PROLISSA CONFERENCE (9-11 March 2011)

Registration due dates (register online at: www.unisa.ac.za/prolissa2011 )


Early Bird: until 31 January 2011
Standard: from 1 February to 28 February 2011
Late: from 1 March 2011

1. Main conference (10-11 March 2011)
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:
1. Information and knowledge management
2. Information seeking and retrieval
3. Information organisation and representation
4. Information for development
5. Indigenous knowledge and indigenous knowledge systems
6. Information technology
7. Information law, ethics and philosophy
8. Information dissemination
9. Informetrics
10. Digital libraries and portals
11. Web development and web technologies

2. Doctoral Forum (9 March 2011)
The Doctoral Forum is part of the biennially held DISSAnet series of conferences which endeavour to showcase South African and Southern African research in the broad field of Information Science.

For more information (including preliminary programmes and registration ) about the conference, please visit the conference website: http://www.unisa.ac.za/prolissa2011 You can also contact Prof P Ngulube (ngulup@unisa.ac.za) and/or Dr. OB Onyancha (onyanob@unisa.ac.za) for more information.