From youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr Tue Feb 4 05:25:35 2014 From: youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr (Youakim Badr) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 11:25:35 +0100 Subject: [Sighfis-l] CFP: The 6th International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (ACM MEDES 2014) Message-ID: <70D42A08-F275-4797-92C8-DA88334718E6@insa-lyon.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The 6th International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2014) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/14/ September 15-17, 2014 Buraidah-Al Qassim, Saudi Arabi Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet, the rapid growth and exponential use of digital medias leads to the emergence of virtual environments namely digital ecosystems composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. The digital ecosystem exhibits self-organizing environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying resources mainly comprehend data management, innovative services, computational intelligence and self-organizing platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems and their characteristics, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. The conference seeks related original research papers, industrial papers and proposals for demonstrations. Topics ------- MEDES 2014 seeks contributions in the following 10 areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Cloud computing 3. Emergent Intelligence 4. Service systems and Engineering 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. Intelligent Web 8. Human-Computer Interaction 9. Networks and Protocols 10. Open Source Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- Submission Deadline: 12 May 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 13 July 2014 Camera Ready: 07 August 2014 Conference Dates: 15-17 September 2014 Special Tracks: ---------------- Big Data Processing and Management Computational Intelligence Special issues and Journal Publication --------------------------------------- Extended versions of selected papers will be published in several peer reviewed journals. The list of journals will be announced later. General Chair -------------- Obaid Al Motairy, Qassim University, KSA Richard Chbeir, UPPA University, France Mohammed Alodib, Qassim University, KSA Lamri Laouamer, Qassim University, KSA Program Chair -------------- Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada Saad Harous, United Arab Emirates University, UAE International Advisory Board Members ------------------------------------ Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Thailand Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Philippe De Wilde, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland Yasuo Matsuyama, Waseda University, Japan Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Steering Committee Members -------------------------- Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Thailand Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK Keynote Speakers ---------------- Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France Ton Kalker, DTS Incorporation, USA Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA Roger Lee, Central Michigan University, USA International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From gciampag at indiana.edu Fri Feb 7 11:44:32 2014 From: gciampag at indiana.edu (Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia) Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 11:44:32 -0500 Subject: [Sighfis-l] ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14), June 23-26, 2014 Message-ID: <52F50D70.5000802@indiana.edu> *** Apologies for multiple postings *** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS & ACCEPTED SATELLITE EVENTS ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14), June 23-26, 2014 Bloomington, Indiana, USA websci14.org / @WebSciConf / #WebSci14 Deadline for papers: Feb. 23rd 2014 Web Science is the emergent science of the people, organizations, applications, and of policies that shape and are shaped by the Web, the largest informational artifact constructed by humans in history. Web Science embraces the study of the Web as a vast universal information network of people and communities. As such, Web Science includes the study of social networks whose work, expression, and play take place on the Web. The social sciences and computational sciences meet in Web Science and complement one another: Studying human behavior and social interaction contributes to our understanding of the Web, while Web data is transforming how social science is conducted. The Web presents us with a great opportunity as well as an obligation: If we are to ensure the Web benefits humanity we must do our best to understand it. Call for Papers The Web Science conference is inherently interdisciplinary, as it attempts to integrate computer and information sciences, communication, linguistics, sociology, psychology, economics, law, political science, philosophy, digital humanities, and other disciplines in pursuit of an understanding of the Web. This conference is unique in the manner in which it brings these disciplines together in creative and critical dialogue, and we invite papers from all the above disciplines, and in particular those that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. Following the success of WebSci'09 in Athens, WebSci'10 in Raleigh, WebSci'11 in Koblenz, WebSci '12 in Evanston, and WebSci'13 in Paris, for the 2014 conference we are seeking papers and posters that describe original research, analysis, and practice in the field of Web Science, as well as work that discusses novel and thought-provoking ideas and works-in-progress. Possible topics for submissions include, but are not limited to, the following: * Analysis of human behavior using social media, mobile devices, and online communities * Methodological challenges of analyzing Web-based * large-scale social interaction * Data-mining and network analysis of the Web and human communities on the Web * Detailed studies of micro-level processes and interactions * on the Web * Collective intelligence, collaborative production, and social computing * Theories and methods for computational social science on the Web * Studies of public health and health-related behavior on the Web * The architecture and philosophy of the Web * The intersection of design and human interaction on the Web * Economics and social innovation on the Web * Governance, democracy, intellectual property, and the commons * Personal data, trust, and privacy * Web and social media research ethics * Studies of Linked Data, the Cloud, and digital eco-systems * Big data and the study of the Web * Web access, literacy, and development * Knowledge, education, and scholarship on and through the Web * People-driven Web technologies, including crowd-sourcing, open data, and new interfaces * Digital humanities * Arts & culture on the Web or engaging audiences using Web resources * Web archiving techniques and scholarly uses of Web archives * New research questions and thought-provoking ideas Submission Web Science is necessarily a very selective single track conference with a rigorous review process. To accommodate the distinct traditions of its many disciplines, we provide three different submission formats: full papers, short papers, and posters. For all types of submissions, inclusion in the ACM DL proceedings will be by default, but not mandatory (opt-out via EasyChair). All accepted research papers (full and short papers) will be presented during the single-track conference. All accepted posters will be given a spot in the single-track lightning talk session, and room to present their papers during a dedicated poster session. Full research papers (5 to 10 pages, ACM double column, 20 mins presentation including Q&A) Full research papers should present new results and original work that has not been previously published. Research papers should present substantial theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Short research papers (up to 5 pages, ACM double column, 15 mins presentation including Q&A) Short research papers should present new results and original work that has not been previously published. Research papers can present preliminary theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Posters (up to 2 pages, ACM double column, lightning talk + poster presentation) Extended abstracts for posters, which should be in English, can be up to 2 pages. Submission instructions Full and short paper and poster submissions should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Please make use of the ACM 1998 classification scheme (http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998/), and submit papers using EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci2014. Other creative submission formats (flexible formats) Other types of creative submissions are also encouraged, and the exact format and style of presentation are open. Examples might include artistic performances or installations, interactive exhibits, demonstrations, or other creative formats. For these submissions, the proposers should make clear both what they propose to do, and any special requirements they would need to successfully do it (in terms of space, time, technology, etc.) Review The Web Science program committee consists of a program committee that covers all relevant areas of Web Science. Each submission will be refereed by three PC members and one short meta review written by a Co-PC chair, to cover both the research background of each submission as well as the necessary interdisciplinary aspects. (Optional) Archival Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library All accepted papers and posters will by default appear in the Web Science 2014 Conference Proceedings and can also be made available through the ACM Digital Library, in the same length and format of the submission unless indicated otherwise (those wishing not to be indexed and archived can "opt out" of the proceedings). Satellite Events The following is the list of accepted satellite events. All workshops will be held on June 23. Full day events Altmetrics14 - Expanding Impacts and Metrics http://altmetrics.org/altmetrics14 Judit Bar-Ilan, Rodrigo Costas, Paul Groth, Stefanie Haustein, Vincent Lariviere, Isabella Peters and Mike Taylor Massive Data Flow: Understanding the Complex Dynamics of the Web Seth Bullock, Takashi Ikegami and Mizuki Oka Computational Approaches to Social Modeling (ChASM) http://www.chasm.ws Andrea Baronchelli, Bruno Goncalves, Nicola Perra, Claudia Wagner, Markus Strohmaier, Noshir Contractor, and Emilio Ferrara The web of scientific knowledge: current trends and future perspectives in the big data era Filippo Radicchi, Stasa Milosevic, Ying Ding, Cassidy Sugimoto, Vincent Leriviere, and Min Song Yonsei Doctoral Consortium Howard Rosenbaum, Pnina Fichman, Lora Aroyo Half-day events Interdisciplinary Coups to Calamities http://www.icc.ecs.soton.ac.uk Clare J. Hooper, David Millard and Norhidayah Azman Web Science Education: Sharing experiences and developing community http://webscience-education-workshop.net Stephane B. Bazan, Su White, Steffen Staab, Michalis Vafopoulos, Susan Halford, Clare Hooper, Hans Akkermans and Mark Weal Research Methodologies for analyzing Cybercrime and Cyberwar http://webscience-cybercrime-workshop.net Dominic Hobson, Neil Macewan, Lisa Sugiura, Stephane B. Bazan and Craig Webber 2nd International Workshop on Building Web Observatories (B-WOW2014) https://sites.google.com/site/bwow2014 Ramine Tinati, Thanassis Tiropanis, Ian Brown and Wendy Hall Deadlines Full & Short Papers: * 23 February 2014: Submissions of full and short papers * 13 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for papers * 11 May 2014: Camera-ready version of papers and posters due Late Breaking Posters: * 23 March 2014: Submissions of posters * 13 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for posters * 11 May 2014: Camera-ready version of posters due Authors take note: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (If proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date is the first day of the conference.) Conference calendar and rough program * 23 June 2014: workshops, opening reception and keynote * 24 June 2014: keynote(s), technical program, poster reception * 25 June 2014: keynote(s), technical program, social event * 26 June 2014: keynote, technical program, closing General chairs * Fil Menczer, Indiana University * Jim Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute * Bill Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Program chairs * Markus Strohmaier, University of Koblenz and GESIS (Computing) * Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation (Physics) * Eric T. Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (Social Sciences) Program Commiteee * Yong-Yeol Ahn, Indiana University * Luca Maria Aiello, Yahoo! Research * William Allen, University of Oxford * Sitaram Asur, HP Labs * Alain Barrat, CNRS * Fabricio Benevenuto, Federal University of Minas Gerais * Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, Inc * Paolo Boldi, Universita degli Studi di Milano * Niels Brugger, Aarhus Universitet * Licia Capra, University College London * Carlos Castillo, Qatar Computing Research Institute * Lu Chen, Wright State University * Cristobal Cobo, Oxford Internet Institute * David Crandall, Indiana University * Pasquale De Meo, VU University, Amsterdam * David De Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre * Pnina Fichman, Indiana University * Alessandro Flammini, Indiana University * Matteo Gagliolo, Universite libre de Bruxelles * Laetitia Gauvin, ISI Foundation, Turin * Daniel Gayo Avello, University of Oviedo * Scott Golder, Cornell University * Bruno Goncalves, Aix-Marseille Universite * Andrew Gordon, University of Southern California * Scott Hale, Oxford Internet Institute * Noriko Hara, Indiana University * Bernhard Haslhofer, University of Vienna * Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg * Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft * Jeremy Hunsinger, Wilfrid Laurier University * Ajita John, Avaya Labs * Robert Jaschke, L3S Research Center * Haewoon Kwak, Telefonica Research * Renaud Lambiotte, University of Namur * Matthieu Latapy, CNRS * Silvio Lattanzi, Google * Vili Lehdonvirta, Oxford Internet Institute * Sune Lehmann, Technical University of Denmark * Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California * David Liben-Nowell, Carleton College * Yu-Ru Lin, University of Pittsburgh * Huan Liu, Arizona State University * Jared Lorince, Indiana University * Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University * Massimo Marchiori, University of Padova and UTILABS * Yutaka Matsuo, University of Tokyo * Jaimie Murdock, Indiana University * Mirco Musolesi, University of Birmingham * Eni Mustafaraj, Wellesley College * Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover * Andre Panisson, ISI Foundation, Turin * Hanwoo Park, Yeungnam University * Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano * Leto Peel, University of Colorado, Boulder * Orion Penner, IMT Lucca * Nicola Perra, Northeastern University * Rob Procter, University of Warwick * Cornelius Puschmann, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society * Daniele Quercia, Yahoo! Labs * Carlos P. Roca, Universitat Rovira i Virgili * Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam * Daniel Romero, Northwestern University * Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University * Giancarlo Ruffo, Universita di Torino * Derek Ruths, McGill University * Rossano Schifanella, Universita di Torino * Ralph Schroeder, Oxford Internet Institute * Kalpana Shankar, University College Dublin * Xiaolin Shi, Microsoft * Elena Simperl, University of Southampton * Philipp Singer, Knowledge Management Institute * Marc Smith, Connected Action Consulting Group * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich * Lei Tang, @WalmartLabs * Loren Terveen, University of Minnesota * Sebastiano Vigna, Universita degli Studi di Milano * Claudia Wagner, GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences * Jillian Wallis, UC Los Angeles * Stan Wasserman, Indiana University * Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute * Matthew Weber, Rutgers University * Lilian Weng, Indiana University * Christopher Wienberg, University of Southern California * Ben Zhao, UC Santa Barbara * Arkaitz Zubiaga, Dublin Institute of Technology Arkaitz Zubiaga, * Dublin Institute of Technology -- Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia Postdoctoral fellow Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research Indiana University ? 910 E 10th St ? Bloomington ? IN 47408 ? http://cnets.indiana.edu/ ? gciampag at indiana.edu ? 1-812-855-7261 From rlitwin at gmail.com Fri Feb 21 12:09:14 2014 From: rlitwin at gmail.com (Rory Litwin) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 09:09:14 -0800 Subject: [Sighfis-l] CFP: Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium Message-ID: CFP: Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium The University of Toronto, October 18, 2014 Gender and sexuality are two of the critical organizing axes of contemporary life. Alongside and intersecting with race, class, nation, and others, they constitute the ways through which we make ourselves known to ourselves and to one another: as men, women, or one of the 58 new gender options offered by Facebook, and as lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, and all the other varied and ever-changing linguistic markers of preferences of physical and emotional intimacy. Just as legal studies, the hard and social sciences, philosophy and literature, information studies is a discourse called to respond to the challenges posed by critical perspectives on gender and sexuality. Perhaps more than any other discipline, information studies confronts the theoretical with the material. How do both the ?the archive? and the archive organize, and how are they organized by, gender and sexuality? From the collections we build to the access tools we design to the histories we collect, catalog, and preserve, information studies theorists and practitioners are always engaged in the projects of making and being made. We invite proposals to join and extend these conversations during a one-day colloquium to be held at the University of Toronto on October 18, 2014. Presentations will consist of individual papers organized around themes that emerge from the submissions. Suggested topics include: ? Information studies and its engagements with cross-disciplinary theories of gender and sexuality ? Practice-based responses to critical theories of gender and sexuality in information responses ? Critical approaches to cataloging and classification ? Feminist and queer library pedagogies, both in information studies schools and at the K-12 and undergraduate levels ? Queer and feminist archival practices, both theoretical and material ? Sexed and gendered labor in information environments ? Intersections of gender and sexuality with race, class, and other axes of social organization ? Critical feminist and queer critiques of the technologies of information production, organization, and dissemination Please submit abstracts of no more than 500 words to emily.drabinski at gmail.com. Proposals due May 1, 2014. Notification June 1, 2014. Thanks to the University of Toronto Faculty of Information for generously hosting this colloquium. Rory Litwin P.O. Box 188784 Sacramento, CA 95818 Tel. 218-260-6115 rlitwin at gmail.com http://libraryjuice.com/ http://rorylitwin.info/ From rory at litwinbooks.com Wed Feb 26 09:49:40 2014 From: rory at litwinbooks.com (Rory Litwin) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 06:49:40 -0800 Subject: [Sighfis-l] CFP: Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium Message-ID: <3A420736-CBDC-4D52-9085-C8307D0CD28B@litwinbooks.com> CFP: Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium The University of Toronto, October 18, 2014 Gender and sexuality are two of the critical organizing axes of contemporary life. Alongside and intersecting with race, class, nation, and others, they constitute the ways through which we make ourselves known to ourselves and to one another: as men, women, or one of the 58 new gender options offered by Facebook, and as lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, and all the other varied and ever-changing linguistic markers of preferences of physical and emotional intimacy. Just as legal studies, the hard and social sciences, philosophy and literature, information studies is a discourse called to respond to the challenges posed by critical perspectives on gender and sexuality. Perhaps more than any other discipline, information studies confronts the theoretical with the material. How do both the ?the archive? and the archive organize, and how are they organized by, gender and sexuality? From the collections we build to the access tools we design to the histories we collect, catalog, and preserve, information studies theorists and practitioners are always engaged in the projects of making and being made. We invite proposals to join and extend these conversations during a one-day colloquium to be held at the University of Toronto on October 18, 2014. Presentations will consist of individual papers organized around themes that emerge from the submissions. Suggested topics include: ? Information studies and its engagements with cross-disciplinary theories of gender and sexuality ? Practice-based responses to critical theories of gender and sexuality in information responses ? Critical approaches to cataloging and classification ? Feminist and queer library pedagogies, both in information studies schools and at the K-12 and undergraduate levels ? Queer and feminist archival practices, both theoretical and material ? Sexed and gendered labor in information environments ? Intersections of gender and sexuality with race, class, and other axes of social organization ? Critical feminist and queer critiques of the technologies of information production, organization, and dissemination Please submit abstracts of no more than 500 words to emily.drabinski at gmail.com. Proposals due May 1, 2014. Notification June 1, 2014. Thanks to the University of Toronto Faculty of Information for generously hosting this colloquium. Rory Litwin P.O. Box 188784 Sacramento, CA 95818 Tel. 218-260-6115 rlitwin at gmail.com http://libraryjuice.com/ http://rorylitwin.info/ From Conf at isast.co Tue Feb 25 13:15:23 2014 From: Conf at isast.co (Conf at isast.co) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:15:23 +0200 Subject: [Sighfis-l] Information, 6th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2014) 27-30 May 2014, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey-new call Message-ID: Regarding the: 6th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2014) 27-30 May 2014, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, http://www.isast.org Please see below the replies to the main questions posed and more information: 1. Yes, you can participate and attend the conference without presenting an abstract or paper. However, you should send the registration form to ask for an attendance permission 2. An Abstract accepted is mandatory for an oral or poster presentation 3. The paper is optional. If you submit a paper it will be considered for the Conference Proceedings and the post-conference publications in Books and the QQML Journal (www.qqml.net ). Two new issues have been added. The e-journal is included in EBSCOhost and DOAJ. 4. The abstract submission deadline was extended to March 10, 2014 in order to include submissions of abstracts to the special sessions proposed and to the regular sessions as well. 5. Submissions of abstracts to special or contributed sessions could be sent directly to the conference secretariat at secretar at isast.org . Please refer to the Session Number (see below) to help the secretariat to classify the submissions. 6. Session organizers should notify the conference secretariat by March 10 and include the abstracts collected for their special sessions. 7. If you already have submitted your Abstract and you have not received a reply please notify the conference secretariat. Conference Excursions 1. A half day (14:30-19:30) conference excursion in the afternoon of the second day of the conference (28 May 2014) is scheduled: Visit of the classical Istanbul including some of Istanbul's major sights. 2. A full day Excursion in the day following the last day of the conference (31 May 2014). For more information and Abstract/Paper submission and Special Session Proposals please visit the conference website at: http://www.isast.org or send email to: secretar at isast.org Looking forward to welcoming you in Istanbul, With our best regards, On behalf of the Conference Committee Dr. Anthi Katsirikou, Conference Co-Chair University of Piraeus Library Director Head, European Documentation Center Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information Professionals _________________________ Special and Contributed Sessions Code No 1. Bibliographic Control 1. Terminology project 2. Multiple controlled vocabularies 3. Subject thesaurus 4. Bibliographic utilities 5. New cataloguing rules, RDA and MARC21 2. Bibliometric research 1. Bibliometrics 2. Analysis of patterns of information 3. Usage data 4. Publication data 5. Citation analysis 6. Content analysis 7. Web sites 8. Databases 3. Change of Libraries and Managerial techniques 1. Human resources management 2. Organizational challenges 3. Strategic management 4. Re-engineering change in higher education 5. Fast-responded library 6. Learning organization 4. Changes in Learning, Research and Information needs and Behaviour of Users 1. 21st century librarians for 21st century libraries 2. New services for the research and learning communities 3. Redefining the library service experience 4. Forging collaboration between librarians and students 5. Library in the digital workflow of research 6. Content analysis of academic libraries' Facebook profiles 7. Marketing the academic library through online social network advertising 8. International cooperation towards the development of technology in academic libraries 5. Climate Change Data and Climate Change Impacts 1. National greenhouse gas inventories 2. Inventory submissions 3. National communications 4. Information sources and availability 5. Socio-economic data 6. Definitions and methodologies 7. Climate change fund 8. Socio-economic data socio-economic data 9. Climate-related risks and disasters 10. Regional centres and networks 11. Risk management and reduction 12. Adaptation strategies 13. Access to information 14. Public awareness and participation 15. International cooperation 16. Research dialogue 17. Systematic observation 18. Sustainable development 6. Communication Strategies 1. Working with faculty, students, and staff 2. Users - Non users 3. Alumni, Partners, Stakeholders 4. Groups / teams 5. Archives, historical societies, museums and art galleries 6. Consortia 7. Data Analysis and Data Mining 1. Content analysis 2. Ontologies 3. Knowledge discovery 4. Machine learning 5. Databases 6. Data visualization 8. Development and Assessment of Digital Repositories 1. Preservation of records for the next generations 2. Demonstration on fiscal responsibility and sustainability 3. Development of new metrics of their usages 4. Evaluation and best practices 9. Development of Information and Knowledge Services on the Public Library 1. Public libraries transformations 2. Dynamic information market 3. Public library's role in the society 4. Challenges before libraries today 5. Diversified societies 6. Public library's policy 7. Communities and information market 8. Public libraries as creative industries 9. Production and consumption of knowledge 10. Digital Libraries 1. Digitization 2. Museum and art digital objects 3. Archival digital objects 4. Public libraries digital projects 5. Digital content for teaching 6. Digital images 7. Metadata 8. Repositories 11. Economic Co-operation and Development 1. Socio-economic, environmental and emissions data 2. Energy statistics 3. Economic and social development 4. Working parties and organizations 5. Education, training and public awareness 6. Financial mechanism 7. Green climate fund 8. Investments 12. Energy Data and Information 1. Energy consumption, products, prices and taxes 2. Energy-related statistical data include coal, oil, gas, electricity and heat statistics 3. Energy balances, prices and emissions 4. Emissions from fuel combustion from its energy data 5. Data from firms, government agencies, industry organizations and national publications 13. Environmental Assessment 1. International, national, regional, local core data sets 2. Integrated Environment Assessment 3. Global Environmental Outlook 4. Statistical and geo-referenced historical data sets 5. Emission database for global atmospheric research 6. Socio-economic data 7. Ocean observation 14. Financial strength and sustainability 1. Fund raising 2. Cost benefit analysis 3. Cost assessment 4. Value analysis 15. Health Information Services 1. Research by health information professionals 2. Role of librarians in implementing Evidence based medicine/practice 3. Prospects and challenges of implementing Research4Life in low income countries 16. Historical and Comparative case studies related to Librarianship 1. Library historiography 2. Agencies, people, and movements within the development of librarianship 3. Comparative case studies related to libraries, special collections, or library programs/services 17. Information and Data on various aspects of Food and Agriculture 1. Agricultural production and trade 2. Land use, and means of production 3. Trade indices and food supply 4. Population and labour force 5. Food balance sheets 6. Fertilizer and pesticides 7. Forest products 8. Fishery products 9. Agricultural machinery 18. Information and Knowledge Services 1. Resource development policy 2. Resource project description 3. Research and development of the services 4. Knowledge discovery and knowledge creation 5. Knowledge mining 6. Team building and management 19. Information Literacy: Information sharing, Democracy and Lifelong Learning 1. Information Literacy and citizenship 2. Strategic approaches to Information Literacy 3. New pedagogic challenges for libraries 4. Collaborative work between librarians and academic staff 5. Independent learning skills, online information skills and lifelong learning 6. Concepts of learning, teaching and the developments in networked technology 7. Staff development and Information Literacy 8. New areas of practice and research 9. Information literacy projects on special scientific disciplines 10. Advocacy, marketing and promotion 11. Benchmarking 12. Evaluation and assessment 20. Library Cooperation: Problems and Challenges at the beginning of the 21st century 1. Union catalogue and storage equipment 2. Collection policy and collection development 3. Joint acquisitions (purchasing, access, inter-library loan and document delivery) 4. Joint digitization's projects 5. Local, regional and country heritage 6. Human resource in local, regional and country level 7. Organizational culture 21. Library change and Technology 1. Communicating change, scenarios and projections 2. Adaptation technology 3. Technology information 4. Technology diffusion 5. Technology needs assessment 6. Technology research and development 7. Technology transfer 22. Management 1. Excellence and innovation 2. Quality and benchmarking 3. Measures and metrics 23. Marketing 1. Marketing research 2. Public relations 3. Publicity 4. Communication 24. Museums, Libraries and Cultural Organizations 1. Networks and collaborations 2. Cultural policy, diversity and intercultural dialogue 3. Marketing & communications management 4. Case studies 5. European integration 6. Multiculturalism, interculturalism, transculturalism 7. National and international collaboration 8. Cultural policies, migration and mobility 9. Identity, memory and heritage 10. Divergence and commonality 11. Visitor experiences in collaborative projects 12. Archiving, preservation and exhibition technologies 13. Arts funding 14. Arts policy 15. Libraries, theaters, music, film industry, television etc 16. Libraries, archives and museums and their admission 25. Music Librarianship 1. Musical archives 2. Collections of music assessment 3. Copyright and broadcasting issues, copying costs 4. Librarianship and musicology 5. Music bibliography 6. Music library automation 7. Music publishing industry 8. Presentation on the duties, challenges and satisfactions of performance music librarians 9. Collections of music preservation 10. Space and music collections 26. Performance Measurement and Competitiveness 1. Criteria of performance indicators (PI) selection for libraries and the kinds of PI 2. Different methodologies proposed for library assessment 3. The technological effect 4. Financial indicators 5. Organizational performance 6. Comparison among governmental and non-governmental organizations' performance 27. Publications 1. Internet Filtering 2. Privacy and share of information in libraries 3. The Read/ Write Web and the future of library research 4. Digital rights, copyright management and libraries 28. Quality evaluation and promotion of info = documentary institutions services methods 1. User education in informational recourses 2. The importance of personal involvement 3. Accreditation of digital libraries 4. Development of a network of peers 5. Cataloguing is changing 6. Customer services 7. Management/administration 8. OPAC 2.0 - the catalogue on web 9. The benefit of change 10. Electronic library 11. Digital repository management 29. Technology & Innovations in Libraries and their Impact on Learning, Research and Users 1. Creating webliographies 2. Computing interfaces and how libraries need to adapt 3. Creating materials samples collection to support the engineering curriculum 4. Embedding librarians in the classroom 5. Teaching scholarly communication and collaboration through social networking 6. Sustainable development and the role of innovative & benchmarked practices 7. Fostering innovation through cultural change 8. Science & technology libraries as multi academic activities centres 9. Change as a service 10. Embedding innovation for scholarly information & research 11. Trends, possibilities and scenarios for user-centred libraries 30. Technology Transfer and Innovation in Library Management 1. Innovative management 2. Human resources management 3. Competence management 4. Communications in organizations 5. Intercultural management 6. Information technology and knowledge management 7. Library's ethics and social responsibility 31. Scientific, Technical and Socio-Economic Aspects of Mitigation of Climate Change 1. Stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations 2. 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