CFP: Biographies Area of the 2025 Popular Culture Association Conference (PCA) Conference

CFP: Biographies Area of the 2025 Popular Culture Association Conference (PCA) Conference

The Biographies Area of the Popular Culture Association (PCA)  is soliciting papers for the 2025 conference 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

The conference will be held April 16-19, 2025 at the New Orleans Marriott, 555 Canal Street. Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers per standard session.  Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. 

Below are some recent titles of presentations in the Biographies Area panels:

• Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll: Celebrity Biography through the Lens of Autopsy
• Will Rogers: American Folk Hero or Elitist Fraud
• Manufacturing “Soupy Sales:” Biographical Insights in the Emergence of a Comic Entertainer

Please see this link for details and guidelines on submitting to the conference:
https://pcaaca.org/general/custom.asp?page=submissionguidelines

If interested in submitting for the conference, please provide the title and abstract of your presentation.  

Deadline for Paper Proposals: November 30, 2024.

If you have questions, please feel free to contact Biographies Chair:
Susie Skarl
Associate Professor/Urban Affairs Librarian
susie.skarl@unlv.edu
72-895-2141

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

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.

• Ease of searching, and

• Updatability. 

For more information, please contact the Committee Chair, Casey Hoeve, ellis.award@pcaaca.org,  or visit the website: https://pcaaca.org/awards/literary-film-electronic-awards

Please send nominations by December 02, 2024, to ellis.award@pcaaca.org or use the preferred submission form.

CFP: 20th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2025) - June 15-18th, 2025 - Chicago

The 20th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2025) will be held from June 15-18th 2025 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

The theme for the conference is: Twenty Years of Progress, a Future of Possibilities

OR2025 is the 20^th anniversary of the Open Repositories conference. We are marking this milestone with a conference theme that reflects the progress and contributions that the repository community has made toward equitable access to digital resources and research outputs. In addition, we are also exploring the future possibilities of what repositories can do to tackle the many global challenges that currently exist.

We particularly welcome proposals aligned to the overall theme, but also on other administrative, organizational, or practical topics related to open digital repositories. We are interested in the following sub-themes:

• Community: How can repositories continue to serve a global community with diverse uses and needs? What can we as a repository community do to create connections through integrations, foster trust in the material held in repositories and promote local and indigenous knowledge?
• Sustainability and Preservation: How can we ensure that repositories and their digital content last beyond the next 20 years in a financially and environmentally sustainable way?
• Inspiration: Have you been inspired by attending an Open Repositories conference to develop, implement, change practices or start a project? We would love to hear how this is going!
• Blue-sky thinking: What might the future of equitable access to digital resources and research outputs look like? How can we go beyond the status quo and AI as the answer to everything?

Submission categories include posters, workshops, lightning talks, papers, the repository showdown and panels.

Please visit the Call for Proposals page to learn more about the sub-themes and submission categories of the conference, including a full list of submission templates and key dates for submission deadlines and approvals.

The deadline for submissions is December 18, 2024.

We look forward to the vibrant conversations and learning opportunities of the conference.

Submitters should note that presentations are in person and there is no remote/pre-recorded presentation option.

Please see the registration fees on the Registration page (registration will open in February 2025).

Programme Co-Chairs:

Adrian Ho, University of Chicago

Ellen Catz Ramsey, University of Virginia

Dr Leigh Stork, University of Strathclyde

Contact: or25-program-chairs@googlegroups.com

For the Open Repositories Steering Committee:

Torsten Reimer and Liz Krznarich

Website: https://or2025.openrepositories.org/

Registration Open - ACRL/NY 2024 Symposium: Values in Context: Praxis in the Everyday (New York City - December 6th, 2024)

Registration is Now Open for the ACRL/NY 2024 Symposium!

https://acrlny.wildapricot.org/event-5884082 

ACRL/NY 2024 Symposium: Values in Context: Praxis in the Everyday

When: December 6, 2024, 8:30 AM-3:45 PM

Where: Fordham University @ Lincoln Center, 12th Floor Lounge, E. Gerald Corrigan Conference Center, Leon Lowenstein Building, 113 West 60th Street, New York, NY 10023

In the midst of the recent national and global upheavals, the ACRL/NY 2024 Symposium will explore the core values of library workers and libraries, and examine how those values manifest in the day-to-day work that supports our library communities.  ACRL’s strategic plan and ALA’s Core Values of access, equity, intellectual freedom and privacy, public good, and sustainability can inform this conversation. 

In 2000, the first edition of Michael Gorman’s Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century was published.  Later, in 2015, Gorman published a subsequent edition titled Our Enduring Values Revisited: Librarianship in an Ever-Changing World.  Across the two editions, Gorman identifies stewardship, service, intellectual freedom, rationalism, literacy & learning, equity of access to recorded knowledge & information, privacy, and democracy as foundational to library work.

We have a great lineup of presenters, lightning talks, a panel, and posters lined up for you.  We will be posting the details on our website soon. Hope to see you there!

We also want to extend a ‘Thank You!’ to our host Fordham University Libraries. 

ACRL/NY 2024 Symposium Planning Committee

Questions about the Symposium? acrlnysymposiumchair@gmail.com

Questions about Registration? Markaaron.polger87@login.cuny.edu 

CFP: Empirical Studies in Libraries Summit (ESiLS) - Virtual March 26, 2025

Call for Proposals: Empirical Studies in Libraries Summit

We are pleased to announce the upcoming Empirical Studies in Libraries Summit (ESiLS)<https://www.esils.org>, a forum dedicated to showcasing and discussing the latest research and findings happening in and about libraries. (Summit date: Weds., March 26, 2025; Format: Zoom, with some asynchronous options.)

This summit aims to bring together scholars, practitioners, and students who are engaged in empirical studies that advance our understanding of library practices, user behaviors, the impact of libraries on their communities, and more!

We invite proposals for presentations, workshops, and panel discussions that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Innovative methodologies in library research
• User experience and satisfaction studies
• Data-driven decision-making in library services
• Impact assessment of library programs and services
• Information-seeking and user behavior studies
• Collaboration between libraries and community organizations
• The role of libraries in promoting digital or information literacy
• Case studies highlighting successful empirical research in libraries

Proposal Guidelines:

1. Submission Format: Proposals should be submitted by December 20th, 2024. Proposals should include: Title, Authors, Abstract and Format.
2. Review Process: All submissions will undergo a blind peer review process by the organizers of the conference. Proposals will be evaluated based on their originality, relevance to the summit theme, methodological rigor, and potential impact on the library community. Session proposals that do not include empirical data collection will not be accepted. Session proposals that are not accepted may be asked to convert their session to an asynchronous poster.
3. Notification of Acceptance: Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their proposals by January 20, 2025.

We encourage researchers as well as practitioners in academic, public, special, and all other libraries to submit proposals. Doctoral students are especially encouraged to apply. To further our commitment to inclusivity, proposers will have the option to disclose whether or not they are members of marginalized communities during the submission process. We aim to amplify the voices of those from these communities and strongly encourage their participation in submitting proposals.

Questions about the Empirical Studies in Libraries Summit may be sent to the organizers at info@esils.org. Additional information is available on our website at https://www.esils.org