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

We welcome papers and participants interested in the philosophy of information and its relation to library and information sciences.

Deadline for submission of papers is 1/3 2013. 

Call for papers -Important dates

• 1/3 2013: deadlines for submission of papers forwarded in Word format
• 19/8 - 22/8 2013: CoLIS 8
• 18/8 2013: Doctoral Forum

All accepted papers will be published in the journal Information Research and they will be indexed in Web of Science (/Social Sciences Citation Index and other important bibliographical databases)
Apply here: http://iva.dk/english/colis8/call-for-papers/ and see all important dates at: http://www.iva.dk/english/colis8/

Conference Theme

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: