CFP: ALCTS Continuing Resources Section College and Research Interest Group
The ALCTS Continuing Resources Section College and Research Libraries Interest Group (CRS C&RL IG) requests presentation proposals for our Midwinter Meeting in Boston on Sunday, January 17, 2010 from 10:30am-12:00pm.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Pay per view pricing for journal articles
- Withdrawing print when libraries also have online access
- Regrouping after serials cancellations: have / how have your workflows changed?
- RDA and FRBR, as they pertain to serials
- MARC Format for Holdings Data
- KBART and knowledge base management
- Next generation OPACs and serial displays
- Other topics?
Each presentation should be approximately 20 minutes. There will be time for discussion.
Please e-mail proposals by to Beth Bernhardt, Beth_Bernhardt@uncg.edu
Please include in your proposal:
- Title of presentation
- Brief summary of proposed presentation
- Name(s) and position(s) of presenter(s)
- E-mail address(es) of presenter(s)
Many thanks. We hope to see you in Boston!
Sincerely,
Beth Bernhardt, Co-chair, ALCTS C&RL IG
Electronic Resources Librarian, Jackson Library
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Beth_Bernhardt@uncg.edu
Rebecca Kemp, Co-chair, ALCTS C&RL IG
Serials Coordinator Librarian, Randall Library
University of North Carolina Wilmington
kempr@uncw.edu
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Showing posts with label Library Collections. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
CFP: Forbidden Fruit: The censorship of literature and information for young people
CFP: Forbidden Fruit: The censorship of literature and information for young people
Conference URL: http://forbiddenfruitconference.wetpaint.com/?t=anon
Call for Papers information at the bottom of that page.
This two-day conference offers an opportunity for practitioners from libraries, information services and education, researchers from a range of disciples, publishers, authors and policymakers from all sectors interested in to meet, network and share experiences. Forbidden Fruit will focus on the censorship of print, electronic and other literary and information resources for young people - 19-20 June 2008 - Southport, UK
You are invited to present an abstract for a presentation in either of the following formats:
-Reflective paper (approx 30 minutes plus discussion)
-A case study (approximately 20 minutes plus discussion): a short report of an research of an activity or project
-A poster (a visual presentation of a case study or issue, with opportunities for informal discussion)
Suggested themes include:
-Young people, the Internet and censorship
-Access to citizenship, health and other information for young people
-Pressure groups and censorship
-The role of information literacy
-Publishers and censorship
-Media literacy
-Authors for young people and censorship
-Media reaction to censorship
-Graphic novels and manga and ‘crossover’ novels
-Library selection policies
-The history of censorship
Please complete and return the form below together with an abstract of up to 200 words to return by email to ffruit@hotmail.co.uk or by fax to 08717 145 900. The closing date for submission of abstracts is 7th January 2008.
For more information, please contact ffruit@hotmail.co.uk
Conference URL: http://forbiddenfruitconference.wetpaint.com/?t=anon
Call for Papers information at the bottom of that page.
This two-day conference offers an opportunity for practitioners from libraries, information services and education, researchers from a range of disciples, publishers, authors and policymakers from all sectors interested in to meet, network and share experiences. Forbidden Fruit will focus on the censorship of print, electronic and other literary and information resources for young people - 19-20 June 2008 - Southport, UK
You are invited to present an abstract for a presentation in either of the following formats:
-Reflective paper (approx 30 minutes plus discussion)
-A case study (approximately 20 minutes plus discussion): a short report of an research of an activity or project
-A poster (a visual presentation of a case study or issue, with opportunities for informal discussion)
Suggested themes include:
-Young people, the Internet and censorship
-Access to citizenship, health and other information for young people
-Pressure groups and censorship
-The role of information literacy
-Publishers and censorship
-Media literacy
-Authors for young people and censorship
-Media reaction to censorship
-Graphic novels and manga and ‘crossover’ novels
-Library selection policies
-The history of censorship
Please complete and return the form below together with an abstract of up to 200 words to return by email to ffruit@hotmail.co.uk or by fax to 08717 145 900. The closing date for submission of abstracts is 7th January 2008.
For more information, please contact ffruit@hotmail.co.uk
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
CFP: Collections 2007: Reinvigorating Collection Development and Management
CFP: Collections 2007: Reinvigorating Collection Development and Management
INCO Centre
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John*s, Newfoundland
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
The Collection Development & Management Interest Group of the Canadian Library Association seeks proposals for papers and presentations for the fifth Collections Pre-conference session. These can deal with almost any collections-related topic or 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. Proposals will be reviewed by a committee of three collections librarians. Five papers will be accepted. Deadline for submission of proposals: March 16, 2007 (deadline extended!)
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
INCO Centre
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John*s, Newfoundland
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
The Collection Development & Management Interest Group of the Canadian Library Association seeks proposals for papers and presentations for the fifth Collections Pre-conference session. These can deal with almost any collections-related topic or 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. Proposals will be reviewed by a committee of three collections librarians. Five papers will be accepted. Deadline for submission of proposals: March 16, 2007 (deadline extended!)
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
Monday, February 26, 2007
CFP: High & Low Culture (Midwest Modern Language Association)
CFP: High & Low Culture (Midwest Modern Language Association)
The Midwest Modern Language Association is soliciting essay submissions for the Fall 2007 issue of the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. The topic for this issue will be "High & Low / Culture." The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2007.
To ensure that the Journal is accessible to the broad membership, essays should be written in English and, when text in other language is quoted, translations in English should be provided. Submissions should not exceed 8,000 words.
Possible topics might include:
Bridging "The Great Divide"
Camp consumption and queer performativity
Art and craft/s
Histories of high and low culture
Novel to film, film to novel
Cultural Studies
Rhetoric and poetics
The Aesthetic of ordinary life
Jazz, hip hop, rock & roll, and literature
Feminist Popular Culture
Slang, spanglish, and other variants in literature
Vulgarity
High middle ages, low middle ages
Between high and low
Filming the canon
What's lower than low?
Fan cultures
Merchant & Ivory, Barnes & Noble, Oprah & Faulkner
The wisdom of popular genres
Strange bedfellows
Cultural and subcultural capital
Cultural gatekeeping
Contact zones
Shifting technologies
Cosmopolitanism
Issues of access
Sensationalism
Alternative public spheres
Please send three copies of each essay (two formatted for anonymous reading) to:
Kevin J.H. Dettmar, President
Midwest Modern Language Association
302 English-Philosophy Building
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1408
More details are available online at http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla.
The Midwest Modern Language Association is soliciting essay submissions for the Fall 2007 issue of the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. The topic for this issue will be "High & Low / Culture." The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2007.
To ensure that the Journal is accessible to the broad membership, essays should be written in English and, when text in other language is quoted, translations in English should be provided. Submissions should not exceed 8,000 words.
Possible topics might include:
Bridging "The Great Divide"
Camp consumption and queer performativity
Art and craft/s
Histories of high and low culture
Novel to film, film to novel
Cultural Studies
Rhetoric and poetics
The Aesthetic of ordinary life
Jazz, hip hop, rock & roll, and literature
Feminist Popular Culture
Slang, spanglish, and other variants in literature
Vulgarity
High middle ages, low middle ages
Between high and low
Filming the canon
What's lower than low?
Fan cultures
Merchant & Ivory, Barnes & Noble, Oprah & Faulkner
The wisdom of popular genres
Strange bedfellows
Cultural and subcultural capital
Cultural gatekeeping
Contact zones
Shifting technologies
Cosmopolitanism
Issues of access
Sensationalism
Alternative public spheres
Please send three copies of each essay (two formatted for anonymous reading) to:
Kevin J.H. Dettmar, President
Midwest Modern Language Association
302 English-Philosophy Building
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1408
More details are available online at http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
CFP: ALCTS Poster Session for 50th conference (Washington D.C., June 20, 2007)
CFP: ALCTS Poster Session for 50th conference (Washington D.C., June 20, 2007)
Deadline: April 2, 2007
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) seeks proposals for a poster session to be held during the 50th ALCTS Anniversary Conference, June 20 and 21, 2007, in Washington, D.C. The poster session will be held Wednesday, June 20.
The ALCTS Conference, "Interactive Futures: A National Conference on the Transformation of Library Collections & Technical Services," will engage attendees in a thought-provoking, open, and participatory exchange on the transformation of our work and our profession.
In keeping with the conference theme, poster session proposals should focus on a transformative change or an innovation in any area of library collections or technical services work for monographs, serials, or electronic resources, whether in collection development and management, cataloging, acquisitions, or preservation. Poster sessions may document a change that has been implemented, or may suggest an innovation or describe a trend likely to affect change in the philosophy or practice of our profession.
This poster session offers a unique opportunity for beginning career librarians and veteran librarians, for library support staff, and for students, to address the future in which all attendees will work in a most stimulating setting. More than 250 attendees are expected; featured conference speakers are library leaders and provocative thinkers like Susan Nutter, David Lankes, Stephen Abram and Richard Lanham.
The deadline for poster session submissions is Monday, April 2. The ALCTS conference committee will review all submissions for appropriateness of theme, for quality of content, and for quality of presentation. Applicants will be notified by May 1. Please see the ALCTS 50th Anniversary web site for more information on the conference, and for a submission form for poster session applications. If you have questions, please contact Bob Nardini (email:bnardini@couttsinfo.com or telephone: 603-340-4378).
Registration for the ALCTS 50th Anniversary Conference, "Interactive Futures: A National Conference on the Transformation of Library Collections & Technical Services," is now open. You can register through the ALCTS web site at www.ala.org/alcts by clicking the “Register” link. Registration is open to anyone interested in charting the future course of library collections and technical services.
For more information on the ALCTS Conference, visit here.
Deadline: April 2, 2007
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) seeks proposals for a poster session to be held during the 50th ALCTS Anniversary Conference, June 20 and 21, 2007, in Washington, D.C. The poster session will be held Wednesday, June 20.
The ALCTS Conference, "Interactive Futures: A National Conference on the Transformation of Library Collections & Technical Services," will engage attendees in a thought-provoking, open, and participatory exchange on the transformation of our work and our profession.
In keeping with the conference theme, poster session proposals should focus on a transformative change or an innovation in any area of library collections or technical services work for monographs, serials, or electronic resources, whether in collection development and management, cataloging, acquisitions, or preservation. Poster sessions may document a change that has been implemented, or may suggest an innovation or describe a trend likely to affect change in the philosophy or practice of our profession.
This poster session offers a unique opportunity for beginning career librarians and veteran librarians, for library support staff, and for students, to address the future in which all attendees will work in a most stimulating setting. More than 250 attendees are expected; featured conference speakers are library leaders and provocative thinkers like Susan Nutter, David Lankes, Stephen Abram and Richard Lanham.
The deadline for poster session submissions is Monday, April 2. The ALCTS conference committee will review all submissions for appropriateness of theme, for quality of content, and for quality of presentation. Applicants will be notified by May 1. Please see the ALCTS 50th Anniversary web site for more information on the conference, and for a submission form for poster session applications. If you have questions, please contact Bob Nardini (email:bnardini@couttsinfo.com or telephone: 603-340-4378).
Registration for the ALCTS 50th Anniversary Conference, "Interactive Futures: A National Conference on the Transformation of Library Collections & Technical Services," is now open. You can register through the ALCTS web site at www.ala.org/alcts by clicking the “Register” link. Registration is open to anyone interested in charting the future course of library collections and technical services.
For more information on the ALCTS Conference, visit here.
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