The 2012 edition of the BOBCATSSS conference continuing one more day today in Amsterdam. The conference is an excellent venue for LIS and other ALM students (ok, more so for archival science than museum studies students) to meet other students from around the Europe and the world (that is, future colleagues), practice conference participation and presentation and to get a broad additional point of view to the field that is difficult to get at the home university.

Call for submissions & participation: Doctoral forum on Quantitative Research in Information Science 12-13 April 2012, University of Wolverhampton, UK

Website: http://www.asis.org/Chapters/europe/

We are very pleased to announce a Doctoral Forum, specialising in quantitative researchin Information Science to be held on 12-13 April 2012 in England at the University of Wolverhampton.

I was yesterday in Helsinki (Helsingfors) in Finland at #m11i, Media 2011 information: Digital spår symposium organised by Brages Pressarkiv together with YLE The Finnish Broadcasting Company, KSF Media and the Swedish School of Social Science at the University of Helsinki. My own presentation was about information seeking and source criticism.

 The proceedings of the International Conference Information Science and Social Media ISSOME 2011 have been published at http://issuu.com/informationsvetenskap/docs/issome2011 and are available also for download here on my website. 

Come and join us at the Midnight to Noon Conference for Second Life Educators and Researchers M2N4SL on EduFinland III island on October 27, 2011 from midnight (PDT) onwards. More information and programme at http://m2n4sl.library2pointoh.fi/

I was kindly invited to contribute to the Information ecology and libraries conference in Bratislava, an event I am currently participating. Considering my history, it is not very surprising that I find the notion of information ecology enticing and useful in explicating patterns of information interactions as a contextual and temporal phenomenon.

Several speakers at the ongoing Information Science and Social Media -- International Conference (ISSOME2011) (I am organising together with my colleagues at Åbo Akademi University) have made interesting implicit and explicit references to the notion of 'social' that are rather different from the earlier rather fuzzy references to the concept in this kind of a venue.

I was last week participating  as one of the 19 grantees in the European Science Foundation Humanities Spring workshop on  changing publishing cultures in humanities organised by An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth in Ireland.

The first ever ASIS&T European Workshop was held in the beginning of June in Cork, Ireland. The event was kindly hosted by Cathal Hoare (chair of the European Student Chapter) together with his colleagues Adrian, Lisa and Margot from the Department of Computer Science at the University College Cork.

 I participate yesterday a panel on the Europeanisation of Information Science at the International Symposium in Information Science in Hildesheim, Germany as a representant and chair of the ASIS&T European Chapter. We had an interesting discussion on the existence of a European Information Science community, a need for one and possible means to create such a community.