CFP: Superman’s Cleveland Conference - October 14, 2023 - Cleveland, Ohio #Superman #Comics #PopularCulture

Superman’s Cleveland Conference: It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Cultural Icon!
Ohio Center for the Book April 18, 2023

Call for Presentations
Conference Location: Cleveland Public Library at 325 E. Superior Ave Cleveland, OH 44114
Conference Date: October 14, 2023

In honor of the 85th anniversary of the creation of Superman in Cleveland, Ohio, Ursuline College and the Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library are organizing a conference dedicated to exploring the first superhero’s connections to the city of Cleveland, his relationship to the broader cultural environment, and Superman’s legacy within the medium of comics itself.

We encourage submissions of traditional academic conference presentations and panels as well as non-traditional proposals such as live podcasts recordings, comics-making workshops, and other creative programming.

Submissions should consider — but are not limited to — the connection between superheroes and:

• the Rust Belt
• the immigrant experience
• local journalism
• Jewish identity
• comics history
• the city of Cleveland
• …or other creative interpretations of these topics

To submit your proposal, please visit our online form by clicking here (https://forms.gle/vFA4cxiyKYBLWouQ9).

Submission Deadline Extended to June 15, 2023!

Questions? Please feel free to contact project co-directors Dr. Valentino Zullo at valentino.zullo@ursuline.edu or Don Boozer at ohiocenterforthebook@cpl.org.

This event will be part of “Superman’s Cleveland: Lineage and Legacy,” a series of events to be held throughout Cleveland this Fall.

Call for Chapters: Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians (ACRL Publication)

Call for Chapters: Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians

Editors: Whitney Kramer, Evan Muzzall, and Iliana Burgos

We are excited to invite chapter proposals for Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians, an edited volume to be published by ACRL. Click this text to fill out the Google Form and start your submission. Please email Whitney Kramer at wbk39@cornell.edu with any questions. 

About the book:

Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians will provide librarians with a broad overview of the TDM-specific data literacy skills needed to support researchers. It will include case studies of library-supported TDM projects in a variety of disciplines, from the digital humanities to the social sciences and beyond. This volume will help librarians of all experience levels learn to support researchers utilizing TDM across disciplines and even conduct TDM research of their own. We will prioritize open scholarship principles and data-centric approaches to TDM when applicable and encourage librarians to think critically about the applications of TDM — especially with regards to social impacts, intellectual property rights, and power structures in facilitating TDM. Ultimately, this volume is intended to empower librarians, inform decision makers, and support our research communities as working with textual data becomes further embedded into the research landscape. 

Call for chapters:

We invite chapter proposals for the following sections. If you have experience supporting text and data mining research in any form, please consider submitting a proposal. Do not feel limited by the following suggested topics! We encourage proposals from first-time authors and authors based in any type of college or university setting. 

Section 1 - Essentials of Text Data Literacy

This section will provide a basic understanding of contemporary research topics and skills necessary for librarians to adequately support faculty and students who are conducting TDM research. Sample topics could include:

• How to engage in a TDM “reference interview”

• Data ethics in text data mining research contexts

• Embedding critical theory into text data education

• The role of library administration and management in supporting TDM

Section 2 - Education, Training, and Logistics 

This section will cover the many core mechanics of TDM, including data sources, licensing and legal aspects, collections management, vendor products, and administrative perspectives. Sample topics could include:

• Text data sources and collections management

• Library applications of text data mining: easy examples in context

• Problems of text data mining in libraries: licensing and legal aspects of TDM 

• Labor in supporting TDM education

• Evaluating proprietary and black box TDM products

Section 3 - Practical Applications and Case Studies

This section will provide case studies of library-supported TDM projects in a variety of disciplines in order to help readers understand practical applications for TDM skills in the library. Sample topics could include:

• Electronic health records

• Engaging with ChatGPT and tools powered by artificial “intelligence”

• Large language models

• Law and technology

• Literary text data

• Social media data

• Speech and /audio data

• Text data in the digital humanities

• Text data in the social sciences

• Using TDM for library assessment

• Working with multilingual corpora

Proposal Instructions:

Please submit your proposals using this Google form. The text of the proposals should not exceed 500 words. Be sure to include a working title, 3-5 keywords describing your proposed topic, and one or two learning objectives. (Note: These are not included in the word limit.) 

Submissions are due by July 15, 2023. We expect to notify authors of acceptance by August 15, 2023. See below for the proposed project timeline. Please email Whitney Kramer at wbk39@cornell.edu with any questions. 

Project Timeline:

• CFP closes July 15, 2023 

• Authors notified of acceptance by August 15, 2023 

• Chapter outlines sent to editors by October 2, 2023 

• First drafts due January 15, 2024 

• Draft reviews completed and feedback provided to authors around April 15, 2024 

• Second drafts due May 15, 2024 

• Editor reviews completed around July 1, 2024 

• Final draft submitted to ACRL by August 31, 2024

Call for Proposals- ACRL/NY 2023 Annual Symposium "Embracing Slow Librarianship" - NYC, December 1, 2023

Call for Presentations, Lightning Talks, Panels, & Posters

ACRL/NY 2023 Annual Symposium
Embracing Slow Librarianship

December 1, 2023
Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY)

Submission deadline: June 15, 2023.
Please submit proposals using this form

In response to the growing fetishization of productivity in academia’s increasingly corporatized climate, writer and librarian Julia Glassman suggests that library communities might benefit from an approach that incorporates principles from “slow” movements (slow food, slow technology, etc.). She describes slow librarianship as addressing the needs and interests of library communities through the “commitment to prioritizing reflection and meaningful practices over chains of impressive-sounding achievements,” which, in turn, presents the possibility of opening “alternative avenues for professional development and recognition."

For this year's ACRL/NY Symposium, we are seeking proposals for presentations, lightning talks, panels, and posters that address the theoretical and practical applications of slow librarianship in academic libraries.

Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

• Implications for theory and praxis: How does or how might the concept of slow librarianship benefit from specific theoretical approaches, and how might this in turn impact the practical application of slow librarianship as conceptualized through these theoretical lenses?
• Implications for supporting DEI: How might slow librarianship inform our approaches to enhancing diversity in our libraries and advocating for underrepresented groups at all levels in the academic library, including staff, professionals, students, and administration?
• Implications for work within and across specific library units: How might slow librarianship inform the procurement, curation, discovery, preservation, and/or promotion of library collections? How might slow librarianship inform the development, execution, and evaluation of reference and instruction initiatives? How might slow librarianship inform critical considerations regarding the adoption and use of new forms of technology and data in libraries and archives?
• Implications for the library ecosystem and sustainable future: How might slow librarianship inform the development of physical, virtual, and hybrid library spaces that resist the reproduction of toxic productivity, the imperative to do-more-with-less, vocational awe, etc.? How might slow librarianship inform efforts to support solidarity, collaboration, and the idea of staff and patrons as whole people? How might slow librarianship inform our ability to examine and challenge traditional hierarchies, imbalances in labor relations, and barriers to professional development?
• Implications for libraries and the climate crisis and sustainable futures: How can library workers foster a more secure future and social justice within their communities at a time of unprecedented climate risk?

Proposals should be 250-500 words in length, submitted by June 15, 2023.
Please submit proposals using this form
Accepted proposals will be notified by July 15, 2023.

All presentations will take place in person on December 1, 2023 at the Vertical Campus at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY) and will be livestreamed.

Questions regarding submitting or about the Symposium in general can be sent to acrlnysymposiumchair@gmail.com

Journal of Business & Financial Librarianship: Call for articles and reviews

I have taken over as editor of the Journal of Business & Financial librarianship (https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wbfl20/current). JBFL is currently accepting article and review submissions for upcoming issues. Questions about article submissions can be sent to me at stephae@wwu.edu. Questions about book and database reviews can be sent to Lauren Reiter at lmr29@psu.edu.

Not sure if your article idea is right for JBFL? Articles relating to business information literacy; citation analysis, developing videos or other forms of modular tools for business courses; outreach and support from public libraries to the small business community; and other ideas related to business librarianship. JBFL is an academic, peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis with open-access options (https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/choose-open/publishing-open-access/open-select/). More info on aim and scope, reach, and journal metrics are accessible on/from the Aim & Scope page: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=wbfl20.

Information on submission, including instruction for author and a link to the submissions page, can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=wbfl20.

Question? Please ask!  Write Elizabeth Stephan at stephae@wwu.edu

Call for Conference Reports - Serials Review

Do you have a professional resolution to write more but continue to put it off? Are you looking to beef up your resume/CV?  

The “Serials Spoken Here” column in Serials Review is seeking contributors to submit conference reports (only 750 words or less!) for issues related to serials from any of these spring conferences:

• ELUNA
• UKSG
• NASIG
• Acquisitions Institute

 

This is an excellent way to inform colleagues who were not able to attend, in addition to completing a writing goal. Please get in touch with me to identify a session and get more details about contributing to the column. 

 

Thank you for considering this request, 

Janetta Waterhouse

Serials Spoken Here co-editor

jwaterhouse@ksu.edu

Serials Review - https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/usrv20

CFP: Upper Peninsula Region of Library Cooperation Annual Conference (UPRLC) - September 14th, 2023 - Sault Ste Marie, Michigan

Conference URL: https://uprlc.org/uprlc-annual-conference-committee/

Looking for an excuse to visit the UP this fall?  Have a great program geared towards small and rural libraries?  Wanting to collaborate with some dynamic, creative and extremely talented librarians?  Then please consider submitting a proposal for this year’s UPRLC Conference.  Located in Sault Ste Marie, this year’s conference theme is Charting the Course, and will be held on September 14th at Lake Superior State University.  A half-day, pre-conference will be hosted at the Superior District Library’s Bayliss Public Library location on September 13th.

If you are interested, please see the attached Call for Proposal for more details.  Deadline is May 31st.  Questions?  You may reach out to Conference Chair, Lisa Waskin at lwaskin@superiordistrictlibrary.org or SLC Director, Dillon Geshel at dgeshel@superiorlandlibrary.org.

UPRLC Annual Conference 2023 Call for Proposals is Open!

This year’s theme is Charting Our Course and will be held at Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie on September 13th and 14th in the Cisler Center on campus, overlooking the St. Marys River and Canada.

We invite proposals for Breakout Sessions at this year’s UPRLC Annual Conference.  This year we are looking for new ideas, programs, and sessions on what you have experienced in your library as we all continue to navigate library issues in this post-pandemic era.  With recent book challenges on the rise, we are now seeing new issues that we are facing on a daily basis. 

We are looking for proposals that will elevate the ideas in our areas of special interest which include teambuilding, staff structuring, mental health, community development, strengthening relationships, innovative programs, Diversity and Inclusion, Intellectual Freedom, and digitizing collections. Each breakout session should be approximately 45-50 minutes long.  

The UPRLC Annual Conference registration fee will be waived for all those presenting a breakout session at the meeting.

To submit a program for review, please fill out the attached proposal submission form and return to lwaskin@superiordistrictlibrary.org by Wednesday, May 31st.  

Please submit your proposal and help us all to continue Charting the Course towards great library services for all.