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EPLIP 7 Call for Abstracts and Conference Update
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It’s full steam
ahead for the 7th International Evidence Based Library and
Information Practice conference (EBLIP7) coming up from July 15-18, 2013 in
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The University Library, University of
Saskatchewan is pleased to host the international EBLIP community with an
interesting day of preconference workshops (July 15) and three days of
conference sessions, posters, networking, engagement, and fabulous food!
The deadline
to submit abstracts for papers and posters has been extended until December
21, 2012. Research papers, reviews of evidence, reports of innovative
practice, hot topic discussion papers and poster presentations are invited.
In the spirit of
our conference title The Possibilities are Endless and in line with
EBLIP7’s prairie roots, key themes include:
- Beyond the
horizon - visioning the future, investigation, discovery
- Ploughing
new terrain - cultivating and enhancing productivity through innovation,
experimentation, transforming practice
- Harvesting
the rewards - assessing outcomes, impact, value
- Summer
fallow - lessons learnt, reflection, insight
In other news,
the organizers of EBLIP7 are very proud to announce the keynote speakers for
this event.
Denise Koufogiannakis will be the opening keynote speaker on
Tuesday, July 16 to open the conference. Denise is the Collections and
Acquisitions Coordinator at the University of Alberta Libraries. As well, she
is a researcher, editor, speaker, and mentor. Denise has embraced evidence
based library and information practice (EBLIP) since the very early days of its
inception. Publishing and speaking on EBLIP since 2001 and contributing to the
LIS evidence base through papers and book chapters, Denise is a key driver in
the international EBLIP movement.
Dan Gardner will
close the EBLIP7 conference, presenting the closing keynote address on the
afternoon of Thursday, July 18. Dan is an Ottawa-based journalist and author of
the best-selling books Future Babble and Risk. His writing has
won or been nominated for most major prizes in Canadian journalism, including
the National Newspaper Award, the Michener Award, the Canadian Association of
Journalists award, the Amnesty International Canada Media Award for reporting
on human rights, and a long list of other awards, particularly in the field of
criminal justice and law. Today, he is an opinion columnist who refuses to be
pigeonholed as a liberal or conservative and is positively allergic to all
varieties of dogma.