The 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education and Practice (A-LIEP 2016)

There are three conference tracks: LIS Education, LIS Practice and LIS Research. The following list of topics for the 3 conference tracks is suggestive, but not exhaustive.

LIS Education 

• Challenges in LIS education nationality or internationality 

• Collaboration and resource sharing among LIS schools/departments 

• Cultivation of scientific data specialists 

• MOOCs and LIS education 

• Impact of big data on LIS education 

• Preparing LIS graduates for the new market 

• Quality assurance and accreditation of LIS programs 

• Impact of LIS education on the work and career of LIS graduates 

• Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development in LIS 

• Developing Competencies of LIS Professionals 

• Impact of new ICTs on LIS curriculum

LIS Practice 

• Collaboration among Libraries and with other professions 

• Competency standards for library and information services 

• Customer-focused services 

• Efficiency vs. Effectiveness of Libraries 

• Impact of Mobile Technologies on Libraries 

• Integrating teaching, research and practice 

• Leadership development and strategic management in libraries 

• Digital Preservation 

• Outsourcing of Information Services 

• User education and information literacy for life-long learning 

• Libraries as learning organizations 

• Libraries’ role in curating and exposing big data 

• Future libraries, future librarians, future skills

LIS Research 

• Digital Libraries, Digital Archives 

• Information Behavior 

• Information Literacy 

• Information Organization, Knowledge Organization 

• Knowledge Management and Knowledge Services 

• Semantic Web and Linked Data 

• Text and Social Media Mining 

• Digital Humanities 

• Big Data and Data Science 

• Information Visualization 

• Scientometrics and scientific evaluation