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Call for Papers: Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2002
Title: Call for Papers: Libraries in the Digital Age
(LIDA) 2
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Annual Course and Conference:
LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2002
Dubrovnik, Croatia
23-26 May, 2002
Inter-University Centre
Don Ivana Bulica 4, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia.
http://www.hr/iuc
Course web site: http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/lida
Course email: lida@ffzg.hr.
Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) is an annual course and conference
started in 2000 and held at the Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik,
Croatia. The general aim is to address the changing and challenging
environment for libraries and information systems and services in the
digital age, with an emphasis on examining contemporary problems,
advances and solutions. Each year a different and 'hot' theme is
addressed in two parts - one more theoretical and the other more
practical.
In addition to invited speakers, papers, tutorials, and workshops for
both themes are invited. Deadline: 15 January 2002
THEMES FOR LIDA 2002
I. INTEGRATING INFORMATION SEEKING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Outline: Part I of the course will offer an overview on the ongoing
discussions, research and development, and open questions concerning
the integration of information seeking behaviour and processes on the
one hand and interactive information retrieval, including searching of
and retrieval from the Web and digital libraries, on the other
hand.
The speakers will discuss research metods dealing with the integration
of information seeking and retrieval. Further, they will address
central concepts, such as basic phenomena and processes under
consideration, evaluation methods, relevance conceptions, and the
relationship between scientific communication and seeking of
information and retrieval of pertinent knowledge.
Invited Speakers:
A. Foundations
Nick Belkin
Peter Ingwersen
Kalervo Jarvelin
Tefko Saracevic
Pertti
Vakkari
B.
Applications
Pia Borlund
Katriina Bystrom
Peter Ingwersen
Kalervo Jarvelin
Carol Kuhlthau
Marija Dalbello
Peiling Wang
Tom Wilson
Workshops for part I:
Four workshops are considered:
1. Research methodologies for information behavior studies - Tom
Wilson
2. The associations of informetric studies and information retrieval:
common phenomena - Peter Ingwersen
3. Longitudinal study methods - Carol Kuhlthau
4. Relevance assessments - which criteria? - Pertti Vakkari
II. INFORMATION SERVICES IN DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS: PRACTICE &
RESEARCH
Outline: Part II of the course
will offer an overview of the recent developments in theory and
practice concerning information in the digital environment, use of
electronic resources, services, and networks. Special emphasis is made
on the information seeking, searching and retrieving aspects on the
Web, as an extension of topics discussed in part I on information
seeking and information retrieval. In particular, the presentations
and discussion will be orineted toward digital libraries and
electronically-based information resources. Increasingly, libraries
are creating own electronic information resources to provide services.
Adressed will be the practices and problems of digitization and of
creation of digitaly-born resources, digital collection issues,
library consortia, and access.
Invited speakers:
Christine Borgman (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Sanda Erdelez (U university of Missouri, USA)
Tefko Saracevic (Rutgers University, USA)
Tutorials and workshops for part II
Three tutorials are considered so far:
1. Introduction to Cognitive Information Retrieval - Peter
Ingwersen
2. Information science in perspective - Tefko Saracevic/Pertti
Vakkari
3. Interactive Information Retrieval evaluations - a methodology -
Pia Borlund
Two workshops are considered. "Digital collections: management,
licensing and consortia". "Digital library access: software
and policies."
GENERAL INFORMATION
Rationale
Libraries and information systems everywhere are increasingly and
greatly affected in all of their functions by the rapid evolution of
the digital age. While the growing Global Information Infrastructure
(GII), and the Internet in particular, greatly enhances access to a
variety of information resources, it also provides for many new and
complex challenges and problems for libraries and information systems,
as well as for their creators and users. For librarians and
information professionals the digital age also brings a need for a
constant update of their professional knowledge and
competencies.
Orientation
The course is oriented toward professionals and researchers in
librarianship, information science, and informatics, as well as from
other disciplines interested in this topic. In particular, the course
will be useful for practicing librarians and information scientists,
for students of library and information science, and for system
administrators, system operators, web page managers, and related
personnel in library and information systems.
Program
The course will bring together well-known experts from around the
world for lectures, discussions, demonstrations, and workshops. The
details of the program and information about lecturers can be found on
the conference web page: http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/lida
Interaction
The course is intended to be highly interactive. The participants are
encouraged to bring their own problems, situations, and solution to
involve in discussions.
Fees and registration
Announcement on the LIDA web site:
http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/lida
INVITATION
We are inviting local, regional, national, international, and
professional organizations, particularly including various libraries
and information agencies, to consider sponsoring and sending
participants to this event. We will provide course materials and
virtual tutorials so that each participant can communicate, instruct,
and transfer topics of interest to its institutions. Thus, we are
organizing LIDA to reach a wider audience.
ORGANIZATION
TATJANA APARAC, Ph.D
Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy,
University of Zagreb,
I. Lucica 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Tel.: +385 1 6120111/231 Fax: +385 1 6156879
Email::taparac@ffzg.hr
http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/biblio/nastava/taparac.htm
TEFKO SARACEVIC, Ph.D
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers
University
4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 U.S.A.
Tel.: (732)932-8017 Fax: (732)932-2644
Email: tefko@scils.rutgers.edu
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~tefko
PETER INGWERSEN
Department of Information Studies, Royal School of Library and
Information Science
Birketinget 6, DK 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
Tel: +45 58 60 66
Email: pi@db.dk
PERTTI VAKKARI
Department of Information Studies. University of Tampere
FIN-33014 University of Tampere, Finland
Tel: 358-3-2156968; mobile 358-50-5288354; fax: 358-3-2156560
Email: lipeva@uta.fi
http://www.info.uta.fi/informaatio/vakkari/vakkari.html
CORRESPONDENCE AT THE ADDRESS OF Prof. TATJANA APARAC
--
Marija Dalbello, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies
Department of Library and Information Science
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, N.J. 08901-1071
Voice: (732) 932-7500 / 8215
Fax: (732) 932-2644
Internet: dalbello@scils.rutgers.edu
http://scils.rutgers.edu/~dalbello