ILI 2012 - Internet Librarian International

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Category ILI 2012

Deadline: April 12, 2012 | Date: October 29, 2012-October 31, 2012

Venue/Country: London, U.K.

Updated: 2012-03-05 10:05:21 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Internet Librarian International 2012 will take place at Olympia in London 30-31 October (with pre-event workshops scheduled for 29 October). We invite participation from a wide range of professionals - new and established - from all over the world to share their experiences of developing and delivering innovative information services. We seek dynamic speakers from all types of libraries - public, academic, government, national or commercial - as well as those working outside a ‘traditional’ library setting.

Share your success stories. Tell us what lessons you've learned if things didn't turn out quite as expected. This is your chance to help others to rethink and recharge, and to benefit from the insights of others.

Re-imagine, Renew, Reboot: Innovating for Success

This year the conference will focus on how information and library professionals are successfully delivering innovative products and services to ever more demanding customers in a fast-changing technology landscape. Library patrons, users and customers now expect access to information wherever they are, on a variety of devices. Budgets remain under pressure. Access to information, data and knowledge is becoming more open and transparent, with partnerships and new social media contexts expanding knowledge sharing in new and surprising ways.

With all this going on, librarians need to stay at the leading edge of service provision. What innovative and imaginative solutions can make a real impact on our ability to serve our customers and our institutions? Share your experiences with your peers at Internet Librarian International.

Possible topics fall under the following headings.

Meeting the ‘everything everywhere’ demands of customers

New and innovative uses of technology

Managing and maximising resources

Redesigning services and products

Using the internet for research and reference

Marketing the service and reaching new audiences

Educating and mentoring users

Career opportunities - new skills and new roles

Ideas for full or half day workshops

How do I participate?

If you would like to be considered as a speaker, please submit your ideas here. The deadline for submissions is 12 April 2012.

The advisory committee will review all submissions and you will be notified in May 2012. If your proposal is selected, the primary speaker will receive a free registration to the full conference, which includes lunches and a drinks reception.

We're looking forward to receiving your suggestions and ideas.

Val Skelton, Programme Director

Katherine Allen, Conference Director

Please note that the expenses of attending Internet Librarian International (including travel, accommodation, and any other expenses) will be the responsibility of the presenter. By submitting your proposal, you acknowledge that you accept this financial responsibility.

Possible topics include:

21st century collection management

Big data initiatives; open data

Content management

Creating new products

Demonstrating impact; influencing management; working with customers

Development and rollout of library apps

Digital libraries; digitisation projects; digital curation

E-learning, information literacy; training skills

E resources; ebooks; ejournals; creating digital collections; ebook policies; acquisition management; contract negotiation

Financial challenges; new sources of funding; innovative ways to manage costs

Future planning; service redesign; mashups; marketing the service; raising the profile, collaboration and partnering

Gamification initiatives; location awareness

Information legislation; copyright; data protection; managing digital rights

Leading edge technologies

Librarians as agents of social change; community development and cohesion

New ways of skills development; developing unconferences; managing tweetups

New roles for information professionals

Mobile, multiplatform information provision; working with tablet devices

New ways of creating content; crowdsourcing; user generated content

Managing information flows

Open access; open source

Open data; linked data

Outsourcing, offshoring, insourcing

Publishing trends

Redesigning websites; usability; optimisation

Semantic web

Supporting the mobile workforce

Taxonomies; ontologies

Using social media tools to maximum effect; podcasting; Twitter/YouTube techniques

Using the internet for research; search tips and techniques; new search tools

Web publishing; web technology; the cloud

Web scale discovery

Sector specific case studies - we are interested in case studies from a range of settings including academic libraries, public libraries, corporate settings, government libraries, health/medical libraries, law libraries, and non-traditional information settings