ProLISSA 2011: Preliminary Conference Programme

2011 ProLISSA Conference
Progress in Library and Information Science in Southern Africa

Sixth biennial DISSAnet Conference
University of South Africa (UNISA)
9-11 March 2011
9 March 2011: Doctoral Forum
10-11 March 2011: Conference

Main Conference

Preliminary programme (PDF)
Guidelines for authors (PDF)
Doctoral Forum

Structure of Presentations (PDF)
Call for papers (PDF)
Registrations

Registration Form
Committees

Venue
We have great pleasure in inviting you to submit a paper for the sixth ProLISSA conference, to be held in Pretoria on 9-11 March 2011, and / or an abstract for the doctoral forum to be held on 9 March 2011

About the DISSAnet conferences
The DISSAnet series of conferences are intended as a biennial event to showcase South African and Southern African research in the broad field of Information Science. The first five conferences took place in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2009. All five conferences were very successful, and were attended by a number of academics and information professionals from across South Africa, the SADC countries and further afield. Conference papers that were presented prior to 2009 can be found on the DISSAnet website at http://www.dissanet.com.

Themes
Information in modern society is valued as an essential component in the daily lives of people, both on individual and organisational levels. Increasingly we expect information to meet our needs through technological interventions or interactions. Indeed, recent technological developments have accentuated contemporary conceptions of the Library and Information field as an intersection of information, technology, people and society.

Contributions are invited that address current research issues related to the LIS field. Themes that may be addressed are wide and open, but an advanced academic level of discourse is required. Inter alia the following broad themes will be addressed at the conference:

Information and knowledge management
Information seeking and retrieval
Information organisation and representation
Information for development
Indigenous knowledge and indigenous knowledge systems
Information technology
Information law, ethics and philosophy
Information dissemination
Informetrics
Digital libraries and portals
Web development and web technologies
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Programme chair
TBA

International adviser(s)

Hannes Britz, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark

Committee members

Ismail Abdullahi, North Carolina Central University, USA
John Agada, Emporia State University, USA
Albert Boekhorst, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Theo Bothma, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Genevieve Hart, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Kalervo Jarvelin, University of Tampere, Finland
Mabel Majanja, University of South Africa, South Africa
Karin McGuirk, University of South Africa, South Africa
Kingo Mchombu, University of Namibia, Namibia
Mary Nassimbeni, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Patrick Ngulube, University of South Africa, South Africa
Dennis Ocholla, University of Zululand, South Africa
Bosire Onyancha, University of South Africa, South Africa
Christine Stilwell, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Adeline du Toit, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Thomas van der Walt, University of South Africa, South Africa
Elisam Magara, University of Makerere, Uganda
Stephen Mutula, University of Botswana, Botswana
Joseph Kiplang’at, Moi University, Kenya
Mutawakilu A. Tiamiyu, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Lawton Hikwa, National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe
Vitalis Chifwepa, University of Zambia, Zambia
Gavin Davis, University of Western Cape, South Africa