New date: Deadline 31 of January 2010
You are kindly invited to participate in the 2nd
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference
(QQML2010), Chania,
QQML2010 was decided by the QQML Committee and announced during the
closing ceremony of the previous QQML2009 Conference.
The proceedings of QQML2010 will be published by World Scientific, while selected papers are to be published by
the International Journals: Decision Support System Technology, Library
Management, and Performance Measurement and Metrics.
QQML2010 is organized under the umbrella of ASMDA
International Society organizing conferences on data analysis from 1981.
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods (QQM)
are proved more and more popular tools for Librarians, because of their
usefulness to the everyday professional life. QQM aim to the assessment and improvement of the services, to the
measurement of the functional effectiveness and efficiency. QQM are the
mean to make decisions on fund allocation and financial alternatives.
Librarians use also QQM in order to determine why and
when their users appreciate their services. This is the start point of the
innovation involvement and the ongoing procedure of the excellent performance.
Systematic development of quality management in libraries requires a detailed
framework, including the quality management standards, the measurement
indicators, the self-appraisal schedules and the operational rules. These
standards are practice-oriented tools and a benchmarking result. Their basic
function is to express responsibly the customer (library user) -supplier
(library services) relationship and provide a systematic approach to the
continuous change onto excellence. The indoor and outdoor relationships of
libraries are dependent of their communication and marketing capabilities,
challenges, opportunities and implementation programmes.
Conference Topics
1. Management
· Excellence and innovation
· Quality and benchmarking
· Measures and metrics
2. Financial strength and sustainability
· Fund raising
· Cost benefit analysis
· Cost assessment
· Value analysis
3. Marketing
· Marketing research
· Public relations
· Publicity
· Communication
4. Communication strategies
· Working with faculty, students, and staff
· Users - Non users
· Alumni, Partners, Stakeholders
· Groups / teams
· Archives, historical societies, museums and art galleries
· Consortia
5. Data Analysis and Data
Mining
· Content analysis
· Ontologies
· Knowledge discovery
· Machine learning
· Databases
· Data visualization
6. Digital Libraries
· Digitization
· Museum and art digital objects
· Archival digital objects
· Public
libraries digital projects
· Digital content for teaching
· Digital images
· Metadata
The Conference will attend library
professionals: professors, administrators, technologists, museum scientists,
archivists, decision makers and managers.
For your papers, please follow precisely the given Template following the
format and instructions from the conference website at: http://www.isast.org
If you propose a Special Session including 4-6 papers,
the papers will be included into the book as a Specific Chapter under the title
of the special session.
Special Session or Workshop (2 or more sessions) proposals should have the
session title, the name and affiliation of the organizer and a brief
description (5-10 lines).
You may upload the
Abstract/Paper Template and formulate your paper according to the
instructions at: http://www.isast.org/abstractpaperregister.html
Please submit your paper in MS Word format as an email attachment to: [log in to unmask]
You can also submit your Abstract electronically by
using the facilities of the conference website at: http://www.isast.org/abstractpaperregister.html
For workshop proposals or presentations regarding
your Library or your Organisation please contact Dr. Anthi Katsirikou at: [log in to unmask]
Kind regards
On behalf of the Conference Committee
Dr.
Anthi Katsirikou, Conference Co-Chair
Library, Deputy Director
Head,
Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information
Professionals
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The Book from the previous QQML2009 has been
published by World Scientific (http://www.worldscibooks.com/compsci/7691.html)
Book title: QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN LIBRARIES: Theory
and Applications
Proceedings of the
International Conference on QQML2009
Chania,
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