The announcement below may be of interest to people working on 19th century information technologies or those conveniently located for travel to Belgium. It is coming from a separate stream of historical work on what's been called "history of information science" and is increasingly being dubbed "information history" conducted almost exclusively by people inside schools of library and information science. The CFP seems to be written to welcome STS perspectives. Most work has been unashamedly internalist, although the positive side of that is that the scholarship of librarianship traditionally included space for historical work (which unfortunately seems to be getting squeezed out a little in the rush to make things called "iSchools"). Efforts to integrate our two communities seem overdue. Tom -----Original Message----- From: Boyd Rayward [mailto:wrayward@illinois.edu] Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 2:15 AM To: Kathryn La Barre; Thomas Haigh; Michael Buckland; Trudi Bellardo Hahn; Julian Warner; wrayward@uiuc.edu; bobwill@gwm.sc.edu; furner@gseis.ucla.edu; adebons@mail.sis.pitt.edu; thomas.haigh@gmail.com Subject: Re: SIG/HFIS and the Mons Colloquium: Transcending Boundaries Dear colleagues, Stephanie Manfroid and I are organising the next in a series of colloquia that began with Architecture of Knoweldge in Mons 2002, was followed by European Modernism at the University of Illinois in 2005 and Analogous Spaces at the University of Ghent last year. The colloquia all deal with aspects of knowedge organization and have had an historical orientation. Their details are on the website given below. I thought you might be interested to learn of the next in the series which we are organizing for May 20-21 next year. We are calling it: Transcending Boundaries in Europe in the Period of the Belle Epoque: Organizing Knowledge, Mobilizing Networks, and Effecting Social Change. We would like to ask you to consider participating in the colloquium in two ways: 1. by sending us an abstract of a paper (of course!) and 2. by helping to publicise the colloquium by distributing the call for papers. Do we have a SIG/HFIS mailing list for example? I thought too that you might think of various colleagues who you think might be interested and perhaps other listsevs and bulletin boards that might be appropriate. So many of our US colleagues are interested in aspects of LIS history that connect to Europe in various ways and of course there are all sorts of New World boundaries to be transcended in the context of the collqouium. Anything you can do to help get the word out about the collqouium and indeed to participate would be greatly appreciated. With many thanks and best wishes Boyd and Stephanie ------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Transcending Boundaries in Europe in the Period of the Belle Epoque: Organizing Knowledge, Mobilizing Networks, and Effecting Social Change -A colloquium to be held at the Mundaneum, Mons, 20-21 May 2010 Papers for the colloquium will explore aspects of network development, information creation, organization and exchange, and related “boundary spanning” activities of individuals and institutions and the scholarly tools and techniques that this enabled them to develop during the period of the “Belle époque” in which the Western European world underwent extensive social, political and “epistemic” change from approximately 1880 to 1914. Those interested in submitting papers for the colloquium are asked to submit an abstract of not more than 500 words by January 31, 2010. Abstracts may be in French or English and will be refereed. Authors will be notified by of the outcome of this process by February 28, 2010. Accepted papers must be delivered at the Colloquium in English. For further information see ENGLISH: http://www.mundaneum.be/index.asp?ID=621 FRENCH:http://www.mundaneum.be/index.asp?ID=616 Enquiries should be sent to: W Boyd Rayward -- wrayward@illinois.edu Stephanie Manfroid -- stephanie.manfroid@mundaneum.be) W. Boyd Rayward Professor Emeritus Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 E. Daniel St Champaign, IL 61820-6211 ph: 217 - 244- 9741 fax: 217 244 -3302