[KMDG-L] ISKO UK Biennial Conference 8/9 July: “Knowledge Organization – Pushing the Boundaries

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Registration has now opened for our ISKO UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE – 8/9 July 2013, London.

Book by April 30^th for Early Bird rates

 

The theme is: *Knowledge Organization - Pushing the Boundaries*

 

Knowledge Organization (KO) is not just a fascinating research domain to attract our foremost thinkers; it also presents practical challenges to each of us as individuals, sorting out the files on our desktops physical and virtual, searching for inspiration via the Internet, or participating in the fora of social media. But there's a paradox: while KO practices permeate society, the name "Knowledge Organization" is known only to a few. Invisible boundaries separate KO researchers from the practitioners who could benefit from their findings, and also come between distinct fields of application such as records management, web design, librarianship, information retrieval, etc.

 

This conference aims to explore such boundaries, challenge them and advance our thinking into new territory. It will be the third biennial conference of the UK Chapter of ISKO. Practitioners as well as theoreticians are invited to attend and participate, along with consultants, researchers, teachers and students. There will be a mix of short and longer presentations, as well as a display of posters. The papers submitted will be peer-reviewed and published electronically on this website, together with slides and audio recordings.

 

On our website at <http://www.iskouk.org/conf2013/index.htm> you can find more details, including a provisional programme. 33 Presentations are scheduled, including keynote addresses from leading lights Patrick Lambe and Martin White, and an invited paper from visualization visionary Manuel Lima Two of the sessions will be co-organized by our sister associations, UKeiG and LIRG respectively. We're expecting a good number of posters too, and will be encouraging the vendors of relevant software applications, products and services to support the conference by exhibiting their wares.

 

Registration fees for the two-day event are still the same as for our 2011 conference, just

 

£180 (full price)

£150 (ISKO members)

£150 pounds (early-bird rate, until 30 April)

£130 pounds (early-bird rate for ISKO members)

 

Members of UKeiG and/or LIRG will be entitled to the same rates as ISKO members.

 

The electronic proceedings of our first and second biennial conferences are available at http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/proceedingshtm and http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/programme.htm respectively. The 2013 event will be bigger and better, and we hope you will be able to come and enjoy it.

 

Conference hashtag #ISKOUK2013

 

ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the objective of promoting research and communication in the domain of knowledge organization, within the broad field of information science and related disciplines. Founded in 2007, our UK Chapter has been attracting lively and steadily growing audiences to its afternoon meeting series as well as its very successful previous conferences in 2009 and 2011.

[KMDG-L] Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Academic Library Subject Specialists: Biology & Medical Sciences, ISBN 978-157440-224-7

Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Academic Library Subject Specialists: Biology & Medical Sciences, ISBN 978-157440-224-7. This study is based on data from 55 colleges with programs in medicine and biology, predominantly from medical schools and PHD-level or research universities in the United States, Canada, the UK and Australia/New Zealand. Participants include Carnegie-Mellon, Harvard University, Rice University, McGill University, Sanofi-Aventis, University of Auckland, University of Manitoba, University of Pittsburgh, and many others.

The report looks closely at collection development plans in a broad range of areas including but not limited to: biotechnology, evolutionary biology, histology, marine biology, oncology, pathology, pharmacology, physiology, virology and many other areas.

The study also looks at medical and biology subject specialist perceptions of materials price increases, spending on eBooks, information literacy requirements in medicine/biology, contributions to the materials budget from academic departments, book and monograph purchases, database preferences and renewal plans, use of university presses, use of institutional digital repositories, trends in budget and staffing, relations with library patrons, monitoring of faculty publications as an aid in collection development decision-making, and other issues in medical/biology librarianship.

Some of the study���s many findings are that:

��� 19.23% of libraries in the sample, 23.81% of those in the United States but 0% of those in other countries, have received contributions from other departments of their college or organization to pay for information sources desired by these departments.

��� 34.62% of libraries in the sample, including 42.11% of higher education libraries and a third of medical and veterinary school libraries, have an endowment, grant or other special allocation that falls outside the normal library budget but that supplements library purchases in biology and/or the life sciences.

��� Libraries in the sample have experienced a 2.5% increase in the price of print books in biology over the past year and an 8.75% increase in the price of e-books.

��� Libraries in the sample have increased spending on biology e-books from $6,016 in 2011 to $7,520 in 2012.

For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.