LIDA 2010 - The annual international conference Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA 2010)

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Category LIDA 2010

Deadline: January 15, 2010 | Date: May 24, 2010

Venue/Country: Zadar, Croatia

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

addresses the changing and challenging environment for libraries and

information systems and services in the digital world. Each year a

different and 慼ot?theme is addressed, divided in two parts; the first

part covering research and development and the second part addressing

advances in applications and practice. LIDA brings together researchers,

educators, practitioners, and developers from all over the world in a

forum for personal exchanges, discussions, and learning, made easier by

being held in memorable locations.

Themes LIDA 2010

Part I: DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP: support by digital libraries

Contributions (types described below) are invited covering the following

topics:

* Research, practices, and values related to digital scholarship,

including conceptual frameworks that emerged

* Contemporary nature of the scholarly information and communication

environment in general and as involving digital libraries in particular *

Developments in digital humanities

* Navigating shifting patterns of scholarly communication

* The impact digital libraries have on digital scholarship and on

education in various fields, and vice versa; the impact of digital

scholarship on digital libraries

* Studies on how faculty, researchers, and students make use of digital

scholarly resources for their research or in education

* Practices that emerged in libraries related to support of digital

scholarship, such as resource/collection building, digitization,

preservation, access, services and others;

* International aspects of digital libraries with related trends in

globalization and cooperative opportunities for support of digital

scholarship;

* Research and discussions on general questions: How are we to understand

new forms of scholarship and scholarly works in their own right? How are

we to respond in digital libraries? What are the opportunities and

challenges?

Part II: DIGITAL NATIVES: challenges & innovations in reaching out to

digital born generations

Contributions (types described below) are invited covering the following

topics:

* Research and discussions on general questions: who are these digital

natives? How they are different from older generations ?or digital

immigrants ?and what is the world they?e creating going to look like? *

The impact of digital natives on libraries;

* Digital libraries and social networks on the Web;

* The cultural and technological challenges faced by digital libraries in

serving digital natives;

* Examples of library services specifically aimed at digital natives; *

Efforts by libraries to help people that are more digital immigrants to

become more digitally natives;

* Role of libraries in e-learning and education in general;

* Is the future of libraries closely associated with how successfully they

meet the demands of digital users?

Types of contributions

Invited are the following types of contributions:

1. Papers: research studies and reports on practices and advances that

will be presented at the conference and included in published Proceedings

2. Posters: short graphic presentations on research, studies, advances,

examples, practices, or preliminary work that will be presented in a

special poster session. Proposals for posters should be submitted as a

short, one or two- page paper.

3. Demonstrations: live examples of working projects, services,

interfaces, commercial products, or developments-in-progress that will be

presented during the conference in specialized facilities or presented in

special demonstration sessions.

4. Workshops: two to four-hour sessions that will be tutorial and

educational in nature. Workshops will be presented before and after the

main part of the conference and will require separate fees, to be shared

with workshop organizers.

5. PhD Forum: short presentations by PhD students, particularly as related

to their dissertation; help and responses by a panel of educators.

Instructions for submissions are at LIDA site http://www.ffos.hr/lida/

Deadlines:

For papers (an extended abstract) and workshops (a short proposal): 15

January 2010. Acceptance by 10 February 2010.

For demonstrations (a proposal) and posters (an extended abstract): 1

February 2010. Acceptance by 15 February 2010.

Final submission for all accepted papers and posters: 15 March 2010.

Conference contact information

Conference co-directors:

TATJANA APARAC-JELUSIC, Department of Library and Information Science

University of Zadar; Zadar, Croatia; taparacunizd.hr

TEFKO SARACEVIC, School of Communication and Information; Rutgers

University; New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA tefkosrutgers.edu

Program chairs:

For Theme I: VITTORE CASAROSA, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie

dell'Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy,

casarosaisti.cnr.it

For Theme II: GARY MARCHIONINI, School of Information and Library

Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Chapel Hill, North

Carolina, USA, marchils.unc.edu

Venue

Zadar is one of the enchanting cities on the Adriatic coast, rich in

history. It still preserves a very old network of narrow and charming city

streets, as well as a Roman forum dating back to the first century CE. In

addition, Zadar region encompasses many natural beauties, most prominent

among them is the Kornati National Park, the most unusual and indented set

of close to a 100 small islands in the Mediterranean For Zadar see

http://www.zadar.hr/English/Default.aspx. For Croatia see

http://www.croatia.hr/