The value of cataloguing and “real” library data is a crucial issue in a time when the growing number of electronic publications and some significant developments in the field of digital libraries are changing the scenario in which traditional libraries act by bringing into question the goals of the services they provide.
The FSR Conference will be hosting a Doctoral Consortium on 26th February 2014.
General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
Please submit the abstracts of your paper or poster by email at <fsr2014-call@aib.it>. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 15th Nov. 2013 Extended!: 30th Nov. 2013
Accepted contributions will be limited to one paper and/or poster abstract per author. Abstract length should not exceed 500 words. Your topic could be described on a printed poster or by photographs, graphics and pieces of text that you attach to the presentation panel.
Please note that the language of the conference will be English, and therefore the committee will only accept submissions in this language (an abstract in Italian is optional).
All submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed.
Are you involved in an interesting project or in an area of work that you would like to discuss with or show to other congress attendees? Why not present your work in the Poster Session?
The conference theme ‘Faster, smarter, and richer. Reshaping the library catalogue’ may be presented by a printed poster or by photographs, graphics and texts attached on the given panel. Presentations are welcome in English (an Italian parallel version of the poster is also welcome).
Presenters of a poster will be expected to be present on Thursday 27th February (17.30-18.30) in order to explain their poster and to hand out any leaflets, or other information materials, they have available for viewers of their poster.
Colleagues interested in presenting a poster session are invited to send a brief description in English of not more than 200 words, together with a bio inclusive of affiliation (50 words).
The boards are located along the sides of the Conference Hall. Material has to be posted to the boards on Wednesday 26 February between 15:30 and 18:00. A member of the Conference staff will be available to assist. Leaflets or any other material that is not fixed to the board should be brought with you on the Poster Session days. The exact size of the boards, as well as the instruction as to how posters should be fixed onto the boards will be supplied later on.
Selected papers will be considered for publication in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly <http://catalogingandclassificationquarterly.com>.
If chosen, authors will have to obtain permission from the copyright holder to publish any work that is not their own (e.g. screenshots from databases), and submit their papers for peer review by April 1, 2014. The length of the manuscript should be maximum of 20,000 characters (Times New Roman 12pt, including blanks, excluding references)