LIDA Conference

International conference LIDA 2016 (Libraries In the Digital Age), co-organized by University of Zadar and Osijek, Croatia & Rutgers University, USA, will be held on 13-17 June, 2016 in Zadar, Croatia. Zadar is a city of exceptional history and rich cultural heritage, voted as the European best destination in 2016 (http://www.europeanbestdestinations.com/best-of-europe/european-best-destinations-2016/).

The Conference will be centred around two main themes: Digital Curation and Preservation & Use Studies, Education and Training for Digital Library Collections. The speaker programme will bring together over 70 international library and information professionals to share their experiences. Presentations, workshops, panels and demonstrations will be given on subjects as varied as open source digital repositories, role of data curators, data reuse, digital curation of personal digital data, collaborative annotation systems, linked data, copyright and media ethics, imagetic conceptual methodology, information literacy and information seeking, education for digital libraries, international mobility in LIS etc.

Conference's Guest of honor is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus Tefko Saracevic (Rutgers University, USA), one of the most cited authors in the field of information science. Among conference's keynote speakers are Lynn Silipigni Connaway, a senior research scientist at OCLC Research and the President-Elect 2016 for the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), and Tatjana Aparac-Jelušić (Croatia), the first recipient of the Thompson/ISI Outstanding Teacher of Information Science 2006 outside of the USA.

For more information about the conference, site and details of the programme visit http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/

We look forward to welcoming you to Zadar, Croatia.

LIDA 2016 co-directors
Martina Dragija Ivanović, University of Zadar, Croatia ([email protected])
Sanjica Faletar Tanacković, University of Osijek, Croatia ([email protected])
Ross J. Todd, Rutgers University, USA ([email protected])
Marie L. Radford, Rutgers University, USA ([email protected]) "