CFP: Library Trends (Journal) Data Literacy: Navigating the Shift from Hype to Reality

CFP: Library Trends (Journal) Data Literacy: Navigating the Shift from Hype to Reality

Since 2012, libraries have evolved their efforts to support data literacy—a means to empower their patrons to confidently identify, collect, evaluate, analyze, interpret, present, and protect data(sets) they encounter—following Christine L. Borgman's observation of the data deluge, an unprecedented influx of research data being produced.

After more than a decade of work, where do libraries stand on data literacy post-"Big Data" hype? And where is it headed? Librarians in instructional roles—such as information literacy instructors and data librarians—initially approached data literacy through a statistical lens, aligning with core information literacy principles of finding, evaluating, and using information. Today, they also explore intersections with other evolving literacies like algorithmic literacy and data visualization literacy. Some adopt a critical data literacy mindset, recognizing that quantitative data is socially constructed, drawing on QuantCrit as well as data feminism principles from Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein. They also examine the distinctions between teaching data science and research data management (RDM). Additionally, libraries implement data literacy services differently based on their organizational structure and external influences, such as priorities set by higher education at-large.

This issue of Library Trends will explore current research and practice in data literacy in order to understand the field's evolution and future directions. The journal welcomes articles on both the theoretical and practical aspects of data literacy in libraries. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

• Data literacy’s relationship to other literacies (i.e., AI and algorithmic literacy, information literacy, media literacy)
• Critical aspects of data literacy such as data justice and feminism
• Data literacy competencies across different library types and/or audiences
• Pedagogical approaches for data literacy instruction
• Data literacy initiatives in various types of libraries, including academic, public, and special libraries
• Data literacy in community engagement projects
• Trends/insights in data literacy concerning micro-credentialing and digital badging managed by libraries
• Data literacy in relation to the “Collections as Data” movement

Prospective authors are invited to submit an abstract outlining their proposed article by Monday, December 16, 2024. Decisions about the abstracts will be communicated by Wednesday, January 8, 2025, and authors of successful submissions are invited to write their full articles during spring 2025. Final articles should be 4,000-10,000 words (not including bibliographic references). The issue will use a distributed peer review process in which article authors review two manuscripts by other contributors. As part of submitting an article proposal, authors will be asked to commit to participation in this process as both an author and a reviewer.  

Important Dates

• December 16, 2024 – Article proposals due
• January 8, 2025 – Author notifications
• May 7, 2025 – Article manuscripts due
• May 20, 2025 – Peer Reviews assigned
• June 20, 2025 – Peer Reviews due
• August 1, 2025 – Article revisions due

Inquiries about the planned issue and ideas for articles should be directed to Ben Chiewphasa, Guest Editor (bbc2129@columbia.edu). Proposals for articles should be submitted via an online proposal form. Proposals are due December 16, 2024.

Citation Style: For proposals, authors may use any citation style. For manuscripts, authors should use the Chicago Manual of Style’s author-date format.

CFP: Library Trends (Journal): Compelling Tensions in Library and Information Science

CFP: Library Trends: Compelling Tensions in Library and Information Science

Thomas Kuhn described the essential tension in scientific discovery as the conflict between tradition and innovation, which led to the development of his theory of scientific revolutions. According to Kuhn, a scientific paradigm is dominated by a particular way of thinking until a sufficient number of anomalies to that way of thinking emerges and the paradigm can no longer be supported. At that point, innovation is demanded to account for the anomalies and a new paradigm is constructed; the result is a scientific revolution. 

The field of library and information science (LIS) has compelling tensions similar to those explored by Kuhn in the fields of science. Many of these tensions have been a part of the discipline and profession for a long time, and others have emerged in the digital age with the explosion of information and the ways to access, manipulate, and share that information.

This issue of Library Trends seeks to reveal and explore compelling tensions within LIS. The volume welcomes both analyses of theories that contribute to or dispel those tensions and explorations of how those tensions inform practice in libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions. Articles can address tensions such as:  

• Access versus privacy
• The Right to Remember versus the Right to be Forgotten
• Evidence versus spectacle
• Connotative meanings and denotative meanings
• Linked data and data management
• Cultural sensitivity and cultural control
• Epistemicide and cultural preservation
• Intellectual freedom and social good/responsibility 
• Neutrality versus activism 
• AI & algorithms versus human-mediated services

Article Length: 4,000 – 10,000 words (target 7,000 words)

Prospective authors are invited to submit an abstract outlining their proposed article by January 3, 2025. Decisions about the abstracts will be communicated by February 7, 2025. Authors of successful submissions will be invited write their full articles, which will be due June 1, 2025. Final articles should be 4,000 – 10,000 words (not including bibliographic references). All articles will be peer reviewed by two reviewers – one internal to the issue and one external to the issue. As part of the submission process, authors will be asked to commit to participation in this process as both an author and a reviewer of one manuscript.

Important dates:

• January 3, 2025 – Article proposals due
• February 7, 2025 – Author notifications
• June 1, 2025 – Article manuscripts due
• July 15, 2025 – Peer reviews due
• September 15, 2025 – Revised manuscripts due

Inquiries about the planned issue and ideas for articles should be directed to Katherine Wisser, Guest Editor of Library Trends (wisser@simmons.edu). Proposals for articles should be submitted via an online proposal form. Proposals are due January 3, 2025.

Citation style: For proposals, authors may use any citation style. For manuscripts, authors should use the Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition, author-date format.

CFP: 12th Annual Kraemer Copyright Conference (Colorado Springs, Colorado) - June 16-18, 2025

I'm thrilled to announce the 12th Annual Kraemer Copyright Conference, hosted by the Kraemer Family Library at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. This year’s conference, Copyright and the Future of Libraries, will take place June 16-18, 2025, at the Ent Center, UCCS.

We are now accepting proposals through January 15, 2025, and invite you to be part of this exciting exploration of resilience and innovation in the library world.

About the 2025 Theme

The 2025 conference focuses on how libraries can bounce back stronger after years of restrictive copyright rulings and ongoing challenges to equitable access.This year’s discussions will delve into actionable solutions and bold visions for libraries to thrive in a changing copyright environment.

Submit Your Proposal

We welcome proposals that align with this year’s theme, exploring strategies, case studies, or forward-thinking ideas.

• Information about submitting your proposal can be found here.
• Submissions are due by January 15, 2025.

Stay Tuned for Registration

Details about registration will be shared soon.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Kraemer Copyright Committee at kcc@uccs.edu.

We look forward to your proposals and to seeing you in June 2025!

Warm regards,
Tucky

Tucker Taylor

Editor 

Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship

803-260-4759 (text or voice)

tucker@jcel.org

CFP and cost estimates: 2025 Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge (May 2025 - Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon)

2025 Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge

(Sunday through Wednesday in 2025)
Sunday, May 18 - Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Timberline Lodge: One hour east of Portland, Oregon on the slope of Mt. Hood

www.acquisitionsinstitute.org

 

Greetings!

 

We’re excited to announce the call for proposals for AITL 2025: our small, informal, and stimulating gathering in a convivial and glorious Pacific Northwest setting, focused on the methods and innovation of building and managing library collections.

 

Additionally, to help attendees budget and plan for AITL 2025 we have updated the cost estimates on our website. Last year, the AITL organization operated at a financial loss to run the conference. While we wish we could maintain our pricing from previous years, inflation has increased the cost for all services related to the institute. We are increasing our registration rates to ensure that we are able to offer a high-quality institute for years to come. Please see the “Costs” section on our FAQ webpage for transparency of costs and ballpark costs for lodging. For the 2025 conference, registration (including all meals) is $675. Discounted presenter registration is $475.

 

Cost saving strategies:

 

Book alternative lodging and travel to the Lodge each day. Although the “experience” of staying at the Lodge is unique and special, we take pride in the high quality of presentations as the major value of our conference. In the past, self-organized carpools have offered a positive experience for attendees not staying at the Timberline Lodge. Rates for the Best Western in Government Camp are generally lower than those at the Lodge. If you do choose to stay down the mountain at Government Camp, be prepared for the six-mile winding mountain road each way.

 

Conference room share. We understand the appeal of having your own room, but sharing lodging cuts costs, and we always try to match individuals looking for room shares.

 

As always, we value the engagement and participation of our attendees and look forward to your continued interest! Please read on for the call for proposals.

 

Proposals due December 30, 2024.

2025 proposal submission form

WHAT IS The Acquisitions Institute?

• Since 2000, the pre-eminent conference located in Western North America on acquisitions and collection development, held at the 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):

• Assessment tools, methods, and projects (e.g., linking collections with learning outcomes; usage studies)
• Collection strategies including new models for selection and managing liaison programs
• Government, special, or academic library perspectives in acquisitions and collection development
• 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, representation, 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 initiatives on acquisitions and collection development
• Data curation, including Big Data, and management and other new roles for subject and technical services librarians
• How Generative AI impacts our work

The DEADLINE for submitting a proposal is December 30, 2024. NOTE: Maximum of three presenters per proposal.

Please use our 2025 proposal submission form.

COVID-19 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.

Important Dates

Fri 12/30/24: Proposals due
Mon 1/20/25: Review of proposals complete, and presenters notified
Fri 1/24/25: Presenters confirm commitment to present
Early February: Registration scheduled to open

 ________________________________________

The 2025 Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge Planning Committee is:

• Damon Campbell, University of Oregon
• Selena Chau, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Randyn Heisserer-Miller, Colorado State University
• Elsa Loftis, Portland State University
• Kasia Stasik, Harrassowitz

planning@acquisitionsinstitute.org 

CFP: ITAL's "Public Libraries Leading the Way" Column

ITAL's "Public Libraries Leading the Way" Column

Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL), the quarterly open-access journal published by ALA’s Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures division, is looking for contributions to its regular “Public Libraries Leading the Way” column for the four 2025 issues (to be published in March, June, September, and December). This column highlights a technology-based innovation or approach to problem solving from a public library perspective. See https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/pllw for a list of columns published in this series.

Topics we are interested in include the following, but proposals on any other technology topic are welcome.

• Virtual community engagement

• Virtual education and learning

• Technology to enable contactless service

• Civic technology

• Drones

• Technology that expands diversity, equity, and inclusion

• Privacy and cyber-security

• Virtual and augmented reality

• Artificial intelligence

• Big data

• Internet of things

• Robotics

• 3-D printing and makerspaces

• Geographic information systems and mapping

• Materials handling automation

• Self-service technology

• Library analytics and data-driven services

• Anything else related to public libraries and innovations in technology

To propose a topic, use this brief form, which will ask you for four pieces of information:

• Your email address

• Your name

• A brief (75-150 word) summary of your proposed column that describes your library, the technology you wish to write about and your experience with it.

• The quarterly issue(s) whose deadlines you can commit to

Columns are in the 1,000-1,500 word range and may include illustrations. These will not be research articles, but are meant to share practical experience with technology development or uses within the library. Proposals are due by December 13, 2024, and selections will be made by January 10, 2025.

If you have questions, contact Ken Varnum, Editor, at varnum@umich.edu, or Marisha Kelly, Assistant Editor, at marisha.librarian@gmail.com.

Sincerely,

Ken Varnum, Editor

Information Technology and Libraries

Call for Topic Editors, POEM (Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies) new IMLS-funded online publication

 Call for Topic Editors, POEM

 

The editorial collective of POEM (Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies), a new IMLS-funded online publication, seeks thirty topic editors, ten in each area (AI and algorithmic literacy; data and computational literacy; media and mis/disinformation literacy) to join the project team for a 1.5-year period. The deadline to apply is January 4, 2025.

 

A $2,750 stipend is offered for this work.

 

Is there a topic related to AI and algorithms; data and computation; or media and mis- and dis-information that you don’t think is getting enough attention, or that you think is crucial for high schoolers and college students to learn about? Are you interested in helping create a resource to help teachers teach fluency and critical literacy in that area?  Would you like to help curate a collection of high-quality, low-cost teaching and learning materials to help students learn about that topic? 

 

POEM (Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies) will be an open educational resource containing peer-reviewed, bilingual (Spanish - English) essays, videos, online games, and other open educational resources in the broad field of information literacy. It will be a reliable library of curated and contextualized materials for teaching and learning, designed to help high school and college librarians and instructors. 

 

What you will be doing

Each of these literacies is stewarded by two co-editors who will work with ten topic editors to build a collection of teaching and learning resources in the topic of their choice. These topics will be introduced, explained, and curated by an expert in the field, their editor (you!). You will seek out and bring together a collection of existing and new open teaching and learning resources that explicate, interrogate, and complicate the topic and provide opportunities for engagement across a range of modalities and learning styles.

 

This work will include:

• Proposing and refining a topic
• Authoring an introduction to that topic
• Developing a call for relevant teaching and learning objects
• Reviewing and selecting submitted materials
• Participation in the peer review process
• Verifying that materials are properly licensed
• Ensuring the development of the teaching and learning objects you select for your topic stay on schedule
• Creating tags for the content in your topic area

 

We are particularly excited to welcome applications from:

• Teachers and librarians at public high schools, community colleges, and HBCUs (and people who are connected to them)
• Data workers, activists, and practitioners (and people who are connected to them)
• People who have experience in and a professional commitment to equitable and antiracist practices
• People familiar with critical approaches to technology, data, and information
• People with previous experience working with open educational resources
• People with prior project management experience

 

To apply (and for additional information), please visit: https://library.cmu.edu/poem

 

 

 

Call for Chapters: Cultivating Collaboration: Communities of Practice in Librarianship

I’m reaching out as a co-editor for an upcoming book, Cultivating Collaboration: Communities of Practice in Librarianship, to be published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. My co-editors and I seek chapter authors and would love to invite library professionals to share their work in this area. 

 

Communities of practice play a crucial role in library science by providing a structured yet flexible approach for information professionals to share knowledge, solve problems, and develop innovative solutions. This book aims to explore the significance of these communities in addressing feelings of isolation within the profession, highlighting their potential to build supportive networks that contribute to personal and professional development. This text will examine practical strategies for establishing and nurturing communities of practice alongside real-world examples that illustrate their impact. By fostering connections and collaborative relationships, communities of practice not only enhance individual practice but also strengthen the resilience and adaptability of the profession as a whole. 

 

Each chapter should be no more than 15-20 double-spaced pages (case studies 5-10 pages), with formatting in Times New Roman, 12pt font, and citations in APA style. Authors are encouraged to include tables, graphs, case studies, images, and citations where appropriate. 

 

If you're interested in contributing, please complete the Proposed Chapter Submission Form by January 10, 2025: https://forms.office.com/r/a3rvff7Vb0. 

 

We would appreciate you sharing this call for proposals on the Library Writer's Blog to help us reach a wider audience. 

 

Thank you for your time and support! 

 

Best regards, 

Shannon D. Jones, EdD, MLS, M.Ed, AHIP 

Tamara Nelson, MLIS, AHIP 

Laura Haygood, MLIS, AHIP 

Sandra Desjardins, MS, MA, MLIS, CHIS 

Kay Strahan, MSLIS, AHIP 

 

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Shannon D. Jones, EdD, M.Ed, MLS, AHIP, FMLA (she/her)

Director of Libraries & Professor

Chair, Academic Affairs Faculty

Medical University of South Carolina

Director, NNLM Region 2

171 Ashley Avenue, Suite 415, MSC 403

Charleston, SC 29425-4030

joneshan@musc.edu

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9650-581X

CFP: INCONECSS Conference: Research support in an Age of AI (Berlin, Germany - May 15th & 16th, 2025)

Call for Contributions

INCONECSS Conference: Research support in an Age of AI

INCONECSS is an international conference for researchers, librarians and other information specialists supporting researchers, faculty, teachers and students in Economics and Business Studies. INCONECSS aspires to be the platform for the exchange of ideas on changing user needs and services as well as the evolving landscape of scholarly publishing. INCONECSS encourages conversations between researchers, information specialists and other people working in fields related to information provision for research in Economics and Business Studies.

The conference will consist of curated sessions (e.g. keynote/panel) and community contributed sessions. The community contributed sessions will have the following formats: Posters, Presentation, Short presentation (details below).

We invite academics, librarians and staff from universities and libraries to submit original contributions on services or best practice and experience, including but not limited to the following:

• Will AI change everything? – Generative Information Retrieval
  • Library roles and responsibilities in an AI augmented world (e.g. Library/discovery and access of the future/ Future of search, Future of metadata, Librarians as prompt engineers…)
  • Impact of AI on the research process (e.g. AI-supported peer-review, academic integrity vs misconduct, fraud /retractions of AI-generated articles, …)
  • Legal topics/ guidelines, rules and regulations: Understanding the Contracts (e.g. Institutional rights retention…)
  • Risks and awareness of limitations (e.g. discrimination, misinformation, misuse, Are tools beneficial or not? Do users/students understand the limits?….)
  • Open AI tools versus closed AI tools (which tools are really open?)
  • Change of business models (e.g. publishers become data platforms…)
  • Upskilling process within the institutions
  • Networking and sharing knowledge: How can we all stay up-to-date on current important developments? Who can monitor and select important developments?
  • AI and Information Literacy: Teaching Critical Thinking
    
    
• Everything Open? Open Science, Open Access, Open Data, Open Education
  • Open Science/open scholarship and the role of libraries – best practices from different parts of the world (e.g. Open Science strategies in libraries…)
  • Open Access (e.g. Transformational/transitional agreements – are they beneficial? Diamond Open Access models…)
  • Open Data (e.g. reproducibility, Do editors encourage the publishing of research data? Using Machine Learning to analyze (open) data…)
  • Open Education (e.g. OER, Where to find or publish OER, Improving access to open textbooks…)
  • Creative Commons licenses and attributions

• Scholarly Communication, Research Support and Academic Skills
  • How to support students, scholars, early career researchers? (e.g. services that support teaching staff and students…)
  • Journals: Quality Control (e.g. Predatory Journals, Journal Impact / Journals rankings and lists of journals/ TOP Journal guidelines, Criticism of rankings and lists …)
  • Supporting the research process online (e.g. sharing tutorials, videos, best practices)
  • Information Literacy, Media Literacy, AI Literacy, Academic Skills
     
• Databases
  • Which databases do institutions subscribe to? Who pays?
  • Which databases cover which content? Which are redundant?
  • Tools /Overviews

• New Work and Sustainability
  • Socializing and collaborating while many staff members work at home
  • Changing buildings and office spaces
  • Sustainable Development Goals (e.g. Creating awareness, Shareconomy, Reputation and ranking aspects of SDG, assessing impact…)
    
• Plus: Any other timely topic that would be of interest to the target groups of the conference

Submission process:

The conference language is English, all submissions must be in English.

Abstract submission

• Abstracts should contain the title of the presentation and a description of major findings or experiences. Cover why this is new or innovative and/or why this presentation/information is beneficial for the audience.
• Please submit an abstract of your planned presentation with a maximum of 400 words via the online submission system: https://www.conftool.net/inconecss2025/
• All contributions have to be submitted through ConfTool and will be reviewed by the committee members.
• During the submission process, you will be asked if your contribution is for a poster, a presentation, or a short presentation or if your contribution could be presented in any of the formats.

Details on presentations and formats

• Poster: Poster presentations are a highly valued and central part of the INCONECSS. There will be a 90 minute time slot for parallel poster presentations (plus all poster presenters get a 1 minute presentation-slot to advertise posters)
• Presentation: 20 minute presentation plus 10 minutes for Q&A and discussion
• Short presentation: 10 minute presentation plus open format for discussion.In order to allow presentations on very up to date topics, we take suggestions after the submission deadline. Short presentations can be on any of the topics listed above or on some services, you would like to share, a discussion on an important topic you would like to start or anything else you can think of as useful to the audience.
• We expect presenters to make their presentations available after the conference. (e.g. upload poster PDF or presentations slides to your institutional repository or on Zenodo and share the URL with us or submit them to us to make them available on the conference website no later than 4 weeks after the conference)

Criteria for evaluation of the submissions by the program committee

• All submissions will be reviewed based on criteria of relevance to the conference scope and theme, originality and quality
• Relevance for the target groups (information specialists, researchers, librarians in the context of business and economics research)

Important Dates

• Call for Contributions published: 11 November 2024
• Abstract Submission: 10 December 2024
• Notification of Acceptance: 24 January 2025
• Final submission of document/presentation: 2 May 2025
• Conference Dates: 15-16 May 2025
• Please Note: There is an exception for some short presentations. Short presentation proposals can also be submitted after the deadline to keep them open for very up-to-date topics. These topics can be submitted up until March 31st.




Contact

If you have any questions, please contact:
veranstaltungen@zbw.eu

CFP: IASSIST at 50! Bridging oceans, harbouring data & anchoring the future - Bristol, United Kingdom - June 2025

IASSIST at 50! Bridging oceans, harbouring data & anchoring the future

IASSIST 2025 (https://iassistdata.org/conferences/iassist2025/) invites you to join us in Bristol, United Kingdom, for its golden anniversary conference (yes, that is 50 years!!) from June 3 - June 6, 2025 to engage in the past, present, and future of data services, including data management and technologies. IASSIST https://iassistdata.org/ (the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology) is an international organization of professionals working with information technology and data services to support research and teaching.

Visit lively, yet laid-back, Bristol and find a city full of character, centuries-old heritage, and an irrepressible creative zeal. Enveloped in the hills of South West England, Bristol is a city full of unique experiences, from year-round festivals, award-winning cycle tracks, and gastronomy of every flavour, to first-class arts venues, and awe-inspiring street art.

The conference will be held in-person, centering around networking opportunities and interactions. We welcome submissions for papers, presentations, posters, demonstrations, workshops, and lightning talks that embrace our conference theme, “Bridging oceans, harbouring data & anchoring the future”. We are seeking out information on: the connections created by data and data services professionals and enthusiasts; the wealth of knowledge in the community; the context of our profession today; and good data practice in the future. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):


  *   Environmental impact and sustainability
  *   Artificial Intelligence
  *   Reproducibility
  *   Partnerships and collaboration
  *   Data literacy
  *   Data consultation and librarianship
  *   Data management and archiving
  *   Data provenance, CARE / FAIR data principles
  *   Data discovery and access
  *   Data documentation and metadata
  *   Data governance and ethics
  *   Data gaps and biases


Have you ever considered submitting a poster? Do you have a new idea you would like feedback on? Would you like to showcase a new service or resource? We will be holding a “Poster Reception” to encourage conversations, sharing of ideas, and community building, while engaging with these visually dynamic posters.

The deadline for submissions is Friday December 13, 2024.
We request that submitters limit themselves to one proposal per format type.

Decisions regarding submissions will be sent out by email mid-February 2025.

The Call for proposals and workshops, with a link to the submission form, is available at:
https://www.openconf.org/iassist2025/openconf.php
Or from the IASSIST 2025 Homepage at:
https://iassistdata.org/conferences/iassist2025/

Questions about presentation submissions may be sent to the Program Co-Chairs (Michael Beckstrand, Jane Fry, and Oliver Watteler) at programme.lists@iassistdata.org.

Support for Attending Conference
IASSIST Fellows Program supports data professionals from countries with emerging economies and underrepresented regions who are developing information infrastructures regarding the use and preservation of public and private data, implementing information policy decisions, and providing data services at their home institutions.

IASSIST Early Professional Fellows Program supports early career data professionals from under-resourced institutions. It recognizes the value of new and innovative ideas from graduates and professionals new to data in the social sciences, who may not otherwise have the funding to travel.
Applications can be made at https://forms.gle/1xLyY3Y6W96GreKYA and will close on Friday December 13, 2024.
Please address your questions about the Fellows Program to Fellows Committee Co-Chairs Florio Arguillas (foa2@cornell.edu) and Sarah Young (sarahy@andrew.cmu.edu)

For information about traveling to Bristol, check out (https://iassistdata.org/conferences/iassist2025/) the conference website (https://iassistdata.org/conferences/iassist2025/).

Call for ATG Reporters - Charleston Conference 2024

Are you attending the Charleston Conference next week? Against the Grain (ATG) is seeking brief reports for the “And They Were There” column. The column will be published in ATG beginning in early 2025.

OPTION A - Individual session report(s)
A short report (100-200 words) on an individual session or sessions. Highlight what resonated, met the reporter’s expectations (or didn’t), and any take-away memorable points.

OPTION B - "Top 3” reports
In 200-300 words per report, spotlight a themed conference experience (pick one or more): 

• The top three things I learned at the 2024 Charleston Conference 
• Three/ things I learned at 2024 Charleston Conference keynote or Neapolitan sessions
• My three favorite concurrent sessions/presentations from the 2024 Charleston Conference (and why)
• What I learned after viewing the 2024 Charleston Conference posters
• What I learned after visiting the 2024 Charleston Conference vendor showcase 

PRIOR TO THE CONFERENCE: Sign up for the sessions you wish to report on, and indicate Option A or B.  Please specify whether you will be an on-site or a virtual week attendee reporter.

AFTER THE CONFERENCE: Report submission deadline is January 10, 2025. Completed reports can be emailed to Caroline Goldsmith or uploaded here.

Contact Caroline Goldsmith with any questions at caroline@charlestonlibraryconference.com.