The Asia-Pacific Library and Information Education and Practice (A-LIEP) Conference invites you to submit papers for the 2023 Conference to be held on December 5-6, 2023 hosted by the Graduate Institute of Library & Information Studies, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, and the conference venue is National Central Library, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. This year’s conference is co-located with the International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL) and the annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific chapter of iSchools (AP iSchools) under a collective title “2023 International Forum on Data, Information, and Knowledge for Resilient and Trustworthy Digital Societies” 

The 11th A-LIEP conference theme is: LIS Education, Research, and Practice: Resiliency, Equity, and Solidarity. This conference focuses on the challenges, opportunities, drivers and innovations in LIS education, research, and practice that were experienced and encountered by individuals and institutions to adapt and survive the recent pandemic and moving forward to the post-pandemic.  The implementation of remote teaching and learning, application of alternative research methods, and dependency on online information services has brought about issues in inequalities of information access and use, injustices and abuses in creation and dissemination of information, misinformation, censorship, and control of the narrative by the powerful. On the other hand new practices and processes have emerged and alternative research and teaching methods have been effected during these times that showed the resilience of the field, the educators, researchers and practitioners.  The conference provides the venue for the discussion of such issues, realizations, and innovations the context of information use, information professions, libraries, LIS education, and LIS research. 

The conference is an on-site face to face event, however, options to join and present online for those who cannot attend onsite will be available. 

Tracks and Integration Sessions

The conference will feature full and short research paper presentations on the following main topics/themes: LIS Education, LIS Practice, LIS Research. There will be two integration sessions and these are: a) Education and Pedagogy Panel  and b) Student Research Ideathon where students can discuss potential research projects, collaborate, and learn from one another. 

The track on Education and Pedagogy, which was introduced in 2021, provides a venue for discussions relating to pedagogy, curriculum, tenure, promotion, and other matters relating to LIS educators and teaching.  We are inviting submissions of abstracts for discussion for a maximum of 3,000 words. 

The Student Research Ideathon is a venue where students can participate and exchange ideas on how to draft research proposals and conduct research.  This can be an opportunity for students to get research collaborators, or suggestions for improvement of their proposals, or ideas for their future research.  We are inviting proposals from students/alumni who have already completed their research or students who currently are in the stages of drafting proposals to share their experiences, issues, roadblocks, best practices, etc. 

Submission Guidelines

LIS professionals, educators, students, and researchers are invited to submit via EasyChair and be guided by the following: 

• Full papers: maximum of 6,000 words
• Short papers: maximum of 4,000 words
• Education and pedagogy abstract: maximum of 3,000 words
• Student Research Ideathon abstract: maximum of 2,500 words

Papers should be written in English.  Please use the paper format indicated below (Times New Roman, pt 11, single space, APA citation style). The template is provided here.

Selected papers will be published in Scopus-indexed journals (such as LIBRES e-journal).

List of Topics

LIS Education

• LIS pedagogies
• Reading advisory
• Cooperative education
• Challenges in LIS education
• Collaboration among LIS schools/departments
• Curriculum design
• GLAM – Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums
• Community engagement
• Digital education
• Quality assurance and accreditation of LIS programs
• Lifelong learning
• Impact of LIS education to society

LIS Practice

• Technology application for LIS
• Service design and design thinking in libraries
• Digital and data curation, Digital preservation, Digital stewardship
• GLAM – Galleries, Libraries Archives, and Museums
• Relevance of libraries to society
• Leadership development and strategic management in libraries
• Libraries as a place: physical and virtual
• New competencies in LIS
• Evaluation in LIS
• Evidence-based librarianship
• Mobile platforms of libraries
• Collaboration among libraries and with other professions
• Use of AI Technologies in Libraries

LIS Research

• Digital repositories
• Human Information Interaction
• Information literacy, Digital literacy, Data literacy, Media literacy
• Organization of Data, Information, and Knowledge
• Semantic web and linked data
• Knowledge management and knowledge services
• Text and data mining
• Digital humanities and digital cultural heritage
• Big Data and data science
• Information visualization
• Research evaluation in Science, Social Science, and Humanities
• Search as learning
• Gamification in libraries
• Digital scholarship

Committees

Conference Chair

• Hao-Ren Ke, Graduate Institute of Information Studies, National Taiwan Normal University

Program Committee Co-Chairs

• Kathleen Lourdes B. Obille, School of Library and Information Studies, University of the Philippines
• Andrew Wertheimer, Library & Information Science Program, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Education and Pedagogy Panel Co-Chair

• Songphan Cheomprayong Department if Library and Information Science, Chulalongkorn University 

Student Research Ideathon Co-Chairs

• Christopher Khoo, Wee Kim Wee School of Information and Communication, Nanyang Technological University
• Chern Li Liew, School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington

Venue

The conference will be held in National Central Library, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to info@a-liep.org