CFP: Code4Lib Journal

The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.

We are now accepting proposals for publication in our 36th issue. Don't miss out on this opportunity to share your ideas and experiences. To be included in the 36th issue, which is scheduled for publication in mid April 2017, please submit articles, abstracts, or proposals at http://journal.code4lib.org/submit-proposal or to journal@code4lib.org by Tuesday, January 17, 2017.  When submitting, please include the title or subject of the proposal in the subject line of the email message.

C4LJ encourages creativity and flexibility, and the editors welcome submissions across a broad variety of topics that support the mission of the journal.  Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* Practical applications of library technology (both actual and hypothetical)
* Technology projects (failed, successful, or proposed), including how they were done and challenges faced
* Case studies
* Best practices
* Reviews
* Comparisons of third party software or libraries
* Analyses of library metadata for use with technology
* Project management and communication within the library environment
* Assessment and user studies

C4LJ strives to promote professional communication by minimizing the barriers to publication.  While articles should be of a high quality, they need not follow any formal structure.  Writers should aim for the middle ground between blog posts and articles in traditional refereed journals.  Where appropriate, we encourage authors to submit code samples, algorithms, and pseudo-code.  For more information, visit C4LJ's Article Guidelines or browse articles from the first 34 issues published on our website: http://journal.code4lib.org.

Remember, for consideration for the 36 issue, please send proposals, abstracts, or draft articles to journal@code4lib.org no later than Tuesday, January 17, 2017.

Send in a submission.  Your peers would like to hear what you are doing.


Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee

CFP: Big Talk From Small Libraries 2017 (Online Conference - February 24, 2017)

The Call for Speakers for Big Talk From Small Libraries 2017 is open through January 13!

This free one-day online conference is aimed at librarians from small libraries; the smaller the better.  The event is national and Michigan has been a frequent contributor in the past to the conference. Be sure to consider sharing your ideas, successes and lessons learned with similar libraries across the country.

Small libraries of all types – public, academic, school, museum, special, etc. – are encouraged to submit a proposal.

http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/bigtalk/call-for-speakers/

Do you offer a service or program at your small library that other librarians might like to hear about? Have you implemented a new (or old) technology, hosted an event, partnered with others in your community, or just done something really cool? The Big Talk From Small Libraries online conference gives you the opportunity to share what you’ve done, while learning what your colleagues in other small libraries are doing. Here are some possible topics to get you thinking:

§  Unique Libraries

§  Special Collections

§  New buildings

§  Fundraising

§  Improved Workflows

§  Staff Development

§  Advocacy Efforts

§  Community Partnerships

§  That great thing you’re doing at your library!

For Big Talk From Small Libraries 2017, we’re looking for seven 50-minute presentations and five 10-minute “lightning round” presentations.

Big Talk From Small Libraries 2017 will be held on Friday, February 24, 2017 between 9:45 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. (EST) via the GoToWebinar online meeting service. Speakers will be able to present their programs from their own desktops. The schedule will accommodate speakers’ time-zones.

If you are interested in presenting, please submit your proposal by Friday, January 13, 2017. Speakers from libraries serving fewer than 10,000 people will be preferred, but presentations from libraries with larger service populations will be considered.

CFP: Code4Lib 2017 -- Poster presentations

Code4Lib 2017 is a loosely-structured conference that provides people working at the intersection of libraries/archives/museums/cultural heritage and technology with a chance to share ideas, be inspired, and forge collaborations. For more information about the Code4Lib community, please visit http://code4lib.org/about/.

The conference will be held at the Luskin Conference Center at UCLA (http://luskinconferencecenter.ucla.edu/), from March 6, 2017 - March 9, 2017. Visit http://2017.code4lib.org to learn more information about Code4lib 2017

This year, in order to provide increased opportunities for a diversity of presentations and topics, we'll are soliciting for poster proposals.

As with most things Code4Lib, the community will vote on posters that they would like to see included in the program. The Program Committee will curate the top voted proposals based on available presentation space and to ensure diversity in program content.

Presenters whose posters are selected for inclusion in the program will have conference registration slots held for them at the standard conference rate (1 per poster).

Submit your poster proposal here! https://goo.gl/forms/s6pK5vZU6yiGraoy2

Proposals can be submitted through December 30, 2016 at 11:59pm PST (GMT−8). Voting will start on January 3, 2017and continue through January 12, 2017. The URL to submit votes will be announced on the Code4Lib website and mailing list, and will require an active code4lib.org account to participate. The final list of poster will be announced in January.

CFP: Special journal issue on innovative strategies for staffing and funding of digital initiatives

Digital Library Perspectives (DLP) is looking for articles for a special issue on innovative strategies for staffing and funding of digital initiatives in libraries, museums, archives, and other information organizations. Articles can be of any length, and figures and screen shots are encouraged. DLP is a peer-reviewed journal.

Inquiries can be sent directly to the editor's email listed below (please do not reply to the list).  Please send a title and short proposal, along with contact information, to the editor no later than January 15, 2017.  Accepted proposals will be due by August 1, 2017, and can be submitted directly to the Emerald ScholarOne system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dlp.  

If you have any questions, please contact the editor directly.  Thanks.  Brad

Bradford Lee Eden, Ph.D.
Editor, Digital Library Perspectives
brad.eden@valpo.edu

___________________________________________________

Digital Library Perspectives (DLP)

Journal history

Previously published as OCLC Systems & Services:  International Digital Library Perspectives

Aims & Scope

Digital Library Perspectives (DLP) is a peer-reviewed journal concerned with digital content collections.  It publishes research  related to the curation and web-based delivery of digital objects collected for the advancement of scholarship, teaching and learning.  And which advance the digital information environment as it relates to global knowledge, communication and world memory.

The journal aims to keep readers informed about current trends, initiatives, and developments.  Including those in digital libraries and digital repositories,  along with their standards and technologies.

The editor invites contributions on the following, as well as other related topics:

• ·         Digitization
• ·         Data as information
• ·         Archives and manuscripts
• ·         Digital preservation and digital archiving
• ·         Digital cultural memory initiatives
• ·         Usability studies
• ·         K-12 and higher education uses of digital collections

Call for Panelists: ALA Annual 2017 Program on Strategic Online Instruction

Are you effectively engaging students with online library instruction? Want to present your strategies at ALA Annual Conference 2017?

The Distance Learning Section is sponsoring a program that aims to share practical methods for libraries to create effective student-success-based online instructional strategies that include creative methods for developing assessment plans and delivering high-impact information literacy skill instruction. These strategies may include but are not limited to the topics of:

• reaching students through online presence, instruction, and assessment
• creating and implementing high-impact online instruction
• handling challenges when developing online instructional materials
• time management
• providing access to resources and technology
• developing digital learning object repositories for online instruction
• embedding librarian programming in a course or program

This is open to any academic librarian with any online instruction experience they want to share.

Program Title: Visibility & Engagement: Design, Develop, or Refresh your Online Instruction

Program Description: Getting enthusiastic faculty buy-in, creating engaging online learning spaces, and identifying meaningful assessment strategies are all key components to building an effective online instructional presence. Whether supporting online or web-enhanced courses, today’s academic librarians need a visible presence to engage students and faculty alike. In this session, four practitioners will share their successes and failures, and what they have done to create high-impact online instruction programs.

Learning Outcomes:
From this program, attendees will learn how to:

1. Apply strategies to create greater library presence in their institution's course management system and library work flow;
2. Develop online instruction with integrated library resources and applications to support student learning;
3. Formulate meaningful assessment of student learning outcomes in an online learning environment.

If you are interested in joining this panel or would like more information, then please contact the DLS Programming Planning 2017 Committee Co-Chairs, Karla Aleman and Neely Tang by January 6th, 2017.

-Karla

Karla Aleman

Dean, Library & eLearning

Bass Library/Learning Resource Center

Lorain County Community College

440-366-7278 

alemankj@gmail.com

kaleman@lorainccc.edu 

CFP: Journal of Scholarly Publishing - Special Issue on Open Access

Journal of Scholarly Publishing
Special Issue: Open Access
Alex Holzman, co-editor
Robert Brown, co-editor
Marguerite Avery, guest co-editor

Deadline: March 15, 2017

Send all submissions to: jsp@utpress.utoronto.ca

Open access has evolved into a social movement and gained traction in the scholarly community as an important cause. Yet its impact has so far been limited due to its fragmented messaging, inconsistent policies, and sometimes fractious discussions. Although open access stands to affect scholarly publishing as a whole, its proper implementation and cost-benefit effect on scholarship remain unsettled
issues. Before we can agree on the viability of open access, we need more input from all parties with a stake in its outcome.

For a special issue of the Journal of Scholarly Publishing (volume 48, number 4, October 2017), the co-editors invite submissions from those engaged with open access who can shed light on this economic and moral concept now playing out across the scholarly communication ecosystem. We welcome submissions from anyone with insight into how open access publishing works, or could work: that includes publishers, librarians, scholars, editors, lawyers, technologists, university administrators, and government employees.

Suggested submissions include the following:

• case studies of open access projects, initiatives, and ventures
• analyses of open access policies and practices across disciplines and publication types, publishers, and users
• discussions of the push for open access from public policy mandates (e.g., NIH, NEH, NSF), private foundations, libraries, and authors
• critiques of access to scholarly content and higher education, e.g., the global geography of unequal access to knowledge
• considerations of how open access affects methods of assessing research impact (using traditional metrics and altmetrics) or evaluating candidates for tenure and promotion
• legal and historical inquires into intellectual property, copyright, and the commons as pertaining to open access and Creative Commons licensing
• evaluations of the impact of open access options on the distribution and marketing of books and journals
• assessments of sustainable business models
• proposals for changes to the ways scholars, librarians, and publishers work together, both within and across these professional categories
• reviews of books or other publications about open access

Submissions may be from 1500 to 6000 words, excluding references, tables, and figures. The co-editors and one outside referee will review all submissions, and those reviewed will be sent back to the authors with queries for revision. Publication will be contingent on
authors satisfactorily resolving all queries. Other requirements for manuscript preparation are available at http://www.utpjournals.press/journals/jsp/journal/authors.

The Journal of Scholarly Publishing has been published since 1969 by the University of Toronto Press.   It is indexed by Project MUSE, Academic Search Complete, and Computers & Applied Sciences Complete.

CFP: NC Serials Conference 2017 (Chapel Hill NC - March 31, 2017)

We are pleased to announce that the 26th Annual North Carolina Serials Conference will be held on Friday, March 31, 2017 at The William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education in Chapel Hill.

Conference URL: http://web.lib.ecu.edu/ncserialsconference/2017/

CFP URL: http://web.lib.ecu.edu/ncserialsconference/2017/proposals.cfm


The Planning Committee is currently accepting proposals for presentations that reflect the 2017 conference theme:  Being Data-Informed: Taking Control and Connecting Users to Content.

The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people. – Tim Berners-Lee

Libraries offer a rich array of physical and electronic resources, and we can access an enormous variety of data related to all aspects of their management.  How can we best utilize data to help our users connect more effectively to the information future? What can we learn from analyzing best practices? How can we leverage data to make our processes more efficient and secure while offering our users the most targeted and timeliest access? How will we chart our future course through the complexities of serials and electronic resources to guide our users forward? How can data help to ensure more robust connections across the information supply chain?

Proposals may address any related aspect of the serials industry or serials management and may be submitted by any member of the serials profession including publishers, vendors, librarians, staff, and students.
 
Proposals should be submitted using this form. The deadline for submissions is Friday, December 9, 2016.
 
Proposals will require the following information:
 
1. Contact details (including your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address)
2. A short (50 words or less) biographical description for each speaker
3. Presentation title
4. An abstract (approximately 100 words)
5. Type of Program

• Presentation
• Panel Discussion
• Hands-on Workshop
• Lightning Talk
• Other (please provide details)

6. Estimate of time required to present topic

Please note: Presenters’ registration expenses will be waived.
 
The Planning Committee will review all proposals for their content, timeliness, relevance, and fit with the overall Conference content. The Committee reserves the right to refocus or combine proposals as needed (with notice) to reach a diverse audience and to maximize use of program time slots.

CFP: ICASS-IX Arctic conference session on library, archival, and information sciences (Sweden - June 2017)

This is a call for paper proposals and abstracts for a conference session on how library, archival, and information sciences can facilitate social sciences and humanities scholarship about and in the Arctic.

The session, “Facilitating social sciences and humanities scholarship of the Arctic through library, archival, and information sciences,” will be held during the 9th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS-IX) on June 8-12, 2017 at Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden. Please visit the website here: http://iassa.org/icass-ix.

Possible questions and topics to be explored in this session are:

• How are librarians, archivists, and information professionals working with researchers and scholars in the social sciences and humanities, as well as local indigenous populations, toward sustainable development across the Arctic?
• What best practices and methods are libraries, museums, and research centres using to preserve and provide access to Arctic histories and cultures?
• What unique needs are there regarding access to information for and about indigenous Arctic populations, and how are these needs being addressed?
• How are public, government, school, and academic libraries assisting Arctic peoples with information and literacy needs?
• How might concepts and principles of library, archival, and information sciences be relevant to researchers, scholars, and professionals toward the organisation, delivery, and assessment of Arctic resources? For example:
• --Bibliography
• --Classification and organisation of information
• --Copyright issues, especially regarding indigenous works of literature, art, etc.
• --Digitised services
• --Free, online open access and dissemination
• --Information literacy and learning
• --Information-seeking behaviours
• --Information theories
• --Metadata
• --Knowledge management
• --Online learning
• --Repository services
• --Social media and communication
• --Storage and retrieval of information
• --Taxonomic structures

Paper proposals addressing these questions/topics, or regarding any topic in library, archival, and information sciences as it pertains to the Arctic, will be considered for acceptance to the session. Any of the following types of paper proposals are welcomed:
- Applications and best practices
- Case studies
- Research projects
- Theory and theoretical implications
- White papers, documents, and reports on problems/issues and ways to solve

Proposals and abstracts may be submitted for consideration by librarians, archivists, curators, scholars, researchers, and others who wish to make contributions to better understanding library, archival, and information sciences in the Arctic context, especially as they pertain to the social sciences and humanities.

To submit a paper proposal or abstract, please visit: http://iassa.org/icass-ix. Click the button labelled “The ICASS website is now open.” Click on “Themes, Sessions, & Submission” in the blue navigation bar at the top. In the list of themes, click “17-Research Methodologies.” Our session is 17.3. Click the green “Submit” button and select 17.3 from the first dropdown menu and oral presentation from the second dropdown menu. Click “Next” and proceed.

The extended deadline for submission of a proposal or abstract is January 16, 2017. Your submission should include:
- Name and contact details of all authors
- Title of proposed paper
- An abstract of no more than 150 words

Please note that if your paper proposal is accepted, you will need to submit a complete paper closer to the conference date and at least one author of the paper must attend the conference in person to deliver a presentation. In addition to conference registration, presenters must agree to become a member of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA): http://iassa.org/.

Best regards, and we look forward to reading your submissions!

Spencer Acadia, Ph.D.,
and Hannele Näveri-Ranta, M.Sc.,
Session Co-Chairs

Please direct questions about the session to Spencer Acadia at acadias1@gmail.com.

Call for Chapters: Credit-bearing Information Literacy Courses: Critical Approaches

Call for chapter proposals
Working title: Credit-bearing Information Literacy Courses: Critical Approaches

CFP URL: https://cilcourses.tumblr.com/cfp

Critical librarianship understands the work of libraries and librarians to be fundamentally political and situated in systems of power and oppression. This approach requires that information literacy instruction expand its scope beyond straightforward demonstrations of tools and search mechanics and towards more in-depth conceptual work that asks questions about, among other things, the conditions of information production, presumptions of neutrality, and institutionalized oppression.

The goal of this book is to examine those critical approaches specifically in the context of credit-bearing courses. This will be useful to librarians who have struggled to find literature and case studies that directly address the unique features of teaching a credit-bearing course, including course and lesson planning, designing formative and summative assessment measures that address course-level learning outcomes, and building rapport with students.

Contributed chapters will discuss some of the ways these concepts have been developed, implemented, and assessed in various course contexts. Those who teach information literacy courses draw from many influences, including (but not limited to) literacy studies, social justice work, and sociological and anthropological approaches. This book will highlight the diversity of possibilities for implementing a critical approach to teaching information literacy in credit-bearing courses.

The book will include both discussions of conceptual approaches and case studies. Contributed chapters will be divided into appropriate sections, based on their foci.

We invite chapters on topics including, but not limited to, the following, within the context of a credit-bearing class:

• Feminist/anti-racist/anti-colonial approaches to curriculum development
• Critical approaches to grading and assessment
• Unique challenges and opportunities of incorporating a critical approach in a credit course vs. one-shot/course-integrated instruction session
• Critical reflection about instructor positionality vis-a-vis critical content and/or relationship to students
• Conceptions of neutrality and objectivity with regard to information literacy and potentially controversial (and/or political) subject matter
• Difficulty of critical approaches in a stand alone information literacy course (and/or criticisms of the credit-bearing mode of instruction)
• Approaches that critique the academy and/or higher education and the neoliberal discourses that shape it
• Reflections on the process of adopting a critical approach, whether shifting the content to critical information literacy or adopting other practices from critical pedagogies (like eschewing the banking model of education, breaking down hierarchies, incorporating social justice, etc)

Proposal submission guidelines:

• Abstract of up to 500 words - submit as a google document shared with creditclassbook@gmail.com
• Author/s CV - email to creditclassbook@gmail.com

Please feel free to email the editors with any questions about the suitability of proposal ideas or the scope of the publication.

Timeline

• Proposals (up to 500 words) due February 27
• Notifications sent out by March 17
• Completed manuscripts (tentatively 3,000-6,000 words) due June 30

Publisher: ACRL Press

Editors:

Angela Pashia is an Instructional Services Librarian and Associate Professor at the University of West Georgia. She regularly teaches an undergraduate level credit bearing information literacy course. She also teaches an online course for Library Juice Academy, “Developing a Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Course.”

Jessica Critten is an Instructional Services Librarian and Associate Professor at the University of West Georgia. She teaches a credit-bearing information literacy course that focuses on news and media literacy.

CFP: Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship

The Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship (https://www.jcel-pub.org/) welcomes submissions for our next issue, Spring 2017. Works accepted include original research, practitioner
experience papers, or legal analysis that discuss copyright as it relates to education and librarianship.

Papers are selected by a process of peer review, with double-blind review of each paper. Although the Journal is published bi-annually in the fall and spring, articles will become immediately available
online after they pass through peer review and editing.

For more information, please visit us here

https://www.jcel-pub.org/index.php/jcel/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

We'd be happy to answer any questions or provide further information. Please do not hesitate to reach out to us.

Best Regards,

Tucker Taylor, University of South Carolina
Carla Myers, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Andrew Wesolek, Clemson University

Founding Editors-in-Chief
Contact: jcelpub@gmail.com

CFP: Urban Library Journal (ULJ)

Call for Papers

Urban Library Journal (ULJ) is an open access, double-blind peer-reviewed journal of research that addresses all aspects of urban libraries and librarianship.

Urban Library Journal invites submissions in broad areas such as public higher education, urban studies, multiculturalism, library and educational services to immigrants, preservation of public higher education, and universal access to World Wide Web resources. We welcome articles that focus on all forms of librarianship in an urban setting, whether that setting is an academic, research, public, school, or special library.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Reference and instruction in diverse, multicultural urban settings
• Radical librarianship, social justice issues, and/or informed agitation
• Intentional design / “library as space” in an urban setting
• Physical and/or virtual accessibility issues
• Open access / open education resources in urban systems
• Innovative collaboration between academic departments, other branches, or community partnerships
• More!

Completed manuscript length should fall between 2,500 and 5,000 words. Full author guidelines can be found on theULJ website: http://academicworks.cuny.edu/ulj/author_guidelines.html 

The submission period is open now and closes on February 1st, 2017.

For more information about ULJ and to see the latest issue: http://academicworks.cuny.edu/ulj. 

If you have questions about whether your paper topic is within the journal's scope, please email the editors Anne.Hays@csi.cuny.edu and/or Angel.Falcon@bcc.cuny.edu

CFP: Endnotes: The Journal of the New Members Round Table

Call For Proposals:

The NMRT Endnotes Committee seeks contributors for the Spring 2017 issue of Endnotes: The Journal of the New Members Round Table. NMRT members, current LIS students, and recent graduates are encouraged to submit manuscripts for consideration.

Endnotes is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that publishes articles of interest to early career librarians, LIS students, and newer members of the Association.  Articles published in Endnotes are indexed in Library & Information Science Source.

Topics that might be appropriate for Endnotes include:

• Training and mentoring
• Job searching or hiring
• Developing leadership and management skills
• Library instruction and assessment
• Academic librarian responsibilities: hiring, promotion, and tenure
• Developing new collections or services

Those interested in discussing an article idea are encouraged to contact the Editors at nmrtendnotesjournal@gmail.com to determine if the proposal fits the publication’s scope.  

Articles should range from 2,000 – 4,000 words and present original research, practitioner-based research, and/or case studies relevant to LIS students and new library professionals. Submissions are accepted throughout the year, but articles received by February 15, 2017  will receive guaranteed consideration for the Spring 2017 issue.

Endnotes also offers book and media reviews. Reviews range from 300 – 500 words. Those interested in reviewing are encouraged to contact the Editors at nmrtendnotesjournal@gmail.com to be included on the reviewers’ mailing list. Approved reviewers will receive periodic announcements of available books and websites.

For more information about Endnotes, including complete submission guidelines, please visit http://www.ala.org/nmrt/oversightgroups/comm/schres.

Sincerely,

Tammy Ivins & Josh Rimmer

Chairs, NMRT Endnotes Committee

CFP: 2017 Kraemer Copyright Conference (Colorado Springs, June 2017)

We are pleased to announce the 5th annual Kraemer Copyright Conference on June 5-6th, 2017 at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs!

Conference URL: http://www.uccs.edu/copyright/kraemerconference.html

This year's theme will be: Copyright Collaborations: Education, Advocacy, and Creation

Our goal is to provide an opportunity for educators (K-12, university, public librarians), students, and legal experts to share knowledge and best practices on U.S. Copyright Law and how it impacts us every day.

Call for Proposals

We are seeking proposals for exceptional break-out sessions, poster sessions, and contributed papers on copyright issues and best practices. Topics should be related to the conference theme and
address some type of copyright issue or a related topic such as legal issues, open access, scholarly communications, licensing issues, and collaboration. All proposals are due by January 13th, 2016

Registration

Registration will open mid January 2017. Once again, this year's conference registration will be free to all attendees thanks to our generous sponsors.

Please feel free to forward this to anyone who may be interested!

Volunteer Opportunities

We are looking for volunteers to review program proposals for the conference's break-out sessions. Program proposal review will take place between January 19th - 30th, 2017 and will take approximately 4-6 hours of your time. If you are interested in serving on this committee please contact us.

More volunteer opportunities will be announced soon

To learn more visit our website: http://www.uccs.edu/copyright/kraemerconference.html

Call for Chapters: Library as Technology Facilitator (LITA Guide)

Call for Chapters

The role of the library as technology facilitator has been well established by the efforts of library professionals over the last decade. Yet libraries still have vastly differing resource levels, leading to some libraries providing more access to emerging technologies than others. People from rural communities, urban areas, the poor, and new immigrants are just some of the populations who are not being exposed to technology in meaningful and substantive ways. How do we level the technology playing field, and how do libraries act as a vector for that?

Has your library addressed these issues? Have you made strides in addressing the broader digital divide and can you offer practical solutions to others who are looking to do the same? We are looking for case studies from practitioners who have been able to offer high quality technology and training for patrons and library systems. We are looking for proposals that address projects on the following themes, physical access, patron and staff training, makerspaces, technology for jobs and business, and tech industry partnerships. Proposals are welcome from varying communities, including both urban and rural areas. Proposals from authors of diverse backgrounds are encouraged.

Each chapter should include:

• An explanation of the problem and community need, including demographics and geographical information about the community
• A project summary, including budget, resources, methods and process
• A description of how the project affected the community and lessons learned
• Chapters may include up to 5 figures such as images or graphs

Proposals should include:

• Author Name(s)
• Brief author bio(s)
• Proposed Chapter Title
• A summary of the proposed chapter (300 – 500 words)

Proposals should be submitted to laurenandreacomito@gmail.com, and will be due January 1, 2017, drafts of chapters will be due May 1, 2017.

The book will be published as a LITA Guide with Rowman and Littlefield.

Contact: 

Lauren Comito

laurenandreacomito@gmail.com

CFP: Innovation, Inspiration and Creativity Conference (i2c2) 2017 (Scarborough UK - November 2017)

 The call for papers for the Innovation, Inspiration and Creativity Conference (i2c2) 2017 is open!

We're going to bring together a bunch of people 13^th to 15^th November 2017 for a three day conference of inspiring each other to innovate and be more creative in our libraries. There will be talks, workshops, fun and games galore. We'll talk to each other about successes and challenges, thinking about how we can use what we learn from one another to improve libraries. This time it is all about making, playing, co-creating and will be in Scarborough on the gorgeous North Yorkshire coast. So bring your knotty hankies and expect lots of creative ideas, inspiration, and ice cream.

Call is open at: http://i2c2conference.innovativelibraries.org.uk/call

We are looking for people that can contribute their experiences and knowledge to the conference. The overall theme of the conference is Innovation, Inspiration and Creativity, with a subtheme this year of "making, playing, co-creating". This covers library and information work in any sector and anywhere in the world, along with associated professions.

There are some slots for presentations, but most conference slots are expected to be workshop based with a high degree of attendee involvement. So if you propose something longer than a lightning talk, think "can I help attendees learn something to apply to their own practice?" and not "can I put a set of slides together about a project I did".

We will have posters (possibly with a prize for best poster!), lightning talks (5 minutes), a small number of short presentations (20 minutes), interactive workshops (1 hour), and are also open to creative suggestions or alternatives. There are discounted (not free) places available for anyone accepted to run a workshop (1 per workshop), with a special link being sent out to any workshop proposals accepted.

Call closes May 2017 for full workshops, short presentations and "alternative" slots. Call closes early October 2017 for posters and lightning talks.

See http://i2c2conference.innovativelibraries.org.uk/call for more details!

You can see some of the results of the last i2c2 in the conference book, 'Inspiring, Innovative and Creative Library Interventions: An i2c2 Compendium', available at:

http://innovativelibraries.org.uk/press/thebooks/