From chirags at rutgers.edu Tue Sep 2 20:49:44 2014 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 20:49:44 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] =?windows-1252?q?CFP=3A_Rutgers_iSchool_Research_Invitat?= =?windows-1252?q?ional_for_Master=92s_Students=3A_Oct=2E_17-18=2C_2014?= Message-ID: <5F5FE929-10B2-4C7A-8AAA-C0C6C83CF438@rutgers.edu> Call for Proposal: Rutgers iSchool Research Invitational for Master?s Students October 17-18, 2014 Deadline: September 21, 2014 Notification of decision: September 26, 2014 Rutgers University iSchool invites students with in-progress and completed master?s degrees to Rutgers iSchool Research Invitational 2014. The conference focus is to showcase iSchool master?s student research interests (completed, in-progress and prospective work), and to network with our iSchool community. Attendees will present a research poster. They will participate in networking events such as a catered dinner, research presentations by current PhD students, and discussions with iSchool faculty. The participants will also have a unique opportunity to learn about Rutgers PhD program and the excellent benefits it offers to those interested in pursuing research in iSchools. A complete proposal for participation requires: Poster abstracts of up to 500 words outlining your research interests and any results you have gleaned to-date, a CV, and a cover letter of introduction briefly describing you, your background and career plans. Applications will be considered by a juried panel of Rutgers faculty based upon thorough completion of the requested materials, depth of coverage, and fit in the iSchool scholarly fields. Selected participants will be reimbursed for up to $300 for travel to Rutgers University. Their hotel for up to two nights and meals will also be covered. Tentative schedule for the event: Friday, October 17: Noon Lunch; Tour of Rutgers; Poster presentations by the participants; Dinner; Optional night out with current Rutgers doctoral students. Saturday, October 18: Breakfast; Presentations by current students and faculty; Research games and exercises in groups; Lunch; Optional tour of the area. Apply today: http://bit.ly/1qlG2Om For more information, contact: Dr. Chirag Shah (chirags at rutgers.edu) Rutgers iSchool provides an excellent environment for research in areas such as Human Information Behavior; Information Retrieval, Language and Communication; Information Agencies and Artifacts; Learning, Youth, Information and Technology; Social and Community Informatics. The school includes world-renowned faculty who lead and teach in these areas. Their accomplishments are reflected in a large pool of scholarly publications, awards, and grants. ******* Chirag Shah, PhD Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science Rutgers University 4 Huntington St, New Brunswick NJ 08901 p. (848) 932-8807 f. (732) 932-6916 http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~chirags -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PastedGraphic-1.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 76903 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hrosenba at indiana.edu Wed Sep 10 12:01:47 2014 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Rosenbaum, Howard S.) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:01:47 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIST SIG-SI> Winners of the 2013 Social Informatics Best Paper Awards Message-ID: The Association for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (ASIS&T SIG SI) and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI) are pleased to announce the winning papers of the 2013 Social Informatics Best Paper Awards: 2013 Best Social Informatics Paper ($1,000): Budhathoki, N.R, and Haythornthwaite, C. (2013). Motivation for open collaboration: Crowd and community models and the case of OpenStreeMap. American Behavioral Scientist 2013 57: 548-575. 2013 Best Social Informatics Student Paper ($500): Oestricher-Singer, G. and Zalmanson, L. (2013). Content or Community? A digital business strategy for content providers in the social age. MISQ, 37 No. 2, pp. 591-616. The authors will present their papers and receive their awards at the 10th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: ?Connecting (Epistemic) Cultures and (Intellectual) Communities? co-sponsored by ASIS&T SIG-SI and RKCSI, on Saturday, November 1, 2014 at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology in Seattle, WA. Information about the workshop The 10th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: Connecting (Epistemic) Cultures and (Intellectual) Communities At the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology Sponsored by: ASIS&T SIG Social Informatics and Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, Indiana University Saturday, November 1, 2014, 8:30-12:30 PM Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle WA Organizers: Howard Rosenbaum and Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Fees: Members $90 - early registration ($110 after early registration ends) Non-members $110 - early registration ($130 after early registration ends) For more about the workshop, see http://www.asist.org/asist2013/seminars_workshops_SIG_SI.html. To register for the workshop (and the conference), see http://www.asist.org/asist2013/register.html For more about RKCSI, see http://rkcsi.indiana.edu From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Tue Sep 9 09:06:02 2014 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 15:06:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Asis-l] CFP IEEE SITIS 2014: submission deadline approaching (22 September 2014) In-Reply-To: <2121393764.8237205.1401620087461.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> References: <1619833220.1063422.1378673582388.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> <1292551937.5812970.1400140245662.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> <2121393764.8237205.1401620087461.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> Message-ID: <697675593.3702528.1410267962983.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> Apologies for multiple diffusions CALL FOR PAPERS Submission deadline : !!! September 22, 2014 !!! Apologies for multiple postings ====================================================================== TRACK ON WEB COMPUTING AND APPLICATIONS (WeCA) The 10th International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET-BASED SYSTEMS (SITIS'14) November 23 - 27, 2014 In cooperation with ACM SIGAPP French Chapter and IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing Hotel Semiramis, Marrakesh, Morocco http://www.sitis-conf.org/ ====================================================================== The focus of the track titled "Web Computing and Applications (WeCA)" is on emerging and novel concepts,architectures,technologies, and methodologies for information management related to the Web and cloud computing. In essence, the Web, with its different versions, has created an interconnected world in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed collaboratively, communities of users with similarly interests can be formed to achieve efficiency and improve performance, etc. Taking full advantage of these interconnected environments to meet the ever increasing needs of emerging applications requires solutions that address new issues and challenges. The track calls for research papers and reports related, but not limited, to the following topics: Data semantics ?Ontologies ?Conceptual Data Modeling ?Knowledge Representation and Reasoning ?Metadata ?Evolution and Change ?Semantic Caching ?Data Warehousing and Semantic ?Semantics in Data Visualization ?Semantic Services for Mobile Users ?Applications of Semantic-Driven Approaches Web-Centric Systems ?Semantic Web ?Social media and networking ?Web Services and Service Computing ?Hypermedia and Adaptation ?E-Commerce, E-government, and E-Learning ?Web/Data Mining ?Machine Learning ?Crowdsourcing Big Data ?Foundations and computation ?Infrastructure and platforms ?Management ?Data preservation and provenance ?Search and Mining ?Computational Modeling and Data Integration ?Link and Graph Mining ?Mobility ?Multimedia and Multi-structured Data ?Big Data and Social Media ?Applications Information System Interoperability ?Digital Libraries ?Semantic Interoperability and Semantic Mediators ?Ontologies Based Systems ?Contextual Reasoning in Distributed Ontologies Cloud ?Architectures and platforms?? ?Mobile Clouds ?Storage, Data, and Analytics Clouds ?Migration, Management, and Quality ?Composition, Federation, and Integration Resource Virtualization and Composition ?High Performance Cloud Computing ?Programming Models and Paradigms ?Green Computing ?Innovative Applications and Experiences ?Computing Consulting Cooperative information and Distributed Systems ?Information Sharing ?Grid/cloud Applications ?Peer To Peer Computing and Applications ?Knowledge and Semantic Grid ?Semantics of Peer Data Management Systems ?Mobile Information Systems and Computing Multimedia and application ?Image and Video Databases ?Image and Video Indexing and Retrieval ?Emergent Semantics in Content Retrieval Systems ?Semantics and Meta Data in Multimedia Systems ?Content-Based Indexing, Search, and Retrieval ?Multimedia Data Modeling and Visualization? ?Tools, Benchmarks, Evaluation Protocols and Standard Information security? ?Security Modeling and Access Control Protocol? ?Intrusion Avoidance, Detection, and Response? ?Web Security and Supporting Systems Security? ?Denial of Service: Attacks and Countermeasures ?Intellectual Property Protection? ?Fundamental Services on Network and Distributed Systems ?Security and Privacy for Emerging Technologies ?Trust based systems Submission and publication The conference will include keynote addresses, tutorials, and regular?and workshop sessions. SITIS?14 invites submission of high quality and original papers on the topics listed above.? All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers?for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics. Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns?publication format. Paper submission will only be online via: SITIS 2014 submission site. The online system will be used to handle and process all papers and to prepare for the final proceedings. https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis2014 Accepted papers will be included in the?conference proceedings and published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes. Important dates --------------- * Paper Submission: September 22, 2014 * Acceptance/Reject notification: October 10, 2014 * Camera ready: October 15, 2014 * Author registration: October 19, 2014 Track Chairs ------------ Rim Faiz, IHEC, University of Carthage, Tunisia Gayo Diallo, ISPED, University of Bordeaux, France Peter Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia Local Organizing Committee -------------------------- Abdelaziz El Fazziki, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco (Chair) Mohammed Sadgal, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco El Hassan Abdelwahed, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco Mehdi Najib, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco From michel.menou at orange.fr Wed Sep 3 15:25:22 2014 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 21:25:22 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] Fwd: [tripleC] New Special Issue Published: Theorising Digital Labour and Virtual Work In-Reply-To: <20140902183013.E32F56340BCF@dd29412.kasserver.com> References: <20140902183013.E32F56340BCF@dd29412.kasserver.com> Message-ID: <54076B22.1030603@orange.fr> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [tripleC] New Special Issue Published: Theorising Digital Labour and Virtual Work Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:43:49 +0200 From: Christian Fuchs To: Michel J. Menou Dear Readers of tripleC, I want to point you towards a new special issue of tripleC that has just been published. The articles are available as pdf, html, and as one comprehensive pdf for download at: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/current Special issue: Philosophers of the World Unite! Theorising Digital Labour and Virtual Work - Definitions, Dimensions and Forms Edited by Marisol Sandoval, Christian Fuchs, Jernej A. Prodnik, Sebastian Sevignani, Thomas Allmer in context of the COST Action Dynamics of Virtual Work http://dynamicsofvirtualwork.com/ This special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique aims to contribute to building a theoretical framework for the critical analysis of digital labour, virtual work, and related concepts that can initiate further debates, inform empirical studies, and inspire social struggles connected to work and labour in and beyond digital capitalism. The papers collected in this special issue (a) provide systematic definitions of digital labour, (b) analyse its specific dimension, and (c) discuss different forms of digital labour. The papers collected in this special issue theorise digital labour as a multifaceted field characterised by exploitation, alienation, precariousness, power, inequality, ideology, and struggle. These problems of digital labour are however not inherent to digital technology as such but result from its inclusion and application in capitalist relations of production. Theorising digital labour, as labour that produces or makes use of digital technologies, can help to understand its problems, limits, potentials, and contradictions. It can therefore highlight the need for social change and inspire political action. However, the act of freeing digital technology from being an instrument for the domination of labour requires to go beyond just interpreting the world and to engage in social struggles that want to change it. TOC: Introduction: Philosophers of the World Unite! Theorising Digital Labour and Virtual Work?Definitions, Dimensions, and Forms Marisol Sandoval, Christian Fuchs, Jernej A. Prodnik, Sebastian Sevignani, Thomas Allmer Work and Labour as Metonymy and Metaphor Olivier Frayss? Digital Workers of the World Unite! A Framework for Critically Theorising and Analysing Digital Labour Christian Fuchs, Marisol Sandoval Circuits of Labour: A Labour Theory of the iPhone Era Jack Linchuan Qiu, Melissa Gregg, Kate Crawford Concepts of Digital Labour: Schelling's Naturphilosophie Kevin Michael Mitchell Digital Labour and the Use-value of Human Work. On the Importance of Labouring Capacity for understanding Digital Capitalism Sabine Pfeiffer The Ideological Reproduction: (Free) Labouring and (Social) Working within Digital Landscapes Marco Briziarelli Alienation and Digital Labour?A Depth-Hermeneutic Inquiry into Online Commodification and the Unconscious Steffen Kr?ger, Jacob Johanssen Production Cultures and Differentiations of Digital Labour Yujie Chen Digital Labour in Chinese Internet Industries Bingqing Xia Will Work For Free: The Biopolitics of Unwaged Digital Labour Brian Brown Toward a Political Economy of ?Audience Labour? in the Digital Era Brice Nixon Playing, Gaming, Working and Labouring: Framing the Concepts and Relations Arwid Lund _______________ tripleC : Communication, Capitalism & Critique | Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society |http://www.triple-c.at -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For additional information on workshops or to register see http://alanis.simmons.edu/ceweb or contact slisce at simmons.ed *u* Linnea Johnson '04LS 2014 MBA Candidate Manager of Technology | Adjunct Faculty School of Library and Information Science Simmons College | 300 The Fenway | Boston, MA 02115 office 617.521.2834 Continuing Education School of Library and Information Science Simmons College | 300 The Fenway | Boston, MA 02115 office 617.521.2803 | fax 617.521.3192 email g slisce at simmons.edu Check out our most recent CE schedule ! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From slisce2 at simmons.edu Thu Sep 4 12:51:16 2014 From: slisce2 at simmons.edu (SLIS Continuing Education) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:51:16 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Last chance to register for SLIS Continuing Education's Apps for Librarians and Educators Workshop (September 8th 2014) Message-ID: (please excuse cross-postings) **Simmons SLIS Continuing Education ? Exceptional CE Since 1975** *September* -- *Apps for Librarians & Educators: Become an Expert in Mobile Apps for iPhones, iPads, or Android Smartphones* $275 (Simmons GSLIS Alunmi Price: $220) September 8 - October 10, 2014 - PDPs: 20 -- Please note: This is a five-week workshop. Back by popular demand and the only SLIS Continuing Education workshop offered for September 2014! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mcmason at umd.edu Thu Sep 4 17:53:55 2014 From: mcmason at umd.edu (Mary E. Carroll-Mason) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 21:53:55 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] University of Maryland iSchool Study Abroad Opportunity: South Africa, January 9-21, 2015 Message-ID: The University of Maryland iSchool (College of Information Studies) is offering a South Africa Study Abroad Course in Winter 2015 (January 9-21).? You will earn 3 graduate credits for any of the iSchool programs. THE PROGRAM Study the information management practices of corporations, libraries, governmental and academic/research institutions in the cities of Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town, South Africa. As you travel through South Africa, you will observe and study the information environment in those organizations and specific information management practices. You will discuss with professionals in those organizations their business models and information management issues. In addition, you will learn about the cultures and social context of South Africa as an industrial, manufacturing and development hub for the entire African continent. THE HIGHLIGHTS ++Visits to the premier knowledge management and computer science training programs at the Universities of Johannesburg and Cape Town and opportunity to interact with students and faculty ++Visits to businesses in the IT sector and consulting firms that focus on strategic planning for major industries and governmental institutions ++Visit to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cape Town ++In Cape Town, visit non-governmental organizations that develop appropriate technology to deliver health and welfare services to low income, under-resourced communities ++Cultural immersion activities including a township tour of Soweto, a visit to the Apartheid Museum near Johannesburg, and a trip to Robben Island near Cape Town THE COURSE After you commit to the program, Education Abroad will enroll you in the following three (3) credit UMD course: ++INST729: International Opportunities in Information Studies THE LOCATION This program will take place in Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Cape Town in South Africa THE ACCOMMODATIONS You will stay in campus housing at the University of Johannesburg. In Cape Town, you will stay in either campus housing or bed and breakfast. THE PROGRAM FEE $2,995.00 Program Director: Dr. Taverekere (Kanti) Srikantaiah; Dr. Windy Simmons will be Assistant Director.? For syllabus and other information you can contact Dr. Srikantaiah at tsrikant at umd.edu or Dr. Simmons at wasimmons at fastmail.fm You can consult the following Study Abroad Office website to enroll in the program. http://ter.ps/wtsouthaf From marialemos72 at gmail.com Fri Sep 5 07:24:15 2014 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (ML) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 12:24:15 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] [WorldCIST'15]: Call for Workshops Proposals; Best papers published in ISI Journals Message-ID: <201409051124.s85BOH3t008717@mail.asis.org> ------ WorldCIST'15 - 3rd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Ponta Delgada, Azores *, Portugal 1 - 3 April 2015 http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist15/ ------ * Azores is ranked as the second most beautiful archipelago in the world by National Geographic. ------------ WORKSHOP FORMAT The Information Systems and Technologies research and industrial community is invited to submit proposals of Workshops for WorldCIST'15 ? 3rd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies to be held at S?o Miguel, Azores, Portugal, 1st-3rd of April 2015. Workshops should focus on a specific scientific subject on the scope of WorldCIST'15 but not directly included on the main conference areas. Each workshop will be coordinated by an Organizing Committee composed of, at least, two researchers in the field, preferably from different institutions and different countries. The organizers should create an international Program Committee for the Workshop, with recognized researchers within the specific Workshop scientific area. Each workshop should have at least 10 submissions and 5 accepted papers in order to be conducted at WorldCIST'15. The selection of Workshops will be performed by WorldCIST'15 Conference/Workshop Chairs. Workshops full and short papers will be published in the conference main proceedings in specific Workshop chapters published by Springer in a book of the AISC series. Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by ISI Thomson, SCOPUS, DBLP, EI-Compendex among several other scientific databases. Extended versions of best selected papers will be published in journals indexed by ISI and SCOPUS. Detailed and up-to-date information may be found at WorldCIST'15 website: http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist15/ WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION The Organizing Committee of each Workshop will be responsible for: - Producing and distributing the Workshop Call for Papers (CFP); - Coordinating the review and selection process for the papers submitted to the Workshop, as Workshop chairs (on the paper submission system installed for all the Workshops); - Delivering the final versions of the papers accepted for the Workshop in accordance with the guidelines and deadlines defined by WorldCIST'15 organizers; - Coordinating and chairing the Workshop sessions at the conference. WorldCIST'15 organizers reserve the right to cancel any Workshop if deadlines are missed or if the number of registered attendees is too low to support the costs associated with the Workshop. PROPOSAL CONTENT Workshop proposals should contain the following information: - Workshop title; - Brief description of the specific scientific scope of the Workshop; - List of topics of interest (max 15 topics); - Reasons the Workshop should be held within WorldCIST?15; - Name, postal address, phone and email of all the members of the Workshop Organizing Committee; - Proposal for the Workshop Program Committee (Names and affiliations). Proposals should be submitted electronically by email to worldcist at gmail.com (cc: lpreis at dsi.uminho.pt), in PDF, (in English), by September 15, 2014. IMPORTANT DATES - Deadline for Workshop proposals: September 15, 2014 - Notification of Workshop acceptance: September 25, 2014 - Deadline for paper submission: November 30, 2014 - Notification of paper acceptance: December 28, 2014 - Deadline for final versions and conference registration: January 06, 2015 - Conference dates: April 01-03, 2015 CHAIR Luis Paulo Reis, University of Minho Regards, WorldCIST'15 Organizing Committee http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist15/ --- PS: If you do not wish to receive any more notices from WorldCIST just reply to this message with the word REMOVE in the subject line. From fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr Sat Sep 6 06:45:05 2014 From: fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr (IBEKWE-SANJUAN Fidelia) Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 12:45:05 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] CFP: Archives, libraries and museums in the era of the participatory social Web Message-ID: <540AE5B1.2020808@univ-amu.fr> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *Call for Contributions* *Archives, libraries and museums in the era of the participatory social Web* Special issue of the /Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science/ *Guest editors* Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, School of Journalism and Communication, Aix-Marseille University, France Elaine M?nard, School of Information Studies, McGill University, Qu?bec, Canada *Themes* The term "Web 2.0" refers to a set of Web tools that enhance and support user-generated content. Web 2.0 has made possible -- and intensified -- global collaborative mechanisms for the production of content. For nearly fifteen years, it has been gradually transforming the traditional Web, based on a dissemination model mainly structured by service providers and content providers. This participatory and collaborative capacity of the Web 2.0 may, in some cases, erase old boundaries and hierarchies between professionals and amateurs in various areas, whether in the private or public domains (e.g., Journalism 2.0, citizen journalism, etc.). Professions related to the creation and dissemination of content and knowledge seem to be particularly affected (e.g., publishers, artists, graphic designers, journalists, librarians, competitive intelligence specialists, librarians, archivists, information managers, etc.). The participatory Web's massive implementation of technology by the public has led to a reconfiguration and repositioning of the stakeholders in these sectors. This special issue aims to investigate mutations or changes under way within the institutions and among the stakeholders of libraries, archives, museums and online media due to the spread of Web 2.0 digital practices. The guest editors of this special issue of the /Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science/ invite researchers from different disciplines to submit original unpublished work in connection with the changes brought about by Web 2.0 in these sectors. Contributions may cover different aspects: epistemological, technological, sociological, economic and political impact of Web 2.0 in the context of libraries, archives, museums and new media. More specifically, contributions should address the following questions: 1.How can institutional repositories (nomenclatures, classification languages, catalogues, thesauri, controlled vocabulary indexing) produced by professionals (librarians, archivists, journalists, curators) accommodate the participatory culture of the social Web and content generated by users? 2.How do Web 2.0 digital devices transform (or not) the relationship that libraries, museums and archives have with the public and vice versa? To what extent are the concepts/phenomena of participatory libraries or museums becoming a reality? Are we moving away from non-participatory past practices toward new practices that are rather participatory? 3.How does the public receive the innovative applications of Web 2.0 technology in libraries, archives and museums? 4.Do technical participatory tools (such as mashups, podcasts, blogs, social tagging/folksonomies, social bookmarking, use of social networks including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn or museum informatics, etc.) create new gateways or new modes of interaction with documentary, archival or museum artifacts? 5.How do physical institutions (museums, libraries, archives) coexist alongside their virtual platforms? Will this coexistence continue (e.g., the threatened closure of libraries in some countries) or will the multiplication of virtual forms of libraries, museums and archives not result in the disappearance or deterritorializationof these institutions as physical places? 6.Is the institutional and historical distinction between archives, libraries and museums challenged by digital phenomena? Are the boundaries between them becoming porous due to new needs generated by the public social Web (e.g., "museo-libraries")? 7.What socio-professional changes or epistemological repositioning under way among stakeholders of libraries, archives, museums and media are caused by these new digital devices? 8.What is the impact of opening up public data for these institutions? Proposals will be evaluated by two blind reviewers according to the standard practice of the /Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science/. *The journal* Established in 1976, the /Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science/ is the official journal of the Canadian Association for Information Science. Its objective is to promote the advancement of information science in Canada. *Languages* Submissions are accepted in either English or French. *Deadline* March 2014: Call for submissions November 30, 2014: Deadline for submission of the first draft of the article January 15, 2015: Decision of the review committee sent to authors March 1, 2015: Submission of the final version of the article June 2015: Publication of the special issue *Submission* For questions about this special issue, please contact the guest editors. Send your manuscripts in electronic format (Word or RTF) to: Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan Full Professor School of Journalism and Communication Aix-Marseille University France fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr Elaine M?nard Assistant Professor School of Information Studies McGill University Montreal, Canada elaine.menard at mcgill.ca Guidelines for authors are available online on the journal's website at http://www.cais-acsi.ca/journal/guidelines.htm. Please indicate at the beginning of your submission which point(s) or theme(s) your paper will address. -- ------------------------------------------------- Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Ph.D.) Full Professor (Professeur des Universit?s) School of Journalism & Communication (EJCAM) Aix-Marseille University - France. Homepage: http://fidelia1.free.fr/ IRSIC research team: http://irsic.univ-amu.fr/ ---------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From fichman at indiana.edu Sat Sep 6 12:40:41 2014 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 16:40:41 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] AMCIS 2015: Call for Minitrack Proposals - Track: Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS (SIGCCRIS) Message-ID: Call For Minitrack Proposals ? AMCIS 2015 in Puerto Rico Track: *** Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS (SIGCCRIS) *** http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/call-for-minitrack-proposals 2015 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) Theme: Blue Ocean Research August 13-15, 2015 Puerto Rico http://amcis2015.aisnet.org Minitrack chairs will be responsible for a) promoting their minitrack to generate manuscript submissions to AMCIS; b) soliciting and assigning reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the minitrack; and c) making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted to the minitrack. Each of these important dates and activities are identified on the AMCIS 2015 website. To submit a minitrack proposal, you must submit a) minitrack chairs (names, emails, affiliation); b) minitrack title; c) short description of minitrack for the AMCIS 2015 website (up to 150 words); d) call for papers for your minitrack; and e) a short rationale as to why your minitrack should be included in the track to which you are submitting it To submit a minitrack proposal to the SIGCCRIS track, send an email to Edward.Bernroider at wu.ac.at (track co-chair) and cc your email with its attached submission to amcis2015.program at gmail.com. Important Dates: September 29, 2014: All Minitrack proposals due October 13, 2014: Minitrack decisions from track co-chairs due January 5, 2015: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2015 begin February 25, 2015: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors Track Co-Chairs: Edward W.N. Bernroider, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna), Austria Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics, Indiana University Bloomington, USA Monideepa Tarafdar, Lancaster University, UK Track Description (short version): The track welcomes submissions that relate to all aspects of global IS, or IS research situated in a global, international or cross-cultural context. The track is open to all methodological approaches and perspectives. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Research that considers the impacts of cultural values * Research on global IT sourcing strategies * Cross-national and cross-cultural comparisons of IS adoption, use and development * Effects of global social computing on organizational work organization and practices * Issues relating to globally distributed teams * Issues relating to IT adoption at the national level * Issues relating to global knowledge management * Issues relating to cross-national legislation and regulation * Issues relating to global information governance * Issues relating to security in information systems that span multiple countries * Single country studies showing implications for other locations or results different from other contexts * Multi-country studies of IS adoption, use, and development Sincerely, Edward, Pnina, Monideepa Track Co-Chairs AMCIS 2015 - Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS (SIGCCRIS) ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Chair, Department of Information and Library Science Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Director, Master of Library Science School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fichman at indiana.edu Tue Sep 9 08:34:13 2014 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 12:34:13 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Faculty Position in Information and Library Science, Indiana University Bloomington Message-ID: Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing Bloomington Faculty Position in Information and Library Science The School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for a position beginning in Fall 2015 in the Department of Information and Library Science (all subareas). This position is open at all levels (assistant, associate, or full professor). Applications from senior leaders are especially encouraged. The Department of Information and Library Science (ILS), formerly the School of Library and Information Science, has a long, successful history, having graduated over 8,000 students since it opened its doors in 1946. In 2013, U.S. News & World Report ranked the Bloomington Information and Library Science program eighth nationally. The School of Informatics and Computing is the first of its kind and among the largest in the country, with unsurpassed breadth. Its mission is to excel and lead in education, research, and outreach spanning and integrating computing and information technologies. In addition to ILS, the School includes the Department of Computer Science and Informatics and has a total of over 85 faculty, 900 graduate students, and 1,100 undergraduate majors on the Bloomington campus. Faculty research areas include bibliometrics; big data; computer-mediated communication; data science; digital libraries; information organization, retrieval, and visualization; science studies; semantic web, social informatics; text mining; web science; and more. Graduate degrees offered in the School include Master?s degrees in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction Design, Information Science, Library Science, and Security Informatics, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, Informatics, and Information Science. The School is also known for its strong undergraduate programs. Indiana University Bloomington is a major public research university with over 2,000 faculty and over 45,000 students. The beautiful campus hosts 110 research centers and institutes, as well as a wide array of distinguished academic departments and schools. IU is renowned for its high-performance computing and networking facilities, top-ranked music school, and performing and fine arts. Located in the wooded rolling hills of southern Indiana, Bloomington is a culturally thriving college town with a moderate cost of living and the amenities for an active lifestyle. Basic qualifications: Applicants should have a Ph.D. in a relevant area (or for junior level, expected before August 2015) and an established record (senior level) or demonstrable potential for excellence in research and teaching (junior level). Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching, and names of three references (junior level), or six references (senior level) using the University?s online system below (preferred): http://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/971 or to Faculty Search, SoIC, 919 E 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47408. For full consideration, completed applications must be received by December 1st, 2014. Informal and confidential inquiries may be sent to the ILS Chair, Pnina Fichman, (fichman at indiana.edu), or to any of the members of the search committee: Katy B?rner (katy at indiana.edu), Susan Herring (herring at indiana.edu), Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenbau at indiana.edu). Indiana University is an equal employment and affirmative action employer and a provider of ADA services. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ethnicity, color, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status. ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Chair, Department of Information and Library Science Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Director, Master of Library Science School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fcunning at kent.edu Tue Sep 9 11:36:30 2014 From: fcunning at kent.edu (Cunningham, Flo) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 15:36:30 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] REMINDER -- CFP: 5th annual conference on information and religion Message-ID: <857291cceca94e829b466eb752f12ace@BLUPR0801MB577.namprd08.prod.outlook.com> Please excuse multiple listings. The Center for the Study of Information and Religion in Kent State's School of Library and Information Science welcomes abstracts for consideration for its fifth annual Conference on Information and Religion, scheduled for June 4 and 5, 2015, at Kent State University. DEADLINE TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS IS OCT. 1, 2014. SUBMIT HERE: http://digitalcommons.kent.edu/cgi/login.cgi?return_to=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcommons.kent.edu%2Fcgi%2Fir_submit.cgi%3Fcontext%3Dacir&context=acir The conference theme is "New Technologies and Religious Communities." David Michels, Ph.D., Head of Public Services at the Sir James Dunn Law Library, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, will present the keynote address. Technology offers new resources that impact preaching by integrating multimedia in worship, expanding outreach through streaming services and podcasts, and providing live feedback through tools such as Twitter/chat. The life of religious communities is also impacted by new communication technologies that blur the boundaries of local and remote participation and challenge traditional ideas of koinonia. Our keynote speaker and participants will explore these issues and others. This call for proposals seeks original contributions in all areas related to information and religion. The conference theme invites participants to share their work in a variety of areas that might be called intersections of technology with religion and information. Topics that might be addressed include but are not limited to the following: * Uses of information technology and/or social media in preaching, ministry and the life of the religious community as a whole - including (but not limited to) worship, children's and youth ministries, organizational management, record-keeping, operation of religious libraries; * Privacy and security issues in information management or social media applications for religious organizations; * Uses of information by members of religious communities * Uses of information to add value to membership in a religious organization; * The application of information science/management principles for efficient, timely, and accurate research; * Dissemination of information by religious organizations; * Auto-ethnography as a research method in religious organizations; * The use of investigative or observational research and its impact on the religious service; * Information in its application to clergy and congregations as communities of practice. Prospective participants are encouraged to submit abstracts that report on recent research and scholarship. Contributions to this call for papers should not have been previously published. There are no restrictions on research methodology. Deadlines: Oct. 1, 2014: Deadline to submit abstracts - Click on the "Submit Event" link on the left side of this page. Nov. 15, 2014: Notification of acceptance May 1, 2015: Deadline to submit final, completed papers in order for them to be considered for publication in ASIR: Advances in the Study of Information and Religion. Papers must be in proper APA style. Additional details regarding submission of full papers will be sent to those whose abstracts are accepted for conference presentation. Once selected, presenters are responsible for their own expenses related to the conference, including but not limited to registration fees, lodging, transportation and meals. STUDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE. For more information, please contact Dr. Don Wicks (dwicks at kent.edu), Director of CSIR, or Dr. Dan Roland (droland1 at kent.edu), CSIR Primary Researcher. All the best, Flo <~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~> Flo Cunningham Marketing Communications and Public Relations Specialist School of Library and Information Science Kent State University 330-672-0003 fcunning at kent.edu www.kent.edu/slis Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ksuslis Twitter: @KentStateSLIS I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Call for Papers Understanding Web search engine users Workshop at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Association of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) October 31, 2014, Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA http://www.asis.org/asist2014/ Organized by Shari Thurow, Founder and SEO Director, Omni Marketing Interactive, USA Dirk Lewandowski, Professor, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany Matt Wallaert, Behavioral Scientist, Microsoft, USA INTRODUCTION Many researchers are interested in internet search behaviour, both as a primary action and as a secondary source of data that reflects the what, how, and why of information seeking. But despite that interest, we still lack a systematic research agenda on search engine use and searcher behaviours, perhaps because the potential for the data is so broad and the fields of study being applied so vast that it is difficult to coordinate and discuss across disciplines. Consequently, researchers usually focus on the methods popular in their fields, but are unaware of other methodological approaches and/or software tools that could help them achieve their research goals. Thus, by collaborating across disciplines, there is substantial opportunity to introduce new methods and research questions to investigators who are working along similar lines but without awareness of each other. GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOME The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry, who are interested in understanding search engine use, both as a primary and secondary source to reflect on user behaviour. We are interested in discussing methods and results in various areas, aiming for establishing a research agenda for information science researchers interested in Web searching. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of Web search engine user behaviours * Evaluating search engine user interfaces * Information retrieval evaluation methods applied to Web search engines * Query log analysis * Eye-tracking research * User guidance in the search process * Incorporating user behaviours into search engine optimization techniques * Usability and user experience in Web searching * Using and sharing information found through search engines * Understanding user behaviours through triangulation of methods (e.g., transaction-log analysis, lab-based studies, online questionnaires, diary studies) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS The workshop invites short research papers and position papers, as well. We also welcome overviews of relevant research done within a research group over the last few years. Accepted submissions will be presented in a 20-minute presentation. At least one presenter must be present at the event and register for the workshop. Extended abstracts and presentations will be made available on the workshop website. There will be no formal workshop proceedings. Submissions should be in the form of extended abstracts (approx. 1,500 words) including references. HOW TO SUBMIT Please send your extended abstracts to the workshop organizers: sthurow at search-usability.com dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de matt.wallaert at microsoft.com IMPORTANT DATES Paper deadline: 15 September 2014 Notification of acceptance: 22 September 2014 Workshop: 31 October 2014 -- Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski Hochschule f?r Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences) Fakult?t Design Medien Information Department Information Finkenau 35 D - 22081 Hamburg Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 40-42875 3621 Fax: + 49 (0) 3222-1445 301 Skype: dirk.lewandowski Twitter: @Dirk_Lew http://www.searchstudies.org/dirk ********* Editor, Aslib Journal of Information Management (previously: ASLIB Proceedings) http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=ajim ********* From hrosenba at indiana.edu Wed Sep 10 16:22:03 2014 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Rosenbaum, Howard S.) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:22:03 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] ASIST '14> SIG-SI Research Symposium Final Schedule Message-ID: The 10th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium (SIG SI) @ the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology Connecting (Epistemic) Cultures and (Intellectual) Communities Please join us in Seattle and celebrate with us as we mark the 10th year of the SIG-SI Research Symposium! Saturday, November 1, 2014, 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle Washington, USA Organizers: Pnina Fichman, Indiana University (fichman at indiana.edu) Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University (hrosenba at indiana.edu) Sponsored by SIG-SI and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Note: Early registration deadline for the conference is Friday, 9/18/2014 Schedule 8:30-8:40 Introduction ? Social Informatics and Epistemic Cultures 8:40-9:40 Papers 8:40-9:00 EunJeong Cheon and Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The interplay between different forms of knowledge and use of ICTs in knowledge practices of consultants 9:00-9:20 Wayne Buente, Luz Quiroga, Tamara Heck and Joe Greene, University of Hawaii at Manoa Between Two Publics: Examining the Social Context of ICT use among Homeless Individuals in Hawaii 9:20-9:40 Asen O. Ivanov, University of Toronto Genres of Workplace Practices: Towards a New Socio-Technical Idiom for Organizational Informatics 9:40-10:00 Mohhamad Jarrahi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Social informatics and directions for future research on implications of ICTs in organizations 10:00-10:20 Break and Poster Session 10:20-11:20: Panel discussion: Social Informatics and Epistemic Cultures Invited scholars will be asked to reflect and consider the following questions: ? How do you see your work as bridging epistemic cultures and intellectual communities? ? What are the social and technological forces that enable and constrain connections between SI and cognate intellectual communities? ? What are some of the ways in which we can begin to establish and maintain connections among SI and cognate epistemic cultures and intellectual communities? ? What can a social informatics approach tell us about the nature of the boundaries among SI and cognate epistemic communities? ? What are the challenges and opportunities of engaging in this type of SI work? 11:20-11:40 Networking break 11:40-12:30 Best paper awards and presentations 2013 Social Informatics Paper ($1,000) Budhathoki, N.R, and Haythornthwaite, C. (2013). Motivation for open collaboration: Crowd and community models and the case of OpenStreeMap. American Behavioral Scientist 57: 548-575. 2012 Best Social Informatics Student Paper ($500): Gal Oestreicher-SInger and Lior Zalmanson Oestricher-Singer, G. and Zalmanson, L. (2013). Content or Community? A digital business strategy for content providers in the social age. MISQ, 37 No. 2, pp. 591-616. Poster Min Sook Park and Hyejin Park, Florida State University Health Information Referencing in Online Communities: Case Study of Breast Cancer Information for Korean Immigrants Fees: Early-bird: SIG/SI Members $90, Members $100, Non-members $120 Regular: SIG/SI Members $105, Members $115, Non-members $135 For more about the workshop: http://www.asist.org/asist2014/seminars_workshops_SIG_SI.html To register for the workshop (and the conference): http://www.asist.org/asist2014/register.html For more about Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu From Katriina.Bystrom at hb.se Thu Sep 11 01:46:04 2014 From: Katriina.Bystrom at hb.se (=?UTF-8?Q?Katriina=20Bystr=C3=B6m?=) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 07:46:04 +0200 Subject: [Asis-l] CIS at Strathclyde seeks to appoint a Lecturer Message-ID: <5411533C02000086000214B9@gwis1.adm.hb.se> FYI >>> Ian Ruthven 09/01/14 4:49 PM >>> The Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) seeks to appoint a Lecturer to enhance the internationally leading iLab research group. CIS provides one of the largest postgraduate programmes in Information and Library Studies in the UK, and is a member of the iSchools group, a coalition of the worlds leading information schools. Our i-Lab research group has particular interests in information seeking behaviour, information architecture, and information policy; with much of our work societal in nature, investigating human information need and use, and informing interactive public information system service design. The successful applicant will be expected to further develop the Department?s reputation for excellence in one or more of these areas. S/he will also be expected to contribute to the Department?s teaching activities in the areas of Information and/or Library Studies. See full details, including the online application form, at: https://but.mis.strath.ac.uk/vacancies/control/vacancyMenu Closing date: 30th September 2014 ------ Ian Ruthven Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Strathclyde Glasgow G1 1XH Email: Ian.Ruthven at cis.strath.ac.uk Tel: +44 141 548 4527 Fax: +44 141 548 4523 http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/~ir The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC015263. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From slis at ualberta.ca Wed Sep 10 13:39:13 2014 From: slis at ualberta.ca (- slis) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 11:39:13 -0600 Subject: [Asis-l] Job posting Message-ID: Chair, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Closing Date ? October 19th, 2014 The Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, invites applications and nominations for the position of *Chair of the School of Library and Information Studies *(SLIS). The School consists of nine dynamic and award winning faculty, including the Chair, and has a two-year MLIS program accredited by the ALA until 2020. The School also offers its MLIS degree online. In addition, SLIS offers a three-year combined degree program with the Faculty of Arts leading to an MLIS and an MA in Humanities Computing, and a three-year combined degree program with the Alberta School of Business leading to an MLIS and an MBA. Currently there are roughly 200 full- and part-time students enrolled in the School?s master?s programs. SLIS also accepts qualified PhD students into individual interdisciplinary doctoral programs with a cooperating department. Considerable detail about SLIS is available at: http://www.slis.ualberta.ca/ *Qualifications* for applicants include, but are not restricted to: a doctorate in a relevant discipline; a record of scholarly excellence and teaching competencies within the broad areas of the SLIS curriculum; knowledge of trends in higher education; proven leadership abilities; and a record of major institutional and professional service. Qualified applicants must have senior level academic and administrative achievement and experience commensurate with the awarding of tenure. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the trends and changes in the LIS field and be capable of articulating a vision for SLIS and for the profession. SLIS is a student-centered school, places a high value on collegial governance, and is very closely integrated with local scholarly and professional communities. The successful candidate must be willing to work within this ethos. SLIS is one of the five teaching and research departments in the Faculty of Education and its Chair reports to the Dean. The Chair is responsible for providing leadership to and overall administration of the School, including: budgetary oversight; faculty support and evaluation; curriculum planning, assessment and development; fund development; and serving the various interests of a diverse student body. Normally, the Chair teaches one course a year in the MLIS program. The Chair is supported by a team of academic and administrative staff including an associate chair, an educational developer responsible for leadership in online pedagogy and course design, a senior administrator, a graduate student services administrator, and an office administrator. The Chair represents the School in Faculty and University planning and development, and is expected to be active in appropriate scholarly and professional communities at the local, provincial, national, and international levels. For over 40 years, the School of Library and Information Studies has offered the only ALA-accredited MLIS program on the Canadian prairies. The School joined the Faculty of Education in 1991. Both SLIS and the Faculty of Education embrace the four cornerstones of the University of Alberta?s Academic Plan, *Dare to Deliver* (2011-15): Talented People; Learning, Discovery and Citizenship; Connecting Communities; and Transformative Organization and Support. The Chair?s term of appointment is five years, commencing July 1, 2015 or as soon as possible thereafter, and is renewable upon review. Applications will be reviewed immediately after the closing date. Applicants for the position should submit online a complete and current curriculum vitae and the names and contact information of at least three referees. *How to Apply* Please go the following link on the University of Alberta?s web site and apply online: http://www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/A107524636/ *Note:* Online applications are accepted until midnight MST of October 19, 2014. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are committed to the principle of equity in employment. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons. -- ______________________________________________________ *Emilia Koukouvanova, GDBA * Office Administrator School of Library and Information Studies 3-20 Rutherford South University of Alberta Edmonton, AB T6G 2J4 Phone: (780)492-4578, Fax: (780)492-2430 E-mail: slis at ualberta.ca ______________________________________________________ *CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This email message, including any attachments, is intended only for the exclusive view of named recipient(s) and may contain information that is confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this message in error, or are not the named recipient(s), or it has been inappropriately forwarded to you, please immediately notify the original sender by reply email and delete this email message, including any attachments. 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We seek a dynamic, collaborative, and innovative individual at the Assistant Professor rank to work with our team of engaged scholars and educators who have expertise in a variety of areas including information behavior, children's and youth services, information and organizational management, the science of learning, information organization, information services and professional education, information systems and retrieval, and library and information studies. The preferred candidate will have a leading-edge research agenda, a record of successful publication, experience in a professional context, potential to develop external funding opportunities, and be able to contribute to effective teaching and professional service in the academic and community contexts. The Department of Library and Information Studies offers flexible programs that provide several course delivery options: on-campus, fully online, and hybrid. Minimum Qualifications Applicants for this position must hold, or be nearing the completion of, a doctorate degree in library and information science or a related discipline. Preferred Qualifications -Established or potential research agenda, with potential for external funding* -Online teaching experience or interest -Demonstrated record of teaching excellence *Research agendas can include but are not limited to one of the following areas: - Data Curation - Information Management/Visualization/Analytics - Educational Informatics - Health Information - Information Policy - User Experience Applicants with experience or interest in multidisciplinary collaboration are preferred. For the full position profile and desired qualifications, please visit: https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/Welcome_css.jsp. The posting number is 1400578. The Department of Library and Information Studies offers an MLS in Information and Library Science and an MLS in School Library Media; these programs have been continuously accredited by the American Library Association (ALA) since 1972 and enjoy strong stakeholder support from the community. In addition, we offer an MLS/JD (law) Dual Major, MLS/MA (music) Dual Major and an Advanced Studies Certificate. The University at Buffalo (UB) is a flagship institution in the State University of New York (SUNY) system and a member of the Association of American Universities. Just recently, US News and World Report ranked UB among the top 50 of the best public national universities and No. 1 among public colleges and universities nationwide for graduating students with the least amount of debt. For the last five years, UB was also named one of the ?Great Colleges to Work For? by the Chronicle of Higher Education. The Buffalo-Niagara Falls region features four seasons of activities and events from arts, culture, and historical tourism to professional sports and environmental splendor. The City of Buffalo is consistently voted a top arts and culture destination. To learn more about the Buffalo-Niagara Falls area, visit http://www.buffalo.edu/about_ub/the-buffalo-niagara-region.html. The Search Committee will accept nominations and applications until the position is filled. Nominations Please send nominations to the Search Committee Chair and include the nominee?s name, position, email address, and telephone number. Applications Please include the following application materials online at: https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/Welcome_css.jsp, posting number 1400578. 1. Cover letter expressing interest in the position 2. Complete vita 3. Contact information for three professional references. Initial screening of completed applications will begin immediately and continue until an appointment is made. Informal interviews will be scheduled at the 2014 conference of the Association for Information Science and Technology and the 2015 conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education. Please send inquiries and nominations to: Dr. Valerie Nesset, Search Committee Chair 534 Baldy Hall University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260. Phone: 716-645-2412 Email: vmnesset at buffalo.edu The University at Buffalo is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From srichards at lac-group.com Thu Sep 11 12:46:35 2014 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:46:35 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / /Librarian / Houston, TX Message-ID: Apologies for the cross postings . . . . LAC Group seeks a dynamic and experienced Librarian for a full-time, benefited position located in Houston, TX. This position is part of the library information center team and is responsible for providing information services and research support in the areas of business, science and technology for an upstream oil and gas company. Responsibilities: * Working autonomously but collaboratively with an engaged and committed group of information professionals; * Managing contracts, subscriptions and other agreements for providing digital content and electronic resources. This task includes establishing vendor contacts, evaluating products, planning product demos and trials, negotiating terms and pricing, managing licensing renewal, deploying products and evaluating usage; * Promoting the use of information and library resources through training and outreach activities and through the Library's intranet SharePoint site; * Providing secondary research through a variety of commercial databases, both business and scientific/technical, especially in the fields of earth sciences and oil and gas literature; * Tracking topics of strategic interest through industry news monitoring service using online databases, industry information sources, and the Internet; * Maintaining the Library's SharePoint site; * Assisting in maintaining the Library's physical collection, including original and copy cataloging of materials; * Assisting in the acquisition of published information as requested by scientists, engineers, technologists and other professionals. Qualifications: * Must have a Master's degree in library and/or information science from an ALA-accredited institution or equivalent experience; * Knowledge of relevant science and technology resources through coursework or work experience; * Understanding of data and information and their use in research; * Prefer 1-5 years of demonstrated experience preferably in a corporate library, especially in the oil and gas industry; * Self-starter with ability to work independently within a fast paced environment; * Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills; * Proficient in Microsoft Office, OCLC, and relevant research databases: Knovel, Dialog, Factiva, EBSCO, EDS (Discovery); * SharePoint experience preferred; * Strong commitment to customer service. For immediate consideration, please apply at: http://goo.gl/dN2SMT LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. 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Dania Dania Bilal, PI, and Jacek Gwizdka, Co-PI, Receive Google Research Award Dania Bilal, a Professor in the iSchool of Information Sciences at University of Tennessee, and Jacek Gwizdka, Assistant Professor in the School of Information and co-Director of the Information eXperience Lab at University of Texas at Austin, have received a $41,363 Google Research Award for a project titled "Child-friendly search engine results pages (SERPs): Towards better understanding of Google search results readability by children." In this project, Drs. Bilal and Gwizdka will investigate how children read and assess the reading levels of Google's search results pages (SERPs). One of the goals of this project is to modify Google's Reading Level metric. In making the Award, Google Research Team indicated, "we receive many strong proposals every round and conduct a very thorough review of all the submissions, involving several teams of Google engineers and researchers." According to Google web page, "The Google Research Awards are structured as unrestricted gifts to universities to support the work of world-class full-time faculty members at top universities around the world." Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT are among the others to receive awards from Google in the human-computer interaction category, the focused area of Drs. Bilal's and Gwizdka's project. Dr. Bilal is one of most often-cited researchers worldwide on children's cognitive and affective information behavior in using and interacting with information retrieval systems in multicultural contexts. Her research is situated at the intersection of information retrieval, information behavior, and human-computer interaction. She teaches courses in information access and retrieval, human-computer interaction, Web mining, information systems design and implementation, and research methods. Dr. Jacek Gwizdka research is situated at the intersection of interactive-information retrieval (IIR) and human-computer interaction (HCI), where he is focusing on cognitive aspects of human-information interaction and on using eye-tracking to assess cognitive states of users. Dr. Gwizdka teaches in the area of human-computer interaction and user experience design. ************************************************************************************** "After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb." Nelson Mandela. Dania Bilal, Ph.D and Professor School of Information Sciences College of Communication and Information 1345 Circle Park, COM 451 Knoxville, TN 37996 865-974-3689 http://scholar.cci.utk.edu/dania-bilal -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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But despite that interest, we still lack a systematic research agenda on search engine use and searcher behaviours, perhaps because the potential for the data is so broad and the fields of study being applied so vast that it is difficult to coordinate and discuss across disciplines. Consequently, researchers usually focus on the methods popular in their fields, but are unaware of other methodological approaches and/or software tools that could help them achieve their research goals. Thus, by collaborating across disciplines, there is substantial opportunity to introduce new methods and research questions to investigators who are working along similar lines but without awareness of each other. GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOME The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry, who are interested in understanding search engine use, both as a primary and secondary source to reflect on user behaviour. We are interested in discussing methods and results in various areas, aiming for establishing a research agenda for information science researchers interested in Web searching. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of Web search engine user behaviours * Evaluating search engine user interfaces * Information retrieval evaluation methods applied to Web search engines * Query log analysis * Eye-tracking research * User guidance in the search process * Incorporating user behaviours into search engine optimization techniques * Usability and user experience in Web searching * Using and sharing information found through search engines * Understanding user behaviours through triangulation of methods (e.g., transaction-log analysis, lab-based studies, online questionnaires, diary studies) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS The workshop invites short research papers and position papers, as well. We also welcome overviews of relevant research done within a research group over the last few years. Accepted submissions will be presented in a 20-minute presentation. At least one presenter must be present at the event and register for the workshop. Extended abstracts and presentations will be made available on the workshop website. There will be no formal workshop proceedings. Submissions should be in the form of extended abstracts (approx. 1,500 words) including references. HOW TO SUBMIT Please send your extended abstracts to the workshop organizers: sthurow at search-usability.com dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de matt.wallaert at microsoft.com IMPORTANT DATES Paper deadline: 15 September 2014 Notification of acceptance: 22 September 2014 Workshop: 31 October 2014 -- Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski Hochschule f?r Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences) Fakult?t Design Medien Information Department Information Finkenau 35 D - 22081 Hamburg Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 40-42875 3621 Fax: + 49 (0) 3222-1445 301 Skype: dirk.lewandowski Twitter: @Dirk_Lew http://www.searchstudies.org/dirk ********* Editor, Aslib Journal of Information Management (previously: ASLIB Proceedings) http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=ajim ********* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From krichel at openlib.org Mon Sep 15 01:52:56 2014 From: krichel at openlib.org (Thomas Krichel) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 05:52:56 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] announcing OAI9 in Geneva 17-19 June 2015 Message-ID: <20140915055256.GA13795@openlib.org> The CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI9) University of Geneva June 17th-19th 2015 This series of Workshops in Geneva has become the major community event in Europe in the year in which it is held. For these three days, librarians, IT professionals, publishers and researchers come together to network, hear presentations from keynote speakers, attend tutorials on cutting-edge themes, and congtribute their ideas through breakout/technical sessions and poster displays. The workshop is designed to provide a focus for the interchange of ideas, the building of new partnerships, the annoucement of new developments and the celebration of success in innovation in the whole scholarly communications process. The workshop will be held in the University of Geneva at the Institute of Graduate Studies and Campus Biotech. Both locations are close to each other and easily accessible on the Geneva tram network. The Programme Committee is currently drawing up an innovative programme for the meeting. Please reserve the dates for OAI9 in your diaries now. Keep an eye on the Workshop website at http://indico.cern.ch/e/oai9, which also lists the Twitter feed and hashtag for the meeting. On behalf of the OAI9 Programme Committee, I look forward to seeing you in the University of Geneva to hear news of current developments in scholarly communication. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel From kalev.leetaru5 at gmail.com Mon Sep 15 09:06:08 2014 From: kalev.leetaru5 at gmail.com (kalev leetaru) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:06:08 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] tracing topics over a half decade of american television news Message-ID: I thought many of you would find of great use my latest project, debuting today, which provides a range of analyses and visualizations against the Internet Archive's Television News Archive: http://blog.gdeltproject.org/television-trends-tracker-explore-american-television-news/ http://analysis.gdeltproject.org/cgi-bin/iatvtimeline/iatvtimeline You can specify up to three words or phrases and optionally limit to a particular television network or date range, and get back a fully interactive dashboard showing how your terms have been used on American television news over the past half-decade (as captured by the IA Archive). See how coverage volume has changed by week, which television networks devote the most attention, the topics that feature more prominently in shows mentioning the terms, and the words that appear most frequently in the immediate context of the terms. It even features a contextual ngrammer that computes a word histogram of all of the words that appear in the immediate vicinity of your term(s) in the closed captioning stream, making it possible to see how your term(s) are being contextualized in the news. Of particular interest for political advertising, under the network dropdown there is a special option to select all networks in the Philadelphia area as part of the Archive's Philadelphia Area Political Ads Pilot Project (https://archive.org/details/PHL). You can either view the results online in your browser or download to an Excel spreadsheet for further analysis with various content analysis or statistical software. This is a prototype service that will be refined over time, designed to provide a first attempt at an in-depth research exploration interface to the Archive's holdings, so would love any feedback or other thoughts. All kinds of fascinating possibilities re being able to measure how various issues are being discussed on television, especially political discourse with the upcoming election season and the Philadelphia archive (which itself is an incredibly rich resource). The results are currently unnormalized (they reflect the raw coverage volume recorded by the Archive) and we are exploring a number of normalization approaches. The contextual ngrams are particularly powerful for their ability to allow in-depth analysis at how contextualization of a term or topic has changed over time or across networks (or how similar/related terms differ in their contextualization). You can use the network dropdown and the Excel output option to generate the full word histogram for your term for each network and then compare. Or, perhaps most powerfully, use the date selector to limit by month over the last five years and output the Excel sheet for each month and import those ngrams into statistical software or a content analysis package for coding and further analysis of how the context around a term is changing over time (being careful to accommodate for the fact that some stations are added later than others and there are some sporadic outages of some stations in the archive - you might narrow by network for this). Thought this would be of great interest and use to many of you! Kalev Leetaru 2013-2014 Yahoo! Fellow, Georgetown University http://kalevleetaru.com/ http://gdeltproject.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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His 1995 book *Information Seeking in Electronic Environments* has had a remarkable influence on information behavior research, especially with the presentation of information seeking process and subprocesses models. Over the years, Dr. Marchionini?s numerous research and scholarly publications related to interfaces that support information seeking and information retrieval, usability of personal health records, multimedia browsing strategies, and digital libraries have played an important role in advancing information behavior research. Dr. Marchionini's international impact on the information behavior, seeking and use field is also seen in his work as the editor for the Morgan-Claypool Synthesis Series of lectures/monographs on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services. Dr. Marchionini served as President (2009-10) of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. He is the Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We are pleased to honor Dr. Marchionini with the 2014 ASIS&T SIG USE Outstanding Contribution to Information Behavior Research Award. As a recipient of this Award, Dr. Marchionini will also be inducted into the ASIS&T SIG USE Academy of Fellows. Dr. Marchionini will be accepting the Award at the beginning of ASIS&T SIG USE Business Meeting, which will be held on Tuesday, 11/4/2014 3:05-4:05pm. Best Regards, Rong Tang, Current Chair ASIS&T SIG USE -- Rong Tang, PhD. Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science Director, Simmons Usability Lab Simmons College rong.tang at simmons.edu 1-617-521-2880 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dania at utk.edu Mon Sep 15 11:46:05 2014 From: dania at utk.edu (Bilal, Dania) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:46:05 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] [Siguse-l] Dr. Gary Marchionini Named 2014 ASIS&T SIG USE Outstanding Contribution Award Winner In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <35D80BF1DBEB6644A0273604CD48FCDD86528D9D@kmbx2.utk.tennessee.edu> Congratulations to Gary! Dania From: Siguse-l [mailto:siguse-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Rong Tang Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 9:06 AM To: asis-l at asis.org; siguse-l at asis.org Cc: Rong Tang Subject: [Siguse-l] Dr. Gary Marchionini Named 2014 ASIS&T SIG USE Outstanding Contribution Award Winner Dear all, It is my great pleasure to announce that Professor Gary Marchionini has been chosen as the 2014 ASIS&T SIG USE Award Winner for Outstanding Contribution to Information Behavior Research. Dr. Marchionini's work on Information interaction and human-centered computing has made significant contributions to the field of information behavior research, incorporating the understanding of information seeking process, user search behavior, and usability principles to the development of interactive information retrieval system interfaces. His 1995 book Information Seeking in Electronic Environments has had a remarkable influence on information behavior research, especially with the presentation of information seeking process and subprocesses models. Over the years, Dr. Marchionini?s numerous research and scholarly publications related to interfaces that support information seeking and information retrieval, usability of personal health records, multimedia browsing strategies, and digital libraries have played an important role in advancing information behavior research. Dr. Marchionini's international impact on the information behavior, seeking and use field is also seen in his work as the editor for the Morgan-Claypool Synthesis Series of lectures/monographs on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services. Dr. Marchionini served as President (2009-10) of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. He is the Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We are pleased to honor Dr. Marchionini with the 2014 ASIS&T SIG USE Outstanding Contribution to Information Behavior Research Award. As a recipient of this Award, Dr. Marchionini will also be inducted into the ASIS&T SIG USE Academy of Fellows. Dr. Marchionini will be accepting the Award at the beginning of ASIS&T SIG USE Business Meeting, which will be held on Tuesday, 11/4/2014 3:05-4:05pm. Best Regards, Rong Tang, Current Chair ASIS&T SIG USE -- Rong Tang, PhD. 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Brooks, Bizzell Library Norman, OK 73069 405-325-3921 jmabbas at ou.edu ________________________________ From: Siguse-l [siguse-l-bounces at asis.org] on behalf of Bilal, Dania [dania at utk.edu] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 10:46 AM To: Rong Tang; asis-l at asis.org; siguse-l at asis.org Subject: Re: [Siguse-l] Dr. Gary Marchionini Named 2014 ASIS&T SIG USE Outstanding Contribution Award Winner Congratulations to Gary! Dania From: Siguse-l [mailto:siguse-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Rong Tang Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 9:06 AM To: asis-l at asis.org; siguse-l at asis.org Cc: Rong Tang Subject: [Siguse-l] Dr. Gary Marchionini Named 2014 ASIS&T SIG USE Outstanding Contribution Award Winner Dear all, It is my great pleasure to announce that Professor Gary Marchionini has been chosen as the 2014 ASIS&T SIG USE Award Winner for Outstanding Contribution to Information Behavior Research. Dr. Marchionini's work on Information interaction and human-centered computing has made significant contributions to the field of information behavior research, incorporating the understanding of information seeking process, user search behavior, and usability principles to the development of interactive information retrieval system interfaces. His 1995 book Information Seeking in Electronic Environments has had a remarkable influence on information behavior research, especially with the presentation of information seeking process and subprocesses models. Over the years, Dr. Marchionini?s numerous research and scholarly publications related to interfaces that support information seeking and information retrieval, usability of personal health records, multimedia browsing strategies, and digital libraries have played an important role in advancing information behavior research. Dr. Marchionini's international impact on the information behavior, seeking and use field is also seen in his work as the editor for the Morgan-Claypool Synthesis Series of lectures/monographs on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services. Dr. Marchionini served as President (2009-10) of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. He is the Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We are pleased to honor Dr. Marchionini with the 2014 ASIS&T SIG USE Outstanding Contribution to Information Behavior Research Award. As a recipient of this Award, Dr. Marchionini will also be inducted into the ASIS&T SIG USE Academy of Fellows. Dr. Marchionini will be accepting the Award at the beginning of ASIS&T SIG USE Business Meeting, which will be held on Tuesday, 11/4/2014 3:05-4:05pm. Best Regards, Rong Tang, Current Chair ASIS&T SIG USE -- Rong Tang, PhD. 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For those interested in working with academic literature collections like JSTOR, government document repositories like DTIC, or the open web via the Internet Archive, this paper provides a blueprint for how to work with the collections, their nuances, artifacts, and strengths, lessons learned (for example how to work with the Internet Archive's 1.6-billion PDF archive in the absence of fulltext search or metadata), and general workflows. http://dlib.org/dlib/september14/leetaru/09leetaru.html ABSTRACT The vast array of academic literature published by the humanities and social sciences disciplines codifies our collective scholarly understanding of how societies function and the beliefs, ideals, and ethnic, religious, and tribal contexts that undergird global societal behavior, yet this material has been largely absent from the recent computational revolution in the study of culture. Applying temporal, geographic, thematic, and citation algorithms to an archive of more than 21 billion words spanning 1.5 million publications from 7 collections, including the entire contents of JSTOR, DTIC, CORE, CiteSeerX, and the Internet Archive's 1.6 billion PDFs, academic literature is seen to offer a powerful new lens onto global culture. Four case studies demonstrate using this archive to map the Nuer ethnic group and identify its top experts, map the literature on food and water security, explore the thematic underpinnings of the Rwandan genocide, and construct a network over the ethnic groups of the world as seen through the combined academic literature of the past half century. Kalev Leetaru 2013-2014 Yahoo! Fellow, Georgetown University http://kalevleetaru.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chirags at rutgers.edu Mon Sep 15 17:01:11 2014 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:01:11 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Call for Chapters for Springer book on Collaborative Information Seeking Message-ID: <6B7FF364-79A1-4FBC-88CB-B47725DD04A5@rutgers.edu> CALL FOR CHAPTERS For a Springer Book in the CSCW Series on Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS) Springer Book series on CSCW seeks submissions for a 2015 book on Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS). We are looking for original chapters on this topic - from scholars in academia and industry. For many years, information retrieval has focused on individual users searching for information. Algorithms have assumed that one person is reviewing the results, and user interfaces have supported the needs of individual searchers. CIS - also referred to as collaborative information retrieval and collaborative search - focuses on the notion that information seeking is not always a solitary activity, and that people working in collaboration to perform information-seeking tasks should be studied and supported. CIS occurs in many contexts, including healthcare, business intelligence, technical fields, strategic research, information analysis, planning tasks, and everyday activities such as shopping and travel. While the submission could be a synthesis of some of the prior works, it should not be published before. Manuscripts may describe research, experiences, and software tools/algorithms/architectures focused on support for collaborative information seeking. Specific topics include ? CIS theories and models; ? Design experiences of CIS systems; ? User Interfaces for CIS systems and tools; ? CIS applications and use cases in different domains, such as e-learning environments, healthcare, office work, and intelligence analysis; ? Approaches for incorporating CIS with social search; ? Issues related to collaborators? awareness of actions, Team/group aspects and participants? roles; ? Evaluation measures for CIS systems; ? Methodologies for studying CIS; and ? Software tools and algorithms to support collaborative search. All chapter submissions are subject to double peer review based on both technical merit and relevance to Springer CSCW book series readership. Accepted chapters will be professionally edited for content and style. Direct inquiries to the guest editors: Dr. Preben Hansen, Stockholm University, Sweden, (preben at dsv.su.se) Dr. Chirag Shah, Rutgers University, USA; (chirags at rutgers.edu) and Dr. Claus-Peter Klas, GESIS, Germany (Claus-Peter.Klas at gesis.org) Timeline: ? Chapter submission: October 15, 2014 (submission information at http://collab.infoseeking.org/cisbook2015/) ? Decision: December 15, 2014 ? Final chapter: January 15, 2015 Editors of the book: Dr. Preben Hansen Associate Professor Department of Computer and Systems Sciences Stockholm University, Sweden Dr. Chirag Shah Assistant Professor School of Communication & Information (SC&I) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA Dr. Claus-Peter Klas GESIS - Leibniz-Institut for Social Sciences Wissenstechnologien fur Sozialwissenschaften (WTS), Germany ********** Chirag Shah, PhD Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science Rutgers University 4 Huntington St, New Brunswick NJ 08901 p. (848) 932-8807 f. (732) 932-6916 http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~chirags -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shaas at email.unc.edu Mon Sep 15 17:18:34 2014 From: shaas at email.unc.edu (Haas, Stephanie W.) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 21:18:34 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Assistant/Associate Professor in Information Organization, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Message-ID: <22380F88F0930F4A9925982D6CF4621C4C5A1ECD@ITS-MSXMBS0M.ad.unc.edu> Faculty Position Announcement Assistant or Associate Professor in Information Organization The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites nominations and applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank with a starting date of July 1, 2015. The faculty seeks an outstanding colleague with primary research and teaching interests in information organization applied to domains such as digital libraries, social networks, or scholarly communication. The School offers the Master of Science in Library Science, Master of Science in Information Science, Doctor of Philosophy, and Bachelor of Science in Information Science degrees. The School also offers an undergraduate minor in information science, a Post-Master's Certificate, and a variety of graduate certificates and dual degrees (see http://sils.unc.edu for details). Faculty are expected to engage in research, teach, advise students, participate in School, University, and professional activities, and otherwise share their expertise at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including work with doctoral students. Candidates should be excited by and able to thrive in an intellectually stimulating multi-disciplinary environment. Those with fresh and innovative ideas, a commitment to professional engagement, and an appreciation for cultural diversity are encouraged to apply. An earned doctorate is required at the time of employment. Candidates should provide evidence of research and teaching excellence, and potential for leadership in their area of expertise. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications. Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2014 and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants may view the job posting and submit a CV, cover letter, and a list of four references at: http://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/50627. For questions, please contact Susan Sylvester (ssylvest at email.unc.edu), 919-962-8071 (fax) or you may mail questions to: (mail) Stephanie W. Haas, Search Committee Chairperson, shaas at email.unc.edu, School of Information and Library Science, CB #3360, 100 Manning Hall, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes all to apply, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. ------------------------------------- Stephanie W. 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The editors are particularly interested in ideas that are easily transferable, and that include strong components of student metacognition and empowerment. The book will include innovative case studies from different academic institutions in the United States and internationally. Given the relationship between metaliteracy and emerging technologies, we look forward to receiving proposals on a range of cutting edge endeavors surrounding social media and digital learning. We are also interested in the application of the expanded Metaliteracy Learning objectives featured in our current book Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners and available via the Metaliteracy.org blog: http://metaliteracy.org/learning-objectives/. Metaliteracy, which reframes and reinvents traditional conceptions of information literacy, has become increasingly well known since its introduction in Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy in January 2011 in College & Research Libraries. In fall 2013, a connectivist MOOC on the topic was offered and a Coursera MOOC, which fully integrates with a metaliteracy badging initiative, will be offered in spring 2015. In 2014, Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information to Empower Learners was published by ALA Neal-Schuman, which expanded the model in both theory and practice and featured two chapters that examined specific case studies. This new compendium, Metaliteracy in Practice, will complement the first Metaliteracy book with chapters from a wide range of institutional and instructional design settings to meet the needs of librarians and other educators who would like to examine a wide array of practical examples focused on student success and empowerment. The ongoing ACRL process of developing the new information literacy framework has generated lively debates in the field about a number of the its proposed components, including metaliteracy, demonstrating the timeliness of a volume that is based on innovative case studies from the field. For accepted chapters, please consider using the following sections and overall organizing structure, if this is appropriate for your content: Introduction Related Literature Institutional or other Associated Context Disciplinary/Programmatic/Other Perspective Metaliteracy Case Study Application of Metaliteracy Learning Objectives Contribution/Innovation Assessment of the Instruction/Endeavor Conclusion This book will be co-edited by Trudi E. Jacobson, Head of the Information Literacy Department at the University at Albany, and Thomas P. Mackey, Dean of the Center for Distance Learning, SUNY Empire State College. Please send 1-2 page proposals to Trudi at tjacobson at albany.edu no later than November 3, 2014. We will make our decisions by late November. First drafts of the completed chapters (20-25 pages) will be due on February 16, 2015. Final drafts will be due by April 17, 2015. If you have any questions about proposal ideas or about the book, please contact Trudi or Tom. Tom Mackey, Ph.D. Dean Center for Distance Learning SUNY Empire State College 113 West Avenue Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 518-587-2100 ext. 2790 fax 518-587-2660 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The UK ICT program focuses on the intersection of technology, the people who use that technology, the policies and regulations governing or affecting use of that technology, and the community or environment in which that technology is used, in order to facilitate communicating information in meaningful ways. The ICT master?s program focuses on providing students with the knowledge and skills to assume leadership positions charged with effectively applying, using, and managing technology when solving problems specifically related to information and communication. Expanding upon the undergraduate ICT curriculum which is designed to prepare students for positions that require basic knowledge and skills commensurate with bachelor?s level preparation, the master?s curriculum is designed to prepare students to assume positions that require more in-depth knowledge of the field. In the ICT master?s program, students will begin to concentrate their studies on a certain area or aspect of ICT. ?The launch of the ICT master?s degree program in fall 2015 extends the School?s information technology initiatives,? Dr. Jeff Huber , Director of the School of Library and Information Science which houses the ICT program explains. ?The ICT master?s degree will allow students to pursue programs designed to prepare them for higher level positions in industry, government, or academic environments.? Students admitted to the master?s program may concentrate their studies into one of three tracks?health, technology and analytics, or policy and regulation?or work with their adviser to create a program of study befitting their educational and professional goals. ICT is a fast emerging field that encompasses many job sectors. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, employment growth rates in the ICT sector are forecast to rise over the next 10 years, with most job categories reflecting double-digit percentage increases. Job categories include information security analysts, Web developers, database administrators, computer network architects, and media and communication specialists. The College of Communication and Information is the designated iSchool for UK. iSchools are a group of information schools dedicated to advancing the information field. Will Buntin Assistant Director Student Affairs University of Kentucky School of Library and Information Science 319 Little Library Building Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0224 Chat: Skype, Google, AIM & Yahoo: wbuntinuk Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/106665301967621814787/posts * Follow UK SLIS: SLIS Facebook * SLIS Twitter * Vimeo * Google+ * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This is your chance to take a lead on these initiatives and to shape the future of the SIG III at ASIS&T! Please visit the nomination page to learn more about available positions and to nominate yourself: Online Nomination Form --> http://bit.ly/sigiii14nominate The nomination form will be available until the end of this month (Tuesday, September 30). Once the nomination closes on the 30th, we will open up the online voting system. If you are a current SIG III member, you will receive a separate email with instructions on how to vote. The election results will be announced publicly on Thursday, October 9, 2014 on the SIG III website. Please email us if you have any questions. ASIS&T SIG-III Nominating Committee Anatoliy Gruzd, Abebe Rorissa, Catherine Dumas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The participants will also have a unique opportunity to learn about Rutgers PhD program and the excellent benefits it offers to those interested in pursuing research in iSchools. A complete proposal for participation requires: Poster abstracts of up to 500 words outlining your research interests and any results you have gleaned to-date, a CV, and a cover letter of introduction briefly describing you, your background and career plans. Applications will be considered by a juried panel of Rutgers faculty based upon thorough completion of the requested materials, depth of coverage, and fit in the iSchool scholarly fields. Selected participants will be reimbursed for up to $300 for travel to Rutgers University. Their hotel for up to two nights and meals will also be covered. Tentative schedule for the event: Friday, October 17: Noon Lunch; Tour of Rutgers; Poster presentations by the participants; Dinner; Optional night out with current Rutgers doctoral students. Saturday, October 18: Breakfast; Presentations by current students and faculty; Research games and exercises in groups; Lunch; Optional tour of the area. Apply today: http://bit.ly/1qlG2Om For more information, contact: Dr. Chirag Shah (chirags at rutgers.edu) Rutgers iSchool provides an excellent environment for research in areas such as Human Information Behavior; Information Retrieval, Language and Communication; Information Agencies and Artifacts; Learning, Youth, Information and Technology; Social and Community Informatics. The school includes world-renowned faculty who lead and teach in these areas. Their accomplishments are reflected in a large pool of scholarly publications, awards, and grants. ******* Chirag Shah, PhD Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science Rutgers University4 Huntington St, New Brunswick NJ 08901 p. (848) 932-8807 f. (732) 932-6916 http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~chirags -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Chatman Research Proposal Award Diane Sonnenwald, University of Copenhagen For: "Towards a Theory of Human-Rare Book Information Behaviour" Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award "Online search stopping behaviours: An investigation of query abandonment and task stopping" By Wang-ching Wu and Dr. Diane Kelly, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award "When PIM Goes Public: A Case Study of OrganizedLikeJen" By Leslie Thomson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Best Information Behavior Conference Poster Award Certificate of Merit "Implications and Potential Impacts of Information Behavior Research" By Drs. Kyungwon Koh, Ellen Rubenstein, and Kelvin White, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Oklahoma Student Travel Award Recipient: Rebekah Wilson, School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Australia Interdisciplinary Travel Award Recipient: Dr. Eric Meyers, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (iSchool), University of British Columbia Congratulations to all award winners, and thank you to everyone who submitted an application. Sincerely, Awards Co-Chairs Heather O'Brien and Gary Burnett Dr. Heather O'Brien Assistant Professor The iSchool, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC h.obrien at ubc.ca http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/hobrien/ From niso-announce at niso.org Tue Sep 16 12:44:38 2014 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:44:38 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] Free Livestream to Opening and Closing Keynotes of NISO October Forum: Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform Message-ID: <007c01cfd1cd$8349b3a0$89dd1ae0$@org> With the generous support of SAGE Publications, NISO is able to provide a FREE live stream of the Opening and Closing Keynote presentations of the NISO Forum Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform. Virtual space is limited for this offer, so please fill out this RSVP form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6J9VKLS if you want to view the keynotes. The entire two-day forum Using the Web as an E-Content Distribution Platform?to be held October 21-22 in Chicago?is available in-person and via livestream to paid registrants. In-person attendees will be able to network with speakers and other attendees to ask questions and share experiences. NISO educational forums are routinely praised for their excellent selection of speakers representing a diversity of viewpoints across the scholarly information community and the small size which provides opportunities to network with speakers and other attendees. All in-person and livestream registrants receive access to the recorded version. In-person attendees: register by October 7, 2014 to receive the early bird discount. DATE: October 21 - 22, 2014 LOCATION: University of Chicago Booth School of Business ? Gleacher Center EVENT WEBSITE: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/forum_2014/ ABOUT THE FORUM Web technologies have changed, and continue to change, the way that content is delivered to libraries and to users. Currently e-journals are delivered through platforms but the final object is still often a PDF file. E-books are generally delivered as a downloadable file to a stand-alone e-reader. However, with the advent of the Open Web Platform using standards such as HTML5, we are looking at a new era of separating the content from the container. The web as a distribution platform offers many new opportunities for more utilization of multimedia and streaming media, embedding of apps, increased linkages and interoperability between related content, greater interactivity with content, social sharing of user-generated content related to a ?publication,? text mining, and much more that hasn?t even been imagined yet. TOPICS & SPEAKERS (Detailed agenda available at: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/forum_2014/agenda_chicago/) Day 1 * Keynote: Embrace Technology ? or It Will Embrace You ? Timo Hannay, Managing Director, Digital Science * History and Legacy Systems ? Bruce Rosenblum, CEO, Inera, Inc. * Trends in Publishing Automation ? Barry Bealer, RSI Content Solutions * New Ways to Use Content to Build Next-Generation Online Products ? Jake Zarnegar, Silverchair * Next Generation Systems Panel Gregg Gordon, President and CEO, Social Science Research Network (SSRN) IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, SVP, Journal and Data Solutions, Elsevier Tara Robenalt, Vice President and General Manager, Workflow Solutions, Highwire Press * What Can We Expect From the Future? Alberto Pepe, Co-founder of Authorea and Associate Research Scientist at Harvard University and Maryann Martone, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego Day 2 * Panel discussion: What Librarians Still Need from Discovery Layers Moderated by Sommer Browning, Discovery Access Librarian, University of Denver ? Discovery Services That Play Together Stay Together: A Call for Tighter Integration of the Discovery Layer into the Research Ecosystem ? Ben Daigle, Discovery Services Librarian, OWU Libraries, Ohio Wesleyan University ? Being Responsive to Libraries, Librarians, and Patrons ? Ido Peled, Director of Solution Architecture, ExLibris ? Knowledge Unlatched ? Navigating Through the Rapids of Change ? Frances Pinter, Founder and Executive Director, Knowledge Unlatched ? So You Bought Springer Content, Now What? Post Sale Support at Springer ? Elise Sassone, Manager Sales Operations Americas, Discovery Services Liaison, Springer * Retooling Metadata Around Linked Data Principles John Mark Ockerbloom, Digital Library Architect and Planner, University of Pennsylvania Jeff Penka, Director of Channel and Product Development, Zepheira * Educational Publishing, Platform Providers, and E-Reserves Beth R. Bernhardt, Assistant Dean for Collection Management and Scholarly Communications, University Libraries, University of North Carolina Greensboro Franny Lee, Co-Founder & VP Business Development, SIPX * Closing Keynote: Publisher of the Community ? R. David Lankes, author of The Atlas of New Librarianship, professor and Dean?s Scholar for the New Librarianship at Syracuse University?s School of Information Studies; Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse REGISTRATION & INFORMATION Discounts for both in-person and livestream are available to NISO and SSP (Society for Scholarly Publishing) members and for students. An early bird registration discount for in-person attendees is available through October 7, 2014. There are separate registration links on the webpage for in-person and live streaming registrations. Live streaming registration is per site (access for one computer). All registrants, in-person and livestream, will receive access to the recorded version of the forum for one year. Visit the event webpage for more information and to register: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/forum_2014/. If you have additional questions about the forum or the livestream, please contact nisohq at niso.org. Note: Live streaming success is dependent on many factors, some of which are outside NISO's control. We are not anticipating any particular issues with the live streaming technology for this event, but if problems occur and the Forum is inaccessible for the streaming attendee(s), we will communicate a schedule for refunds, based on the circumstances. 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URL: From lapark at scem.uws.edu.au Thu Sep 18 21:06:07 2014 From: lapark at scem.uws.edu.au (Laurence Park) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:06:07 +1000 Subject: [Asis-l] [Final Call for Papers] ADCS 2014 Message-ID: ======================= CALL FOR PAPERS ======================= THE 19TH AUSTRALASIAN DOCUMENT COMPUTING SYMPOSIUM (ADCS 2014) http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/adcs2014/ IMPORTANT DATES --------------- 29 Sep 2014 - Submission deadline 13 Oct 2014 - Notification of acceptance / rejection 24 Oct 2014 - Final camera ready due 27/28 Nov 2014 - ADCS in Melbourne, Australia LOCATION -------- Melbourne, Australia AIM OF THE SYMPOSIUM -------------------- ADCS 2014 is an opportunity for researchers and practitioners in document management and information retrieval to meet and present their work. The symposium aims to cover all aspects of Document Computing - issues ranging from the fundamentals of document architectures and standards for markup, through storage, management, retrieval, authentication and workflow, to active and virtual documents. The symposium emphasises both commercial and academic issues by encouraging a variety of submissions. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ The symposium topics include (but are not restricted to) the following: - Cognitive Aspects of Documents - Digital Libraries - Document Databases - Document Standards (XML, SGML, etc.) - Document Summarisation - Enterprise Search - Evaluation - Information Retrieval - Multimedia Document Management - Multimedia Resource Discovery - Natural Language Techniques and Documents - Personalised Documents - Retrieval Models and Ranking - Search Engine Architectures and Scalability - User Studies Involving Documents - Web Documents - Web Search KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ------------------ Maarten De Rijke (University of Amsterdam) Diane Kelly (UNC Chapel Hill) SUBMISSIONS ----------- All submissions must be original work, not previously published elsewhere, and not currently submitted to any other conference or journal. Electronic copies of accepted papers will be made available through the ACM Digital Library as part of the ICPS collection. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically, in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. Full papers have a maximum of length of 8 pages including all references, and short papers have a maximum length of 4 pages including references. All submissions will be fully refereed using a single blind refereeing process, at their full published length, and will comply with DEST criteria for fully-refereed conference papers (category E1). Papers will be submitted using Easy Chair -- https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adcs20140 . Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the symposium to present the work. Note also that it is insufficient for an author to register and pay for the symposium to be regarded as fulfilling this obligation. Authors of accepted papers will have to sign the ACM rights management form to comply with publication in the ACM digital library. For more information see the ACM authors page. FULL PAPERS ----------- Full papers should describe new contributions or analyse research issues. Submissions should be at most eight pages long (around 4000 words); over-length submissions risk immediate rejection. Refer to the guidelines for papers for details of the required format. POSTERS, SHORT PAPERS AND INDUSTRY STATUS REPORTS ------------------------------------------------- To encourage participation by industry and to provide a place for work of a more speculative nature, ADCS invites submissions for short papers, up to a maximum of four pages (around 2000 words). A typical proposal might describe a leading-edge solution to a practical problem in document management. Short papers follow the same format as for full papers. STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS --------------------- Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors students will be able to receive travel support to attend and present at ADCS 2014. General Chair Falk Scholer, RMIT Program Chairs Shane Culpepper, RMIT Laurence Park, UWS Guido Zuccon, QUT PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Peter Bailey, Microsoft Peter Bruza, Queensland University of Technology Wray Buntine, NICTA Mark Carman, Monash University Shane Culpepper, RMIT University Sally Jo Cunningham, Waikato University David Eyers, University of Otago Shlomo Geva, Queensland University of Technology David Hawking, Microsoft Timothy Jones, RMIT University Sarvnaz Karimi, CSIRO Yun Sing Koh, University of Auckland Irena Koprinska, The University of Sydney Alexander Krumpholz, CSIRO/ANU Bevan Koopman, CSIRO Alistair Moffat, The University of Melbourne Laurence Park, University of Western Sydney Mark Sanderson, RMIT University Falk Scholer, RMIT University Laurianne Sitbon, Queensland University of Technology James A. Thom, RMIT University Paul Thomas, CSIRO Andrew Trotman, University of Otago Andrew Turpin, The University of Melbourne Justin Zobel, The University of Melbourne Guido Zuccon, Queensland University of Technology SPONSORS -------- We are pleased to announce that ADCS 2014 will be held in cooperation with ACM SIGIR. We also thank: - ACM SIGIR - RMIT University - Bing for their sponsorship of this conference. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From rossjd at syr.edu Tue Sep 16 12:41:41 2014 From: rossjd at syr.edu (John David Ross) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:41:41 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Syracuse iSchool Welcomes New Faculty Message-ID: <2D366640-DE12-4FE6-8E03-3CB13D518288@syr.edu> Syracuse iSchool Welcomes Three New Faculty Members The School of Information Studies (iSchool) at Syracuse University welcomes three new faculty members this semester. Two tenure-track assistant professors and one University professor of practice have joined the ranks at the iSchool. Assistant Professor Jeff Hemsley joins the faculty after spending the last five years at the University of Washington, earning his Ph.D. and working as a research and teaching assistant. Assistant Professor Bryan Semaan comes to the iSchool after post-doctoral work at the University of Hawaii. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of California at Irvine. Jeff Saltz comes to the iSchool as a University Professor of Practice, a joint appointment with the Syracuse's College of Engineering and Computer Science. Saltz has worked closely with Syracuse University since 2008 as a member of the JPMorgan Chase project team that designed several academic programs at the University. The three new faculty join a group of over 50 academics, researchers and professors of practice who teach courses in the iSchool's programs in library science, information management, and telecommunications and network management. More from the Syracuse iSchool: > iSchool News > Information Space - the iSchool's blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From srichards at lac-group.com Thu Sep 18 11:31:01 2014 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:31:01 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job posting / Legal Research Analyst / Washington, DC Message-ID: Apologies for the cross posting . . . . . LAC Group seeks a full-time, temporary Legal Research Analyst for our client, a global law firm, located in Washington, DC. This individual needs to be skilled in providing strong research expertise to support the firm's practice areas, ideally with a focus on legislative and regulatory areas of law. This assignment is for at least a 3 months, but has the potential to last longer. This is a full-time, 40 hour per week position, and ideally the candidate will be able to work Saturdays in addition to 4 days during the week. Responsibilities: * As part of a firm-wide research team, provide substantive research expertise to support the firm's practice areas and business development efforts, including strategic research related to markets, industries, and competitors; * Create current awareness tools, newsletters, and alerts for ongoing monitoring of clients, industries, and events; * Proactively and independently assess research requests and ensure that research meets stated and anticipated needs; * Ensure that library services are effectively promoted to attorneys and timekeepers; * Educate and advise attorneys, paralegals, and staff on sources and strategies for research; * Provide assistance in collection development and maintenance and library space utilization; * Participate on projects that increase the value of library services to the Firm; * Track and record billable and non-billable time spent providing research services to library clients according to the Firm's library billing policy. Close time notes on a daily basis; * Consistently promote and model the Firm's Client Service Principles in leadership, teamwork, work product, and personal interaction; Essential Knowledge, Skills and Abilities * Master's degree in Library Science or Information Science or equivalent degree strongly preferred; plus a minimum of three years related experience, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience; * Substantive knowledge of the legal materials and databases used to support the Firm's practice areas and research needs for client work and for business development efforts; * Excellent communication skills and the ability to build effective internal and external client relationships; * Strong writing skills and the ability to exchange information and to present ideas, report facts and convey information clearly and concisely; * Ability to effectively apply independent judgment and have a strong sense of urgency and professional dedication; * Ability to work collaboratively across departments and with all levels of personnel and to succeed in a teamwork environment; * Strong planning and organizational skills, including demonstrated ability to manage workloads effectively and meet all stated deadlines; * Proficient in Word, Excel, Adobe Acrobat Professional, and PowerPoint. Apply at: http://goo.gl/MjZUnQ LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. LAC Group is a premier provider of recruiting and consultancy services for information professionals at U.S. and global organizations including Fortune 100 companies, law firms, pharmaceutical companies, large academic institutions, National Libraries and prominent government agencies. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ku26 at drexel.edu Tue Sep 23 10:36:33 2014 From: ku26 at drexel.edu (Unsworth,Kristene) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 14:36:33 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Congratulations to SIG-IFP awardees! Message-ID: <36DF838FDB1BE048866CF3ACE977294EA3162BFA@MB1.drexel.edu> The SIG-IFP / III workshop' Trust in the Age of Data (big or small), committee members would like to congratulation the workshop fee waiver recipients! Congratulations! Dr. Dorte Madsen, Associate Professor, PhD Department of Intercultural Communication and Management ,Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Introducing a meta-disciplinary model to support processes of theorizing and conceptualizing Devan Donaldson, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan School of Information - Project funded by a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant Development and Validation of a Scale for Measuring Digital Archival Document Trustworthiness Perception Nicholas Weber, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) Scallops, Lobsters, and Public Goods: Two Conceptual Approaches to Trust in the Digital Commons Please register for this preconference workshop and join us for an highly interactive session, including these excellent presentations! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kristene Unsworth, PhD. 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Integrated Doctoral Education with Application to Scholarly Communication ? is a fellowship program designed to further scholarship and practice in the area of scholarly communication by integrating practical experience in the library with the research and classroom experiences that comprise the traditional education of doctoral students. Fellows will be provided with intensive mentoring, wide-ranging opportunities to work and conduct research in scholarly communication, and comprehensive training in pedagogy, curricular development, and in-class instruction. Our efforts are motivated by an awareness of the complex transformations of library roles in the scholarly communication environment and the increasing need to educate future LIS faculty with an integrated understanding of research and practice to meet the needs of future MLS students. Doctoral fellows will receive a stipend of $23,000, health insurance, tuition, travel assistance, and funding for publication in an open access journal for three consecutive years as part of this program. They will also have an opportunity to work in the library with experienced and innovative librarians and with leading faculty studying the diverse range of issues related to scholarly communication. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to, digital libraries, scientometrics, intellectual property, metadata, social media metrics, university presses, data curation, digital humanities, scholarly publishing, institutional repositories, and copyright. Additional information can be found on the project website: http:info.ils.indiana.edu/IDEASc Indiana University Bloomington is particularly well-situated to support this proposal given its campus-wide focus on issues of scholarly communication as well as the strengths of both the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries and the Department of Information and Library Science in this domain. This is a time of systemic change in how institutions create, sustain, and provide access to information, and libraries and LIS professionals are uniquely situated to influence the direction of this change. The project will graduate doctoral students who are not only familiar with issues of scholarly communication but will also, as leaders in the field, understand scholarly communication from the varying perspectives of practice, education, and research. Applicants will need to apply to and meet the requirements for the ILS Ph.D. program. 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Carroll-Mason) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:53:16 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] REGISTRATION DEADLINE Oct: 1: University of Maryland iSchool Study Abroad Opportunity: South Africa, January 9-21, 2015 Message-ID: The University of Maryland iSchool (College of Information Studies) is offering a South Africa Study Abroad Course in Winter 2015 (January 9-21).? You will earn 3 graduate credits for any of the iSchool programs. THE PROGRAM Study the information management practices of corporations, libraries, governmental and academic/research institutions in the cities of Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town, South Africa. As you travel through South Africa, you will observe and study the information environment in those organizations and specific information management practices. You will discuss with professionals in those organizations their business models and information management issues. In addition, you will learn about the cultures and social context of South Africa as an industrial, manufacturing and development hub for the entire African continent. THE HIGHLIGHTS ++Visits to the premier knowledge management and computer science ++training programs at the Universities of Johannesburg and Cape Town ++and opportunity to interact with students and faculty Visits to ++businesses in the IT sector and consulting firms that focus on ++strategic planning for major industries and governmental institutions ++Visit to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cape ++Town In Cape Town, visit non-governmental organizations that develop ++appropriate technology to deliver health and welfare services to low ++income, under-resourced communities Cultural immersion activities ++including a township tour of Soweto, a visit to the Apartheid Museum ++near Johannesburg, and a trip to Robben Island near Cape Town THE COURSE After you commit to the program, Education Abroad will enroll you in the following three (3) credit UMD course: ++INST729: International Opportunities in Information Studies THE LOCATION This program will take place in Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Cape Town in South Africa THE ACCOMMODATIONS You will stay in campus housing at the University of Johannesburg. In Cape Town, you will stay in either campus housing or bed and breakfast. THE PROGRAM FEE $2,995.00 Program Director: Dr. Taverekere (Kanti) Srikantaiah; Dr. Wendy Simmons will be Assistant Director.? For syllabus and other information you can contact Dr. Srikantaiah at tsrikant at umd.edu or Dr. Simmons at wsimmons at umd.edu. You can consult the following Study Abroad Office website to enroll in the program. http://ter.ps/wtsouthaf From jyoon at usf.edu Thu Sep 25 13:33:19 2014 From: jyoon at usf.edu (JungWon Yoon) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:33:19 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] University of South Florida - job listing - Associate professor in LIS Message-ID: Hi, University of South Florida is searching an Associate Professor in LIS field. Could you please post the job description to the ASIST listserv? Please find the attached file, and if there is anything else that you need, let me know. Thanks, JungWon -- JungWon Yoon, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of South Florida School of Information 4202 E. Fowler Ave, CIS 1040 Tampa, FL 33620 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: USF_LIS_Associate Professor_Job Description.docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 152518 bytes Desc: not available URL: From cattd614 at yahoo.com Thu Sep 25 21:44:59 2014 From: cattd614 at yahoo.com (Catherine Dumas) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:44:59 -0700 Subject: [Asis-l] SIG III Nominations for Executive Board Message-ID: <1411695899.83815.YahooMailNeo@web122904.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Dear Colleagues, The ASIS&T Special Interest Group in International Information Issues (SIG III) is still accepting this nominations for our executive board. We are looking for energetic and enthusiastic folks to join the SIG III executive team. We are very active and are known for popular initiatives such as the Annual International Reception featuring the Silent Auction at ASIS&T AM, the International Paper and InfoShare contests (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/). These and other events are designed to promote the importance of international cooperation and build awareness around international information issues. This is your chance to take a lead on these initiatives and to shape the future of the SIG III at ASIS&T! Please visit the nomination page to learn more about available positions and to nominate yourself: Online Nomination Form -->http://bit.ly/sigiii14nominate The nomination form will be available until the end of this month (Tuesday, September 30). Once the nomination closes on the 30th, we will open up the online voting system. If you are a current SIG III member, you will receive a separate email with instructions on how to vote. The election results will be announced publicly on Thursday, October 9, 2014 on the SIG III website. Please email us if you have any questions. ASIS&T SIG-III Nominating Committee Anatoliy Gruzd, Abebe Rorissa, Catherine Dumas Catherine Dumas PhD Student - Informatics College of Computing & Information University at Albany, State University of New York Co-Chair Advisory Board ASIS&T, UAlbany Student Chapter http://ualbanyasist.com/ http://www.facebook.com/groups/ualbanyasist/ Cell: 518-935-8064 CCI Women in Technology on FB: http://www.facebook.com/groups/cciwit/ Cyber Behaviors in Information Seeking -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Fri Sep 26 10:57:52 2014 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:57:52 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] FW: Tenure-Track Faculty Positions at the FSU School of Information In-Reply-To: <20742CD8-CB06-466D-8DAE-46C2E3095253@fsu.edu> References: <20742CD8-CB06-466D-8DAE-46C2E3095253@fsu.edu> Message-ID: <00cf01cfd99a$40005bb0$c0011310$@asis.org> Posted for Paul Marty The School of Information at Florida State University is seeking to fill two (2) nine-month, tenure-track faculty positions in Information Technology, one at the Associate Professor level and one at the Assistant Professor level. Qualified applicants will have a Ph.D. or equivalent doctorate in library and information science, information technology, computer science, or another relevant discipline, along with a demonstrated record of achievement in academic research, teaching, and service. We are seeking faculty colleagues with a wide range of interdisciplinary, sociotechnical research interests, as well as the ability and desire to teach information technology courses such as web development, network administration, systems design, mobile application development, and interactive games and simulations. Candidates should be able to articulate a research agenda that fits within the broader research interests of the iSchool, and demonstrate the ability to work effectively within a highly interdisciplinary environment. Successful applicants will be expected to teach at all levels, including courses in the school's bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs; experience with teaching online as well as face-to-face is desired. All faculty members are expected to advise students and to serve on School, College, and University committees. Faculty at the rank of Associate Professor are expected to provide leadership in faculty governance through service as a committee chair, program chair or associate director. Leadership in national and international associations is encouraged. Associate Professor applicants must meet University criteria for appointment at the rank of associate professor. About the School and College The School of Information is one of three academic units within the College of Communication and Information at Florida State University. The School offers Bachelor's degree programs in Information Technology (IT) and Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT); Master's and Specialist degree programs in Information Technology and Library and Information and Studies; and a Ph.D. program in Information Studies. The School of Information began in 1926, was formally founded in 1947, and is nationally ranked among the top information science graduate schools in the country, with a U.S. News & World Report's "Best Graduate Programs in Library and Information Science" ranking of 13th overall, 5th in Youth Services, 3rd in Digital Libraries, and 1st in School Library Media. School of Information faculty have been awarded over $50 million in federal, state, local, and foundation research grants, and maintain a strong connection to the community through various literacy and service initiatives. Cultural diversity is an important goal supported by the School, College, and University. More information about the School of Information is available online at: http://ischool.cci.fsu.edu/. The College of Communication and Information is a member of the iSchools organization, and has a student population of approximately 1,300 undergraduates and 500 graduate students with 87 tenured/tenure-track and 25 full-time non-tenure-track faculty members. CCI recently completed a new strategic plan and is financially well-positioned to invest in opportunities for innovative ideas in support of the plan. CCI's research portfolio has increased significantly in recent years, and is poised for continued strategic growth. The College is a leader on the campus, and is nationally recognized for its distance and online education programs. About FSU and the Surrounding Community These positions provide an opportunity to work at a world-class research university in a beautiful and diverse setting that offers a high quality of life. Florida State University is a leading university and part of the State University System in Florida. It has a student body of over 41,000, and has been designated a research university with very high research activity by the Carnegie Foundation. FSU offers more than 300 different programs of study, and has nationally recognized programs in the sciences, medicine, law, and business. FSU is located in Tallahassee, a metropolitan community of approximately 375,000 which has been rated by Livability as one of the 50 best places to live in the United States. There are numerous opportunities for outdoor enthusiasts in the Florida Panhandle, and Tallahassee is situated among many rich historical and natural resources, including easy access to some of the most beautiful beaches in the country. Tallahassee has a high quality public school system, and provides many opportunities for art, culture, and music enthusiasts. How To Apply Interested individuals should apply for the appropriate position number (37888 for associate professor or 37889 for assistant professor) at https://jobs.fsu.edu/. Applicants are required to complete the online application with all applicable information. Applications must include work history and all education details (if applicable) even if attaching a resume. Applicants should also include a cover letter detailing their research and teaching interests, a curriculum vitae, and contact information for at least three references. Review of applications will begin October 21, 2014 and continue until the position is filled. Preferred starting date is Fall 2015. Inquiries should be sent to: Paul F. Marty, Search Committee Chair c/o Ms. Elaine Howard School of Information Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-2100 elaine.howard at cci.fsu.edu 850-644-8125 FSU is an Equal Opportunity/Access/Affirmative Action/Pro Disabled & Veteran Employer. 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Exceptional CE Since 1975** *October 2014 Online* *(asynchronous ) Workshops * *October 1 - October 31, 2014* *$250 (GSLIS Alumni Price: $200)* *PDPs: 15* *CEUs: 15* - *Applying Learning Theories to Information Literacy Instruction* (Online) - *Library User Engagement* (Online) - *Nancy Drew & Friends: A Historical Survey of Youth Series* (Online) - *Small Library Management* (Online) *November 1 - November 30, 2014* *$250 (GSLIS Alumni Price: $200)* *PDPs: 15* *CEUs: 15* *Getting Started with Webinars* (Online) *STEM Integration at Your Library* (Online) *Visual Literacy: Incorporating the Visual into Information Literacy & Library Programs* (Online) *Web Design Fundamentals* (Online) *Authority Files: How to Manage Large Numbers of Names* (Online) $275.00 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni Price $220.00) November 1 - December 6, 2014 - PDPs: 25 Please note: This is a five-week workshop. *************************************** Please check our full schedule for additional workshops! For additional information on workshops or to register see http://alanis.simmons.edu/ceweb or contact slisce at simmons.ed *u* Linnea Johnson '04LS 2014 MBA Candidate Manager of Technology | Adjunct Faculty School of Library and Information Science Simmons College | 300 The Fenway | Boston, MA 02115 office 617.521.2834 Continuing Education School of Library and Information Science Simmons College | 300 The Fenway | Boston, MA 02115 office 617.521.2803 | fax 617.521.3192 email g slisce at simmons.edu Check out our most recent CE schedule ! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From srichards at lac-group.com Wed Sep 24 11:31:12 2014 From: srichards at lac-group.com (Suzanne Richards) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 15:31:12 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] Job Posting / Records Management Program Manager / Cleveland, OH Message-ID: Apologies for the cross postings . . . . . . . . LAC Group seeks a Records Management Program Manager in Cleveland, Ohio to apply National Archives (NARA) regulations as they pertain to records creation, maintenance, storage, accessibility, safeguarding, and disposition. This is a full time, 40-hour per week position which includes a full benefits package, subject to award. Responsibilities: * Assist staff members with their inactive records storage, the development of file plans and inventory, records clean-up activities, and in preparing boxes for storage. Tracks inactive records through database and assists with retrieval whenever necessary. * Ensure that functions are documented adequately in accordance with NARA regulation and business needs. Records search and retrieval for Freedom of Information Act requests, audit activities, and research projects are other key services. * Assist employees with understanding and applying records retention schedules, developing file plans and inventories, and assisting with records clean-up activities. * Provide oversight and management of archives through collection development, appraisal of materials, description of materials, and ensuring accessibility through the creation of finding aids. * Work closely with historic preservation office to ensure that mitigation requirements are met when a historic facility is demolished or altered. Qualifications: * A Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university * A minimum of 5 years records management experience to include archives regulation, records creation maintenance, storage accessibility safeguarding and disposition * Extensive background with NARA rules and regulations. * Experience with applying records retention schedules and developing file plans and inventories * Must be familiar with archives oversight and management, material appraisal and the development of finding aids * Strong interpersonal, project management and leadership experience * Experience working with Federal Records preferred Apply at: http://goo.gl/v9UaTd LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity in the workforce. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kalev.leetaru5 at gmail.com Wed Sep 24 13:29:02 2014 From: kalev.leetaru5 at gmail.com (kalev leetaru) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:29:02 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] two new datasets - knowledge graph over academic literature and over human rights reports Message-ID: I thought many of you would find of great use two new GDELT Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) datasets released late yesterday. The first is the set of underlying GKG datasets behind our paper that data mined more than 21 billion words of academic literature from JSTOR, DTIC, CORE, CiteSeerX, CIA, and the Internet Archive ( http://dlib.org/dlib/september14/leetaru/09leetaru.html). In the hopes of seeding new kinds of research that incorporate the cultural knowledge of the world's academic literature, we are making the GKG datasets behind that paper available for open research. NOTE that these do NOT contain the text of the articles themselves, only the metadata computed from each article, which includes computed metadata of the references cited in each paper, allowing applications such as identifying the most cited authors and institutions relating to specific geographies, topics, and socio-political groups. The full GKG dataset collection of around 40GB is available: http://blog.gdeltproject.org/announcing-the-africa-and-middle-east-global-academic-literature-knowledge-graph-ame-gkg/ We have also released a new Human Rights GKG, which encodes in quantitative form a cross-section of the world?s public knowledge of human rights issues across the world, scattered across the hundreds of thousands of textual reports, calls to action, alerts, field interviews, and other material published by organizations throughout the globe. This initial GKG encodes over 110,000 documents encoding a number of the major international human rights report archives, offering a computable overview of global human rights issues over the decades: http://blog.gdeltproject.org/announcing-the-new-human-rights-global-knowledge-graph-hr-gkg/ The GDELT GKG format encodes lists of social groups, organizations, locations, major themes, emotions, and a range of other metadata computed from each document, making it possible to conduct a wide array of studies that blend spatial, semantic, citation, and network analyses ( http://blog.gdeltproject.org/introducing-gkg-2-0-the-next-generation-of-the-gdelt-global-knowledge-graph/ ). We're very much looking forward to seeing what you all are able to do with these new GKG collections! 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This survey is being conducted as part of a study on Social Media and Learning, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. As a way to thank you for your participation in the survey, after completion, you will be given the option to enter your name and email address to enroll you in a random drawing to win one of three *Apple iPad minis*! The random drawing will take place on October 1, 2014 and the winner will be notified on the same day via email. Any optional contact information provided cannot be connected to your survey responses. If you would like to participate, please go to http://tinyurl.com/SMlearningsurvey -- Anatoliy Gruzd, PhD Associate Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management Director, Social Media Lab Ryerson University Address: Room 2-071 (8th floor), 55 Dundas St. West, Toronto, ON Canada M5G 2C5, Mailing Address: 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON, Canada M5B 2K3, Email: gruzd at ryerson.ca Twitter: @gruzd Tel: 416-979-5000 ext. 7937 Lab: http://SocialMediaLab.ca Homepage: http://AnatoliyGruzd.ca From cmacmillan at utpress.utoronto.ca Wed Sep 24 11:20:26 2014 From: cmacmillan at utpress.utoronto.ca (Macmillan, Carrie) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 15:20:26 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] New Issue of Journal of Scholarly Publishing Message-ID: Journal of Scholarly Publishing Volume 46, Number 1 This Issue Includes: University Press Forum 2014 Tom Radko DOI 10.3138/jsp.46.1.001 Choice's Compilation of Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates, 2013-2014 Tom Radko DOI 10.3138/jsp.46.1.002 Monographic Purchasing Trends in Academic Libraries: Elisabeth A. Jones and Paul N. Courant This article describes an exploratory study examining one contentious aspect of the relationship between university presses and academic libraries: the trends in purchases of university press books by academic libraries. The study provides an empirical basis for evaluating the frequent claim that the declining fortunes of university presses can be blamed primarily on declines in monographic purchasing by academic libraries. Our analysis indicates that this relationship is not clear-cut for at least three reasons: first, to the extent that purchasing reductions have occurred, they have occurred much more recently than many accounts have suggested; second, purchasing trends vary significantly between different sizes of libraries; and third, purchasing trends for university press books are very different from those for monographs in general. These findings cast substantial doubt on the proposition that changes in university library purchasing behaviour dating to the 1990s 'serials crisis' are principally responsible for the current economic malaise of university presses. DOI 10.3138/jsp.46.1.003 >From Book Publishers to Authors: Elea Gim?nez-Toledo, Sylvia Fern?ndez-G?mez, Carlos Tejada-Artigas and Jorge Ma?ana-Rodr?quez The publishing processes and standards in scholarly journals are much better known than those of the publishers of scholarly books. Since scholarly books are key channels of communication and academic assessment in the humanities and social sciences, information provided by publishers concerning their publishing processes is very important both for authors and panelists (at funding and evaluation agencies). This article focuses on the analysis of the transparency of publishers in relation to the information they offer to authors. The main objective is to identify and analyze the publishing practices of two hundred scholarly book publishers of social sciences and humanities with respect to the information that they provide on their Web sites about their publishing processes. A lack of information on these Web sites is the main finding of the study. Among Spanish publishers, only 11.2 per cent explicitly state that they have a review system by experts. At the international level, the situation improves, but the shortcomings are still evident. Some guidelines for publishers are outlined and proposed. DOI 10.3138/jsp.46.1.004 How to Be an Effective Peer Reviewer: Stephen K. Donovan Peer review is an essential component of modern academic publishing, but it is a task that is commonly learnt by trial and error rather than a published set of rules or principals. To review a research paper requires a close knowledge of the subject area, but contrasting reviews by a generalist and an expert in the field may provide a better appreciation of a paper's merits to an editor than those of two experts. Reviews are there for the edification and information of the editor and to be passed on to the author; do your best to provide a constructive response. DOI 10.3138/jsp.46.1.005 Book Reviews Mary Jane Curry and Theresa Lillis, A Scholar's Guide to Getting Published in English: Critical Choices and Practical Strategies, reviewed by Steven E. Gump Laura N. Gasaway, Copyright Questions and Answers for Information Professionals: From the Columns of Against the Grain, reviewed by Sanford G. Thatcher -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fcunning at kent.edu Tue Sep 30 15:00:07 2014 From: fcunning at kent.edu (Cunningham, Flo) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:00:07 +0000 Subject: [Asis-l] DEADLINE EXTENDED-- CFP: 5th annual conference on information and religion Message-ID: Please excuse multiple listings. The Center for the Study of Information and Religion in Kent State's School of Library and Information Science welcomes abstracts for consideration for its fifth annual Conference on Information and Religion, scheduled for June 4 and 5, 2015, at Kent State University. DEADLINE TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO NOV. 1, 2014. SUBMIT HERE: http://digitalcommons.kent.edu/cgi/login.cgi?return_to=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcommons.kent.edu%2Fcgi%2Fir_submit.cgi%3Fcontext%3Dacir&context=acir The conference theme is "New Technologies and Religious Communities." David Michels, Ph.D., Head of Public Services at the Sir James Dunn Law Library, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, will present the keynote address. Technology offers new resources that impact preaching by integrating multimedia in worship, expanding outreach through streaming services and podcasts, and providing live feedback through tools such as Twitter/chat. The life of religious communities is also impacted by new communication technologies that blur the boundaries of local and remote participation and challenge traditional ideas of koinonia. Our keynote speaker and participants will explore these issues and others. This call for proposals seeks original contributions in all areas related to information and religion. The conference theme invites participants to share their work in a variety of areas that might be called intersections of technology with religion and information. Topics that might be addressed include but are not limited to the following: * Uses of information technology and/or social media in preaching, ministry and the life of the religious community as a whole - including (but not limited to) worship, children's and youth ministries, organizational management, record-keeping, operation of religious libraries; * Privacy and security issues in information management or social media applications for religious organizations; * Uses of information by members of religious communities * Uses of information to add value to membership in a religious organization; * The application of information science/management principles for efficient, timely, and accurate research; * Dissemination of information by religious organizations; * Auto-ethnography as a research method in religious organizations; * The use of investigative or observational research and its impact on the religious service; * Information in its application to clergy and congregations as communities of practice. Prospective participants are encouraged to submit abstracts that report on recent research and scholarship. Contributions to this call for papers should not have been previously published. There are no restrictions on research methodology. Deadlines: Nov. 1, 2014: Deadline to submit abstracts - Click on the "Submit Event" link on the left side of this page. Dec. 15, 2014: Notification of acceptance May 1, 2015: Deadline to submit final, completed papers in order for them to be considered for publication in ASIR: Advances in the Study of Information and Religion. Papers must be in proper APA style. Additional details regarding submission of full papers will be sent to those whose abstracts are accepted for conference presentation. Once selected, presenters are responsible for their own expenses related to the conference, including but not limited to registration fees, lodging, transportation and meals. STUDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE. 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URL: From marialemos72 at gmail.com Sat Sep 27 06:32:19 2014 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (ML) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 11:32:19 +0100 Subject: [Asis-l] WorldCIST 2015 - 3rd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Message-ID: <201409271032.s8RAWLYi009697@mail.asis.org> ------ WorldCIST'15 - 3rd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Ponta Delgada, Azores *, Portugal 1 - 3 April 2015 http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist15/ ------ * Azores is ranked as the second most beautiful archipelago in the world by National Geographic. ------------ SCOPE The WorldCIST'15 - 3rd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held at Ponta Delgada, S?o Miguel, Azores, Portugal, 1 - 3 April 2015, is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies. Azores is ranked as the second most beautiful archipelago in the world by National Geographic. Consisting of nine distinct islands, each of them special, is in fact a place in the world to be visited. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCISTI'15. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. THEMES Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); D) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); E) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); F) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); G) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); H) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); I) Health Informatics (HIS); J) Information Technologies in Education (ITE). K) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications (ITR) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS Four types of papers can be submitted: - Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit. - Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. - Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. - Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website or download a DOC example) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publication form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee. Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version. The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION & INDEXING To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 6th of January 2015, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company papers will be published by AISTI. Published full and short papers will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IF: 1.962) - IEEE Intelligent Systems (IF: 1.92) - Online Information Review (IF: 1.443) - Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 1.372) - Business & Information Systems Engineering (IF: 1.095) - Multimedia Tools and Applications (IF: 1.058) - Cluster Computing (IF: 0.949) - IEEE Security & Privacy (IF: 0.721) - Computer Science and Information Systems (IF: 0.575) - Ethics and Information Technology (IF: 0.520) - Journal of Web Engineering (IF: 0.444) - Journal of Internet Technology (IF: 0.418) - Universal Access in the Information Society (IF: 0,397) - International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence - Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization - Journal of Big Data IMPOTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 16, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: December 28, 2014 Camera-ready Submission: January 6, 2015 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 6, 2015. Best regards, WorldCIST'15 Organizing Committee http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist15/ From jyoon at usf.edu Fri Sep 26 19:32:59 2014 From: jyoon at usf.edu (JungWon Yoon) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 19:32:59 -0400 Subject: [Asis-l] University of South Florida, School of Information - Associate Professor Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. ------------------- University of South Florida School of Information Associate Professor Closing date: Open until filled The University of South Florida (USF) School of Information seeks exceptional candidates for a faculty position at the associate professor rank. We are seeking candidates with expertise in one or more of the following areas: information literacy, children?s and youth services, academic/public/special libraries, school media libraries, and/or information services. Candidates are expected to demonstrate enthusiasm and excellence in teaching, and have an outstanding record of scholarly productivity with exceptional promise for securing external funding. Responsibilities will also include student advising and mentoring, committee service at department, college, and university levels, as well as active involvement in professional organizations. Candidates must have the ability to develop, teach, and integrate emerging distance learning technologies for online teaching. Salary is nationally competitive and commensurate with rank of associate professor. This is a nine-month position, with the possibility of research and teaching opportunities in the summer months. Tenure as a condition of employment is possible for outstanding candidates. The University of South Florida (http://www.usf.edu) is a high-impact, global research university located in beautiful Tampa Bay on Florida's spectacular west coast. It is one of the largest public universities in the nation, and among the top 50 universities, public or private, for federal research expenditures. The university is one of only four Florida public universities classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in the top tier of research universities, a distinction attained by only 2.3 percent of all universities. At the heart of USF is a vibrant, diverse and engaged student body. Serving nearly 48,000 students, the USF System has an annual budget of $1.5 billion and an annual economic impact of $4.4 billion. With over 240 degree programs at the undergraduate, graduate, specialty and doctoral levels, the university offers a dynamic learning environment that inspires innovation, creativity and collaboration and is focused on student success. More than 2,000 distinguished scholars, researchers and expert teachers, nearly all holding PhDs or the highest degrees in their fields, make up the USF faculty ? including the 2012 U.S. Professor of the Year. The USF School of Information (SI) (http://si.usf.edu) is housed in the College of Arts and Sciences (http://cas.usf.edu), which consists of 23 academic departments and a number of centers and institutes that are highly collaborative and interdisciplinary in nature. SI has enjoyed a strong tradition that has focused on the education of information professionals in a variety of settings for several decades. Three degree programs are currently offered in the School: a M.A. in Library and Information Science, which has been continually accredited by the American Library Association since 1974; a new STEM-based MS in Strategy and Information Analytics, which offers concentrations in Cyber Intelligence and Strategic Intelligence; and a B.S. in Information Studies that integrates a strong foundation in information science with information technology to emphasize how people interact with information and technology. The following are the required and preferred qualifications of potential candidates: Required: - PhD in Library and Information Science, Information Science/ Studies, or a closely-related discipline from an accredited institution. - MLS/MLIS from an ALA-accredited institution or an internationally equivalent institution. - Demonstrated record of achievement in teaching, academic research, and service in the LIS areas. - Evidence of national reputation as a productive scholar in LIS field. - Must meet university criteria for appointment to the rank of Associate Professor. Preferred: - Proven visibility and leadership in professional organizations and community engagement. - Demonstrated potential for research funding. - Evidence of having developed, taught, and/or integrated emerging distance learning technologies into online courses. Candidates are encouraged to apply early, and we will begin active review on November 15, 2014. The review process will continue until the position is filled. Appointment is expected for August 2015 (fall 2015 semester). Application Process Applicants who wish to apply for this position should go to: http://www.usf.edu/Employment/ and follow the links and instructions for applying for the faculty line. When applying, required fields include a cover letter, CV, and a list of the names and contact information for three references. Optional material may be included through an address for online portfolio materials. For any further questions about this position please contact the search committee chair Dr. JungWon Yoon at jyoon at usf.edu. Equal Opportunity Statement USF is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer, and is committed to diversity in hiring, complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and is a Public Records Agency. According to Florida Law, applications and meetings regarding them are open to the public. For ADA accommodations, please contact Dr. JungWon Yoon at 813-974-3520 or jyoon at usf.edu at least five working days prior to need. -- JungWon Yoon, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of South Florida School of Information 4202 E. Fowler Ave, CIS 1040 Tampa, FL 33620