Invited are the following types of contributions:

1. Papers: scholarly studies and reports on research and practice that will be presented at the conference and published as e-proceedings (with
   ISBN) on the LIDA web site.
2. Posters: short graphic presentations on research, studies, advances, examples or preliminary work that will be presented in a special poster session. Awards will be given for Best Poster and Best Student Poster.
   Poster guidelines
3. Demonstrations: live examples of working projects, services, interfaces, commercial products, or developments-in-progress that will be presented during the conference in specialized facilities or presented in special demonstration sessions.
4. Workshops: two to four-hour sessions that will be tutorial and educational in nature. Workshops will be presented before and after the main part of the conference. Two workshops will be free of charge for all registered participants.
5. PhD Forum: short presentations by PhD students, particularly as related to their dissertation, in a session organized by the European Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (EC/ASIST); responses will be provided by a panel of educators at this forum.

Author submissions, refereeing, and decision communication is done through EasyChair Conference Systems, here.

Paper proposal: 31 January 2014
Abstracts should not exceed 300 words (exclusive of references) and should clearly state research questions, approach, method and (expected) results. A maximum of five key words should be provided. Check the final abstract carefully before submission. Abstracts will not be edited for typing, spelling, or grammatical errors after submission.
Notification acceptance for papers: 17 February 2014

Poster proposal: 15 February 2014
Abstracts should not exceed 300 words (exclusive of references) and should clearly state research questions, approach, method and (expected) results. A maximum of five key words should be provided. Check the final abstract carefully before submission. Abstracts will not be edited for typing, spelling, or grammatical errors after submission.
Notification acceptance for posters: 1 March 2014

Final submission of full papers and revised poster summaries for Proceedings: 15 May 2014
Final papers should not exceed twelwe pages (6,000 words), and final poster submissions should not exceed three pages (1,650 words). Final submissions will not be edited for typing, spelling, or grammatical errors after submission.

Workshop proposal: 31 January 2014
Abstracts should not exceed 300 words (exclusive of references) and should clearly state objectives, targeted audience, duration, methods and (expected) results. A maximum of five key words should be provided. Check the final abstract carefully before submission. Abstracts will not be edited for typing, spelling, or grammatical errors after submission.

Demonstration proposal: 1 March 2014
Abstracts should not exceed 300 words (exclusive of references) and should clearly state objectives, targeted audience, duration, methods and (expected) results. A maximum of five key words should be provided. Check the final abstract carefully before submission. Abstracts will not be edited for typing, spelling, or grammatical errors after submission.

Ph.D. Forum proposal: 1 March 2014
Abstracts should not exceed 300 words (exclusive of references) and should clearly state  research questions, approach, method and (expected) results. A maximum of five key words should be provided. Check the final abstract carefully before submission. Abstracts will not be edited for typing, spelling, or grammatical errors after submission.

Notification acceptance for workshops: 20 February 2014
Notification acceptance for demostrations/PhD Forum: 20 March 2014

Final submission for Proceedings: 15 May 2014

Submissions: All submissions will be refereed. Templates for submissions, also containing author guidelines, are provided in links below. Final submissions will not be edited for typing, spelling, or grammatical errors after submission.

Poster guidelines

Templates:
>> Papers template
>> Workshop template
>> Poster/PHD Forum/Demo template

Submission management: automatic author submissions, refereeing, and decision communication is done through EasyChair Conference Systems, here.

General correspondence: Addressed to Conference Co-chairs Profs. Tatjana Aparac-Jelusic and Tefko Saracevic. Inquires can also be addressed to Program Chairs, Profs. David Bawden and Blaise Cronin. Full contact information is provided here.

Organization addresses

LIDA’s organizers are seeking to reach a wider audience. We invite libraries, information agencies, professional organizations, publishers, and service providers to consider participation at LIDA by providing a demonstration, workshop, or exhibit about their products, services or advances, or by presenting a paper or poster about their activities, as related to the two themes. Institutions can benefit as well by sending representatives to LIDA.  Course materials will be given to participants so that they can communicate and transfer topics of interest to their institution. Sponsorship opportunities are also available and new sponsors are warmly invited.