Theme: City Life and Library Service

Date: August 24~26, 2010

Organizer: Shanghai Library

Dear Colleagues,

The 5^th Shanghai International Library Forum (SILF) will be held on August 24~26, 2010 in Shanghai Library.

The biennial forum, conducted in the era of quickened growth of information industry and globalized development of libraries, provides opportunities of brainstorming centering on the latest progress, innovative measures and future trends of library science and service. With the intensified coverage of media and wide recognition from the library circle, the convening of the forum, combining keynote speeches, plenary session and individual seminars, appeals to over 300 participants for participation at home and abroad, among who are IFLA senior officials, library directors, professionals and experts from the information sector, researchers and people from other fields.

Expo 2010 Shanghai China will be held between May 1 and October 31, 2010 in Shanghai with the theme of ‘Better City, Bette Life’. It would become a pageant for city life discussion, a symphony with the melody of technological innovation and cultural blending as well as a splendid between nations and cultures.

The forthcoming Forum coincides with World Expo and will include the 7^th Chinese-Japanese International Seminar for the Librarianship. The Organizer is now extending warm welcome to domestic and overseas colleagues alike to join the academic exchanges while celebrating meanwhile Expo 2010 Shanghai China.

The topic of this forum is “City Life and Library Service”. To facilitate in-depth discussions, subtopics are designed as follows:

I．Libraries and Multicultural Service

II. Libraries and Community Well-Being

III. Library Performance Evaluation

IV. Library Support for Innovation and Strategic Decisions

V. Library Service in Cloud Computing Era

We solicit papers from researchers, professionals and people engaged in libraries or information institutes. Papers thus submitted shall be original research contributions or summaries of practical experience, which have not been published in any other periodicals or proceedings. Formats can be referred to at http://www.libnet.sh.cn/silf2010.

Please submit the abstract of your paper to the Organizing Committee prior to March 15, 2010 and the full text before April 30, 2010. All the papers will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee of SILF 2010 before the selected few get collected in the print proceedings of the conference for official publication.

Secretariat

Ms. Ren Xiapei (for program) or Mr. Zhou Qing (for logistics)

Address: 1555 Huai Hai Zhong Lu, Shanghai 200031, China

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Tel: +86.21.6445.4500

Fax: +86.21.6445.5006

Website: http://www.libnet.sh.cn/silf2010