CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2010

Zadar, Croatia, 24 – 28 May 2010
University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia (http://www.unizd.hr/)
Full information at: http://www.ffos.hr/lida/
Email: l...@ffos.hr

The annual international conference Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA)
addresses the changing and challenging environment for libraries and
information systems and services in the digital world. Each year a different
and ‘hot’ theme is addressed, divided in two parts; the first part covering
research and development and the second part addressing advances in
applications and practice. LIDA brings together researchers, educators,
practitioners, and developers from all over the world in a forum for
personal exchanges, discussions, and learning, made easier by being held in
memorable locations.
Themes LIDA 2010

Part I: DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP: support by digital libraries

Contributions (types described below) are invited covering the following
topics:

   - research, practices, and values related to digital scholarship,
   including conceptual frameworks that emerged;
   - contemporary nature of the scholarly information and communication
   environment in general and as involving digital libraries in particular;
   - navigating shifting patterns of scholarly communication;
   - the impact digital libraries have on digital scholarship and on
   education in various fields, and vice versa; the impact of digital
   scholarship on digital libraries;
   - studies on how faculty, researchers, and students  make use of digital
   scholarly resources for their research or in education;
   - practices that emerged in libraries related to support of digital
   scholarship, such as resource/collection building, digitization,
   preservation, access, services and others;
   - international aspects of digital libraries with related trends in
   globalization and cooperative opportunities for support of digital
   scholarship;
   - research and discussions on general questions:  How are we to
   understand new forms of scholarship and scholarly works in their own right?
   How are we to respond in digital libraries? What are the opportunities and
   challenges?

Part II: DIGITAL NATIVES: challenges & innovations in reaching out to
digital born generations

Contributions (types described below) are invited covering the following
topics:

   - research and discussions on general questions:  who are these digital
   natives? How they are different from older generations – or digital
   immigrants – and what is the world they’re creating going to look like?
   - the impact of digital natives on libraries;
   - digital libraries and social networks on the Web;
   - the cultural and technological challenges faced by digital libraries in
   serving digital natives;
   - examples of library services specifically aimed at digital natives;
   - efforts by libraries to help people that are more digital immigrants to
    become more digitally natives;
   - role of libraries in e-learning and education in general;
   - is the future of libraries closely associated with how successfully
   they meet the demands of digital users?

Types of contributions

Invited are the following types of contributions:

Papers: research studies and reports on practices and advances that will be
presented at the conference and included in published Proceedings

Posters: short graphic presentations on research, studies, advances,
examples, practices, or preliminary work that will be presented in a special
poster session. Proposals for posters should be submitted as a short, one or
two- page paper.

Demonstrations: live examples of working projects, services, interfaces,
commercial products, or developments-in-progress that will be presented
during the conference in specialized facilities or presented in special
demonstration sessions.

Workshops: two to four-hour sessions that will be tutorial and educational
in nature. Workshops will be presented before and after the main part of the
conference and will require separate fees, to be shared with workshop
organizers.

PhD Forum: short presentations by PhD students, particularly as related to
their dissertation; help and responses by a panel of educators.

Instructions for submissions are at LIDA site http://www.ffos.hr/lida/

Deadlines:

For papers (an extended abstract) and workshops (a short proposal): 15
January 2010. Acceptance by 10 February 2010.
For demonstrations (a proposal) and posters (an extended abstract): 1
February 2010. Acceptance by 15 February 2010.
Final submission for all accepted papers and posters: 15 March 2010.

Conference contact information

Conference  co-directors:

TATJANA APARAC-JELUSIC, Department of Library and Information Science
University of Zadar; Zadar, Croatia; tapa...@unizd.hr

TEFKO SARACEVIC, School of Communication and Information; Rutgers
University; New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA tef...@rutgers.edu

Program chairs:

For Theme I: VITTORE CASAROSA, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie
dell'Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerch;,  Pisa, Italy,
casar...@isti.cnr.it
For Theme II: GARY MARCHIONINI,  School of Information and Library Science,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
USA, ma...@ils.unc.edu

Venue

Zadar is one of the enchanting cities on the Adriatic coast,  rich in
history. It still preserves a very old network of narrow and charming city
streets, as well as a Roman forum dating back to the first century AD. In
addition, Zadar region encompasses many natural beauties, most prominent
among them is the Kornati National Park, the most unusual and indented set
of close to a 100 small islands in the Mediterranean

For Zadar see http://www.zadar.hr/English/Default.aspx.
For Croatia see http://www.croatia.hr/

I. Stricevic.
Assistant Professor
University of Zadar
Library and Information Science Department