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CAIS programme
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lori Giles)
Thu Apr 6 20:16:14 2000
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 15:16:04 -0600
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Dimensions of a Global Information Science, is pleased to announce, the
28th annual conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science,
will be held with the Congress for the Social Sciences and Humanities of
Canada at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta on 28-30 May 2000.
A link to registration information and further background on the Congress
follows the preliminary programme.
CAIS/ACSI 2000 - PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME (May 28 2000)
28 May
8:30-9:30 registration
9:30-11:00 Opening session - Room 3-01, School of Library and Information
Studies
Opening Remarks
Hope Olson - University of Alberta
James Turner - Université de Montréal
Information Science and Information Systems: Converging or Diverging?
Ira Monarch - Carnegie Mellon University
Meta- and Object-language in Information Retrieval Research
Julian Warner - The Queen's University of Belfast
11:00-11:30 coffee
11:30-12:30 Session 1 - Room 3-01, School of Library and Information Studies
Signs and Symbols of the Politics of War and Peace in LIS Advertising: A
Semiotics Study
Toni Samek - University of Alberta
Behind Closed Doors: Hidden Intellectual Work and Images of Librarianship
Lynne McKechnie and Kirsti Nilsen - University of Western Ontario
12:30-2:00 lunch - CAIS/ACSI Board meeting
2:00-3:30 Session 2 - Room 3-01, School of Library and Information Studies
Vers des Systèmes de Découverte et de Filtrage d'information Documentaire:
Quelle Stratégie Faut-il Mettre en Place ?
Laurence Favier - Université de Bourgogne
Madjid Ihadjadene - Université de Paris X
Pratiques d'indexation dans les Bases Textuelles Structurées: Application
aux Textes Techniques sous Format HTML
Tarek Ouerfelli and Geneviève Lallich - Université Stendhal
Text as a Tool for Organizing Moving Image Collections
James Turner and Michèle Hudon - Université de Montréal
3:30-4:00 coffee
4:00-5:00 Session 3 - Room 3-01, School of Library and Information Studies
Information and Institutions: The Relationship Between the Executive,
Bureaucrats and the Legislature in Botswana
Batlang Comma Serema - University College London
The Impact of Telework on Information Professionals' Work Processes
Crystal Fulton - University College at Dublin
5:00 Welcome reception sponsored by SLIS
29 May
8:30-9:00 coffee available
9:00-10:30 Session 4 - Room 3-01, School of Library and Information Studies
The Trouble with Think Alouds: Gathering Data using Concurrent Verbal
Protocols
Jennifer Branch - University of Alberta
An Examination of End User Searching Behaviour in the Excite Search Engine
Dietmar Wolfram - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Apports de la Génération Automatique de Textes en Langue Naturelle à la
Recherche d'information
Laurence Balicco, Salaheddine Ben-Ali, Claude Ponton
and Stéphanie Pouchot - Université Stendhal
10:30-11:00 coffee
11:00-12:00 Session 5 - Room 3-01, School of Library and Information Studies
Source Selection among Information Seekers: Ideals and Realities
Heidi Julien and David Michels - Dalhousie University
Exploring the Realities of Interaction and Search Success
Elisabeth Logan and Kristen Jacobson - Florida State University
12:00-1:30 lunch
1:30-3:00 Session 6 - Room 3-01, School of Library and Information Studies
Metadata et profil utilisateur
Youcef Amerouali - Université Claude Bernard
Creating a Metadata-Enabled Framework for Resource Discovery in Knowledge
Bases
Lynne Howarth - University of Toronto
Problems with COTS software: A case study
Jamshid Beheshti and John Dupuis - McGill University
3:00-3:30 coffee
3:30-4:30 AGM
University of Alberta President's Reception 17:00 to 19:00
The School of Native Studies and Native Student Services Traditional Plains
Cree Round Dance opening ceremonies at 18:00 and will conclude at
approximately 23:00
30 May
8:30-9:00 coffee available
9:00-10:00 Session 8 - Room 3-01, School of Library and Information Studies
Aboutness and Meaning: How a Paradigm of Subject Analysis Can Illuminate
Queer Theory in Literary Studies
Grant Campbell - University of Western Ontario
Cartes Conceptuelles Et Thésaurus : Essai de Comparaison Entre Deux Modèles
de Représentation Issus de Differentes Traditions Disciplinaires
Lalthoum Saadani and Suzanne Bertrand-Gastaldy - Université de Montréal
10:00-10:30 coffee
10:30-12:00 Session 9 - Room 3-01, School of Library and Information Studies
Centres for Health Evidence Demonstration Project
Tracy Stewart, Denise Koufogiannakis and Robert S.A. Hayward - University
of Alberta
Ellen Crumley - John Buhler Research Centre
Michael E. Moffatt - Children's Hospital, Winnipeg
Quality in Brazilian University Libraries: Proposition of Indicators from
the Customers' Point of View
Waldomiro C. S. Vergueiro and Telma de Carvalho - University of São Paulo
"What's wrong with that woman?" - Social Positioning Theory and
Information-Seeking Behaviour
Pamela J. McKenzie and Robert F. Carey - University of Western Ontario
12:00-1:30 lunch
1:30-3:00 Session 10 - Room 3-01, School of Library and Information Studies
The Promise of 'Lifelong Learning' & the Canadian Census: The
Marginalization of Mature Students' Information Behaviours
Lisa Given - University of Alberta
The Web as a Classroom Resource: Reactions from the Users
Andrew Large and Jamshid Beheshti - McGill University
Curriculum Response to A Changing National and
Global Information Environment: Evaluation of Follow -up Study and
Advertisement Scanning Methods
Dennis Ocholla - University of Zululand
3:00-3:30 coffee
3:30-5:00 Closing Session - Room 3-01, School of Library and Information
Studies
The Hidden Dimensions of Global Information Networks
Edward F. Halpin and Steve Wright - Manchester Metropolitan University
Assessing the Preparedness of Information Institutions For the
Knowledge-Based Economy (KBE)
Abdus Sattar Chaudhry - Nanyang Technological University
Chew Lay Meng - Productivity and Standards Board of Singapore
Closing Remarks
Ernst Schuegraf - Saint Francis Xavier University
Banquet at Faculty Club
Contact information:
http://www.hssfc.ca/Cong/CongressInfoEng.html
French version:
http://www.hssfc.ca/Cong/CongressInfoFr.html
