77th IFLA General Conference & Council, San Juan, Puerto Rico,
August 13-18, 2011
IFLA EDUCATION AND TRAINING SECTION – Open session
Call for papers
Education for digital curation
Colleagues from around the world are invited to submit an abstract for consideration for a paper to be presented at the SET Open Session.
The IFLA Section for Education and Training (SET) seeks papers for its Open Session, co-sponsored by the International Council on Archives Section for Archival Education and Training (ICA-SAE) with the IFLA Section for Preservation and Conservation and the IFLA IT Section, on the topic Education for digital curation. This topic has been chosen in accordance with the main theme of the conference, "Libraries beyond libraries: Integration, Innovation and Information for all" under the Congress Track, ‘Ideas, innovations, anticipating the new’.
We are particularly keen to have papers and perspectives from educators and students teaching and learning about digital information, and practitioners from a wide range of library sectors (e.g. public, academic, school, special) and archives working with digital information. Research and practice based papers must be original and could cover the educational aspects of issues such as:
‧ how is digital curation taught? What are the issues involved in teaching digital curation and how are these addressed?
‧ education for digital curation and education for the digital library and other digital information resources such as archive and museum collections : common competencies, different approaches
‧ education for active management of data over the life-cycle of scholarly communication
‧ education for digital long-term preservation
‧ education for new legal responsibilities in the digital environment: web publishing, reproducibility and re-use
‧ IT profiles for digital curation: education for Information Technology competencies and skills
‧ evaluation of digital curation courses, teaching methods, benchmarking and government policies.
Language of the session: The paper should be in one of the IFLA official languages. It is intended that the presentation and slides are in English, but if the presentation is delivered in one of the other official languages, then the slides should be in English.
Important dates and information: Proposals for papers must be submitted to Graham Matthews: G.Matthews@lboro.ac.uk by: 28 February 2011. The proposal should clearly indicate the Call for papers of the SET session. All proposals will be evaluated by a refereeing committee representing the Programme Planning Committee:
IFLA SET: Graham Matthews, Anna Maria Tammaro, Mai Poldas, S.B. Ghosh
ICA SAE: Geir Magnus Waiderhaug,
IFLA IT: Alenka Kav?i?-?oli?
IFLA Conservation and Preservation: Per Cullhed
Proposals must include the following information:
Name and institution of speaker(s)
Contact information for speaker(s)
Brief biographical information
Proposal title
Brief (500 word) abstract of the proposal
Language of presentation.
Successful candidates will be notified by 21 March 2011 and must supply the full paper by 23rd May 2011 to allow time for publication of papers on the IFLA website and preparation of translations. Details on the format and length of the final paper will be emailed to those candidates whose abstracts are accepted.
A separate call for papers has been issued for the Section’s off-site session, Internships and placements for the new information society, organised with the Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technologies, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan.
At least one of the papers authors must undertake to be present to deliver a summary of the paper during the Sections programme in San Juan. PLEASE NOTE that the Section for Education and Training has no funds to assist prospective authors: abstracts should only be submitted on the understanding that the expenses of attending the San Juan conference (including travel, expenses and conference fee) will be the responsibility of the author(s)/presenter(s) of accepted papers. Some national professional associations may be able to help fund certain expenses, and a small number of grants for conference attendance may be available at:
http://www.ifla.org/III/members/grants.htm