Conferences and Meetings 2/8/12

Adventures in Copyright: the 2012 Biennial Symposium

The Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland College is sponsoring its 2012 Biennial Symposium Adventures in Copyright on June 6-8, 2012 at the Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD.

Pre-symposium Seminars

• “Copyright 101″

  Speaker: Nancy Sims, JD, copyright program librarian at University of Minnesota

• “Policy Creation and Revision”

  Speaker: Steve McDonald, JD, general counsel at Rhode Island School of Design

Keynote speakers

• Lawrence Lessig, Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics

• Peggy Hoon, scholarly communications librarian for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) and CIP’s Virtual Intellectual Property Scholar

Call for Proposals: Library Assessment Conference 2012

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Virginia Library, the University of Washington Libraries, and the Conference Planning Committee are pleased to issue this call for proposals for the 2012 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, to be held in Charlottesville, Virginia, October 29-31, 2012… Proposals are invited as either papers or posters that cover any aspect of library assessment… and must be submitted by March 30, 2012.  To submit your proposal, please click here.

Simmons GSLIS Continuing Education Workshops

The Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science is offering a series of continuing education workshops from February through August 2012.  The website has a chronological list as well as providing the capability to  sort workshops by date, category, instructor, or location.  Click here for Registration Information and the Registration Form.

LOEX 2012 Annual Conference

The Columbus LOEX Committee invites you to the 40th Annual LOEX Conference to be held at the Renaissance Hotel. Columbus, Ohio on May 3 – May 5, 2012.  Instruction librarians know that it’s essential to Energize! their teaching, Accelerate! change, and Transform! student learning.  We invite you to contribute and/or sample recipes for instructional excellence at LOEX 2012.  Registration will open February 10, 2012 at 1PM EST.

International Conference on Trends in Knowledge and Information Dynamics

This conference is hosted by the Documentation Research and Training Centre (established by Prof. S R Ranganathan) at Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India.  The conference is scheduled for 10-13, July, 2012 and aims to explore topics in themes and sub themes through tutorials, workshops, demonstrations, invited talks and presentations…  The conference invites papers subject to review by an international  panel “based on originality of the work, quality and relevance to the themes of the conference. Peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings… Please refer to the guidelines while submitting your Extended Abstract. and paper.”