CFP: Bridging the Spectrum: The 12th Annual Symposium on Scholarship and Practice (February 14, 2019 - Washington DC)

Bridging the Spectrum:

The 12th Annual Symposium on Scholarship and Practice

Time:  Friday, February 14, 2020.  

Place: Pryzbyla Student Center, Catholic University of America                                     

The Symposium Planning Committee invites researchers, practitioners and students to submit proposals for the 2020 Bridging the Spectrum Symposium, a forum for sharing research findings, best practices, and works in progress in library and information science. The submission system is now open at http://cuaslis.org/openconf/author/submit.php   

The Symposium will include three types of presentations: briefings, panels, and posters. Briefings are 15-minute descriptions of an innovative practice, project, or research activity. There will be morning and afternoon briefing sessions. 

Authors can organize panels of speakers to present and discuss a theme or a topic. Panels are typically one hour in length. 

Posters are exhibits describing a practice, project, or research activity. Posters will be viewable throughout the day, and there will be a lightning talk during which presenters will highlight their projects. In addition, poster presenters will attend a poster session to discuss their work with attendees.

The submission system is open at http://cuaslis.org/openconf/author/submit.php and the deadline for submission is October 23, 2019.

    

Proposal topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: 

• Community engagement and outreach, including marketing and advocacy for library and information services
• Information services against misinformation and propaganda
• New developments in information organization (linked data, semantic web, etc.)
• Preservation and management of born-digital and digitized resources 
• Management and analysis of data and information
• Library networks and international collaboration
• Technology trends and impact on information services
• Management of information services in cultural institutions

Questions may be directed to the Committee at cua-slis-symposium@cua.edu. 

Important Dates

Proposals Due: October 23, 2019
Notification of Acceptances: November 15, 2019
Final Program Abstracts Due: December 5, 2019

Final Program released, registration opens: December 16, 2019

Symposium: February 14, 2020

More information about the 2020 Symposium is available 

at https://lis.catholic.edu/news-events/symposium/2020/index.html

Overviews of past symposia are available on the Symposium website 

athttps://lis.catholic.edu/news-events/symposium/index.html

Please feel free to contact the Symposium Committee at cua-slis-symposium@cua.edu if you have questions.

Symposium Committee:

Drs. Ingrid Hsieh-Yee (chair), Sue Yeon Syn, and Jane Zhang