CFP: 2023 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference—Biographies Area: April 5-8, 2023 San Antonio, TX

CFP: 2023 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference—Biographies Area: April 5-8, 2023 San Antonio, TX 

Call for Papers: 2023 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference—Biographies Area: San Antonio, Texas (April 5-8, 2023)

Submission Deadline: 12/20/22

The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual conference will be held on April 5-8, 2023 at the Marriott Rivercenter in San Antonio, Texas. Scholars from a wide variety of disciplines will meet to share their Popular Culture research and interests.

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

Prospective presenters should enter their proposals in the PCA/ACA 2017 Event Management database at https://conference.pcaaca.org/.

The deadline is December 20, 2022.

Thank you for your interest!

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

Call for Proposals - BRASS Research Grant Award sponsored by Emerald Publishing

For those of us in BRASS and/or the field of business librarianship, the Research Grant Award sponsored by Emerald Publishing is a great way to boost research that is already taking place or pave the way for completely new research.

This award presents a citation and $2,000 to an individual or team seeking support to conduct research in business librarianship. Applicants do not need to be a member of BRASS. However,  ALA membership is required for individual applicants or at least one member of a team.

Applicants are encouraged to observe the evaluation criteria listed on the website to maximize their chance of submitting a winning proposal. This award is made possible by the generous support of Emerald Publishing.

The deadline for proposal submission is February 17th, 2023.

To submit a proposal, please complete the BRASS Research Grant Award nomination form - https://forms.gle/ZioWZea5Spm9qXz67.

Questions should be directed to the committee chair, Orolando Duffus at oaduffus@uh.edu.

For more information, including award criteria and submission guidelines, please see the BRASS Research Grant Award page: http://www.ala.org/rusa/brass-research-grant-award

Please help us get the word out by alerting librarians in your circle (or consider applying yourself).

Best,

Orolando Duffus

Collection Strategies Librarian, University Libraries

CFP: Informed Librarian Online - Tech Column - #LibraryTechnology

Are you passionate about technology?

The Informed Librarian Online seeks a Tech Column author --

The Informed Librarian Online ( https://www.informedlibrarian.com) is seeking someone who is passionate about technology and wants to share what they know with all of our Informed Librarians by writing short articles for us. Librarians from all around the world read the articles in The Informed Librarian Online.

The Informed Librarian Online is a monthly compilation of the most recent tables of contents from over 300 titles - valuable domestic and foreign library and information-related journals, e-journals, magazines, e-magazines, newsletters and e-newsletters. This current awareness service helps keep you informed and abreast of all library trends. It is an easy, timesaving way to tame your professional reading tiger, and is very popular among all types of library and information professionals.

If you are interested in writing this column for The Informed Librarian Online, email aeis@optonline.net and let me know about your tech background and experience.

Call for Submissions and Nominations for PRIMO

Call for Submissions and Nominations for PRIMO

(Thank you for your patience with cross-posting as we try to spread the message far and wide!)

The Peer Reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO) Committee of the ACRL Instruction Section invites you to submit your online information literacy tutorial, virtual tour, or other online library instruction project for review and possible inclusion in PRIMO: Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online.

***Deadlines for Fall 2022*** 

Nominations:  October 31 2022

Submissions:  November 14 2022

Additional information about PRIMO, as well as the submission and nomination information, is available from the following link: https://acrl.ala.org/IS/instruction-tools-resources-2/pedagogy/primo-peer-reviewed-instruction-materials-online/

Site submissions for PRIMO are accepted continually, but are reviewed for possible inclusion twice per year.  If you would like to submit your own project for consideration, please use the Submission Form. If you would like to nominate a site, please email the PRIMO co-chairs. For further information, please contact committee co-chairs Brittany O’Neill at oneillb@uncw.edu and Janna Mattson at jannalynnmattson@gmail.com.

 

**Important note** All submissions will be acknowledged shortly after the submission deadline. If you submit a project for review and do not receive an acknowledgment after the submission deadline, please contact the PRIMO co-chairs with a request for verification that your submission was transmitted successfully. 

 

Brittany & Janna

Co-chairs, ACRL IS PRIMO Committee 

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Brittany O’Neill

Information Literacy Librarian

University of North Carolina Wilmington

oneillb@uncw.edu 

she/her/hers

 

Janna Mattson

Online Learning Coordinator & Instruction Librarian

George Mason University

jannalynnmattson@gmail.com

she/her/hers

Call for Chapters: Student Success Librarianship: Critical Perspectives on an Evolving Profession (working title) #ACRL

Call For Chapter Proposals: Student Success Librarianship: Critical Perspectives on an Evolving Profession (working title)

We invite you to submit chapter proposals for the forthcoming book, Student Success Librarianship: Critical Perspectives on an Evolving Profession, to be published by ACRL Press. 

SCOPE

Student Success Librarianship is the new darling of the profession, with such

positions becoming increasingly common in academic libraries. Many librarians with this title are often not only the first person in the position, but they also frequently occupy identities that are minoritized in higher education. Being so new to the field, many Student Success Librarians have found themselves in a position where their roles are ambiguous and difficult to define, which can lead to uncertainty, feeling under-appreciated, and burnout, as unspoken expectations and duties can always be justified with “student success.” This book will examine Student Success Librarianship through a critical lens in order to provide insight and advice that will contribute to a positive evolution of the role for current and future librarians interested in this career.

The goal of this book is to help Student Success Librarians as well as library professionals with similar roles to feel represented in the literature. Because there isn’t a formal professional platform where Student Success Librarians can network, it’s possible that Student Success Librarians feel alone in both their love for and their critiques of the profession. Without much research or literature related to Student Success Librarianship, librarians in this role have little to compare their experiences to, and thus lack the opportunity to both celebrate their wins and to examine areas of improvement for their careers. This book will meet this need as a tool for validation, education, and inspiration.

Note: Your job title does not have to specifically be “Student Success Librarian” to submit a proposal. All library professionals with job duties related to student success are welcome to submit. This includes previously holding a position related to student success.

We welcome chapter proposals on the following topics:

• Defining student success/Student Success Librarianship

By this, we mean: What is student success, and who gets to define such a nebulous concept? With this topic, we hope to elucidate the concept of “student success” in higher education, how that translates to Student Success Librarianship or similar librarian jobs, and problematize the implications of defining success for students.

• Student success in the time of COVID-19

• Student Success Librarianship at HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) and MSIs (Minority-Serving Institutions)

• The Diversity Resident to Student Success Librarian pipeline

• Outreach, burnout, and (in)equity

• Student Success work and Vocational Awe (as coined by Fobazi Ettarh)

• Assessing success and/or the Academic Surveillance Complex as a byproduct of attempting to quantify success

• Resources for Student Success Librarians

Useful online resources, tips for outreach, how to advocate for your position, 

programming ideas, etc.

• Additional topics related to Student Success Librarianship not listed here

*We welcome nontraditional submissions such as comics, personal essays, etc. that are relevant and supplemental to full chapters.

*Chapter authors will have the opportunity to license openly. 

Submission Procedure and Timeline:

Please submit proposals (up to 700 words) to StudentSuccessACRL@gmail.com

Deadline for proposals due November 1, 2022.

Tentative notification of acceptance December 1, 2022.

Tentative due date for first draft June 1, 2022. 

Final manuscript should be 2500 to 6000 words

About the Editors:

Melody Lee Rood (she/her) is the Student Success and Open Education Librarian at the Walter Clinton Jackson Library at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She received her MLIS from North Carolina Central University in 2016 and her BA in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of North Carolina Asheville in 2011. Melody serves as a liaison to all of the Student Success Offices, the International and Global Studies Program, the Library and Information Science Program, as well as the library’s Open Educational Resources Initiative. Her research interests include outreach for nontraditional students, critical librarianship, open pedagogy, equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice. 

Olivia Patterson (she/her) is the Student Success Librarian at J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The first to hold this position at Atkins Library and fresh out of her Master’s of Library & Information Science program at UNC Greensboro (‘21), Olivia brings a critical and student-centered approach to her role, emphasizing the importance of treating students as whole people. Using her undergraduate degree in Sociology (UNC Asheville, ‘18), Olivia applies critical theory surrounding race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability (and intersections thereof) to her work. 

Call for Nominations: ALLEN ELLIS DIGITAL RESEARCH AWARD IN POPULAR CULTURE

Please consider nominating a resource for the ALLEN ELLIS DIGITAL RESEARCH AWARD IN POPULAR CULTURE. This award recognizes the outstanding contribution of an academic database to the study of Popular Culture and American Culture developed within the past three years.  Criteria will include use of hypertext/networking, use of supplementary/secondary materials, breadth of archived material, and ease of searching and updatability. Please send nominations to the Committee Chair, Casey Hoeve, achoeve@unl.edu (Cc libhoeve@gmail.com) 

For more information, please see the website: https://pcaaca.org/awards/literary-film-electronic-awards. 

Call for Chapters: Data Culture in Academic Libraries - ACRL Book - Deadline January 30 @ALA_ACRL

We are excited to invite chapter proposals for our forthcoming ACRL book, Data culture in academic libraries: A practical guide to building communities, partnerships, and collaborations, with an anticipated publication date of winter 2024. This edited volume aims to help readers foster an institutional culture that favors the curation, creation, and wider use of datasets. We are seeking case studies, empirical research, and alternative ways of knowing representing all types of institutions and focusing on implications for the future of academic libraries as agents for change in facilitating data literacy through community engagement.

 

As the academic need for data literacy grows, librarians and academic data specialists are increasingly tasked with supporting the research data needs of faculty and students, not just through conventional services such as consultations and workshops, but also by thinking more holistically about the data ecosystem. The shift towards data-related research as a driver of social capital in the academic context reflects a critical opportunity to reassess data literacy training and conceptualize future-oriented pathways rooted in building local scholarly culture around data. As such, academic libraries have taken the role of champions for facilitating data literacy through community building. 

 

Information professionals are experimenting with novel and innovative models of relationship-building to improve data-related services, while incorporating a lens of equity, diversity, anti-racism, and inclusion in programming events or establishing partnerships that highlight critical inquiry of data-related topics. We are looking for multiple perspectives on the development of a data culture at different institutions to build community engagement around topics such as research data management and library-based research data services. 

 

The book is tentatively divided into the following sections:

 

• Data at all levels: Efforts and initiatives to introduce data practices throughout the academic experience and curriculum from undergraduate students to faculty; data culture as part of strategic planning/priorities; theoretical papers on data culture.
• Data instruction: Innovative ways to teach data retrieval, management, etc., including a focus on novel data pedagogy; collaborations in teaching; user-oriented/participatory learning; peer learning facilitation.
• Data outreach: Events, activities, and initiatives aimed to promote data culture in academic libraries.
• Data communities: Moving beyond one-off data instruction sessions to data-focused communities of practice; building/designing equitable, inclusive, and anti-racist data communities.
• Data partnerships: Efforts and initiatives to establish partnerships with institutional and/or community stakeholders; libraries as agents of change in the research data ecosystem.

To submit a proposal, please visit https://bit.ly/DataCultureCFP and complete the proposal form by January 30, 2023, at 11:59pm ET.

 

The form will require:

• Author names, job titles, emails, and institutional affiliations
• A working chapter title
• An abstract up to 500 words
• Link to a current CV or list of publications

Timeline:

• January 30, 2023: Chapter proposals due
• March 6, 2023: Authors notified of acceptance of chapter proposals
• July 10, 2023: Chapter drafts due
• Late August 2023: Chapter drafts returned to authors for revisions

Questions? dataculturebook@gmail.com

 

Best regards,

 

Marcela Y. Isuster, Coordinator, Digital Scholarship Hub, McGill University

Alisa B. Rod, Research Data Management Specialist, McGill University

CFP: Fall 2022 CFP Academic BRASS #BusinessLibrarianship

Interested in seeing your name in print? Want to add another line to your CV? Have something to share with other business librarians? The Business Reference in Academic Libraries Committee of BRASS is seeking articles for the next issue of its online publication Academic BRASS. Academic BRASS is a newsletter--not a journal--that publishes issue-based articles and information for the general and educational interest of BRASS members and academic business librarians.

Topics of interest to the editors are those dealing with business librarianship, such as resources, liaison and outreach activities, strategies, and instruction. Reviews of books, databases, and web sites are welcome as well. Maybe you have another cool idea - that's fine too - get those submissions in!

Deadline for submissions for the upcoming issue is November 18, 2022.

You may want to see previous editions. For access to the full text articles of past issues of Academic BRASS, see http://www.ala.org/rusa/sections/brass/publications/academicbrass

The typical length of an Academic BRASS article is 500-800 words, but past articles have been as long as 1,000 words or more. Authors should be guided by what they have to say rather than an arbitrary word length. All articles are subject to editing for length, style, and content. The newsletter follows the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th edition for all matters of style and citation. Authors whose articles include references to print or Internet resources are urged to observe the conventions set forth in that publication and on the APA web site (http://www.apastyle.org/).

Please send article proposals or submissions to all of the editors, LuMarie Guth (lumarie.guth@wmich.edu), Tim Tully (ttully@sdsu.edu), and Katie Hut (khut@american.edu).

Cordially,

LuMarie Guth (she/her), MBA, MLIS
Associate Professor, Business Librarian
University Libraries, 1011 Waldo Library
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-53553 USA

Call for webinar proposals - CORE (ALA) @ALA_Core

 Do you like to present at conferences?

 

CORE, a division of ALA, is seeking proposals for webinars and CORE classrooms for Fall 2022 and Winter 2023. If you have presented at a conference recently or plan to present at one, you can submit the same or a similar proposal to CORE for a webinar. Webinars are a single one-hour session and CORE Classroom events are two sessions. CORE is interested in topics related to library management, library technology, and technical services.

 

Core Webinar - Submit a proposal to present a webinar or webinar series

We are currently seeking proposals for the Fall 2022 - Winter 2023 schedule. Use the link above to submit a proposal. To learn more about presenting a Core webinar, contact the Core Continuing Education office at corece@ala.org. 

 

Core Classroom - Submit a proposal to present a virtual workshop

We are currently seeking proposals for the 2023 schedule. To learn more about presenting a Core Classroom, contact the Core Continuing Education office at corece@ala.org.