SECOND CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Closing date Friday 2 March 2007
Libraries Without Walls 7: Exploring 'anywhere, anytime' delivery of library
services
http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/conf/lww7/
An international conference organised by CERLIM -
The Centre for Research in Library and Information Management
http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/
To be held on the Aegean Island of Lesvos, Greece, at the Delphinia Hotel,
Molyvos http://www.molyvoshotel.com/eng/hotel.htm
14 - 18 September 2007
Cost 495 GBP (including accommodation and breakfast for four nights, with
lunches and refreshments during the Conference, and two evening dinners)
Keynote Speaker
Christine Borgman, Professor & Presidential Chair in Information Studies within
the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University of
California Los Angeles.
Conference Themes
>From their beginnings in 1995, the Libraries without Walls conferences have
>mapped a major change in the practice of librarianship. While library services
>are still concerned to provide users with physical access to their buildings,
>electronic access, often from remote locations, is becoming ever more
>dominant. Library services are being integrated into virtual learning,
>research and personal environments. Papers presented at previous LWW
>conferences have mapped this change and provided examples of how libraries are
>delivering their services whenever and wherever their users need them.
In 2007 we wish to encourage the widest possible range of papers to reflect the
diverse current developments in library service delivery. We anticipate that
papers may cover:
o New kinds of service, especially those which open up new paradigms of
'library' - perhaps the library equivalent of YouTube or MySpace?
o Papers which describe the library's role within new models of scholarly
publishing, including experience of developing services based on institutional
or other repositories, and papers examining the responsibility of the library
for digital curation.
o Service delivery in challenging environments, especially where the
infrastructure may be sub-optimal as in some developing countries, or where the
user group represents particular challenges.
o New technological solutions, provided these are presented to illustrate the
impact on users of the improved services they make possible
o Delivery and assessment of information skills/literacies, especially where
this is achieved through electronic environments.
As in the past these themes are indicative and we remain open to proposals
which, while in the general area of interest of the conference, do not fit
neatly into the defined themes.
In addition to research papers, we welcome papers based on truly innovative
practice, but these should assess the more general lessons to be learned rather
than simply presenting a localised case study.
Libraries Without Walls 7 Conference
Centre for Research in Library & Information Management (CERLIM)
Department of Information and Communications
Manchester Metropolitan University
Geoffrey Manton Building
Rosamond Street West
Manchester
M15 6LL
United Kingdom
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: ++44 (0)161 247 6142
Fax: ++44 (0) 161 247 6979
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