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Laval said : I'm especially curious what LIS education might be *concretely* doing about this. It should very well be a lot, one would think -- if these colleagues of ours are correct. ------------ in terms of global communication / diversity, Wuhan University and iSchools you might be interested in these recent events posted for increasing global LIS exchange camp in July / & conference in Oct 2010 passing along for those interested / cheers, kw /Karen Weaver MLS Electronic Resources Statistician, Duquesne University, Gumberg Library, Pittsburgh PA email:[log in to unmask]<[log in to unmask]> *"Prosperity is the best protector of principle"* * --Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897* --------------------------------------------- "A Summary of the International Intercollegiate Invitational Information Literacy Contest", Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, July 2010 by Professor (Julia) Xiaojuan Zhang http://www.sim.whu.edu.cn/board/show_board_news.php?board_news_id=1828 OVERVIEW "Aiming to facilitate strengthened communication and cooperation between university students, and between students and various academic and administrative units within the broader university context, and with a view to enhance student awareness of the power of information, and the critical importance of strengthening student information literacy competency so as to enable them to better cope with intensive global competition in the Information Age, the School of Information Management (SIM), Wuhan University, Wuhan, China (http://www.sim.whu.edu.cn), successfully hosted the first International Intercollegiate Invitational Information Literacy Contest on July 13, 2010. The theme of the Contest was “Information Communicates the World: Cultivating the Future Leaders of the Information Profession.” This very special event, the first of its kind internationally, was a part of a broader umbrella event - - the First Wuhan University International Exchange Camp of Student Organization (Association), held from July 11 to 18, 2010, which involved many diverse activities, including some of which were culturally-oriented, some sports-centered, some historically-based, some arts and crafts-oriented, and some of which were based on Wuhans unique geographic location in China as the principal central lake region of the country." Excerpts: "At the 2010 annual conference of iSchools (Feb, 2010, University of Illinois at Champaign), to which Dean Chen of SIM was invited to attend as an international iDean and to which the author was also invited in order to introduce the Wuhan IL contest to the meeting, a very positive reaction and response to Wuhan Universitys proposal and sponsorship of the Information literacy contest was received from the dean-participants attending that conference. An iCaucus agreement was therefore reached, committing the iCaucus to release some funding which would correspond approximately to 1/2 of the transportation costs incurred for travel from the participating students home institution to Wuhan, to help support their participation in the contest, and that this amount would be matched by funding provided by the students school." Excerpts: The Winners First Prize Winner: Jason Phelps from University of Washington, USA Second Prize Winners: Steven Van Tuyl from University of Pittsburgh, USA Jorge Martins from University of Sheffield, UK Gladys Joy Entico from University of the Philippines – Deliman, Philippines Huilin Xiong from Wuhan University, China Third Prize Winners: Martin Julius V. Perez form University of the Philippines – Deliman, Philippines Si Shen form Singapore Management University, Singapore Catherine Jensen from University of Pittsburgh, USA Joseph Yap from University of the Philippines – Deliman, Philippines Yuanyuan Chen from University of Macao, China Bowen Du from Tongji University, mainland China "The Award Certificates for the above winners were awarded at the Closing Ceremony of the Camp on July 15, 2010. Dr. Forest Woody Horton Jr. First Prize Award, and Da Vinci Huis Second and Third Prize Awards were awarded to Jason Phelps, Steven Van Tuyl, and Jorge Martins, respectively, by Prof. Albert Boekhorst on July 14. A Certificate of Successful Completion of the Program was awarded to each of the participants who completed the entire program at Wuhan. The University wishes to extend its sincere appreciation to all of the participants for a “job well done!” " ---------------------------------------------- *Library and Information Science Education in the Digital Age* *First Announcement and Call for Papers* *School of Information Management, Wuhan University, China* *October 9 – 11, 2010* *University Lodge of Wuhan University* http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/documents/LIS%20Education%20Symposium%20in%20Wuhan%20poster.pdf Since the Second International Symposium on Library and Information Science Education in the Digital Age, which was successfully hosted by the School of Information Management (SIM) of Wuhan University, China in the year of 2006, the Library and Information Education (LISE) has been facing new challenges, and new opportunities in the digital environment. It is also noticeable that the iSchools movement has been fast developing in recent years. In 2010, the year of 90th Anniversary of SIM (1920-2010), SIM will be holding the Third International Symposium on Library and Information Science Education in the Digital Age from October 9 to 11, 2010, as one of the celebration events of the Anniversary. This Symposium will take place at Wuhan University, China. With Wuhan University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Pittsburgh, and Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) jointly serving as co-organizers, SIM, the Center for the Studies of Information Resources (CSIR) of Wuhan University, and the International Collaborative Academy of Library and Information Science (ICALIS) of Wuhan University will be co-hosting this venue. The forthcoming Symposium aims to facilitate the academic exchanges between LIS educators and researchers at home and abroad, and to develop the relationships between China LIS circles and iSchools and ALISE. It also aims to tighten the ties between the education of Library Science, Information Science, Archival Science, and the professional practice. 1. Theme and Topics The theme of this Symposium will be Challenges and Professional Future of Library and Information Science Education in New Environment. The topics under the theme will include: · Challenge and Models of LISE in New Environment · iSchools and the Reform and Innovation of LISE · iSchools Movement and Its Impact on Asia LISE · The Future of LISE in the New Environment · The Education of Librarians in the New Information Environment · How can iSchools develop quality and profession oriented LISE programs · How can LISE play an active role in developing China Information Society and boosting the Information Literacy of general public · Challenges to Archival Education and the Future of Archival Profession in the New Information Environment · Comparative Research of Archival Higher Education in China and Other Countries · Round-table Meeting of Sino-U.S. LIS Deans & Chairs for a discussion of the future & cooperation opportunities · The Future of iSchools Graduate Education The registration fees are waived. In addition to the local arrangements made by the organizers, the participants will take care of their own transportation and accommodations. The Symposium will be financially supported by the 211 Project of Wuhan University. Requirements for Papers and Deadline for Submission Paper submission must not be published, accepted for publishing, or under consideration for publication elsewhere. It will be up to the Academic Committee of the Symposium to make the decision on if your paper is accepted. The criteria for acceptance: (1) the importance of your topic; (2) the originality of your paper; (3) informative, reliable information in your paper; (4) presentation and expression of your paper ; (4) if your paper has been published before. For specific requirements for the format of the paper, please also refer to the international standard. Please provide us with an eversion of your paper, which should be easy for editing and publishing. The Proceedings will be published. The deadline for paper submissions will be September 1, 2010. Website: http://www.sim.whu.edu.cn/board/show_board_news.php?board_news_id=1725 On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Laval Hunsucker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Fascinating and important theme. Fascinating > problem. > > I was particularly stuck in this praiseworthy cfp > by the following incidental ( and true ?? ) assertion : > > "Nearly every sector of our increasingly global > economy and culturally diverse society needs to > master multilingual communication." > > And just got wondering about how this stacks up > against the current state of foreign language learning > and competency -- or of prevailing attitudes, > perceptions, policies, and *efforts* in the matter. > The authors did, after all, choose to use the verb > "needs". > > I'm especially curious what LIS education might be > *concretely* doing about this. It should very well be > a lot, one would think -- if these colleagues of ours > are correct. > > Or -- and this did occur to me as a real possibility -- > is the idea here that we can somehow ( through > technology, 'intelligent' agent systems, or whatever ) > "master multilingual communication" -- and thereby > better serve our economy and society -- without, at > the practical individual and collective levels, > significantly improving non-native-language facility ? > > Ideas on this ? Thanks. > > > - Laval Hunsucker > Breukelen, Nederland > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: He Daqing <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: Fri, September 10, 2010 6:17:52 AM > Subject: [call for paper] The Electronic Library Special Issue on > Multilinguality in Digital Libraries > > Call For Paper: > The Electronic Library Special Issue on Multilinguality in Digital > Libraries > > OVERVIEW > =========================================================================== > This is a fascinating period in the history of library services. For > the first time, it is possible to build large, diverse, and universal > access library services using collections of digital information and > delivering over an information infrastructure at the global scale. > This so called digital library brings together researchers and experts > from many different disciplines and backgrounds, and enables changes > with profound social, organizational and legal implications. Over the > past decades, digital libraries have been adopted widely in many > areas, and are becoming increasingly complex. They draw on > heterogeneous resources, serve diverse user populations, and carry out > tasks that are getting more and more complicated. Increasingly, there > are demands for multimedia, multicultural, and multilingual digital > libraries. > > Multilingual communication enables the dissemination of information > beyond the boundaries of languages. Nearly every sector of our > increasingly global economy and culturally diverse society needs to > master multilingual communication. On the one hand, digital > information has been created in more than one language, and on the > other hand, world wide open access has created a large user population > with very diverse languages and cultural backgrounds. Studying > multilingual technologies and resources, therefore, helps digital > library users to search, browse, recognize and use information from > sets of multilingual multimedia information objects. > > [message snipped] >