The emphasis is given to “Libraries and Information services: New technologies, innovative processes and the Information Professional”
The conference will consider, but not be limited to, the following indicative themes:
- Digital Humanities, Public Humanities
- Synergies and common services of cultural heritage organisations
- Application of innovative ideas
- Best Practices
- Information and Knowledge production and Networking
- Artificial Intelligence and machine learning
- Big Data, data mining, visualization, data science
- Learning analytics, data collection, Curation
- Open science, Research Communication
- Open access and scholarly communication models (OA collection development, acquisition models etc)
- Library as publisher (post publication peer review, predatory journals)
- Usability testing
- Information Literacy
- Social impact of libraries (fake news, social inclusion…)
- Ethics
- Preparing Library for Tomorrow: 21st skills
- Management and marketing
- Library and Information Science, Education and Research
- Qualitative and Quantitative methods in libraries, museums, archives and information centres
- Metrics Research (Altmetrics, Bibliometrics, Cybermetrics, Scientometrics, Webometrics)
- Tools for Organizational Performance Measurement.
The Conference will take place at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.