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A-LIEP 2009 Conference in Tsukuba

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.

Dr. Shaheen presenting his paper at the keynote session in ALIEP, March 09
Dr. Shaheen presenting his paper at the keynote session in ALIEP, March 09