Call for proposals: IFLA Satellite Conference
9 januari 2012
Van 8 t/m 10 augustus 2012 organiseert de IFLA Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group (WIL), in samenwerking met de Women’s Information Network Europe (WINE) een IFLA Satellite Conference, in Tampere (Finland). Het thema: “How can libraries and information centres improve access to women/gender information and preserve women’s cultural heritage?”. De organisatoren roepen op tot het aanleveren van proposals voor de conferentie.
Uit de oproep:"The Conference aims to discuss:
- ways libraries and information centres provide access to women, human rights and gender information
- ways to preserve women’s cultural heritage
- the role of libraries and information centres in the internet era, and the role of the internet in democratising access to women’s information and information for women
Papers can cover a wide range of related areas including:
1) Collection strategies
- Collection strategies of mainstream: whose histories are we collecting, and for whom are we collecting them?
- New directions: How do we shape collections so that they serve future diverse generations?
- Libraries and archives as knowledge producers
- Oral history projects
- Strategies for collecting and preserving the memories of migrant and refugee women
2) Providing access to women’s or gender information
- Tools to promote access to and enable exchange of women’s or gender information
- Thesauri, anthologies, tags, gender mainstreaming classification schemes
- Good practices in providing access to women’s and gender information
- Dissemination of gendered information in a globalised world
3) Libraries/information centres and new media in a gendered world:
- The changing function of libraries in the Internet era
- Dealing with the new media: challenge or opportunity?
- Digital information centres as a solution to financial and distribution challenges
- The digital gap, gender and development
- Developing digital libraries
- The role of social networks"
Deadlines
Proposals kunnen tot 31 januari 2012 ingediend worden.
Meer informatie
Over de call for proposals: www.minna.fi/web/guest/ifla-preconference-2012
Over de conferentie: www.minna.fi/web/guest/conference_information
