Call for Chapters: Technical Services: Adapting to the Changing Environment

I will be the editor for a new title under the Charleston Monograph Series.  I want to hear your story on how your technical services department is adapting to the changing environment. I’m interested in all types of stories, Public, Academic, Special libraries.   Proposal deadline is July 1, 2017.  I look forward to hearing from you

Call for Book Chapter Proposals

Title: Technical Services: Adapting to the Changing Environment

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Proposal submission deadline: July 1, 2017

Description:

We all know libraries are in the midst of flux and change concerning the role of

Technical Services. However, the situation is even more serious than that.  There are questions about Technical Services and its very viability in today’s library.   Technical Service librarians are constantly being challenged with the question of relevancy and their role within the library. It seems even those in our own libraries don’t understand what we do and the contribution we make to building and curating our collections. The threats are real however and we all have stories of being relocated out of the library, traditional print work decreasing because of the switch to electronic resources, budgetary constraints, work outsourced to the vendor or consortium or elsewhere, etc. 

Technical Service departments are reinventing themselves to respond to these challenges and threats as we speak and embracing innovative opportunities to help our libraries advance into the 21st century. This book will provide stories and examples that highlight the reality (outsourcing, relocating off-site, downsizing collections) as well as the exciting new opportunities to embrace (institutional repositories, more focus on special collections, metadata issues, retraining and managing personnel, open access resources, distance education, etc.).

Possible Table of Contents:

1. Challenges

1. Outsourcing –there are different levels of outsourcing, most well know is shelf-ready. I’d like to see some stories of other services, such as cataloging, being outsourced.
2. Downsizing collections – stories of print being weeded and why
3. Staffing changes – while Technical Services departments may need fewer people in the long run, the staff that is needed will need to have greater skill sets and be paid more.  More and more, systems work such as programming is being handled in technical services and experience with metadata creation has become more important.  
4. Marketing our services – the age old question of how to show our relevance.  Who has created a successful marketing/advocacy program for technical services?
5. Assessment – how do we assess the work we do in Technical Services since many times, it seems the work we do is misunderstood.

2. Opportunities

1. New areas for growth – working with Institutional Repositories in interacting with Faculty to assign metadata terms to material.   
2. The role of technical services with the acquisitions and access of data sets
3. Working with Special Collections and ArchivesIt would be beneficial to hear stories of how Technical Services is working more closely with specialized collections.
4. BIBFRAME/Linked Open Data – catalogers/metadata librarians need to be trained with BIBFRAMECase studies on Linked Open Data projects and how staff are being trained on LOD projects.
5. Collaboration with IT/Systems departments.  We need to work more closely with these units.  Are there cases where Technical services collaborated on projects with IT, such as with Linked Open Data?
6. Traditional ILS – need to catch up with what is happening in library world such as linked data, better faceting, implementing RDA, tools to track workflow, etc.

3. Consortium Projects

1. Case studies on how consortium projects (Shared retention, shared approval plans, ebook packages, shared print/ebook plans, etc) impact technical services.

4. Vendor Relations

1. Increasingly, Technical service managers’ time is spent on vendor relations.  Vendors are consolidating, OCLC is making changes to their services and not anticipating the difficulties for their customers, sales reps change, etc.   What are the challenges that technical services are facing with our vendors.  Every time a vendor is bought and sold, the customer is impacted.   A component of vendor relations is outsourcing.    What are new or dying areas of outsourcing with our vendors?  Has anyone gone beyond the shelf-ready type of outsourcing?  What about the transition to cloud based systems?  What are vendors doing (or not doing) to facilitate (or inhibit) the changes that are occurring?

5. Distance Education

1. How are technical services responding to the increase in distance education by universities and the outsourcing of teaching the classes to vendors. How are the acquisitions of resources coordinated with what is being taught?  It is often enough that students are trying to access resources that the Distance Education company says the library has but it doesn’t. 

I anticipate that completed chapters will each be approximately [10-15 pages in length

Instructions for Proposal Authors:

Proposals should be submitted via email as a PDF or Microsoft Word file
attachment, and should include:

  Author name(s)
  Institutional affiliation(s) and position title(s)
  Author(s)’ previous writing and publishing history, if any
  Proposed chapter or chapter section title
  Summary of the proposed chapter or chapter section (250-500 words)

Authors of selected proposals will be notified by August 1, 2017.  Full
chapters are expected by December 1, 2017 (2,500-4000
words). Proposed chapters should be unique to this
publication – no materials that were previously published or simultaneously
submitted to another publication.

Proposals should be emailed to: Stacey Marien, smarien@american.edu

Stacey Marien
Acquisitions Librarian
American University Library

4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW

Washington, DC 20016smarien@american.edu
202-885-3842
orcid.org/0000-0003-2608-4559

CFP: Digital Archives and Innovative Services - special issues of International Journal of Library and Information Services (IJLIS)

Special Issue On: Digital Archives and Innovative Services

Submission Due Date 6/19/2017
CFP URL: http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-library-information-services/177099

Guest Editors
Ms. Sangeeta N. Dhamdhere

Introduction
The International Journal of Library and Information Services is a platform of library professionals as well as software professionals to contribute their research work and innovative ideas in this field. This journal invites high quality research papers, case studies, book reviews from all over the globe. The main objective of this journal is spreading current research and innovations going on in digital library systems to all LIS and software personnel.

Objective
This Special Issue will focus on how academic as well as research libraries are offering digital library services to cope up with the changing needs of the user. This issue aims to explore digitization, copyright issues, institutional repository and archives management as a challenge in front of all library professionals. Many open source software being used in libraries and many new features is being introduced in these digital library software. Open access publishing and open archive initiatives are adopted by many top university libraries to support research.

Recommended Topics
This Special issue is purely on Digital library systems, innovations, and digital commons. We are inviting research manuscripts on the following themes:

- Digital Library Softwares
- Open Source softwares
- FOSS for digital libraries
- Open Access Initiatives
- Open Institutional Repositories
- Digital resources/contents
- Creative Commons
- Digital Commons
- Online Publishing
- Copyrights related to digital contents
- Future trends in digital libraries
- Digital library management
- Archives management
- Challenges and opportunities
- E-Discovery tools 
- Content management softwares(CMS)
- Federated Searches in digital library system


Submission Procedure
Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically.

All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of:
Ms. Sangeeta N. Dhamdhere
Email: modernlibrary.sangeeta@gmail.com

CFP: Books and Users (University of Otago Centre for the Book - November 2017 - Dunedin, New Zealand)

The University of Otago Centre for the Book is pleased to announce our sixth annual research symposium. In 2017, we are teaming up with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature to offer a 3-day extravaganza engagement with books and culture.

The Centre for the Book Symposium will start on Tuesday evening, November 28th, with our usual public lecture at the Dunedin City Library. The lecture will feature Warwick Jordan, proprietor of Hard to Find Books, talking about his wide experience as a bookseller and the variety of book users that he supplies.

The symposium proper will take place on the University campus all day Wednesday, November 29th, at the College of Education and will feature a slate of presentations on the theme “Books and Users.”

The two-day UNESCO Creative Cities symposium will follow, with international and local keynote speakers onThursday November 30th, followed on Friday by facilitated workshops at the Dunedin Athenaeum in the Octagon.

Please note: Thanks to generous support from the University of Otago Centre for the Book, the NZ National Commission for UNESCO and the Dunedin City Council, both of these events will be free to attend, with delegates responsible for providing their own lunch. Delegates are welcome to register for specific days or all three days.

The theme for the Centre for the Book 2017 Symposium is “Books and Users.”

Before the advent of electronic text storage, a whole realm of print existed to record and store information. From instruction manuals to phone books and encyclopedias, these publications were to be consulted rather than read. Today, increasingly, many of these works are no longer printed on paper. They are instead disseminated to users in electronic formats, often only when they are requested. This shift in media has made readers more conscious of how they use books. It also raises questions about which sort of books work well in electronic format and which do not. This symposium seeks to investigate all the ways people use books, not just consciously or as intended, but for any purpose. Some may be propping up an item of furniture in the corner; some used for artistic design; some for elegant wallpaper. Even those books that are actually read are used in many different ways: for self-exploration; for escape; for gifts to others; for inspiration. And there are the readers, an equally diverse lot: some fold down corners; some write in books (some even in ink); some insert all sorts of items such as bookmarks or for storage; others handle a book so delicately that a second reader cannot tell the book has ever been opened. Indeed, in medical contexts, ‘users’ may refer to those in control of their habit or to those harmfully addicted. Is this also true in the book world? Traditionally, libraries recorded the frequency with which books were used. Today, especially because of increased privacy concerns, such information is less publicly available, but is still being used. Indeed, publishers often place restrictions on how many times an e-text may be loaned. Institutions face pressure, often having to buy another copy after the set number of loans has been reached. The variety of uses for books and of users of books creates areas both of mutual benefit and of potential conflict. The codex is a superbly efficient and highly evolved technology with a well-established set of design conventions that permit quite distinctive uses. Change is in the wind, and the book beyond the codex is evolving in new directions, some of which will no doubt succeed and others of which are bound to fail.


Call For Papers

All of these topics are of potential interest for the Centre for the Book symposium. Whether you are an adept or an addict, whether books for you are primarily physical, spiritual or cerebral, and whether you prefer to look up information online or in print, you undoubtedly have thoughts on this topic. So please email a 250-300 word abstract of your ideas to books@otago.ac.nz and set aside the end of November for a thought-provoking few days of reflection and engagement with books and users of books. In short – sharpen those pencils!

Abstracts must be received by 1 October 2017, with a final programme announced by mid-October. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Donald Kerr (donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz) or Dr. Shef Rogers (shef.rogers@otago.ac.nz).

CFP: 2017 Georgia Libraries Conference (Columbus, GA - October 2017)

The Georgia Library Association and Georgia Association for Instructional Technology  invite proposals for the 2017 Georgia Libraries Conference, nee' GA COMO.  This year, as we change our name and our charge to better reflect all types of libraries, our theme is Different by Design.  We hope to highlight the interesting, innovative, and thoughtful ways librarians are working to improve their profession, their libraries, and their communities. 

This year's conference will take place October 4-6, 2017 at the Columbus Georgia Convention and Trade Center in Columbus, Georgia. Proposals are now being accepted for  pre-conference sessions, presentations, demonstrations, and posters.  Come share your great ideas alongside our keynotes, David Lankes and Siva Vaidhyanathan!

All proposal submissions are due by June 12, 2017. Guidelines and forms for submitting your proposal(s) can be found on the proposal form here: http://www.galibcon.org/presentation-proposal-form/ 

For questions regarding proposal submissions, please contact Jean Cook at jcook@westga.edu . 

Best of luck to potential presenters! We look forward to seeing you in Columbus.

CFP: ACRL Program Proposals for 2018 ALA Annual Conference (New Orleans)

ACRL Program Proposals for 2018 ALA Annual Conference

ACRL invites its committees, sections, interest groups and individual members to consider submitting program proposals for the 2018 ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans. For the first time, program proposals will be submitted via a centralized submission site for all ALA Divisions, RoundTables, Committees, and Offices. ACRL members must choose "ACRL" on the first screen of the submission form in order to have the program included in the ACRL pool of programs to be reviewed. There will be a virtual meeting at 11:00 a.m. CST on June 1, 2017, for ACRL units and members interested in submitting proposals for a 2018 ALA Annual Conference program. The purpose of this meeting is to provide potential conference program planners with an understanding of the Annual Conference program planning process, including budgets, timelines, and planning tips. RSVP online to attend the June 1 virtual meeting. Once login instructions are available, attendees will be notified. Login instructions will also be posted on the main ACRL page in ALA Connect. 2018 ALA Annual Conference program proposals are due August 25, 2017. The ACRL Professional Development Committee will review proposal and select 2018 Annual Conference programs, with notifications issued in October 2017. More information is available on the ACRL website.

CFP: ALCTS Programs at the 2018 Annual Conference and Midwinter Meeting

The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) invites you to submit a program, preconference or symposium proposal for upcoming 2018 ALA Midwinter Meeting and Annual Conference. 

The ALCTS Program Committee welcomes topics that are of current and ongoing interest to the ALCTS membership, including acquisitions, cataloging and metadata, collection management, continuing resources, preservation and reformatting. Proposals will be reviewed by the ALCTS Program Committee and proposal submitters will be contacted shortly following Annual Conference 2017.

To propose an event, please submit an online proposal form using the links provided in this message.

Call for Proposals

ALA 2018 Annual Conference in New Orleans, June 21-26

·         Virtual Preconference – Two or three one-hour virtual sessions held prior to Annual
Virtual Preconference Proposal Form  | Submission Deadline:  December 15, 2017

·         Preconference – One or two-day interactive training workshop held at Annual
Preconference Proposal Form | Submission Deadline: August 11, 2017

·         Program – One-hour educational sessions held at Annual.  Log into the ALA system to begin your online proposal.  Anyone can submit a proposal, regardless of membership status. 

When completing the proposal form, be sure to select the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) to have your proposal reviewed by ALCTS.  Program Proposal Submission Site (login or create a new account to enter) | Submission Deadline: August 25, 2017

ALA 2018 Midwinter Meeting in Denver, February 9-13

·         Virtual Symposium - Two or three one-hour virtual sessions held prior to Midwinter
Virtual Symposium Proposal Form | Submission Deadline: September 27, 2017

Proposal and Event Planning Information

Additional information about submitting a proposal can be found using these links:

General ALCTS Event Planning Information

ALA Program Proposal Process Information

Program Submission Information Packet

Questions & Comments

Please send any questions or comments about submitting a proposal to:

Kevin Clair (kevin.clair@du.edu) – ALCTS Program Committee Co-Chair

Hayley Moreno (morenoh@oclc.org) – ALCTS Program Committee Co-Chair

Julie Reese (jreese@ala.org) – ALCTS Continuing Education & Program Manager

CFP: 2017 STEM Librarians South Conference (formerly Texas STEM Librarian Conference) - Waco Texas July 2017

2017 STEM Librarians South Conference (formerly Texas STEM Librarian Conference)

July 20-21, 2017

Waco, TX

Please submit by Tuesday, June 6 proposals for

·         5-minute lightning talks

·         15-minute short presentations or

·         45-minute full presentations

on any topic dealing with STEM librarianship including but not limited to

collections, data management, information literacy, outreach, reference/instruction/public service, scholarly communications, and science education

STEM Librarian South is the only conference focused on STEM librarianship.

Even if you’re not submitting, please register for the conference!

Go to https://goo.gl/forms/Av3dzYTo5Y3ZRkoJ3 to submit a proposal

Go to https://goo.gl/forms/vUu8Qc2DGLG8dwyy2 to register for the conference

Go to http://sites.baylor.edu/2017stemlib for more information about the conference

Contact stemlib@gmail.com with any questions

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STEM Librarians South

2017 Conference Committee

Christina Chan-Park

Ben Johansen

Megan Martinsen

CFP: The Evolution of Affordable Content Efforts in the Higher Education Environment: Programs, Case Studies, and Examples

The Evolution of Affordable Content Efforts in the Higher Education Environment: Programs, Case Studies, and Examples

Upcoming, openly licensed University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing title (2017) available as a digital publication using Pressbooks (and possibly as a print on demand title)

Edited by Kristi Jensen (kjensen@umn.edu) and Shane Nackerud (snackeru@umn.edu), University of Minnesota

Proposal Deadline: June 16, 2017

Notification of Selected Authors/Chapters: June 30, 2017

Chapter Deadline: November 27, 2017

While the movement to utilize open educational resources in a wide range of educational environments began over two decades ago, there has been a surge in interest in both OER and other affordable course content options in the last several years. Much of the recent interest has been tied to strategic initiatives to make higher education more affordable and to improve teaching and learning.

A great deal has been published on open educational resources and open textbooks in higher education. While open textbooks and OER are exciting options, focusing only on OER or open textbooks often excludes many new efforts that present a wide array of affordable content options - options that have broader reach given the lack of quality, open resources available in many subject areas.

The Evolution of Affordable Content Efforts in the Higher Education Environment: Programs, Case Studies, and Examples, will allow authors from across institutions to provide their blueprint(s) for creating successful affordable content programming.

Chapter Ideas:

We are looking for chapters in the following areas but welcome your additional suggestions for review:

• Bookstore models - rentals, all purchase ebook models
• Faculty experiences - collaboration, impact on teaching, impact on students, why a move to affordable content
• Student feedback and experiences
• Library licensed multi-use ebook models
• Hybrid content models - Library Licensed, OER, public domain, Fair Use, etc.
• OER only models
• Purchase models, for example, student fees pay for texts and they “check them out” for the semester
• University wide collaboration models focused on OER and/or affordable content
• Inter-institutional collaboration models focused on OER and/or affordable content
• Incentive grants to utilize or create OER and/or affordable content
• Publishing efforts
• Replicating traditional publishing to create open content
• New views of what textbook is broadly or for certain disciplines
• Developing new models of peer review
• Creating assessments and other supplemental materials
• Education, workshops, culture change
• Responses to legislative dictates

All chapters might include details about:

• Partnerships
• Scalability and sustainability
• Barriers and successes
• Pros and cons of approaches or methods
• Measures of success and assessment efforts
• And lessons learned

Proposal Format:

Proposed chapter title

300-500 word chapter description

Author(s) name, professional title, & contact information

Short 100 word bio for author(s)

Submission Process:

Authors interested in submitting chapters should complete the proposal form

on or before June 16, 2017.

CFP: Catholic Library World

Submissions are being accepted on an ongoing basis for upcoming issues of Catholic Library World.

Catholic Library World is the official journal of the Catholic Library Association.  Established in 1929, CLW is an international refereed quarterly journal, publishing articles that focus on all aspects of librarianship, especially as it relates to Catholicism and Catholic Studies.  CLW articles are intended for an audience that is interested in the broad role and impact of various types of libraries, including, but not limited to academic, public, theological, parish and church libraries, and school libraries.  CLW respects diverse Christian traditions as well as non-Christian and welcomes relevant articles from a variety of religious traditions.  

The preferred method for submitting manuscripts is as a word-processed attachment in e-mail.  Author’s full name, affiliation, and e-mail address must accompany any manuscript submission.

Articles should provide something new to the existing literature.  The word count should be 3500- 5000 words and should adhere to The Chicago Manual of Style (humanities is preferred).  The style should be accessible and well-documented.

See http://cathla.org/Main/About/Publications/ for author guidelines and more information.

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Sigrid Kelsey

General Editor, Catholic Library World

http://www.cathla.org 

CFP: Nevada Library Association and the Mountain Plains Library Association 2017 Conference - Lake Tahoe NV - October 2017)

NLA-MPLA 2017 Conference

October 16-18, 2017
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Lake Tahoe (Stateline, Nevada)
CFP URL: https://goo.gl/forms/0Jm0A0bI27nVmt392

Deadline - May 31, 2017

The joint conference of the Nevada Library Association and the Mountain Plains Library Association will be held October 16 through 18 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Stateline, Nevada at Lake Tahoe. From the sounds of sensory story time to the whir of a 3D printer, libraries are much more than quiet spaces; they are hubs of experience and knowledge creation that set the stage for vibrant communities. As librarians it’s time to turn up the volume on innovation as we seek inspiration to deliver new models of information literacy and lifelong education; on engagement with listeners, learners, and makers of all ages and from all backgrounds; on advocacy as we share impactful stories of how libraries empower.

Call For Proposals is now open at https://goo.gl/forms/4FMghIvKwaKOYbYF3 and closes on May 31. Seeking proposals to support the theme of Turn Up the Volume! in the areas of innovation, advocacy, and engagement.

Room Reservations at a special conference rate may be made at https://gc.synxis.com/rez.aspx?Hotel=75399&Chain using the group code NLAMPLA17.

Tentative schedule
Monday, October 16 – Nevada Library Association Executive Board Meeting, Mountain Plains Library Association Board Meeting, Nevada Library Directors Board Meeting, Preconference Workshops, Exhibitor Reception
Tuesday, October 17 – Full conference day
Wednesday, October 18 – Full conference day

Getting here is easy by flying into Reno/Tahoe International Airport and taking an airport shuttle or driving one hour to Stateline, Nevada at the southeast corner of Lake Tahoe.

Call for Chapters - Supporting Today’s Students in the Library: Strategies for Retaining and Graduating International, Transfer, First-Generation, and Re-Entry Students

Supporting Today’s Students in the Library: Strategies for Retaining and Graduating International, Transfer, First-Generation, and Re-Entry Students

For publication with ACRL Press 

Proposal submission deadline: June 5, 2017  

Editors Ngoc-Yen Tran & Silke Higgins invite the submission of chapter proposals for a book on how academic libraries are addressing the unique struggles of international students, transfer or commuter students, first-generation students, and re-entry or older-adult students. Grounded in learning theories, the book will focus on strategies for retaining and graduating these student populations by exploring methods for overcoming barriers, discussing best practices for engaging students in research and information literacy topics, as well as providing a variety of services that support students beyond the classroom environment.

New and completed research and case studies are welcome, provided any new studies can be completed within the timeline explained below. Chapters based on completed research must not be previously published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere.

We are seeking proposals for two types of chapters in support of the aforementioned student populations:

1. Research or case studies on:
1. Who are our students
2. What are their struggles
3. What are their needs
2. Research or in-depth case studies on the application of learning theories (such as Social Cognitive Learning Theory or Educational Gaming Theory). Topics might include:
1. Best practices for instruction, outreach, and/or collection development
2. Overcoming language barriers
3. Overcoming barriers to access
4. Developing meaningful relationships with peers and faculty
5. Balancing school, work, and general life responsibilities

Submission procedure: Please submit chapter proposals of up to 500 words, a short author’s statement, a writing sample, and a list of previous publications if applicable to lib.learning.theories@gmail.com by June 5, 2017. If you are proposing new, uncompleted research, please provide a tentative timeline that includes a date for completion, evidence of institutional approval, if appropriate, as well as any additional dates you believe are relevant. Authors will be notified of acceptance by July 1, 2017.  

If there are multiple authors for a chapter, please submit author statements for each author and at least one writing sample. However, writing samples from multiple authors may be submitted if it is felt that doing so will create a better representation of the group’s work. 

Note: This initial stage requires a 500 word description, so just planning out your article now is fine. Final manuscripts of between 1500 and 5000 words will be due September 30, 2017, with drafts and edits staggered earlier throughout the year as best fits the schedules of the author(s) and editors. All chapters will undergo peer review by a subject matter expert prior to publication.  

For additional information, contact the editors:

Ngoc-Yen Tran, Academic Liaison Librarian, San Jose State University, yen.tran@sjsu.edu

Silke Higgins, Academic Liaison Librarian, San Jose State University, silke.higgins@sjsu.edu