Just in case you have missed them, whilst you are busy preparing to attend VALA in Melbourne in just over a month, the call for papers for the other two big library conferences in Australia is open.

ALIA’s 2010 biennial conference was going to be IFLA Brisbane, but with the global financial crisis seeing that event moved back to Europe, they have returned to an ALIA conference, still to be held in Brisbane.

The call is out for papers for Access 2010 – to be submitted by 11th February (whilst you’re recovering from VALA).

Submissions are being sought on:

• Information literacy and web 2.0
• New Graduates – What next?
• Hidden Treasure: Finding the GOLD in Professional Development
• Public Libraries: A Surprise on Every Page
• Collective Wealth… Global Sharing, Global Resources

More details are available at the Access 2010 Call for Abstracts.

Information Online 2011

The call has also gone out for papers for the Online Conference, to be held in Sydney in 2011.   They are seeking abstracts on the following topic areas:

1. Library Spaces – Physical & virtual, collaborative learning commons, revitalising special collections, designing spaces to suit the needs of the client/customers, children and young adult collections
2. Knowledge Services and Enterprise Content Management – knowledge systems; communities of practice; enabling knowledge throughout an organisation; virtual communities; knowledge brokerage; ERAMS; intellectual capital; intranets
3. Digital Assets & Rights Management – Intellectual property protection; risk management; copyright; litigation information management; managing rich media; automated publishing systems ; being compliance; licensing; managing the information life cycle; authentication and information security; online identity
4. E-literacy – Learning management systems; Online learning environments; online gaming and problem solving; convergence of literacies – text, visual, multimedia & information; using social networking tools new technologies; CMC Tools; online assessment
5. Information Architecture – Tagging; taxonomies; folksonomies, classification; mesh networks, location aware technologies, social software, portals, SOAs, web bridges, websites, extranets, metadata, usability and interoperability; cloud computing; APIs; open platforms; semantics
6. Measuring our services – Now more important than ever?; measuring techniques, how to ensure quality & integrity, teaching end-users about quality/integrity, implementing quality initiatives; information audits, ROI on information services.
7. Emerging Technologies – Social media and networking tools; disruptive & converging technologies; multiple online environments; what to invest; smart cards; RFID; utilising mobile telephony; e-books
8. Professional Development – Doing more with less, professional education; succession planning & attracting talent; skills base needed for the profession; sustainability/future of the industry; skills shortages; future roles for the information professional
9. Search Tools & Techniques – Techniques for searching the social web; federated search, single search interfaces, training our clients; discovery vs supply – library role?
10. Publishing – Repositories/data warehousing; publishing trends & models; open access publishing; vendor/library partnerships; promotion of institutional research; pricing models; federated communities of researchers; curation & preservation of digital environments and data sets.
11. Information Management – Branding, data mining, globalization, information governance, sharing of resources, managing a hybrid collection, new trends and future directions, records & document management; business analysis.
12. How we deliver our services – Enhancing reference services; Utilising new technologies to deliver services; outsourcing; client management; collaborations and partnerships; hybrid service models; future models for Gen Y & Z clients; service architectures, customising services for clients.

Abstracts need to be submitted by 31st March 2010.

More details are available from the Information Online 2011 website.

Looking forward to what Libraries Interact readers will come up for these two significant events.