16-22 August 2014, Lyon, France
Theme:
Library standards: confluence with world trends
The IFLA Committee on Standards invites papers to be presented at 80th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Lyon, France, August 2014.
The session will focus on how standards will be influenced by new and emerging trends and what impact standards will have on the evolution of the new directions in libraries and societies as identified in the IFLA Trend Report and similar documents.
The Committee on Standards programme will focus on new standards, case studies on how standards and guidelines are influenced by new trends, and how these trends will be redefining our approach to standards and guidelines. Will this confluence create new standards that are more flexible, adaptable, more varied and more timely or will this reduce the need for standards?
Proposals should be submitted in English by email. This should include:
to:
Patrice Landry
Chair, Committee on Standards
[email protected]
Proposals will be reviewed by members of the Committee. Authors of the selected proposals will be notified by March 10 2014. Full papers will be due by 30 May 2014 to allow time for editing and translations.
Complete accepted papers should be 3000-6000 words in length, be an original submission not published elsewhere
Final papers should be written in English to a allow for wider translation possibilities
In accordance with IFLA’s Open Access Statement all papers presented at WLIC Lyon 2014 will be available under a Creative Commons licence. Authors will need to sign IFLA’s Author form and papers and presentations will be made available through the IFLA Library.
All proposals must be in before 15 February 2014.
Authors of accepted presentations will be requested to agree to publication of their paper in the IFLA library under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence (CC BY 3.0) to their work.
All expenses, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation etc., are the responsibility of the authors/presenters. No financial support can be provided by IFLA or the sponsoring sections, but a special invitation can be issued to authors/presenters if that is required.
The French National Committee and IFLA have worked hard to secure funds for Conference Participation Grants. Up-to-date information will be available on our Conference Participation Grants webpage.
Last update: 10 January 2014