Coping with continual change - change management in SLIS

In today's world of rapid and continual change, LIS-education faces challenges that take research and research based reflection to be handled adequately. The European Association for Library and Information Science Education and Research (EUCLID) and Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) invites researchers in the field to submit research based papers that deal with the above-mentioned theme.

Topics of relevance include, but or not restricted to:

• Recruitment - student diversity, expectations and capabilities
• Pressures for curricular changes
• Institutional change and its impact
• Effectiveness of distance learning
• The impact of new competitors
• The role of consortia
• The relationship between schools of library and information science and the field of practice
• The scientific and epistemological foundation of LIS education and research

Deadlines

An abstract of 400-500 words, indicating the problem to be dealt with, supporting theory and methodology, should be submitted to the adress below by March 15, 2003. Notification will be given by April 14, 2003, and full papers should be submitted by June 15, 2003. Submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed.

Abstracts should be submitted electronically to:

Ragnar Audunson: ragnar.audunson@bi.hio.no
or Ismail Abdullahi: abdull@cau.edu

Preparing the full manuscript

The full manuscript should not exceed 5000 words.

• Use Times New Roman 12 pt
• Use the settings for paper size A4
• Number all citations in the text and provide bibliographical details at the end - make sure that every element is included.
• Number all pages consecutively in the upper right hand corner, using Arabic numerals, commencing with page 1.

Date and venue

The conference will be hosted by the department of Information Science (Fachbereich Informationswissenschaften) at the University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule Potsdam (FHP), Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 4, 14467 Potsdam, Germany, starting on Wednesday, July 30^th and ending on Friday, August 1^st. The date has been chosen in order to allow participants to join the 69^th IFLA General Conference and Council which takes place in Berlin seamlessly afterwards.

The University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is a new university founded just after the reunification of Germany. Its department of information science is charac­terised by integrated studies of Archival, Library and Documentation Studies. At the university the German Information Centre for Information Science is located with its database INFODATA.

Potsdam is a beautiful historical setting with the famous Sanssouci palace 20 minutes of train ride from the German capital Berlin. Some of the IFLA events will take place here too.

Local contact for further information:
Hans-Christoph Hobohm (hobohm@fh-potsdam.de).

Accomodation

The conference will make use of the hotel agreements made in connection with IFLA 2003 in Berlin. Local arrangements at affordable prices can be made.

Registration and fee

The registration fee is (80 EUR from Western Europe, US and Canada, 50 EUR from other countries), and covers lunches, a reception and conference proceedings.