You are invited to join me at the 6th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2014) 27-30 May 2014, Kadir Has University, in beautiful Istanbul, Turkey: http://www.isast.org

This international conference is in English and I will be chairing sessions on bibliometric research and on LIS student research. If you would like to present a poster or paper, email me for more information. The conference fee may seem a bit high but it includes lunch and two coffee breaks each day. The optional conference dinner, half-day and full-day excursions are recommended - they are arranged by local librarians who know the best places and tour guides. http://www.isast.org/qqml2014registration.html

This conference is a wonderfully diverse one with special and contributed sessions, oral communications, workshops and posters. The contributors are library professionals: professors, researchers, students, administrators, librarians, technologists, museum scientists, archivists, decision makers and managers. The presenters last year in Rome were from 65 countries: 27 European, 19 Asian, 9 African, 6 American and 2 Oceania countries. To read about last year's conference, see the report at:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=0741-9058&volume=30&issue=9&articleid=17100257&show=html&PHPSESSID=48nndm3epl1ba4n20bifba46m0


Please see below the replies to the main questions posed and more information:

An Abstract accepted is mandatory for an oral or poster presentation
The paper is optional. If you submit a paper it will be considered for the Conference Proceedings and the post-conference publications in Books and the QQML Journal (www.qqml.net ). Two new issues have been added. The e-journal is included in EBSCOhost and DOAJ.

The abstract submission deadline was extended to March 10, 2014 in order to include submissions of abstracts to the special sessions proposed and to the regular sessions as well.
Submissions of abstracts to special or contributed sessions could be sent directly to the conference secretariat at [log in to unmask] . Please refer to the Session Number (see below) to help the secretariat to classify the submissions.

Session organizers should notify the conference secretariat by March 10 and include the abstracts collected for their special sessions. If you already have submitted your Abstract and you have not received a reply please notify the conference secretariat.

Conference Excursions
A half day (14:30-19:30) conference excursion in the afternoon of the second day of the conference (28 May 2014) is scheduled: Visit of the classical Istanbul including some of Istanbul's major sights…
A full day Excursion in the day following the last day of the conference (31 May 2014).

For more information and Abstract/Paper submission and Special Session Proposals please visit the conference website at: http://www.isast.org or send email to: [log in to unmask]

Looking forward to welcoming you in Istanbul,

With our best regards,
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


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Special and Contributed Sessions Code No

1. BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL
1. Terminology project
2. Multiple controlled vocabularies
3. Subject thesaurus
4. Bibliographic utilities
5. New cataloguing rules, RDA and MARC21

2. BIBLIOMETRIC RESEARCH
1. Bibliometrics
2. Analysis of patterns of information
3. Usage data
4. Publication data
5. Citation analysis
6. Content analysis
7. Web sites
8. Databases

3. CHANGE OF LIBRARIES AND MANAGERIAL TECHNIQUES
1. Human resources management
2. Organizational challenges
3. Strategic management
4. Re-engineering change in higher education
5. Fast-responded library
6. Learning organization

4. CHANGES IN LEARNING, RESEARCH AND INFORMATION NEEDS AND BEHAVIOUR OF USERS
1. 21st century librarians for 21st century libraries
2. New services for the research and learning communities
3. Redefining the library service experience
4. Forging collaboration between librarians and students
5. Library in the digital workflow of research
6. Content analysis of academic libraries’ Facebook profiles
7. Marketing the academic library through online social network advertising
8. International cooperation towards the development of technology in academic libraries

5. CLIMATE CHANGE DATA AND CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS
1. National greenhouse gas inventories
2. Inventory submissions
3. National communications
4. Information sources and availability
5. Socio-economic data
6. Definitions and methodologies
7. Climate change fund
8. Socio-economic data socio-economic data
9. Climate-related risks and disasters
10. Regional centres and networks
11. Risk management and reduction
12. Adaptation strategies
13. Access to information
14. Public awareness and participation
15. International cooperation
16. Research dialogue
17. Systematic observation
18. Sustainable development

6. COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES
1. Working with faculty, students, and staff
2. Users - Non users
3. Alumni, Partners, Stakeholders
4. Groups / teams
5. Archives, historical societies, museums and art galleries
6. Consortia

7. DATA ANALYSIS AND DATA MINING
1. Content analysis
2. Ontologies
3. Knowledge discovery
4. Machine learning
5. Databases
6. Data visualization

8. DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF DIGITAL REPOSITORIES
1. Preservation of records for the next generations
2. Demonstration on fiscal responsibility and sustainability
3. Development of new metrics of their usages
4. Evaluation and best practices

9. DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE SERVICES ON THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
1. Public libraries transformations
2. Dynamic information market
3. Public library’s role in the society
4. Challenges before libraries today
5. Diversified societies
6. Public library’s policy
7. Communities and information market
8. Public libraries as creative industries
9. Production and consumption of knowledge

10. DIGITAL LIBRARIES
1. Digitization
2. Museum and art digital objects
3. Archival digital objects
4. Public libraries digital projects
5. Digital content for teaching
6. Digital images
7. Metadata
8. Repositories

11. ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
1. Socio-economic, environmental and emissions data
2. Energy statistics
3. Economic and social development
4. Working parties and organizations
5. Education, training and public awareness
6. Financial mechanism
7. Green climate fund
8. Investments

12. ENERGY DATA AND INFORMATION
1. Energy consumption, products, prices and taxes
2. Energy-related statistical data include coal, oil, gas, electricity and heat statistics
3. Energy balances, prices and emissions
4. Emissions from fuel combustion from its energy data
5. Data from firms, government agencies, industry organizations and national publications

13. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
1. International, national, regional, local core data sets
2. Integrated Environment Assessment
3. Global Environmental Outlook
4. Statistical and geo-referenced historical data sets
5. Emission database for global atmospheric research
6. Socio-economic data
7. Ocean observation

14. FINANCIAL STRENGTH AND SUSTAINABILITY
1. Fund raising
2. Cost benefit analysis
3. Cost assessment
4. Value analysis

15. HEALTH INFORMATION SERVICES
1. Research by health information professionals
2. Role of librarians in implementing Evidence based medicine/practice
3. Prospects and challenges of implementing Research4Life in low income countries

16. HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE CASE STUDIES RELATED TO LIBRARIANSHIP
1. Library historiography
2. Agencies, people, and movements within the development of librarianship
3. Comparative case studies related to libraries, special collections, or library programs/services

17. INFORMATION AND DATA ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
1. Agricultural production and trade
2. Land use, and means of production
3. Trade indices and food supply
4. Population and labour force
5. Food balance sheets
6. Fertilizer and pesticides
7. Forest products
8. Fishery products
9. Agricultural machinery

18. INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE SERVICES
1. Resource development policy
2. Resource project description
3. Research and development of the services
4. Knowledge discovery and knowledge creation
5. Knowledge mining
6. Team building and management

19. INFORMATION LITERACY: INFORMATION SHARING, DEMOCRACY AND LIFELONG LEARNING
1. Information Literacy and citizenship
2. Strategic approaches to Information Literacy
3. New pedagogic challenges for libraries
4. Collaborative work between librarians and academic staff
5. Independent learning skills, online information skills and lifelong learning
6. Concepts of learning, teaching and the developments in networked technology
7. Staff development and Information Literacy
8. New areas of practice and research
9. Information literacy projects on special scientific disciplines
10. Advocacy, marketing and promotion
11. Benchmarking
12. Evaluation and assessment

20. LIBRARY COOPERATION: PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY
1. Union catalogue and storage equipment
2. Collection policy and collection development
3. Joint acquisitions (purchasing, access, inter-library loan and document delivery)
4. Joint digitization’s projects
5. Local, regional and country heritage
6. Human resource in local, regional and country level
7. Organizational culture


21. LIBRARY CHANGE AND TECHNOLOGY
1. Communicating change, scenarios and projections
2. Adaptation technology
3. Technology information
4. Technology diffusion
5. Technology needs assessment
6. Technology research and development
7. Technology transfer


22. MANAGEMENT
1. Excellence and innovation
2. Quality and benchmarking
3. Measures and metrics

23. MARKETING
1. Marketing research
2. Public relations
3. Publicity
4. Communication

24. MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS
1. Networks and collaborations
2. Cultural policy, diversity and intercultural dialogue
3. Marketing & communications management
4. Case studies
5. European integration
6. Multiculturalism, interculturalism, transculturalism
7. National and international collaboration
8. Cultural policies, migration and mobility
9. Identity, memory and heritage
10. Divergence and commonality
11. Visitor experiences in collaborative projects
12. Archiving, preservation and exhibition technologies
13. Arts funding
14. Arts policy
15. Libraries, theaters, music, film industry, television etc
16. Libraries, archives and museums and their admission

25. MUSIC LIBRARIANSHIP
1. Musical archives
2. Collections of music assessment
3. Copyright and broadcasting issues, copying costs
4. Librarianship and musicology
5. Music bibliography
6. Music library automation
7. Music publishing industry
8. Presentation on the duties, challenges and satisfactions of performance music librarians
9. Collections of music preservation
10. Space and music collections

26. PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND COMPETITIVENESS
1. Criteria of performance indicators (PI) selection for libraries and the kinds of PI
2. Different methodologies proposed for library assessment
3. The technological effect
4. Financial indicators
5. Organizational performance
6. Comparison among governmental and non-governmental organizations' performance

27. PUBLICATIONS
1. Internet Filtering
2. Privacy and share of information in libraries
3. The Read/ Write Web and the future of library research
4. Digital rights, copyright management and libraries

28. QUALITY EVALUATION AND PROMOTION OF INFO = DOCUMENTARY INSTITUTIONS SERVICES METHODS
1. User education in informational recourses
2. The importance of personal involvement
3. Accreditation of digital libraries
4. Development of a network of peers
5. Cataloguing is changing
6. Customer services
7. Management/administration
8. OPAC 2.0 - the catalogue on web
9. The benefit of change
10. Electronic library
11. Digital repository management


29. TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATIONS IN LIBRARIES AND THEIR IMPACT ON LEARNING, RESEARCH AND USERS
1. Creating webliographies
2. Computing interfaces and how libraries need to adapt
3. Creating materials samples collection to support the engineering curriculum
4. Embedding librarians in the classroom
5. Teaching scholarly communication and collaboration through social networking
6. Sustainable development and the role of innovative & benchmarked practices
7. Fostering innovation through cultural change
8. Science & technology libraries as multi academic activities centres
9. Change as a service
10. Embedding innovation for scholarly information & research
11. Trends, possibilities and scenarios for user-centred libraries

30. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND INNOVATION IN LIBRARY MANAGEMENT
1. Innovative management
2. Human resources management
3. Competence management
4. Communications in organizations
5. Intercultural management
6. Information technology and knowledge management
7. Library's ethics and social responsibility

31. SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF MITIGATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE
1. Stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations
2. Dangerous anthropogenic interference
3. Forest degradation
4. Afforestation and reforestation
5. Forest Management
6. Land-use change
7. Aviation and marine "Bunker Fuels"
8. Research and systematic observation
9. Methodological issues
10. Socio-economic data and tools


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