The topics of the SLA-AGC 13th annual Conference
Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain
3^rd – 5^th April 2007
Website: http://libwebserver.uob.edu.bh/sla07

1. 1. Concepts:

- Information management concept and principles, development, applications in Public and Private organizational life in the Arabian Gulf region.
- Knowledge management: concepts and principles, development, and its applications in in Public and Private organizations in the Arabian Gulf region
- The difference between information management and knowledge management.

2. 2. Life Circle:

- creation: strategies for creating new knowledge, recreation of knowledge, strategies and issues
- organization: indexing, metadata, data and text mining, classification systems, infomaps, knowledge mapping.
- Services: all types of information and knowledge management services that are provided in both government and private organizations.

3. Applications:
- Archives and records: organization, management, electronic archiving, issues of imaging and digitization, value and applications in organizational life, storage, reservation.
- Content management: analysis and organization, system applications, search engines and retrieval, Technological applications

4. Technologies:
- Design and management of information systems; database, text management and workflow applications, intranets and portals.
- Information architecture: machine-machine interface, multimedia, graphics, text management, Web languages, navigation features, Web and portal design.
- Digital libraries: digitizing materials, organization through indexing and databases, applications on portals, services and use.


5. Related issues:
- Knowledge sharing: organizational infrastructure, factors contributing to sharing, barriers, strategies, possibilities and prospects in the corporate organizations in the
Arabian Gulf.
- Health care and medical knowledge within the Gulf Society.
- Role of LIS professionals: IM & KM areas for LIS professionals, developing competencies, liaising with corporate sector.

Guidelines for Submission of Proposals:
1. Proposals must be related to the conference theme or sub-themes;
2. Proposals must include the following elements:
- Title of paper;
- Name and position or title of presenter;
- Employer or affiliation of presenter;
- SLA-AGC membership status of presenter;
- Email, telephone number, fax number, mailing address;
- Abstract (250-300 words) – English and Arabic abstracts are required for Arabic papers;
- Outline of topics/areas/issues to be covered;
3. Proposals must reach the Chair of the Conference Academic Committee Dr. Rashed S. AlZahrani by Monday, September 25th, 2006 at the following address: