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LIASA Eighth Annual Conference - 2005: Call for papers
| Date: |
26 - 30 September 2005 |
| Venue: |
Nelspruit, Mpumalanga Province |
| Theme: |
Taking Libraries to the People |
You are invited to submit proposals for papers & posters that will focus on areas related to the theme of the conference.
The country will be celebrating in 2005 the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Freedom Charter. The following clause is particularly relevant to libraries:
"The doors of Learning and Culture shall be opened! The government shall discover, develop and encourage national talent for the enhancement of our cultural life; All the cultural treasures of mankind shall be open to all, by free exchange of books, ideas and contact with other lands;"
The theme for SA Library Week 2005, "Libraries: opening the doors of learning and culture to all", allows libraries to follow up on the one for 2004 when we focused on libraries in a Decade of Democracy and will signal a continuation of our work for the next year. It will celebrate the founding principles of libraries, that they be the repositories of knowledge for future generations while at the same time making that knowledge accessible to all who need it. It will allow us to examine all our services in all sectors and evaluate whether we are fulfilling this mandate by making our services available to the most marginalized in our society; the illiterate, the disabled and people in under-resourced rural areas.
The Eighth Annual LIASA Conference aims to carry forward this theme by providing opportunities to debate, share and learn from fellow colleagues, which should stimulate the development of pro-active and innovative ways to bring library services to all the people of South Africa.
Papers and posters on topics such as the following will be considered for inclusion in the conference programme:
- Libraries serving the community
- Libraries supporting educational outcomes
- Mobile library services
- Library services to the disabled
- Outreach programmes in rural areas
- Public and School Libraries as partners
- Role of libraries in bridging the digital divide
- Libraries as key actors in the Information Society (WSIS)
- World Summit on the Information Society: Tunis 2005 and beyond
- NACLIS (National Council for Library and Information Services) one year on?
- Harnessing technology to facilitate the delivery of information to all
- Innovative library services and projects
- Literacy projects and libraries
- Training needs of the modern information professional in South Africa
- Advocacy for libraries
- Marketing library services
- Africa's information needs in a global context
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems
- Preserving South African Culture
- Specialized library services
- Libraries and communities: developing effective partnerships
- Examining the roles of Friends, library committees, user committees etc.
The deadline for receipt of proposals is 15 March 2005.
Proposals, in electronic format (MS Word) must be submitted to:
Ms Naomi Haasbroek
Tel: 021 843 1259
Fax: 021 843 3525
Cell: 082 895 9931
Email:
Important Information about the Submission of Abstracts
- Preference will be given to short papers based on practical experience.
- Priority will be given to papers on the theme and topics listed, although papers on related topics may also be considered.
- Papers must be presented in English.
- Submissions must include:
- full title of the paper;
- name(s) of author(s),
- institutional affiliation,
- full contact details of author(s),
- an abstract of the paper of 300 - 500 words
- Each abstract file should be named with the surname of the presenting author, e.g.: Smith abst1.doc and Smith CV.doc
- brief CV of the author(s).
- The abstracts of the accepted papers may be published in the conference programme.
- Authors of accepted papers will be notified as soon as possible after 30 April 2005.
- No correspondence will be entered into about acceptance or non-acceptance of papers.
- The final version of the full paper must be submitted in electronic form (as an MS Word file) by 20 September 2005 for publishing.
- Papers presented at the LIASA Conference will be considered for publication in the South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science.
- This call for papers is for the plenary and parallel sessions of the Conference. Papers that are more suitable for the Interest Group sessions will be forwarded to the relevant Interest Group Conveners.
- Proposals for papers for a specific Interest Group session can also be submitted. Please indicate which Interest Group.
- Please note that all presenters are responsible for their own expenses to attend the conference.
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