[CFP]Canadian Association for Information Science (June 3-5, 1998: Ottawa, Canada)

[Terry Kuny]

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             Call for Participation
 
          26th Annual Conference of the 
  Canadian Association for Information Science/
  Association canadienne des sciences de l'information
                  3-5 June 1998
          Universite d'Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
 
   Information Science at the Dawn of the Millennium
 
For more than a quarter of century Canadian information scientists have
met to discuss the access, retrieval, production, organization,
distribution, value, use and management of information. From those early
days of examining computational ways of manipulating information through
to investigations of information as communication, CAIS has provided a
forum for presentation, discussion and debate. CAIS/ACSI '98 continues
this noteworthy tradition.
 
CAIS/ACSI '98 will be held at the Universite d'Ottawa, in Canada's
national capital, Ottawa, Ontario. CAIS will be meeting with the 1998
Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities which will offer exceptional
opportunities for creative contacts and fruitful between CAIS delegates
and members of the other 80 learned societies that will meet concurrently. 
 
We seek submissions related to any aspect of information science,
particularly those which exemplify the leading edge of our discipline.
Submissions must include a 500 word extended abstract of the proposed
paper. The author(s) name, complete address, phone, fax and email should
be included on a separate sheet. Abstracts will be refereed; final papers
will be published in the proceedings and presented at the conference.
Preference will be given to papers that report research or debate
underlying methodological/philosophical issues, rather than those that
report on plans yet to be implemented. 

Deadlines
>>> for abstracts: January 15, 1998. 
>>> notification of acceptance: February 15, 1998. 
>>> for final papers (3,000-4,000 words) in electronic form: April 15,
1998. 
 
Doctoral candidates are especially invited to submit to the conference.
CAIS will be awarding a full conference registration and one year
membership to the best student submission. Student submissions must be
single-authored. Please indicate student status on your submission. 

Initial submissions in print or electronic form (ASCII, Word or
Wordperfect) should be sent to: 

 Elaine Toms
 CAIS '98 Program Chair
 School of Library and Information Studies
 Dalhousie University
 Halifax, NS B3H 3J5  
 Voice: (902)494-2452
 Fax: (902)494-2451
 E-Mail: etoms at is.dal.ca

  
 CAIS '98 Programme Committee
 
 Jamshid Beheshti
 McGill University
 
 Pierrette Bergeron
 Universite de Montreal
 
 Joan Cherry
 University of Toronto
 
 Chun Wei Choo 
 University of Toronto 
 
 Ann Curry 
 University of British Columbia
 
 Wendy Duff 
 University of Toronto
 
 Bernd Frohmann
 University of Western Ontario
  
 Lynne Howarth
 University of Toronto
 
 Andrew Large
 McGill University
 
 Lynn Mackechnie
 University of Western Ontario
 
 Stephen Marsh
 NRC Institute for Information Technology 
 
 Michael Nelson
 University of Western Ontario
 
 Hope Olson
 University of Alberta
 
 Yuri Quintana
 University of Western Ontario
 
 Alvin Schrader
 University of Alberta

 Michael Shepherd
 Dalhousie University
 
 Albert Tabah
 Universite de Montreal
 
 Elaine Toms, Chair
 Dalhousie University 
 
 Margaret Wilkinson
 University of Western Ontario





Elaine Toms
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School of Library and Information Studies          Voice: (902)494-2452
Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University        Fax: (902)494-2451
Halifax, N.S. B3H 4H8                              E-Mail: etoms at is.dal.ca