Call for Student Volunteers; Application Deadline 5/24

On behalf of the JCDL 2013 organizing committee, we are happy to announce the JCDL 2013 student volunteer opportunity! Serving as a student volunteer is a great way to get involved with the conference, while contributing back to the JCDL community.

We are looking for dedicated and enthusiastic student volunteers to help us organize the JCDL 2013 conference @ Indianapolis. Volunteers commit to 4-6 hours of volunteer effort and will receive a $100 conference registration fee reduction. Student volunteers will be expected to assist staff with tasks such as organizing conference material, assist with staffing the registration desk, monitoring entrance to sessions and running miscellaneous errands and other duties as necessary.

There are a limited number of these volunteer positions. PhD students, with a paper or poster, will be given preference, but masters level or undergraduate students will also be considered.

Students who are interested in this opportunity should apply ASAP via this link:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ud5hoSB2eOGoMCZHR9_PH__eB-zYo_pzNwv6FmQ80DA/viewform All applicants should fill out the form completely.

The deadline for applications is May 24th. We will send out notifications on May 26th 2013.

For more information or questions about the volunteer process, please contact the JCDL 2013 student volunteer co-chairs:

Xiao Hu, xiaoxhu@hku.hk

Xiaozhong Liu, liu237@indiana.edu

Early-Bird Registration Now Open

Early-Bird Registration Is Now Open Through May 27, 2013

Register online at http://www.regonline.com/JCDL2013

The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term "digital libraries", including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions and organizations; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, distributing, and accessing digital content; theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing; and theory and practice of use of managed content in science and education.

The theme for JCDL 2013 is "Digital Libraries at the Crossroads," in recognition of our location (Indiana is known as the Crossroads of America) and in recognition of the changes forthcoming from the age of mass digitization, big data, and the ever changing nature of scholarly communications. This year we will feature a retrospective look at the past, present and future of digital libraries within our keynote speaker topics.

The intended community for this conference includes those interested in all aspects of digital libraries such as infrastructure; institutions; metadata; content; services; digital preservation; system design; scientific data management; work flows; implementation; interface design; human-computer interaction; performance evaluation; usability evaluation; collection development; intellectual property; privacy; electronic publishing; document genres; multimedia; social, institutional, and policy issues; user communities; and associated theoretical topics.

Participation is sought from all parts of the world and from the full range of established and emerging disciplines and professions including computer science, information science, librarianship, data management, archival science and practice, museum studies and practice, information technology, medicine, social sciences, education and humanities. Representatives from academe, government, industry, and others are invited to participate.

General Conference Co-Chairs

J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert H. McDonald, Indiana University Bloomington

Program Co-Chairs

Tim Cole, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rob Sanderson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Frank Shipman, Texas A&M University