FESABID 2007 invites information and documentation professionals (corporate professionals, information and documentation centers run by public administrations, archives and public and university libraries) to participate actively in the Tenth Seminar, sending in proposals for:
Papers
Posters
Parallel activities
The deadline for sending in paper proposals has ended.
Replies to the abstracts that have been received will be sent out on November 6.
Timetable
Deadline for sending in paper abstracts October 13, 2006
Deadline for sending in parallel activity proposals January 22, 2007
Replies to abstracts November 6, 2006
Deadline for receiving accepted papers (full text) January 26, 2007
Deadline for receiving poster abstracts January 26, 2007
Definitive acceptance of papers, parallel activities and posters February 12, 2007
Topics of interest
All sectors (companies, public libraries, university libraries, information and documentation centers run by public administrations, archives, etc.) are invited to participate with contributions revolving around one of the following central topics:
Innovation
New services for emerging needs in libraries, archives and documentary services; innovation in information management methods; innovation in management methods in institutions; knowledge management and organizations; research trends in information and documentation for a changing profession.
Information and the Web
Information recovery and organization; users and needs (education, accessibilities, visibility, target groups, multiple literacy...); applications in e-government, e-business, e-education, e-culture, net-art, e-media..., services for a digital on-line society; conservation and keeping of information in an on-line world (digitization; electronic document management; electronic files...).
Information and Citizenship
Public information services:libraries, archives, information services for the community, information policies, reading and readings in a multimedia society; information and disadvantaged sectors:immigrants, the unemployed, the elderly, minority groups; public access to information:the digital gap, lifelong learning, open access, freeware, copyright and intellectual property rights, information literacy.
The Professional in the Digital Environment
Current situation and outlooks; skills and new professional profiles:EHEA, initial training and lifelong training, skills and market requirements; collective image; ethical code; active membership in associations.