A Social Informatics Workshop for Library and Information Science Research A Workshop at the American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting November 12-17, 2004 Providence, Rhode Island http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM04/ *Workshop time and location: Sunday November 14th *8:30am to noon. Location TBA within conference hotel* Social Informatics (SI) is a label for the study of the design, uses and consequences of information and communications technologies (ICT) that specifically takes into account ICT interaction with institutional and cultural contexts. Carrying on the work of the late Dr. Rob Kling- a leading proponent of social informatics within LIS - this half-day workshop is intended to encourage development of new social informatics research within LIS. The workshop will have three goals: 1. To provide a friendly writers' workshop environment to help improve draft research and forward ideas. 2. To encourage social networking among workshop participants. 3. To collaboratively produce a workshop report summarizing contemporary issues in social informatics research within LIS. This report will be made available on the Web and will attribute authorship to all workshop participants. Through a combination of small group work and interactive discussions, the workshop will explore the following aspects of social informatics research including: * Conceptual issues * Methods * Funding and research site access Participants' research interests will drive the sessions, and an experienced SI scholar will facilitate each group and provide examples from their own research. Scholars, both beginning and established, who would like to learn more about how to conduct SI research, who want to better understand what to expect from SI work, or who want to network with other SI researchers are encouraged to attend. All participants will be engaged in the group work and larger discussion sessions: this is a hands-on and heads-in workshop. The workshop is charging a fee of $50 cover room, AV, and refreshment costs. The organizers are currently applying for grant money to subsidize the costs for PhD students who wish to attend. Please indicate if you are a current PhD student on your abstract, so we can contact you if we receive the grant to subsidize costs. INSTRUCTIONS: To register and pay for the workshop, see the general registration for the ASIST conference (we are listed as a pre-conference seminar): http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM04/registration.html In order to facilitate organization of the workshop, and to better promote social networking among attendees, please should send an up to 500 word abstract of the ideas you will bring to the workshop to organizer Noriko Hara <nhara@indiana.edu> by October 1. Late abstracts will be considered on a space available basis. Abstracts will be published on the Web and advertised to all registered participants. DUE DATES: Registrations due by October 1 2004 to qualify for early registration rate of $50. http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM04/registration.html Please send abstracts in to Noriko Hara by October 1th 2004. Maximum 500 words. If you are a PhD student and seeking subsidized workshop fees, it would be helpful to know of your intent to attend prior to the October 1 registration deadline. All other questions, email Kristin Eschenfelder at eschenfelder@wisc.edu Workshop organizers (in alphabetical order) Kristin R. Eschenfelder School of Library and Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison eschenfelder@wisc.edu Noriko Hara School of Library and Information Science University of Indiana nhara@indiana.edu Roberta Lamb College of Business Administration University of Hawaii rlamb@HAWAII.EDU Howard Rosenbaum, School of Library and Information Science University of Indiana hrosenba@indiana.edu Steve Sawyer School of Information Sciences and Technology The Pennsylvania State University sawyer@ist.psu.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Noriko Hara, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Information Science SLIS, Indiana University 1320 E. 10th Street, LI Room 011 Bloomington, IN 47405-3907 (812) 855-1490 - phone (812) 855-6166 - fax http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~nhara e-mail : nhara@indiana.edu