Eight International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS 8)

Key note speakers are Luciano Floridi, Nancy van House and Stefan Gradmann.

The conference theme is philosophies, social and cultural perspectives and other new perspectives on all established subfields of LIS including:

• Knowledge organization and information architecture
• Knowledge management
• Library studies
• Information behavior
• Interactive information retrieval
• Bibliometrics and scholarly communication
• Information literacy
• Etc etc.

Keynote Speakers

Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics at the University of Hertfordshire, and Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford.
Nancy van House, Professor, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley.
Stefan Gradmann, Professor of Library and Information Science at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin / Berlin School of Library and Information Sciences. Gradmann on Libraries after Books: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrzSPACnJ0Q

Further information about the conference and the key-note speakers may be found at the conference homepage: