Plenary Speakers 1. Lars Bjørnshauge Consultant SPARC Europe – www.sparceurope.org Managing Director DOAJ – www.doaj.org 2. Vanda Broughton Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Studies University College London, UK 3. Hazel Hall Professor of Social Informatics, Edinburgh Napier University, UK 4. Martha Kyrillidou Research Associate at the iSchool at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign She teaches Research Methods at Kent State University 5. Jackie Marfleet Senate House Librarian, Senate House, University of London, UK 6. Sohair Wastawy Dean of Libraries, Florida Institute of Technology, USA 7. Sheila Webber Senior Lecturer & Director of the Centre for Information Literacy Research, Information School, The University of Sheffield, UK | Special and Invited Sessions of the Conference 1. Emerging trends in Agricultural Information Systems Worldwide Coordinator: Deva E. Reddy, PhD, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-5000, dereddy@xxxxxxxx 2. Linking research and practice: the synergies and their relevance to practice, policy and academia Coordinator: Maria G. N. Musoke, Professor of Information Science and Former University Librarian, Makerere University, Kampala. Uganda. East Africa. Contact: mmusoke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx , maria.gnmusoke@xxxxxxxxx 3. Issues in International Library and Information Science Education Coordinators: Terry L. Weech, PhD, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, weech@xxxxxxxxxxxx and Fredrick Kiwuwa Lugya, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and Librarian I (Academic), Makerere University Library, flugya@xxxxxxxxx 4. Reimagining the Academic Library: Building a New and Renovating the Old Coordinator: Brian Lym*, Professor and Dean of University Libraries, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, USA Contact: blym@xxxxxxxxxxx 5. Effects of the digitization – tools and cases for the analysis of the digital knowledge economy to the academic libraries Coordinators: Jarmo Saarti1 and Markku Laitinen2* 1University of Eastern Finland 2National Library of Finland 6. Bibliometric Research Coordinator: Teresa S. Welsh, Ph.D., Professor of Library & Information Science, University of Southern Mississippi, USA | WORKSHOPS 1. From reflection to innovation: Using a mixed bag of assessment techniques and action research to reinvigorate your teaching Giovanna Badia ( http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1544-2728 ) Schulich Library of Science & Engineering McGill University, Montreal, Quebec giovanna.badia@xxxxxxxxx 2. A Simple Mobile Interactive Lab for Experiments (SMILE) Dr. Peiling Wang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. peilingw@xxxxxxx 3. The Emerging Innovative Models of Scientific Publishing: Are We Ready to Manage New Digital Entities? Dr. Peiling Wang1 and Dr. Dietmar Wolfram2 1.University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA [email: peilingw@xxxxxxx] 2.University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA [dwolfram@xxxxxxx] 4. New public management – Success story or just an excuse for cost-reduction in libraries? Prof. Dr. Petra Düren1 and Jarmo Saarti2 1Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Department Information. E-mail: petra.dueren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2 University of Eastern Finland Library. E-mail: jarmo.saarti@xxxxxx For more information visit the related conference webpage at: http://www.isast.org/sessionsprogram2016.html |