Regarding the:
6th
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference
(QQML2014) 27-30 May 2014, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, http://www.isast.org
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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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