We invite you to submit a paper /abstract /poster /workshop to the
5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference
(QQML2013), 4 - 7 June 2013, “La Sapienza” University,
Rome Italy.
The New Abstract submission deadline is
approaching
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http://www.qqml.net/
Dear
Colleagues,
It is our great pleasure to announce the 5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International
Conference (QQML2013) at
4 - 7 June 2013, “La Sapienza”
University, Rome Italy: http://www.isast.org/qqml2013.html
Since 2009 QQML has provided an excellent
framework for the presentation of new trends and developments in every aspect of
Library and Information Science, Technology, Applications and Research.
The 5th QQML2013 was scheduled during the previous
4th QQML2012 Conference. It was also decided that the 6th QQML 2014 International Conference will be organized in
Istanbul, Turkey.
QQML2009, QQML2010, QQML2011 and QQML2012 were successful events both
from the number and quality of the presentations and from the post conference
publications in Journals and Books.
QQML2013 will continue and expand the related
topics.
Papers are invited for this international conference. The
conference will consider, but not be limited to, the following indicative
themes:
1. Bibliographic Control
2. Bibliometric Research
3. Change of Libraries and
Managerial techniques
4. Changes in Learning, Research and Information needs
and Behaviour of Users
5. Climate Change Data
6. Communication
Strategies
7. Data Analysis and Data Mining
8. Development and Assessment
of Digital Repositories
9. Development of
Information and Knowledge Services on the Public Library
10. Digital Libraries
11. Economic
Co-operation and Development
12. Energy Data and Information
13. Environmental Assessment
14. Financial strength and
sustainability
15. Health information services
16. Historical and
Comparative case studies related to Librarianship
17. Information and Data on
various aspects of Food and Agriculture
18.
Information and Knowledge Services
19. Information Literacy: Information
sharing, Democracy and Lifelong Learning
20. Library Cooperation: Problems
and Challenges at the beginning of the 21st century
21. Library change and
Technology
22. Management
23. Marketing
24.
Museums, Libraries and Cultural Organizations
25. Music Librarianship
26. Performance Measurement and Competitiveness
27. Publications
28. Quality
evaluation and promotion of info
29. Technology
& Innovations in Libraries and their Impact on Learning, Research and
Users
30. Technology transfer and Innovation in Library
management
Special Sessions –
Workshops
You may send proposals for Special Sessions (4-6 papers) or
Workshops (more than 2 sessions) including the title and a brief
description at: [log in to unmask] or from the electronic submission at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractregistration.html
You may also send Abstracts/Papers to be included in the
following sessions, to new sessions or as contributed papers at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractregistration.html
Contributions may be realized through one of the following ways
a. structured abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and presentation;
b. full papers (not exceeding 7,000
words);
c. posters (not exceeding 2,500 words);
d. visual presentations (Pecha kucha). These presentations consist of exactly 20 slides, each of which is
displayed for 20 seconds. Total presentation time is precisely 6 minutes
40 seconds and so it is important to use the transition feature in PowerPoint to
time your presentation exactly.
In all the above cases at least one of the authors ought to be
registered in the conference. Abstracts and full papers should be submitted
electronically within the timetable provided in the web page: http://www.isast.org/importantdates.html
The abstracts and full papers should be in compliance to the author
guidelines: http://www.isast.org/abstractregistration.html
All abstracts will be published in the Conference Book of Abstracts
and in the website of the Conference. The papers of the conference will be
published in the website of the conference, after the permission of the
author(s).
Student submissions
Professors and Supervisors are encouraged to organize conference
sessions of Postgraduate theses and dissertations.
Please direct any questions regarding the QQML 2013 Conference and Student Research Presentations to:
the secretariat of the conference at: [log in to unmask]
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
Professor Carla
Basili, Local
Co-Chair
EnIL - The
European network on Information Literacy, co-ordinator
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Istituto di Ricerca sull'Impresa e lo Sviluppo sede di Roma
via dei Taurini, 19 - 00185 Roma,
Italy
The Information Institute, a professional development
resource at UT Austin’s School of Information with courses in a wide range of
information topics, is offering two half-day courses in February:
·
IT Security
Metrics: Building a Program, Making it Work, Feb 9th
This half-day course provides basic training in measuring the
effectiveness of your IT security program. IT Security Metrics offers an
introduction to the field of security measurement and teaches skills and
techniques for applying metrics to a security program. If you are responsible
for IT security within your organization and looking for ways to collect better
data, show better results, and demonstrate real business value for your
activities, this course will give you the tools you need to do it.
·
Crowdsourcing
and Crowd Computing, Feb 16th
This half-day course explains fundamental concepts of
crowdsourcing and crowd computing and shows how to implement them in your work.
The course highlights "killer applications" that employ new information systems
and use crowd participation. You'll receive practical "how to" guidance for
getting started using commercial crowdsourcing platforms, particularly Amazon's
Mechanical Turk, and learn the capabilities and limitations of current methods
and state-of-the-art techniques.
Upcoming
courses include:
·
Putting
Data to Work in Your Organization, Mar 13-15, May 15-17
·
Doing
Business with Open Source, April 19-21
For more information, please access our website at infoinstitute.utexas.edu or contact us at [log in to unmask].