Call for Proposals.

This Workshop is different from other conferences in that the focus is on regional collaborations: proposals for research collaborations and reports of collaborations.
Target participants are invited to take part in the Workshop in the following ways (All proposals, abstracts, papers and presentations must be in English):
- Track 1: Propose a project for regional research collaboration.
- Track 2: Report an ongoing or completed regional research collaboration, and hold working group meetings with collaborators.
- Track 3: For graduate students: Present research proposal, or ongoing or completed research project.

Important dates.

Please submit proposals for research collaborations via email to 2016alirg.service@gmail.com
Submission title should your preferred track. e.g., [Track 1] your topic
Authors may submit multiple proposals.

Proposals on the following five themes are especially encouraged (though other areas are welcome):
- eLearning & open access
- Digital libraries & heritage informatics
- Reading & information literacy
- Knowledge management / organization
- Web 2.0 in information services
- Scholarly communication, etc.
In the proposal, please specify:
- Title of project
- Name of author/proposer
- Institutional affiliation
- Country
- Existing collaborators
- Number of collaborators sought
- Abstract (max 500 words)
- Project description (1-5 pages, or 500-2,500 words). This should outline how the collaborators are expected to contribute to the project
After the proposals have been accepted and posted on the Workshop collaboration site, LIS researchers and professionals will be invited to view the proposals and indicate their interest to collaborate in one or more research projects.

Please submit an abstract of an ongoing or completed research collaboration. A short report will be required for abstracts that are accepted.
The length of your short report should be up to 6 pages (up to 3,000 words).

Graduate students are invited to submit a short paper of 4-6 pages (2,000-3,000) words describing their research proposal, or ongoing or completed research projects.