ALISE 2011 Preliminary Program

The ALISE 2011 preliminary conference program is now available. (.doc) Registration is also open. The annual conference will be held on January 4-7 in San Diego, CA.

Call for Papers - ALISE Distance Education SIG 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

ALISE Distance Education SIG

abstracts due: July 11, 2010

Distance Education SIG of Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) calls for papers to be presented at the ALISE conference in San Diego, California, January 4-8 2011. The 2011 conference theme is Competition, Competitiveness, and Innovation as a venue for discussing various approaches to remaining competitive and innovative. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• Ethical considerations of competition and innovation
• Race, gender, social class equity issues
• Changing modes of curricular delivery
• Approaches to preparing for the unforeseen innovations on the horizon
• Expanding student populations and competing for talent
• Competitiveness and innovation as research and scholarship expectations
• Innovative administrative structures and responses
• Developing and nurturing a successful culture of competitiveness and innovation
• Political aspects of competition and innovation
• Unions and unionization
• From radical, fringe, queer to mainstream—inclusion, competing for representation
• Critical approaches to conventional thought regarding library and information science education
• Accreditations, certifications, licensures
• Historical perspectives on competition and innovation in library and information science/ education for the LIS-archival studies-museum studies
• Competition and innovation—challenges and opportunities for access to information
• Globalization, internationalism, cross-nationalism, multilingualism, multicultural concerns
• Open source/closed source/managed services
• Responses to technological advances that have brought challenges, increased globalization, competition, and forced innovation

Submit abstracts of 500 to 750 words via email to ALISE Distance SIG Convenor Lorri Mon (lmon@fsu.edu) by July 11, 2010. Notice regarding acceptance will be sent by August 15. Also see the ALISE site for more information on the 2011 Conference: http://www.alise.org

Lorri Mon, Assistant Professor

College of Communication and Information

Florida State University

268 Louis Shores Building, 142 Collegiate Loop

Tallahassee, FL 32306

email: lmon@ fsu.edu

ALISE Distance Education SIG 2010

Thanks to Diane Barlow (Moderator), Elizabeth Aversa, Stephen Bajjaly, Trudi Bellardo Hahn, June Lester and Beth Rigs for their ALISE Distance Education SIG-sponsored session on "Setting the Tone for Collaborative Learning: Orientation for Online Distance Students," on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 2pm at the ALISE 2010 Conference in Boston. You can read the abstract on their presentation here.