LibrAsia 2015 - The Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship

LibrAsia 2015 - The Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2nd to 5th April 2015 - Osaka, Japan IAFOR and its global partners are proud to announce the Fifth Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship. We encourage submissions and participation from around the world to this international, interdisciplinary and international event. Enquiries: librasia@iafor.org Web address: http://iafor.org/iafor/conferences/librasia2015/ Sponsored by: IAFOR - The International Academic Forum Conference Theme and Streams - Please submit your abstract through the online submission system found on the "Call for Papers" page of the conference website. Conference Theme: "Power: Text and Context" The 2015 conference theme is "Power: Text and Context" in literature, and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this unifying subject from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Submissions will be organized into the following streams: Literature African Literature Ancient and Classical Literature Anglo-American Literature Arabic/Middle Eastern Literature Asian Literature Children's and Young Adult Literature Comparative Literature European Literature Folktales, Myths and Legends Historical and Political Literature Indigenous People's/Ethnic Literatures and Minority Discourses Latin American Literature Literary Criticism and Theory Literary Practice Literary Translation and Translatology Literature and Film Literature, Language and Identity Literature and Religion Poetry Manuscriptology, Textual and Genetic Criticism Memoir and Autobiography Teaching Literature Travel Writing Theatre and Drama Librarianship This expanded stream intentionally seeks educators, researchers, scientists, engineers, industry people, policy makers, decision makers, and others who have insight, vision, and understanding of the big challenges in Library and Information Science (LIS) of interest include but are not limited to the theoretical, technical, or empirical aspects of the following: Principles, theories, models, standards challenges, legal, and social issues of LIS Protecting and preserving librarianship: 21st Century problems and solutions Management, leadership, planning, operation, and monitoring Cataloging, classification, and collection management Library research and development Library, information literacy, education, and culture Library instruction and reader advisory Library, content and knowledge management Information architectures, resources, services and promotion Information retrieval, recommendation and personalization Archives, museums, record management and information preservation Publishing, electronic publishing and bibliometrics Digital media, social media and libraries E-learning, M-learning, learning objects, content, platforms and tools Taxonomies, ontologies and applications Digital humanities, literature and culture Virtual environments and game-based learning Emerging technologies for information organizations, such as but not limited to Web, mobile, Cloud, machine intelligence and big data Censorship, ownership and intellectual property Trust, reputation, ethics, security, and privacy issues LibrAsia2015 Conference Chairs Dr. Myles Chilton LibrAsia2015 Conference Chair (Literature) Nihon University, Japan Myles Chilton (B.A. University of Toronto; M.A. and Ph.D. University of Chicago) is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Nihon University. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Chilton has been in Japan for over twenty years, where in addition to continuing his work in exploring relationships between contemporary world literature and global cities, he has become increasingly interested in the pedagogy of literature in EFL classrooms. Dr. Dickson Chiu LibrAsia2015 Conference Co-Chair (Librarianship) University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Dickson K.W. Chiu received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Computer Studies from the University of Hong Kong in 1987. He received the M.Sc. (1994) and the Ph.D. (2000) degrees in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He started his own computer company while studying part-time. He is now teaching at the University of Hong Kong and has also taught at several universities in Hong Kong. Dr. Patrick Lo LibrAsia 2015 Conference Co-Chair (Librarianship) University of Tsukuba, Japan Dr. Patrick Lo is currently serving as Associate Professor at Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba in Japan (since 2012). From 2009 to 2012, Dr. Lo served as Assistant Librarian I (Head of the Cataloguing Section) and Subject Specialist for School of Arts and Social Sciences at The Open University of Hong Kong Library.