Apologies for Cross Posting. Pleasesee 2nd Call for Papers and Keynote Speakers announcement for WBILC 2017, Bihać, Bosnia & Herzegovina, June 6th-9th
2017. Call for papers due May 15th 2017.
WESTERN BALKAN INFORMATION LITERACY CONFERENCE
Generation Z: Fake News and Information Literacy, the New Horizon.
JUNE 6th-9th 2017, Juni na Uni 2016 , Hotel Opal, Bihać, Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Conference website: http://www.wbilc2017.com/en/
Call for Papers
Theme: Generation Z: Fake News and Information Literacy, the New Horizon.
Papers should be prepared using WBILC
template and submitted electronically to this email address: [log in to unmask]
After the second cycle of Peer-Review, selected papers will be published in the WBILC
proceedings book and in the Peer Reviewed Education for Information (indexed by SCOPUS) ISSN print: 0167-8329; ISSN online:
1875-8649.
Keynote speakers
Professor Judith Broady-Preston BA MA PhD MCLIP FHEA
Judith is currently Professor of Information Management and Director, Institute of Professional Development, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK. Editor-in-Chief
of the Emerald journal, Library Review and European editor JoEMLS, she is an editorial board member of seven international journals and numerous international conferences. She has received 7 major research prizes, in addition to the Higher Education Academy
2010 National Teaching Award for her “Outstanding Contribution to Information and Computer Science”. Current professional activities include IFLA Management and Marketing Section Committee Member, 2009-2017 and UK Role Model and Mentor, Leadership Foundation
for Higher Education, Aurora Women in Leadership Programme. For more see:
https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/dis/staff-profiles/listing/profile/jbp
Ирина Жилавская – Irina Zhilavskaya
She graduated from the Tomsk State University, Faculty of Philology. In 2008, at the Moscow State University, she defended her thesis on the problems
of media education of the youth audience. A member of the Russian Committee of UNESCO Programme "Information for All". Member of the Board of the National Association of Mass Media Researchers (NAMMI). Chief Editor of the scientific and educational magazine
"Media. Information. Communication“ http://mic.org.ru/ . President of the Association of Media Professionals. Organiser and participant of many international conferences on media education and media and information literacy.
Field of interest: the mass media education, media communications, all forms of literacy, media environment and media space, the Vernadsky’s theory of the Noosphere, the future of media. Author and developer of the Master's educational program "Media Education"
and "Media and Information Literacy", as well as specialized courses "Introduction to MEDIALOG", "Media and Information Literacy and Media Culture", "Media Educational Management", "Media Ecology". Supervisor of cluster Master's project "Russian Index of Media-Information
Literacy" (2016-2018). She has published over 100 articles on Information Technology, Media Education, Media-behavior, Media and Information Literacy, including the monograph "Media Education for Youth Audience", "Youth Media Education", "Media-behavior
of the personality."
Currently - Head of the UNESCO Chair Media-Information Literacy and Media Education of citizens of the Moscow Pedagogical University,
For more see
http://www.wbilc2017.com/en/keynote-speakers.html#
E-mail:
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Personal web-page:
http://zhilavskaya.ru/
Conference main themes and topics
A. Information literacy in the modern world
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Fake News and Information Literacy
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Action Literacy
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Information literacies (media literacy, digital literacy, visual literacy, financial literacy, health
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literacy, cyber wellness, infographics, information behaviour, trans-literacy, post-literacy)
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Information Literacy and academic libraries
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Information Literacy and adult education
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Information Literacy and blended learning
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Information Literacy and distance learning
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Information Literacy and mobile devices (M-learning)
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Information Literacy and Gamification
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Information literacy and public libraries
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Information Literacy in Primary and Secondary Schools
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Information literacy and the Knowledge Economy
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Information literacy and the Information Society
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Information Literacy and the Multimedia Society
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Information Literacy and the Digital Society
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Information Literacy in the modern world (e.g trends, emerging technologies and innovation; growth of digital resources; digital reference tools; reference services).
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The future of information literacy
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Workplace information literacy
B. Librarians as support to the lifelong learning process
· Digital pedagogy
and Information Literacy
· Integrating
information literacy into the curriculum
· Putting information
literacy theory into practice
· Information
Literacy training and instruction
· Instructional
design and performance for information literacy (e.g. teaching practice,
· session design,
lesson plans)
· Information
Literacy and online learning (e.g. self-paced IL modules)
· Information
Literacy and Virtual Learning Environments
· Supporting
users need through library 2.0 and beyond
· Digital empowerment
and reference work
· Information
Literacy across the disciplines
· Information
literacy and digital preservation
· Innovative
IL approaches
· Student engagement
with Information Literacy
C. Media and information literacy – theoretical approaches (standards, assessment, collaboration, etc.)
· Information
literacy theory (models, standards, indicators.)
· Information
literacy and Artificial intelligence
· Information
Literacy and information behaviour
· Information
literacy and reference services: cyber reference services, virtual reference services, mobile reference services, expert crowd sourcing, global reference volunteers
· Information
literacy cultural and contextual approaches
· Information
Literacy and Threshold concepts
· Information
literacy evaluation and assessment
· Information
literacy in different cultures and countries including national studies
· Information
literacy project management
· Measuring
in information literacy instruction assessment
D. New aspects of education/strategic planning, policy, and advocacy for information literacy
in a digital age
· Branding,
promotion and marketing for information literacy
· Cross –sectorial;
and interdisciplinary collaboration and partnerships for information literacy
· Information
literacy policies and development
· Leadership
and Governance for information literacy
· Strategic
planning for IL
· Strategies
in e-learning to promote self-directed and sustainable learning in the area of information literacy skills.
Paper submission
Submissions in any of the following forms are accepted:
· Full paper
to be published in conference proceedings
· Presentation
· Roundtable
discussion
· Poster session
· Train-the-trainers
workshop
· PechaKucha
Important Dates
Abstracts submission deadline April 24, 2017
Notification of Abstract acceptance April 30, 2017
Full Paper submission deadline May 15, 2017
Notification of acceptance May 30 2017
Dissemination of final programme June 02 2017
Abstracts & papers are to be sent to [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]
For further information: please see the Western Balkan Information Literacy Conference
website for additional details at: http://www.wbilc2017.com/en/
Please note: all expenses, including registration for the conference,
travel, accommodation etc., are the responsibility of the authors/presenters. No financial support can be provided by the Conference Committee, but a special invitation can be issued to authors.
Regards
Padraig Kirby MSc (LIS) BA (Hons) HdipLIS
Senior Library Assistant
The Library
Limerick Institute of Technology,
Moylish park
Limerick
Ireland
00353 61 293516