[Web4lib] LITA 2006 Forum Call for Proposals

[Zoe Stewart-Marshall]

(apologies for cross-postings)

2006 LITA National Forum: Call for Proposals

Due date for proposals: December 15, 2005

The 2006 National Forum Committee seeks proposals for high quality 
concurrent sessions and/or poster sessions for the 9th annual LITA National 
Forum to be held at the Downtown Sheraton in Nashville, Tennessee October 
26-29, 2006.

Theme:  NetVille in Nashville: Web Services as Library Services

Libraries are increasingly being asked to provide services through the 
web.  Often these services need to inter-operate with many disparate web 
environments.  Web services and related standards offer an opportunity to 
provide these services to users.  How do web services work together?  How 
do they help us work together?  What are some practical applications of web 
services as library services?

The Forum Committee is particularly interested in presentations that 
highlight specific technology implementations, in any type of library. 
Proposals on all aspects of library and information technology are welcome.

Possible proposal topics include, but are not limited to:

1.      Non-Traditional/New Media (Streaming media, Wikis, blogs, 
Electronic books and journals*)
2.      Digital Libraries (Resource linking strategies, Creating and 
sustaining digital libraries, Preservation of digital records*)
3.      Authentication and Authorization (Digital Rights Management, 
Authentication/privacy, Services for remote patrons, 
Customization/personalization*)
4.      Portals/Federated/Meta-Searching (Design and management of portals, 
Integrated access to resources, Search engines*)
5.      Information architecture (Usability, Web services, Web application 
design and databases, Web content management*)
6.      Emerging Technologies (Wireless technologies, Assistive 
technologies, New user services and new communities*)
7.      Technology Management (IT Project Management, Forecasting, 
budgeting, and managing technological change, Knowledge sharing applications*)
8.      Internet Law (Digital Copyright, Filtering Technology, Privacy*)
9.      Open source software
10.     Distance education and courseware

Presentations must have a technological focus and they must pertain to 
libraries and/or be of interest to librarians. Concurrent sessions are 
approximately 70 minutes in length.

Forum 2006 will also accept a limited number of poster session proposals. 
Presenters should indicate their interest in a poster session on their 
proposals.

Presenters are required to submit handouts one month in advance for the 
Forum notebook, and handouts will be made available on the Web site after 
the event.

Your proposals are welcome and much appreciated! To submit a proposal, send 
the following information via email (in ASCII, PDF, or RTF format):

*       Title
*       Abstract and brief outline
*       Target audience (Public Library, Academic Library, Special Library, 
Other - please specify)
*       Content type (technical, overview, case study, Other - please specify)
*       Brief biographical information. Include experience as a presenter 
and expertise in the topic
*       Full contact information
*       Is this proposal for a concurrent session?
*       Is this proposal for a poster session?
*       If this proposal is for a concurrent session, might this be a 
possible poster session?
*       How you heard about the 2006 Forum Call for Proposals

The 2006 Forum Planning Committee will review proposals at the ALA 
Midwinter Conference in January 2006. You will be contacted about the 
status of your proposal by the end of February 2006.

Submit proposals (in ASCII, PDF, or RTF) by December 15, 2005, to:  Mary 
Taylor, mtaylor at ala.org, Executive Director, Library and Information 
Technology Association.


This call for proposals is also posted on the LITA website at 
http://www.lita.org/ala/lita/litaevents/litanationalforum2006nashvilletn/06_Call.pdf 




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Zoe Stewart-Marshall
Database Enrichment Librarian
Cornell University
107E Olin Library  Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone (607) 255-5757  Fax (607) 255-6110