Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Call for Manuscripts - Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Call for Manuscripts - Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Internet Reference Services Quarterly (IRSQ), a peer-reviewed journal published by The Haworth Press, Inc., welcomes the submission of manuscripts for its next issue. This comprehensive and highly respected journal offers readers examples of cutting-edge technologies innovatively applied for the enhancement of library service. Don't let the word "reference" in the title fool you: the journal has a broader focus, seeking to highlight the theory and practice behind emerging Internet services, sources and resources in all areas of librarianship. If you are using technology to make the lives of you or your patrons better, we want to hear from you!

Research-based studies, case studies of successful services or programs, and authoritative articles highlighting best practices are welcome. Topics of interest to us include: course management systems, blogs, statistical packages and analyzers, web tutorials, federated searching technologies, link resolvers, digital collections and digital object repositories, information services for cell phones, iPods or PDAs, Internet and copyright law, plagiarism, electronic information access (e-reserves, document delivery, electronic theses of dissertations, home-grown databases), digital or virtual reference services, streaming video and audio, library web site innovations, management of electronic resources, IT/library mergers, Internet security, Googlization, etc.

Submissions should follow the Haworth guidelines for manuscript format and preparation available at http://www.haworthpress.com/journals/instructionsforauthors.asp. All submissions should be accompanied by a Manuscript Submission and Copyright Transfer form, available at http://www.haworthpressinc.com/pdfs/jmanuscript.pdf.

All accepted manuscripts will be published in the journal's next issue, Volume 11, No. 1. The due date for submission of manuscripts is August 1st, 2005. For more information or manuscript submission questions, please contact Christopher Cox at coxcn@uwec.edu or at the address below. We look forward to reading your work and having the opportunity to share it with other librarians.

Sincerely,
Christopher Cox
Editor, Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Christopher Cox
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director of Libraries
Editor, Internet Reference Services Quarterly
McIntyre Library
University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
105 Garfield Avenue - L 3002A
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
Phone: (715) 836-4454
Fax: (715) 836-2949
Email: coxcn@uwec.edu

Monday, June 20, 2005

ALA: Volunteer for the LITA Blog

ALA: Volunteer for the LITA Blog

There is still time to volunteer to blog for the LITA Blog. To view the schedule, visit the schedule page at http://litablog.org/?page_id=21.

Take a gander at what all the fuss is about here http://litablog.org/. Thank you to everyone who has volunteered so far. Contact me if you would like to be a part of the fun.
Michelle
--
Michelle Boule
Social Sciences Librarian
University of Houston
713-743-9776
mlboule@uh.edu

Sunday, June 19, 2005

Call for Particiaption from D-Lib (June 2005)

Calls for Participation

Request for Proposals for a National Study on User Satisfaction with Access to Government Information and Services at Public Libraries and Public Access Computing Centers, The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The deadline for proposals to be received at the IMLS is July 20, 2005.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june05/06clips.html#IMLS-SOL

New Book Series: Topics in the Digital Humanities, The University of Illinois Press. Call for proposals for monographs and co-authored works that directly serve the community of those engaging with humanities computing tools and methodologies.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june05/06clips.html#TOPICS

For full Clips and Pointers Section, see:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june05/06contents.html#CLIPS

Friday, June 17, 2005

Bloggers Wanted - Come Blog with Library Technology NOW about the ALA Conference

Bloggers Wanted - Come Blog with Library Technology NOW about the ALA Conference

Library Technology NOW!
News, Opinions, Wisdom
http://LibraryTechnologyNow.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
June 17, 2005

http://www.librarytechnologynow.org/ -- June 17, 2005 -- Library Technology NOW,the website devoted to library technology news and product reviews written by library people for library people, is seeking participants to blog about the June 23-29th American Library Association Conference on LTN’s blogspot http://librarytechnologynow.blogspot.com/.

Speaking at the conference? Planning on meeting up with other librarians? Participating in any exhibits? Simply want to share your thoughts on some of Chicago’s hot spots? Contact Adam Wright at awright@ntrls.org, Co-Web Producer of LTN, to receive your exclusive invitation to begin blogging.

Log on and let us know just what’s on your ALA conference agenda!

For more information:

Diane Neal, dneal@uta.edu

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

International Society for the Systems Sciences, Arts-informed Inquiry Special Interest Group

International Society for the Systems Sciences, Arts-informed Inquiry Special Interest Group

Next summer at the Sonoma 2006: The 50th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, USA July 9th - 14th 2006 a special session on arts-based inquiry is being proposed by the planning committee. This note is a special invitation for participation in the planning of that event. There will be time for discussion, presentations of artistic, musical, literary, performance and scholarly works as well as a show arranged for artists working in sculpture, painting and other visual media. Weave a little over a year to create this special event together.

For those of you using the tools of art in scholarly research already (or, conversely, the tools of research in art), this will be a very exciting opening of some doors and a meeting of minds, indeed! (If you would like an interesting link to some researchers engaged in arts-informed research go to: http://home.oise.utoronto.ca/~aresearch/publications or http://www.iirc.mcgill.ca/methodology/artificiality)

If you would like(or if you know someone who would to) to help in the planning an preparation of this exciting project, please contact Lezlie Kinyon, Ph.D.,(isss06lezlie@yahoo.com) or Bela A Banathy, Ph.D.(babanathy@sbcglobal.net) for further information. This project is truly in the beginning of the planning stages, and your participation will be eagerly accepted!

Information about he International Society for the Systems Sciences can be found at http://www.isss.org including information for the 2005 conference. If you would like(or if you know someone who would to) to help in the planning an preparation of this exciting project, please contact Lezlie Kinyon, Ph.D.,(isss06lezlie@yahoo.com) or Bela A Banathy, Ph.D.(babanathy@sbcglobal.net) for further information. This project is truly in
the beginning of the planning stages, and your participation will be eagerly
accepted!
Email: isss06lezlie@yahoo.com
Visit the website at http://www.isss.org/projects

CFP: Mourning urban change: testimonies of disaster and urban catastrophe since 1945

CFP: Mourning urban change: testimonies of disaster and urban catastrophe since 1945
Date: 2005-10-01
Description: Call for papers Mourning urban change: testimonies of disaster and urban catastrophe since 1945 Specialist session at the 8th International Conference on Urban History Stockholm, 30 August 2 September 2006.

Deadline for proposal submissions: 1 October 2005.

Contact: gulin@ief.hr
URL: www.eauh.org
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=146501

CFP: Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities

CFP: Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities
Location: Virginia
Deadline: 2005-06-20
Description: This summit will bring together scholars from diverse disciplines of the humanities to discuss issues surrounding digital tools and the underlying cyber-infrastructure that: Enable new and innovative approaches to humanistic scholarship; Provide students deeper and more sophisticated access to cultu

Contact: digitaltoolssummit@virginia.edu
URLs: www.iath.virginia.edu/dtsummit/index.html
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=146388

Call for Book Reviewers - New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing

Call for Book Reviewers - New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing

The journal New Writing seeks Book Reviewers for books about creative writing (practice, theory, pedagogy, history), by creative writers (all kinds of genre work), and in relation to "companion subjects" (eg. literature, media/film, theatre).

Our reviewer database currently includes Peer Reviewers in the field of Creative Writing, from around the world.

The journal, which is published in paper twice a year (with occasional, additional Special Issues), is entering an exciting new phase of its growth and development, and is seeking enthusiastic,
informed Book Reviewers to add to this growing range of Peer Reviewers worldwide.

Anyone interested in being included as a possible Book Reviewer is welcome to send an email to the New Writing Editor, Professor Graeme Harper, at graeme.harper@port.ac.uk, or via creative@port.ac.uk, including with this a (max.) five line bio. note, and contact details.

Subscription details for New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing can be found at http://www.newwriting.up.to

Send Book Reviewer details by 1 August 2005, if possible -- seeking reviewers for New Writing journal issues onwards from 2.2.
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Professor Graeme Harper BA MLitt DCA PhD FRGS
Head, School of Creative Arts, Film and Media,
University of Portsmouth, UK
http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/scafm
graeme.harper@port.ac.uk Ph: 00 44 23 92846132
Join the Top Ten - See our School website for Details.
Visit: http://www.brookebiaz.co.uk -- director@newwriting.org

Resources for ALA Program: Why Can't Johnnie and Jane Get Published: Part 2, Research Methodologies

Resources for ALA Program: Why Can't Johnnie and Jane Get Published: Part 2, Research Methodologies

Description: Johnnie and Jane (librarians) gained a better understanding of research basics from the ALCTS program, “Why Can’t Johnnie and Jane Get Published, Research Basics,” held in Toronto in June 2003 and are ready to conduct their first research project. Led by a panel of experts, Trisha Davis, Claudia Gollop, Peggy Johnson, and Barbara Moran, this program will provide an overview of format of a research paper, in-depth presentations and discussions on selecting appropriate research methodologies to carry out the project, data collection procedures, presentation of analysis, and get the research findings published in a referred journal. This is an interactive program. The audience will have opportunities to interact with the panel and with other participants through group discussions and Q&A sessions.

Speakers
Trisha Davis, Head, Serials & Electronic Res, Ohio State University Libraries
Claudia J. Gollop, Assoc. Prof. & Assoc. Dean, SLIS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peggy Johnson, Association University Librarian, University of Minnesota
Barbara B. Moran, Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sponsored by ALCTS Acquisitions Section (AS)

Cosponsored by ALCTS Serials Section's (SS) Research and Publications Committee, ALCTS Cataloging and Classification Section's (CCS) Research and Publications Committee, and ACRL Research Committee.

Planning Chair Sha Li Zhang, slzhang@uncg.edu

URLS:

Program Page:
http://www.ala.org/ala/alcts/alctsconted/alctsceevents/alctsannual/johnjane2prog.htm

Handouts:
http://www.ala.org/ala/alcts/alctsconted/alctsceevents/alctsannual/Johnnie_Prog_Handouts.pdf

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Call for Submissions: Post-Tracks

Call for Submissions: Post-Tracks

Submission Deadline: July 22, 2005

Post-Tracks, an online peer-reviewed student publication hosted by http://Webjunction.org, is seeking articles for inclusion in its second issue scheduled for August 2005. This quarterly publication gives LIS students the opportunity to publish their work.

http://Webjunction.org is an online community where library staff meet to share ideas, solve problems, take online courses - and have fun. Post-Tracks is the latest development of the Faculty & Student Lounge, an open discussion forum focused on connecting persons taking or teaching a course in library and information science.

Please submit original manuscripts of 1,500-3,000 words. Current topics of particular interest include information literacy, services to special populations, and virtual reference. All articles will be considered for publication. Every paper submitted will be subject to blind review by LIS student reviewers.

Submissions should be sent as an email attachment in plain text format to the editor at junction@ischool.utexas.edu, and must be received prior to the July 22, 2005 deadline. Late submissions will be considered, but may not be reviewed in time for inclusion in this issue. The cover page of the manuscript should include the title, the author's name, the institution with which the author is affiliated, and the author's contact information. The author's name should not appear anywhere else in the document. References should follow APA Style (5th edition). Please include a brief abstract of 150 words or less with the manuscript.

http://Webjunction.org uses the Creative Commons system of rights management for contributed content. For more information, please visit www.creativecommons.org.

If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact the Post-Tracks editor.

Angela Kille
Post-Tracks Editor for Webjunction.org
School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station, D7000, Austin, TX 78712
junction@ischool.utexas.edu

CFP: Technology and the Home

CFP: Technology and the Home

One could reasonably argue that without technology in its simplest form, homes would not exist. Technology has also made homes more comfortable, attractive, safer, and sturdier. In the pre-industrial past, the home’s relationship to technology was fairly straightforward: homes either
benefitted from changes in technology or they did not. Today, the relationships between the home and technology are complex and, at times, contradictory. For example, owners of a historic house will often research and revive outdated technologies in order to "correctly" restore a house to its former glory. Yet, they may incorporate modern decorative materials, lighting, heating, and appliances. On the other hand, the owner of a more recent home has an unprecedented range of environmentally friendly and fireproof materials, energy efficient appliances, and innovative furniture and furnishings from which to chose. In addition, some contemporary technologies that may seem benign, such as computers, RFID tags, smart
technology and the latest appliances, may have detrimental effects. Technology and the Home welcomes papers examining the home's positive and negative relationships to technology in any and all past, present, and future applications. There is no limit on the time frame nor upon the
methodology. Proposals from undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals welcome.

The 2005 conference is from November 4-6 in New Brunswick, NJ. Registration
fees apply. For more information, please go to
http://www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette/

Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2005

Send 1-page proposal, CV & AV needs via snail mail to:
Loretta Lorance
P.O. Box 461
Inwood Station
New York, NY 10034-0461

Call for Posters -- Michigan Library Association

Call for Posters -- Michigan Library Association

Reminder that the deadline for submitting a poster session for the MLA conference is June 30.

Check here: https://orders.mlc.lib.mi.us/mla/arldposter.htm for the submission page.

Check here: http://myhomepage.ferris.edu/~scottd/MLA%20call%20for%20posters.pdf
for a flyer on the sessions Questions, let me know!

Thanks!! --David A. Scott
Reference/Inter Library Loan Librarian
Ferris Library for Information Technology & Education
Office: FLITE 140-D1010 Campus Drive, Big Rapids, MI 49307-2279
ph: (231) 591-3540 fax: (231) 591-2662 scottd@ferris.edu

Monday, June 13, 2005

Call for Reviewers for ALA Conference 2005 -- Library Hi Tech News

Call for Reviewers for ALA Conference 2005 -- Library Hi Tech News

Library Hi Tech News are is conference reviewers to write in-depth conference reports for the upcoming American Library Association meeting in Chicago. The notes for contributors are located at:
http://caliban.emeraldinsight.com/vl=1368075/cl=15/nw=1/rpsv/journals/lhtn/notes.htm

The following is a list of programs that would be of interest to our readers. There probably are other programs, which could be included too. Please send an email to jgelfand@lib.uci.edu if you are interested in
writing a conference report - we would like multiple opinions of a session, as that is valuable to readers as well.

Thank you for your consideration,
Julia Gelfand
co-editor, Library Hi Tech News
University of California, Irvine Libraries

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LITA

* Developing a Culture of Assessment in Library Information Technology Services
* Implementing and Integrating Shibboleth
* Introduction to Web Services
* Analog and Digital Preservation Policy: Managing Transition
* Access, Preservation, and Interchange: Digital Imaging with JPEG 2000
* Radio Frequency Identification Technology in Libraries: Meeting with the RFID Experts Searching Digital Resources: How do people search? How do we know what they want? How do we know when they
find what they need?
* Implementing a Federated Search Tool
* Project Shibboleth Issues and Answers
* To Save or Not to Save? Strategies for Protecting Patron Information Revisited
* Greenstone Digital Libraries: Installation to Production
* Top Technology Trends - An Ongoing Discussion with Library Technology Experts
* President's Program: Digital Searching to Digital Reading: Helping Users in an Online World
* Policies and Practices of Institutional Repositories
* Google's Library: What's in Store for Google Print and Google Scholar

RUSA

* Do You Trust Your IT Staff? Do They Trust You?
* Hot Topics DG - Metasearch and the cutting edge: what are libraries doing to extend basic metasearch services
* Sustaining Digital Programs in Cultural Heritage
* Digitizing Medieval Manuscripts: East & West

ACRL

* Pay to Play: Debating Models for Scholarly Publishing
* Bits and Bytes: Using Technology to Train Academic Librarians as Coaches

ALA -SRRT

* The Googlization of Everything: A Threat to the Information Commons?

ALA -IFC

* Tiny Trackers: Protecting Privacy in an RFID World
* Going Digital: Experiences from East Asia

Thursday, June 09, 2005

CFP: Online Northwest (2006)

CFP: Online Northwest (2006)
Date: February 10, 2006 (this will be the 23rd annual conference)
Location: Corvallis, Oregon (Oregon State University)
Submission Deadline: Monday, October 10, 2005

WHAT IS ONLINE NORTHWEST?
A one-day conference focusing on the use of technology within libraries, attracting librarians from the Pacific Northwest and around the country. It is sponsored by the Oregon University System.

WHAT TOPICS ARE APPROPRIATE?
The coordinating committee seeks presentations that discuss how technology is being applied within library settings and how technology is affecting library patrons and services. We are especially interested in presentations that discuss innovative uses of technology. We strongly encourage academic, public, school, and special librarians to submit proposals. All topics relating to technology and libraries are welcome, including:

*Resource sharing applications (e.g. ILL, document delivery)
*Collection development and assessment applications
*Assessing the impact of technology on patrons or services
*User interface design and evaluation
*Current trends in information literacy and instruction
*Metadata design, application, or evaluation
*Approaches to managing electronic resources or digital repositories
*Computer programming and development of computer applications to support delivery of library services

HOW DO I SUBMIT A PROPOSAL?
Use the online submission form available at:
https://secure.oregonstate.edu/ocse/register.php?event=88

For examples of past presentations or more information, see:
http://www.ous.edu/onlinenw/

WHAT IS THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL?
Monday, October 10, 2005

WHERE IS THE CONFERENCE?
CH2M Hill Alumni Center, Corvallis, Oregon (on the Oregon State
University campus)

Call for Book Reviewers: New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing

Call for Book Reviewers: New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing

The journal New Writing seeks Book Reviewers for books about creative writing (practice, theory, pedagogy, history), by creative writers (all kinds of genre work), and in relation to "companion subjects" (eg. literature, media/film, theatre).

Our reviewer database currently includes Peer Reviewers in the field of Creative Writing, from around the world.

The journal, which is published in paper twice a year (with occasional, additional Special Issues), is entering an exciting new phase of its growth and development, and is seeking enthusiastic,
informed Book Reviewers to add to this growing range of Peer Reviewers worldwide.

Anyone interested in being included as a possible Book Reviewer is welcome to send an email to the New Writing Editor, Professor Graeme Harper, at graeme.harper@port.ac.uk, or via creative@port.ac.uk, including with this a (max.) five line bio. note, and contact details.

Subscription details for New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing can be found at http://www.newwriting.up.to

Send Book Reviewer details by 1 August 2005, if possible -- seeking reviewers for New Writing journal issues onwards from 2.2.
--
Professor Graeme Harper BA MLitt DCA PhD FRGS
Head, School of Creative Arts, Film and Media,
University of Portsmouth, UK
http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/scafm
graeme.harper@port.ac.uk Ph: 00 44 23 92846132
Join the Top Ten - See our School website for Details.
Visit: http://www.brookebiaz.co.uk -- director@newwriting.org

Rewiring "The Nation": The Place of Technology in American Studies

Rewiring "The Nation": The Place of Technology in American Studies

An American Quarterly Speical Issue

Edited by Carolyn de la Peña, University of california, Davis and Siva Vaidhyanathan, New York University

We invite submissions for a special issue of American Quarterly on "Technology and American Culture" to be published in September 2006. We challenge scholars working among an array of "technologies" and "Americas" to interrogate why we might study technology in a post-Eurocentric, post-national American studies. Join us in re-reading the narrative of U.S. technologies as we move beyond celebrations of exceptional tinkerers and a deterministic machine-driven sense of progress to a more complex understanding of the opportunities and responsibilities that befall a nation that interweaves its identities, labors, and creative cultures with its machines. We seek to put a variety of conversations in dialogue, including the present and historical, the national and international, the material and theoretical, and the critical and celebratory. We invite authors who employ a variety of methodologies to contribute their work. We are particularly interested in projects that explore the place of "American" technologies in an increasingly globalized, multi-polar, "high-technology" world and those that illuminate the relationship between technological positivism and dynamics of imperialism and war. Papers with hypertext elements and proposals for online components for papers are also encouraged

Essays should be no longer than 10,000 words, including notes. Please send essays to American Quarterly by September 1, 2005. Please send any questions about the call for papers to american.quarterly@usc.edu. Information about American Quarterly and submission guidelines can be found on our web site: www.americanquarterly.org.

For additional information on Call for Papers, please visit http://chnm.gmu.edu/asa/callforpapers.php?cf=2