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Call for Papers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Loren D. Mendelsohn)
Mon Feb 24 21:16:49 1997
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:36:48 -0600 (CST)
From: "Loren D. Mendelsohn" <lmend@crow.admin.ccny.cuny.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
Reply-To: lmend@crow.admin.ccny.cuny.edu
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Metropolitan New York Chapter
American Society for Information Science
CALL FOR PAPERS
GRADUATE RESEARCH FORUM
Friday, May 9, 1997
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Puck Building
295 Lafayette Street at corner of Houston and Lafayette
New York, New York
Sponsored by The Metropolitan New York Chapter of the American Society
for Information Science & The Pratt Institute School of Information
and Library Science.
Faculty in any of the information disciplines are asked to select and
sponsor a suitable paper by graduate students (either doctoral or masters
level) for inclusion in the Forum. Research in the areas of information
science, information management, library science, scientific information,
business information, computer science, or computer/information engineering
is welcomed. Faculty sponsors are invited to attend the Forum and introduce
the student(s) whose paper they recommend. Fees for Forum attendance
(including lunch) are waived for presenters.
A committee will select the papers for inclusion in the Forum. Evaluation
for inclusion will be based on the abstract. Additionally, a $100 prize
will be awarded for the best paper presented. Papers shall be appraised in
terms of relevance, originality, clarity of expression, appropriateness of
methodology.
Submissions should include:
a. The title and a 150-300 word abstract
b. A short professional biography of the author(s)
c. Phone number, address and e-mail of the presenter
d. Phone number, address and e-mail of the faculty sponsor
e. A signed note from the faculty sponsor indicating sponsorship of
the presenter.
All abstracts must be submitted on diskette as either Microsoft Word or
WordPerfect files.
The submission deadline for abstracts and biographical information is March
1, 1997. For those abstracts which are selected, full papers must be
submitted in triplicate and on disk by April 28, 1997.
The print proceedings will include the abstract, the presenter's biography,
institution and faculty sponsor. All presented papers will be published in
full in an electronic proceeding to be posted on the Web. The prize-winning
paper will published in the chapter newsletter.
For further information or to submit, contact:
Loren D. Mendelsohn, Program Chair
The Library
City College of New York
138th Street at Convent Avenue
New York, New York 10031
Voice: (212) 650-7267 Fax: (212) 650-7604
e-mail: ldmcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
