CALL FOR POSTERS: 2008 OLAC/MOUG Conference - Rocking the Metaverse: A/V Cataloging in a Web X.0 Environment

CALL FOR POSTERS: 2008 OLAC/MOUG Conference - Rocking the Metaverse: A/V Cataloging in a Web X.0 Environment

Have you developed creative methods to deal with special format materials? Completed some research studies? Found an imaginative solution to a special format materials problem in your library? If so, why not consider sharing your expertise through a poster session at the
upcoming OLAC/MOUG conference to be held September 26-28, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio.

All applicants should complete the Poster Session Application form below, and submit the completed form via e-mail (preferred), fax or postal mail to the Poster Session Coordinator. Applications will be reviewed by committee. Number of posters selected will depend on
available exhibition space. Applicants will be notified by August 1, 2008 whether or not their posters have been selected.

OLAC/MOUG provides the easels and tables; you provide the posters, graphics and handouts for your presentation. Presenters should plan to bring at least 50 copies of their handouts. Please make sure your contact information is on the handout. No network applications will be
available; however, you may bring a battery-powered laptop computer for your presentation. Presenters should plan to be present for the entire poster session time period.

Deadline for receipt of applications: *July 15, 2008*.

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*OLAC/MOUG 2008 POSTER PRESENTATION APPLICATION*

*/DEADLINE for receipt of application: /**JULY 15, 2008//*


Application form must be completed and submitted via *e-mail
(preferred), fax, *or* postal mail* to the *Poster Session Coordinator*
(listed at end of form).

Poster Title:
_________________________________________________________________________
Name(s) and Institutional Affiliation(s) of Presenter(s):
______________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________

*/Print abstract, single-spaced in the space below (150 words or less):/*


Does your presentation require an
easel?_____________________________________________

Will you be using a laptop computer?
________________________________________________

*/Presenter contact information:/*

Address:
_______________________________________________________________________

Telephone: __________________________________ Fax:
_______________________________

E-mail:
_________________________________________________________________________

Submit completed application via e-mail (preferred), fax, or mail to the
Poster Session Coordinator:

Mary Huismann
Music/Media Cataloging Coordinator
University of Minnesota
160/170 Wilson Library
309 – 19^th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Fax: (612) 625-3428
E-mail: huism002@tc.umn.edu

CFP: 2008 Oral History Association Meeting, "A Convergence of Interests: Oral History in the Digital Age"

CFP: 2008 Oral History Association Meeting, "A Convergence of Interests: Oral History in the Digital Age"
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
October 15 - 19, 2008
Sheraton Station Square Hotel in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania

Deadline: January 15, 2008

The Oral History Association invites proposals for papers and presentations for its 2008 annual meeting to be held October 15 - 19, 2008 at the Sheraton Station Square Hotel in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania.

As always, the Program Committee of the OHA welcomes proposals for presentations on a variety of topics. In keeping with this year's theme, "A Convergence of Interests: Oral History in the Digital Age," the 2008 Annual Meeting will focus special attention on oral history and digital technologies.

Emerging digital technologies continue to expand options for the recording, preservation, and use of oral history interviews and other historically significant sights and sounds, to expand audiences, and to draw together once separate communities of practitioners. In doing so, they raise perplexing practical, legal, ethical, and theoretical questions.

For its 2008 meeting, the Oral History Association extends an invitation to teachers and students, archivists and librarians, Luddites and media theorists, web and exhibit designers, documentary producers and media artists, ethnographers, family and public historians, program officers and curators, scholars from a broad and growing range of disciplines, social and political activists, and others interested in sharing their experiences, projects, concerns, ideas, and questions about oral history. We encourage researchers studying the Ohio Valley , technology, industrialization and deindustrialization, and labor history to submit proposals. In recognition of the important work taking place outside the United States , we also hope to see a significant international presence at the meeting.

In the spirit of this meeting, the OHA Program Committee encourages presenters to consider a variety of formats and presentation methods, including traditional panels with chair and discussant, roundtables, performances, listening and viewing sessions, workshops, and poster sessions.

Once one of the United States ' great industrial metropolises, Pittsburgh has been a national and international center of technological innovations-including the home of the nation's first radio station- industrial processes, and intense struggles between capital and labor. Battered by deindustrialization in the late 1900s, the city has undergone an urban renaissance and today offers a rich concentration of museums, historic sites, universities and colleges, and an active arts scene. The Oral History Association is fortunate to be meeting in Pittsburgh during celebrations of the 250 th anniversary of the city's founding.

Proposal format: submit four copies of the proposal. For full sessions, submit a title, a session abstract of not more than two pages, and a one-page vita or resume for each participant. For individual proposals, submit a one-page abstract and a one-page vita or resume of the presenter. Each submission must be accompanied by a cover sheet, which can be printed from the OHA Web site: www.dickinson.edu/oha . Click here for COVER SHEET.

Proposals may be submitted by mail, or email, and should be postmarked or sent by January 15, 2008. Submit proposals directly to the OHA office at the address below.

E-mail attachments must include the "cover sheet" in electronic form and must be one complete document in Microsoft WORD format. Please do not send separate attachements. Attachments should be sent to oha@dickinson.edu. Should you not receive email confirmation by February 5th, please contact the OHA office to make sure your submission has been received.

Queries may be directed to:
Charles Hardy III, First Vice President
chardyIII@wcupa.edu
(610) 436-3329

Marjorie McLellan
marjorie.mclellan@wright.edu
(937) 775-2162 Donna DeBlasio dmdeblasio@ysu.edu (330) 941-3158 Proposals should be sent by January 15, 2008, to: Madelyn Campbell Oral History Association Dickinson College P. O. Box 1773 Carlisle , PA 17013 Telephone (717) 245-1036 Fax: (717) 245-1046 Email: oha@dickinson.edu For courier service add: Holland Union Building , College and Louther Streets

Queries may be directed to:
Charles Hardy III, First Vice President
chardyIII@wcupa.edu
(610) 436-3329

Marjorie McLellan
marjorie.mclellan@wright.edu
(937) 775-2162

Donna DeBlasio
dmdeblasio@ysu.edu
(330) 941-3158

Proposals should be sent by January 15, 2008, to:

Madelyn Campbell
Oral History Association
Dickinson College
P. O. Box 1773
Carlisle , PA 17013
Telephone (717) 245-1036
Fax: (717) 245-1046
Email: oha@dickinson.edu
Email: marjorie.mclellan@wright.edu
Visit the website at http://alpha.dickinson.edu/oha/org_cfp.html

CFP: The Business of Entertainment (Collection)

CFP: The Business of Entertainment (Collection)
Deadline: July 31, 2007

We are seeking additional contributions for the articles that will ultimately make-up the chapters of The Business of Entertainment (Movies, Music, & Television), a 3 volume series under contract with Praeger Press. We will accept abstracts and/or papers for all volumes but we are especially interested in articles for Volumes 2 & 3. Please pass this call on to any colleagues you think might be interested.

Accepted articles will be between 5,000 to 10,000 words, including works cited, and will adhere to the Chicago style. We welcome contributions from professors, grad students and non-academic experts as well. Please e-mail completed articles or abstracts of no more than 300 words to sickelrc@whitman.edu by July 31, 2007. Also, please e-mail with any questions or requests for further information.

This series will detail the ways in which the media conglomerates that control the contemporary entertainment industry exploit the synergies between their companies. What does all this mean to us, the consumers, the end users who just want to be entertained and want to have a wide selection of options from which to choose? How and why are choices affected and for the sake of what or whom? In investigating the answers to these questions and many more, these texts will collectively illuminate the business of contemporary entertainment in a way that will appeal not only to academics and students, but to general readers as well. While each of the books will be about a specific industry, there will be great analytical overlap, which is by design as the industries themselves desire as much overlap as possible so as to maximize control and profitability.

The following are prompts for the kind of things we’re looking for. Please be advised that we’re not wedded to any one topic and are quite open to suggestions.

Volume 1: The Business of Entertainment—The Movies
Chapter may topics include:

• Labor relations (salaries, contracts, etc.)
• Runaway production
• Piracy
• Digital production and delivery
• The contemporary Studio System
• Independent production within the contemporary system
• Festival culture and the marketplace
• The rise of Withoutabox
• Tom Cruise’s move from Paramount to Wall Street (and other big money hedge fund production deals)
• Genre films
• TV Series and other “franchise” sources
• Globalization
• Government oversight of the movies
• Collusion between the majors
• The contemporary star system
• Contemporary movie reviews
• Advertising in the digital age, especially to create internet buzz (via myspace.com etc.)
• Ancillary products and product placement
• Media manipulation (Oscar campaigns, etc)

Volume 2: The Business of Entertainment—The Music Industry

Chapter topics might include:

• Labor-management relations in music (salaries, unions, etc.)
• Globalization
• Radio (traditional, satellite, internet, etc)
• Major labels
• Advertising
• Music featured in movies and on TV shows
• Home production and independents (labels and individuals)
• Sampling and copyright issues
• “Created music” (boy & girl bands, American Idol, etc.)
• Media coverage of music
• Alt music (No Depression, etc)
• Underground music (DJ Danger Mouse’s The Gray Album, etc)
• iTunes and other digital downloading services
• The mainstreaming suburbanization of hip hop

Volume 3: The Business of Entertainment—Television
Chapter topics might include:

• Labor-management relations in TV (salaries, unions, etc., etc.)
• Globalization
• The coming of HD
• Digital product placement
• Tivo/On-Demand
• Subscription networks
• Cable vs. satellite
• The dynamics of broadcast and advertising revenue
• Advertising and multi-media promotion
• Reality TV
• Teen Networks (WB, CW, Disney, Noggin)
• Children’s Networks (Nick, Noggin, Etc)
• The Major Networks
• Genres
• Sports on TV (ESPN, NFL Network, etc.)
• DVDs and series TV (new and old)
• Developing and retaining fan loyalty (series zealots—Veronica Mars, Buffy, etc.)

Robert Sickels
Whitman College
345 Boyer Avenue
Walla Walla, WA 99362
Email: sickelrc@whitman.edu

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Sixties: A Journal of History,
Politics, and Culture

Routledge is pleased to announce The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture. A peer-reviewed journal, The Sixties will print its premier issue in spring 2008.

Featuring cross-disciplinary and cutting-edge scholarship from academics and public intellectuals, The Sixties is the only academic journal devoted to this most extraordinary, celebrated, and controversial decade. In addition to research essays and book reviews, The Sixties will include conversations, interviews, graphics, and considerations of the ways that the 1960s continues to define global politics and popular culture.

The Sixties is co-edited by Jeremy Varon, Drew University, Michael S. Foley, City University of New York, and John McMillian, Harvard University.

Editorial Board: Beth Bailey, Winifred Breines, Marianne DeKoven, David Farber, Peniel Joseph, Andrew Huebner, Daniel Kane, Martin Klimke, Felicia Kornbluh, Ian Lekus, Fredrik Logevall, Lorena Oropeza, Jermi Suri, Rhonda Y. Williams, Patricia Zimmerman.

For more information, please visit,
http://www.sixtiesjournal.com or
www.informaworld.com/thesixties

Call For Submissions

The journal takes "the long sixties" (roughly 1954-1975) as its broad focus, and will include transnational and comparative analyses. Editors welcome submissions in the following areas:

- Social movements and political protest
- Foreign and domestic policy
- Institutions and international relations
- Decolonization and North-South conflicts
- Women's history, gender history and the history of sexuality
- The experiences of subaltern and sub-national groups
- Intellectual history
- Print culture and electronic media
- Music, literature, film, theater, architecture and the visual arts
- Industry, business and advertising
- Science, technology and ecology
- Crime and punishment

Articles should be no more than 8,000 words and free of specialized jargon, with Chicago referencing and limited endnotes. Please send submissions electronically
to each of the following addresses: Jeremy@sixtiesjournal.com,
Michael@sixtiesjournal.com, and John@sixtiesjournal.com. The deadline for
materials to be considered in the inaugural issue is October 1, 2007.

Interested in reviewing a book for The Sixties? Professors or advanced
graduate students (ABD) who are interested in writing reviews are
invited to send short emails listing their credentials and areas of
expertise to John McMillian (John@sixtiesjournal.com). Normally, books
will be assigned for review, but scholars interested in writing
lengthier interpretive review essays are encouraged to contact the
editors. And please bring to our attention to new titles on the 1960s.

Mike Foley
Associate Professor of History
The City University of New York
The Graduate Center and
The College of Staten Island
michael@sixtiesjournal.com