing the past for the future ABSTRACT SUBMISSION will be online only: EAHIL is developing a new abstract submission programme, which will be available in September 2007. IMPORTANT DATES Abstracts should be submitted online by the 31st of October 2007. Notification of acceptance will be made by the 21st of December 2007. The authors should confirm their participation in the Conference by the 31st of January 2008. The full text of accepted papers should be submitted by the 30th of April 2008. FULL TEXT PRESENTATIONS The full text of all the conference papers will be published on http://www.eahil.net/conferences_eahil.htm. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: Pirjo Rajakiili , Chair of the International Programme Committee, [log in to unmask] or Päivi Pekkarinen, Member of the International Programme Committee, [log in to unmask] ********************************************************************** This message may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please accept our apologies. Please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please inform us that this message has gone astray before deleting it. Thank you for your co-operation. NHSmail is used daily by over 100,000 staff in the NHS. Over a million messages are sent every day by the system. To find out why more and more NHS personnel are switching to this NHS Connecting for Health system please visit www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/nhsmail **********************************************************************