The conference is held in McInnes Room, of the Dalhousie Student Union Building in Halifax, NS.
This year's theme is Open Access & Closed Content: The Information Dichotomy
Academic posters are being accepted for a competition to be held during lunch on the conference day. For more information or to submit a poster proposal, please contact us at iwb@dal.ca.
This year we are hosting a silent auction featuring beautiful locally made products. Throughout the conference day attendees will be able to bid on the auction items until the end of the lunch break (2:15pm). Winners will be announced during the final break of the day (3:15) before the last keynote speaker Leslie Chan.
Auction items include: handmade Afghan blanket, Quarrelsome Yeti T-Shirt M, hand spun, hand knit scarf, and Sara Bonnyman Pottery.
Interested in donating an item to the auction? Contact iwb@dal.ca with Silent Auction in the subject line by February 3, 2012. This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase your talent all the while supporting a worthy cause. There will be ample table space for featured pieces, as well as accompanying short write-ups and/or business cards.
The Information Without Borders Conference is a student-led initiative by the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University. This one-day event provides a forum for interdisciplinary discussion on a central topic affecting all professions represented at Dalhousie's Faculty of Management.
IWB was designed to:
Still curious about the Information Without Borders Conference? Check out some of the past conferences in our archives. In the archive you will also find the podcasts from the 2010 conference.
