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IST Faculty, Students Can Participate in the 2010 iSchools Conference
08/28/2009
by Jenna Spinelle
Students and faculty in the College of Information Sciences and Technology are invited to participate in the fifth annual iSchools Conference, which will be held Feb. 3-6 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. by Jenna Spinelle
The theme for this year’s conference is iMPACTS, the critical reflection on the potential impacts of the iSchool community.
“As the Obama Administration brings new potential for our field to affect change, particularly through investments in education, broadband and scientific research, it is also providing a moment for critical reflection on the impacts of the iSchool movement,” said Maeve Reilly, iSchools communications coordinator.
Participation opportunities include paper and poster, sessions, roundtable discussions and wild card sessions. The conference planning committee is currently accepting proposals that reflect the core activities of the iSchool community, including research, design, methods and epistemologies, educational practices and engagement between the iSchools and wider constituencies in the U.S. and abroad.
The iSchools are a group of schools and colleges who have joined together to build awareness of information technology and related fields. Member institutions include the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, the School of Information Systems and Management at Carnegie Mellon University and the School of Library and Information Science at the University of North Carolina. The iConference is an annual gathering of faculty and students from those institutions.
For more information about participating in the 2010 iConfernece, contact Maeve Reilly at mjreilly@illinois.edu or visit ischools.org online.
