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Two funded PhDs at the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s

Two funded PhDs at the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s Two Scholarships at the PhD level (starting September 2016) are available in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University to work on a project, funded through a SSHRC Partnership Grant on “Big Data Surveillance” under the supervision of David Lyon and/or David Murakami Wood. The…

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CfP Libraries In the Digital Age (LIDA), 13-17 June 2016, Zadar, Croatia

CfP Libraries In the Digital Age (LIDA), 13-17 June 2016, Zadar, Croatia Authors are invited to submit paper abstracts (up to 1500 words); poster, panel, demonstration, workshop, dissertation (PhD forum) and student showcase abstracts (up to 750 words) to the conference Libraries In the Digital Age (LIDA) which will be held at the University of…

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altmetrics15: 5 years in, what do we know?

altmetrics15: 5 years in, what do we know? Call for contributions: altmetrics15 workshop   Altmetrics intend to measure impact of scholars and scholarly documents not captured by traditional bibliometrics, which are usually restricted to counting peer-reviewed journal articles and citations within them. Five years after the publication of the altmetrics manifesto, it seems time to take stock…

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BOBCATSSS – LYON 2016

BOBCATSSS – LYON 2016  Call for Papers BOBCATSSS: January 27-29, 2016 Deadline for abstract submission: September 15 2015 BOBCATSSS 2016 explores the main theme of Information, Libraries, and Democracy through several key topics: The Role of Libraries in Democratic Cultures, Intellectual Freedom and Censorship, Libraries, Open Access and Open Data, and Protecting Privacy. We welcome your contribution! The…

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WATCH – ESC Webinar now online

WATCH – ESC Webinar now online The ESC webinar series “Information Science and Library Science across Europe” continues. The webinar from Apr 16th, 2015 is online! Webinar “Information Science and Library Science across Europe” – City University London and University of Düsseldorf

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Where to study? Information Science and Library Science across Europe

Where to study? Information Science and Library Science across Europe Date: Thursday, April 16, 4:00pm-5:00pm (GMT+1) Start in London: 4 pm Start in Berlin, Düsseldorf etc: 5 pm There are lot of places across Europe for students to study Information Science and /or Library Science. This webinar is part of the series “Information Science and…

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The Doctoral Consortium of the Digital Libraries 2015

The Doctoral Consortium of the Digital Libraries 2015 https://sites.google.com/site/jcdl2015/doctoral-consortium *** Submission deadline has been extended to “April 24” *** [Call for Participation] June 21, 2015 The Doctoral Consortium forms part of the program of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, and takes place immediately preceding the technical program. [What is the Doctoral Consortium?] The…

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Call for I-Stories

Call for I-Stories SIG History & Foundations of Information Science Information and communication phenomena are at the heart of our daily lives. They are how we know things and yet our understanding of these concepts and underlying phenomena are at best slippery. Just when we think we’ve pinned or penned them down nicely with a…

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ESRC Collaborative Studentship in climate change and technology adaptation to support service continuity and flood response and resilience

ESRC Collaborative Studentship in climate change and technology adaptation to support service continuity and flood response and resilience ESRC Collaborative Studentship in climate change and technology adaptation to support service continuity and flood response and resilience   ICT and telecommunications networks form a key part of today’s critical national infrastructure, essential to proper functioning of…

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