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Subject: 2nd Call for Papers for WBILC 2018, Bihać, Bosnia & Herzegovina, June 21st-22nd 2018. Call for papers due May 14th 2018.
Apologies for Cross Posting. Please see 2nd Call for Papers for WBILC 2018, Bihać, Bosnia & Herzegovina, June 21st-22nd
2018. Call for papers due May 14th 2018.
WESTERN BALKAN INFORMATION LITERACY CONFERENCE.
JUNE
21st-22nd
2018, Juni na Uni 2018
, Hotel Opal, Bihać, Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Conference website:
http://wbilc2018.com/
Call for Papers
Theme:
Alternative facts, Fake News, getting to the truth with Information Literacy
Papers should be prepared using WBILC
template available here
http://wbilc2018.com/callForPapers.php 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
Ismail Serageldin,PhD
Egyptian national, is the Emeritus Librarian of Alexandria and the Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA),
the new Library of Alexandria in Egypt, which he headed from its inauguration in 2002 to his retirement in 2017. He serves on many boards and advisory committees for various international institutions. A graduate of Cairo and Harvard (Phd) he has held many
important international positions,
including Vice President of the World Bank (1992-2000), and professor at the Collège de France, Paris,(2010-2011). He
has published over 100 books and monographs and over 500 papers on a wide range of topics, and has received over 36 honorary doctorates. He is a member of many academies and has been decorated by Chile, Japan, Azerbaijan and other countries and has received
the Legion d’Honneur from France and is a Commander of the order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic.
Jesús Lau,PhD
A leader and spokesperson for information literacy/information skills for learning, Dr. Lau has travelled professionally
to more than 60 countries as a passionate advocate for the role information competencies play in our global knowledge society, and the potential of information to transform lives. Having led four academic libraries, with the responsibility for raising funds
and building new library facilities at two of them, Dr. Lau currently is a Professor at Universidad Veracruzana, the fourth largest public university in Mexico. With a Ph.D. in Information Science, Sheffield University, England; a Master’s Degree in Library
Science, Denver University; and Law Degree at Sinaloa University, Mexico. He has been awarded the title of National Researcher for several consecutive three-year terms, 1989-2018 (Mexico). For more see here:
http://wbilc2018.com/keynoteSpeakers.php
Sanda Erdelez, Ph.D.
Dr. Sanda Erdelez is a Professor at University of Missouri iSchool (School of Information Science and Learning Technologies).
She received her LL.B. and LL.M degrees from University of Osijek Law School (Croatia) and Ph.D. in information transfer from Syracuse University. She was also a faculty member at University of Osijek and University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Erdelez is a former
Fulbright Scholar and recipient of The Texas Excellence Teaching Award and The ALISE Pratt-Severn Faculty Innovation Award. Her research interests include human information behavior, human-computer interaction and usability evaluation in online environments.
For more see here
http://wbilc2018.com/keynoteSpeakers.php
Tefko Saracevic, Ph.D
Studied electrical engineering at the University of Zagreb, Croatia; completed Master (1962) and Ph.D. (1970) studies
in information science at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Stayed at Case till 1985, when moved to Rutgers. Promoted to Distinguished Professor in 1991. Professor Emeritus since 2010. Presented papers at international meetings in 48 countries.
Was the president of the American Society for Information Science; received the Society’s Award of Merit (the highest award given by the Society). Also, received the Gerard Salton Award for Excellence in Research, by the Special Interest Group on Information
Retrieval, Association for Computing Machinery (also the highest award given by the Group). As of February 2018, he has received 4,703 citations in Scopus database (the largest abstract and citation database of scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings;
excludes self- citations). In Google Scholar (with a broader coverage of all kinds of documents in addition to journals) he received 13,504 citations.
Conference main themes and topics
A. A. Information
literacy in the modern world
I
B. 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. Online 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
· 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,
Management 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
Notification of abstracts acceptance: 14 May 2018
Full Paper submission deadline: 01 June 2018
Notification of acceptance: 08 June 2018
Dissemination of final programme by: 10 June 2018
Abstracts & papers are to be sent on:
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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
Research, Development and Innovation Project Officer
ERASMUS+ Project Coordinator
The Library
Limerick Institute of Technology,
Moylish park
Limerick
Ireland
00353 61 293516
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