Information Seeking in Context, Vilnius, Lithuania 17-20 September, 2008
Call for Papers
We invite the submission of papers in the field of human information behaviour
research from participants in previous ISIC Conferences and other researchers
from information-related fields for presentation at the Information Seeking in
Context Conference to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania on September 17-20, 2008.
Papers should draw upon the theoretical and empirical literature of information
behaviour: those that seek to link that literature with related topics such as
information literacy, information retrieval, and information system design
should have information seeking or searching at the core of their
presentation.
We also invite doctoral students to submit an application for participation in
the Doctoral Workshop held in conjunction with the Conference on 18 September.
We especially welcome submissions from researchers and doctoral students based
in the Eastern Europe.
Themes of the conference include the following:
1. Theories and models of information seeking and searching: particular
theoretical frameworks that are currently of interest include (but are not
restricted to) social network theory, actor network theory, cultural-historical
activity theory, genre theory, etc.
2. Research approaches and methodologies, both interpretative and positivist,
employing either qualitative or quantitative methods.
3. Information seeking, searching and use in specific contexts, e.g., health
care, education, business, industry, the public services and government, the
emergency services, etc.
4. Organizational structures and processes and information seeking, searching
and use.
5. Information seeking and searching in the context of the World Wide Web,
including the relationship of information seeking to participation in virtual
social networks.
6. Information behaviour in everyday life; in communities both real and virtual,
including its role in indigenous communities.
7. Integrating studies on information seeking and interactive retrieval.
8. Information use: the nature of information and how information is used to
help solve problems, aid decision making or satisfy an initial need
9. Information seeking and information requirements - integrating information
science and information systems.
Authors should indicate which of these themes their paper addresses.
For the 2008 Conference we shall be particularly interested in papers in any of
these areas that address the connection between information research and
information practice.
Paper preparation and submission deadline February 1, 2008 Please, submit a
prepared paper in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .rtf files) to:
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