Call for papers/posters: LIBER 40th Annual Conference, Barcelona [29 June - 2 July]
“Getting Europe ready for 2020: the library’s role in research, education and society”
http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu/LIBER2011/content/call-papers
The Programme Committee invites original presentations and posters on one or more of the following topics.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Opening up access to content through (mass) digitisation
• Innovative business models for dissemination of scientific data
• Measuring the impact of scholarly communication
• User behaviour and the users’ demand for services
• Enhancing the resource discovery experience
• Advancing information literacy and skills
• Digital preservation
• Mobile devices and applications
• New roles and partnerships
• Marketing research libraries
We invite submissions of:
• Research papers presenting theoretical solutions, but with a clear illustration on how these solutions can be applied
• Position papers presenting opinions on some aspect of practice, or describing work that is still in progress, but sufficiently mature to warrant attention
• Experiences and case studies specifying requirements, challenges or opportunities
• Best practices
The Programme Committee will select abstracts from these countries on basis of the following criteria:
• Relevance for the call for papers
• Originality
• Level of innovation
• Impact on the wider library community
• Quality of the abstract
Instructions for submitting abstracts
• Please use the following link to submit the abstracts of your paper or poster. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 January 2011.
• Abstract length should not exceed 2500 characters. Please note that the language of the conference will be English, and therefore the committee will only accept submissions in this language
• All submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers
• A selection of full papers will be published in LIBER Quarterly, the LIBER e-only Open Access journal. Authors, who speak at the LIBER Conference, will be expected to supply full papers for publication in this journal
URL: https://www.conftool.net/liber2011/
