[InetBib] Athens 2019_ IFLA Acquisition and Collection Development Section_Call for Papers

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*Acquisition and Collection Development Section*

*Call for Papers — Open Sessions*

*Acquisition and Collection Development Section*

·9 January 2019, 23:41


Theme:  "Digital Scholarship andCollection Development: Crossroads and 
Intersections"  

  

Background 

The Acquisition and Collection Development Section  isseeking proposals for 
papers to be presented at the IFLA World Library andInformation Congress in 
Athens, Greece, from August 24-30, 2019. This openprogram is co-sponsored by 
the IFLA’s Digital Humanities – Digital Scholarship Special InterestGroup . 

At variouspoints of the Digital Scholarship process, libraries are involved in 
this workin ways that are specific to their parent institution. In particular, 
librarycollections have been increasingly supporting the advancement and 
progressiveexpansion of Digital Scholarship during the last decade. Digital 
scholarswork in academic departments, institutional centers and labs, or 
independently.In many cases, their work may be with large corpora of digital 
texts, digitalimages, audiovisual materials, raw data sets, geospatial data, 
born-digitalmaterials and other types of digital content curated by libraries: 
content thatis either already part of existing library collections or that is 
proactivelyacquired by libraries for specific digital scholarship projects. 
During atwo-hour open session at 2019 WLIC in Athens, this program will 
explorecrossroads and intersections between Digital Scholarship and Collection 
Developmentin libraries. 


 

Submission Guidelines 

Fullabstracts (in any of IFLA’s official languages ) of up to 500 wordsshould 
be submitted for review by members of the Section. 

Theabstracts (and finished presentation) will be original, previously 
unpublishedwork. 

Pleasesubmit abstracts as an attachment in MS Word to: 

Lidia Uziel 
Email: uziel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  

Allproposals must be received by 28 February 2019. 


  

Important Dates 

Deadlinesubmission of abstract: 28 February 2019 

Deadlinenotification to authors: 1 April 2019 

Deadlinesubmission of full text: 1 June 2019 


 

Please note: 

At least oneof the paper’s authors must be present to deliver a summary of the 
paperduring the program in Athens. Abstracts should only be submitted with 
theunderstanding that the expenses of attending the conference will be 
theresponsibility of the author(s)/presenter(s) of accepted papers. 

All papersthat are presented at the WLIC 2019 will be made available online via 
the IFLA Library  underthe Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license . 

Authors ofaccepted papers must complete the IFLA Authors’ Permission Form . 

Allexpenses, including registration for the conference, travel, 
accommodationetc., are the responsibility of the authors/presenters. No 
financial supportcan be provided by IFLA, but a special invitation letter  can 
be issued toauthor(s)/presenter(s) of accepted papers.