Archive for July, 2011

In the spirit of cooperation with our IFLA colleagues, I reproduce here a recent e-mail for those blogging at the upcoming conference in San Juan.  (Having sent very similar e-mails for ITI’s Internet Librarian and Computers in Libraries conferences, I can attest that this is a great way to get good publicity for your blog.)

Dear Colleagues

Will you be blogging about this year’s upcoming World Library and Information Congress in San Juan, Puerto Rico? Or are you already?

If so, we would like to add your blog to a list of blogs dedicated to, or with posts about the San Juan Congress on our special ‘Follow the conference as it happens’ (IFLA Express) website:

http://2011.ifla.org

Become an IFLA blogger by:

1. tagging your posts wlic2011 so we can add them to our Activity Stream
2. and officially registering your blog. Just send a note, with your name and blog’s URL, to: webmaster@ifla.org

See you in San Juan!

IFLA Web team

Don Hawkins
Columnist, Information Today and Conference Circuit Blog Editor

The keynote speakers for Internet Librarian International (London,  October 27-28) were recently announced.

Klaus Tochtermann

The opening keynote speaker is Klaus Tochtermann, Director, German National Library of Economics – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and Professor of Computer Media, University of Kiel.  He will discuss how the future Internet will shape libraries.

Kevin Anderson and Suw Charman-Anderson

Kevin Anderson, Digital strategist and journalist, and Suw Charman-Anderson, Social software consultant and journalist, will speak about data journalism, social media, semantic search, digital rights and press freedom.

The full conference program is currently under development.  Watch the conference website for further updates and information.

Don Hawkins
Columnist, Information Today and Conference Circuit Blog Editor

Stuttgart Media University,  Stuttgart  Germany, will hold its 4th International Summer School Workshops on September 26-30.  Four separate workshops comprise the series:

1. Structuring the Web, September 26-28,  covering the physical arrangement of information on the Web and PCs.
2. Policies for Digital Preservation:  the SHAMAN Framework, September 29-30, including the main principles of digital preservation policies.
3. Libraries as Enabling Spaces for Creative Practices, September 26-28, including social navigation, information behavior, usage statistics,  and similar  topics.
4. Evidence Based Library and Information Practices (EBLIP), September 26-29, covering research and analysis of EBLIP.

All these workshops will be conducted in English.

Don Hawkins
Columnist, Information Today and Conference Circuit Blog Editor

One frequently finds reports of past conferences on various websites, and although this blog is mainly devoted to upcoming conferences, some of these reports are worth your attention.  In D-Lib Magazine for July/August 2011, two reports on conferences dealing with subjects of high current interest are available.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The 2011 Inaugural United States Electronic Theses and Dissertations Association (USETDA) Conference (May 18-20, Orlando, FL, reported by James RW Macdonald, University of Northern British Columbia) attracted over 100 attendees and covered:

• Copyright and publication
• Workflow
• Preservation and discoveryries

Presentations are available on the USETDA Conference Website.

Open Repositories 2011

The 6th International Conference on Open Repositories (Austin, TX, June 8, reported by Carol  Minton Morris, DuraSpace) had the theme “Collaboration and Community” and focused on developing repository collections and communities.  In her report, Morris provides an extensive list of blogs and tweets about the conference, as well as the opening and closing keynote addresses.  Presentations are available here.

Don Hawkins
Columnist, Information Today and Conference Circuit Blog Editor

As many of my readers know, my work tracking conferences and producing this  blog includes keeping the ITI Conference Calendar up to date.  In my latest update on July13, I couldn’t help but notice how many 2012 conferences have just been announced.  The announcements are coming thick and fast; here are the new ones just added to the  Calendar.

If you know of a conference that’s not on the Calendar, please let me know.  Thanks for your help.

Don Hawkins
Columnist, Information Today and Conference Circuit Blog Editor

January 23 – 27, PROMISE Winter School 2012 on Information Retrieval meets Information Visualization
Place: Zinal, Switzerland
Sponsor/Organizer: Participative Research labOratory for Multimedia and Multilingual Information Systems Evaluation
URL: http://www.promise-noe.eu/events/winter-school-2012/

February 10, Online Northwest
Place: Corvallis, OR
Sponsor/Organizer: Oregon University System Library Council
URL: http://www.ous.edu/onlinenw/

February 23 – 26, International Vilnius Book Fair/Baltic Book Fair
Place: Vilnius, Lithuania
Sponsor/Organizer: Lithuanian Exhibition and Convention Centre LITEXPO, Lithuanian Publishers Association, International Cultural Programme Center
URL: http://www.litexpo.lt/

March 29 – April 2, 40th ARLIA/NA Conference: Colouring Outside the Lines
Place: Toronto, ON
Sponsor/Organizer: Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)
URL: http://www.arlisna.org/toronto2012/

April 1 – 5, 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval
Place: Barcelona, Spain
Sponsor/Organizer: British Computer Society, Information Retrieval Specialist Group
URL: http://ecir2012.upf.edu/

April 18 – 20, 2012 Washington Library Association Conference
Place: Tulalip, WA
Sponsor/Organizer: Washington Library Association (WLA)

May 18 – 19, Second Annual International Conference on Information & Religion: “Preservation and Access: Facilitating Research in Information and Religion”
Place: Kent, OH
Sponsor/Organizer: Kent State University, Center for the Study of Information and Religion (CSIR)
URL: http://csir.slis.kent.edu/

May 22 – 25, 4th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2012)
Place: Limerick, Ireland
Sponsor/Organizer: International Society for Advanced Science and Technology (ISAST)
URL: http://www.isast.org/qqml2012.html

May 29 – June 1, 16th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-2012)
Place: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Sponsor/Organizer: Organizing Committee
URL: http://pakdd2012.pakdd.org/

June 18 – 22, Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2012: “CHANGES”
Place: Zadar, Croatia
Sponsor/Organizer: Dept. of Library and Information Science, University of Zadar
URL: http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/