Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) Conference

Date

June 1, 2016 09:00 - June 3, 2016 14:00

Location

Calgary

Details

Website: http://cais-acsi.ca/2016-conference/

Theme: Information Science in our Communities: Reflections on our Work and the People, Places and Institutions Around Us

Hashtag: #caisacsi16

This year’s Congress theme, Energizing Communities, was chosen to celebrate community engagement and to recognize the 50th anniversary of the founding of the host, University of Calgary. Engaging communities at the local, regional, and transnational level has been important to the mandate of the University. This year’s Congress program reminds us that universities serve not only their educational communities, but also those that support and drive fundamental questions beyond academia. The Big Thinking open sessions will include a mayor, a Chief Justice, a journalist, as well as noted academics. Many association keynote presentations, including our own, will be open to all Congress delegates, and we look forward to the cross-disciplinary interactions this will bring. Information researchers and practitioners understand the social nature of information and that knowledge is created in community. Our CAIS conference theme, Information Science in our Communities: Reflections on our Work and the People, Places and Institutions Around Us, challenges us to think about information science at the community level. Whether this is our service to communities, our challenges building research communities or communities of practice, or the technological transformation of communities, the conference is an important opportunity to reflect on our place in and our practice of community building.