Monday, January 13, 2014

[KMDG-L] Call For Papers: Indigenous Special Issue - Cataloging & Classification Quarterly


From: Doyle, Ann
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 12:02 PM
To: KMDG-L@infoserv.inist.fr
Subject: Call For Papers: Indigenous Special Issue - Cataloging & Classification Quarterly

Dear KMDG,

 

    Please excuse cross-postings, and share with those you think may be interested.  Thank you! --Ann 

Call For Papers: Indigenous Special Issue - Cataloging & Classification Quarterly

 

Guest editors, Cheryl Metoyer and Ann Doyle, invite contributions to an Indigenous Special Issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. This special issue aims to engage an international and interdisciplinary dialogue about Indigenous approaches to cataloguing and classification.  It includes theoretical and applied research that examines processes of representing and organizing documents or their resultant products in Indigenous contexts.  It values practitioners' perspectives and projects that envision new directions or inspire innovation drawing upon Indigenous methodologies and epistemologies.  The concept of the catalog is broadly defined as a tool for organizing and facilitating access to various kinds of information at different levels of granularity – archival collection, song, image, monograph, multimedia et al – that draws upon multiple sources of metadata in social, political, and ethical contexts.

 

Call for Proposals

Contributions are welcomed on a range of topics.  The list below is meant to be generative, and we encourage contributors to be creative in their interpretations of topics that fit the theme of representing, ordering, and accessing information in Indigenous contexts.

 

·      Indigenous theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches to representing, ordering, and accessing information;

·      Indigenous and tribal libraries' cataloguing and classification;

·      Structural bases for organizing information in Indigenous contexts;

·      Indigenous names, naming and authority control;

·      Collaboration and partnerships (community/academy; tribal and non-tribal institutions);

·      Indigenous information ethics/ ethics of Indigenous information;

·      Cataloguing and classification for reconciliation;

·      The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN 2007) and bibliographic control;

·      Development of iSchool education and curriculum for Indigenous cataloguing, classification, and knowledge organization;

·      Indigenous research agendas in cataloging and classification.

 

Proposals in the form of abstracts (approximately 300 words excluding references) should be sent to the guest editors by February 15, 2014.  Acceptance of a proposal does not guarantee publication.  All manuscript submissions will be double-blind peer reviewed, and should be in the range of 5,000-8,000 words.

 

Guest Editors

Cheryl Metoyer (Cherokee), University of Washington, is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean for Research at the iSchool and Adjunct Associate Professor in American Indian Studies. Dr. Metoyer's research interests include indigenous systems of knowledge with an emphasis on American Indian and Alaska Native tribal nations; information seeking behaviors in cultural communities; and ethics and leadership in cultural communities.  Ann Doyle is the Head of the Xwi7xwa Library at the First Nations House of Learning, the Aboriginal branch of the University of British Columbia Library. Dr. Doyle's research interests focus on knowledge organization in Indigenous contexts, Indigenous education, and the interaction of knowledge domains.

  

IMPORTANT DATES

            Abstract submissions (up to 300 words): February 15, 2014

            Notification of abstracts review (results): February 28, 2014

            Manuscript submission deadline: August 30, 2014

            Peer review completed: October 30, 2014

            Final manuscript revisions: January 15, 2015

            Planned publication date: Spring/summer 2015

 

The complete special issue becomes available approximately 3 months after all pieces of the issue are received by the publisher.  The individual articles become available online (with DOI) as soon as they are completed (before the whole issue is out).

 

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly "is respected as an international forum for discussion in all aspects of bibliographic organization. It presents a balance between theoretical and applied articles in the field of cataloging and classification, and considers the full spectrum of creation, content, management, and use and usability of both bibliographic records and catalogs. This includes the principles, functions, and techniques of descriptive cataloging; the wide range of methods of subject analysis and classification; provision of access for all formats of materials; and policies, planning, and issues connected to the effective use of bibliographic records in modern society." … http://catalogingandclassificationquarterly.com

 

Instructions for Authors:  "The journal deals with the historic setting as well as with the contemporary, and with theory and scholarly research as well as with practical applications. In a rapidly changing field, it seeks out and fosters new developments in the transition to new forms of bibliographic control and encourages the innovative and the nontraditional." … http://catalogingandclassificationquarterly.com/instructions.html

 

Taylor & Francis' Author Services – LIS Rights: "Copyright is retained by the author, who grants a license to Taylor & Francis to publish the version of Scholarly Record, but who remains copyright holder and is free to post versions of the Article – Author's Original Manuscript (preprint) and Author's Accepted Manuscript (postprint) – at any time, without embargo, with a link to the Version of Scholarly Record." … (Definition of Terms. Paragraph 3) http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/lisrights.asp

 

Please direct proposal submissions and inquiries to the guest editors:

Cheryl Metoyer                                               Ann Doyle

E: metoyer@uw.edu                                      E: ann.doyle@ubc.ca

Associate Dean for Research                         Head, Xwi7xwa Library

Information School                                         First Nations House of Learning

University of Washington                              University of British Columbia

USA                                                                    Canada

 

 

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Ann Doyle
Xwi7xwa Library, Head (on study leave until Aug 2014 ... still online)
University of British Columbia
1985 West Mall,
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z2
ann.doyle@ubc.ca

t. 604-649-3569

f. 604-822-8944

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

[KMDG-L] Current Science's Special Focus on Science Writing in India

Current Science's Special Focus on Science Writing in India

Current Science, 2014, 106 (1), 20-21.
  • Science journalism in South Asia – untapped potential, by T.V. Padma Download
  • Science for all, by Nidhi Jamwal Download 
  • Writing science for school children, by Shubashree Desikan and A. S. Ganesh Download 
  • The (science) writing life, by Seema Singh Download
  • Is blogging journalism and other questions, by Subhra Priyadarshini Download
  • Science reporting in Hindi, by Sopan Joshi Download 
  • Lessons for a climate change scribe!, by Archita Bhatta Download

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

[KMDG-L] Slides and recordings available: International UDC Seminar: Classification & Visualization - UDC Seminar (23-24 October The Hague)

Hi,

Colleagues may find the following information of interest.

Slides (pdf) and talks (mp3) from the International UDC Seminar 2013 -
"Classification and Visualization" are available from
http://seminar.udcc.org/2013/programme.php.

The conference proceedings are published by Ergon Verlag (see: http://www.udcc.org/index.php/site/page?view=visualization).

The International UDC Seminar entitled "Classification and Visualization:
Interfaces to Knowledge" took place in Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, on
24-25 October 2013.
This was another successful and well attended UDC Seminar with 115 delegates
from 24 countries. The 2013 conference was devoted to exploring advances and
techniques in the visualization of knowledge
across various fields of application and their potential impact on developments
in the more main stream bibliographic and documentary classifications.

The keynoted address by Prof. W. Boyd Rayward was followed by 18 talks. The
poster exhibition consisted of four conference posters
(http://seminar.udcc.org/2013/posters.php) and a selection of posters from
"Places&Spaces: Mapping Science" (http://scimaps.org/).

--
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Dr Aida Slavic
Editor-in-Chief, UDC
UDC Consortium
The Hague, The Netherlands

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--> New! Free trial UDC Online: http://www.udc-hub.com/index.php
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Monday, November 25, 2013

[KMDG-L] Knowledge Management SC Satellite

The IFLA Knowledge Management Standing Committee Satellite meeting will be held in Lyon, France on 15 August 2014:

 

Knowledge Management as a Vital Tool for Change Management

 

This one-day satellite meeting will focus on the processes which promote to change management in the changing environment faced by libraries. It includes the tools manager librarians can use and the methods they can adopt through Knowledge Management to make a success of this transition period. 

 

Please visit http://parisdescartes.libguides.com/IFLA2014/ENG for more information and watch for a call for papers.

 

 

 

 

àFor more information contact: julien.sempere@parisdescartes.fr

 

 

-- Karen Muller, MLS

   Librarian and Knowledge Management Specialist

   American Library Association

 

http://www.ala.org/tools/

 

 

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

[KMDG-L] Collaboration platform

Hello List,

Our library is involved in a pilot project for what may become a campus-wide knowledge management initiative. We're trying to get something up and running quickly. We're contracting for a question-and-answer base service, but we still have to gather the material to go into it. For our knowledge gathering phase, we're looking for an online platform where we can collaboratively create documents (like Google Drive) but with light project management capabilities as well so we can better track approval of content and perhaps other administrative issues. Free would be best. A tall order I know, but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
Elizabeth Jardine
Metadata Librarian
LaGuardia Community College
New York, NY

Monday, October 21, 2013

[KMDG-L] Participate in global survey to determine the perception and readiness of Web 2.0 and Knowledge Management in university libraries

Hello everyone,

 

I'm a Ph.D. student at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan. In collaboration with Professors Ikeda and Agarwal, I am conducting a survey study to determine the perceptions of librarians regarding Knowledge Management (KM) and the degree to which the library is ready to adopt KM using Web 2.0. The survey targets mainly people who are working in academic libraries.

 

Please pass on the survey to other academic libraries whom you believe might benefit from the survey.


We'd be obliged if you could kindly participate in the survey by clicking on any one link below. It should take you about 15 minutes:

http://tinyurl.com/nfc754m

or

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ct00VITV9-AR-OlRfAhOeyFud6aIfT36Xp0QAXzrwn4/viewform

Thanks and best wishes
______________________________________
Md. Anwarul Islam
PhD Student, School of Knowledge Science
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Ishikawa, Japan

anwar81du@gmail.com


Professor Mitsuru Ikeda, PhD

School of Knowledge Science, JAIST, Ishikawa, Japan 

ikeda@jaist.ac.jp

Dr. Naresh Agarwal, Assistant Professor

Graduate School of Library and Information Science

Simmons College, Boston, USA

agarwal@simmons.edu

 

Friday, October 11, 2013

[KMDG-L] ISKO UK afternoon event "Information, a risky business" October 24th

Please don't forget to reserve you place for ISKO UK's next afternoon event, to think about the risks of poor information management - and how to combat them (or even, how to exploit them to get your boss on side!). The meeting starts at 14.00 on Thursday 24 October at the British Dental Association, 64 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 8YS, and concludes at 18.00, when you can stay on for networking, wine and nibbles. Reserve your place by October 20th; you will find the programme and other details at <www.iskouk.org/events/risk_October2013.htm>. The event is *free*  to ISKO members and to full-time students. The fee for non-members is just *£40*. Now, here's an outline of the talks:

Information is critical to all public sector bodies today, placing them at significant risk if it is not managed and organized in such a way that it can easily and quickly be found. Using case studies from the private and public sectors and some highly experienced practitioners in the field, this latest ISKO UK event examines the causes, threats and outcomes of poor information management which put organizations at risk, why this is relevant to knowledge organization and what mitigation measures can be put in place.

Yasmin Merali, Associate Professor at Warwick Business School, will open the first session by examining the complex nature of today's information network, the shift in user b_ehaviour and the impact on organizational resilience and robustness. Mark Merifield, Head of Information Management Services at The National Archives looks at the disconnect between our IT environment and business requirements and David Haynes, a highly experienced information manager and PhD student at City University, will draw on recent work within the charity sector to demonstrate some of the knowledge organization approaches used to address information risk in the context of overall organizational change.

In the second session, Roger Poole, currently Manager -- Risk Consulting at KPMG LLP and with considerable experience of Global Records Management projects and programmes within the banking sector, describes some of the recent significant changes in approach to information risk within the Financial Services industry, a sector with a very high profile in the news in recent years. He is followed by Christina Somovilla and Aynsley Taylor, who will draw from their own experience at the Financial Ombudsman Service to examine some of the difficulties faced when trying to set policies appropriate to real business need, and to consider how organizing information properly is the best way to mitigate risk. Finally, Noeleen Schenk from Metataxis, a consultant with many years' experience working with clients to ensure effective information management structures are in place, will explain how businesses can use the risk agenda to drive improvements to their information management -- from the identification of their information assets, to their management and organization. The afternoon will end with wine and nibbles and an opportunity to discuss the afternoon event with speakers and colleagues.

All fees must be paid in advance - there is no provision for payment on arrival. Registration opens at *1.30* and we shall start promptly at 2 p.m. Please pass this invitation on to any colleagues who may be interested.


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 biennial conferences (see slides and recordings at <
www.iskouk.org/events.htm>. Its third conference was held in July 2013 on the theme of "Knowledge organization - pushing the boundaries" (http://www.iskouk.org/conf2013/.)

**Please accept our apologies for any cross posting**