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