[Air-L] CFP: The Ethics of Information Organization

[Michael Zimmer]

* Conference announcement & Call for papers *
  (apologies for cross-posting)


The Ethics of Information Organization

May 22-23, 2009
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Information organization (IO), like other major functions of the  
information profession, faces many ethical challenges. In the IO  
literature, ethical concerns have been raised with regard to, for  
example, the role of national and international IO standards,  
providing subject access to information, deprofessionalization and  
outsourcing of IO, education of IO professionals, and the effects of  
globalization. These issues, and others like them, have serious  
implications for quality and equity in information access. The Center  
for Information Policy Research and the Information Organization  
Research Group at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee join in  
presenting this conference to address the ethics of information  
organization.

The themes of the conference may include, but are not limited to,  
ethical aspects of and approaches to:

     * The role of standards in IO
     * Subject access to information
     * Description and Metadata
     * Folksonomies and social tagging as IO
     * Day-to-day practice in IO
     * Professionalism and IO
     * Education for IO
     * Culture and IO
     * Economic, social and political factors in IO
     * International, multicultural and multilingual aspects of IO

The keynote speakers will be:

     * Clare Beghtol, Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
     * José Augusto Chaves Guimarães, Professor, Universidade Estadual  
Paulista, Brazil
     * Janet Swan Hill, Professor, Associate Director for Technical  
Services, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries, USA

We invite interested participants to submit proposals for papers to  
include: name(s) of presenter(s), title(s), affiliation(s), contact  
information and abstracts of 300-500 words. Presentations will be 30  
minutes. Time will be set aside for questions as well as broader  
discussion. All abstracts will be published on the Web site of the UW- 
Milwaukee Center for Information Policy Research. Full papers will be  
further reviewed for publication in a special issue of Cataloging and  
Classification Quarterly.

    Abstracts due: January 1, 2009
    Notification of acceptance by: February 1, 2009
    Full papers due: April 3, 2009

Submit proposals electronically to: Hur-Li Lee, Chair of the Program  
Committee (hurli at uwm.edu)

Program Committee:

     * Grant Campbell, Associate Professor, University of Western  
Ontario, Canada
     * Allyson Carlyle, Associate Professor, University of Washington
     * Clara M. Chu, Associate Professor, University of California,  
Los Angeles
     * Edwin Michael Cortez, Professor/Director, University of Tennessee
     * Birger Hjørland, Professor, The Royal School of Library and  
Information Science in Denmark
     * Hur-Li Lee (Chair) Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin- 
Milwaukee
     * Steven J. Miller, Senior Lecturer, University of Wisconsin- 
Milwaukee
     * Hope A. Olson, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
     * Sandra Roe, Editor, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly ,  
Bibliographic Services Librarian, Milner Library, Illinois State  
University
     * Richard P. Smiraglia, Professor, Long Island University
     * Michael Zimmer, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin- 
Milwaukee

Sponsors:

     * Center for Information Policy Research, UW-Milwaukee
     * Information Organization Research Group at UW-Milwaukee
     * University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
     * Milwaukee Public Libraries


-- 
Michael Zimmer, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
Associate, Center for Information Policy Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
e: zimmerm at uwm.edu
w: www.michaelzimmer.org