From: Nirupama Bawdekar <nub@iucaa.ernet.in>
Date: 31 March 2009 13:32:30 GMT+02:00
To: PAMNET@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: LISA VI Call for Papers
Reply-To: Nirupama Bawdekar <nub@iucaa.ernet.in>
Cross-posted to PAMnet, Astrolib, EGAL, and PAM-APF. Please excuse the duplication.
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Library and Information Services in Astronomy VI
--- LISA VI ---
"21st Century Astronomy Librarianship: from new ideas to action"
hosted by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and
Astrophysics (IUCAA) Library and the National Centre for
Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) Library
Pune, Maharashtra, India, February 14-17, 2010
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Submission Summary
What: Abstracts of oral and/or poster papers for LISA VI
Where: lisa6-soc@helsinki.fi
When: by May 30, 2009
Who: you !
The LISA VI Scientific Organizing Committee cordially invites you to
submit contributed talks and poster presentations.
Papers are solicited in particular, but not exclusively, on the
following topics:
FUTURE OF LIBRARIANSHIP
- 21st Century scholarship: the evolving roles of libraries in research centers
- The role of Astronomy libraries in a Virtual world
- Users or losers: bringing library services to the patrons
- Libraries and the web: the struggle against invisibility
- The developing Cyberinfrastructure of Scholarly Communication
- Multi-lingual Scholarly content in the sciences: use and access
- Accessibility, on- and off-line
WEB 2.0 / 3.0
- Best practices for content delivery, personalization and interaction
- Tools: wikis, blogs, chats, tweets, feeds, What's next?
- Communities: the social web, science portals and collaborative sites
- Multimedia content: the era of YouTube
- New and innovative library services
- Next generation OPACs
USE, ACCESS AND METRICS
- Bibliometrics: trends and techniques
- Citation and readership analysis
- OA trends in Astronomy
- OA Conference Proceedings: an idea whose time has come?
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
- Budget Planning and Resource Allocation
- Creativity at work in the library: doing more with less
- Green Libraries: it is not just about saving money
- Copyright laws in the web era
PRESERVATION, ARCHIVING AND THE VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY
- Metadata: a librarian's data
- Managing astronomical archives in the era of data-intensive science
- Creation, Management and Preservation of electronic datasets
- VO and Data Archival: a librarian's job?
- Institutional repositories
- Bringing local treasures to the fore
- Electronic journal archival and preservation
- "If it's not on the Web, it doesn't exist at all"?
The conference Keynote Speaker will be Professor Jayant V. Narlikar, Founder-Director, IUCAA, internationally known for his work in cosmology. He is also well known as an author and populariser of science.
If you are interested in giving an oral and/or poster presentation, please submit title, author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), full mailing address(es), fax number(s) and e-mail address(es), as well as a half page abstract in English using the proposal submission mechanism at the conference website,
http://libibm.iucaa.ernet.in/conf
(Note that to submit an abstract, you must first create an account.)
If you need to send your submission by e-mail instead, please
contact the conference co-chairs (see below).
The presenting author should be clearly marked. Abstracts in plain
text (ascii) format are preferred.
Submission deadline will be May 30, 2009.
Please note that the SOC cannot guarantee that all submitted papers
will be accepted and that it reserves the right to request that a
proposed oral presentation be presented as a poster paper or vice
versa. Notifications regarding accepted papers will be made no later
than September 4, 2009.
The official LISA VI website is located at
http://libibm.iucaa.ernet.in/conf/
Information about previous LISA conferences can be found at
http://www.eso.org/libraries/lisa.html
If you have any questions or suggestions, don't hesitate to contact
the co-chairs of the SOC:
Alberto Accomazzi
NASA Astrophysics Data System
aaccomazzi@cfa.harvard.edu
Eva Isaksson
University of Helsinki Observatory Library
Eva.Isaksson@Helsinki.fi
on behalf of the LISA VI Scientific Organizing Committee
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Ms. Nirupama Bawdekar,
Chair, LISA VI LOC
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Post Bag No. 4,
Ganeskhind
Pune 411 007, India
Tel:91-20-25604308 (Direct)
Tel:91-20-25604100 (Board)
Fax: (020)25604699
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