CFP: 2nd Milwaukee Conference on the Ethics of
Information Organization
June 15-16, 2012
Milwaukee, WI
Information organization, like other major functions of
the information professions, faces many ethical challenges. In our literature,
ethical concerns have been raised with regard to, topics such as, the role of
national and international tools and standards, provision of subject access to
information, deprofessionalization and outsourcing, education of professionals,
and the effects of globalization. These issues and many others like them have
serious implications for quality and equity in information access. The
Information Organization Research Group and the Center for Information Policy
Research of the School of Information Studies at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee join in presenting this second conference to address the
ethics of information organization.
Like the first Ethics of Information Organization
conference held in Milwaukee May 2009, this conference (June 2012) welcomes
papers on ethics and any element of information organization from cataloging
standards to tagging; subject access; technology; the profession; cultural,
economic, political, corporate, international, multicultural and multilingual
aspects.
Invited speakers will include:
Opening speaker: Jens-Erik Mai, University of Toronto
Closing speaker: Richard Smiraglia, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Other invited speakers will be announced.
We invite submission of proposals for papers which will
include: name(s) of presenter(s), title(s), affiliation(s), contact information
and abstracts of 300-500 words. Presentations will be 20 minutes. Time will be
set aside for questions as well as broader discussion. All abstracts will be
published on the Web site of the UW-Milwaukee Information Organization Research
Group. Full papers will be published in a special issue of Knowledge
Organization .
Abstracts due: February 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance by: March 15, 2012
Full papers due: July 15, 2012
Submit proposals via email to:
Hope A Olson, Conference Chair ( holson@uwm.edu )
The Program Committee:
Bobby Bothmann , Minnesota State University Mankato
Grant Campbell , University of Western Ontario, Canada
Allyson Carlyle , University of Washington, USA
José Augusto Chaves Guimarães , Universidade Estadual
Paulista, Brazil
Birger Hjørland, Professor , The Royal School of Library
and Information Science in Denmark
Lynne C Howarth , University of Toronto, Canada
Charles-Antoine Julien , McGill University, Canada
Joyce Latham , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Hur-Li Lee , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Steven J. Miller , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Hope A Olson , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Sandra Roe , Milner Library, Illinois State University,
USA
Richard P. Smiraglia , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
USA
Joe Tennis , University of Washington, USA
Michael Zimmer , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
