Research Paper Award 2015 – Digital Libraries

De Gruyter Saur and IFLA Invite submissions of papers for the De Gruyter Saur / IFLA research Paper Award 2015. This is an annual award for the best research paper on a topic of importance to publishing and access to information.
Deadline: 15 February 2015
The award is one thousand euro

Topic
Digital Libraries: Knowledge creation and sharing

Goal: Advance research on Digital Libraries as environment facilitating collaboration, creation and sharing of knowledge

Submissions are invited to focus on one of several of the following subthemes:

• Intersection of Digital Libraries and Digital Humanities 
• Linked Open Data in Digital Libraries 
• Open Data and re-use of data 
• User participation and crowdsourcing 
• Open Access 
• Use of Digital Library in information practices 
• The impact of Digital Libraries in user community and knowledge creation 
• Data curation 
• The role of Digital Libraries in sustaining access to information 

The award is aimed at encouraging original research and publication by those relatively new to the profession. Those with no more than eight years of professional experience in library and information services are eligible.

The selected paper must have been written no earlier than January 2014 and not yet to have been published. The paper's maximum length should be approx. 5,000 words and should be submitted in English.

The selection panel for the award comprises three members of the IFLA Library Theory and Research Section. All applicants will be required to sign a license for De Gruyter Saur to publish their submitted paper in one of De Grutyer Saur’s journals.

Both IFLA and De Gruyter Saur will announce and further publicize the award via their websites, relevant mailing lists, journals and newsletters, press conferences, news releases etc.

The recipient of the award will be announced at the IFLA President's Lunch during the IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Cape Town, South Africa in August 2015. If the recipient is attending this Congress s/he will also be invited to the President's Lunch.

Papers must be submitted by 15 February 2015.

Conditions

Papers must not have been published in any form (including online) at the time of application, and must not be under consideration by any other award or journal.
The decisions of the jury are final.
The publisher reserves the right to determine which journal the winning paper will be published in, and also reserves the right not to publish the winning paper.

Send submissions to: Anna Maria Tammaro

Krystyna K. Matusiak, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Library & Information Science Program
Morgridge College of Education
University of Denver
Phone: 303-871-6163
ADDRESS: Katherine A. Ruffatto Hall, Room 248, 1999 E. Evans Ave. Denver, CO 80208

Call for Submissions - Social Media & Society

6th Annual International Social Media & Society Conference

Toronto, Canada, July 27-29, 2015

Academic research on social media is growing exponentially across various disciplines including: Communications, Information / Library Science, Computer Science, Business, Sociology, Education, Psychology, Health and others. The Web of Science alone indexed nearly 5,000 journal and conference publications over the last decade. This growing body of research revealed many interesting factors about social media platforms, their users, and a glimpse of our society at large. But are we any closer to understanding the broader implications of social media on our increasing networked society?

The 2015 Social Media & Society Conference (#SMSociety15) invites scholarly and original submissions that build on the previous work and critically evaluate the role of social media for social and political change, community engagement, marketing, new forms of governance, support of individuals and organizations in domains such as business, information, management, public administration, academia, health, and journalism (just to mention a few). We are also calling for submissions that develop and apply novel methods and theories to collect, analyze, and visualize social media data as well as those that discuss ethical and privacy implications of using big and small data. We welcome both quantitative and qualitative work in the broad area of Social Media & Society that crosses interdisciplinary boundaries and expands our understanding of the current and future trends in social media.

Whether you are just starting a new research project or ready to report on the final results, you will find that #SMSociety15 is a great venue for you! The 2015 conference invites a wide range of submissions:

- short papers on completed or well-developed projects (Due: March 2, 2015)

- work-in-progress paper abstracts (Due: April 10, 2015),

- panel discussions (Due: March 2, 2015)

- poster presentations (Due: May 1, 2015).

New to this year, we are also calling for proposals to host:

- half-day workshops (Due: February 2, 2015) on a well-defined area or technical tutorials that will examine a particular method or tool for the analysis of social media data in more detail

MORE INFORMATION 

PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES

All accepted short papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings by the ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS). Authors of accepted top papers will be invited to submit their full papers to the special issue of the Information, Communication & Society journal (published by Taylor & Francis).

BACKGROUND

The Social Media & Society Conference is an annual gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 6th year, the 2015 Conference will be held in Toronto, Canada from July 27 to 29, 2015. From its inception, the conference has focused on the best practices for studying the impact and implications of social media on society. Organized by the Social Media Lab at Ryerson University, the conference provides attendees an opportunity to exchange ideas, present their original research, learn about recently completed and work-in-progress studies, and strengthen connections with their peers.

The 2014 conference hosted over 200 attendees, featured research from

238 authors across several fields from 21 different countries.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Social Media & Small Data

• Case Studies of Online Communities Formed on Social Media • Case Studies of Offline Communities that Rely on Social Media • Sampling Issues • Value of Small Data

Social Media & Big Data

• Visualization of Social Media Data

• Social Media Data Mining

• Scalability Issues & Social Media Data • Social Media Analytics • Ethics of Big Data

Social Media Impact on Society

• Private Self/Public Self

• The Sharing/Attention Economy

• Virality & Memes

• Political Mobilization & Engagement

• Social Media & Health

• Social Media & Business (Marketing, PR, HR, Risk Management, etc.) • Social Media & Academia (Alternative Metrics, Learning Analytics, etc.) • Social Media & Public Administration • Social Media & the News

Theories & Methods

• Qualitative & Quantitative Approaches

• Opinion Mining & Sentiment Analysis

• Social Network Analysis

• Theoretical Models for Studying, Analysing and Understanding Social Media

Online/Offline Communities

• Trust & Credibility in Social Media

• Online Community Detection

• Influential User Detection

• Online Identity

Social Media & Mobile

• App-ification of the Society

• Privacy & Security Issues in the Mobile World • Apps for the Social Good • Networking Apps

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Anatoliy Gruzd

Associate Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management Director, Social Media Lab Ryerson University, Canada

Twitter: @gruzd

Barry Wellman

Professor & Director, NetLab

University of Toronto, Canada

Twitter: @barrywellman

Philip H. Mai

Manager of Academic Communications

Ryerson University, Canada

Twitter: @phmai

Jenna Jacobson

PhD Candidate, Faculty of Information (iSchool) University of Toronto, Canada

Twitter: @jacobsonjenna

Development Education Week at Maynooth University Library

As part of DevEd week, we had a YouthMedia team from St. Wolstan's school in Celbridge visit the University Library today (19th November) to report on a development education issue.  This will be part of the showcase on the final day of the DevEd week. The students were reporting on how the University Library preserves and promotes the Ken Saro-Wiwa collection.  The three students met with Sister Majella McCarron who donated the collection to Maynooth University, Anne O'Brien from Kairos, Nicola Kelly, Library Archivist and myself Helen Fallon.  It's great that school children are engaging with development issues and coming into the University to engage with our collections.

Reading by Michael Harding at Maynooth University Library

It was wonderful to have Michael Harding come to read in Maynooth University Library last night (18th November). Michael was ordained in Maynooth in 1980, the same year I graduated from the College.  He was really interested to see the modern-day campus and the University Library.  Originally from Cavan, Micheal and his wife sculptor Cathy Carmen now live in Leitrim.

A number of  Michael's plays have been produced by the Abbey Theatre and other Irish theatre companies. He is the author of five novels: Priest, The Trouble with Sarah Gullion, Bird in the Snow, Staring at Lakes and Hanging with the Elephant. He was Writer in Association with the National Theatre in 1993, and Writer Fellow at Trinity College in 2001. His numerous literary awards include the Stewart Parker Theatre Bursary in 1990 and the Bank of Ireland/ RTE award for excellence in the Arts in the same year. He won the Hennessy Literary Award for short stories in 1980 and became a member of Aosdána in 2000.

 Michael's first parish was in Derrylin, Fermanagh. Sister Majella McCarron, who donated the Ken Saro-Wiwa collection to Maynooth University Library, grew up on Derrylin and was one of over one hundred people who enjoyed the reading.

Call for Papers - learning Development in Higher Education

The Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE) Learning Development Conference 2015 will take place at Southampton Solent University 30th March – 1st April 2015.

We welcome proposals for 60 minute workshops, 30 minute paper presentations, 5 minute lightning talks and posters. 

Deadline

1st December 2014.

Themes
As usual we expect proposals that cover the broad range of topics relevant to Learning Developers, but for 2015 we particularly welcome proposals that will address one or more of the conference themes: 

• Interprofessional working in Higher Education
• Employability and Learning Development
• Students as Partners
• Imagining Learning Development
• Learning Development and Internationalisation

Further information