A contingent of DIS faculty, students and alumni attended the A-LIEP 2009 conference in Tsukuba, Japan, 6-8 March.
A paper by Dr Shaheen Majid and Rakiba Reaz Tina, Perceptions of LIS Graduate Students of Peer Learning, was selected as one of the two best papers, and presented at a plenary session. Congratulations, Shaheen and Rabika!
Other papers from Singapore:
- Adrian Heok & Dr Brendan Luyt: Perceptions of Education, Learning and Access: Public Libraries and the Internet in Singapore
- Dr Chris Khoo & Dr Na Jin Cheon: Issues in Ontology Design for a Clinical Decision Support System
- Gladys Low & Dr Abdus Sattar Chaudhry: An Analysis of Reading Profile of Generation-X in Singapore
- Jaclyn Teo & Serena Tan: Qualitative Evaluation of a Polytechnic Library As a Learning & Social Hub
- Dr Brendan Luyt, Ng Peck Suan & Linus Wong Tsun-Wei: What Motivates Singaporean Wikipedians?
- Dr Chris Khoo: Preparing LIS Professionals for Global Knowledge Process Outsourcing
The e-proceedings of the conference is available at: http://a-liep.kc.tsukuba.ac.jp/proceedings/index.html
This was the third A-LIEP conference — the first was held in Singapore (A-LIEP 2006) and the second in Taiwan (A-LIEP 2007). A steering committee was formed to plan future A-LIEP conferences with Dr Chris Khoo (chair), Dr Makiko Miwa (Japan) and Dr Chih-Feng Lin (Taiwan).
The conference photo album is at: http://picasaweb.google.com/aliep09. Here’s a pic of Dr Shaheen presenting his paper.