Nordic Research School in Library and Information Science

NORSLIS Ph.D. Conference 2008: Themes of LIS - research

Purpose:
This conference has several purposes.

It is to stimulate contacts between Ph.D. students and supervisors from different NORSLIS departments and to increase mobility of Ph.D. students, post-docs and senior researchers within the NORSLIS network. It is to foster cooperation between individuals and institutions by the means of presenting and discussing important topics in LIS – research.

The purpose is also through poster and paper presentations to give a view of the may aspects of Library and Information Science research. Conferences like this have proven to be excellent means for sharing the Nordic mentoring expertise and creating contacts between doctoral students and senior researchers.

There will be invited a number of Nordic and international senior researchers to give lectures on different aspects. The lecturers involved have recent experiences of informetric research.

Main responsible person
Prof Niels Ole Pors, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen

Co-organizers
Prof. Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen
PhD student Charles Seeger Jacobsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhage

Target audience:
The conference is primarily intended for PhD students within the NORSLIS network.

Credits:
NORSLIS recommends 2 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) for a PhD student presenting a paper and 1 ECTS for a Ph.D. student presenting a poster.

Time
2008, November 24-25

Monday 24 November

10.00 Opening of the conference – Niels Ole Pors
10.15 A presentation of NORSLIS: Past, present and future - Olle Persson
11.00 Theories, Models and Concepts in Information Behaviour Research - Donald O. Case
12.00 Lunch
13.00 The Landscape of Library and Information Science Research – Peter Ingwersen
14.00 Digital Image Retrieval - Maira Dudareva
14.30 Coffee break
14.45 New strands on research emerging from a social constructionist view: A practice-based approach to the study of information sharing in health sciences research groups. - Sanna K. Talja
15.30 Public library 2.0 in action – a study of its context and its stakeholders - Maria Kronqvist-Berg
The place of libraries of Latvian colleges in the system of information ensuring of higher education – Gita Komarova
16.30 Parallel business meetings:
PhD – students discuss their expectations and requirements in relation to future Nordic - Baltic cooperation. The students also select a representative to the board starting in 2009. Moderator: Charles Seeger Jacobsen
Researchers discuss their expectations and requirements in relation to future Nordic - Baltic PhD - cooperation. Moderator: Niels Ole Pors
18.30 Reception

Tuesday 25 November

09.00 Presentation of the outcomes of the business meetings
09.30 Posters with coffee 930 - 1100
11.00 Information seeking behaviour of the researcher of the future (the future is now) - David Nicholas
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Parallel business meetings:
Norslis Board Meeting: The new board will meet and discuss cooperation in the coming years.
Supervision of PhD students: We will arrange 4 – 5 workshops around themes. Senior researchers will participate.
15.00 Coffee break
15.15 Panel of the new Norslis Board: 2009 and Beyond
16.00 Closing of the conference

Travel:
Travel and accomodation costs will be reimbursed by Norslis.

Accommodation and venue:
You will stay at: Information later

Participation:
Each of the 15 NORSLIS departments should nominate 1 senior researcher and 2 doctoral students. They should be selected to represent their own department as a whole, and not only themselves as individuals.

Copy, fill in, one for each person, and e-mail to Niels Ole Pors :
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nomination for NORSLIS Ph.D. Conference

Name of NORSLIS department:

Last name:
First name:
Birth date:
Male/female:
Ph.D. student/Senior researcher:
E-mail address:
Estimated travel costs:
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Presentation:
Each department must prepare a poster containing information on PhD projects and the PhD organisation at the department. Further, we need an indication of which PhD students that wants to present a paper about their research. The selection of papers will hopefully give a broad view of the broad landscape of LIS – research.
The nominations must contain the following information.

Nomination deadline
2008, October 1st

Expected number of participants: 45 persons

Reimbursement will only cover travel costs since NORSLIS will pay for hotel and food.
We would very much appreciate if each department add up the travel costs for its participants.
Send the reimbursement invoice from your department to:

Niels Ole Pors
Professor
Department of Library and Information Management
Royal School of Library and Information Science
Birketinget 6
2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark