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CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION
Third International Conference on Libraries, Information and
Society,
9-10 November 2010
Armada Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia"Towards Greater Information
Accessibility" The Library and Information
Science Unit, Dept of Information Science, Faculty of Computer Science and
Information Technology and University of Malaya Library, University of Malaya
is pleased to announce the hosting of the
The following keynote speakers
have been invited:
1. Professor Dr Kwon Nahyung, Library &
Information Science Department, Myungji Univesity, Seoul, South Korea.
2. Representaive from Springer/Biomed
Proposals are invited in all
areas related to Libraries, Information and Society, including (but not limited
to) the following tracks: 3rd International
Conference on Libraries, Information and Society. The conference will be held at Armada
Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Kuala Lumpur, between the 9th –
10th (Tuesday & Wednesday)
November 2010.
1. Increasing access to knowledgeTopics: Information regulatory framework, information
infrastructure and access; information policy and governance; information
superhighway; government activity on the Net; Information architecture and
access to government information; high performance information communication
infrastructure and its relation in creating an intellectually informed and
creative society; community information networking, intellectual property
rights; cataloging and classification, metadata / XML searching and retrieval,
web content mapping, security issues, QA of web content, Ontology and the
Semantic web; Open and global platform for access, networked community; digital
community and collaboration; digital divide, informed citizenry; access to
resources to support e-learning.
2. Internationalization of libraries and informationTopics: Managing digital resources; digital initiatives;
digital library; Institutional, national, international repositories; digital
information architecture; information visualization for large databases;
digital information services and systems; information retrieval in an
electronic environment; digital contents management; portal and web design for
digital libraries, information centres and libraries; e-publishing, digital
information archives.
3. Managing information sources and services for greater accessInformation literacy
initiatives; digital reference and services, audio, visual and multimedia
resources, IT literacy readiness in LIS; new marketing approaches in
information delivery; quality issues in managing information; performance
measures; auditing information use and
needs; re-engineering processes; instructional methodology for information
literacy; blogging, problem-based learning, user online instructions; mobile
and wireless technologies; web literacy, net literacy; lifelong literacy,
library security issues.
4. Research in libraries, information and
society, research, education and training
Research trends; LIS education;
access to resources to support e-learning; e-education, workforce development;
role of professional bodies in training; continuing education; role of
information and libraries in society; lifelong libraries; accreditation issues
Papers should focus on research
and/or applications as well as highlighting novel practices and be of
sufficient depth for a 15-20 minute presentation, with time for discussion.
Papers will be reviewed by a panel comprising professionals, academicians and
practitioners in the Asia-Pacific region. Authors must submit their papers
latest by the
Guidelines for Full
papers20th of August 2010. The successful authors will be notified by 10 September 2010. The dateline for the submission of accepted amended
papers for inclusion in the conference proceeding is 24 September 2010. All presenters are
expected to attend the conference as paying participants; the organizing
committee is not able to sponsor any participants. Prospective authors must submit
their full paper in MSWord directly as an attached file through email by the
20th of August 2010. All proposals must be
original and have not been presented or submitted for consideration elsewhere.
The length of the full paper should normally be not more than 7000
words.
In writing the paper, prospective
authors are encouraged to follow the Chicago Citation style. All papers must be
in English.
The full paper must include
1. name(s) and affiliation of (each) author,
2. name, organization, mailing address,
telephone, fax, and e-mail address, and a brief biography of the presenter(s),
3. an abstract (250 words or less),
4. full text of the paper,
5. a reference List.
Accepted papers will be
published in the Conference Proceedings. Selected papers will considered for
publication in the
General information on all aspects of the conference can be
found on the conference web page http://colis2010.fsktm.um.edu.my. Papers may
be submitted to Dr. Noorhidawati Abdullah at [log in to unmask] or Prof Dr
Zainab Awang Ngah atMalaysian Journal
Library & Information Science,
ISSN:13946234, a tri-annual journal published by the Faculty of Science and
Information Technology, University of Malaya, and indexed by ISI Social Science
Citation Index, Journal Citation Report; Scopus; Library Literature, LISAPlus
and LISTA. JCR: IF 0.533, Tier 3 in the field of Information and library
science.
Further Information [log in to unmask] .
The deadline for submissions of full paper is 20
Aug 2010
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Abrizah Abdullah,
PhD
Associate Professor
Digital Library Research Group,
Department of Information Science
Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology
University of Malaya
50603 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-79676377
Fax: 03-79679249
Executive Editor,
Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science (SSCI,Scopus, LISA,
Library
Literature)
