Libraries and Information Institutions in the Digital Age (LIDA) Biennial Conference 2023: Information Everywhere -submission deadline: October 15, 2022

You are warmly invited to submit your work for presentation at the LIDA (Libraries & Information Institutions in the Digital Age) biennial international conference to be held in Osijek (Croatia), May 24-27, 2023. The theme of the conference is Information Everywhere (http://lida.ffos.hr/).

We welcome submission of papers, panels, workshops and posters that address critical and theoretical examinations of the theme; report current research and evidence-based approaches as well as present innovative approaches from the field, and practitioner applications and perspectives. Due to many requests, the deadline for submission of extended abstracts has been extended to October 15, 2022.

We are happy to share with you the names of our keynote speakers (https://lida.ffos.hr/speakers/):

Annemaree Lloyd (Department of Information Studies, University College London): When Information is Everywhere : How Should We Think About Information Literacy Practice?

Dimitris Soudias (Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics): The Commoning Library: Alter-Neoliberal Pedagogy in Informational Capitalism

Carol Gordon (Gordon Consulting): Researching Ross: A Reflection on Dr. Todd’s Rationale for the Study of School Libraries, the Results of his Work, and his Reasoning for the Relevance and Resiliency of School Libraries

The LIDA conference is being planned to be fully in-person. If circumstances do not allow an on-ground conference to take place safely, LIDA will move to a virtual conference platform.

We would also like to inform you that earlier that week (May 22-23, 2023) an international conference Digital Transformation and Inclusiveness of the Higher Education Institutions in the Time of Crisis Situations, organized by Erasmus+ project DECriS (https://decris.ffos.hr/), will take place in Osijek. We invite you to consider prolonging your stay in Osijek and take part in both events (at discounted registration rate).

Deadlines: 

Submission of proposals (extended abstracts): October 15, 2022.

Notification of acceptance: November 15, 2022.

Submission of full-text manuscripts for review and inclusion in the scholarly journal Education for Information: January 31, 2023 (optional).

Notification of acceptance of full-text manuscripts for publication: 1 March 2023 

Submission of final versions of full-text manuscripts: 30 March 2023

Publication date: June 2023

Conference Co-Directors:

Marie L. Radford, Ph.D., School of Communication & Information, Rutgers Univ., USA

Sanjica Faletar, Ph.D., Dept. of Information Sciences, Univ. of Osijek, Croatia

Drahomira Cupar, Ph.D., Dept. of Information Sciences, Univ. of Zadar, Croatia

For more information visit http://lida.ffos.hr/.  Email: [email protected]

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