WILU Call for Proposals - Appel à propositions WILU - June 20-23, 2022, McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) - 50th annual Workshop on Instruction in Library Use (WILU)

Hello

From June 20 to 23, 2022, McGill University Library will host the 50^th annual Workshop on Instruction in Library Use (WILU).  

  

The Organizing Committee is pleased to officially launch the website and call for proposals:  

  

·         WILU 2022 website: https://wilu-conference.github.io/  

·         Conference theme – Carte Blanche: https://wilu-conference.github.io/en/  

·         Call for proposals: https://wilu-conference.github.io/en/call-for-proposals/  

·         Follow WILU on Twitter @WILUconference  

  

If you would like to present at WILU 2022, you can submit a proposal by January 21, 2022. 

  

We will need volunteers during the conference. If you are interested, please send a message to 2022wilu@gmail.com.  

  

If you have questions or comments, please contact us at 2022wilu@gmail.com. 

  

Regards,  

  

  

Marcela Isuster and Katherine Hanz (WILU 2022 Co-Chairs) and the Program Committee (Sandy Hervieux, Emily Kingsland, Gen Gore, Sonia Smith, and Natalie Waters)  

 

  

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Bonjour,  

  

Du 20 au 23 juin 2022, la Bibliothèque de l’Université McGill sera hôte du 50^e Atelier annuel sur la formation documentaire, plus communément connu sous son nom anglais « Workshop on Instruction in Library Use » (WILU).   

  

Nous sommes heureux aujourd’hui de lancer officiellement notre site Web et l’appel à propositions :  

  

·         Site Web WILU 2022 : https://wilu-conference.github.io/  

·         Thème du congrès – Carte blanche : https://wilu-conference.github.io/fr/  

·         Appel à propositions :  https://wilu-conference.github.io/fr/appel-a-propositions/  

·         Suivez WILU sur Twitter @WILUconference 

  

Si vous souhaitez présenter à WILU 2022, vous pouvez soumettre une proposition d’ici le 21 janvier 2022.  

  

Nous aurons besoin de bénévoles lors du congrès. Pour nous faire part de votre intérêt, veuillez nous écrire à 2022wilu@gmail.com.  

  

Pour toute question ou commentaire, communiquez avec nous à 2022wilu@gmail.com.  

  

Au plaisir,  

  

Marcela Isuster et Katherine Hanz (co-présidentes de WILU 2022) et le comité du programme (Sandy Hervieux, Emily Kingsland, Gen Gore, Sonia Smith, et Natalie Waters)  

CFP: Popular Culture Association Annual Conference-Biographies Area (Virtual Conference--April 13-16, 2022)--Extended Submission Deadline 12/23/21

 CFP: Popular Culture Association Annual Conference-Biographies Area (Virtual Conference--April 13-16, 2022)--Submission Deadline 12/23/21

The Popular Culture Association will be holding its annual conference virtually  April 13-16, 2022.

The Biographies Area is soliciting papers that examine the connections between biography and popular culture. Papers and full panel presentations regarding any aspect of popular culture and biography are encouraged. Potential topics might include:

– Biography and entertainment, art, music, theater
– Biography and film
– Biography and criminal justice
– Television programs about biography
– Biography and urban legends
– Biography and folklore
– Biography and literature
– Scholarly Biography
– Controversial Biography
– Psychoanalysis and Biography
– Historical Biography
– Political Biography
– Autobiography

Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers per standard session.  Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes.

On your submission, please include title of paper, abstract, and contact information.

Submission Deadline Extension: 12/23/21

Please go to this link to submit your paper:

 https://pcaaca.org/conference/submitting-paper-proposal-pca-conference 

Please direct any queries to the Biographies Area chair:
Susie Skarl
Associate Professor/Urban Affairs Librarian
UNLV Libraries
Las Vegas, NV 89154

susie.skarl@unlv.edu OR susieskarl@gmail.com

CFP: 2022 Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge (May 21-24, 2022 - Mt. Hood, Oregon)

2022 Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge

Saturday, May 21 - Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Timberline Lodge

One hour east of Portland, Oregon on the slope of Mt. Hood

www.acquisitionsinstitute.org

 

Call for Proposals - Applications due December 31, 2021

 

WHAT IS The Acquisitions Institute?

• Since 2000, the pre-eminent conference located in Western North America on acquisitions and collection development, held at Timberline Lodge.
• A three-day conference focusing on the methods and innovation of building and managing library collections.
• A small (capped at 80 attendees), informal and stimulating gathering in a convivial and glorious Pacific Northwest setting.

 

WHAT TOPICS are we looking for?

The planning committee is seeking submissions on all aspects of library acquisitions and collection management. Presenters are encouraged to engage the audience in discussion, whether the presentation leans more toward the practical "here's what we did" sessions or toward the more abstract "here's what we think" sessions. The committee may also seek to achieve balance in the program by bringing individual proposals together to form panels, or by recommending that a proposal be converted to a table talk. We invite you to indicate whether or not you'd be interested in these opportunities on the submission proposal form.

 

Topics we and/or prior year's attendees are interested in include (in no particular order):

• Collections analysis projects (e.g., GreenGlass or Gold Rush experiences, altmetrics, etc.)
• Assessment tools, methods, and projects (e.g., linking collections with learning outcomes; usage studies)
• Managing liaison programs
• Public library and/or small academic library perspectives in acquisitions and collection development
• New models for selection
• Sustainable models for publishing/pricing
• Effective management of collections with constrained resources
• Vendor and publisher evaluation, including business skills to determine financial viability
• Diversity, inclusion and social justice in acquisitions and collections
• Negotiation skills and how to use them, including during library-vendor and library-publisher meetings
• Innovative vendor-librarian relationships and/or partnerships
• Staffing, training and development, and recruiting issues, challenges, successes (e.g., onboarding new acquisitions and/or collections staff)
• Using data visualization techniques to tell our stories (e.g., budget, collections, staff successes, etc.)
• Impacts of Open Access and Open Repositories on acquisitions and collection development
• Data curation, including Big Data, and management and other new roles for subject and technical services librarians
• Digital scholarship

The DEADLINE for submitting a proposal is December 31, 2021.

 

Proposal submission form: http://acquisitionsinstitute.org/2022-call-for-proposals/

Covid Policy: In the interest of keeping everyone safe, the Institute will adhere to local, state, and federal health and safety protocols related to COVID-19. More detailed information about these protocols will be shared as the event approaches.

Important Dates

• Fri 12/31/21: Proposals due
• Mon 1/17/22: Review of proposals complete, and presenters notified
• Fri 1/21/22: Presenters confirm commitment to present
• Mon 2/7/22: Registration scheduled to open

 

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The 2022 Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge Planning Committee is:

• Damon Campbell, University of Oregon
• Kristina DeShazo, Oregon Health & Science University
• Kerri Goergen-Doll, Oregon State University
• Jamie Hazlitt, Loyola Marymount University
• Kathleen Spring, Librarian at Large
• Kasia Stasik, Harrassowitz

CFP: 8th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (June 2022 - Hybrid Conference)

HEAd'22: Call for Papers

8th International Conference on Higher Education Advances


June 14 - 17, 2022. Valencia, Spain (hybrid conference)
http://www.headconf.org

Scope

We are pleased to announce the Eighth International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’22), as a hybrid conference (in-person and virtual conference, simultaneously). Every year, HEAd brings together around 250 participants from more than 50 countries to exchange ideas, experiences and research results related to the preparation of students, teaching/learning methodologies and the organization of educational systems.

The HEAd'22 conference will be held on June 14-17, 2022 on the Faculty of Business Administration and Management of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), which has been recently ranked as the best technical university in Spain by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2021.

Topics of interest

The program committee encourages the submission of articles that communicate applied and empirical findings of interest to higher education professionals.

• Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topic areas:
• Innovative materials and new tools for teaching
• Educational technology (e.g., virtual labs, e-learning)
• Evaluation and assessment of student learning
• Emerging technologies in learning (e.g., MOOC, OER, gamification)
• Scientific and research education
• Experiences outside the classroom (e.g., practicums, mobility)
• New teaching/learning theories and models
• Globalization in education and education reforms
• Education economics
• Teaching and learning experiences
• Entrepreneurship and learning for employment
• Education accreditation, quality and assessment
• Competency-based learning and skill assessment

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: February 4, 2022
• Acceptance notification: April 6, 2022
• Camera ready due: April 25, 2022
• Conference dates: June 14-17, 2022

Publications

All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings with a DOI and ISBN number. They will be published in open access by UPV Press and submitted to be indexed in major international bibliographic databases. Previous editions are indexed in Scopus and the Thomson-Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Web of Science Core Collection (former ISI Proceedings).

Awards

The Program Committee will select the winners for the Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards. To be eligible for the best student paper award, the presenting author of the paper must be a full-time student.
Submission guidelines

Authors from all over the world are invited to submit original and unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal. All papers will be peer reviewed by the program committee based on their originality, significance, methodological soundness, and clarity of exposition.

Submitted papers must be written in English and should be in PDF format. They must follow the instructions in the template file, available in Microsoft Word format at:

http://www.headconf.org/template.docx

Paper length must be between 4 and 8 pages, incorporating all text, references, figures and tables. Submissions imply the willingness of at least one author to register, attend the conference, and present the paper.

HEAd'22 is using the OCS platform of UPV Press to manage the submissions. This platform provides you with a submissions homepage where you can register your paper submission and make appropriate changes. The submission website is:

http://www.headconf.org/submission-instructions/

The organizing committee looks forward to welcoming you all to a fruitful conference with open discussions and important networking to promote high quality education.

Call for Submissions: Reserve and Renew (LIS Mental Health Zine) #LISMentalHealth #MentalHealth

Reserve and Renew is the LIS Mental Health zine, exploring the intersection of mental health, mental illness, and the library and archives community.

Find ordering information for issues 1-4 of Reserve and Renew at this page.

Submission Page: http://lismentalhealth.org/reserve-and-renew-zine/

About the zine

Reserve and Renew is a collaborative zine, featuring submissions from people around the world. Contributions are welcome from anyone involved in “big tent” librarianship, archives, or museums, including those who work or volunteer in a library or archive or museum (currently or formerly), those working towards an LIS degree, or anyone otherwise involved in library or GLAM-related work. Anonymous contributions are welcomed. Contributions are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (CC BY-NC 4.0).

We request a sliding scale $5-10 donation for each copy of the zine. All profits are donated to Mental Health First Aid, a public education program that aims to help communities understand mental illnesses, seek timely intervention, and save lives.

Call for submissions

Submissions are now open for issue 5! This issue’s theme is “Unpacking resilience,” encouraging contributors to reflect on and critically interrogate the idea of enduring hardship in our society as it pertains to mental health and mental illness. Submissions are not required to address this theme; this is just a suggestion.

Submission formats might include:

• personal narratives
• creative writing and poetry
• visual arts (drawing, painting, photography, collage, comics, digital art, photographs of embroidery, etc.)
• encouraging thoughts
• tips for coping and radical self-care practices
• how-to guides
• recipes
• interviews
• societal critiques

The Reserve and Renew editorial team consists of Liz Chenevey, Nicole Gustavsen, Abigail Phillips, Annie Pho, Kate Deibel, Kelly McElroy, Violet Fox, and Jess Fenander. Although we encourage authenticity and freedom of expression, the editorial team reserves the right to not publish any piece we decide is is not relevant to our theme or harmful/discriminatory to members of our community. Please contact the editorial team at reserveandrenew@gmail.com with questions or concerns.

Submissions for issue 5 are due December 31, 2021. Find the submission form here:

http://lismentalhealth.org/reserve-and-renew-zine/

CFP: Popular Culture Association Annual Conference-Biographies Area (Virtual Conference--April 13-16, 2022)--Submission Deadline 12/5/21

CFP: Popular Culture Association Annual Conference-Biographies Area (Virtual Conference--April 13-16, 2022)--Submission Deadline 12/5/21

The Popular Culture Association will be holding its annual conference virtually  April 13-16, 2022.

The Biographies Area is soliciting papers that examine the connections between biography and popular culture. Papers and full panel presentations regarding any aspect of popular culture and biography are encouraged. Potential topics might include:

– Biography and entertainment, art, music, theater
– Biography and film
– Biography and criminal justice
– Television programs about biography
– Biography and urban legends
– Biography and folklore
– Biography and literature
– Scholarly Biography
– Controversial Biography
– Psychoanalysis and Biography
– Historical Biography
– Political Biography
– Autobiography

Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers per standard session.  Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes.

On your submission, please include title of paper, abstract, and contact information.

Submission Deadline Extension: 12/5/21

Please go to this link to submit your paper:

 https://pcaaca.org/conference/submitting-paper-proposal-pca-conference 

Please direct any queries to the Biographies Area chair:
Susie Skarl
Associate Professor/Urban Affairs Librarian
UNLV Libraries
Las Vegas, NV 89154

susie.skarl@unlv.edu OR susieskarl@gmail.com

CFP - Practicing Map and Geospatial Information Librarianship through the Lens of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

CFP - Practicing Map and Geospatial Information Librarianship through the Lens of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

I'm co-editing this special edition of the Journal of Map and Geography Libraries, "Practicing Map and Geospatial Information Librarianship through the Lens of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility". Please consider submitting! While the focus is on map collections, we're considering a broad range of contributions, including original research articles, collection descriptions, pedagogical approaches, and critical reflection papers aimed at analyzing and interrogating our professional practices. We especially encourage contributions from librarians and library workers from underrepresented and historically marginalized racial, social, and/or class groups and with perspectives from areas of librarianship beyond maps and geospatial information.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Supporting a diverse and inclusive community of map and geospatial library professionals
• Practices, challenges, and successes in diversifying map and geospatial information collections
• Collections and projects that center perspectives of historically marginalized communities
• Inclusive and accessible practices in geospatial education
• Educational activities focused on topics related to equity, social justice, and civic empowerment
• Practices, challenges, and successes associated with library-community partnerships
• Connections to information, data, and spatial literacy concepts (e.g., cartography and power relations, traditional knowledge and representations of space, location privacy and surveillance)

Article abstracts are due December 13, 2021. Contributors will be notified of their proposal's status (accepted or rejected) by December 17, 2021. Abstracts should be between 300 to 400 words and can be submitted through this form: Submit your abstract<https://forms.gle/5f6y27TeTziTZNxv7>.

Let me know if you have any questions!
Theresa

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Theresa Quill (she/her/hers)
Map and Spatial Data Librarian
Associate Librarian
Indiana University Bloomington
theward@indiana.edu

CFP: Journal of Information Literacy Special Issue on Critical Information Literacy

Journal of Information Literacy Special Issue on Critical Information Literacy, June 2023: Call for papers, contributions and publication mentors 

LINKS:

• CFP URL: https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/JIL/announcement/view/44
• Journal URL: https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/JIL/index

Editors: Lauren Smith and Alison Hicks  

Critical information literacy, with its emphasis on social justice in the instructional and educational work of librarians, have been part of the scholarly literature for over twenty years (Tewell 2018). Since then, the online information landscape has become even more complex in the context of scholarly communications, misinformation and disinformation, and deeper understandings of social responsibility in terms of equality and diversity, race, gender, sexuality and disability. In addition, the roles of librarians and other educators working in information literacy spaces continue to develop against a backdrop of global environmental, health and economic crises as well as local changes to institutional structures and expectations. Responding to the challenges, practical texts such as Critical Library Pedagogy in Practice (Brookbank and Haigh, 2021) have made valuable contributions to the field of critical information literacy, detailing how critical approaches can be applied both to traditional information literacy teaching and to contexts outwith ‘traditional’ spaces for information literacy instruction, such as collection development, cataloguing, reference work, user research, LMS integration and web archiving. 

The aim of this special issue of Journal Information Literacy is twofold: to expand on the rich knowledge sharing occurring in critical information literacy practice; and to highlight explorations of this work from a research perspective. What is the nature of the ways the body of theoretical and research literature on critical information literacy is (and is not) reflected in practice?  How are social changes influencing discourse in librarianship, and in turn, the boundaries between theory, research and practice related to critical information literacy?  

 

Indicative list of anticipated themes 

Specifically (but not exclusively) we invite contributions exploring:  

• Intersections of critical information literacy and critical approaches in other aspects of education and library and information practice, including critical data literacy, critical health literacy, critical digital literacy, and scholarly communications 
• How theory, research, and practice within the maturing field of critical information literacy are mutually informing each other in response to social change  
• Implications of changing pedagogical and pastoral influences in libraries, including discourses around disability, mental health, self-care, mindfulness, and trauma 
• Institutional power structures and dynamics and how these influence advances in critical information literacy 
• The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on information literacy instruction and how this intersects with issues of social justice 
• Identifying outcomes of critical approaches to information literacy and the interplay between these, the politics of institutions, and an increasing focus on impact measurement and metrics

 

We are keen to hear from academics and practitioners across the world. We are also particularly interested in contributions from outwith the confines of academic libraries. 

If you would like to discuss whether your proposal meets the scope for this special issue, please contact the Editors, Lauren Smith (lsmith1[at]qmu.ac.uk) and Alison Hicks, (a.hicks[at]ucl.ac.uk) for an informal chat.  


Contribution format  

Proposals are welcomed in a wide range of formats. We will consider traditional manuscripts focusing on theory or research but are also keen to receive practice-based contributions and those taking unconventional forms. These could include zines, photo- or video-essays, research agendas, collaborative discussions, or audio recordings. 


Mentoring scheme  

Mentees: If you are interested in submitting a contribution to the special edition of JIL but do not feel confident doing this alone, we may be able to pair you with a mentor who can offer guidance throughout the process of creation and submission. If you are interested in being mentored, please submit a written proposal of no more than 400 words to jinfolit@gmail.com by 28th February 2022 so that we can match you with a mentor in good time.

Mentors: If you feel you would be a suitable mentor for prospective contributors, please contact Journal of Information Literacy with some information about your areas of interest or expertise. You will be asked to correspond with mentees by email or video/voice call to provide guidance on producing a high-quality piece of work in a potentially non-traditional format. We would ask that you be prepared to offer around four hours of your time on this work.
 

Contribution submission details 

• Deadline for contributions: 9th January 2023 
• Special issue publication date: June 2023
• General guidelines: The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration  
• Submissions: Contributions should be submitted via the JIL website: https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/JIL/about/submissions   
• Length: Contributions should be between 3,000 and 8,000 words (excluding references), or equivalent (depending on format)  
• References: Referencing should be in APA style 
• Peer Review Process: JIL follows a double-anonymous peer review process, meaning that research articles are read by at least two reviewers who have no knowledge of the author’s identity 
• Open Access Policy: The Journal of Information Literacy is an open access title and authors retain copyright in their articles and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Licence 

References 

Brookbank, E. and Haigh, J. eds. (2021). Critical Library Pedagogy in Practice. Innovative Libraries Press. https://eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/id/eprint/8110/1/CriticalLibraryPedagogyInPracticePV-HAIGH.pdf  


Tewell, E. (2018). The Practice and Promise of Critical Information Literacy: Academic Librarians' Involvement in Critical Library Instruction. College & Research Libraries, 79(1), 10. doi:https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.79.1.10 

Call for ALA Core Web Course Instructors- ALA Fundamentals online courses @ALA #ALA

 A CALL FOR WEB COURSE INSTRUCTORS

 

Please share this message widely!

 

Core is in need of knowledgeable librarians from all types of libraries to become trained to teach its popular four- and six-week "Fundamentals of..." online courses:

• Fundamentals of Metadata
• Fundamentals of Digital Libraries
• Fundamentals of Collection Assessment
• Fundamentals of Acquisitions
• Fundamentals of Cataloging
• Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management
• Fundamentals of Preservation
• Fundamentals of Electronic Resource Acquisitions
• Fundamentals of Management (*currently under development)

Fundamentals of Collection Assessment (FCA), Fundamentals of Acquisitions (FOA), and Fundamentals of Preservation (FOP) are especially in need of more instructors.

 

Courses are composed of self-paced modules and include interaction with the instructors and classmates. The course content is already developed and ready to use; no additional editing is needed. Accepted applicants become instructors-in-training and go through a series of training sessions by experienced course instructor. A modest honorarium is paid to course instructors.

 

The key characteristics of successful instructors are subject expertise, comfort with e-learning technology, and the ability to make student communication a priority for the period of the course. Prior teaching experience is not required, but instructors must be Core members.

 

If you are interested in becoming an instructor for a Core Web Course, please complete the online instructor application by December 6, 2021. You will be asked to include a statement of interest (300 words maximum) and attach a copy of your resume.