Call for Papers: 5th International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists

5th International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists, University of Pretoria,  4 - 7 July 2005: the following focus areas will be covered at 5ICAHIS and you are invited to submit abstracts of 300 - 400 words on any of these aspects before 15th September 2004
 
E-RESOURCES

Databases for Animal Health
E-journals
Selection, use, accessibility
Search engines (global)
Web pages
Creating web products to meet clients’ needs
Developing library web sites to enhance use of e-resources
Open access issues
Role of Portals for optimum dissemination and use of quality e-information
Digitisation

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Creating a supporting environment for knowledge flow
Competitive intelligence
Knowledge sharing (enhancing capturing of Best Practices)
COPs (Communities of Practice) - use and facilitation
KM practices, including capturing knowledge (Indigenous Knowledge)

The WEB

Use of Portals and Webblogs
Content management
Data mining, data warehousing
Metadata for optimum use and retrieval

 PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FOR LIBRARY CLIENTS

Teaching Internet search skills
Providing support for e-learning
Enabling Continuing Professional Development of practitioners (clients)
Web authoring skills
Marketing to ensure optimum use of products and services
Customer relationship management
E-scholarship facilitation/support

ROLE OF THE INFORMATION SPECIALIST

Providing e-learning support
Web-authoring
Portal management and development
Content management
Training programmes, including Internet use and evaluation of web information
Selecting e-resources (collection building in the e-era)
Liaison with clients
 
 
THIS CONFERENCE WILL NOT BE RESTRICTED TO THE ABOVE TOPICS. ABSTRACTS ON ANY OTHER RELEVANT ASPECTS OF ANIMAL HEALTH INFORMATION SERVICES WILL ALSO BE WELCOME

Proceedings of this conference will be published in paper and electronic format

Send the abstract to [email protected] and include the following with the abstract: Name(s) of presenter(s), employer or affiliated institution , e-mail address and tel / fax numbers.
 
www.ais.up.ac.za/vet/icahis/