CFP: The Ethics of Information Organization

* Conference announcement & Call for papers * 
   (apologies for cross-posting) 




The Ethics of Information Organization 



May 22-23, 2009 
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 



Information organization (IO), like other major functions of the information profession, 

faces many ethical challenges. In the IO literature, ethical concerns have been raised 

with regard to, for example, the role of national and international IO standards, providing 

subject access to information, deprofessionalization and outsourcing of IO, education of 

IO professionals, and the effects of globalization. These issues, and others like them, 

have serious implications for quality and equity in information access. The Center for 

Information Policy Research and the Information Organization Research Group at the 

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee join in presenting this conference to address the 

ethics of information organization. 



The themes of the conference may include, but are not limited to, ethical aspects of and 

approaches to: 

      * The role of standards in IO 
      * Subject access to information 
      * Description and Metadata 
      * Folksonomies and social tagging as IO 
      * Day-to-day practice in IO 
      * Professionalism and IO 
      * Education for IO 
      * Culture and IO 
      * Economic, social and political factors in IO 
      * International, multicultural and multilingual aspects of IO 



The keynote speakers will be: 

      * Clare Beghtol, Professor, University of Toronto, Canada 
      * José Augusto Chaves Guimarães, Professor, Universidade Estadual Paulista,         

         Brazil 
      * Janet Swan Hill, Professor, Associate Director for Technical Services, University of  

       Colorado at Boulder Libraries, USA 



We invite interested participants to submit proposals for papers to include: name(s) of 

presenter(s), title(s), affiliation(s), contact information and abstracts of 300-500 words. 

Presentations will be 30 minutes. Time will be set aside for questions as well as broader 

discussion. All abstracts will be published on the Web site of the UW-Milwaukee Center 

for Information Policy Research. Full papers will be further reviewed and selected for 

publication in a special issue of Cataloging and Classification Quarterly. 



     Abstracts due: January 1, 2009 
     Notification of acceptance by: February 1, 2009 
     Full papers due: April 3, 2009 



Submit proposals electronically to: Hur-Li Lee, Chair of the Program Committee 

( hurli_at_uwm.edu ) 



Program Committee: 

      * Grant Campbell, Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada 
      * Allyson Carlyle, Associate Professor, University of Washington 
      * Clara M. Chu, Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles 
      * Edwin Michael Cortez, Professor/Director, University of Tennessee 
      * Birger Hjørland, Professor, The Royal School of Library and Information Science in 

        Denmark 
      * Hur-Li Lee (Chair) Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 
      * Steven J. Miller, Senior Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 
      * Hope A. Olson, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 
      * Sandra Roe, Editor, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Bibliographic Services 

         Librarian, Milner Library, Illinois State University 
      * Richard P. Smiraglia, Professor, Long Island University 
      * Michael Zimmer, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 



Sponsors: 

      * Center for Information Policy Research, UW-Milwaukee 
      * Information Organization Research Group at UW-Milwaukee 
      * University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries 
      * Milwaukee Public Libraries 



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Steven J. Miller, Senior Lecturer 
School of Information Studies 
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 
PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201 
Phone: 414-229-6640 
Fax: 414-229-6699 
Email: mll_at_uwm.edu