ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

 The Canadian Association for Information Science is pleased to announce its 29th annual conference, "Beyond the Web: Technologies, Knowledge and People," to be held with the Congress for the Social Sciences and Humanities of Canada at the Université Laval, Québec, May 27-29, 2001.
 
 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 We invite proposals for papers in either French or English, from all areas of Information Science: from the academic, government and private sectors, and from faculty and doctoral students. Information Science exists at the juncture of different disciplines, methodologies, concerns and approaches. In this field, theory meets practice; people interact with technology; conventional libraries are integrated into information architectures; computing power confronts articulated policy; data becomes knowledge. All of our work, however specialized, takes place in a broader context of diverse and challenging scholarship: library science, mathematics, computer science, management science, sociology, education, psychology, philosophy, economics, political science and cultural studies. Preference, therefore, will be given to proposals which stretch beyond conventional disciplinary boundaries, and which either place specific research within a broader context, or which exploit theories from different disciplines to understand information environments and concerns. The conference will have three distinct but related themes:

Technologies
How new theories and applications of information technology are shaping and reshaping our information preferences and expectations, within traditional libraries, archives, and other burgeoning information systems and services.

Knowledge
How discourse communities, fields of knowledge and information ecologies are defining and redefining themselves in changing technological, social and political contexts.

People
How individuals, and their many diverse communities, interact with their information environments, both technological and intellectual, at a cognitive, cultural or intellectual level.
 

SUBMISSIONS

Proposals for CAIS/ACSI 2001 may be in English or in French; they should be 500 words long and specify how they relate to at least one of the conference themes. Proposals should be as specific and informative as possible, and clearly indicate the paper's methodological and/or theoretical basis. Deadline for proposals is January 15, 2001. Proposals will be reviewed by the Program Committee, and acceptance decisions will be announced by mid-February. Papers to appear in the printed proceedings must be submitted no later than April 2, 2001.

Conference proposal submission:
Proposals may be sent by e-mail (with the subject "CAIS 2001 proposal") to: gcampbel@julian.uwo.ca

or in print to:

 Grant Campbell
CAIS 2001 Program Chair
Faculty of Information and Media Studies
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
Fax: 1-519-661-3506
 
 
 

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