15-21 August 2015, Cape Town, South Africa
Theme:
Repositioning Libraries in the Asia Pacific Region - Evolving Strategies, Innovative Services
In keeping with the conference’s overall theme, Dynamic Libraries: Access, Development and Transformation, the Asia and Oceania Open Session will focus on how libraries respond to opportunities for empowering citizens, enhancing learning, and adopting ICTs to name a few, and what this might mean for librarians in terms of their knowledge, skills and attitude.
We seek contributions that illustrate the different ways in which libraries in Asia and Oceania are repositioning themselves to enhance their effectiveness and impact.
We encourage professionals across the region to submit proposals for papers on a topic of their choice relating to the session theme. Possible topics include:
While our suggested topics are similar to others which will be discussed at the Conference, our approach as a Section is to look at these topics from a broad Asia-Oceania perspective. Authors who submit papers on local or national initiatives should indicate how their conclusions or lessons learned could be applied elsewhere.
Full abstracts (500 words) should be prepared following the template provided below. Each abstract will be blind reviewed by members of the Regional Standing Committee for Asia and Oceania.
Abbreviated abstracts or late submissions will not be considered.
Purpose of this paper |
What are the reason(s) for writing the paper (or the aims of the research)? |
Theme |
How does it relate to the theme? |
Design/methodology/approach |
How are the objectives achieved? Include the main method(s) used for the study. What is the approach to the topic, and what is the theoretical or subject scope of the paper? |
Findings |
What was found in the course of the work? This will refer to analysis, discussion, or results. |
Research limitations/implications (if applicable) |
If research is reported on in the paper, this section must be completed and should include suggestions for future research and any identified limitations in the research process. |
Practical implications (if applicable) |
What outcomes and implications for practice, applications and consequences are identified? All papers should have practical applications. What changes to practice might be made as a result of this research/paper? |
What is original/value of paper |
What is new in the paper? State the value of the paper and to whom. |
Please send your abstract by 31 January 2015 to:
Dr. Chihfeng P. Lin, RSCAO Chair
Email: chihfeng@cc.shu.edu.tw
AND
Takashi Nagatsuka, RSCAO Secretary
Email: nagatsuka-t@tsurumi-u.ac.jp
All proposals must be in before 31 January 2015.
All expenses, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation etc., are the responsibility of the authors/presenters. No financial support can be provided by IFLA, but a special invitation letter can be issued to authors.
All papers that are presented at the WLIC 2015 will be made available online via the IFLA Library under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. Authors of accepted papers must complete the IFLA Author Form.
List of opportunities for support is available on our Conference Participation Grants webpage.
Last update: 17 December 2014