Call for Participation

***Workshop on Global Collaboration of Information Schools***

 

*Date*: 15 August, 2013

 

*Venue*: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

 

*Organized by*: IFLA Education & Training Section and the Consortium of iSchools Asia-Pacific (CiSAP)

 

*In collaboration with*:

 

·         Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore http://www.wkwsci.ntu.edu.sg/

·         Research Center for Knowledge Communities, University of Tsukuba, Japan http://kc.tsukuba.ac.jp/index_en.html

 

*About the workshop*

 

Information schools are essentially a concept and a movement that has emerged to shape and foster a multidisciplinary approach to the study of ‘Information’. These schools have taken different routes from different disciplinary origins, primarily Library and Information Science, Information and Computer Technology, Media and Communication, Archives and Recordkeeping, and Business Management.

 

The strength of library and information science (LIS) schools is that they know how to design and manage libraries as a forum for people to make good use of information facilities and resources, and they know how to manage huge knowledge resources for people and over time. The development of WWW and new social networking services over the Internet have shown that coupling knowledge resources with knowledge sharing are key for the development of our communities. LIS schools have to demonstrate their relevance in helping people to fully exploit knowledge assets in the networked information, where the importance of libraries as a physical repository of knowledge resources may not be obvious to the general public. “Information Schools” is one new direction for LIS schools to realize their potential in the networked information environment. The social demands of libraries as a physical instance or a cyber-instance depend on culture and the social environment of each country and region.

 

Information schools around the world have developed various kinds collaborations in education and research, and for sharing ideas and resources. In the Asia-Pacific region, the Consortium of iSchools Asia-Pacific (http://www.cisap.asia) was set up as a voluntary organization of “information schools” with different roots but which are seeking to re-establish their relevance in the complex and evolving information environment of the 21^st century.

 

In North America, the iSchools organization (http://ischools.org/) is a collection of iSchools with each school having “its own strengths and specializations, together they share a fundamental interest in the relationships between information, people, and technology.” There are other collaborative networks of LIS/information schools around the world.

 

This one day workshop is planned to foster exchange and collaboration among educators, researchers and practitioners who are involved in information schools of all types from different regions of the world. It will help participants to share information about faculty and student exchange and recruitment opportunities, experiences and lessons learnt.

The workshop will

include paper presentations and open discussion to foster collaboration among LIS/information schools. The topics of papers include:

 

-Regional collaborative environments for the development of LIS schools

-Regional environments for the development of LIS schools in the networked information society and globalization

-More L or more I in research and education?

-Current and possible collaborative activities among schools to exchange students and faculty members

-Current and possible collaborative research and education

-Current and possible collaborative curriculum development

-Overcoming barriers to potential collaboration amongst LIS schools

etc.

 

This satellite session to the IFLA 2013 conference is organized in collaboration with the IFLA Section on Education and Training (contact Assoc Prof Kerry Smith:

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*Important Dates*:

 

Submission due: 30 April, 2013

Acceptance notification: 31 May,2013

Final paper submission: 15 July, 2013

Workshop: 15 August, 2013

 

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*Paper submission instruction*:

 

Please send an abstract (1 page or about 500words), in English, of the proposed paper and relevant biographical information of the author(s)/presenter(s) by 30 April 2013 to

 

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and send a copy to:

 

Claven Hao-Ren Ke

Program Chair, Workshop on Global Collaboration of iSchools

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Please indicate "IFLA 2013 Workshop on Global Collaboration of Information Schools" in the subject line. Abstracts received will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Successful proposals will be identified by 31 May 2013. Full papers will be due by 15July2013.

 

*Organizing Committee co-chairs*

 

・Shigeo Sugimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

・Christopher Khoo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

 

*Program Committee co-chairs*

 

・Hao-Ren Ke (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)

・Chern Li Liew (Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand)

 

*Publication Co-chairs*

 

・Shaheen Majid (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

・Vilas Wuwongse (Tammasat University, Thailand)

 

*Publicity Co-chairs*

 

・Christopher Khoo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

・Hideo Joho (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

 

*Organizing Committee*

 

・Gobinda Chowdhury (University Technology Sydney, Australia)

・Hao-Ren Ke (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)

・Christopher Khoo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

・Chern Li Liew (Victoria University Wellington, Australia)

・Brendan Luyt (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

・Shaheen Majid (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

・Shigeo Sugimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

・Shalini Urs (University of Mysore, India)

・Vilas Wuwongse (Tammasat University, Thailand)

 

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