CFP: 2025 Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium - Virtual Meeting - November 20, 2025

The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Planning Committee is now accepting proposals for the fifth MIRL Symposium (https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/mirl/), a free event which will take place virtually on Thursday, November 20. MIRL is a platform-neutral conference for IR practitioners and those with an interest in IRs at hospitals, academic medical centers, and other health settings to discuss and share case studies and best practices for digital archiving of institutional content. 

 

MIRL 2025 will present a keynote panel featuring leaders from the medical IR community.

 

We are accepting proposals for:

• Presentations (approximately 20 minutes including Q&A)
• Lightning talks (approximately 10 minutes including Q&A)

 

The MIRL planning committee welcomes proposals on a variety of topics including, but not limited to:

• Policies and practices that ensure confidentiality (eg. PHI /personal health identifiers in IRs), accessibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Unusual medical/health sciences institutional repository (IR) content, collections, use cases, collaborations, or challenges
• Migrating repository platforms: stories, processes, and lessons learned
• IRs in a time of budget cuts: ROI and justifying the cost
• Finding your champions, marketing your IR 
• Reporting out: telling your IR story with statistics and metrics 
• IR harvesting and support tools, workflow 
• Strategies for management of faculty/researcher publications, conference posters, student collections, digital exhibits, digital archives, preprints, datasets
• Promoting open access (OA) initiatives
• Use of technologies (from APIs to AI)

 

Submit your proposal here: https://tinyurl.com/MIRLCFP25

 

Dates

• Deadline for submitting proposals: Friday, September 5, 2025
• Acceptance emails will be sent no later than Monday, September 15, 2025
• Registration is free for all attendees and will open on Monday September 22, 2025

 

Please contact Steven Moore (smoore31@hfhs.org) for any questions about the proposal process or about MIRL. 

MIRL 2025 planning group members:

• Lisa Buda, Rochester Regional Health
• Jennifer Deal, Advocate Health
• Anthony Dellureficio, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Jimmy Ghaphery, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
• Sara Hoover, George Washington University Libraries & Academic Innovation
• Ramune Kubilius, Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
• Steven Moore, Sladen Library, Henry Ford Health
• Pam Pierce, Oregon Health & Science University 
• Brittany Smith, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, George Washington University
• Michael Upshall, Editor, Charleston Briefings

 

CFP: LOEX Fall Focus 2025 Conference (November 17-19 - virtual)

LOEX Fall Focus 2025 Conference

Call for Proposals

November 17-19 (Online)

You are invited to submit a proposal for LOEX Fall Focus 2025, an information literacy & library instruction conference focused on:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Archives & Special Collections
• Sense of Belonging

We are excited to examine this year's topics and for this online conference to build upon the success of our previous Fall Focus in 2023. We believe this conference's structure, timing, and format is a great way to give more people an opportunity to share what they have learned and are doing in areas that currently have particular salience in the library instruction & information literacy community.

We invite you to submit a proposal on any of these focuses. Proposals for 50-minute long presentations (which will be the majority of the conference) and 7-minute long lightning talks can be submitted only through the online submission form and must be received by Friday, September 5, 2025. You do not need to be a LOEX member to submit a proposal.

For more details, please visit https://loexfallfocus.org/proposals/

CFP: Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review (#OpenAccess #BusinessLibrarianship)

Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review is seeking peer-reviewed articles for our bi-annual journal in Volume 11, Issue 1, to be published in the Summer of 2026. This is a great opportunity for librarians interested in researching any and all areas related to business librarianship. Ticker is an open-access journal committed to promoting the widest possible discussion of original and translational research, evidence-based pieces, case studies, and more.  We especially encourage submissions from early-career librarians.  Ticker offers the opportunity to publish in either of our peer-reviewed or editorial-reviewed collections of articles.

Journal Home Page - https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ticker/

Submission Guidelines

To start your submission, you must register/log in and follow the instructions.

The deadlines for peer-reviewed articles are 

Summer Issue (publishes 07/31): October 10, 2025 (the year before publication, this accounts for a longer timeline to accommodate holiday breaks in late fall/winter)

Winter Issue (publishes 01/31 the year following submission): June 5, 2026.

Recent peer-reviewed research featured in Ticker has included:

• Mayhook, Z. A., Bochenek, A., Grauel, E., Minser, H., O'Neill, T. W., Stonebraker, I. & Vasquez, J., (2025) “Building a Regional Library-Led Case Competition: Reflections from Librarians and Vendor Partners ”, Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review 10(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/ticker.7318

• Nicolosi, G. & Reiter, L., (2024) “The presence of popular business titles in ABLD collections”, Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review 9(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/ticker.6328

Please reach out to Ash Faulkner, Editor in Chief, with any questions at faulkner.172@osu.edu. Please share with any group or person you think would be interested.

Best,

Ash Faulkner, Editor in Chief

Kelly LaVoice, Managing Editor

CFP: Open Access Conference (Defend Research, Defend Open Access) - Conference - October 21, 2025 - Virtual; CFP Deadline August 1, 2025

Save the Date! The SJSU King Library OA25 Conference Planning Committee is pleased to announce the theme of this year's biennial Open Access Conference: Defend Research, Defend Open Access. This year's conference aims to build on the Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship and to provide researchers, librarians, publishers, research administrators, and concerned citizens a chance to share their experiences and strategies in addressing and countering government censorship in the research process.

When? October 21, 2025, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT

Where? This will be a virtual conference

How much? Registration will be free.

We've decided to extend the deadline for submitting proposals for contributed content. We invite proposals for 20 or 40 minute presentations. Submit your proposal via our Google Form by August 1 at 5 PM PDT. We especially invite participants from outside the United States to share their perspectives and experience in navigating the impacts of political change on the research process. Topics may include but are not limited to: 

• Impact of disrupted research agendas, including policy and social impacts as well as impacts on individual researchers;

• Disappearing data and its effect on teaching and/or research;

• Data rescue projects or research on the scope of disappearing data and web content;

• Preservation of open content;

• Labor issues related to Open Access, including invisible labor, power dynamics within academia, and sustainability of current practices;

• Strategies for organization and action in response to changes in the research environment;

• Case studies of Open Access initiatives;

• Minimal computing and other ways of reimagining infrastructure for scholarship; and

• Open Access in politically repressive or underfunded research environments.

If you have any questions, please contact Dawn Hackman, Health Sciences and Scholarly Communications Librarian, San José State University Library, at dawn.hackman@sjsu.edu.

Thank you, 

Call for Editors: Humanities Methods in Librarianship #OpenAccessJournal

Call For Editors

Apply by: September 15th, 2025

Humanities Methods in Librarianship – a new, no-fee, open access journal – is looking for editors to join our talented editorial team! The journal publishes high quality, peer-reviewed research, creative works, and book reviews. We aim to broaden the scholarly conversation by encouraging submissions that deploy methods from the humanities to address current or salient issues in the library profession.

If you are interested in being an editor, irrespective of your academic background, we’d love to hear from you!

Please fill out the form here, and we will reach out to you to start a conversation. 

For additional information, please reach out to editors@humanitiesmethods.org.

CFP: Well-Being in Higher Education: The Library's Evolving Role (2025 FACRL Virtual Conference - October 24, 2025)

Well-Being in Higher Education: The Library's Evolving Role

The Florida Chapter of ACRL (FACRL) is seeking proposals for presentations and poster sessions for the 2025 FACRL Virtual Annual Conference, held online on Friday, October 24, 2025.

“Being mentally resilient is integral to academic success” —Stephanie Rollins, director of library services at Air University in Montgomery, Alabama.

Over the past decade, mental health support in academic libraries has evolved into a creative, focused, and expansive initiative. Leading the way, educational institutions are consistently innovating to address campus needs by implementing targeted tools, dedicating roles and spaces to promote well-being, and investing in specialized programs and services tailored to their students and faculty. This year's call for proposals invites librarians and library staff to showcase their innovative projects, strategies, and ideas that uplift and enhance campus well-being.

What innovative projects have you implemented to enhance your academic campus's well-being? What steps can we take to prevent personal and professional burnout? What can we do to promote work/life balance? What spaces, resources, collections, activities, groups, or services do you provide to support wellness for your students, faculty, and staff? What wellness programs or immersive tools have you introduced to help others in their journey toward improved overall well-being? What practices have you implemented to leverage librarian expertise and enhance services and resources for a more positive patron experience?

We welcome submissions from library staff, students, and faculty.

Topics might include but are not limited to:

• Innovative ways to promote wellness.
• Promoting support services and networks.
• Student engagement activities.
• Building relevant collections.
• Librarians as champions for their students and faculty.
• Flexible work schedules, e.g., remote work, flex time, compressed schedules, etc.
• Innovative spaces, e.g., quiet rooms, comfortable seating, low sensory lighting, serenity, and meditation rooms.
• Stress-less activities for students, e.g., therapy dogs, free massages, coloring, and puzzle stations.
• Physical and mental well-being activities and other immersive tools that promote resilience and mental strength, e.g., yoga for the mind and body, relaxation techniques.
• Slow Librarianship: A captivating approach that harnesses the expertise of librarians to elevate services and resources, ensuring a genuinely enriching experience for patrons. It's all about fostering a positive connection and creating a welcoming environment where knowledge blooms and exploration flourishes!

Do you have an idea for a timely topic outside this year's theme? Please feel free to submit it for consideration! Don't see a trend of interest but have best practices to share? No problem. Submit your proposal anyway.

Proposals for presentations, posters, and lightning round presentations can be submitted beginning Monday, May 19, 2025 using the online submission form. Rolling reviews and decisions will occur as proposals are received. The final deadline to submit is Friday, July 11, 2025. Presenters will receive complimentary registration to the virtual conference.

Presentations should be 45 minutes long, including the time provided for questions. Posters will be shared during a virtual poster session at the conference. Lightning round presentations are 5 minutes in length. Please follow this link to the rubric used to score all proposals. Acceptance emails will be sent on or before Friday, August 15, 2025. 

Presentations of superior quality may be considered for future publication in The Reference Librarian, a major refereed journal published by Taylor and Francis. Consider reviewing the Instructions for Authors to learn about the expectations of content and writing for this peer-reviewed journal, which utilizes APA 7th edition style. Please contact editor Lauri Rebar (Lrebar@fau.edu) with any questions. New and established authors are welcome!

Inquiries may be sent to the FACRL President, Leah Plocharczyk (lplochar@fau.edu)

CFP: Power Up 2026: A Leadership Conference for Youth Services Managers & Staff (Hybird - March 26-27, 2026 - Madison, Wisconsin)

Power Up 2026 - A Leadership Conference for Youth Services Managers & Staff

Call for Proposals Open

Deadline to submit: August 10

March 26-27, 2026 | Hybrid Conference

The Power Up planning committee wants your program proposals for Power Up 2026 to be held March 26-27, 2026, in Madison, WI. Topics could include, by are not limited to strategic planning, leadership styles & strategies, advocacy, intellectual freedom, mentorship, staff morale and retention, culturally relevant programing & collection, managing change, program assessment, innovative or experimental programming, and playful & connected learning. 

Conference sessions can take one of several formats, and you are welcome to submit multiple proposals!

• Lecture presentation: 45-minute presentation + 15 min Q&A
• Panel Discussion: 2-4 presenters focused on one big topic and sharing their experience
• Workshop presentation: One-hour hands-on learning experience
• Programming lightning talk: 5-8 minute mini presentation on or about a successful program
• Roundtable discussion: Lead an in-depth full-group discussion on a topic of your choice. No need to prepare a presentation—just shepherd good conversation!

Submit your idea by August 10th, 2025.

Selected presentation, workshop, and panel sessions will receive one complimentary conference registration. Selected lightning talk and roundtable presenters will receive a discounted conference rate. 

For full details visit the conference website: go.wisc.edu/882gy2 

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Questions? Email ce-info@ischool.wisc.edu 

CFP: UKSG Forum 2025 (United Kingdom Serials Group) - December 3rd, 2025 (Brighton, UK)

The popular UKSG Forum will be held in Brighton on Wednesday 3^rd December 2025.  In addition, we are also pleased to announce that the call for topics is now open for submissions. 

 

We encourage all interested individuals to submit their proposals here. This is an excellent opportunity to share your insights with an engaged and diverse audience. The UKSG Forum provides a friendly and inclusive space where experienced and first-time speakers representing the different segments of the sector are welcome to showcase their area of expertise and/or interests.

 

Areas of interest

 

We seek developed proposals from those who wish to deliver or co-deliver for presentations, lightning talks and posters. These proposals ultimately form the core of our programme. Some examples of topics for proposals are, but not limited to:

• Electronic resource life cycle and management
• Collection analysis, assessment, and development in Academic and FE libraries
• Licensing and legal framework of content
• Ethical Issues in Technical Services
• Standards, initiatives, and best practices
• Scholarly communication, including copyright, data management, and assessment.
• Institutional repositories, publishing, digital preservation, open educational resources, and open access
• Building relationships between libraries, vendors, publishers, standards groups, and others in the information community.
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion in relation to libraries and publishers
• Professional development
• Content platforms, Digital Resources and AI
• Financial and environmental sustainability

 

We particularly welcome first-time presenters and those seeking to build their experience presenting and will provide support and mentorship for those who would find it beneficial.  We accept ideas for full-length (20 - 30 minute) presentations, lightning talks (5 - 15 minutes) along with poster sessions.

 

The event will be free to attend for all those working within a UKSG membership institution – you can check whether your institution is a member here (a small nominal charge will be made for non-members), bookings for delegates will open later in the year.  You do not have to be a member to be a speaker (but we would encourage you to join!) 

 

How to submit your ideas

 

The submission link is here, please complete the short form before the deadline of Friday 20^th June after which our programme committee will convene and review all submissions.  If you need any assistance with any aspect of your submission, please do not hesitate to contact me.

 

Sponsorship/Exhibiting Opportunities

 

There will be a limited opportunity for organisations to sponsor the event or a book tabletop booth.  Both options provide an excellent platform to showcase your products, services, and initiatives to a highly engaged audience.   More details are available here

 

We look forward to receiving your innovative proposals and anticipate an extraordinary forum filled with enlightening discussions, interesting presentations, and networking opportunities, we would be grateful if you would share this email to your own networks.

 

Many thanks in advance! 

 

 

The Forum programme committee