DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 1st, 2017
ECIL is an annual conference initiated by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University and the Department of Information and Communication Sciences of Zagreb University. It is organized and hosted by a different European partner each year.
ECIL 2017 conference will be organized by IUT Paris Descartes and held from 18-21 September 2017 in Saint-Malo France.
The conference abstract submission system is open.
Workplace Information Literacy being the main theme, ECIL aims to bring together researchers, information professionals, employers, media specialists, educators, policy makers and all other related parties from around the world to exchange knowledge and experience and discuss recent developments and current challenges in both theory and practice.
Topics of the Conference include (but not limited with) the following:
- Information literacy in the workplace
- Information literacy and employability
- Information literacy and workforce development
- Information literacy and career readiness
- Information literacy and developing critical and creative workers
- Information literacy and 21st century workplace
- Information usage in the workplace
- Information literacy and organisational success
- Information literacy and competitiveness
- Critical perspectives on workplace information literacy
- Information literacy and the neoliberal agenda
- Information literacy and digital empowerment
- Information literacy and trans/inter/multiculturalism
- Information literacy and community engagement
- Information literacy and social change
- Information literacy and democracy, citizenship, active participation
- Information literacy, libraries, the public sphere
- Information literacy and lifelong learning
- Information literacy in theoretical context (models, standards, indicators) etc.
