Introduction
The
importance of schools and libraries as the centers for the
transmission of heritage and for breaking new grounds in
human civilization goes without saying. School libraries
have been playing a pivotal role as learning resource
centers for a long time. Today their place in the
e-learning environment is becoming more prominent. Given
their centrality, it is vital to examine how school
libraries have adopted new communication technologies, and
adapted to the digital world.
The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for
academics, researchers and those who work in elementary and
secondary schools and their libraries, to share their
views, opinions, outlooks, and results, which can generate
guidelines for the effective use of newly developed digital
technologies in an e-learning environment.
The Organizing Committee of the 36th Annual Conference of
the International Association of School Librarianship
(IASL), incorporating the 11th International Forum on
Research in School Librarianship, would like to extend an
invitation for you to participate in the Taipei 2007 Annual
Conference.
Proposals are invited for presentations that address
practice and research on the theme:
Cyberspace,
D-world, E-learning: Giving Libraries and Schools the
Cutting Edge
Presentations that assess the impact of ever-advancing
technologies on libraries and schools, and the integration
of strategies that systematically push the envelope towards
the cutting edge of practice, are strongly encouraged.
Below are the sub-themes to be discussed at IASL Taipei
2007.
Sub-themes
I. New
Communication Technologies and School
Libraries
With the new wave of Web
2.0 on the world stage, students may be more familiar and
skilled in working with its tools and attractions,
including RSS, Wikis, Podcasting, P2P, Blogs, etc. Critical
topics include:
1. Students and teachers interaction with
Web 2.0 and other new technologies
2. Changes in teaching
methods brought about by new technologies
3. School
library’s use of Web 2.0 and other new
technologies
II.
Collaborative Teaching and School
Libraries
Collaborative teaching
brings together school librarians, teachers of the same and
other schools, and even other institutions from other
countries, to perform teaching tasks. Critical topics
include:
1. Collaborative teaching: state of art
experiences
2. Impacts of collaborative teaching on
learning
3. Measures school libraries take to contribute to
collaborative teaching
4. Teamwork teaching created by
librarians and teachers
III. e-Learning and School Libraries
Digital learning
environment make it possible for students to interact with
teachers and fellow students via teaching websites and
related facilities. Critical topics include:
1. Experiences
gained in developing digital learning materials in
elementary and secondary schools
2. Assessment of the
effectiveness of digital learning in schools
3. Roles
school libraries play in digital learning
environment
IV.
Interaction between the Digital Library and
e-Learning
School libraries have
taken big steps towards becoming e-learning resource
centers. They have acquired substantial e-learning
materials, have structured teachers’ teaching websites, and
have made tremendous efforts to integrate digital libraries
with e-learning systems. Critical topics include:
1.
Directions for school libraries to take towards becoming
digital
2. Gaps and differences to overcome for traditional
libraries to benefit from advanced information
infrastructures
3. Interaction and integration between
school libraries and e-learning systems
V. New Reading Behavior and Information Literacy for
Teachers and Students
It is vital to address how
an ever evolving digital world impacts on two of the most
critical activities taken place in school libraries:
reading and information searching. Critical topics
include:
1. Needs and requirements of students and teachers
relying more and more on websites
2. Assessing information
literacy
3. Evaluation of use by students and teachers of
e-books, e-journals, and other
e-resources
Types of
Presentations
Four types of presentations will be
offered in this conference:
● Professional
Papers:
Papers that describe and discuss the
presenter's work in relation to theory and/or practice.
●
International Research Forum
Presentations:
Papers that describe the presenter's research, either
completed or on-going, in relation to the conference theme
● Workshops/Demonstrations:
Presentations that feature one or more persons working with
a group to help them develop skills in a specific teaching
or research technique.
●
Poster
Sessions:
Descriptions of practice or theory presented visually.
Presenters are required to be present for a specific period
of time in order to answer questions.
Proposals for Professional Papers,
Workshops/Demonstrations and Posters must include:
●
Title of paper
●
Detailed description outlining
paper content and relevance to professional practice
(approximately 500 words ).
Proposals for the International Research
Forum presentations must include a detailed description
(approximately 1,000 words):
●
Title of paper/study
●
Research questions and/or
hypotheses/purposes of study
●
Methodology/process
●
Results/findings (may be
preliminary)
●
Conclusions (may be
preliminary)
All proposals will be
independently reviewed before acceptance. The Review Panel
for the International Research Forum will be drawn from
IASL members worldwide.
The Criteria for Selection will
include relevance to conference theme, clarity of
description, intellectual significance, relevance to
audience, and originality
All proposals must be in
English and submitted by 30 November 2006.
Important dates
Deadline for submission of
proposals and abstracts 30
November 2006
Notification of acceptance of proposals and
abstracts 15
January 2007
Submission of full papers for inclusion in the
proceedings 30 March
2007
Submission
On line submission:
Site: http://www.iasl2007.org.tw/commence2007
By post:
Send a hard copy to
Prof. Chao-chen Chen, Graduate Institute of Library and
Information Studies, National Taiwan Normal University,
129, He-ping East Road, Section 1, Taipei, Taiwan,
By fax:
+
886-2-23518476
Attention: Prof. Chao-chen Chen
By email:
Subject: IASL paper
proposal submission
Email attachments in Microsoft Word
to cc4073@ntnu.edu.tw
Criteria for Selection
Relevance to conference themes
Clarity of description
Intellectual significance
Relevance to audience
Originality