| Saturday, 20 October |
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| 8:00-9:15 | CONFERENCE REGISTRATION |
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| 9:15-10:15 | OPENING SESSION - CSIC President; Dr. Bill Cope, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Director, Common Ground Publishing; Cesar Ántonio Molina, Minister of Culture |
| 10:15-10:45 | PLENARY SESSION - José Antonio Millán, Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes and of the Electronic Library of the Institut Ramon Llull - 'The book: the open sarchofagus' |
| 10:45-10:55 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:55-11:40 | Talking Circle |
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| Room 1 | TALKING CIRCLE - Books, Writing and Reading |
| Room 2 | TALKING CIRCLE - Publishing |
| Room 3 | TALKING CIRCLE - Libraries |
| Room 4 | TALKING CIRCLE - Literacy and Educational Resources and Learning |
| Room 5 - Spanish Sessions | TALKING CIRCLE - Information Society |
| Room 6 - Garden Sessions | TALKING CIRCLE - Print and Electronic Texts |
| 11:45-12:15 | Parallel Sessions |
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Chick Talk: (De)Constructing Chick Lit and Women's Fiction Carol-Anne Croker, Division of Higher Education, Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria, AUSTRALIA Overview: This paper examines the proliferation of popular fiction categorized as "Chick Lit", whilst literary pundits predict doom and gloom for the novel in Australia. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
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The 10-year Subversive, Metaphysical, And Sometimes Controversial History of Teaching a Book Called Push DiMaggio Kenneth, Humanities, Capital Community College, Connecticut, UNITED STATES Overview: Since 1997, "outsider" novel Push evolved into a spoke for social change in my classroom for non-traditional students. How this text went from outsider to eminent insider will be examined. Stream: Educational Resources and Learning |
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Book Survival in Academic Landscapes of the Future James P McCarthy, Boole Library Special Collections Archives and Repository Services Division, University College Cork, IRELAND Overview: A case study which will consider the need for the book as a medium of academic learning in knowledge landscapes of the future Stream: Libraries |
| Room 4 | The Interaction of Books and Multimedia: Some Thoughts for Authors, Dr. Douglas Fiore, Director of Doctoral Programs, Professional Education Programs, Virginia State University |
| Room 6 - Garden Sessions | GARDEN SESSION - José Antonio Millán |
| 12:20-12:50 | PLENARY SESSION - Antonio M ª Avila Álvarez, Executive Director of the Spanish Association of Publishers Guilds |
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| 12:50-13:20 | PLENARY SESSION - Miguel Ledesma, General Manager for the Latin America trade and Vice-President of the Océano Grupo Editorial - 'Globalization and the book market. Book commerce: obstacles and opportunities' |
| 13:20-14:05 | LUNCH |
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| 14:05-14:35 | 14:40-15:10 | |||
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What Is Our Future: The Codex and/or Electronic Media? Dr. Brian M. Owens, University Archives Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Windsor, Ontario, CANADA Overview: This presentation addresses the role of the codex and electronic media in contemporary and future societies. These media are examined as objects of wisdom, artefacts and holders of social memory. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
Writing, Editing, and Designing Short-Story Books or Short Story-Books for Adults Robin L. Fetherston, English Department, Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUQ), QATAR Overview: This presentation examines a university student project designed to redress the current imbalance between book art and narrative or textual meaning promoted by graphic designers and artists. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
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Hands on and Minds Open: Using Rare Books to Understand the Culture of Reading Kevin Grace, Archives & Rare Books Library, University of Cincinnati, OH, UNITED STATES Overview: This presentation looks at the hands-on use of rare books and manuscripts by students to understand the evolution of and perpetuation of reading behaviours by different cultures and sub-groups. Stream: Educational Resources and Learning |
Books are Wonderful, but can Americans Read them? Forms of Illiteracy in American Culture Dr. Carol Apt, Department of Social Sciences, South Carolina State University, South Carolina, UNITED STATES Overview: Why is it that in the the most powerful country in the world; 1/5 of adults are functionally illiterate? This presentation looks at forms of illiteracy,its causes and its solutions. Stream: Educational Resources and Learning |
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The E-Books in Libraries Kamani Perera, Library, Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, SRI LANKA, Dinesh Chandra, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), INDIA Overview: Electronic books (e-books) are becoming valuable addition to the print collections of libraries. Many publishers and suppliers now actively promoting their products to libraries. Stream: Libraries |
It's Not the Content, it's the Language Dr. Marcelle Harran, Applied Language Studies Department, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, SOUTH AFRICA Overview: Literacy construction is often implicated by dominant feedback practices causing rhetoric and knowledge to be regarded as separate entities instead of rhetorically constructed contextual knowledge. Stream: Libraries |
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Chris Ware: The Smartest Kid on Earth Andrew Selby, Alastair Adams, Andrew Davies, Jemma Robinson, School of Art and Design, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UNITED KINGDOM Overview: An exploration of the graphic novels created by Chris Ware with specific reference to the art of storytelling. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
Speaking the Same language? Differences and Similarities Between UK and US Bloggers Dr Sarah Pedersen, The Aberdeen Business School, Department of Communication and Media, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeenshire, UNITED KINGDOM Overview: This paper asks how their late arrival to the blogosphere has impacted on the ways in which Britons blog in comparison to US bloggers. Stream: Information Society, and Print and Electronic Texts |
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| Room 6 - Garden Sessions | GARDEN SESSION - Antonio M ª Avila Álvarez and Miguel Ledesma | |||
| 15:15-15:45 | PLENARY SESSION - Mauricio Santos |
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| 15:45-16:15 | PLENARY SESSION - Peter Hamilton, Head of Education Development with Intel IT Innovation - 'skoool™.es Digital Education Usage Models and the Future of ICT in Learning and Teaching' |
| 16:15-16:25 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:25-17:30 | Parallel Sessions | |||
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| 16:25-16:55 | 17:00-17:30 | |||
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Preserve, Renew, Invent, Light Bytes: Is the Aphoristic Statement the Future of the Book? Lesley Kaiser, School of Art & Design Faculty of Design & Creative Technologies, AUT University, NEW ZEALAND Overview: This paper explores how aphoristic texts might be visually disseminated, and rejoin the cultural river of ideas in local incarnations using contemporary digital media. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
Recent (Southern) African Literary Histories: An Evaluation Prof. Hendrik Petrus Van Coller, Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French, University of the Free State, Free State, SOUTH AFRICA Overview: An evaluative overview of recently published South African literary histories focussing on methodological problems pertaining to the problem of literary histories and a proposal for such an encompassing literary history. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
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Seeing the World in Metaphor: Teaching Creative Writing to Students of Design Jeff Lodge, VCUQ School of the Arts in Qatar, QATAR Overview: A discussion of ways to teach creative writing students who major in other disciplines to see the world in metaphor. Stream: Educational Resources and Learning |
The Demands of Social-Presence and Teacher-Presence in Online Learning Environments: Limitations of Printed Text Tony Burch, Deakin Business School Faculty of Business and Law, Vic, Dr Judy Nagy, Deakin Business School, Deakin University, Victoria, AUSTRALIA Overview: Higher Education online-learning delivery demands social and teacher presence for engagement. Multi-Modal, enriched and discursive resources have advantages over traditional flat (printed) text. Stream: Educational Resources and Learning |
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Students’ Reactions towards e-Books in a University Library Collection Dr Noorhidawati Abdullah, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Strathclyde, Prof. Forbes Gibb, Scotland, UNITED KINGDOM Overview: This experiment was carried out as a follow-up study to a previous web survey to investigate student impressions of e-Books in more depth Stream: Libraries |
Compounding Literacy: Examining Disciplines in Which Mastery Surpasses Words Dr. Laurel Stvan, Department of Linguistics and TESOL, Texas, UNITED STATES Overview: An analysis of book titles shows the increasing number of compound literacy terms (information literacy, health literacy) sanctions certain domains of information through the label "literacy". Stream: Literacy |
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| Room 4 | From Text to Video and Back: Digital Storytelling and the Printed Word, Jose Oscar Diaz, Librarian, Science and Engineering Library, The Ohio State University and Karen R. Diaz, Instruction Librarian, University Libraries, Ohio State University | |||
| Room 6 - Garden Sessions | GARDEN SESSION - Mauricio Santos and Peter Hamilton | |||
| Sunday, 21 October |
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| 9:15-9:45 | PLENARY SESSION - Stefan Gradmann - 'From Catalogues to Networks: Library Systems Evolution in Digital Scenarios' |
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| 9:45-10:15 | PLENARY SESSION - Dr. José Luis González Quirós, Institute of Philosophy of the Consejo Superior de Investigación Científica |
| 10:15-10:45 | PLENARY SESSION - Antonia Carrato, Head of the Subdirectorate General for Library Coordination of the Ministry of Culture - 'Cooperation projects on digital resources creation promoted by the Spanish Ministry of Culture' |
| 10:45-10:55 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:55-11:25 | PLENARY SESSION - Dr. Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School - 'Into the World of Hybrids: The what and how of why the world of the web will be different' |
| 11:25-11:55 | PLENARY SESSION - Javier Díaz de Olarte, CEDRO - 'Collective management of intellectual property rights in the field of books: the experience of CEDRO in Spain' |
| 12:00-13:40 | Parallel Sessions | ||||||
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| 12:00-12:30 | 12:35-13:35 | 13:10-13:40 | |||||
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Reinventing the book culture for the 21st century Prof. Carel Stephanus De Beer, Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria, Gauteng, SOUTH AFRICA Overview: Thinking starts with traumatic experiences. By reading books these experiences become problems to think about. We, however, need to reinvent the book in view of recent developments. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
Children’s Books Should Be an Open-Ended Experience Prof. Martha Carothers, Delaware, Danielle Delaney, NJ, Allison Casey, Department of Art, University of Delaware, VA, UNITED STATES Overview: The publisher Harlin Quist envisioned reading to be an open-ended experience that married text and image in a way that encouraged and elevated children’s literary and visual participation. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
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Learning Across Language: Using Translation in the ESL Classroom Patty Paine, English Department, Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts Doha, Qatar, QATAR Overview: Having students become translators in the ESL classroom. Translation as a cultural bridge, and a way to facilitate a better understanding of the English language. Stream: Educational Resources and Learning |
More Than The Medium: The Unique Role of Content in User Perception of Interactivity James P. Gleason, Department of Communication, Eastern Kentucky University, Kentucky, UNITED STATES Overview: Content affects user perception of interactivity independently of the technology used to communicate it. This paper examines the nature of interactivity and how content uniquely influences communication outcomes. Stream: Information Society, and Print and Electronic Texts |
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Traditional Books in the Digital Age: The Study of Art History in the 21st century Anne Haas, Library, Bowdoin College, Maine, UNITED STATES Overview: The impact of the digital age on the study of art history: how is it that the most image filled of disciplines, is still hooked on the Book? Stream: Libraries |
From Baby Steps to Giant Leaps: Developing and Presenting an Information Literacy Course at the University of the Free State Lianda Coetzer, Library and Information Science, University of the Free State, Free State, SOUTH AFRICA Overview: A Brief discussion on how the University of the Free State in South Africa, developed an accredited Information Literacy Course. Stream: Literacy |
Effects of a Computer-Based Reading Tutor on the Attitudes and Views of Multilingual Young Readers Dr. Jon Shapiro, Faculty of Education Department of Language and Literacy Education, Jane Wakefield, Faculty of Education, Dr. Kenneth Reeder, Department of Language and Literacy Education, The University of British Columbia, British Columbia, CANADA Overview: The results of a study examining the effects of a computerized reading tutor on multilingual children's attitudes and views of reading are presented. Stream: Literacy |
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Ich, Du, Und Sie: Private and Public Writing by Multiliterate Authors Prof. Tina Bennett-Kastor, Department of English and Linguistics, Wichita State University, Kansas, UNITED STATES Overview: While most bi- and multilingual writers publish in a single language, their private writings may exhibit code-switching. Recently, however, such mixed-language works have become increasingly public, assuming a multiliterate readership. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
A Personal Geography Examining Why American Expatriate Writers Lived in Paris and Madrid Stan West, English Department, Columbia College Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES Overview: This research papers asks and answers why American writers found a safe space in Madrid and Paris. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
Reading and Democracy Dr. M.A.R. Habib, Department of English, Kingston University, Surrey, UNITED KINGDOM Overview: This paper intends to analyze the implications for teaching, research, and the democratic process of a recently issued alarming report by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
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| Room 6 - Garden Sessions | GARDEN SESSION - Dr. José Luis González Quirós, Stefan Grandman, María Antonia Carrato | ||||||
| 13:40-14:25 | LUNCH |
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| 14:25-15:30 | Parallel Sessions | |||
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| 14:25-14:55 | 15:00-15:30 | |||
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Concerning E-Books: Addressing Form and Content in Stephen King's the Plant Amy Palko, Department of English Studies, University of Stirling, Stirlingshire, UNITED KINGDOM Overview: This paper will analyse both the published form and narrative content of Stephen King's serially published e-book, The Plant. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
Books above the Throne: The Ascension of the Book and the Actualization of Rule of Law in 17th -Century England Prof. Paul Callister, Leon E. Bloch Law Library UMKC School of Law, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Missouri, UNITED STATES Overview: The paper illustrates the relationships of books to authority. In seventeenth-century England, ascendancy of the printed book, as the ultimate repository of authority, effectively established a limitation on royal power. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
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Discovering Miss Havisham Liz Mitchell, The Department of Sport, Culture and the Arts Faculty of Education, Strathclyde University, UNITED KINGDOM Overview: Using drama to discover possible answers to questions which explore the ambivalent character of Miss Havisham whose presence dominates the novel ‘Great Expectations’, by Charles Dickens. Stream: Educational Resources and Learning |
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Grant Richards: A Publisher Before His Time Prof. Iain Stevenson, UCL Centre for Publishing School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London, UNITED KINGDOM Overview: The London publisher, Grant Richards, was an innovative editor and a talented spotter of literary talent. This paper outlines his career and influence. Stream: Publishing |
No Baggage, Only Possibilities: Starting a University Press from Scratch Prof David Pankow, Cary Graphic Arts Press RIT Libraries, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, UNITED STATES Overview: A case study that documents a new university press at RIT, established for the purpose of exploring the future of academic publishing. Stream: Publishing |
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"Bulgarian" Books: The Contrary Cases of Stanislavov, Zheferovic and Paisy Hilendarski Dr. Matthew Gibson Gibson, Culture, Media and Communication, University of Surrey, Surrey, UNITED KINGDOM Overview: This paper intends to compare three early 'Bulgarian' books with a view to comparing their different aims and establishing whether we can actually call them 'Bulgarian' books at all. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
Charles Lahr's "Progressive Bookshop" Dr. Huw Osborne, Department of English, The Royal Military College of Canada, Ontario, CANADA Overview: This paper examines Charles Lahr's London bookshop, The Progressive Bookshop, as a central cultural institution in the material conditions of literary London between the wars. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
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| Room 6 - Garden Sessions | GARDEN SESSION - Dr. Lawrence Lessig and Javier Díaz de Olarte | |||
| 15:30-16:00 | PLENARY SESSION - Michael A Peters, Professor of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA - 'Opening the Book' |
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| 16:00-16:30 | PLENARY SESSION - Simone Murray, Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia - 'What are you Working On? - The Shifting Role of the Author in an Era of Cross-Media Adaptation' |
| 16:30-16:40 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:40-17:45 | Parallel Sessions | |
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| 16:40-17:10 | 17:15-17:45 | |
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Yeats and Heaney As Examples: Without Contraries, No Progression Kevin Boyle, English Department, Elon University, North Carolina, UNITED STATES Overview: Many poems function in the way fiction does: conflict and friction create pleasure. This talk will analyze how Yeats and Heaney use conflict to create their poems. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
Essays in Portfolio Management: An Interactive E-book Powered by MapleTm Prof. Eliezer Prisman, Financial Engineering Schulich School of Business, York University, On, CANADA Overview: This e-book presents an Interactive Dynamic Environment for Advanced Learning (IDEAL) which is supported by a collection of procedures, a MapleTM package, called IDEAL. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
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Fast Capitalism, Fast Knowledge – Perform or Else! Prof. Tina (A.C) Besley, Dept of Educational Psychology and Counseling, California State University San Bernardino, California, UNITED STATES Overview: ‘Fast capitalism’, ‘fast knowledge’ and the ‘McDonaldization’ of education are part of the new knowledge economy. Managing fast knowledge performance impacts on academic performance, research, teaching and publishing. Stream: Information Society, and Print and Electronic Texts |
The Electronic Journal: A Vehicle for Interdisciplinary Exploration Dr. William W. Bostock, School of Government, University of Tasmania, Tas, AUSTRALIA Overview: Scientific and scholarly publishing has traditionally provided publication in highly specialised areas defined as academic disciplines, but new challenges require multidisciplinary research, and the electronic format makes this possible. Stream: Information Society, and Print and Electronic Texts |
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Not Perfect But Good Enough: Experiences Using Machine Translation In A Multi-Lingual Institution Huibre Lombard, Library and Information Services, University of the Free State, Free State, SOUTH AFRICA Overview: The EtsaTrans translation programme is a hybrid example-based machine translation system being developed at the University fo the Free State to quickly translate documents in a multi-cultural and multi-lingual institution. Stream: Publishing |
The Artists' Books in México: Cocina Ediciones y El Archivero Luz del Carmen Vilchis Esquivel, CUMULUS and Design Research Society, MEXICO Overview: The artists' books transformed since the sixties and seventies the traditional condition of bookness. This paper is about the mexican pioneer woman in this genre. Stream: Publishing |
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Arabic Academic Libraries and E-books: Description and Analysis of the Current Practices Ali Saif Al Aufi, Department of Library and Information Science College of Arts and Social Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, OMAN Overview: The research paper investigates the current practicies of providing e-books services for academic user communities in the Arab World. Stream: Libraries |
Public Relations Academic Journals: Traditional Citations Eclipsed by Electronic Sources? Dr. Maggie Thomas, Division of Advertising and Public Relations, Schieffer School of Journalism, Texas Christian University, SPAIN Overview: This study examines trends since 2000 in leading public relations academic journals to determine if authors are relying more on electronic sources than published sources for their research. Stream: Educational Resources and Learning |
| Room 6 - Garden Sessions | GARDEN SESSION - Michael Peters | GARDEN SESSION - Simone Murray |
| Monday, 22 October |
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| 9:00-9:30 | PLENARY SESSION - Mary Kalantzis, Dean of the College of Education at the University of Illinios Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA - 'The Social Web: Changing Knowledge Systems and their Impacts on Higher Education' |
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| 9:30-10:00 | PLENARY SESSION - Françoise Dubruille, Director of the European Booksellers Federation - 'Can booksellers survive in a global environment?' |
| 10:00-10:30 | PLENARY SESSION - Antonio Ramírez Gonzalez, Direction, Librería La Central del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía |
| 10:30-10:45 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:45-12:25 | Parallel Sessions | ||||
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| 10:45-11:15 | 11:20-11:50 | 11:55-12:25 | |||
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Semana Negra: Popular Culture and the Hispanic Book Fair Dr. Tiffany Gagliardi Trotman, Department of Languages and Cultures Spanish Programme, University of Otago, NEW ZEALAND Overview: This presentation explores the role of popular book fairs within Hispanic Culture through an analysis of Semana Negra, an annual festival celebrating noir fiction held in Gijón, Asturias, Spain. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
A Priceless Gift: Book-Giving in Late Medieval French Manuscript Illumination Monica Ann Walker Vadillo, Instituto de Ciencias de las Religiones Departamento de Historia del Arte I (Medieval), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, SPAIN Overview: Book-giving was a very important ritual which involved a highly visual ceremony usually represented in the preface of the manuscript. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
European Library Travel and the Enlightenment Dr. Thomas Walker, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Wisconsin, UNITED STATES Overview: This paper analysis several library travel accounts of the latter half of the eighteenth century that reflect how the European Enlightenment fostered new attitudes toward scholarship and learning. Stream: Libraries |
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The Electronic Archived System to Preserve Library Material Dr. Shahriar Movafaghi, New Hampshire, Dr. J. Stephanie Collins, NH, Tom Chan, School of Business, Southern New Hampshire University, New Hampshire, Hassan Pournaghshband, School of Computing and Software Engineering, Southern Polytechnic State University, GA, UNITED STATES Overview: The electronic archive system will enable librarians to preserve structured, and un-structured documents. The digitalization is not only to be used for rare documents but also video and audio materials. Stream: Information Society, and Print and Electronic Texts |
Digital Rights Management: Effects on Research Support in the Context of a University Library Dr. J. Stephanie Collins, NH, Dr. Shahriar Movafaghi, Tom Chan, School of Business, Southern New Hampshire University, New Hampshire, UNITED STATES Overview: The issue of how Digital Rights Management Techniques will affect the ability of researchers and librarians to use protected works. Stream: Information Society, and Print and Electronic Texts |
The Customization and Personalization for Library Portal Dr. Shahriar Movafaghi, Tom Chan, School of Business, Southern New Hampshire University, New Hampshire, Hassan Pournaghshband, School of Computing and Software Engineering, Southern Polytechnic State University, GA, Dr. J. Stephanie Collins, School of Business, Southern New Hampshire University, NH, UNITED STATES Overview: The library portal delivers a consolidated view of library resources and services. Customization and personalization are two key strategies that can be employed to make the library’s website customer centric. Stream: Information Society, and Print and Electronic Texts |
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Sociology of Publishing Careers: The Mechanisms of Labour Recruitment in the UK Publishing Sector Pui-yan (Flora) Lau, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, UNITED KINGDOM Overview: A case study of forty UK publishers with the aim of exploring the role of reference and reputation in the labour recruitment process Stream: Publishing |
How do we Know what they want to Read? Determining the Reading Preferences and Needs of Afrikaans Children in South Africa Maritha Snyman, Information Science, University of Pretoria, Cecilia Penzhorn, Lecturer, Department of Information Science, Gauteng, SOUTH AFRICA Overview: The paper describes the use and advantages of qualitative research techniques in determining the reading preferences and needs of Afrikaans children in South Africa Stream: Publishing |
The Bookarts Work of Sailorboypress: The Politics of Content Prof. Jeffrey Morin, College of Fine Arts and Communication, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Wisconsin, UNITED STATES Overview: sailorBOYpress produces limited-edition, letterpress books about the AIDS pandemic, homosexuality in society, and reinterpretation of classic art and religious themes in order to create modern voices for historical dialogues. Stream: Publishing |
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South Korean Bookseller’s Online Word-of-Mouth Marketing Choon Key Chekar, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, Wales, UNITED KINGDOM Overview: Using a case of the biggest South Korean online bookshop, which has encouraged customers to post book reviews, this paper will investigate how online book retailers use word-of-mouth marketing. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
The Art of the Book: Medieval Meets Modern Dr. Laura Rinaldi Dufresne, South Carolina, Prof. Laura Gardner, Art & Design, Winthrop University, North Carolina, UNITED STATES Overview: Workshop participants make a codex from recycled materials after a power point on the early Christian codex form. "Save, Change, Discard" Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
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Los libros en el mundo digital Ana Nistal, Dirección de Administración Electrónica, ICM (Informática y Comunicaciones de la Comunidad de Madrid), SPAIN Overview: La tecnología que apoya el negocio tradicional es bienvenida. ¿Qué ocurre cuando esa tecnología empieza a socavar los cimientos del modelo de negocio conocido? Stream: Information Society, and Print and Electronic Texts |
Digital printing: the answer to publishing industry challenges - Jesús Medina | |||
| Room 6 - Garden Sessions | GARDEN SESSION - Mary Kalantzis | GARDEN SESSION - Françoise Dubruille and Antonio Ramírez | |||
| 12:25-12:55 | LUNCH |
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| 12:55-13:25 | PLENARY SESSION - Silvia Castrillón, President - Asociación Colombiana de Lectura y Escritura, Asolectura - 'Going Back to the Root' |
| 13:25-13:55 | PLENARY SESSION - Antonio Basanta, Executive Vice-President and General Manager of Fundación Germán Sánchez Rupérez - 'The books burn bad... or how to help to create and keep readers' |
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The Book As Tool And Verb Ken Botnick, Kranzberg Book Studio, Washington University, Missouri, UNITED STATES Overview: An assessment of the utilization of traditional book arts studio techniques to teach principles of research, authorship, publishing, and design. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
Reading Romance in a Crime Ridden South Africa Cecilia Penzhorn, Maritha Snyman, Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria, Gauteng, SOUTH AFRICA Overview: The results of a study, based on Radway's work, in which the motives for reading romance novels within the social context of post-apartheid South Africa are investigated, are discussed. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
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Millennial Attitudes Towards Books and E-Books Dr. Arlene J. Nicholas, Business Studies and Economics Department, Dr. John K. Lewis, Library/Business Studies and Economics Department/Administration of Justice Department, Salve Regina University, Rhode Island, UNITED STATES Overview: The attitudes of Millennial generation students from a small, private New England college were measured regarding usage and intended usage of books, e-books and audio books. Stream: Information Society, and Print and Electronic Texts |
Does the Book offer Enough of a Challenge to Contemporary Design Students? Simon Bell, School of Art and Design, Coventry University, West Midlands, UNITED KINGDOM Overview: Making bookwork relevant and rewarding by concentrating on the word and on narrative, rather than on expected design practice. Stream: Educational Resources and Learning |
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Envisaging the Place of 'Bookness' in a Society of the Future at the Fin De Siècle Verity Hunt, School of English and American Literature, University of Reading, UNITED KINGDOM Overview: This paper theorises late Victorian texts that thematise their own bookness to explore the potential of new book forms offered by audio and visual inventions. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
The Electronic Private Library (EPL) Dr. Shahriar Movafaghi, School of Business, Southern New Hampshire University, New Hampshire, Hassan Pournaghshband, School of Computing and Software Engineering, Southern Polytechnic State University, GA, Dr. J. Stephanie Collins, NH, Tom Chan, School of Business, Southern New Hampshire University, New Hampshire, UNITED STATES Overview: The Electronic Private Library (EPL) will enable individuals to collect and store all related educational, recreational, and professional books and materials accumulated over a persons’ lifetime. Stream: Educational Resources and Learning |
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The Footprints of Raka: On Rewriting and Canonisation Dr. Anthea Van Jaarsveld, Prof. Hendrik Petrus Van Coller, Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French, University of the Free State, Free State, SOUTH AFRICA Overview: The continuous rewritings of Raka by Van Wyk Louw shows it's relevance as masterpiece within the Afrikaans literary canon. Focuss falls on continually changing ideological paradigms underpinning rewriting processes. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
Public Spaces: Collective Innovation Creating Opportunities for Books and Reading Jane Stubbs, Visual Arts and Literature, Arts Council England, Yorkshire, UNITED KINGDOM Overview: Arts Council England, Yorkshire with regional delegates explore the challenges of technology and approaches to new ways of thinking in order to support a better book and reading culture. Stream: Books, Writing and Reading |
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La nueva habilidad del bibliotecario: Alfabetización en la gestión y la información Prof. José Morillo-Velarde Serrano, Bibliotecas, Fundación Universitaria San Pablo CEU, SPAIN Overview: - Stream: Libraries |
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| Room 6 - Garden Sessions | GARDEN SESSION - Silvia Castrillón and Antonio Basanta | |||
| 15:05-15:15 | COFFEE BREAK |
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| 15:15-16:00 | Talking Circle |
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| Room 1 | TALKING CIRCLE - Books, Writing and Reading |
| Room 2 | TALKING CIRCLE - Publishing |
| Room 3 | TALKING CIRCLE - Libraries |
| Room 4 | TALKING CIRCLE - Literacy and Educational Resources and Learning |
| Room 5 - Spanish Sessions | TALKING CIRCLE - Information Society |
| Room 6 - Garden Sessions | TALKING CIRCLE - Print and Electronic Texts |
| 16:05-16:35 | CLOSING SESSION - Bill Cope, Director, Common Ground Publishing; Rogelio Blanco Martinez, Director General for Books, Libraries & Archives |
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