CFP: NASIG Autumn 2025 Virtual Conference (October 14-16, 2025 - CFP Deadline August 22nd, 2025)

We are pleased to announce that the NASIG Autumn virtual conference is scheduled to take place online October 14-16, 2025, and the call for proposals is now open.

 

Session Types Available: We are accepting proposals for the following session types:

• Short (7 minutes): fitting for concise overviews or burgeoning ideas
• Medium (15 minutes): perfect for case studies
• Long (30 minutes): ideal for more detailed presentations

 

All session types are ideal for demonstrations. If you have an idea that would be better suited for a longer session (1 hour), a panel discussion, or a workshop, please consider submitting your idea when the call for proposals for the 2026 NASIG Annual Conference comes out later this year.

 

Submission Deadline: Friday, August 22, 2025

 

Topics of Interest: Whether you are new to libraries, working towards your MLIS, or have many years of experience, we are interested in learning more about your work with:

• New or evolving tools, such as AI
• Open Source library systems
• Collection development and assessment
• Licensing trends and workflows
• Cataloging practices
• And more!

 

Sessions may present a report of a research study, an analysis of a practical problem-solving effort, new findings related to a previously shared NASIG webinar or conference presentation, or a description of an innovative program that may be of interest to the NASIG community. Demonstrations are particularly effective in the virtual format. You can view the NASIG 2024 schedule and recordings to get an idea of topics selected in the past. Please note that this is not an opportunity to promote or denigrate a specific vendor, product, or service.

 

Event Details: NASIG Autumn is an entirely virtual event, open to speakers and attendees globally. Speakers will receive free registration. We intend to make NASIG Autumn content more widely available after the conference. Additional details will be included in the Speaker MOU.

 

How to Submit: Please submit your proposal using our online form: https://forms.gle/dDz6uvNjyupXAHHV8

 

The deadline for submission is Friday, August 22, 2025, after which our planning committee will convene and review all submissions. If you need an extension, or any assistance with your submission, please do not hesitate to contact us at nasig-autumn@nasig.org.

 

We look forward to receiving your proposals and to another engaging virtual conference this fall.

 

Best regards,

NASIG Autumn Committee

CFP: Ethical AI in GLAM: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Stewardship

CFP: Ethical AI in GLAM: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Stewardship

A Focus Issue of the journal Collections exploring change as well as issues in methods and practices

Guest Edited by Dr. Angela Fritz Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa

During this period of rapid AI development, galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) are facing a generational challenge that calls on practitioners to re-think their roles, re-evaluate policies and practices, and re-envision the ethical contours of their work. As AI-enabled technologies continue to surface, GLAM practitioners will confront a host of challenges relating to how AI can be leveraged to gain the much needed efficiencies necessary to steward digital collections at scale, while upholding their professional codes of ethics to ensure equitable access, mitigate harm, and safeguard the integrity of the historical record.

In the context of GLAM stewardship, the purview of “ethical AI” is expansive. For special collections librarians, archivists, and museum curators, ethical AI encompasses the responsible use of AI in collection stewardship practices as well as the development of new AI literacy frameworks for research, teaching, exhibition and training initiatives. Ethical AI also relates to re-framing the value of human-centered curation as well as the associated concerns relating to digital labor within and outside of GLAM institutions. In addition, GLAM practitioners will confront the complexities of a host of new ethical challenges relating to stewarding AI-generated content in cultural heritage collections. To address these ethical challenges, practitioners will need to balance the transformative power of AI with their professional accountabilities and restorative curatorial commitments to the diverse communities that GLAM institutions serve.

As GLAM practitioners navigate challenges in AI-integrated workspaces, archivists, museum curators, and special collections librarians will need to translate their professional codes of ethics in new contexts and apply this ethical awareness on a case-by-case basis. Recognizing the context-specific nature of these ethical dilemmas, practitioners will need to carefully balance AI innovations with an understanding of both the professional and social implications of its use. At the same time, GLAM practitioners will increasingly be expected to address the ways in which the principles of ethical curation and AI tools can work in tandem to reinforce mindful practices and transformational stewardship initiatives.

Scope of the Focus Issue

For this focus issue of the journal, we seek contributions from practitioners, scholars, and researchers who can further our understanding of the meaning of “ethical AI” in the context of GLAM collection stewardship. Our intentions are sparked by a sense of urgency in sharing experiences, understanding common challenges and concerns, contemplating possibilities and paths forward, and inspiring new ways of thinking about AI-enhanced stewardship practices. Because the meaning of ethical AI is multifaceted, complex, and ever-evolving, we see this issue as an opportunity to engage in proactive dialogue, foster interdisciplinary connections as well as advocate for an ethics of collection care—all of which will be essential for the successful implementation of enhanced AI technologies in GLAM stewardship settings.

We are interested in, but not restricted to, case studies, research projects, or scholarly reflections concerned with the intersection between ethical AI and:

• Collection management policies, principles, guidelines, and best practices
• Description methods and practices, including reparative description initiatives
• Accessioning, registration, and processing integrations and strategies
• Collections development, acquisition strategies, and donor engagement
• Implementation or enhancement of cultural protocols in digital stewardship practices
• GLAM digital convergence, digital collection building, digitization initiatives
• Digital repatriation
• Exhibition development and visitor/user experience
• Instructional frameworks and AI literacy initiatives
• Collections or technology assessment
• Governance and community of practice initiatives
• Equitable access initiatives
• Privacy guidelines and access restrictions
• Human/AI alignment in stewardship workflows and team development
• Digital provenance and paradata
• Digital labor, precarity, and value of human-centered stewardship
• Efforts to prioritize environmental sustainability
• Digital preservation strategies, practices and challenges
• Computational methods in appraisal and enhanced acquisition models
• Literacy frameworks relating to “upskilling” or “reskilling” GLAM faculty and staff
• Community building, outreach and engagement
• Stakeholder responses to AI implementation and use
• AI detection tools and authentication methodologies relating to GLAM collection stewardship
• Advocacy plans, strategies or networks that extend across national and cultural boundaries
• Other projects that address the dimensions of ethical AI in GLAM stewardship

For this issue, we are seeking case studies and research articles not to exceed 5,000 words as well as scholarly reflection essays not to exceed 2500 words. Topics should address ethical AI in the context of the topics above or a related area in GLAM digital stewardship.

Submission Process

Authors should express their interest by submitting completed articles, case studies, and scholarly reflections to the Guest Editor, Angela Fritz aifritz465@gmail.com and the Journal Editor, Juilee Decker, jdgsh@rit.edu by October 20, 2025. Notifications of acceptance will be made by November 24, 2025.

Author submission guidelines can be found here: https://journals.sagepub.com/authorinstructions/CJX.

Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else while under review for this special focus issue.

Anticipated Timeline

• October 20, 2025-Paper submission deadline
• November 24, 2025-Notification of manuscript decision
• January 9, 2026-Revise and resubmit articles
• March 15, 2026-Enter production

April 15, 2026 on-Articles begin appearing online in the “Online First” portal of the Collections journal. Metrics are keyed to the appearance of the article.

Following the publication of papers online first, all of them will be gathered up into the Focus Issue of the journal in 2026 (anticipated publication date of June 2026).

Guest Editor Biography

Dr. Angela Fritz is assistant professor at the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. Her research explores digital stewardship in GLAM institutions through the lens of digital convergence, artificial intelligence, and an archival ethics of care. Prior to her time at the University of Iowa, she held leadership positions at the Wisconsin Historical Society, the University of Notre Dame, and the Office of Presidential Libraries and Museums at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Currently, she serves in several national service roles relating to GLAM digital stewardship advocacy and outreach. She is the author of Sustainable Enterprise Strategies for Optimizing Digital Stewardship: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021). Her forthcoming book, entitled Digital Leadership and AI: Transforming Libraries, Archives, and Museums for the Future (Bloomsbury, 2025), explores the intersection between AI, leadership studies, organizational development, and digital convergence within the GLAM field.

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Established in 2004 and published by SAGE, Collections is an international, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal addressing all aspects of handling, preserving, researching, interpreting, and organizing collections. Scholars, archivists, curators, librarians, collection managers, preparators, registrars, educators, emerging professionals, and others encouraged to submit their work for this focused issue. See https://journals.sagepub.com/home/cjxa for more information about the journal.

Any questions about the Focus Issue may be directed to the guest editor, Angela Fritz aifritz465@gmail.com and journal editor, Juilee Decker, jdgsh@rit.edu. Questions about the journal only may be directed to the journal editor.

Call for Reviewers: Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship

I am putting out a call for peer reviewers for the Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship (https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/wbfl20) (JBFL). Being a reviewer is an excellent way to give back to the profession and community of business librarians. If you are a new to business librarianship, it is a great way to get a feel about trends and to participate in the publication process. If you’ve been around for a while (like me), your knowledge and expertise are useful. While most reviewers come from an academic background, reviewers from public and corporate libraries are also appreciated.

Reviewing consists of reviewing manuscripts assigned by the editor (me) and providing feedback to the authors based on the scope of the journal and the contributions to the scholarly conversation and profession of business librarianship (including academic, public, and corporate librarianship). You also make recommendations on the status of the manuscript as it related to revisions and acceptance.

If you are interested in being a reviewer or have questions, please email me at estephan2@icloud.com.

If you are interested in writing a book, database, or website review, you can reach out to Lauren Reiter, Book and Database Review editor at lmr29@psu.edu.

If you have questions about submitting a manuscript (https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=wbfl20) you can find information on JBFL’s aim and scope (https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/wbfl20/about-this-journal) on the journal page, or you can reach out to me directly.

CFP: 2025 Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium - Virtual Meeting - November 20, 2025

The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Planning Committee is now accepting proposals for the fifth MIRL Symposium (https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/mirl/), a free event which will take place virtually on Thursday, November 20. MIRL is a platform-neutral conference for IR practitioners and those with an interest in IRs at hospitals, academic medical centers, and other health settings to discuss and share case studies and best practices for digital archiving of institutional content. 

 

MIRL 2025 will present a keynote panel featuring leaders from the medical IR community.

 

We are accepting proposals for:

• Presentations (approximately 20 minutes including Q&A)
• Lightning talks (approximately 10 minutes including Q&A)

 

The MIRL planning committee welcomes proposals on a variety of topics including, but not limited to:

• Policies and practices that ensure confidentiality (eg. PHI /personal health identifiers in IRs), accessibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Unusual medical/health sciences institutional repository (IR) content, collections, use cases, collaborations, or challenges
• Migrating repository platforms: stories, processes, and lessons learned
• IRs in a time of budget cuts: ROI and justifying the cost
• Finding your champions, marketing your IR 
• Reporting out: telling your IR story with statistics and metrics 
• IR harvesting and support tools, workflow 
• Strategies for management of faculty/researcher publications, conference posters, student collections, digital exhibits, digital archives, preprints, datasets
• Promoting open access (OA) initiatives
• Use of technologies (from APIs to AI)

 

Submit your proposal here: https://tinyurl.com/MIRLCFP25

 

Dates

• Deadline for submitting proposals: Friday, September 5, 2025
• Acceptance emails will be sent no later than Monday, September 15, 2025
• Registration is free for all attendees and will open on Monday September 22, 2025

 

Please contact Steven Moore (smoore31@hfhs.org) for any questions about the proposal process or about MIRL. 

MIRL 2025 planning group members:

• Lisa Buda, Rochester Regional Health
• Jennifer Deal, Advocate Health
• Anthony Dellureficio, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Jimmy Ghaphery, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
• Sara Hoover, George Washington University Libraries & Academic Innovation
• Ramune Kubilius, Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
• Steven Moore, Sladen Library, Henry Ford Health
• Pam Pierce, Oregon Health & Science University 
• Brittany Smith, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, George Washington University
• Michael Upshall, Editor, Charleston Briefings

 

CFP: LOEX Fall Focus 2025 Conference (November 17-19 - virtual)

LOEX Fall Focus 2025 Conference

Call for Proposals

November 17-19 (Online)

You are invited to submit a proposal for LOEX Fall Focus 2025, an information literacy & library instruction conference focused on:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Archives & Special Collections
• Sense of Belonging

We are excited to examine this year's topics and for this online conference to build upon the success of our previous Fall Focus in 2023. We believe this conference's structure, timing, and format is a great way to give more people an opportunity to share what they have learned and are doing in areas that currently have particular salience in the library instruction & information literacy community.

We invite you to submit a proposal on any of these focuses. Proposals for 50-minute long presentations (which will be the majority of the conference) and 7-minute long lightning talks can be submitted only through the online submission form and must be received by Friday, September 5, 2025. You do not need to be a LOEX member to submit a proposal.

For more details, please visit https://loexfallfocus.org/proposals/

CFP: Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review (#OpenAccess #BusinessLibrarianship)

Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review is seeking peer-reviewed articles for our bi-annual journal in Volume 11, Issue 1, to be published in the Summer of 2026. This is a great opportunity for librarians interested in researching any and all areas related to business librarianship. Ticker is an open-access journal committed to promoting the widest possible discussion of original and translational research, evidence-based pieces, case studies, and more.  We especially encourage submissions from early-career librarians.  Ticker offers the opportunity to publish in either of our peer-reviewed or editorial-reviewed collections of articles.

Journal Home Page - https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ticker/

Submission Guidelines

To start your submission, you must register/log in and follow the instructions.

The deadlines for peer-reviewed articles are 

Summer Issue (publishes 07/31): October 10, 2025 (the year before publication, this accounts for a longer timeline to accommodate holiday breaks in late fall/winter)

Winter Issue (publishes 01/31 the year following submission): June 5, 2026.

Recent peer-reviewed research featured in Ticker has included:

• Mayhook, Z. A., Bochenek, A., Grauel, E., Minser, H., O'Neill, T. W., Stonebraker, I. & Vasquez, J., (2025) “Building a Regional Library-Led Case Competition: Reflections from Librarians and Vendor Partners ”, Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review 10(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/ticker.7318

• Nicolosi, G. & Reiter, L., (2024) “The presence of popular business titles in ABLD collections”, Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review 9(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/ticker.6328

Please reach out to Ash Faulkner, Editor in Chief, with any questions at faulkner.172@osu.edu. Please share with any group or person you think would be interested.

Best,

Ash Faulkner, Editor in Chief

Kelly LaVoice, Managing Editor

CFP: Open Access Conference (Defend Research, Defend Open Access) - Conference - October 21, 2025 - Virtual; CFP Deadline August 1, 2025

Save the Date! The SJSU King Library OA25 Conference Planning Committee is pleased to announce the theme of this year's biennial Open Access Conference: Defend Research, Defend Open Access. This year's conference aims to build on the Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship and to provide researchers, librarians, publishers, research administrators, and concerned citizens a chance to share their experiences and strategies in addressing and countering government censorship in the research process.

When? October 21, 2025, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT

Where? This will be a virtual conference

How much? Registration will be free.

We've decided to extend the deadline for submitting proposals for contributed content. We invite proposals for 20 or 40 minute presentations. Submit your proposal via our Google Form by August 1 at 5 PM PDT. We especially invite participants from outside the United States to share their perspectives and experience in navigating the impacts of political change on the research process. Topics may include but are not limited to: 

• Impact of disrupted research agendas, including policy and social impacts as well as impacts on individual researchers;

• Disappearing data and its effect on teaching and/or research;

• Data rescue projects or research on the scope of disappearing data and web content;

• Preservation of open content;

• Labor issues related to Open Access, including invisible labor, power dynamics within academia, and sustainability of current practices;

• Strategies for organization and action in response to changes in the research environment;

• Case studies of Open Access initiatives;

• Minimal computing and other ways of reimagining infrastructure for scholarship; and

• Open Access in politically repressive or underfunded research environments.

If you have any questions, please contact Dawn Hackman, Health Sciences and Scholarly Communications Librarian, San José State University Library, at dawn.hackman@sjsu.edu.

Thank you, 

Call for Editors: Humanities Methods in Librarianship #OpenAccessJournal

Call For Editors

Apply by: September 15th, 2025

Humanities Methods in Librarianship – a new, no-fee, open access journal – is looking for editors to join our talented editorial team! The journal publishes high quality, peer-reviewed research, creative works, and book reviews. We aim to broaden the scholarly conversation by encouraging submissions that deploy methods from the humanities to address current or salient issues in the library profession.

If you are interested in being an editor, irrespective of your academic background, we’d love to hear from you!

Please fill out the form here, and we will reach out to you to start a conversation. 

For additional information, please reach out to editors@humanitiesmethods.org.

CFP: Well-Being in Higher Education: The Library's Evolving Role (2025 FACRL Virtual Conference - October 24, 2025)

Well-Being in Higher Education: The Library's Evolving Role

The Florida Chapter of ACRL (FACRL) is seeking proposals for presentations and poster sessions for the 2025 FACRL Virtual Annual Conference, held online on Friday, October 24, 2025.

“Being mentally resilient is integral to academic success” —Stephanie Rollins, director of library services at Air University in Montgomery, Alabama.

Over the past decade, mental health support in academic libraries has evolved into a creative, focused, and expansive initiative. Leading the way, educational institutions are consistently innovating to address campus needs by implementing targeted tools, dedicating roles and spaces to promote well-being, and investing in specialized programs and services tailored to their students and faculty. This year's call for proposals invites librarians and library staff to showcase their innovative projects, strategies, and ideas that uplift and enhance campus well-being.

What innovative projects have you implemented to enhance your academic campus's well-being? What steps can we take to prevent personal and professional burnout? What can we do to promote work/life balance? What spaces, resources, collections, activities, groups, or services do you provide to support wellness for your students, faculty, and staff? What wellness programs or immersive tools have you introduced to help others in their journey toward improved overall well-being? What practices have you implemented to leverage librarian expertise and enhance services and resources for a more positive patron experience?

We welcome submissions from library staff, students, and faculty.

Topics might include but are not limited to:

• Innovative ways to promote wellness.
• Promoting support services and networks.
• Student engagement activities.
• Building relevant collections.
• Librarians as champions for their students and faculty.
• Flexible work schedules, e.g., remote work, flex time, compressed schedules, etc.
• Innovative spaces, e.g., quiet rooms, comfortable seating, low sensory lighting, serenity, and meditation rooms.
• Stress-less activities for students, e.g., therapy dogs, free massages, coloring, and puzzle stations.
• Physical and mental well-being activities and other immersive tools that promote resilience and mental strength, e.g., yoga for the mind and body, relaxation techniques.
• Slow Librarianship: A captivating approach that harnesses the expertise of librarians to elevate services and resources, ensuring a genuinely enriching experience for patrons. It's all about fostering a positive connection and creating a welcoming environment where knowledge blooms and exploration flourishes!

Do you have an idea for a timely topic outside this year's theme? Please feel free to submit it for consideration! Don't see a trend of interest but have best practices to share? No problem. Submit your proposal anyway.

Proposals for presentations, posters, and lightning round presentations can be submitted beginning Monday, May 19, 2025 using the online submission form. Rolling reviews and decisions will occur as proposals are received. The final deadline to submit is Friday, July 11, 2025. Presenters will receive complimentary registration to the virtual conference.

Presentations should be 45 minutes long, including the time provided for questions. Posters will be shared during a virtual poster session at the conference. Lightning round presentations are 5 minutes in length. Please follow this link to the rubric used to score all proposals. Acceptance emails will be sent on or before Friday, August 15, 2025. 

Presentations of superior quality may be considered for future publication in The Reference Librarian, a major refereed journal published by Taylor and Francis. Consider reviewing the Instructions for Authors to learn about the expectations of content and writing for this peer-reviewed journal, which utilizes APA 7th edition style. Please contact editor Lauri Rebar (Lrebar@fau.edu) with any questions. New and established authors are welcome!

Inquiries may be sent to the FACRL President, Leah Plocharczyk (lplochar@fau.edu)