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              International Society for Knowledge Organization
     Fourth International Conference:  July 15-18, 1996, Washington, DC
                              CALL FOR PAPERS

Knowledge organization in the coming century will differ markedly from
that of this past century.  Continued information and document growth, 
expansion and change in user needs and information-seeking behaviors, and 
changes in technological, political, economic, educational, and social 
environments mandate increased development and improvement in knowledge 
organization tools, techniques, schemes, and systems.  In light of the 
challenges and promises of this situation, the International Society for 
Knowledge Organization (ISKO) will hold its 4th International Conference 
(ISKO 4), sponsored by the Library of Congress, and in cooperation with 
OCLC Forest Press, the Classification Research Special Interest Group
of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS SIG/CR) and the
College of Library and Information Services (CLIS) of the University of
Maryland, at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, USA, July 15-18, 
1996 to address the theme:

                Knowledge Organization and Change

Papers and panels addressing Knowledge Organization and Change from any of 
the following interlocking perspectives are invited:
     From an Environmental Perspective:  the impact of ongoing changes
in technological, political, economic, educational, and social
environments on how knowledge is produced, organized, and used
     From an Information/Knowledge Perspective:  the challenges created
by changing views of knowledge (e.g., theories of knowledge, stores of
knowledge) across time, cultures, languages, disciplines, users, and uses
     From a Document Perspective:  new methods of creating and
presenting documents (e.g., collaborative documents, hypertext,
multimedia); changes in text composition, genres, and discourse; dynamic 
documents; managing document versions, variants, and views
     From a User Perspective:  expansion of and change in user needs and
user information-seeking behaviors; the effect of user interface design on
users' abilities to access and assimilate information; the effect of
discourse and interpretive communities, disciplinary/interdisciplinary 
communication, and network communications on users' conceptions of knowledge
     From a Knowledge Organization Systems Perspective:  new
developments in knowledge organization tools, techniques, schemes, and
systems; natural language processing and expert systems; response of 
knowledge organization theory and practice to change in other arenas; 
management of change in knowledge organization schemes and systems

The conference will also celebrate the 120th anniversary of the Dewey 
Decimal Classification, and papers addressing the conference theme with 
respect to DDC are especially welcome.

Prospective speakers or panels are asked to submit extended abstracts of 
500-1000 words by September 30, 1995 to Rebecca Green, Program Chair (see 
contact information below; electronic submissions welcome--please mention 
ISKO in subject line).  An international program committee will review the 
papers, and authors will be notified of acceptance decisions by January 31, 
1996.  The deadline for submission of papers for the printed conference 
proceedings will be March 31, 1996.

Conference chair:  
  Sarah Thomas, 
  Director of Cataloging, Collections Services
  Library of Congress, LM 642 (COLL/O)
  Washington, DC 20540-4300, USA 
  phone: +1 202 707-5333; fax: +1 202 707-6269 
  internet: stho@loc.gov 

Program chair: 
  Rebecca Green
  College of Library and Information Services
  Hornbake Bldg.  (So. Wing), Rm. 4105
  University of Maryland
  College Park, MD 20742-4345, USA 
  phone: +1 301 405-2050; fax: +1 301 314-9145 
  internet: rgreen@umd5.umd.edu 

Local arrangements chair:  
  Jolande Goldberg
  Cataloging Policy and Support Office
  Library of Congress, LM 556 (COLL/CPSO)
  Washington, DC 20540-4305, USA 
  phone: +1 202 707-4386; fax: +1 202 707-6629
  internet:  goldberg@mail.loc.gov