(via Dr. Tod Colegrove-University of Nevada, Reno)
Early bird registration is now open for the 39th Annual IATUL Conference, to be held in Oslo, Norway, from June 18 to 21 (https://iatul2018.hioa.no). More information about the call for papers is below.
Call for papers
The IATUL 2018 Program Committee invites proposals for papers and posters, which should reflect the conference theme:
Libraries for the Future – from Inspiring Spaces to Open Science
The technological development of the recent decades has contributed to increased access to digital sources of knowledge and digital tools for students, teachers and researchers. This development has further changed the way they work, but also the way they use the University Library.
These changes has derived new demands for the libraries: we need to develop a library which suits the world as it is today. One way to accomplish this, is to focus on the users: what is their needs, what type of library and library services are relevant to them? In order to be able to solve the new tasks in the library effectively, it may also be necessary to look at how we organise our work; how can we develop organisations for the future? With this as a background, the overall topics for the conference and the call for papers will be:
- user-centered library and service design
- research support and open science
- open innovation
- beyond now–leading the workforce of the future
- information literacy in a digital age
- strategic innovation, locally and globally
Important dates
- deadline for proposals/abstracts: February 1, 2018
- notification of acceptance: March 16, 2018
- submission of final abstract and biographical note ready for publication on the website: April 6, 2018
- submission of full-text paper for conference proceedings: June 21, 2018
Instructions for abstracts, papers and posters
- Please keep the length of your abstract to 2,000 characters incl. spaces and your biographical note to 500 characters incl. spaces.
- All papers submitted must be original, and not have been published or presented before.
- Abstract, papers and power point presentation will be published online.
- Authors of accepted papers/poster must attend the conference for the paper/poster to be presented.
- Authors would be given 20 minutes to present their paper with five additional minutes for discussion with the audience.
- Posters will be displayed in a designated space at the conference venue. Display panels will be provided. Please bring your printed poster as we are unable to provide printing service.