2nd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World,

September 22-24, 2010, Ankara, Turkey

The Impact of Technological Convergence and Social Networks on Information Management
(Third and Final Call for Papers)

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Scope

The "2nd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World," organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University, will take place in Ankara, Turkey, from 22-24 September 2010. It aims to bring together both researchers and practitioners to discuss the impact of technological convergence and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter on current information management practices in libraries, archives and museums and their implications for education for library and information science. Convergence and social networks also influence the scholarly electronic publishing, open access and institutional archives, digitization of cultural heritage and the socialization of information.

 

The technological convergence is defined as the intertwinement of technologies. A single product such as a cell phone can be used not only to communicate but also to take pictures, listen to music, get access to the Web, and find our way by successfully combining the communication, audio, video, web and GPS technologies. Similarly, our professional, personal and social lives also converge. Social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn are used not only for social networking and entertainment but also for access to information, for learning and for carrying out professional work. Social networks commonly have Web 2.0 features, offer personalized services and allow users to incorporate their own content easily and describe, organize and share it with others, thereby enriching users’ experience. Users expect information providing organizations to offer similar services and they want libraries to be as accessible, flexible, open to collaboration and sharing as that of social networks. The future of libraries, archives and museums is closely associated with how successfully they meet the demands of digital users.

 

Main topics of the Symposium are as follows:

·         Technological Convergence and Information Management

·         Social Networks and Web 2.0 Technologies

·         Convergence, Social Networks and Education

·         Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage

·         Socialization of Information and Convergence

·         Information Organization, Information Architecture and Information Retrieval

·         Interdisciplinary studies

 

The themes are not limited with the above topics. In addition to papers, posters, workshops and panels on the impact of convergence and social networks on information management, papers on information and records management in general are also welcome. Student papers and posters will also be considered. Accepted papers and posters will appear in the proceedings book and the Symposium web site.

 

Paper Submission Process

The language of the Symposium is Turkish and English.  In addition to refereed papers, posters and workshop proposals are also considered. Papers, posters and workshop proposals should be prepared using the templates available through the Symposium web site.  Full texts of papers and posters and workshop proposals in final form should be submitted electronically by January 18, 2010.

 

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and the authors will be notified of the outcome by March 1, 2010.  Final copies of the accepted papers and posters should be sent in by April 26, 2010 in order for them to be included in the Symposium proceedings book. Workshop proposals will also be reviewed by the Program Committee and the authors will be notified by March 15, 2010.

 

Symposium Proceedings Book

The Symposium proceedings book including all accepted papers and posters along with the summaries of workshops will be published prior to the Symposium and made available to the registered participants during the Symposium. In addition, Springer will publish accepted papers written in English under its Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series as a separate proceedings book (CCIS Home Page: www.springer.com/series/7899).  CCIS Series is abstracted and indexed in Thomson Reuters’ Conference Proceedings Index and Scopus.  Springer’s proceedings book will be available during the Symposium.   

 

Important Dates

·         First Call: July 2009

·         Second Call: October 2009

·         Third Call: December 2009

·         Last date to send papers, posters and workshop proposals: 18 January 2010

·         Authors notification (papers and posters): 1 March 2010

·         Authors notification (workshop proposals): 15 March 2010

·         Final papers submission and registration: 26 April 2010

·         Symposium: 22-24 September 2010

 

All suggestions and comments are welcome. E-mail: [log in to unmask].

 

Looking forward to your contributions to and participation in the Symposium.

 

Yaşar Tonta, Chair of the Organizing Committee
Serap Kurbanoğlu, Chair of the Programme Committee
Hacettepe University
Department of Information Management
06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey
Tel: 0312 297 82 00
Fax: 0312 299 20 14
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