CALL FOR PAPERS

IMPORTANT NOTE: The deadline for proposals is January 28, 2005.

Proposal form for papers or posters
Guidelines for authors

The Conference Planning Committee invites proposals for papers and posters for the 2005 Annual IATUL Conference. The theme of the meeting is

               Information and Innovation

Through sub-themes, we will advance understanding about the relationship between the generation, publication and use of scientific information and the innovation agendas of governments, industry and universities worldwide. Our interest is exploring the relationship between the advancement of knowledge and the advancement of society, how new knowledge is made public to stakeholder communities, how it reinforces and strengthens the innovation capacity of communities at the local, regional and national levels and what libraries can do to optimize the process.

Proposals are invited for papers on three conference sub-themes:

• Infrastructure

  In this, we hope to address issues of interest to libraries with respect to funding initiatives, technological advances and publishing. A speaker will give a keynote address and invited papers will cover topics such as institutional repositories, cyber publishing, consortia acquisitions, usability, etc.

• People

  In this, we expect to address the user culture associated with scientific publications, and the competencies that we must cultivate and support for the end user community, as well the competencies that librarians must develop as professional information suppliers and experts to meet future needs. Again, there will be a keynote speaker as well as invited papers.

• Global innovation initiatives

  This topic will call upon a globally representative panel of senior officials to discuss specific initiatives that are illustrative of the impact of scholarly scientific publishing and knowledge management on innovation agendas.

Invited speakers include:

• Hal Berghel, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
• Michael Breaks, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
• Alex Byrne, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
• Brian Cantwell Smith, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
• Arthur J. Carty, National Science Advisor to the Prime Minister, Ottawa, Canada
• Blaise Champagne, NRC Industrial Materials Institute, Boucherville, Canada
• Stevan Harnad, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada
• David E. Schulenburger, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

IATUL 2005 Paper Submissions
Bibliothèque scientifique
Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon
Université Laval
Québec, Canada
G1K 7P4
iatul2005-call@bibl.ulaval.ca