Theme: City Life and Library Service
Date: August 24~26, 2010
Organizer: Shanghai Library/ Institute of Scientific & Technical Information of Shanghai
The biennial forum, conducted in the era of quickened growth of information industry and globalized development of libraries, provides opportunities of brainstorming centering on the latest progress, innovative measures and future trends of library science and service. With the intensified coverage of media and wide recognition from the library circle, the convening of the forum, combining keynote speeches, plenary session and individual seminars, appeals to over 300 participants for participation at home and abroad, among who are IFLA senior officials, library directors, professionals and experts from the information sector, researchers and people from other fields.
Expo 2010 Shanghai China will be held between May 1 and October 31, 2010 in Shanghai with the theme of "Better City, Bette Life". It would become a pageant for city life discussion, a symphony with the melody of technological innovation and cultural blending as well as a splendid between nations and cultures.
The forthcoming Forum coincides with World Expo and will include the 7th Chinese-Japanese International Seminar for the Librarianship and the 1st Shanghai Competitive Intelligence Forum (SCIF). The Organizer is now extending warm welcome to domestic and overseas colleagues alike to join the academic exchanges while celebrating meanwhile Expo 2010 Shanghai China.
The topic of this forum is "City Life and Library Service". To facilitate in-depth discussions, subtopics are designed as follows:
We solicit papers from researchers, professionals and people engaged in libraries or information institutes. Papers thus submitted shall be original research contributions or summaries of practical experience, which have not been published in any other periodicals or proceedings. Formats can be referred to at http://www.libnet.sh.cn/silf2010.
Please submit the abstract of your paper to the Organizing Committee prior to March 15, 2010 and the full text before April 30, 2010. All the papers will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee of SILF 2010 before the selected few get collected in the print proceedings of the conference for official publication.
More information will follow. If you have any question, please contact:
Guoqing Li
Head of Chinese/Korean Collection
Professor, University Libraries
The Ohio State University
5711C, Ackerman Library
610 Ackerman Road
Columbus, OH 43202-4500
United States of America
Email: li.272@osu.edu