Wednesday, August 4, 2010

3rd International m-libraries conference: Mobile technologies: information on the move Brisbane, Australia 11 - 13 May 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

This conference, hosted by The University of Southern Queensland in collaboration with Athabasca University, the Open University, Thompson Rivers University and Emerald Group Publishing, aims to explore and share work carried out in libraries around the world to deliver services and resources to users ‘on the move’ via a growing plethora of mobile or handheld devices.

The conference will bring together researchers, technical developers, managers and library practitioners to exchange experience and expertise and generate ideas for future developments.

We are seeking papers on the following themes:
  1. Emerging mobile technologies (including platforms, devices and software) 
  2. Delivering new mobile services to users
  3. New mobile applications (technical)
  4. Mobile users (e.g. studies of requirements and/or behaviour)
  5. Development of content for mobiles (including OERs, commercially published, user-generated etc.)
  6. Privacy and mobiles
  7. Copyright issues for mobile delivery

Please submit your abstracts (up to 300 words) to
M-Libraries-Conference@open.ac.uk
by November 1st.

These will be subject to peer review
and authors will be notified by
14 January 2011.

We expect that papers may include research reports, demonstrations of technical developments, practical case studies or reviews. Posters are also invited.

Papers or presentation
Papers or presentations should last no longer than
20 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions.


Contact Information

General enquiries
mlib3@usq.edu.au

Programme enquiries
m-libraries-conference@open.ac.uk

Website
www.usq.edu.au/m-libraries

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