Call for Papers: IFLA Classification & Indexing
Section Program
World Library and Information Congress: 78th IFLA General
Conference and Assembly Helsinki, Finland 13-17 August 2012 Classification
& Indexing Section Open Session - Call for Papers "Subject Access now:
Inspiring, surprising, empowering"
We invite presentations showing new and innovative ways
of providing subject access to users from all types of libraries – approaches
or applications that are inspiring, surprising, empowering.
For example:
* Do you provide
subject access to resources through innovative library architecture and
shelving design?
* Is your library environment and equipment closely
connected to user needs in finding, selecting and exploring topics?
* Have you designed new or particularly creative tools
for navigating subject repositories?
* Do you use subject metadata in unexpected ways in recommendation
services?
* Is there a connection between your subject access
policies and inspiring learning environments?
* Do you offer innovative genre access for fiction,
children’s literature, or audiovisual media?
* Do you feel you work in a user-driven institution with
a social tagging success story?
* Are you focusing on user needs applying subject access
tools that empower or surprise your users?
If so, then please consider submitting a short paper to
present at our Open Session in Helsinki.
We are particularly interested in presentations from
Finnish libraries or libraries of the Baltic/Scandinavian area.
Submissions
The deadline for submitting short papers is 15 February,
2012
Papers should be in English and no more than 2000 words
in length. The submission should also include:
* Abstract of approximately 150 words, summarizing the
paper
* Author’s name, professional affiliation, postal
address, and email address.
Short papers and presentations should represent
unpublished, original work. Submissions
will be reviewed by a selection committee of members of the Standing Committee
of the Classification and Indexing Section. Successful short papers will be
identified by March 31, 2012, and authors notified shortly thereafter.
Authors should be prepared to give presentations at the
Classification and Indexing Section Open Session at the IFLA Conference, held
between August 12-16, 2012. The length
of the presentations should be approximately 15 minutes with 5 minutes for
questions/discussion. The conference will be conducted in English and all
presentations will be required to be in English.
Successful short papers will be translated into the
official languages of IFLA. IFLA has first
publication rights to papers selected.
Short paper submissions should be sent to Lynne C.
Howarth, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, at: lynne.howarth@utoronto.ca
Please note that all expenses, including registration for
the conference, travel, accommodation etc., are the responsibility of the
authors/presenters. No financial support can be provided by IFLA, but a special
invitation can be issued to authors.
Sandy Roe
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-8900, USA
Information Coordinator, IFLA Classification and Indexing
Section
