Call for Papers (fwd)

[Roy Tennant]

Forwarded on behalf of Terry Brooks <tabrooks at u.washington.edu>, please do
not reply to me. Thanks,
Roy

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Call for Papers

                Special Topic Issue of JASIS

            Information Science at the Millenium

The next Special Topics Issue of the _Journal of the  Ameri-
can Society for Information Science_ (JASIS) is scheduled to
appear at the end of 2000 on the topic of  Information  Sci-
ence  at  the  Millenium.  The guest editor for this special
issue will be Terrence A. Brooks, Associate Professor in the
School  of Library and Information Science at The University
of Washington.

What are the forces shaping the science of information as we
step  into the 21st century?  What information problems have
information technology solved, and what problems  have  been
introduced  by  information technology?  How has information
technology redefined familiar information  objects  such  as
documents,  books  and libraries?  How has information tech-
nology modified familiar acts such as reading  and  writing?
What  decisions  and standards are we creating now that will
influence  information  structures,  sharing,  storage   and
retrieval in the 21st century?

There are numerous research issues facing  Information  Sci-
ence at the Millenium.  Specific topics of interest include,
but are not limited to the following:

     *    How has information technology redefined the docu-
          ment, the act of writing, the act of reading?

     *    How does information technology make  the  private
          public?  How does it defy corporate boundaries and
          span national frontiers?

     *    How does information technology change publishing?
          The  role  of  the  scholarly journal?  The tenure
          process?  Teaching?

     *    What happens when the computer, the television and
          the  telephone  meld  into  one machine?  When the
          latest music can be downloaded?  When  the  latest
          movie is on the Web?

     *    What are the new economic models?  Pricing  struc-
          tures?  Of electronic information?

     *    What are the impacts on human society when  infor-
          mation machines mediate sociability?

     *    What information science research  methods  retain
          value  in  the  21st  century  and which should be
          discarded?  What are our  new  objects  of  study?
          How have they changed?

The guest editor seeks papers that discuss Information  Sci-
ence  at  the  Millenium.  Inquiries can be made to Terrence
Brooks at  tabrooks at u.washington.edu  or  by  calling  (206)
543-2646, fax at (206) 616-3152.

Manuscript submissions (four copies of full articles) should
be addressed to:

     Terrence A. Brooks
     School of Library and Information Science
     University of Washington
     Box 352930
     Seattle, WA 98195-2930

The deadline for accepting manuscripts for consideration for
publication  in  this  special  issue  is  March 1, 2000.  A
select panel of referees will review  all  manuscripts,  and
those  accepted  will  be published in this special issue of
_JASIS_.  Original artwork and a signed copy  of  the  copy-
right  transfer  agreement will be required for all accepted
papers. An electronic version of the final draft can be sub-
mitted, and is encouraged.

A copy of the call for papers will be available on the World
Wide   Web,   as  is  further  information  about  JASIS  at
http://www.asis.org/.


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Terrence A. Brooks
School of Library and Information Science
University of Washington
Box 352930
Seattle, WA 98195-2930
Voice: 206 543-2646
Fax: 206 616-3152
tabrooks at u.washington.edu
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~tabrooks/