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Ingrid

Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, Ph.D.
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Catholic University of America
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From: Sue Yeon Syn <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 12:15 PM
Subject: CFP: 13th Bridging the Spectrum Symposium 2021

Call for Proposals

 

Bridging the Spectrum: 

The 13th Annual Symposium on Scholarship and Practice

 Friday, February 19, 2021

https://lis.catholic.edu/news-events/symposium/2021/index.html 

The Symposium Planning Committee invites researchers, practitioners and students to submit proposals for the 2021 Bridging the Spectrum Symposium, a forum for sharing research findings, best practices, and works in progress in library and information science. 

 

The Symposium will include three types of presentations: briefings, panels, and posters. 

  • Briefings are 15-minute presentations of an innovative practice, project, or research activity. 

  • Authors can organize panels of speakers to present and discuss an emerging theme or topic. 

  • Posters are exhibits describing a practice, project, or research activity. 


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


Important Dates

  • Proposals due: September 30, 2020

  • Notification of acceptance: Mid-November

  • Final program abstracts due: December 4, 2020

  • Symposium: February 19, 2021 


The submissions can be made through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2021symposium.


Overviews of past symposia are available on the Symposium website 

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

 

Please feel free to contact the Symposium Committee at [log in to unmask] if you have questions.

 

Symposium Committee: Drs. Sue Yeon Syn, Youngok Choi and Sung Un Kim