Call for Papers — Satellite Meetings
Local History and Genealogy Section joint with Asia and Oceania Section
- 21 February 2019, 11:43
Theme: "1: Libraries as mediators, producers and partners in the development of community awareness and cultural understanding and 2: Local History and Genealogy in multiethnic societies, the impact of genetic mapping and digitized sources "
** Deadline extended to 15 April 2019 **
Topics
1. “Libraries as mediators, producers and partners in the development of community awareness and cultural understanding”
The topic reflects a corresponding institutional change: we must take a more active, and a more collaborative role in bringing the new knowledge to our public – in local, national and world-wide communities.
2. “Local History and Genealogy in multiethnic societies, the impact of genetic mapping and digitized sources”
The topic emphasizes the deep changes in our inputs and how new technologies allow us to collect, analyze and connect much more data – much faster – than before.
Date
Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 August 2019
Venue
University Library “Svetozar Markovic”, 71 Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Organizers
Local History and Genealogy Section joint with Asia and Oceania Section
For the Conference Program and Registration please visit: http://www.unilib.rs/ifla-2019/?lang=en
We invite proposals for papers to be presented at their joint open session to be held during Satellite Meeting in Belgrade, Serbia, 21-22 August 2019.
Background
Today, libraries, archives, museums and documentation centres are moving from a reactive to a productive role. Though they continue to collect, preserve and support the use of historical documents and records, they also engage and participate in the production, publication and active dissemination of new resources based on their collections – as the «sites of knowledge retrieval». They have become centers of knowledge production, both in the material and the virtual world.
The growing use of low-cost genetic testing, combined with the massive scanning and digitization of genealogical records, allows ordinary families to study both their family trees and their ethnic background in great depth and detail. The results tend to show more variation (multiple ethnic backgrounds) than most people are currently aware of.
The session welcomes papers that discuss:
– Innovative use of historical and genealogical collections
– Collaborative work with historical and genealogical societies
– Local History, Local Community and use of social technologies, like crowdsourcing
– Genetic genealogy and the promise of DNA
– Responses to new demands from the well-informed users
– Multi-ethnicity in local history and culture, avoiding more traditional nationalistic and regional perspectives
We encourage evidence based practice and invite presentations and analysis of projects which can be of practical value to others. Submissions in other formats than academic papers ( such as reports, multimedia presentations and essays) are welcome.
Participants are encouraged to discuss both successes and failures in their papers.
Submission Guidelines
The deadline for submitting a detailed abstract (up to 250 words) and full author details is 31 March 2019 extended to 15 April 2019.
Proposals should be submitted using the following web address: https://goo.gl/forms/Mi1pvSqWMyUP98oq2
If this website is unavailable, please contact the Convener:
Laila Hussein Moustafa
Email: lhoussei@illinois.edu
or
Bozena Rasmussen
Email: bozennara@gmail.com
Potential presenters will be notified whether they have been successful by 21 April 2019.
The full paper is due on 15 June 2019. It should be an original submission not published elsewhere.
To encourage interaction and debate at the conference session, we will be using a lightning talk model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_talk
There will be a maximum of ten presenters, each allowed no more than 7 minutes.
Individual presentations should focus on a few central ideas or theses. Presentations that use visual communication (images, graphics) are recommended. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PechaKucha for inspiration.
The presentations will be followed by discussions at small tables. Presenters will move from table to table, spending about fifteen minutes at each.
The session will be conducted in English. The actual papers may be written in English, Spanish, French, Russian, or another East European language. The proposals (abstracts), the oral presentations and the following discussion should be in English, however.
The author(s) should indicate his/her personal full contact details and include a brief biographical note with the paper.
Both abstracts and full papers should be submitted as digital files by email. Fax or post should be used only as a last resort.
Papers should be 5000 words maximum (about 20 pages double-spaced).
Contact
Please direct any questions to the session convener:
Laila Hussein Moustafa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Email: lhoussei@illinois.edu
or
Bozena Rasmussen
Email: bozennara@gmail.com
Submissions
All proposals must be received by 15 April 2019.
Please note
At least one of the authors must be present in Belgrade. Abstracts should only be submitted with the understanding that the expenses of attending the conference will be the responsibility of the author(s) of accepted papers.
All papers that are presented at the WLIC 2019 will be made available online via the IFLA Library http://library.ifla.org under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Author’s of accepted papers must complete the IFLA Author’s Permission Form at https://forms.ifla.org/node/add/wlic-authors-permission-form.
All expenses, including registration for the conference, travel and accommodation, are the responsibility of the authors/presenters. No financial support can be provided by IFLA, but a special invitation letter can be issued to authors.
Congress Participation Grants
List of opportunities for support is available on IFLA’s web site:
https://2019.ifla.org/congress-information/conference-participation-grants/
Satellite Meeting & Program Committee
Laila Hussein Moustafa, Session Convener, University of Illinois, United States
Bozena Rasmussen, Ex-Chair 2015-2017, retired librarian, Norway
Katherine Cordes, New York Public Library, United States
Arvydas Pacevicius, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Maja Markhouss, Almedalen Library, Sweden
Russell Lynch, Correspponding Member, Family Search org., United States
Milena Kostić, University Library “Svetozar Marković”, Belgrade, Serbia
Hector Orellana Flores, Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile, Chile