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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
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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