Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 32, No. 263.
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        Date: 2018-12-10 06:35:27+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty 
        Subject: Fwd: 2nd Call QQML 2019

> From: 	Secretariat@isast.de


Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you in the European University Institute, 
Florence, Italy, (28-31 May 2019) for the 11th Qualitative and 
Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2019, 
http://qqml.org) which is organized under the umbrella of ISAST 
(International Society for the Advancement of Science and Technology).

The conference invites Special and Contributed Sessions, Oral Papers, 
Best Practices, Workshops and Posters.

Details about the types of distribution please 
visit: (http://qqml.org/description-of-the-contribution/)

Target Group

The target group and the audience are library professionals in a more 
general sense: professors, researchers, students, administrators, 
stakeholders, technologists, museum scientists, archivists, decision 
makers and managers, information scientists, librarians, records 
managers, web developers, IT specialists, taxonomists, statisticians, 
marketing managers, philologist, subject and reference librarians et al.

Main topics

The emphasis is given to Libraries and Information services: New 
technologies, innovative processes and the Information Professional

The conference will consider, but not be limited to, the following 
indicative themes:

1.Digital Humanities, Public Humanities

2.Synergies and common services of cultural heritage organisations

3.Application of innovative ideas

4.Best Practices

5.Information and Knowledge production and Networking

6.Artificial Intelligence and machine learning

7.Big Data, data mining, visualization, data science

8.Learning analytics, data collection, Curation

9.Open science, Research Communication

10.Open access and scholarly communication models (OA collection 
development, acquisition models etc)

11.Library as publisher (post publication peer review, predatory journals)

12.Usability testing

13.Information Literacy

14.Social impact of libraries (fake news, social inclusion…)

15.Ethics

16.Preparing Library for Tomorrow: 21^st skills

17.Management and marketing

18.Library and Information Science, Education and Research

19.Qualitative and Quantitative methods in libraries, museums, archives 
and information centres

20.Metrics Research (Altmetrics, Bibliometrics, Cybermetrics, 
Scientometrics, Webometrics)

21.Tools for Organizational Performance Measurement.

Special Sessions - Workshops

At the web page: http://qqml.org/call-of-proposals/ you may send proposals:
 
1. For Special Sessions (4-6 papers),

2. Workshops (more than 1-3sessions) including the title and a brief 
description at: secretar@isast.org 
or from the electronic submission

3. Abstracts/Papers to be included in the proposed sessions, to new 
sessions or as contributed papers.

 Contributions may be realized through one of the following ways  

a. structured abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and presentation;

b. full papers (not exceeding 12,000 words);

c. posters.

In all the above cases at least one of the authors ought to be 
registered in the conference: http://qqml.org/registration/.

Abstracts and full papers should be submitted electronically within the 
timetable provided in the web page: http://qqml.org/call-of-proposals/

The abstracts and full papers should be in compliance to the author 
guidelinesthat are located in the above link.

All abstracts will be published in the Conference Book of Abstracts and 
in the website of the Conference. The papers of the conference will be 
published in the QQML e-journal after the permission of the author(s).

The QQML e-journal moved to http://www.qqml-journal.net

Doctoral and Postgraduate Sessions

Professors and Supervisors are recommended to encourage the contribution 
of Postgraduate theses and dissertations of their students.

In the Doctoral and Postgraduate Sessions the contributors resent their 
research, the topic, the objectives, the methodology and the ongoing work.

Post Graduate Student sessions for research are especially organized.

Please direct any questions regarding the QQML 2019 Conference and 
Student Research Presentations to: the secretariat of the conference at: 
secretar@isast.org 

QQML 2019 Important Dates

Abstract submissions: December 20, 2018

Notification of acceptance two weeks after submission.

Deadline Paper Submission: 1st of May 2019

Deadline Presentation Submission: 1st of May 2019

Early bird Registration: up to 30th of March 2019

Submit a Proposal or a session to secretar@isast.org 


Submissions of abstracts to special or contributed sessions could be 
sent directly to the conference secretariat at /secretar@isast.org/ 
Please refer to the Session Number, as they are referred at the 
conference website to help the secretariat to classify the submissions.


For more information and Abstract/Paper submission and Special Session 
Proposals please visit the conference website at: 
http://qqml.org/event/qqml2019/ or contact the 
secretary of the conference at : secretar@isast.org


Paper contributors have the opportunity to be published in the QQML e- 
Journal, which continues to retain the right of first choice, however 
in addition they have the chance to be published in other scientific 
journals. QQML e-Journal is included in EBSCOhost 

Looking forward to welcoming you in Florence,

With our best regards,

On behalf of the Conference Committee

Anthi Katsirikou, PhD

Conference Co-Chair
University of Piraeus Library Director
Head, European Documentation Center
Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information 
Professionals

anthi@asmda.com 



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