CFP: SEMLOL Meeting on Intellectual Freedom, Book Banking and Access to Information - Nov 18, 2022 - Virtual #Michigan

The Southeastern Michigan League of Libraries, SEMLOL, is seeking presentations and speakers  for the Fall membership meeting around the topic of intellectual freedom, book banning, and access to information.The Fall 2022 SEMLOL meeting will take place Friday, November 18th, 2022 from 2-4PM on Zoom.

In this session we would really like to dig into what it means to allow and facilitate access to the broadest possible range of information in a higher educational setting. How do publishers, students, faculty, local community members, administration, and even available technology impact your collection development and challenged book policies? What have you done to protect yourselves, your library, your faculty, and your students from limited viewpoints? This could be an entry point for talks on community outreach, stakeholder education, DEI, OER, policy development, technological solutions, copyright, etc. 

 

We know our colleagues in public libraries, and primary & secondary schools have stories to tell in this area and we would love to hear from you too! What have been your pain points on this topic, your successes, how have you formed your policies to offer protection for your organization and your readers? 

 

We are looking for a few 15-30 minute topical talks as well as a longer keynote speaker who can help set the frame for the conversation. Live or pre-recorded content is acceptable, however we would like someone who knows the presentation to attend the meeting for Q&A.

 

Proposal Submission Deadline Is October 7th, 2022. 

 

To submit a proposal, please send the title, name of speaker(s), and an abstract of no more than 250 words to semlol.board@gmail.com by Friday, October 7th, 2022. Accepted proposals will be notified by Monday, October 17th, 2022. 

 

People working in related fields such as Education, IT, Publishing, Law, or Marketing as well as Public and Special Librarians and LIS students are encouraged to submit proposals based on their experiences, jobs, or internships. 

 

We look forward to your submissions! 

 

SEMLOL Executive Board 

Amy Seipke - Chair, Executive Board

P.S. SEMLOL is still looking for another Executive Board member. If you or anyone you know are a librarian working for an academic institution in Southeastern Michigan and are looking for an opportunity to get involved in the field or take on a leadership role, please consider joining us. The time commitment is small but the help you can provide is big! Contact our current Board at this email address with a short, informal synopsis of your experience in the field, if you are interested. 

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SEMLOL Executive Board

Southeastern Michigan League of Libraries

www.semlol.org

CFP: Item Not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives and Other Heritage and Memory Organizations - Virtual Conference, March 8-9, 2023

Item Not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives and Other Heritage and Memory Organizations

A Virtual Conference

Organized by UCLA Center for 17^th- and 18^th-Century Studies/William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and Oakland University Libraries

March 8-9, 2023

12-4pm Eastern

 

Keynote Speakers:

• Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty, Director, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
• T-Kay Sangwand, Librarian for Digital Collection Development, UCLA, and Gabriel Solis, Executive Director, Texas After Violence Project

 

This virtual conference considers the ongoing reassessment of memory and heritage work and heritage ownership, as it is understood by libraries, archives and related organizations, through an examination of the multiple meanings, complexities, and resonances of loss. As an inevitable reality of heritage preservation--saving everything is an impossibility--a nuanced understanding of the fundamental role of loss is an important counterpart to these organizations’ work towards preservation, permanence and sustainability. 

 

Once seen as static evidence of the past, heritage is now recognized as the subject of ongoing reinterpretation, maintenance, and negotiation for those living in the present. Collectors are increasingly willing to confront processes of repatriation, reparation and restitution, and other forms of deaccessioning, and vocabularies of ownership are giving way to those of stewardship, custody, and post-custody. At the same time, heightened attention to sustainable practices is also encouraging a reassessment of longstanding assumptions about collection development and preservation, challenging the model of limitless expansion, growth and permanence as a primary measure of success. Cultural memory and heritage workers, too, face many other kinds of loss within and beyond the workplace that impacts their labor, including loss of resources, safety nets, and colleagues. What is heritage and cultural property, and to whom do they belong? Who owns the past, and what does such ownership mean? Is it possible for acts of past injustice to result in cooperative relationship-building for the future? How can a sustained interrogation of collection and heritage loss be productively leveraged to reckon with other kinds of loss in the cultural memory and heritage workspace? We seek to explore these and other related questions during this two-day conference.

 

The conference is free and open to the public; advance registration is required.

 

We invite presentation proposals from diverse perspectives on a range of topics including, but not limited to, the following: 

 

• Theft, repatriation, virtual reunification, shared print/collection development
• Deaccessioning, redirections, removals
• Endangered archives, postcustodial archival practice
• Approaches to loss in preservation and conservation
• Human and resource loss in and beyond the workplace
• Other related aspects of practice and research

 

We encourage proposals from librarians, archivists, curators, conservators, scholars, museum professionals, students, and other stakeholders at any point in their careers, from institutions and organizations of all sizes, and including independent researchers.

 

The conference organizers welcome proposals for presentations in a variety of virtual formats. For questions, please feel free to contact us below.

 

A modest honorarium is available; University of California affiliates and international presenters are not eligible for the honorarium.

 

Please submit proposals (400-word maximum) using the following form: https://forms.gle/WUXugxZ5Zrp8cj7P7 . Please submit proposals by November 4. Presenters will be notified by early December.

 

Organizers: 

• Anna Chen (Clark Library, UCLA), achen@humnet.ucla.edu
• Rebecca Fenning Marschall (Clark Library, UCLA), rfenning@humnet.ucla.edu
• Molly McGuire (Oakland University Libraries), mmcguire@oakland.edu
• Nina Schneider (Clark Library, UCLA), nschneider@humnet.ucla.edu
• Emily Spunaugle (Oakland University Libraries), spunaugle@oakland.edu

CFP: Place of Teaching in Academic Librarians Work - Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

The Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship (CJAL) invites submissions to our special issue on the place of teaching in academic librarians’ work. CJAL is an open access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL).

"Librarians teach. It might not be what we planned to do when we entered the profession, or it may have been our secret hope all along. Either way, we teach." (Oakleaf et al. 2012, 6)

Teaching has become a core activity in academic libraries over the last decades, but librarians may find their teaching role to be a complicated one. Formal instruction largely began in the 1960s and 1970s as a grassroots movement led by librarians rather than library administrators or library schools (Mellon 1987), and some librarians still feel their library administrations do not understand or value their teaching. New librarians may still feel their education has left them unprepared for teaching. At the same time, some administrations are now creating dedicated teaching units and high-level administrative positions focused on teaching and learning, as well as providing greater support for learning to teach. Many librarians identify as teachers or educators as well as librarians, but may not consider themselves as teachers in the same way as faculty, and may not consistently define their work as teaching (Davis, Lundstrom, and Martin 2011).  Some may feel anxious or ambiguous about the role (Lundstrom, Fagerheim, and Van Geen 2021; Mattson, Kirker, Oberlies, and Byrd 2017).


We invite authors to contribute to these ongoing conversations by submitting proposals for inclusion in this special issue of CJAL. Both big picture and narrow focus on specific contexts/topics are welcome, including conceptual pieces, empirical studies, and case studies of practice.

Authors interested in participating are asked to submit a proposal (maximum 800 words plus bibliography) as an email attachment (Word document or PDF) to can.j.acad.lib@gmail.com by December 20, 2022.

For more information, please see the full CFP on the CJAL website: https://cjal.ca/index.php/capal/announcement/view/872.

 From the Special Issue editors: Sandy Hervieux, Eveline Houtman, Lindsay McNiff, Silvia Vong

Call for The LibParlor Podcast Co-Host

Are you interested in facilitating conversations about research by information professionals? Consider applying to be a co-host on The LibParlor Podcast! Join Amber Sewell as she facilitates conversations between researchers and reviewers of their work, conducts interviews with cool people about demystifying research and scholarship, and answers listeners’ questions in support of LibParlor’s goal of building a community of researchers. For more information about the podcast, listen to the announcement episode here. 

MLIS students and members of under-represented groups are especially encouraged to apply. This is an unpaid position; responsibilities of the position will be negotiated based on the co-hosts’s availability and time, but will include reviewing submissions, prepping for and recording episodes, and other production tasks. 

If you have any questions, please send them to libparlorpod@gmail.com.

Interested? Submit your application!

The LibParlor Podcast: https://libparlor.com/podcast/

CFP: Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ)

Call for Papers:

 

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 55th issue. Don't miss out on this opportunity to share your ideas and experiences. To be included in the 55th issue, which is scheduled for publication in mid January 2023, please submit articles, abstracts, or proposals at https://journal.code4lib.org/submit-proposal or to journal@code4lib.org by Friday, October 7, 2022.  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 the 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 earlier issues published on our website:  https://journal.code4lib.org.

 

Remember, for consideration for the 55th issue, please send proposals, abstracts, or draft articles to https://journal.code4lib.org/submit-proposal no later than Friday, October 7, 2022.  (Use journal@code4lib.org if sending attachments.)

 

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

 

 

Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee