CFP: Collaborative Information Seeking and Sharing: An Annual Research

CFP: Collaborative Information Seeking and Sharing: An Annual Research
Symposium

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (Deadline: September 11, 2009)

Collaborative Information Seeking and Sharing: An Annual Research Symposium of the Special Interest Group on Information Needs, Seeking & Use (SIG USE) in celebration of SIG USE?s 10th Anniversary.

Saturday, November 7, 2008, 1:30pm-6pm. Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, BC. ASIS&T 2009's conference theme, ?Thriving on Diversity,? provides an important opportunity for our Annual Symposium in celebration of SIG USE?s 10th Anniversary. Building on our people-centered approach, the reflective moment to be offered by this year's Symposium will be used
to consider the particular challenges of Collaborative Information Seeking and Sharing. This symposium will offer guided reflection on essential questions around information behavior research and practice in social and collaborative information environments: Where is
collaborative information behavior research headed? How are we to communicate our insights to researchers and practitioners in related areas of study and design? How can and should our models, theories and findings inform the design and delivery of collaborative and innovative information products and services?

The symposium consists of two keynote speeches as well as intensive seminar discussions. Our speakers include:

* Dr. Diane H. Sonnenwald, Director, Center for Collaborative
Innovation, and Professor at the Swedish School of Information &
Library Science, University of Gothenburg & University of Bor?s,
Sweden. Diane will share insights gained from her research regarding
the challenges, opportunities and new ways of conducting
multidisciplinary research to facilitate information sharing and
knowledge transfer to better enable our models, theories and findings
to inform the design and implementation of collaboration technology.

* Dr. David McDonald, Associate Professor, the Information School,
University of Washington, and NSF Program Officer in the CISE/IIS
Human-Centered Computing program. Dave will discuss some of the
challenges inherent in conducting computer-supported cooperative work
(CSCW) and collaborative systems design, as well as the new trends
contemplated by NSF.

Submission: Attendees will be asked to submit a short Position Paper (not a formal paper). The Symposium will follow a seminar format focusing on rich and stimulating participant discussions. Researchers and professionals interested in participating should submit a 1-page position paper (about 300 words) reflecting upon critical questions for collaborative information behavior research to the Symposium Organizers not later than September 11, 2009. Please send your
position papers to Nadia Caidi and Soo Young Rieh (nadia.caidi@utoronto.ca; rieh@umich.edu). Applicants are invited to
reflect on the four questions that will frame the symposium and
present ways that their research addresses them:
* How does our research address the transformative relationship
between people and information?
* What are the fundamental questions that we should be looking at in
our research?
* How are we to move towards making a greater impact on organizations
and designers?
* How can or should collaborative information behavior research be
presented to translate effectively into the language of other
information research communities?

Experienced researchers may share information about their current
research and insights from lessons learned through past projects,
while those new to the field may describe their research or
professional interests related to the Symposium themes. Upon
acceptance, position papers will be posted on a wiki accessible
through the SIG USE website (www.siguse.org) prior to the Symposium.
Small discussion groups will be organized around symposium questions
and themes emerging from position papers. In keeping with the theme of
the Symposium, we will also maintain a Twitter stream for the
Symposium, thus encouraging people to exchange information and
contribute their musings before, during and after the Symposium.
Participants must register with ASIS&T at www.asis.org for the
Symposium. Symposium participants are invited to attend a SIG SI/USE
networking lunch during the time between the SIG SI and USE symposia.
Cost: Pay-on-your-own.
The SIG USE 10th Anniversary Reception will follow the Symposium at 6:30pm.

Fees: Before September 25, 2009, members: $95, non-members: $105.
After September 25, 2009 members $105, non-members: $115. SIG USE
members attending both SIG SI (Morning of Saturday, Nov. 7) and SIG
USE symposiums will receive a $10 discount.

Symposium Organizers:

Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto, Canada. Email: nadia.caidi@utoronto.ca
Soo Young Rieh, University of Michigan. Email: rieh@umich.edu
Guillermo Oyarce, University of North Texas. Email: oyga@unt.edu

CFP: 2009 Child and the Book Conference for graduate students

CFP: 2009 Child and the Book Conference for graduate students
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, May 1-3, 2009

Call for Papers:

Vancouver Island University is pleased to host the 2009 Child and the Book Conference for graduate students, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, May 1-3, 2009. The keynote speakers will be noted scholars Perry Nodelman and Mavis Reimer. For conference information, see www.viu.ca/childandbook . The registration page will be posted shortly after the close of the call-for-paper deadline, as will a revised conference schedule.

We particularly invite proposals for papers exploring the conference theme, although all scholarly papers on topics related to children's literature will be given careful consideration.

The theme of this year's conference is This Land is Our Land, and we welcome proposals on the following topics:

• Children's literature and place
• Children's literature and heritage
• Children's literature and Indigenous Peoples
• Children's literature and ecology
• Children's literature and animals

Proposals for 20-minute presentations should be 250 words and should indicate texts to be discussed and the theoretical/critical framework underpinning your argument. Also include a separate brief biography for use by panel chairs when introducing presenters.

Please submit your proposal by Jan. 15, 2009, to the following:
Virginia MacCarthy
Faculty of Education
Vancouver Island University
900 Fifth St.
Nanaimo, BC,
Canada V9R 5S5
Or electronically to Virginia.MacCarthy@viu.ca

Terri Doughty
Vancouver Island University
900 Fifth St.
Nanaimo, BC,
Canada
V9R 5S5

Email: d.wilford@shaw.ca
Visit the website at http://www.viu.ca/childandbook

CFP: Collections 2008: Collections 3.0

CFP: Collections 2008: Collections 3.0

The Sheraton Wall Centre
Vancouver, British Columbia

The deadline for submission of proposals is this Friday, March 7, 2008

Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Deadline: March 7, 2008

The Collection Development & Management Interest Group of the Canadian Library Association seeks proposals for papers that deal with a "Collections 3.0" theme or other collections-related topics and should result in a presentation of about 30 minutes in length. Each presentation should feature one or two speakers. Papers with broad applications or with applications to more than one library sector or community of users will be given preference. Panel proposals will also
be considered. Proposals will be reviewed by a committee of three collections librarians.

Deadline for submission of proposals: *March 7, 2008 *

Send proposals, including a short abstract, to:

Andrew Waller
MLB 402B
University of Calgary Library
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB
T3K 2C3
waller@ucalgary.ca
(403) 220-8133 voice
(403) 284-2109 fax

CFP: Collections 2008: Collections 3.0

CFP: Collections 2008: Collections 3.0

The Sheraton Wall Centre
Vancouver, British Columbia

Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Deadline: March 7, 2008

The Collection Development & Management Interest Group of the Canadian Library Association seeks proposals for papers that deal with a "Collections 3.0" theme or other collections-related topics and should result in a presentation of about 30 minutes in length. Each presentation should feature one or two speakers. Papers with broad applications or with applications to more than one library sector or community of users will be given preference. Panel proposals will also
be considered. Proposals will be reviewed by a committee of three collections librarians.

Deadline for submission of proposals: *March 7, 2008 *

Send proposals, including a short abstract, to:

Andrew Waller
MLB 402B
University of Calgary Library
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB
T3K 2C3
waller@ucalgary.ca
(403) 220-8133 voice
(403) 284-2109 fax

CFP: Pulp and Paper: Public Ephemeral Texts

CFP: Pulp and Paper: Public Ephemeral Texts

Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English
(ACCUTE) Annual Conference
May 31-June 3, 2008
University of British Columbia
Deadline: November 15, 2007

How can we think about the relationship between pulp and paper as a
material resource and the production of literature and culture itself?
One way is to focus on the pulp materiality of mass-produced ephemeral
texts, those low-grade print objects meant to have a limited life but
which have in various ways survived into the present. From *yellow
journalism* to pulp magazines to comic books and greeting cards,
commercial print ephemera has long been perceived as a cultural
contaminant produced by one of the world*s most polluting
industries.

As much as the ephemeral is often understood to be driven by the
market and crass commercialism, it has also long provided subordinated and
marginalized groups with a medium for the organization of counterpublics
and the means to disseminate radical, subversive, and experimental
ideas and images. As such, another approach is to consider paper itself as
an expressive medium in the small-scale production of chapbooks,
manifestoes, handmade books, etc. This artisanal ephemera often shares
with mass-produced ephemera the format of cheap paper and the function
of immediate address.

As such, ephemera is a complex and wide-ranging critical category that
scholars across disciplines are working to redefine and understand.
Setting aside private ephemera (postcards, scrapbooks, etc.) and
electronic ephemera (emails, blogs), this panel focuses on public
print ephemera by large and small scale producers. The variety of ephemeral
texts this panel may address include but is not limited to:
newspapers, magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, manifestoes, chapbooks, posters,
songsheets, theater programs, greeting cards, advertising, catalogues,
almanacs, training manuals, menus, cartoons, comics, and joke books.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

* theorizing ephemera
* ephemera, authorship, and audience
* gendered ephemera
* working class ephemera
* religious ephemera
* popular literacy and ephemera
* typography and the visual culture of ephemera
* ephemera and nostalgia
* cultural waste and printed detritus
* the politics of salvage and the use of ephemera in research
* libraries, archives, and ephemera
* the internet and print ephemera
* pedagogy and ephemera

Those submitting should be ACCUTE members in good standing. Please
send an electronic copy of your proposal (approx. 700 words), which clearly
states the line of argument and which has a *Works Cited* section,
or a conference-length paper (no longer than 10 double-spaced pages
with a *Works Cited* section), a 100-word abstract and a 50-word
bio-bibliographical note, and the completed ACCUTE Proposal
Submissions

Information Sheet by November 15th, 2007 to:

Dr. Candida Rifkind
Department of English
University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Ave.
Winnipeg MB R3B 2E9
email: c.rifkind@uwinnipeg.ca