<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">New deadline for submissions Jan 31, 2016!</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We invite authors to submit research papers (up to 5000 words), short research papers (up to 3000 words), panels, workshops, alternative events and posters to the 9th conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS) held in Uppsala, Sweden June 27-29, 2016. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS) is a series of international conferences aiming to provide a broad forum for the exploration and exchange of ideas in the field of Library and Information Science, Information Studies, and related disciplines. It welcomes diverse contributions offering empirical, theoretical and historical perspectives. The 9th conference in the series is organised by the Department of ALM, Uppsala University and Division of ALM, Lund University. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Three keynote lectures by</span></div><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Prof. Geoffrey Bowker, University of California, Irvine, USA</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class="kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">"Distributed and Potential Memory: remembering in an age of total recall"</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Prof. Louise Limberg, University of Borås, Sweden</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class="kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">"Analysing or synthesising Library and Information Science : Sketching past achievements, current happenings and future prospects"</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Prof. Pamela McKenzie, University of Western Ontario, Canada</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class="kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">"Context" in context: twenty years of an everyday concept in LIS/IS</span></div></li></ul><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Consult the full Call for papers available at <a href="http://www.abm.uu.se/colis9/cfp" class="">http://www.abm.uu.se/colis9/cfp</a> for details about submissions, and the conference.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Deadline for all submissions (apart from the doctoral forum) is Jan 31, 2016.</span></div><br class=""><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Questions regarding paper submissions incl. posters should be directed to Prof. Isto Huvila (</span><a href="mailto:firstname.lastname@abm.uu.se" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">firstname.lastname@abm.uu.se</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">). Questions regarding panels, workshops and other formats should be directed to Dr. Jutta Haider (<a href="mailto:firstname.lastname@kultur.lu.se" class="">firstname.lastname@kultur.lu.se</a>).</span></h1><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Questions about the conference should be sent to the conference chair Kerstin Rydbeck (<a href="mailto:firstname.lastname@abm.uu.se" class="">firstname.lastname@abm.uu.se</a>) or the co-chair Olof Sundin (</span><a href="mailto:firstname.lastname@kultur.lu.se" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">firstname.lastname@kultur.lu.se</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">)</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">CoLIS9 is also on Facebook at </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CoLIS9" style="text-decoration: none;" class="">https://www.facebook.com/CoLIS9</a></span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>