A-LIEP 2017: The 8th Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education and Practice Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand, November 13-14, 2017

The Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education and Practice (A-LIEP) is an international conference which has been regularly held in the Asia-Pacific region every one or two years since 2006. The conference provides Library & Information Science (LIS) educators, researchers and practitioners with the opportunity for sharing their research results, experiences and innovations in LIS, and stimulating greater collaboration and cooperation regionally and globally.

The 8th A-LIEP (A-LIEP 2017) will take place in Bangkok, Thailand on 13-14 November 2017. This conference will be arranged, for the first time, together with the 19th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL) to create synergy in the LIS development and advancement of digital libraries.

Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors are invited to submit their full papers, short papers, and posters which must be original and not simultaneously submitted to any journals or conferences and address the list of A-LIEP 2017 topics. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers: length 8 to 12 pages
• Short papers: length 4 to 7 pages
• Posters: abstract of 1 to 2 pages

The paper type of each submission should be indicated on the first page of the manuscript – full paper, short paper, or poster. As English is used as the official language of this conference, all submissions must be written in English. A paper template is provided for your reference (single-spaced, Times New Roman 11 pt. font). 

Please make your submission online in PDF format through the following EasyChair link: 

If you do not have an EasyChair account, please register first.  

Selected full papers will be published in a special issue of LIBRES e-journal (http://www.libres-ejournal.info/), after further revision.

List of Topics

The list of conference topics is divided into three tracks: LIS Education, LIS Practice, and LIS Research. It includes, but is not limited to, the following 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 

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

Program Committee

• Assoc. Prof. Andrew B. Wertheimer, PhD                     Co-chair
• Assist. Prof. Somsak Sriborisutsakul, PhD                   Co-chair
• Assist. Prof. Oranuch Sawetrattanasatian, PhD            Co-chair

Local Organizing Committee

Venue

The conference will be held at Faculty of Arts Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok Thailand

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to aliepcu2017@gmail.com