CFP - Corporation of Public Librarians of Quebec
Conference Title: Fostering Loyalty and Attractiveness: Strategies and Purposefulness
Conference Date: May 18 to 20, 2005
Conference Location: St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
Deadline: December 13, 2004
In 2004, the Conference explored the issues of value, usefulness and performance of our organizations. The primary objective that emerged following this exploration was the enhancement of libraries and information professionals in their respective areas of endeavour. The continuity of thought advanced by the Corporation embraces this perspective, while taking into consideration, in 2005, the World Summit on the Information Society and Montreal: World Book Capital 2005. These major events provide librarians with just as many opportunities of emerging from obscurity and taking their place in the limelight.
The time has come to test our powers of seduction. It has become imperative to develop the skills required to show ourselves off to best advantage and to adopt strategies aimed at making ourselves attractive to our clientele. These preliminary steps are essential in fostering user loyalty. Beyond our often community-oriented mission, in addition to the part we play in spreading knowledge, and without falling
into the trap of shameless mercantilism, we owe it to ourselves to explore new marketing and communications techniques that have been tested and adapted to our different fields of activity. Everything resides in the power of attraction. What exactly does the concept of seduction represent for information professionals? Until now, they have often been reproached their passivity and their lack of visibility and commitment. Yet, there are many professionals who dare to stray from the stereotype and create for themselves a dynamic and daring image that appeals to users and decision-makers. What is their secret? Should not information circles adapt to new trends and flaunt their appeal? Should not the documentary training of recent graduates reflect this new reality? The organizing committee is therefore calling for suggestions for workshops, presentations alternating theory and practice, from guest speakers that will touch on the following subjects:
Marketing and Clienteles
Knowledge Management
Continuing Education and Training
Nurmerical Age
Librarian and the profession
For more information, visit the Call for Papers (English):
http://www.cbpq.qc.ca/congres/congres2005/comm/call_for_papers2005.pdf
Call for Papers (French):
http://www.cbpq.qc.ca/congres/congres2005/comm/appel_comm2005.pdf
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
CFP - Candadian Disability Studies Assn & Consortium for Computers in the Humanities
A joint panel from the Canadian Disability Studies Association and COCH/COSH
http://www.coch-cosh.ca/
CFP: Enabling Technologies
Conference Date: May 29-31, 2005
Conference Location: London, Ontario, Canada
Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2004
The technological revolution has produced an explosion of new hardware, software and sensory modalities that open doors of accessibility for all kinds of users. The Canadian Disability Studies Association and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Le Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines (COCH/COSH) welcome papers that deal with accessibility issues, including alternative and inclusive technologies, interfaces, and pedagogies for the differently abled. We are interested in discussions centred on electronic assistive technologies as tools and media for the humanities. Software or hardware demonstrations are welcome, but only as a part of an inquiry into the larger issues as they affect access in the arts,
social sciences and education. Possible topics might include:
* assistive technologies: reading/writing software, voice output, onscreen keyboards, portable note takers, etc.
* rich media resources, materials, textbooks in the classroom and online
* instructional technologies
* inclusive design
* augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
* ergonomics
* adult and geriatric education
* networks
* voice, eye, and neurological interfaces
* mobile computing
* hands-free computing
* virtual prosthetics
* implants
* virtual exhibitions and accessible resources
* enabled arts
* music-based technologies
* access-related textual encoding and its standards
* tactile television and computing
* 3D modeling, printers, tactile captions, etc.
* digital textbooks, talking books, tactile animation
* JAWS, cyberlink, and other softwares and their applications
* enabling resources, databases, search engines, services
The Canadian Disability Studies Association is a Canada-wide organization concerned with the intersections with (and within) disability and disability studies, including disability and medicine; social policy and disability; disability history; the immigrant experience and disability; law and disability; disability and queerness; disability and culture; disability in literature; feminism and disability; ethics and disability, disability and pedagogy; and disability and personal/private space.
The Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Le Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines is a Canada-wide association of representatives from Canadian colleges and universities that began in 1986. Our objective is to foster communications about, and sharing of, information technology developed by Canadian institutions for the betterment of post-secondary education across Canada. COCH/COSH participates in the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada¹s (HSSFC) annual Congress to promote humanities computing research and scholarship in Canada and internationally. Our theme for the 2005 Congress will be "The Networked Citizen: New Contributions of the Digital Humanities," and will place special emphasis on connections between humanities computing and other fields. It will take place at the University of Western Ontario from May 29-31, 2005.
Paper and/or session proposals will be accepted in English or French until December 15, 2004. Please note that all presenters must be members of COCH/COSH at the time of the conference.
Abstracts/proposals should include the following information at the top: title of paper, author's name(s); complete mailing address, including email; institutional affiliation and rank, if any, of the author; statement of need for audio-visual equipment. Abstracts of papers should be between 150 and 300 words long, and clearly indicate the paper's thesis, methodology and major focus. Be sure to mark your submission as being for the ŒEnabling Technologies¹ Panel.
Single-paper proposals will be accepted electronically via the conference
web site: http://www.coch-cosh.ca/Congress/2005/
Inquiries may be emailed directly to:
carolyn.guertin@utoronto.ca
Carolyn Guertin, PhD
Senior McLuhan Fellow
McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology
University of Toronto
39A Queen¹s Park Crescent
Toronto Canada M5S 2C3
voice: 416-928-0196
fax: 416-978-5324
email: carolyn.guertin@utoronto.ca
http://www.coch-cosh.ca/
CFP: Enabling Technologies
Conference Date: May 29-31, 2005
Conference Location: London, Ontario, Canada
Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2004
The technological revolution has produced an explosion of new hardware, software and sensory modalities that open doors of accessibility for all kinds of users. The Canadian Disability Studies Association and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Le Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines (COCH/COSH) welcome papers that deal with accessibility issues, including alternative and inclusive technologies, interfaces, and pedagogies for the differently abled. We are interested in discussions centred on electronic assistive technologies as tools and media for the humanities. Software or hardware demonstrations are welcome, but only as a part of an inquiry into the larger issues as they affect access in the arts,
social sciences and education. Possible topics might include:
* assistive technologies: reading/writing software, voice output, onscreen keyboards, portable note takers, etc.
* rich media resources, materials, textbooks in the classroom and online
* instructional technologies
* inclusive design
* augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
* ergonomics
* adult and geriatric education
* networks
* voice, eye, and neurological interfaces
* mobile computing
* hands-free computing
* virtual prosthetics
* implants
* virtual exhibitions and accessible resources
* enabled arts
* music-based technologies
* access-related textual encoding and its standards
* tactile television and computing
* 3D modeling, printers, tactile captions, etc.
* digital textbooks, talking books, tactile animation
* JAWS, cyberlink, and other softwares and their applications
* enabling resources, databases, search engines, services
The Canadian Disability Studies Association is a Canada-wide organization concerned with the intersections with (and within) disability and disability studies, including disability and medicine; social policy and disability; disability history; the immigrant experience and disability; law and disability; disability and queerness; disability and culture; disability in literature; feminism and disability; ethics and disability, disability and pedagogy; and disability and personal/private space.
The Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Le Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines is a Canada-wide association of representatives from Canadian colleges and universities that began in 1986. Our objective is to foster communications about, and sharing of, information technology developed by Canadian institutions for the betterment of post-secondary education across Canada. COCH/COSH participates in the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada¹s (HSSFC) annual Congress to promote humanities computing research and scholarship in Canada and internationally. Our theme for the 2005 Congress will be "The Networked Citizen: New Contributions of the Digital Humanities," and will place special emphasis on connections between humanities computing and other fields. It will take place at the University of Western Ontario from May 29-31, 2005.
Paper and/or session proposals will be accepted in English or French until December 15, 2004. Please note that all presenters must be members of COCH/COSH at the time of the conference.
Abstracts/proposals should include the following information at the top: title of paper, author's name(s); complete mailing address, including email; institutional affiliation and rank, if any, of the author; statement of need for audio-visual equipment. Abstracts of papers should be between 150 and 300 words long, and clearly indicate the paper's thesis, methodology and major focus. Be sure to mark your submission as being for the ŒEnabling Technologies¹ Panel.
Single-paper proposals will be accepted electronically via the conference
web site: http://www.coch-cosh.ca/Congress/2005/
Inquiries may be emailed directly to:
carolyn.guertin@utoronto.ca
Carolyn Guertin, PhD
Senior McLuhan Fellow
McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology
University of Toronto
39A Queen¹s Park Crescent
Toronto Canada M5S 2C3
voice: 416-928-0196
fax: 416-978-5324
email: carolyn.guertin@utoronto.ca
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
CFP - Innovative Users Group (2005)
Conference: Innovative Users Group (2005)
Conference Location: San Francisco, California
Conference Date: May 1-4, 2005
Deadline: Friday November 12, 2004
NOTE: This is one of the leading ILS Users Group Meetings in the world. The papers presented here focus on increasing our use of the Innovative/Millennium Integrated Library Systems in libraries of every type.
URLS:
Innovative Users Group: http://www.innovativeusers.org
Suggested Topics: http://innopacusers.org/iug2005/Suggested_Topics.html
Program Submission Form: http://innopacusers.org/iug2005/prog-req.html
[From the Call] Remember, we aim for a variety of programs - basic to advanced, every
library type, how you use various Innovative modules, and how you use other programs in conjunction with Innovative software. The topics list is not meant to be exhaustive. Some topics have been duplicated (as appropriate) under separate categories for your convenience. If you have an idea of your own and don't see it listed, please submit a proposal anyway. You may also be interested in coordinating a panel discussion, but don't have all of the presenters lined up. It's perfectly fine to have some TBA's at this stage. The Program Committee
can work with you to help identify potential co-presenters.
If you have presented or coordinated at past IUG programs, please consider resubmitting a proposal for this year. I can speak from experience that it is impossible to attend every program one would like, and know our attendees will appreciate having another chance to see a refreshed/updated version of programs this year. There have also been a number of regional user group meetings taking place this summer/fall with a rich variety of program offerings. If you are presenting in one of the regional conferences, please consider repeating your program at
the annual meeting, so many more colleagues can learn from your experiences.
Contact, Cheryl Gowing, IUG 2005 Program Chair, cgowing@miami.edu
Conference Location: San Francisco, California
Conference Date: May 1-4, 2005
Deadline: Friday November 12, 2004
NOTE: This is one of the leading ILS Users Group Meetings in the world. The papers presented here focus on increasing our use of the Innovative/Millennium Integrated Library Systems in libraries of every type.
URLS:
Innovative Users Group: http://www.innovativeusers.org
Suggested Topics: http://innopacusers.org/iug2005/Suggested_Topics.html
Program Submission Form: http://innopacusers.org/iug2005/prog-req.html
[From the Call] Remember, we aim for a variety of programs - basic to advanced, every
library type, how you use various Innovative modules, and how you use other programs in conjunction with Innovative software. The topics list is not meant to be exhaustive. Some topics have been duplicated (as appropriate) under separate categories for your convenience. If you have an idea of your own and don't see it listed, please submit a proposal anyway. You may also be interested in coordinating a panel discussion, but don't have all of the presenters lined up. It's perfectly fine to have some TBA's at this stage. The Program Committee
can work with you to help identify potential co-presenters.
If you have presented or coordinated at past IUG programs, please consider resubmitting a proposal for this year. I can speak from experience that it is impossible to attend every program one would like, and know our attendees will appreciate having another chance to see a refreshed/updated version of programs this year. There have also been a number of regional user group meetings taking place this summer/fall with a rich variety of program offerings. If you are presenting in one of the regional conferences, please consider repeating your program at
the annual meeting, so many more colleagues can learn from your experiences.
Contact, Cheryl Gowing, IUG 2005 Program Chair, cgowing@miami.edu
CFP: Technical Communication - Spaces
ATTW @ CEA 2005: Space(s)
Deadline: 15 November 2004
The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing invites submission of abstracts for presentations in ATTW-sponsored sessions at the College English Association's 36th annual meeting, March 31 - April 2, 2005 in Indianapolis, Indiana. This will be the second year ATTW has sponsored panels at CEA.
ATTW will consider submissions for presentations or panels on any topic related to technical, business, or scientific communication. But as the CEA's conference-wide theme this year is "Space(s)," we encourage proposals that complement that theme.
For example, scholars in technical, scientific, and business communication might focus on topics that address issues of spaces such as these:
* Academic spaces: the library, the classroom
* Virtual or cyberspaces: the Web, the web page, hypertext
* Disciplinary spaces: cross-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary
* Economic spaces: the workplace, the cubicle
* Environmental spaces: the moor, the sea, the national park
* Gendered spaces
* The page: negative space, document design
* Technological spaces: the laboratory, the computer desktop, the screen
* Writing spaces: the desk, the office
The deadline for proposals is 15 November 2004. Send 200-word abstracts by email (in the body, not as an attachment) to miles.kimball@ttu.edu. Please be sure to include the following information:
* Name
* Title for proposed presentation or panel
* Institutional affiliation
* Mailing address
* Phone number
* Email address
If you are proposing a panel, include all of the above information for each presenter.
Address all CEA conference correspondence to the CEA Program Chair:
Ann Hawkins
CEA 2005 Program Chair
Department of English
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409
806.742.2500x296
ann.hawkins@ttu.edu
Other important information:
* All presenters must join CEA by 1 January 2005 to appear on the program.
* No one may read more than one paper at the conference.
* Presenters are encouraged to serve as a section chair or respondent. If you wish to be considered for a chair or respondent, please contact the CEA program chair.
* CEA does not sponsor or fund travel or underwrite participant costs.
Note to graduate students:
Graduate students may compete for the CEA Best Papers Award, which carries a $50 prize. For consideration, submit three copies of your paper to the Program Chair by 1 March 2005.
For more information about CEA and the conference, please see the conference web site at http://www.as.ysu.edu/~english/cea/ceaindex.htm.
Deadline: 15 November 2004
The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing invites submission of abstracts for presentations in ATTW-sponsored sessions at the College English Association's 36th annual meeting, March 31 - April 2, 2005 in Indianapolis, Indiana. This will be the second year ATTW has sponsored panels at CEA.
ATTW will consider submissions for presentations or panels on any topic related to technical, business, or scientific communication. But as the CEA's conference-wide theme this year is "Space(s)," we encourage proposals that complement that theme.
For example, scholars in technical, scientific, and business communication might focus on topics that address issues of spaces such as these:
* Academic spaces: the library, the classroom
* Virtual or cyberspaces: the Web, the web page, hypertext
* Disciplinary spaces: cross-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary
* Economic spaces: the workplace, the cubicle
* Environmental spaces: the moor, the sea, the national park
* Gendered spaces
* The page: negative space, document design
* Technological spaces: the laboratory, the computer desktop, the screen
* Writing spaces: the desk, the office
The deadline for proposals is 15 November 2004. Send 200-word abstracts by email (in the body, not as an attachment) to miles.kimball@ttu.edu. Please be sure to include the following information:
* Name
* Title for proposed presentation or panel
* Institutional affiliation
* Mailing address
* Phone number
* Email address
If you are proposing a panel, include all of the above information for each presenter.
Address all CEA conference correspondence to the CEA Program Chair:
Ann Hawkins
CEA 2005 Program Chair
Department of English
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409
806.742.2500x296
ann.hawkins@ttu.edu
Other important information:
* All presenters must join CEA by 1 January 2005 to appear on the program.
* No one may read more than one paper at the conference.
* Presenters are encouraged to serve as a section chair or respondent. If you wish to be considered for a chair or respondent, please contact the CEA program chair.
* CEA does not sponsor or fund travel or underwrite participant costs.
Note to graduate students:
Graduate students may compete for the CEA Best Papers Award, which carries a $50 prize. For consideration, submit three copies of your paper to the Program Chair by 1 March 2005.
For more information about CEA and the conference, please see the conference web site at http://www.as.ysu.edu/~english/cea/ceaindex.htm.
PRIMO (ACRL - Emerging Technologies in Instruction)
The Emerging Technologies in Instruction Committee of the ACRL Instruction Section invites you to submit your online information literacy tutorial, virtual tour, or other online library instruction project for review and possible inclusion in PRIMO: Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online.
PRIMO is the new name for the Internet Education Project. This name emphasizes both the peer-reviewed nature of the project and the first-rate instruction models found in the project database. It also reflects how the project has evolved from teaching about the Internet, to teaching using the Internet as a medium.
***Deadlines***
Nominations: November 5, 2004
Submissions: November 19, 2004
The submission and nomination forms are available from the following page:
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/is/iscommittees/webpages/emergingtech/primo/index.htm
Site submissions for PRIMO are accepted continually, but are reviewed for possible inclusion twice per year. For further information contact
committee co-chairs Jennifer Knievel (jennifer.knievel@colorado.edu)
and
Kathy Magarrell (kathy-magarrell@uiowa.edu).
PRIMO is the new name for the Internet Education Project. This name emphasizes both the peer-reviewed nature of the project and the first-rate instruction models found in the project database. It also reflects how the project has evolved from teaching about the Internet, to teaching using the Internet as a medium.
***Deadlines***
Nominations: November 5, 2004
Submissions: November 19, 2004
The submission and nomination forms are available from the following page:
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/is/iscommittees/webpages/emergingtech/primo/index.htm
Site submissions for PRIMO are accepted continually, but are reviewed for possible inclusion twice per year. For further information contact
committee co-chairs Jennifer Knievel (jennifer.knievel@colorado.edu)
and
Kathy Magarrell (kathy-magarrell@uiowa.edu).
Call for Reviewers - Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES)
Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES) seeks reviewers
I would like to invite you to submit your research articles and book reviews for publication in DOMES. I would also would like you and other Middle East scholars in your institution to join our distinguished list of reviewers. DOMES’s Editorial Office receives outstanding books from many publishers and we are always looking for colleagues who are willing to review these books. You keep the book and e-mail us your 3-4 page review. The published reviews have been well received by our readers who are pressed for time and rely on these detailed reviews to be kept informed of the current literature. Librarians have found the reviews very helpful in making their book acquisition decisions. Due to the prevailing economic conditions, DOMES is published semi-annually (Fall & Spring), but we hope the conditions will improve so we can go back to publishing DOMES quarterly. Annual subscription rates remain low ($65). If you wish to place your library’s subscription please e-mail our distributor: Global Information Company gic@wi.rr.com. You may be interested to learn that we now have a CD edition containing the full text of volumes t-11. Subsequent volumes will be available to our subscribers in print and e-format.
Professor Mohammed m. aman
Dean Emeritus & Professor- Editor-in-Chief
Digest of Middle East Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwuakee
PO Box 413
Milwaukee
WI 53201
414-229-3315
Fax 414-229-3314
Email: aman@sois.uwm.edu
Visit the website at http://www.globalinformationcompany.wi.rr.com
I would like to invite you to submit your research articles and book reviews for publication in DOMES. I would also would like you and other Middle East scholars in your institution to join our distinguished list of reviewers. DOMES’s Editorial Office receives outstanding books from many publishers and we are always looking for colleagues who are willing to review these books. You keep the book and e-mail us your 3-4 page review. The published reviews have been well received by our readers who are pressed for time and rely on these detailed reviews to be kept informed of the current literature. Librarians have found the reviews very helpful in making their book acquisition decisions. Due to the prevailing economic conditions, DOMES is published semi-annually (Fall & Spring), but we hope the conditions will improve so we can go back to publishing DOMES quarterly. Annual subscription rates remain low ($65). If you wish to place your library’s subscription please e-mail our distributor: Global Information Company gic@wi.rr.com. You may be interested to learn that we now have a CD edition containing the full text of volumes t-11. Subsequent volumes will be available to our subscribers in print and e-format.
Professor Mohammed m. aman
Dean Emeritus & Professor- Editor-in-Chief
Digest of Middle East Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwuakee
PO Box 413
Milwaukee
WI 53201
414-229-3315
Fax 414-229-3314
Email: aman@sois.uwm.edu
Visit the website at http://www.globalinformationcompany.wi.rr.com
CFL - Science Fiction: one universe?
Science Fiction: one universe?
Book to be edited by Nick Heffernan and Lorna Jowett.
Deadline for Abstracts - December 15, 2004
Having received preliminary interest from a publisher, we invite chapter proposals or already completed essays for a collection focusing on the range of different media within science fiction (film, television, literature, comics/ graphic novels, computer games).
Science fiction has been examined in some detail from various perspectives but rarely with a holistic view. A large number of universities offer classes in science fiction, and these classes often look at more than one of the media mentioned above. Consumers of science fiction are likely to be familiar with the genre from more than one of these media. Film, literature, television shows, comic books and computer games inform us about what science fiction is and what it can do. In this book we propose to examine science fiction across these different media in an attempt to gain a better understanding of the genre and the ways it interacts through these forms.
Some questions we envisage the volume addressing include:
* How is science fiction identified across these different media? How do they interact?
* How do fans construct the genre from the different media?
* Does the academy construct the genre from these different media or does it seek to keep them separate?
* Is there a significant disjunction between sci-fi and sf? How do issues of quality affect science fictions?
* Are the major tropes of science fiction constructed or represented differently within these different media?
* How do thematic areas compare across different formats or genres?
* Are, for example, class, race, sexuality, or heroism, romance and science constructed similarly or differently across different formats?
* What distinguishes the treatment of such themes in closed, short narrative (stand-alone film or novel) as opposed to their treatment in serial, developing narrative (comic book, television show, series of novels)?
* How do varying emphases on narrative and/or spectacle (according to format) affect science fictions?
* What advantages and disadvantages are there in these varying formats for the messages of science fiction? Does the range of formats provide limitations or new departures?
Contributors might wish to address debates about what science fiction is,
what it is used for, and by whom. We particularly welcome papers that
examine more than one format, that explore the difficulties in integrating
different formats, or that reflect on how science fiction is used in the
academy.
Essay abstracts of 500 words, or completed papers of 5-6,000 words, plus a
brief CV should be forwarded by 15 December 2004 to BOTH editors:
* Nick Heffernan, nick.heffernan_at_northampton.ac.uk
* Lorna Jowett, lorna.jowett_at_northampton.ac.uk
Book to be edited by Nick Heffernan and Lorna Jowett.
Deadline for Abstracts - December 15, 2004
Having received preliminary interest from a publisher, we invite chapter proposals or already completed essays for a collection focusing on the range of different media within science fiction (film, television, literature, comics/ graphic novels, computer games).
Science fiction has been examined in some detail from various perspectives but rarely with a holistic view. A large number of universities offer classes in science fiction, and these classes often look at more than one of the media mentioned above. Consumers of science fiction are likely to be familiar with the genre from more than one of these media. Film, literature, television shows, comic books and computer games inform us about what science fiction is and what it can do. In this book we propose to examine science fiction across these different media in an attempt to gain a better understanding of the genre and the ways it interacts through these forms.
Some questions we envisage the volume addressing include:
* How is science fiction identified across these different media? How do they interact?
* How do fans construct the genre from the different media?
* Does the academy construct the genre from these different media or does it seek to keep them separate?
* Is there a significant disjunction between sci-fi and sf? How do issues of quality affect science fictions?
* Are the major tropes of science fiction constructed or represented differently within these different media?
* How do thematic areas compare across different formats or genres?
* Are, for example, class, race, sexuality, or heroism, romance and science constructed similarly or differently across different formats?
* What distinguishes the treatment of such themes in closed, short narrative (stand-alone film or novel) as opposed to their treatment in serial, developing narrative (comic book, television show, series of novels)?
* How do varying emphases on narrative and/or spectacle (according to format) affect science fictions?
* What advantages and disadvantages are there in these varying formats for the messages of science fiction? Does the range of formats provide limitations or new departures?
Contributors might wish to address debates about what science fiction is,
what it is used for, and by whom. We particularly welcome papers that
examine more than one format, that explore the difficulties in integrating
different formats, or that reflect on how science fiction is used in the
academy.
Essay abstracts of 500 words, or completed papers of 5-6,000 words, plus a
brief CV should be forwarded by 15 December 2004 to BOTH editors:
* Nick Heffernan, nick.heffernan_at_northampton.ac.uk
* Lorna Jowett, lorna.jowett_at_northampton.ac.uk
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
CFP - ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group
Conference: ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group at ALA
Conference Date: Saturday January 15, 2005
Conference Location: Boston
ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group is calling for speakers for its meeting at the ALA midwinter meeting, Boston, Saturday, January 15, 2005, from 2-4 pm. Presentation topics should be of current interest to catalogers. Possible areas of discussion include but are not limited to: AACR2, electronic resources, FRBR, authority control, digital libraries, bibliographic control of media resources, and training of professional/paraprofessional staff. Presentations should be approximately 15-20 minutes in length. Additional time will be allowed for questions and answers.
Please respond to me directly and not the list.
Elizabeth Lilker
Cataloger
New York University Libraries
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
(212) 998-2489
elizabeth.lilker@nyu.edu
Conference Date: Saturday January 15, 2005
Conference Location: Boston
ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group is calling for speakers for its meeting at the ALA midwinter meeting, Boston, Saturday, January 15, 2005, from 2-4 pm. Presentation topics should be of current interest to catalogers. Possible areas of discussion include but are not limited to: AACR2, electronic resources, FRBR, authority control, digital libraries, bibliographic control of media resources, and training of professional/paraprofessional staff. Presentations should be approximately 15-20 minutes in length. Additional time will be allowed for questions and answers.
Please respond to me directly and not the list.
Elizabeth Lilker
Cataloger
New York University Libraries
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
(212) 998-2489
elizabeth.lilker@nyu.edu
CFP - LILAC (Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference)
LILAC 2005: Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference.
Imperial College, London 4th-6th April 2005
Deadline: December 17, 2004
Organised jointly by ASSIGN (Aslib Social Science Group and Network) and the Information Literacy Sub-group of CSG - CILIP.
Call for Papers: The conference committee are issuing a call for short papers for parallel sessions that address one or more of the conference themes. Papers are welcomed from both researchers and practitioners. Closing date for proposals: Friday 17th December 2004.
Conference themes
-Collaboration within HE with academic staff
-Plagiarism and copyright issues: new technology, new problems?
-School librarians and key skills
-Information literacy and e-learning
-Widening participation: the role of the librarian
-Research in information literacy
Format
Papers should be 20 minutes in length with 5-10 minutes for questions. A PC with limited Internet access and PowerPoint will be available to presenters. Please do not send us a full paper; we require a 300 word abstract which will be sent to a panel of reviewers. Note that the papers will be presented on Monday 4th or Tuesday 5th April during the parallel sessions.
For more information visit:
Call for Papers: http://lttg.lse.ac.uk/LILAC/default.asp
Main Conference Page: http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/other_sites/aliss/lilacadvert.htm
Imperial College, London 4th-6th April 2005
Deadline: December 17, 2004
Organised jointly by ASSIGN (Aslib Social Science Group and Network) and the Information Literacy Sub-group of CSG - CILIP.
Call for Papers: The conference committee are issuing a call for short papers for parallel sessions that address one or more of the conference themes. Papers are welcomed from both researchers and practitioners. Closing date for proposals: Friday 17th December 2004.
Conference themes
-Collaboration within HE with academic staff
-Plagiarism and copyright issues: new technology, new problems?
-School librarians and key skills
-Information literacy and e-learning
-Widening participation: the role of the librarian
-Research in information literacy
Format
Papers should be 20 minutes in length with 5-10 minutes for questions. A PC with limited Internet access and PowerPoint will be available to presenters. Please do not send us a full paper; we require a 300 word abstract which will be sent to a panel of reviewers. Note that the papers will be presented on Monday 4th or Tuesday 5th April during the parallel sessions.
For more information visit:
Call for Papers: http://lttg.lse.ac.uk/LILAC/default.asp
Main Conference Page: http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/other_sites/aliss/lilacadvert.htm
Sunday, October 24, 2004
CFP - Historical Consiracies and Popular Culture
Call for Papers: Masons, Templars and the Holy Grail: Historical Conspiracies and Popular Culture Conspiracy Theories and Claims for the Paranormal Area
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference
March 23-26, 2005
San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina
[NOTE: What has the book "The DaVinci Code" meant for collection development?]
The Conspiracy Theories and Claims for the Paranormal Area invites papers, panels, and multimedia presentations on the sub-topic of Historical Conspiracies and Popular Culture for presentation at the PCA.
We invite papers from all disciplines on the use in and impact of historical conspiracy theories on literature, movies, media, or any other area of popular culture. Presenters are encouraged to examine the idea of conspiracy itself; but also any of the meta-aspects the use, characterization, or even reference to conspiracy creates. Possible topics of inquiry include, but are by no means limited to: Freemasons; ; Alchemy and other alternate forms of science/philosophy; Gnosticisim; Templar Knights; Illuminati; The Holy Grail / Merovingian Dynasties;
Hollow earth and other alternate cosmologies; Cagilistro , St. Germain, The Wandering Jew, and other legends of immortality...
Participants are encouraged to look not only at these types of theory and text, but at their implications in a broad and multidisciplinary sense. Possible issues could include but are not limited to:
-Masonic symbols in film, effect or affect?
-The conspiracy presented as a hero/villain in literature/film
-Issues of the occult in presentation of conspiracy
-The question of secret knowledge, both as plot device and as cultural marker
-The holy grail and popular imagination
-Codes and Cryptograms, re-interpreting texts to fit the conspiracy plotline
-Or any additional line of inquiry related to perception or presentation of the historical conspiracy
Presentations from a variety of academic and critical perspectives and disciplines are welcome and should be suitable for a 15 to 20-minute reading/presentation time limit. Please e-mail a one page abstract and a working bibliography (optional) along with your contact information to the address below. The deadline for submission is November 10.
Todd B Stevens
Co-Chair Conspiracy Theories and Claims for the Paranormal Area
Villanova University
toddbstevens@earthlink.net
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference
March 23-26, 2005
San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina
[NOTE: What has the book "The DaVinci Code" meant for collection development?]
The Conspiracy Theories and Claims for the Paranormal Area invites papers, panels, and multimedia presentations on the sub-topic of Historical Conspiracies and Popular Culture for presentation at the PCA.
We invite papers from all disciplines on the use in and impact of historical conspiracy theories on literature, movies, media, or any other area of popular culture. Presenters are encouraged to examine the idea of conspiracy itself; but also any of the meta-aspects the use, characterization, or even reference to conspiracy creates. Possible topics of inquiry include, but are by no means limited to: Freemasons; ; Alchemy and other alternate forms of science/philosophy; Gnosticisim; Templar Knights; Illuminati; The Holy Grail / Merovingian Dynasties;
Hollow earth and other alternate cosmologies; Cagilistro , St. Germain, The Wandering Jew, and other legends of immortality...
Participants are encouraged to look not only at these types of theory and text, but at their implications in a broad and multidisciplinary sense. Possible issues could include but are not limited to:
-Masonic symbols in film, effect or affect?
-The conspiracy presented as a hero/villain in literature/film
-Issues of the occult in presentation of conspiracy
-The question of secret knowledge, both as plot device and as cultural marker
-The holy grail and popular imagination
-Codes and Cryptograms, re-interpreting texts to fit the conspiracy plotline
-Or any additional line of inquiry related to perception or presentation of the historical conspiracy
Presentations from a variety of academic and critical perspectives and disciplines are welcome and should be suitable for a 15 to 20-minute reading/presentation time limit. Please e-mail a one page abstract and a working bibliography (optional) along with your contact information to the address below. The deadline for submission is November 10.
Todd B Stevens
Co-Chair Conspiracy Theories and Claims for the Paranormal Area
Villanova University
toddbstevens@earthlink.net
Thursday, October 21, 2004
CFP - Off-Campus Library Services Conference (2006)
Conference: Off Campus Library Services Conference
Conference Location: Savannah Georgia
Conference Date: April 26-28, 2006
The 2006 Off Campus Library Services Conference (12th) will be held in Savannah, Georgia. The dates of the conference are April 26th to April 28th 2006, and the conference hotel is the Hyatt Regency (which looks pretty nice on their website).
The Call for Presentations will be available December 1, 2004 on the web site at http://ocls.cmich.edu/conference (and of course I'll mention it here too).
Conference Location: Savannah Georgia
Conference Date: April 26-28, 2006
The 2006 Off Campus Library Services Conference (12th) will be held in Savannah, Georgia. The dates of the conference are April 26th to April 28th 2006, and the conference hotel is the Hyatt Regency (which looks pretty nice on their website).
The Call for Presentations will be available December 1, 2004 on the web site at http://ocls.cmich.edu/conference (and of course I'll mention it here too).
CFP - Library History Round Table (ALA)
CFP: The Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association (ALA)
Conference: ALA Annual Meeting
Conference Location: Chicago, IL
Conference Date: June 23-30, 2005
Deadline: November 30, 2004
The Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) seeks papers for its Research Forum at the 2005 ALA Convention, Chicago, Illinois, 23-30 June, 2005. While we encourage the submission of any paper that takes a cultural and historical perspective on libraries, we are especially interested in the submission of papers that illustrate the use of library records as primary sources and that discuss their research processes rather focusing primarily on their
findings.These might include:
* circulation and acquisition records
* registers of borrowers
* library catalogs
* minutes of library board meetings
* annual reports
* library policy manuals
* librarians' work diaries
* correspondence
Although scholars are accustomed to thinking of libraries as containers of useful materials, they have tended to ignore the libraries themselves as sources of historical data. Librarians, too, have not always recognized the value of retaining materials that document their institutions' own past. Scholars, including historians of reading, the Cold War, intellectual freedom, philanthropy and civil rights, are
beginning to make use of this relatively untapped wealth, however, and to encourage librarians to make a priority of preserving the records of their practices and policies.
Proposals for papers should give the paper title, an abstract (up to 400 words), and biographical identification of the scholar. The program will be publicized on or before January 15, 2005. Presenters must be members of ALA and LHRT before May 1st, 2005. See http://www.ala.org for membership details.
Christine Pawley
School of Library and Information Science
The University of Iowa
3074 Main Library
Iowa City, IA, 52242-1420
phone: (319) 335-5711
fax: (319) 335-5374
Email: christine-pawley@uiowa.edu
For more information, visit the website at
http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/~pawley/LHRT2005CFP.html
Conference: ALA Annual Meeting
Conference Location: Chicago, IL
Conference Date: June 23-30, 2005
Deadline: November 30, 2004
The Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) seeks papers for its Research Forum at the 2005 ALA Convention, Chicago, Illinois, 23-30 June, 2005. While we encourage the submission of any paper that takes a cultural and historical perspective on libraries, we are especially interested in the submission of papers that illustrate the use of library records as primary sources and that discuss their research processes rather focusing primarily on their
findings.These might include:
* circulation and acquisition records
* registers of borrowers
* library catalogs
* minutes of library board meetings
* annual reports
* library policy manuals
* librarians' work diaries
* correspondence
Although scholars are accustomed to thinking of libraries as containers of useful materials, they have tended to ignore the libraries themselves as sources of historical data. Librarians, too, have not always recognized the value of retaining materials that document their institutions' own past. Scholars, including historians of reading, the Cold War, intellectual freedom, philanthropy and civil rights, are
beginning to make use of this relatively untapped wealth, however, and to encourage librarians to make a priority of preserving the records of their practices and policies.
Proposals for papers should give the paper title, an abstract (up to 400 words), and biographical identification of the scholar. The program will be publicized on or before January 15, 2005. Presenters must be members of ALA and LHRT before May 1st, 2005. See http://www.ala.org for membership details.
Christine Pawley
School of Library and Information Science
The University of Iowa
3074 Main Library
Iowa City, IA, 52242-1420
phone: (319) 335-5711
fax: (319) 335-5374
Email: christine-pawley@uiowa.edu
For more information, visit the website at
http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/~pawley/LHRT2005CFP.html
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
CFP: 7th ISKO-Spain Conference
Conference: 7th ISKO-Spain Conference
Conference Location: Barcelona, Spain
Conference Date: July 6-8, 2005
Deadline: November 15, 2004
The focus of the 7th ISKO-Spain Conference is on orienting users of systems and applications of information organization and retrieval in companies, public administration, archives and document centres, portals or Internet services, databases and digital libraries.
Knowledge organization has traditionally been centred on representational objects —texts, images and documents in general— or on computer systems that facilitate information retrieval. It is ever more apparent that there is a need to take into consideration the cognitive, physical, and affective characteristics of different types of people when designing applications. Currently, with the availability of personalized systems that facilitate the interaction between persons and organization systems, questions are being asked such as: How to improve universal access to information? How to obtain maximum performance from the management of knowledge in organizations? How to incorporate users into the design cycles of knowledge organization systems? How to respond to differences (social, cultural, etc.) of the users of these systems?
For more information, visit:
English: http://bd.ub.es/isko2005/en/
Spanish: http://bd.ub.es/isko2005/
Català: http://bd.ub.es/isko2005/ca/
Conference Location: Barcelona, Spain
Conference Date: July 6-8, 2005
Deadline: November 15, 2004
The focus of the 7th ISKO-Spain Conference is on orienting users of systems and applications of information organization and retrieval in companies, public administration, archives and document centres, portals or Internet services, databases and digital libraries.
Knowledge organization has traditionally been centred on representational objects —texts, images and documents in general— or on computer systems that facilitate information retrieval. It is ever more apparent that there is a need to take into consideration the cognitive, physical, and affective characteristics of different types of people when designing applications. Currently, with the availability of personalized systems that facilitate the interaction between persons and organization systems, questions are being asked such as: How to improve universal access to information? How to obtain maximum performance from the management of knowledge in organizations? How to incorporate users into the design cycles of knowledge organization systems? How to respond to differences (social, cultural, etc.) of the users of these systems?
For more information, visit:
English: http://bd.ub.es/isko2005/en/
Spanish: http://bd.ub.es/isko2005/
Català: http://bd.ub.es/isko2005/ca/
Monday, October 18, 2004
CFP: Library History Siminar XI (Libraries in Times of War, Revolution & Social Change)
Conference: Library History Seminar XI: Libraries in Times of War, Revolution & Social Changesponsored by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association
Conference Location: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Conference Date: OCTOBER 27-30, 2005
Deadline: December 1, 2004
The Seminar's theme is a particularly timely one in terms of recent history. For example, the pillage and burning of Iraq's National Library in Spring of 2003 sent cultural shock waves around the world. The apparent contradictions of libraries, conventionally taken to represent stability and continuity, and wars and revolutions, involving rapid and disruptive change, suggest a number of urgent historical issues.
We seek papers relevant to the general theme of the seminar which includes:
--Books and libraries as agents of cultural memory to be protected, appropriated or obliterated.
--Library collections and services as instruments of political power in providing, restricting or withholding access to information.
--Libraries as places of refuge, solace and practical help in times of war, revolution and social disruption.
--Libraries and their contents as cultural heritage and as booty.
--The nature of the revolutionary cultural and political regimes in which libraries are situated and the attitudes of the regimes to literacy and learning.
--The responsibilities of the international community in creating and enforcing policies and procedures of protection, reconstitution and restitution of cultural artifacts, including books and libraries.
The conference organizers do not seek to impose any arbitrary limits of time or place on the papers to be submitted but seek to open the discussion of the subject as widely as possible.
For more details about the conference, see its website at the web address given below.
Send 300-500 word abstract and brief c.v. to:
W. Boyd Rayward
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 E. Daniel Champaign, IL 61820
217 244-9741 - phone
217 244-3302 - fax
Email: wrayward@uiuc.edu
Visit the website at http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/conferences/LHS.XI/home.html
Conference Location: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Conference Date: OCTOBER 27-30, 2005
Deadline: December 1, 2004
The Seminar's theme is a particularly timely one in terms of recent history. For example, the pillage and burning of Iraq's National Library in Spring of 2003 sent cultural shock waves around the world. The apparent contradictions of libraries, conventionally taken to represent stability and continuity, and wars and revolutions, involving rapid and disruptive change, suggest a number of urgent historical issues.
We seek papers relevant to the general theme of the seminar which includes:
--Books and libraries as agents of cultural memory to be protected, appropriated or obliterated.
--Library collections and services as instruments of political power in providing, restricting or withholding access to information.
--Libraries as places of refuge, solace and practical help in times of war, revolution and social disruption.
--Libraries and their contents as cultural heritage and as booty.
--The nature of the revolutionary cultural and political regimes in which libraries are situated and the attitudes of the regimes to literacy and learning.
--The responsibilities of the international community in creating and enforcing policies and procedures of protection, reconstitution and restitution of cultural artifacts, including books and libraries.
The conference organizers do not seek to impose any arbitrary limits of time or place on the papers to be submitted but seek to open the discussion of the subject as widely as possible.
For more details about the conference, see its website at the web address given below.
Send 300-500 word abstract and brief c.v. to:
W. Boyd Rayward
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 E. Daniel Champaign, IL 61820
217 244-9741 - phone
217 244-3302 - fax
Email: wrayward@uiuc.edu
Visit the website at http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/conferences/LHS.XI/home.html
Award: bibliographical and historical guide to research focused on women or gender history
Ther Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH) will award $500 to the best scholarly bibliographical and historical guide to research focused on women or gender history. The Kanner Award is intended to promote the practice of bibliomethodology or autobiography in historical context. The bibliomethodology award should reflect the critical tools of the historian's craft as have been developed to provide research guides rather than library catalogues. The autobiography in historical context award should reflect the craft of history as developed and interpreted in individual lives. Book-length submissions are preferred but substantial guides in other forms(articles, book chapters, internet publications) may also be considered. The bibliographical and autobiography awards will be given on alternate years, with submissions for each award considered for two-year intervals from the date of publication. The 2005 award will be bibliographical and published in 2003 or 2004. Entry deadline is January 15th, 2005. Entrants must be members of WAWH. Please send three copies of a) your Kanner Prize application (found at WAWH website) and b) your submission to the contact listed.
Dr. Regina Lark
UCLA
Center for the Study of Women
288 Kinsey Hall, 405 Hilgard Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1504
PH: 310-206-5898
Email: rlark@women.ucla.edu
Visit the website at http://www.wawh.org
Dr. Regina Lark
UCLA
Center for the Study of Women
288 Kinsey Hall, 405 Hilgard Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1504
PH: 310-206-5898
Email: rlark@women.ucla.edu
Visit the website at http://www.wawh.org
CFP: Sport Literature Association Session American Literature Assn
CFP: Sport Literature Association Session
Conference: American Literature Association Conference
Conference Date: May 26-29, 2005
Conference Location: The Westin Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts
Deadline: December 1, 2004
"Diverse Voices in American Sport Literature"
Sport fiction, poetry, plays, and nonfiction can sometimes be seen as the exclusive province of the Straight White Able-bodied Upper-Middle-Class College-Educated White Male, a not-entirely mythical creature who can trace a cultural lineage from Frank Merriwell to Bill Bradley. Our 2005 SLA session will challenge this assumption by presenting work on diverse voices in American sport literature: writers and characters who are not Straight, White, &c.
Please send proposals (300-500 word abstracts) by 1 December 2004 to: Tim Morris, English Box 19035, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington TX 76019; or by e-mail to tmorris@uta.edu. Our panel will consist of three 20-minute papers. Panelists and proposers will be notified by mid-January 2005.
Conference: American Literature Association Conference
Conference Date: May 26-29, 2005
Conference Location: The Westin Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts
Deadline: December 1, 2004
"Diverse Voices in American Sport Literature"
Sport fiction, poetry, plays, and nonfiction can sometimes be seen as the exclusive province of the Straight White Able-bodied Upper-Middle-Class College-Educated White Male, a not-entirely mythical creature who can trace a cultural lineage from Frank Merriwell to Bill Bradley. Our 2005 SLA session will challenge this assumption by presenting work on diverse voices in American sport literature: writers and characters who are not Straight, White, &c.
Please send proposals (300-500 word abstracts) by 1 December 2004 to: Tim Morris, English Box 19035, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington TX 76019; or by e-mail to tmorris@uta.edu. Our panel will consist of three 20-minute papers. Panelists and proposers will be notified by mid-January 2005.
Women and Information Technology
NOTE: This is a late notice. The deadline is October 30, 2004. If you have a topic, contact the editors via email below.
The University of Lapland (Finland) will publish a book entitled Lost and Found in Virtual Reality: Women and Information Technology.
As many researchers struggle to give an account of our immersion in information and communication technology, which resonates with lived experience, there is an increasing turn to phenomenology as a way to get back to the actuality of these experiences. As Merleau-Ponty claims in his famous preface in Phenomenology of Perception: "Phenomenology is a study of essences ... But phenomenology is also a philosophy which puts essences back into existence, and does not except to arrive at an understanding of man and the world from any starting point other than of their 'facticity.'" It is with this challenge in mind that Lost and Found in Virtual reality: Women and Information Technology sees its task.
Contributors are sought for the above book (due for publication in spring 2005) which aims to analyse how women construct their identities and expertise when using information and communication technology. The monograph will aim to develop and explore not only phenomenological analysis and accounts but also a wide range of other approaches to the making of identity, such as cognition, constructivism, and consciousness studies, of phenomena such as (but not limited to):
- Women, media, mediating and mediation
- Women, collaboration and cooperation
- Women, communicating and working
- Women, information and communication technology use
- Women and virtualisation of everyday life
- Women, connecting and being connected
- Women, ethics and mediation
- Women, technology, learning and improvisation
- Women, knowledge, knowing and action
Due date: OCTOBER 30th, 2004
Format: 20 pages, double spaced, MLA style citations.
Additional information: 1) 200-word bio, 2) full name, and 3) contact
information, including e-mail, address, and phone number.
Please, send electronic submissions (MSWord or RTF) to both editors:
Hannakaisa Isomäki, PhD (hannakaisa.isomaki@ulapland.fi)
and
Heidi Strengell, PhD, EdD (heidi.strengell@ulapland.fi)
The University of Lapland (Finland) will publish a book entitled Lost and Found in Virtual Reality: Women and Information Technology.
As many researchers struggle to give an account of our immersion in information and communication technology, which resonates with lived experience, there is an increasing turn to phenomenology as a way to get back to the actuality of these experiences. As Merleau-Ponty claims in his famous preface in Phenomenology of Perception: "Phenomenology is a study of essences ... But phenomenology is also a philosophy which puts essences back into existence, and does not except to arrive at an understanding of man and the world from any starting point other than of their 'facticity.'" It is with this challenge in mind that Lost and Found in Virtual reality: Women and Information Technology sees its task.
Contributors are sought for the above book (due for publication in spring 2005) which aims to analyse how women construct their identities and expertise when using information and communication technology. The monograph will aim to develop and explore not only phenomenological analysis and accounts but also a wide range of other approaches to the making of identity, such as cognition, constructivism, and consciousness studies, of phenomena such as (but not limited to):
- Women, media, mediating and mediation
- Women, collaboration and cooperation
- Women, communicating and working
- Women, information and communication technology use
- Women and virtualisation of everyday life
- Women, connecting and being connected
- Women, ethics and mediation
- Women, technology, learning and improvisation
- Women, knowledge, knowing and action
Due date: OCTOBER 30th, 2004
Format: 20 pages, double spaced, MLA style citations.
Additional information: 1) 200-word bio, 2) full name, and 3) contact
information, including e-mail, address, and phone number.
Please, send electronic submissions (MSWord or RTF) to both editors:
Hannakaisa Isomäki, PhD (hannakaisa.isomaki@ulapland.fi)
and
Heidi Strengell, PhD, EdD (heidi.strengell@ulapland.fi)
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
CFP: Storytelling, Self, Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Storytelling Studies
CFP: Storytelling, Self, Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Storytelling Studies
Deadline: March 1, 2005
Storytelling, Self, Society is a bi-annual, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed
journal that publishes scholarship on a wide variety of topics related to
storytelling as interpersonal, performance, or public discourse. Papers may
represent disciplines including but not limited to storytelling, folklore,
cultural studies, communication, English, education, library science, health care,
business, peace studies, psychology, sociology, anthropology, pop culture,
theater and performance studies. For more information on the journal, we
invite submitters to visit our web site: http://www.fau.edu/storytelling/journal.htm
For consideration in the Fall 2005 issue, please email a completed manuscript by March 1, 2005, to:
Caren S. Neile, MFA, Ph.D.
Managing Editor, Storytelling, Self, Society
cneile@fau.edu
Manuscripts (headings and in-text citations), abstracts, references/works cited, figures, and tables must conform either to: (a) the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2001, Fifth Edition) guidelines, or (b) to the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (2003, Sixth Edition, Modern Language Association of America). Contributors are encouraged to follow the guidelines of these manuals for avoiding bias in language. Each submission should include a single-paragraph abstract of no more than 120 words on a separate page, preceding the manuscript. Submittors should indicate whether their submissions conform for MLA or APA style, and include in the letter to the Managing Editor the history of the manuscript (conference paper, Master's Thesis, Dissertation, part of a larger study, to name a few).
By submitting to SSS, authors warrant that (a) they will not submit their manuscript to any other publication while the manuscript is under review with SSS, (b) the work is original and not previously published in any form, and (c) appropriate credit has been given to other contributors, including students, to the project. Manuscripts should be no more than 20 double-spaced pages (excluding references, tables, figures, or appendixes; 12-pt. Times New Roman, 1-inch page margins all around). Manuscripts that do not conform to the mission of the journal, or do not comply with the submission guidelines, will not be reviewed. In submitting, authors agree to assign copyright of their manuscripts, if accepted, to SSS.
Deadline: March 1, 2005
Storytelling, Self, Society is a bi-annual, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed
journal that publishes scholarship on a wide variety of topics related to
storytelling as interpersonal, performance, or public discourse. Papers may
represent disciplines including but not limited to storytelling, folklore,
cultural studies, communication, English, education, library science, health care,
business, peace studies, psychology, sociology, anthropology, pop culture,
theater and performance studies. For more information on the journal, we
invite submitters to visit our web site: http://www.fau.edu/storytelling/journal.htm
For consideration in the Fall 2005 issue, please email a completed manuscript by March 1, 2005, to:
Caren S. Neile, MFA, Ph.D.
Managing Editor, Storytelling, Self, Society
cneile@fau.edu
Manuscripts (headings and in-text citations), abstracts, references/works cited, figures, and tables must conform either to: (a) the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2001, Fifth Edition) guidelines, or (b) to the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (2003, Sixth Edition, Modern Language Association of America). Contributors are encouraged to follow the guidelines of these manuals for avoiding bias in language. Each submission should include a single-paragraph abstract of no more than 120 words on a separate page, preceding the manuscript. Submittors should indicate whether their submissions conform for MLA or APA style, and include in the letter to the Managing Editor the history of the manuscript (conference paper, Master's Thesis, Dissertation, part of a larger study, to name a few).
By submitting to SSS, authors warrant that (a) they will not submit their manuscript to any other publication while the manuscript is under review with SSS, (b) the work is original and not previously published in any form, and (c) appropriate credit has been given to other contributors, including students, to the project. Manuscripts should be no more than 20 double-spaced pages (excluding references, tables, figures, or appendixes; 12-pt. Times New Roman, 1-inch page margins all around). Manuscripts that do not conform to the mission of the journal, or do not comply with the submission guidelines, will not be reviewed. In submitting, authors agree to assign copyright of their manuscripts, if accepted, to SSS.
Innovate: Journal of Online Education
New Journal: Innovate: Journal of Online Education
Innovate is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical focusing on the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and government settings. We welcome submissions from a wide community of practitioners—from professors, teachers, trainers, and support specialists to program administrators, software designers, and leaders in the information technology industry. Please read the following material and review our style sheet before submitting a manuscript for publication consideration.
(from the submissions page):
Article Length: We seek articles that are substantive but concise (1,800 to 2,500 words). We encourage authors to expand and illuminate key concepts by linking to supplementary files (e.g., graphic images, tables, exhibits, audio clips, video clips, and embedded flash files) from the article proper. Such materials take full advantage of the Web's multimedia capacities, thereby enhancing the interactive educational experience for readers. Article supplements do not count toward the word limit stated above. They must, however, add meaning to the main text rather than simply repeat information within it. For more information and related policies, see our guidelines for article supplements.
Conference Presentations: We will consider a manuscript that has been presented at a conference or even published in conference proceedings. Disclose conference information at the end of the manuscript, imitating this example: [This article was modified from a presentation at the EDUCAUSE annual conference in Atlanta, GA, October 2002.] If possible, provide hyperlinks for the presentation file (if available in Web conference proceedings), the sponsoring organization, and the conference home page.
URLs:
Main Journal Page: http://innovateonline.info/
Submissions Page: http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=submit
Innovate is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical focusing on the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and government settings. We welcome submissions from a wide community of practitioners—from professors, teachers, trainers, and support specialists to program administrators, software designers, and leaders in the information technology industry. Please read the following material and review our style sheet before submitting a manuscript for publication consideration.
(from the submissions page):
Article Length: We seek articles that are substantive but concise (1,800 to 2,500 words). We encourage authors to expand and illuminate key concepts by linking to supplementary files (e.g., graphic images, tables, exhibits, audio clips, video clips, and embedded flash files) from the article proper. Such materials take full advantage of the Web's multimedia capacities, thereby enhancing the interactive educational experience for readers. Article supplements do not count toward the word limit stated above. They must, however, add meaning to the main text rather than simply repeat information within it. For more information and related policies, see our guidelines for article supplements.
Conference Presentations: We will consider a manuscript that has been presented at a conference or even published in conference proceedings. Disclose conference information at the end of the manuscript, imitating this example: [This article was modified from a presentation at the EDUCAUSE annual conference in Atlanta, GA, October 2002.] If possible, provide hyperlinks for the presentation file (if available in Web conference proceedings), the sponsoring organization, and the conference home page.
URLs:
Main Journal Page: http://innovateonline.info/
Submissions Page: http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=submit
CFP UPDATE: (PCA/ACA) Dime Novels, Juvenile Series Books, and Pulp Fiction
CFP UPDATE: Dime Novels, Juvenile Series Books, and Pulp Fiction
SUBMISSION DEADLINE UPDATE: Nov. 2, 2004
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Joint Annual Conference
San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina
San Diego, CA - March 23-26, 2005
The PCA Dime Novels, Juvenile Series Books, and Pulps Division invites interested parties to submit papers for presentation. Papers may cover (but are not limited to) any aspect of these subjects: themes, authors, major characters, audience, readership, bibliography or research methods, matters of gender, race, image, or attitude, social commentary, special collections, early genre forms, and, for added interest, works set in California or San Diego.
Potential participants do not need to be members, academics, or professional writers to submit proposals; however, membership in either PCA or ACA and registration for the conference are required in order to present. The deadline for conference registration is November 2, 2004.
All participants are requested to submit 250 word abstracts with titles. First-time participants should submit a 1-2 page proposal (please include a bibliography of proposed reference sources) along with the 250 word abstract.
Send all materials by October 15, 2004 to:
Marlena E. Bremseth, Area Chair
46 Quentin Roosevelt Blvd.
Coronado, CA 92118
(619) 435-6744
Raven04@aol.com
SUBMISSION DEADLINE UPDATE: Nov. 2, 2004
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Joint Annual Conference
San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina
San Diego, CA - March 23-26, 2005
The PCA Dime Novels, Juvenile Series Books, and Pulps Division invites interested parties to submit papers for presentation. Papers may cover (but are not limited to) any aspect of these subjects: themes, authors, major characters, audience, readership, bibliography or research methods, matters of gender, race, image, or attitude, social commentary, special collections, early genre forms, and, for added interest, works set in California or San Diego.
Potential participants do not need to be members, academics, or professional writers to submit proposals; however, membership in either PCA or ACA and registration for the conference are required in order to present. The deadline for conference registration is November 2, 2004.
All participants are requested to submit 250 word abstracts with titles. First-time participants should submit a 1-2 page proposal (please include a bibliography of proposed reference sources) along with the 250 word abstract.
Send all materials by October 15, 2004 to:
Marlena E. Bremseth, Area Chair
46 Quentin Roosevelt Blvd.
Coronado, CA 92118
(619) 435-6744
Raven04@aol.com
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
CFP: LITA National Forum (Library and Information Technology Association)
Conference: LITA (Library and Information Technology Association) National Forum Conference Date: September 29-October 2, 2005
Conference Location: San Jose, California
Deadline: December 15, 2004
Theme: The Ubiquitous Web: Personalization, Portability, and Online Collaboration. Wireless connectivity and portable computing devices can take the Web almost anywhere, from the corner cafe to Timbuktu. Fire up a laptop or a handheld and you’re online—and not just online, but in an environment where sites remember you and adapt to you. Now what? Now that the technologies work, how do they work together? How do they help us work together? What does a ubiquitous Web mean for libraries?
The Forum Committee is particularly interested in presentations that highlight specific technology implementations, in any type of library. Proposals on all aspects of library and information technology are welcome.
Possible proposal topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Non-Traditional/New Media (including Streaming media, Electronic books and journals...)
2. Digital Libraries (Resource linking strategies, Creating and sustaining digital libraries, Preservation of digital records...)
3. Authentication and Authorization (Digital Rights Management, Authentication/privacy, Services for remote patrons, customization/personalization...)
4. Portals/Federated/Meta-Searching (Design and management of portals, Integrated access to resources, Search engines...)
5. Information architecture (Web application design and databases, Web content management...)
6. Emerging Technologies (Wireless technologies, Assistive technologies, New user services and new communities...)
7. Technology Management (IT Project Management, Forecasting, budgeting, and managing technological change, Knowledge sharing applications...)
8. Internet Law (Filtering Technology, Privacy...)
9. Open source software
10. Distance education and courseware
Presentations must have a technological focus and they must pertain to libraries and/or be of interest to librarians. Concurrent sessions are approximately 75 minutes in length.
Forum 2005 will also accept a limited number of poster session proposals. Presenters should indicate their interest in a poster session on their proposals. Presenters are required to submit handouts one month in advance for the Forum notebook, and handouts will be made available on the Web site after the event. Your proposals are welcome and much appreciated! To submit a proposal, send the following information via email (in ASCII, PDF, or RTF format):
• Title
• Abstract and brief outline
• Level indicator (basic, intermediate, or advanced)
• Brief biographical information. Include experience as a presenter and expertise in the topic
• Full contact information
• Could this be a possible poster session?
• How you heard about the 2005 Forum Call for Proposals
The 2005 Forum Planning Committee will review proposals at the ALA Midwinter Conference in January 2005. You will be contacted about the status of your proposal by the end of February 2005.
Submit proposals (in ASCII, PDF, or RTF) by December 15, 2004, to: Mary Taylor, mtaylor@ala.org, Executive Director, Library and Information Technology Association.
Conference Location: San Jose, California
Deadline: December 15, 2004
Theme: The Ubiquitous Web: Personalization, Portability, and Online Collaboration. Wireless connectivity and portable computing devices can take the Web almost anywhere, from the corner cafe to Timbuktu. Fire up a laptop or a handheld and you’re online—and not just online, but in an environment where sites remember you and adapt to you. Now what? Now that the technologies work, how do they work together? How do they help us work together? What does a ubiquitous Web mean for libraries?
The Forum Committee is particularly interested in presentations that highlight specific technology implementations, in any type of library. Proposals on all aspects of library and information technology are welcome.
Possible proposal topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Non-Traditional/New Media (including Streaming media, Electronic books and journals...)
2. Digital Libraries (Resource linking strategies, Creating and sustaining digital libraries, Preservation of digital records...)
3. Authentication and Authorization (Digital Rights Management, Authentication/privacy, Services for remote patrons, customization/personalization...)
4. Portals/Federated/Meta-Searching (Design and management of portals, Integrated access to resources, Search engines...)
5. Information architecture (Web application design and databases, Web content management...)
6. Emerging Technologies (Wireless technologies, Assistive technologies, New user services and new communities...)
7. Technology Management (IT Project Management, Forecasting, budgeting, and managing technological change, Knowledge sharing applications...)
8. Internet Law (Filtering Technology, Privacy...)
9. Open source software
10. Distance education and courseware
Presentations must have a technological focus and they must pertain to libraries and/or be of interest to librarians. Concurrent sessions are approximately 75 minutes in length.
Forum 2005 will also accept a limited number of poster session proposals. Presenters should indicate their interest in a poster session on their proposals. Presenters are required to submit handouts one month in advance for the Forum notebook, and handouts will be made available on the Web site after the event. Your proposals are welcome and much appreciated! To submit a proposal, send the following information via email (in ASCII, PDF, or RTF format):
• Title
• Abstract and brief outline
• Level indicator (basic, intermediate, or advanced)
• Brief biographical information. Include experience as a presenter and expertise in the topic
• Full contact information
• Could this be a possible poster session?
• How you heard about the 2005 Forum Call for Proposals
The 2005 Forum Planning Committee will review proposals at the ALA Midwinter Conference in January 2005. You will be contacted about the status of your proposal by the end of February 2005.
Submit proposals (in ASCII, PDF, or RTF) by December 15, 2004, to: Mary Taylor, mtaylor@ala.org, Executive Director, Library and Information Technology Association.
Monday, October 11, 2004
CFP: Seeking Contributors to an Encyclopedia of Prostitution
Seeking Contributors to an Encyclopedia of Prostitution
The Historical Encyclopedia of Prostitution is a reference work about prostitution past and present, both worldwide (mostly in the West) and in the United States to be published by Greenwood Press. With approximately 600 entries on health, cultural issues, migration, boom towns, legislation, technology, literature, movies, and more, this three-volume encyclopedia promises to be a foremost resource devoted to this high-interest yet sensitive topic.
For more information and a list of topics, visit: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=141540
You can also visit the main page for the journal (although the list of entries requires a password...not sure why): http://ditmore.greenwood.com/index.htm
Editor: Melissa Ditmore
Email: mhd12@cornell.edu
The Historical Encyclopedia of Prostitution is a reference work about prostitution past and present, both worldwide (mostly in the West) and in the United States to be published by Greenwood Press. With approximately 600 entries on health, cultural issues, migration, boom towns, legislation, technology, literature, movies, and more, this three-volume encyclopedia promises to be a foremost resource devoted to this high-interest yet sensitive topic.
For more information and a list of topics, visit: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=141540
You can also visit the main page for the journal (although the list of entries requires a password...not sure why): http://ditmore.greenwood.com/index.htm
Editor: Melissa Ditmore
Email: mhd12@cornell.edu
CFP - IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) General Conference
Conference Name: IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Conference Date: August 14th - 18th 2005
Conference Location: Oslo, Norway
Deadline: varies -- check URLs below
The content of the IFLA Conference Programme is organised by different professional groups (Sections and Core Programmes). All papers have to be submitted through one of these groups which should be approached directly if you would like to contribute a paper. Please note, however, that each group has its own mechanisms of calls for papers, deadlines, refereeing and selection and that some groups do not call for papers but decide on speakers internally.
Authors of accepted papers will receive an official invitation to the conference upon request. However, travel costs to Oslo and other costs (including registration fees and accommodation) cannot be paid by IFLA. These remain the responsibility of the speaker.
For more information, visit:
URLs:
Main Conference Page: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/
Call for Papers: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/calls-e.htm
Call for Poster Presentations: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/call-poster-pr2005.htm
E-mail List for IFLA: http://www.ifla.org/II/lists/ifla-l.htm
Conference Date: August 14th - 18th 2005
Conference Location: Oslo, Norway
Deadline: varies -- check URLs below
The content of the IFLA Conference Programme is organised by different professional groups (Sections and Core Programmes). All papers have to be submitted through one of these groups which should be approached directly if you would like to contribute a paper. Please note, however, that each group has its own mechanisms of calls for papers, deadlines, refereeing and selection and that some groups do not call for papers but decide on speakers internally.
Authors of accepted papers will receive an official invitation to the conference upon request. However, travel costs to Oslo and other costs (including registration fees and accommodation) cannot be paid by IFLA. These remain the responsibility of the speaker.
For more information, visit:
URLs:
Main Conference Page: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/
Call for Papers: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/calls-e.htm
Call for Poster Presentations: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/call-poster-pr2005.htm
E-mail List for IFLA: http://www.ifla.org/II/lists/ifla-l.htm
Sunday, October 10, 2004
CFP: ALADN (Academic Library Advancement and Development Network)
Conference Name: ALADN (Academic Library Advancement and Development Network) Conference 2005
Conference Date: March 6-9, 2005
Conference Location: New Orleans, LA
Deadline: November 15, 2004
For more information, visit the links below. The main ALADN page has past programs so you can see what was presented in the past. Some of the program ideas they would like to explore this year include:
-Turning Annual Giving Donors into Major Donors
-Let’s Play Nice Together: Working with Development Officers/Librarians in the Fundraising World
-Popular Library Naming Opportunities and How You Sell Them
-Unique Stewardship and Fundraising Events
-Raising Money for Endowed Positions in the Library
-Working with Administration: What Library Development Officers Need to Know
-Library as a Part of the University Campaign
-Special Collections: We have Artifacts and We’re not Afraid to Use Them!
-Creative Ways to Thank Your Donor
URLS:
Main Home Page for ALADN: http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/aladn/
Conference Home: http://www.loyno.edu/~aladn/home.htm
Proposal Form (PDF): http://www.loyno.edu/~aladn/proposal.pdf
For more information, contact: Karlene Noel Jennings (Iowa State University Foundation),
knj@iastate.edu
Conference Date: March 6-9, 2005
Conference Location: New Orleans, LA
Deadline: November 15, 2004
For more information, visit the links below. The main ALADN page has past programs so you can see what was presented in the past. Some of the program ideas they would like to explore this year include:
-Turning Annual Giving Donors into Major Donors
-Let’s Play Nice Together: Working with Development Officers/Librarians in the Fundraising World
-Popular Library Naming Opportunities and How You Sell Them
-Unique Stewardship and Fundraising Events
-Raising Money for Endowed Positions in the Library
-Working with Administration: What Library Development Officers Need to Know
-Library as a Part of the University Campaign
-Special Collections: We have Artifacts and We’re not Afraid to Use Them!
-Creative Ways to Thank Your Donor
URLS:
Main Home Page for ALADN: http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/aladn/
Conference Home: http://www.loyno.edu/~aladn/home.htm
Proposal Form (PDF): http://www.loyno.edu/~aladn/proposal.pdf
For more information, contact: Karlene Noel Jennings (Iowa State University Foundation),
knj@iastate.edu
Saturday, October 09, 2004
CFP: Workshop on Instruction in Library Use
Conference: Workshop on Instruction in Library Use (34th Meeting)
Conference Date: May 18-20, 2005
Conference Location: Guelph, Ontario
Deadline Date: November 26, 2004
The WILU 2005 program will challenge participants to reflect on the placement of information literacy in the broader context of other forms of literacy. Join us to explore a broad range of the theories and practices of the many faces of literacy: reading and writing, computer, information, media, visual, statistical and academic literacy. What role do libraries and librarians play in addressing, promoting, and collaborating with partners to advance these forms of literacy?
Presentation formats
Paper: a theoretical, comparative, or other analytical consideration relevant to the theme. Time allotted: 45 minutes (including 15 minutes discussion time)
Case study: description of and reflections on a particular activity or ongoing project. Time allotted: 45 minutes (including 15 minutes discussion time)
Hands-on Workshop: following a brief introduction and explanation of the goals all attendees participate in a group activity with concluding input by the workshop organizer. Time allotted: 90 minutes
Round Table: A max of three to speak for ~15 minutes each followed by a general discussion which is moderated by a chairperson. Please supply names of the chairperson and all panelists. Time allotted: 90 minutes
URLS:
Call for Papers Home: http://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/wilu/proposal.html
Conference Home: http://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/wilu/
Conference Date: May 18-20, 2005
Conference Location: Guelph, Ontario
Deadline Date: November 26, 2004
The WILU 2005 program will challenge participants to reflect on the placement of information literacy in the broader context of other forms of literacy. Join us to explore a broad range of the theories and practices of the many faces of literacy: reading and writing, computer, information, media, visual, statistical and academic literacy. What role do libraries and librarians play in addressing, promoting, and collaborating with partners to advance these forms of literacy?
Presentation formats
Paper: a theoretical, comparative, or other analytical consideration relevant to the theme. Time allotted: 45 minutes (including 15 minutes discussion time)
Case study: description of and reflections on a particular activity or ongoing project. Time allotted: 45 minutes (including 15 minutes discussion time)
Hands-on Workshop: following a brief introduction and explanation of the goals all attendees participate in a group activity with concluding input by the workshop organizer. Time allotted: 90 minutes
Round Table: A max of three to speak for ~15 minutes each followed by a general discussion which is moderated by a chairperson. Please supply names of the chairperson and all panelists. Time allotted: 90 minutes
URLS:
Call for Papers Home: http://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/wilu/proposal.html
Conference Home: http://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/wilu/
Thursday, October 07, 2004
CFP - Innovative Users Group (IUG) 2005
Conference Name: Innovative Users Group (IUG)
Conference Date: May 1-4, 2005
Conference Location: San Francisco, California
Deadline: November 5, 2004
NOTE: Follow the link below for the full list of topics. This is the description information.
This is a list of topics that YOU told us you would like to hear about at the next Innovative Users Group Meeting (May 1-4, 2005, San Franciso, CA). We need volunteers to give these presentations. Don't be shy - you know more than you think you do! If you don't want to go it alone, think about participating in a panel discussion or coordinating a program and finding other presenters. You are certainly not limited to topics on this list, but this is a good place if you’re looking for ideas.
Program Tips:
Both novice and advanced user levels are needed:
-Overview of a module or a function for beginners (including experienced users starting to use the module or function)
-Real-life examples from libraries using the module/functionality
-Programs that delve with more depth into one smaller area or function
Include both public and academic libraries as much as possible on panels
Users like "nuts and bolts", "this is how to do it", "what it can do for you" and "we had this problem and here is what we did about it" programs
All submitted programs will be reviewed by the Committee before being accepted. We are working with a finite number of program.
URLs
Suggested Topics: http://www.innovativeusers.org/iug2005/Suggested_Topics.html
Main Conference Page: http://www.innovativeusers.org/iug2005
Main IUG Page: http://www.innovativeusers.org
For more information, contact the Program Committee Chair, Cheryl Gowing, University of Miami
cgowing@miami.edu
NOTE: The webform for submitting conference proposals is not online yet.
Conference Date: May 1-4, 2005
Conference Location: San Francisco, California
Deadline: November 5, 2004
NOTE: Follow the link below for the full list of topics. This is the description information.
This is a list of topics that YOU told us you would like to hear about at the next Innovative Users Group Meeting (May 1-4, 2005, San Franciso, CA). We need volunteers to give these presentations. Don't be shy - you know more than you think you do! If you don't want to go it alone, think about participating in a panel discussion or coordinating a program and finding other presenters. You are certainly not limited to topics on this list, but this is a good place if you’re looking for ideas.
Program Tips:
Both novice and advanced user levels are needed:
-Overview of a module or a function for beginners (including experienced users starting to use the module or function)
-Real-life examples from libraries using the module/functionality
-Programs that delve with more depth into one smaller area or function
Include both public and academic libraries as much as possible on panels
Users like "nuts and bolts", "this is how to do it", "what it can do for you" and "we had this problem and here is what we did about it" programs
All submitted programs will be reviewed by the Committee before being accepted. We are working with a finite number of program.
URLs
Suggested Topics: http://www.innovativeusers.org/iug2005/Suggested_Topics.html
Main Conference Page: http://www.innovativeusers.org/iug2005
Main IUG Page: http://www.innovativeusers.org
For more information, contact the Program Committee Chair, Cheryl Gowing, University of Miami
cgowing@miami.edu
NOTE: The webform for submitting conference proposals is not online yet.
CFP - NASIG Annual Conference (2005)
Conference Name: NASIG 2005 Annual Conference (North American Serials Interest Group)
Conference Date: May 19-22, 2005
Conference Location: Minneapolis, MN
Deadline: November 3, 2004
The Program Planning Committee is issuing a second and final targeted call for proposals. After reviewing the proposals we have received during the first call and trying to identify elements of a comprehensive program, the Committee is interested in proposals that address the following topics:
-Funding strategies
-Off-site storage issues related to cataloging, inventory & management
-Helping patrons understand the serials crisis
-New licensing issues
-How to write and respond to RFPs
-Blogs and wikis in libraries, including whether to catalog and/or provide
access, how they are being used
-Archiving debates: PubMED vs LOCKSS vs publisher sites
-Embargo vs open access for NIH articles
-Aggregators
-Effect of the aggregator-neutral record on serials cataloging practice
-FRBR and continuing resources
-The idea of seriality in cataloging
-MARC holdings
-Presentation Skills
-Profession in general (recruiting, etc.)
The Program Planning Committee will review all submitted proposals for their content, timeliness, and relevance to the conference theme and reserves the
right to combine, blend, or refocus proposals to maximize their relevance and
to avoid duplication. In addition, the Committee will treat all submissions
as suggestions and guideposts. Time management issues and reimbursement guidelines generally limit each session to two speakers. Also note that proposals may be suggested as one type of session and/or format and ultimately be accepted as any one of the other types of sessions or formats; this decision is the purview of the Program Planning Committee.
For more information about the North American Serials Interest Group,
please see: http://www.nasig.org
For complete program information, please see the original Call for
Proposals and Program Ideas Suggestions at:
http://www.nasig.org/public/2005proposals.htm
NASIG has a reimbursement policy for conference speakers whose organizations do not cover expenses. For more information about this policy, please see:
http://www.nasig.org/public/reimbursement_policy.htm
To suggest a proposal, please fill out the submission form available at:
http://www.nasig.org/public/forms/idea.htm
Conference Date: May 19-22, 2005
Conference Location: Minneapolis, MN
Deadline: November 3, 2004
The Program Planning Committee is issuing a second and final targeted call for proposals. After reviewing the proposals we have received during the first call and trying to identify elements of a comprehensive program, the Committee is interested in proposals that address the following topics:
-Funding strategies
-Off-site storage issues related to cataloging, inventory & management
-Helping patrons understand the serials crisis
-New licensing issues
-How to write and respond to RFPs
-Blogs and wikis in libraries, including whether to catalog and/or provide
access, how they are being used
-Archiving debates: PubMED vs LOCKSS vs publisher sites
-Embargo vs open access for NIH articles
-Aggregators
-Effect of the aggregator-neutral record on serials cataloging practice
-FRBR and continuing resources
-The idea of seriality in cataloging
-MARC holdings
-Presentation Skills
-Profession in general (recruiting, etc.)
The Program Planning Committee will review all submitted proposals for their content, timeliness, and relevance to the conference theme and reserves the
right to combine, blend, or refocus proposals to maximize their relevance and
to avoid duplication. In addition, the Committee will treat all submissions
as suggestions and guideposts. Time management issues and reimbursement guidelines generally limit each session to two speakers. Also note that proposals may be suggested as one type of session and/or format and ultimately be accepted as any one of the other types of sessions or formats; this decision is the purview of the Program Planning Committee.
For more information about the North American Serials Interest Group,
please see: http://www.nasig.org
For complete program information, please see the original Call for
Proposals and Program Ideas Suggestions at:
http://www.nasig.org/public/2005proposals.htm
NASIG has a reimbursement policy for conference speakers whose organizations do not cover expenses. For more information about this policy, please see:
http://www.nasig.org/public/reimbursement_policy.htm
To suggest a proposal, please fill out the submission form available at:
http://www.nasig.org/public/forms/idea.htm
General Info - Library Philosophy and Practice
Library Philosophy and Practice is a refereed electronic journal publishing articles that demonstrate the connection between library practice and the philosophy and theory which are behind it. Issues appear twice a year, in Fall and Spring. The reviewing process takes four to six weeks, and the deadline for submissions to be considered for each issue is August for the Spring issue, and May for the Fall issue.
Submit manuscripts of approximately 2,000-6,000 words electronically to the editors in any IBM-compatible word-processing format, or in HTML. Articles may include graphics and embedded objects.
LPP does not accept simultaneous submissions. Please do not submit manuscripts which are being considered elsewhere. Please do not submit manuscripts to LPP and other journals at the same time.
URLS:
Authors Information: http://libr.unl.edu:2000/LPP/authors.htm
Main Journal Page: http://libr.unl.edu:2000/LPP/lpp.htm
Submit manuscripts of approximately 2,000-6,000 words electronically to the editors in any IBM-compatible word-processing format, or in HTML. Articles may include graphics and embedded objects.
LPP does not accept simultaneous submissions. Please do not submit manuscripts which are being considered elsewhere. Please do not submit manuscripts to LPP and other journals at the same time.
URLS:
Authors Information: http://libr.unl.edu:2000/LPP/authors.htm
Main Journal Page: http://libr.unl.edu:2000/LPP/lpp.htm
Monday, October 04, 2004
Deadline Extended -- Encyclopedia of African American Literature
The editors of *An Encyclopedia of African American Literature,* under contract with Greenwood Press, seek contributors to write entries on the following authors and topics: Hilton Als, *The Amsterdam News,* Samuel A. Beadle, Frank London Brown, Barbara Chase-Riboud, James D. Corrothers, Creole, Nathaniel Dett, Education (in Literature), A. R. Flowers, T. Thomas Fortune, E. Franklin Frazier, O. O. Gabugah, Jewelle Gomez, Sutton E. Griggs, Carl Hancock, Humor, Edward Smythe Jones, Jake Lamar, Lesbian Literature, Los Angeles (in Literature), Love (in Literature), Victoria Earle Matthews, Middle Passage (in Literature), Opal Moore, Robert Deane Pharr, Prose Poem, Prosody, Eugene Redmond, Robert Reid Pharr, Revolutionary War (in Literature), San Francisco Bay Area (in Literature), Sexuality/Sexual Identity (in Literature), Signifying, Venture Smith, Spirituals, Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr., Richard Wesley, and Shay Youngblood.
Entries will range in length from 350 to 2000 words, depending on the topic, and will be due by November 15, 2004. Detailed information about the *Encyclopedia* is available online at
http://www.ups.edu/faculty/ostrom/New_Folder/encyclopedia.html
If you would be interested in contributing to the *Encyclopedia* or would like more information about this project, please contact David Macey at the University of Central Oklahoma (dmacey@ucok.edu, 405-974-5641) or Hans Ostrom at the University of Puget Sound (ostrom@ups.edu, 254-879-3434).
Entries will range in length from 350 to 2000 words, depending on the topic, and will be due by November 15, 2004. Detailed information about the *Encyclopedia* is available online at
http://www.ups.edu/faculty/ostrom/New_Folder/encyclopedia.html
If you would be interested in contributing to the *Encyclopedia* or would like more information about this project, please contact David Macey at the University of Central Oklahoma (dmacey@ucok.edu, 405-974-5641) or Hans Ostrom at the University of Puget Sound (ostrom@ups.edu, 254-879-3434).
Thursday, September 30, 2004
CFP: Encyclopedia of Support Services and Distance Education
Encyclopedia of Support Services and Distance Education Location
Deadline: 2004-10-15
Seeking additional short entries (1000 to 3000 words) on all topics related to support services in distance education for the Encyclopedia of Support Services and Distance Education. Entries can relate to the following areas: academic support services, technical services, social services, and business/industry. For a more detailed list of topics and additional information abouut the project, please contact Mary Hricko, Editor at the e-mail address given below.
Mary Hricko
Kent State University Geauga Campus
14111 Claridon-Troy Road
Burton, OH 44021
PH: 440-834-3717
Email: mhricko@kent.edu
Deadline: 2004-10-15
Seeking additional short entries (1000 to 3000 words) on all topics related to support services in distance education for the Encyclopedia of Support Services and Distance Education. Entries can relate to the following areas: academic support services, technical services, social services, and business/industry. For a more detailed list of topics and additional information abouut the project, please contact Mary Hricko, Editor at the e-mail address given below.
Mary Hricko
Kent State University Geauga Campus
14111 Claridon-Troy Road
Burton, OH 44021
PH: 440-834-3717
Email: mhricko@kent.edu
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
CFP -- Association for Recorded Sound Collections
Conference Name: Association for Recorded Sound Collections
Conference Location: Austin, Texas
Conference Date: March 30-April 2, 2005
Deadline: November 15, 2004
ARSC invites submissions of program proposals for our 39th annual conference. Papers, panels, and demonstrations on all aspects of recordings and recorded sound are welcome. We especially encourage papers on music from Texas, including the blues, classical, conjunto, country, cowboy, electric blues, honky-tonk, jazz, rock and roll, Tejano, western swing, and the many other musical forms that emanate from or flourish in this part of the country.
For more infomation, please visit:
Call for Papers Form: http://www.arsc-audio.org/2005conference_call.html
Conference Main Page: http://www.arsc-audio.org/conference2005.html
Organization Main Page: http://www.arsc-audio.org/index.html
Conference Location: Austin, Texas
Conference Date: March 30-April 2, 2005
Deadline: November 15, 2004
ARSC invites submissions of program proposals for our 39th annual conference. Papers, panels, and demonstrations on all aspects of recordings and recorded sound are welcome. We especially encourage papers on music from Texas, including the blues, classical, conjunto, country, cowboy, electric blues, honky-tonk, jazz, rock and roll, Tejano, western swing, and the many other musical forms that emanate from or flourish in this part of the country.
For more infomation, please visit:
Call for Papers Form: http://www.arsc-audio.org/2005conference_call.html
Conference Main Page: http://www.arsc-audio.org/conference2005.html
Organization Main Page: http://www.arsc-audio.org/index.html
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
CFP - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Popular Culture (SW/T PCA)
Conference: Libraries, Archives, Museums and Popular Culture Area
of Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Assn. & Southwest/Texas American Culture Assn.
2005 Annual Conference
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque * Albuquerque, New Mexico
February 9-12, 2005
Deadline: November 15, 2004
The Libraries, Archives, Museums and Popular Culture area solicits paper proposals from librarians, graduate students, library school faculty, collectors, writers, and other aficionados (yes! including people who use libraries, archives, and museums!) of popular culture and information settings of all types! We also encourage proposals for slide shows, video presentations, workshop formats, and panels organized around common themes. Among previous presentations were a study of library marketing in Romania, an overview of collection development for feminist spirituality, and a consideration of Gone with the Wind as an information product.
Some suggested topics:
-electronic information-seeking habits
-intellectual freedom issues related to popular culture resources
-book clubs and reading groups
-reports of research studies of popular culture & libraries, archives, or museums
-marketing popular culture materials to library, archives, or museum users
-collection building and popular culture resources
-organization and description of popular culture resources
-new media formats and popular culture in libraries, archives, or museums
-knowledge management issues
-profiles of popular culture resources
Send a 200-word abstract to the Area Co-Chairs by November 15, 2004. Include your complete mailing address, school or other affiliation, e-mail address, telephone number, and fax number. Graduate students are encouraged to present, and to apply for the graduate paper prizes listed at http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/Awards/awards.htm
For more information and to submit abstracts, email:
Janet Brennan Croft
University of Oklahoma
e-mail: jbcroft@ou.edu
Rhonda Harris Taylor
University of Oklahoma
e-mail: rtaylor@ou.edu
of Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Assn. & Southwest/Texas American Culture Assn.
2005 Annual Conference
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque * Albuquerque, New Mexico
February 9-12, 2005
Deadline: November 15, 2004
The Libraries, Archives, Museums and Popular Culture area solicits paper proposals from librarians, graduate students, library school faculty, collectors, writers, and other aficionados (yes! including people who use libraries, archives, and museums!) of popular culture and information settings of all types! We also encourage proposals for slide shows, video presentations, workshop formats, and panels organized around common themes. Among previous presentations were a study of library marketing in Romania, an overview of collection development for feminist spirituality, and a consideration of Gone with the Wind as an information product.
Some suggested topics:
-electronic information-seeking habits
-intellectual freedom issues related to popular culture resources
-book clubs and reading groups
-reports of research studies of popular culture & libraries, archives, or museums
-marketing popular culture materials to library, archives, or museum users
-collection building and popular culture resources
-organization and description of popular culture resources
-new media formats and popular culture in libraries, archives, or museums
-knowledge management issues
-profiles of popular culture resources
Send a 200-word abstract to the Area Co-Chairs by November 15, 2004. Include your complete mailing address, school or other affiliation, e-mail address, telephone number, and fax number. Graduate students are encouraged to present, and to apply for the graduate paper prizes listed at http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/Awards/awards.htm
For more information and to submit abstracts, email:
Janet Brennan Croft
University of Oklahoma
e-mail: jbcroft@ou.edu
Rhonda Harris Taylor
University of Oklahoma
e-mail: rtaylor@ou.edu
CFP: Syllabus2005 Conference
Conference: Syllabus2005 Conference
Conference Date: July 24-28, 2005
Conference Location: Los Angeles, CA
Deadline: November 30, 2004
Share your knowledge and expertise with colleagues from across the country and around the world at Syllabus2005, next summer in Los Angeles. Our annual five-day conference—which includes a day's visit to the UCLA campus—will feature informative sessions across all technology areas in higher education and will address needs of administrators, IT professionals, faculty, and instructional technology designers. Syllabus2005 will incorporate a wide range of session types, including in-depth skill development workshops, strategic panel discussions, and practical case studies. Breakout sessions will be offered in conference tracks focused on key concerns of higher education technology professionals.
Content Area 1: High-Tech Tools for AdministrationIn-the-trenches sessions designed for higher education staff that use administrative tools in their functional areas.
Content Area 2: IT and Computing in the InstitutionPlanning and implementing institution-wide IT systems, and the tools, resources, and strategies that will help.
Content Area 3: Institutional Strategies - The View Through the IT LensTrends, leadership, and best practices to inform executives charged with guiding the future of academic institutions.
Content Area 4: Teaching with Technology Submissions in this area should be focused on delivering education to the student, with discipline-specific examples of the applications of technology for instruction.
Content Area 5: Instructional Design - Curriculum and Course DesignDesigning, producing, and implementing technology-enhanced instructional programs, effective curriculum, and classroom tools.
Content Area 6: Technologies to Watch - Present & FutureCase studies, practical examples, or survey courses, highlighting new technologies that will make a difference in the way faculty, staff, and administrators will carry out their roles -now and in the future.
For more information, visit:
http://www.syllabus.com/conferences/summer2005/display.asp?nav_id=37
or
http://www.syllabus.com/conferences/summer2005/index.asp
Conference Date: July 24-28, 2005
Conference Location: Los Angeles, CA
Deadline: November 30, 2004
Share your knowledge and expertise with colleagues from across the country and around the world at Syllabus2005, next summer in Los Angeles. Our annual five-day conference—which includes a day's visit to the UCLA campus—will feature informative sessions across all technology areas in higher education and will address needs of administrators, IT professionals, faculty, and instructional technology designers. Syllabus2005 will incorporate a wide range of session types, including in-depth skill development workshops, strategic panel discussions, and practical case studies. Breakout sessions will be offered in conference tracks focused on key concerns of higher education technology professionals.
Content Area 1: High-Tech Tools for AdministrationIn-the-trenches sessions designed for higher education staff that use administrative tools in their functional areas.
Content Area 2: IT and Computing in the InstitutionPlanning and implementing institution-wide IT systems, and the tools, resources, and strategies that will help.
Content Area 3: Institutional Strategies - The View Through the IT LensTrends, leadership, and best practices to inform executives charged with guiding the future of academic institutions.
Content Area 4: Teaching with Technology Submissions in this area should be focused on delivering education to the student, with discipline-specific examples of the applications of technology for instruction.
Content Area 5: Instructional Design - Curriculum and Course DesignDesigning, producing, and implementing technology-enhanced instructional programs, effective curriculum, and classroom tools.
Content Area 6: Technologies to Watch - Present & FutureCase studies, practical examples, or survey courses, highlighting new technologies that will make a difference in the way faculty, staff, and administrators will carry out their roles -now and in the future.
For more information, visit:
http://www.syllabus.com/conferences/summer2005/display.asp?nav_id=37
or
http://www.syllabus.com/conferences/summer2005/index.asp
CFP - ED-MEDIA 2005
Confernce: ED-MEDIA 2005 - World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications
Conference Dates: June 27-July 2, 2005
Conference Location: Montreal, Canada
Deadline: December 20, 2004
ED-MEDIA--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications is an international conference, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
This annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications/distance education.
We invite you to attend ED-MEDIA and submit proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, tutorials, workshops, posters/demonstrations, corporate showcases/demos, and SIG discussions. The Conference Review Policy requires that each proposal will be peer-reviewed by for inclusion in the conference program, proceedings book, and CD-ROM proceedings.
TOPICS
The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following major topics as they relate to the educational and developmental aspects of multimedia/hypermedia and telecommunications. Sub-topics listed here.
1. Infrastructure
2. Tools & Content-Oriented Applications
3. New Roles of the Instructor & Learner
4. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI/CHI)
5. Cases & Projects
6. Universal Web Accessibility
7. Indigenous Peoples & Technology
For more information, please visit the Call for Papers Main Page: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm
Conference Dates: June 27-July 2, 2005
Conference Location: Montreal, Canada
Deadline: December 20, 2004
ED-MEDIA--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications is an international conference, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
This annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications/distance education.
We invite you to attend ED-MEDIA and submit proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, tutorials, workshops, posters/demonstrations, corporate showcases/demos, and SIG discussions. The Conference Review Policy requires that each proposal will be peer-reviewed by for inclusion in the conference program, proceedings book, and CD-ROM proceedings.
TOPICS
The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following major topics as they relate to the educational and developmental aspects of multimedia/hypermedia and telecommunications. Sub-topics listed here.
1. Infrastructure
2. Tools & Content-Oriented Applications
3. New Roles of the Instructor & Learner
4. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI/CHI)
5. Cases & Projects
6. Universal Web Accessibility
7. Indigenous Peoples & Technology
For more information, please visit the Call for Papers Main Page: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm
CFP - LOEX 2005
Conference: LOEX (Clearinghouse for Library Instruction)
Conference Date: May 12-14, 2005
Conference Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Deadline: November 30, 2004
Conference Theme:
"Information and knowledge are intertwined by their very structure and existence. They are integral to each other's state of being." (Owusu-Ansah, 2003) Information Literacy (IL) at its best happens when teaching librarians combine their efforts with faculty at their institutions. In fact, divorced from the efforts of professors who are teaching their students to question and to think critically, IL is dull for the teaching librarian and irrelevant to the student. Picture those hour-long sessions with students following a librarian's mouse-clicks on a projected screen? Students stare blankly into space. Teaching librarians burn out.
But when integrated successfully with the intellectual work of faculty and students, IL can lead to exciting discovery, connecting thinkers in the present as well as those in the present with those in the past. It can engage us with one another, and with the larger world of ideas and actions.
At LOEX 2005, we'll explore ways that innovative librarians and their institutions are working to integrate Information Literacy and academic programs, to help each member of their community discover, connect, and engage with the world of ideas. LOEX invites all instruction librarians, and others involved with or interested in instruction, to share their expertise by submitting proposals to speak at one of the conference's concurrent sessions.
See below pages for detailed call for papers and more contact/conference information
URLS:
Call for Papers Site: http://library.louisville.edu/loex2005/call.htm
Main Conference Site: http://library.louisville.edu/loex2005/
Main LOEX Site: http://www.emich.edu/public/loex/loex.html
Conference Date: May 12-14, 2005
Conference Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Deadline: November 30, 2004
Conference Theme:
"Information and knowledge are intertwined by their very structure and existence. They are integral to each other's state of being." (Owusu-Ansah, 2003) Information Literacy (IL) at its best happens when teaching librarians combine their efforts with faculty at their institutions. In fact, divorced from the efforts of professors who are teaching their students to question and to think critically, IL is dull for the teaching librarian and irrelevant to the student. Picture those hour-long sessions with students following a librarian's mouse-clicks on a projected screen? Students stare blankly into space. Teaching librarians burn out.
But when integrated successfully with the intellectual work of faculty and students, IL can lead to exciting discovery, connecting thinkers in the present as well as those in the present with those in the past. It can engage us with one another, and with the larger world of ideas and actions.
At LOEX 2005, we'll explore ways that innovative librarians and their institutions are working to integrate Information Literacy and academic programs, to help each member of their community discover, connect, and engage with the world of ideas. LOEX invites all instruction librarians, and others involved with or interested in instruction, to share their expertise by submitting proposals to speak at one of the conference's concurrent sessions.
See below pages for detailed call for papers and more contact/conference information
URLS:
Call for Papers Site: http://library.louisville.edu/loex2005/call.htm
Main Conference Site: http://library.louisville.edu/loex2005/
Main LOEX Site: http://www.emich.edu/public/loex/loex.html
Saturday, September 18, 2004
CFP - Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) will be sponsoring two panels at the American Literature Association annual 16th annual conference at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 26-29, 2005 (Thursday through Sunday of Memorial Day weekend). I am seeking submissions on the following topics:
Literary Anthologies/Anthologizing: History of the Book approaches to American literary anthologies, including studies of the editing of anthologies, the fate of particular authors in anthologies, the marketing of anthologies, etc.
Cross-Gender Transactions in American Book History: Men editing women, women editing men, women reading male-authored texts, men reading female-authored texts, men mentoring women, women mentoring men, and other transactions and mediations between men and women in the production, circulation, and consumption of American literary texts. New case studies or new approaches to old examples.
Send abstracts or completed papers and a brief c.v. by December 1, 2004 to:
Melissa J. Homestead
Assistant Professor of English
mjhomestead@ou.edu
760 Van Vleet Oval, Room 113
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019
e-mail submission of documents as Word attachments preferred
Literary Anthologies/Anthologizing: History of the Book approaches to American literary anthologies, including studies of the editing of anthologies, the fate of particular authors in anthologies, the marketing of anthologies, etc.
Cross-Gender Transactions in American Book History: Men editing women, women editing men, women reading male-authored texts, men reading female-authored texts, men mentoring women, women mentoring men, and other transactions and mediations between men and women in the production, circulation, and consumption of American literary texts. New case studies or new approaches to old examples.
Send abstracts or completed papers and a brief c.v. by December 1, 2004 to:
Melissa J. Homestead
Assistant Professor of English
mjhomestead@ou.edu
760 Van Vleet Oval, Room 113
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019
e-mail submission of documents as Word attachments preferred
CFP - European Popular Culture (book chapter)
Authors are sought for individual chapters of the Europe volume of the Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture, a six-volume set under contract with the Greenwood Publishing Group.
Each volume will consist of narrative chapters, similar in style and scope to the individual entries in the “American Popular Culture through History” series (also Greenwood). Starting with the onset of mass media culture during the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, each essay should provide a chronological overview over its topic. The average length of entries will be between 12,500 and 13,000 words, including notes and a resource guide. The submission deadline for completed essays is May 1st, 2005. Upon publication of the volume, Greenwood will pay authors an honorarium.
The following chapters need assignments:
* Architecture
* Art
* Dance
* Love, Sex & Marriage
* Fashion & Appearance
* Film
* Food & Foodways
* Games, Hobbies & Toys
* Literature
* Music
* Periodicals
* Radio & Television (including advertising)
* Sports
* Theater & Performance
* Transportation & Travel
The process of assigning articles has already begun and should be completed by October 15th, 2004. Interested authors should provide evidence of research background in their respective fields.
For questions and further information, or to request an assignment, contact:
Gerd Bayer
Languages and Literatures Department
University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
Whitewater, WI 53190
Phone: (262) 472-1065
e-mail: bayerg@uww.edu
Each volume will consist of narrative chapters, similar in style and scope to the individual entries in the “American Popular Culture through History” series (also Greenwood). Starting with the onset of mass media culture during the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, each essay should provide a chronological overview over its topic. The average length of entries will be between 12,500 and 13,000 words, including notes and a resource guide. The submission deadline for completed essays is May 1st, 2005. Upon publication of the volume, Greenwood will pay authors an honorarium.
The following chapters need assignments:
* Architecture
* Art
* Dance
* Love, Sex & Marriage
* Fashion & Appearance
* Film
* Food & Foodways
* Games, Hobbies & Toys
* Literature
* Music
* Periodicals
* Radio & Television (including advertising)
* Sports
* Theater & Performance
* Transportation & Travel
The process of assigning articles has already begun and should be completed by October 15th, 2004. Interested authors should provide evidence of research background in their respective fields.
For questions and further information, or to request an assignment, contact:
Gerd Bayer
Languages and Literatures Department
University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
Whitewater, WI 53190
Phone: (262) 472-1065
e-mail: bayerg@uww.edu
Friday, September 17, 2004
CFP: Convergence of Libraries, Learning and Technology Conference
Conference: Convergence of Libraries, Learning and Technology Conference (Ohio Digital Commons for Education Conference)
Conference Dates: March 6-8, 2005.
Conference Location: Columbus, Ohio (at the Easton Hilton...very nice...)
Deadline: October 31, 2004
ODCE 2005 will feature submitted and invited presentations, technology demonstrations, pre-conference workshops and plenary presentations.
Papers for conference sessions and pre-conference workshops are sought for the following topics:
* Developing, Facilitating and Assessing Engaging Courses
* Advances and Applications of Technologies for Education and Educational Research
* Libraries & Electronic Media - Resources, Services and Collaborations
* Breaking Barriers In E-Learning Policy and Funding
* Partnerships and Collaborations for Technology-Enabled Education
* The Future of Technology and Education
The deadline for proposal submission is October 31, 2004. To review the complete call for presentations, or submit a proposal visit
http://www.oln.org/conferences/ODCE2005/ODCE2005.php
The Ohio Digital Commons for Education 2005 Conference will include keynote speakers, vendor exhibits, and technology demonstrations. The conference will be held at the Columbus Hilton at Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio. Online registration will be available in December.
Conference Dates: March 6-8, 2005.
Conference Location: Columbus, Ohio (at the Easton Hilton...very nice...)
Deadline: October 31, 2004
ODCE 2005 will feature submitted and invited presentations, technology demonstrations, pre-conference workshops and plenary presentations.
Papers for conference sessions and pre-conference workshops are sought for the following topics:
* Developing, Facilitating and Assessing Engaging Courses
* Advances and Applications of Technologies for Education and Educational Research
* Libraries & Electronic Media - Resources, Services and Collaborations
* Breaking Barriers In E-Learning Policy and Funding
* Partnerships and Collaborations for Technology-Enabled Education
* The Future of Technology and Education
The deadline for proposal submission is October 31, 2004. To review the complete call for presentations, or submit a proposal visit
http://www.oln.org/conferences/ODCE2005/ODCE2005.php
The Ohio Digital Commons for Education 2005 Conference will include keynote speakers, vendor exhibits, and technology demonstrations. The conference will be held at the Columbus Hilton at Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio. Online registration will be available in December.
CFP: The Acquisitions Institute
Conference: The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge
Dates: Saturday, May 14 through Tuesday, May 18, 2005
Location: Timberline Lodge, One hour east of Portland, Oregon on the slope of Mt. Hood
Deadline: December 1, 2004
Call for Papers
What is The Acquisitions Institute?
* The pre-eminent Western North America conference on acquisitions and collection development, now in its fifth year at Timberline Lodge.
* A small, informal and stimulating gathering in a convivial and glorious
Northwestern setting.
* A three-day conference focusing on the methods and madness of building and
managing library collections.
* See The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge for more information @
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/events/aitl/
Topics are we looking for?
* The planning committee is open to presentations on all aspects of library
acquisitions and collection management. Presenters are encouraged to engage
the audience in discussion. Panel discussions are well received. The planning
committee may wish to bring individual proposals together to form panels. The
committee is especially looking for submissions on the following topics:
-Operations management of acquisitions or collection development
-Organization for collection development
-Role of consortia in collection development
-Financial management, accounting practices, and audits
-Integrated library systems as management information systems
-Personnel issues and strategies for change
-Staff training
-Recruiting and retaining technical services and collection development
librarians
-Changing roles of book vendors and subscription agents
-Vendor selection and assessment
-Economics of scholarly publishing
-Publishing, pricing and distributing electronic journals
-Electronic books: content, access, cataloging
-External forces driving a library's collection management decisions
-Problems of (and solutions for) managing electronic resources
-Impact of collections on student learning
-Cooperative journal management agreements
-Open Access
-Faculty involvement in scholarly communication issues
-Preservation issues with electronic resources
-Status and functionality of ERM modules
-Costs/Benefits of gifts
-Out of print acquisitions
ow do I submit a proposal?
* Send an abstract of 200 words or less to:
Richard Brumley
Head, Collection Development Department
Oregon State University Libraries
Corvallis, OR 97331-4501
Richard.Brumley@orst.edu
Voice: (541) 737-2118
Fax: (541) 737-8267
Dates: Saturday, May 14 through Tuesday, May 18, 2005
Location: Timberline Lodge, One hour east of Portland, Oregon on the slope of Mt. Hood
Deadline: December 1, 2004
Call for Papers
What is The Acquisitions Institute?
* The pre-eminent Western North America conference on acquisitions and collection development, now in its fifth year at Timberline Lodge.
* A small, informal and stimulating gathering in a convivial and glorious
Northwestern setting.
* A three-day conference focusing on the methods and madness of building and
managing library collections.
* See The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge for more information @
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/events/aitl/
Topics are we looking for?
* The planning committee is open to presentations on all aspects of library
acquisitions and collection management. Presenters are encouraged to engage
the audience in discussion. Panel discussions are well received. The planning
committee may wish to bring individual proposals together to form panels. The
committee is especially looking for submissions on the following topics:
-Operations management of acquisitions or collection development
-Organization for collection development
-Role of consortia in collection development
-Financial management, accounting practices, and audits
-Integrated library systems as management information systems
-Personnel issues and strategies for change
-Staff training
-Recruiting and retaining technical services and collection development
librarians
-Changing roles of book vendors and subscription agents
-Vendor selection and assessment
-Economics of scholarly publishing
-Publishing, pricing and distributing electronic journals
-Electronic books: content, access, cataloging
-External forces driving a library's collection management decisions
-Problems of (and solutions for) managing electronic resources
-Impact of collections on student learning
-Cooperative journal management agreements
-Open Access
-Faculty involvement in scholarly communication issues
-Preservation issues with electronic resources
-Status and functionality of ERM modules
-Costs/Benefits of gifts
-Out of print acquisitions
ow do I submit a proposal?
* Send an abstract of 200 words or less to:
Richard Brumley
Head, Collection Development Department
Oregon State University Libraries
Corvallis, OR 97331-4501
Richard.Brumley@orst.edu
Voice: (541) 737-2118
Fax: (541) 737-8267
Thursday, September 16, 2004
CFP: The Uses of Print in Early America
CFP: The Uses of Print in Early America
The Uses of Print in Early America: Publication, Reading, andInterpretation
This panel for the 2005 meeting of the Society of Early Americanists (3/31/05-4/2/05) will explore early American print culture in all stages of its production,consumption, and reception by focusing on the ideological, economic, andpersonal relationships generated by the printed word. Breaking down thetraditional boundaries between elite production and non-elite consumptionof printed texts, this panel will consider the uses of print by theeducated elite as well as by non-elite groups such as the poor, theuneducated, and non-white. We welcome proposals that aim to examine theinterplay between oral and print culture, publication strategies, readingexperiences, and other dimensions of print culture.
Send abstracts to: Michelle Orihel, Syracuse University, morihel@maxwell.syr.edu Karen Weyler, UNC-Greensboro, kaweyler@prodigy.net
The Uses of Print in Early America: Publication, Reading, andInterpretation
This panel for the 2005 meeting of the Society of Early Americanists (3/31/05-4/2/05) will explore early American print culture in all stages of its production,consumption, and reception by focusing on the ideological, economic, andpersonal relationships generated by the printed word. Breaking down thetraditional boundaries between elite production and non-elite consumptionof printed texts, this panel will consider the uses of print by theeducated elite as well as by non-elite groups such as the poor, theuneducated, and non-white. We welcome proposals that aim to examine theinterplay between oral and print culture, publication strategies, readingexperiences, and other dimensions of print culture.
Send abstracts to: Michelle Orihel, Syracuse University, morihel@maxwell.syr.edu Karen Weyler, UNC-Greensboro, kaweyler@prodigy.net
Conference: Southern Humanities Council
Conference Location: Richmond, Virginia
Conference Date: February 3-6, 2005
Deadline: December 15, 2005
An invitation to submit paper abstracts and session/paper proposals on the theme Imagination and the Public Sphere for the annual Southern Humanities Council conference in Richmond, VA, February 3-6, 2005. As an interdisciplinary conference, the SHC encourages topics from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. Here are some more specific possibilities of session topics:
-Libraries, Imagination, and the Public Sphere
-Democracy, Culture, and Literature
-Image/Nation/Nationalism
-Imaging/Imagining the Public Sphere
-The Commons in American Life
-Monuments, Memorials, and Meaning
-American Space and Place
-The Imagination of Justice
-Who "Owns" the Public Sphere?
-Imaging/Imagining "The War on Terror"
-Islam/Christianity/Judaism in the Public Sphere
-Art/Music/Dance/Theatre and the Public Sphere
-Narrative in the Public Sphere
-Politics and the Imagination
-Forgetting/Forfeiting the Public Sphere
-Citizen Leadership in the 21st Century
-Anti-intellectualism in the Public Sphere
-Education/Educators and the Practice of Freedom
If you have a proposal idea that is not reflected in the list, please send it in. The above list is only a beginning.
You may submit your proposal online by clicking "Online Proposals" on the web site (http://www.southernhumanitiescouncil.org ). You may also submit your proposal via e-mail to Greg Salyer at gs@gregsalyer.net or by mail at :
Greg Salyer
Department of English and Modern Languages
Longwood University
201 High Street
Farmville, Virginia 23909
434.395.2362
Conference Location: Richmond, Virginia
Conference Date: February 3-6, 2005
Deadline: December 15, 2005
An invitation to submit paper abstracts and session/paper proposals on the theme Imagination and the Public Sphere for the annual Southern Humanities Council conference in Richmond, VA, February 3-6, 2005. As an interdisciplinary conference, the SHC encourages topics from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. Here are some more specific possibilities of session topics:
-Libraries, Imagination, and the Public Sphere
-Democracy, Culture, and Literature
-Image/Nation/Nationalism
-Imaging/Imagining the Public Sphere
-The Commons in American Life
-Monuments, Memorials, and Meaning
-American Space and Place
-The Imagination of Justice
-Who "Owns" the Public Sphere?
-Imaging/Imagining "The War on Terror"
-Islam/Christianity/Judaism in the Public Sphere
-Art/Music/Dance/Theatre and the Public Sphere
-Narrative in the Public Sphere
-Politics and the Imagination
-Forgetting/Forfeiting the Public Sphere
-Citizen Leadership in the 21st Century
-Anti-intellectualism in the Public Sphere
-Education/Educators and the Practice of Freedom
If you have a proposal idea that is not reflected in the list, please send it in. The above list is only a beginning.
You may submit your proposal online by clicking "Online Proposals" on the web site (http://www.southernhumanitiescouncil.org ). You may also submit your proposal via e-mail to Greg Salyer at gs@gregsalyer.net or by mail at :
Greg Salyer
Department of English and Modern Languages
Longwood University
201 High Street
Farmville, Virginia 23909
434.395.2362
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
CFP: 14th Annual North Carolina Serials Conference
CFP: 14th Annual North Carolina Serials Conference
14th Annual North Carolina Serials Conference
April 14-15, 2005
The William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
Chapel Hill, NC
Deadline for submission is October 15, 2004.
The 2005 Program Planning Committee invites proposals and suggestions for presentations on any aspect of the serials industry or serials management. The Committee welcomes participation from all members of the serials profession including publishers, vendors, and systems developers, as well as faculty and library staff. Students seeking a forum to share findings from serials-related research are also encouraged to submit proposals. The Committee hopes to continue previous successes by assembling a program that both shares and inspires
creativity, collaboration, and new ways of thinking.
Submit proposals by e-mail in a document attachment to Beth Bernhardt at beth_bernhardt@uncg.edu
Deadline for submission is October 15, 2004.
When submitting a proposal, please include the following information.
1. Name(s)
2. Mailing Address
3. Telephone number, fax number, and email address(es)
4. Short (50 words or less) biographical description about proposed speakers
5. Proposed program title
6. A 200-300 word abstract, which clearly states the proposal topic, its relationship to serials, and its relevance for conference attendees
7. Estimate of time required to present topic.
The Program Planning Committee will review all submitted proposals for their content, timeliness, relevance to the current serials environment, and fit with the overall Conference content. The Committee reserves the right to refocus or combine proposals as needed to reach a diverse audience and to maximize use of program time slots.
--
Eleanor I. Cook
Serials Coordinator & Professor
Belk Library, ASU Box 32026
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608-2026
828-262-2786
828-262-2773 (fax)
cookei@appstate.edu
14th Annual North Carolina Serials Conference
April 14-15, 2005
The William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
Chapel Hill, NC
Deadline for submission is October 15, 2004.
The 2005 Program Planning Committee invites proposals and suggestions for presentations on any aspect of the serials industry or serials management. The Committee welcomes participation from all members of the serials profession including publishers, vendors, and systems developers, as well as faculty and library staff. Students seeking a forum to share findings from serials-related research are also encouraged to submit proposals. The Committee hopes to continue previous successes by assembling a program that both shares and inspires
creativity, collaboration, and new ways of thinking.
Submit proposals by e-mail in a document attachment to Beth Bernhardt at beth_bernhardt@uncg.edu
Deadline for submission is October 15, 2004.
When submitting a proposal, please include the following information.
1. Name(s)
2. Mailing Address
3. Telephone number, fax number, and email address(es)
4. Short (50 words or less) biographical description about proposed speakers
5. Proposed program title
6. A 200-300 word abstract, which clearly states the proposal topic, its relationship to serials, and its relevance for conference attendees
7. Estimate of time required to present topic.
The Program Planning Committee will review all submitted proposals for their content, timeliness, relevance to the current serials environment, and fit with the overall Conference content. The Committee reserves the right to refocus or combine proposals as needed to reach a diverse audience and to maximize use of program time slots.
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Eleanor I. Cook
Serials Coordinator & Professor
Belk Library, ASU Box 32026
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608-2026
828-262-2786
828-262-2773 (fax)
cookei@appstate.edu
NASIG proposals deadline
Conference NASIG (North American Serials Interest Group)
Conference Date: May 19-22, 2005
Conference Location: Minneapolis, MN
Deadline: October 1, 2004
This is a quick reminder that the October 1, 2004 deadline is fast approaching for submission of a conference proposal or idea. While we have a number of interesting contributions so far, we are hoping to see more.
In celebration of our 20th anniversary, we are inviting proposals and program ideas for pre-conference, vision, strategy and tactics sessions that acknowledge the serials community's and NASIG's past and explore our future.
For more information about the North American Serials Interest Group, please
see: http://www.nasig.org.
NASIG has a reimbursement policy for conference speakers whose organizations do not cover expenses. For more information about this policy, please see:
http://www.nasig.org/public/reimbursement_policy.htm
To suggest a proposal or an idea, please fill out the submission form available at: http://www.nasig.org/public/forms/idea.htm.
Marilyn Geller (marilyn.geller@configuredinfo.com)
Emily McElroy (emcelroy@darkwing.uoregon.edu)
NASIG 05 PPC Co-chairs
Conference Date: May 19-22, 2005
Conference Location: Minneapolis, MN
Deadline: October 1, 2004
This is a quick reminder that the October 1, 2004 deadline is fast approaching for submission of a conference proposal or idea. While we have a number of interesting contributions so far, we are hoping to see more.
In celebration of our 20th anniversary, we are inviting proposals and program ideas for pre-conference, vision, strategy and tactics sessions that acknowledge the serials community's and NASIG's past and explore our future.
For more information about the North American Serials Interest Group, please
see: http://www.nasig.org.
NASIG has a reimbursement policy for conference speakers whose organizations do not cover expenses. For more information about this policy, please see:
http://www.nasig.org/public/reimbursement_policy.htm
To suggest a proposal or an idea, please fill out the submission form available at: http://www.nasig.org/public/forms/idea.htm.
Marilyn Geller (marilyn.geller@configuredinfo.com)
Emily McElroy (emcelroy@darkwing.uoregon.edu)
NASIG 05 PPC Co-chairs
CFP: Journal of Information Ethics
Deadline: November 2005
The editor of the JOURNAL OF INFORMATION ETHICS invites contributions for a special issue on the ethics of journal pricing. Query or send brief or more detailed, hard copy, scholarly essays in APA format by November 2005 to,
Robert Hauptman, Editor JOURNAL OF INFORMATION ETHICS LR&TS St Cloud State University St Cloud, MN 56301 hauptman@stcloudstate.edu
For more information, please visit: http://icie.zkm.de/publications/journals/ie
The editor of the JOURNAL OF INFORMATION ETHICS invites contributions for a special issue on the ethics of journal pricing. Query or send brief or more detailed, hard copy, scholarly essays in APA format by November 2005 to,
Robert Hauptman, Editor JOURNAL OF INFORMATION ETHICS LR&TS St Cloud State University St Cloud, MN 56301 hauptman@stcloudstate.edu
For more information, please visit: http://icie.zkm.de/publications/journals/ie
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Contributors sought for three volume Encyclopedia of American Science
Contributors sought for three volume Encyclopedia of American Science
Contributors are sought to write entries and essays ranging in length from 500 to 3000 words for the forthcoming three volume Encyclopedia of American Science, to be published by M. E. Sharpe in 2006. Contributors are paid a modest stipend and/or copies of the three volume encyclopedia for articles in the following general topics: natural science, geography, botany, biology, medicine, geosciences, social sciences, behavioral sciences, astronomy, physics, chemistry, mathematics, applied science, and history of science. Interested historians and scientists should contact editor Russell Lawson to find out more about the project and receive contributor's guidelines and headword list.
Professor Russell Lawson Bacone College 2299 Old Bacone Road Muskogee, Oklahoma, 74403 ph: 9187817250 Email: lawsonr@bacone.edu
Contributors are sought to write entries and essays ranging in length from 500 to 3000 words for the forthcoming three volume Encyclopedia of American Science, to be published by M. E. Sharpe in 2006. Contributors are paid a modest stipend and/or copies of the three volume encyclopedia for articles in the following general topics: natural science, geography, botany, biology, medicine, geosciences, social sciences, behavioral sciences, astronomy, physics, chemistry, mathematics, applied science, and history of science. Interested historians and scientists should contact editor Russell Lawson to find out more about the project and receive contributor's guidelines and headword list.
Professor Russell Lawson Bacone College 2299 Old Bacone Road Muskogee, Oklahoma, 74403 ph: 9187817250 Email: lawsonr@bacone.edu
Sunday, September 12, 2004
CFP - AASL National Conference (Pittsburgh)
Conference: American Association of School Librarians
Conference Date: October 5-9, 2005
Conference Location: Pittsburgh, Pa
Deadline: October 1, 2004
AASL 12th National Conference & Exhibition
The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) will hold its 12th National Conference & Exhibition October 5-9, 2005 in Pittsburgh, Pa., with the theme "Every Student Succeeds @ your library." Proposals are now being accepted for concurrent session programs. The deadline for submitting proposals is Friday, October 1, 2004.
For more information, visit:
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/conferencesandevents/national/presenters/aaslnational.htm
Conference Date: October 5-9, 2005
Conference Location: Pittsburgh, Pa
Deadline: October 1, 2004
AASL 12th National Conference & Exhibition
The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) will hold its 12th National Conference & Exhibition October 5-9, 2005 in Pittsburgh, Pa., with the theme "Every Student Succeeds @ your library." Proposals are now being accepted for concurrent session programs. The deadline for submitting proposals is Friday, October 1, 2004.
For more information, visit:
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/conferencesandevents/national/presenters/aaslnational.htm
Friday, September 10, 2004
ExLibris (a weekly e-zine)
Librarians can post submissions to the e-zine titled ExLibris
URL: http://marylaine.com/exlibris/
Most articles run around 750 and 1000 words, but the editor is flexible.
The current issue contains Steven Bell's article, 10 Tips on Getting Published.
For more information, contact Marylaine Block (Writer and Internet Librarian)
http://marylaine.com
email: marylaine at netexpress.net (OK...you can figure this out).
URL: http://marylaine.com/exlibris/
Most articles run around 750 and 1000 words, but the editor is flexible.
The current issue contains Steven Bell's article, 10 Tips on Getting Published.
For more information, contact Marylaine Block (Writer and Internet Librarian)
http://marylaine.com
email: marylaine at netexpress.net (OK...you can figure this out).
CFP: Asian America History and Culture: An Encyclopedia
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS - Asian America History and Culture: An Encyclopedia
M.E. Sharpe, a New York-based academic and reference publisher, and East River Books, a reference book producer, are seeking contributing scholars for a two-volume reference work on the history and culture of Asian Americans. The project is aimed at the academic high school and undergraduate levels. The General Editors are Dr. Huping Ling of Truman State University and Dr. Allan W. Austin of College Misericordia.
The majority of the entry articles have been assigned and we are continuously seeking contributors for the remaining articles. Contributors will receive full authorial credit, a modest cash honorarium, and/or copy of the full encyclopedia set (depending on contribution length and contributor preference).
If you are interested in contributing to this exciting and important reference project--one we hope will be the definitive reference work on Asian America history and culture—please review the attached prospectus with a full description of the project--with deadline, compensation, and other pertinent information, including a table of contents. Please contact Allan Austin at aaustin@misericordia.edu if you are interested.
If you cannot contribute, please feel free to forward this email to any potentially interested scholars (either professors or graduate students).
Sincerely,
Drs. Huping Ling and Allan W. Austin, General Editors
Asian America History and Culture: An Encyclopedia
Dr. Allan W. Austin
College Misericordia
Email: aaustin@misericordia.edu
M.E. Sharpe, a New York-based academic and reference publisher, and East River Books, a reference book producer, are seeking contributing scholars for a two-volume reference work on the history and culture of Asian Americans. The project is aimed at the academic high school and undergraduate levels. The General Editors are Dr. Huping Ling of Truman State University and Dr. Allan W. Austin of College Misericordia.
The majority of the entry articles have been assigned and we are continuously seeking contributors for the remaining articles. Contributors will receive full authorial credit, a modest cash honorarium, and/or copy of the full encyclopedia set (depending on contribution length and contributor preference).
If you are interested in contributing to this exciting and important reference project--one we hope will be the definitive reference work on Asian America history and culture—please review the attached prospectus with a full description of the project--with deadline, compensation, and other pertinent information, including a table of contents. Please contact Allan Austin at aaustin@misericordia.edu if you are interested.
If you cannot contribute, please feel free to forward this email to any potentially interested scholars (either professors or graduate students).
Sincerely,
Drs. Huping Ling and Allan W. Austin, General Editors
Asian America History and Culture: An Encyclopedia
Dr. Allan W. Austin
College Misericordia
Email: aaustin@misericordia.edu
Thursday, September 09, 2004
CFP - Comics and Culture
Deadline - December 10, 2004
The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies seeks original essays, review essays, and reviews for our Spring 2005 special issue, "Comics and Culture," co-edited by Corey Creekmur and Thomas Keegan.
Comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels remain surprisingly under-examined artifacts of mass and popular culture, despite their long-standing production and consumption alongside other, well-analyzed media (cinema, television, popular literature, etc.). Even recent film adaptations (Ghost World, Spider-Man, Hulk, X-Men, Hellboy, From Hell) have yet to generate significant critical (formalist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, or cultural studies) assessments of their often superior but still neglected comic book sources.
Essays for this special issue should aspire to correct this negligence by examining comics in cultural contexts and through sophisticated methods of cultural analysis. While innovative essays on underground comix (Zap, Arcade), alternative comics (Love and Rockets, Eightball), graphic novels (Jimmy Corrigan), and/or contemporary artists (Lynda Barry, Joe Sacco, Chester Brown, Julie Doucet) are welcome, essays on mainstream comic books and comic strips are especially encouraged, since these (unlike equivalent Hollywood movies, pop music, or detective novels) have been and remain overlooked by academic critics. Therefore, original treatments of classic comic strips and comic books are desired as well as critical essays on recent mainstream comics (such as The Authority, X-Force, The Invisibles, or Promethea) and/or their creators (Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Warren Ellis, etc.)
Essays should range from 9000-11000 words, review essays 2000-4000 words, and individual reviews less than 2000 words, not including citations. Essays must be in MLA format; essays not in MLA format will be discarded. If included, photocopies or digital scans of illustrations should be accompanied by a statement from the author that copyright clearance is being perused. Acceptance of a manuscript will be contingent on clearance of copyright.
Submit two hard copies as well as a copy on disc (in *.doc or *.rtf format)
along with a self-addressed stamped envelope to:
Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies
c/o Comics and Culture
308 English-Philosophy Building
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1492
E-mail submissions will be discarded. Correspondence and inquiries may be
sent to ijcs@uiowa.edu.
The deadline for submissions is December 10, 2004.
The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies seeks original essays, review essays, and reviews for our Spring 2005 special issue, "Comics and Culture," co-edited by Corey Creekmur and Thomas Keegan.
Comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels remain surprisingly under-examined artifacts of mass and popular culture, despite their long-standing production and consumption alongside other, well-analyzed media (cinema, television, popular literature, etc.). Even recent film adaptations (Ghost World, Spider-Man, Hulk, X-Men, Hellboy, From Hell) have yet to generate significant critical (formalist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, or cultural studies) assessments of their often superior but still neglected comic book sources.
Essays for this special issue should aspire to correct this negligence by examining comics in cultural contexts and through sophisticated methods of cultural analysis. While innovative essays on underground comix (Zap, Arcade), alternative comics (Love and Rockets, Eightball), graphic novels (Jimmy Corrigan), and/or contemporary artists (Lynda Barry, Joe Sacco, Chester Brown, Julie Doucet) are welcome, essays on mainstream comic books and comic strips are especially encouraged, since these (unlike equivalent Hollywood movies, pop music, or detective novels) have been and remain overlooked by academic critics. Therefore, original treatments of classic comic strips and comic books are desired as well as critical essays on recent mainstream comics (such as The Authority, X-Force, The Invisibles, or Promethea) and/or their creators (Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Warren Ellis, etc.)
Essays should range from 9000-11000 words, review essays 2000-4000 words, and individual reviews less than 2000 words, not including citations. Essays must be in MLA format; essays not in MLA format will be discarded. If included, photocopies or digital scans of illustrations should be accompanied by a statement from the author that copyright clearance is being perused. Acceptance of a manuscript will be contingent on clearance of copyright.
Submit two hard copies as well as a copy on disc (in *.doc or *.rtf format)
along with a self-addressed stamped envelope to:
Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies
c/o Comics and Culture
308 English-Philosophy Building
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1492
E-mail submissions will be discarded. Correspondence and inquiries may be
sent to ijcs@uiowa.edu.
The deadline for submissions is December 10, 2004.
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Library Technology Now
Library Technology Now, a one-stop resource for library technology news and product reviews written by library people for library people, needs your help!
Located at www.librarytechnologynow.org, the site will include product reviews that will outline features and functionality of library technology products. The reviews will also summarize the reviewers' own personal experiences with the products.
In addition to the reviews, library technology news will be gathered from around the world and disseminated on a daily basis. The site's target launch date is April 2005.
We are seeking volunteers for the following positions:
Editors: approve the content of reviews before they are published
Copy Editors: proofread the reviews before they are published
Thesaurus Team Members: create the Library Technology Now indexing terms
Researchers: assist with locating news sources and third-party reviews
Web Designers: design the look and feel and build backend applications
If you are interested in volunteering, please email webproducers@librarytechnologynow.org for more information. Library Technology Now is funded by The North Texas Regional Library System, Inc., and the Automation and Technology Round Table of the Texas Library Association.
Located at www.librarytechnologynow.org, the site will include product reviews that will outline features and functionality of library technology products. The reviews will also summarize the reviewers' own personal experiences with the products.
In addition to the reviews, library technology news will be gathered from around the world and disseminated on a daily basis. The site's target launch date is April 2005.
We are seeking volunteers for the following positions:
Editors: approve the content of reviews before they are published
Copy Editors: proofread the reviews before they are published
Thesaurus Team Members: create the Library Technology Now indexing terms
Researchers: assist with locating news sources and third-party reviews
Web Designers: design the look and feel and build backend applications
If you are interested in volunteering, please email webproducers@librarytechnologynow.org for more information. Library Technology Now is funded by The North Texas Regional Library System, Inc., and the Automation and Technology Round Table of the Texas Library Association.
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
CFP: Special issue of Library Hi Tech on Content Management Systems
CFP: Special issue of Library Hi Tech on Content Management Systems
Deadline for proposals: October 1, 2004
This is a call for proposals/abstracts of articles for a special issue of Library Hi Tech to be published in January 2006 on Content Management Systems (CMS). I am interested in seeing articles discussing philosophy, technical standards and developments, case studies, prototypes, and future uses of CMS's in information organizations and digital libraries. Any inquiries or abstracts for consideration should be sent to me personally, not to the list. Deadline for receipt of abstracts/proposals for articles is October 1, 2004. Those selected to write articles will have until September 1, 2005 to submit final article drafts. Thanks.
Dr. Brad Eden
Associate Editor, Library Hi Tech
beden@ccmail.nevada.edu
Journal Information:
http://lysander.emeraldinsight.com/vl=7729893/cl=55/nw=1/rpsv/lht.htm
Deadline for proposals: October 1, 2004
This is a call for proposals/abstracts of articles for a special issue of Library Hi Tech to be published in January 2006 on Content Management Systems (CMS). I am interested in seeing articles discussing philosophy, technical standards and developments, case studies, prototypes, and future uses of CMS's in information organizations and digital libraries. Any inquiries or abstracts for consideration should be sent to me personally, not to the list. Deadline for receipt of abstracts/proposals for articles is October 1, 2004. Those selected to write articles will have until September 1, 2005 to submit final article drafts. Thanks.
Dr. Brad Eden
Associate Editor, Library Hi Tech
beden@ccmail.nevada.edu
Journal Information:
http://lysander.emeraldinsight.com/vl=7729893/cl=55/nw=1/rpsv/lht.htm
Learning Objects Call for participants (ALAO November 2004)
Learning Objects Call for participants (ALAO November 2004)
Deadline: ASAP
The Academic Library Association of Ohio’s Instruction Interest Group (ALAO-IIG) is looking for librarians who have used or developed learning objects in support of library instruction efforts to join a panel presentation at the ALAO Annual Conference. The ALAO Annual Conference will be held on November 12, 2004 in Dayton, OH. See http://www.alaoweb.org/04conf/ for details.
Below is the presentation abstract:
Learning objects are digital resources created purposefully for learning, and include components of teaching, feedback and testing. They can be used in different contexts, times and places. Their value lies in their suitability for distance education and online learning; the ability to design them to address various learning styles; and the opportunity to archive and share them via the World Wide Web. As a follow-up to the IIG’s spring workshop on Learning Objects, this session will showcase the application of learning objects to information literacy efforts. Librarians who have created learning objects and are successfully using them in instruction will demonstrate their work.
If you are interested in participating in this panel discussion, please contact me at the address below.
Christine Sheetz
Assistant Professor
Library/Learning Resources Division
Lorain County Community College
1005 Abbe Rd N
Elyria, OH 44035
1-800-995-5222, ext 7288
csheetz@lorainccc.edu
Deadline: ASAP
The Academic Library Association of Ohio’s Instruction Interest Group (ALAO-IIG) is looking for librarians who have used or developed learning objects in support of library instruction efforts to join a panel presentation at the ALAO Annual Conference. The ALAO Annual Conference will be held on November 12, 2004 in Dayton, OH. See http://www.alaoweb.org/04conf/ for details.
Below is the presentation abstract:
Learning objects are digital resources created purposefully for learning, and include components of teaching, feedback and testing. They can be used in different contexts, times and places. Their value lies in their suitability for distance education and online learning; the ability to design them to address various learning styles; and the opportunity to archive and share them via the World Wide Web. As a follow-up to the IIG’s spring workshop on Learning Objects, this session will showcase the application of learning objects to information literacy efforts. Librarians who have created learning objects and are successfully using them in instruction will demonstrate their work.
If you are interested in participating in this panel discussion, please contact me at the address below.
Christine Sheetz
Assistant Professor
Library/Learning Resources Division
Lorain County Community College
1005 Abbe Rd N
Elyria, OH 44035
1-800-995-5222, ext 7288
csheetz@lorainccc.edu
Thursday, September 02, 2004
CFP: Spaces (including library) College English Association
CFP: Spaces (including library) College English Association
Conference Date: March 31- April 2005
Conference Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Deadline: November 1, 2004
We invite papers or panels on literature, languages, film, composition, pedagogy, creative writing, business/technical writing, and book history responding to the conference theme of Space(s).
Proposals may interpret the conference theme broadly, including—but not limited to—the following “space(s)”: (this is only a sample of library-related suggestions)
• Academic spaces: the library, the classroom
• Cultural spaces: the theater, the stage, the gallery, the concert hall, the
screening-room
• Cyberspace: the Web, hypertext, the cyborg
• Disciplinary spaces: cross-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary
• Private spaces: the boudoir, the bedroom, the study
• Public spaces: the monument, the gallows, the assembly room, the club, the
garden
• Recreational spaces: the game field, the ballpark
• Space and community
• Space and ideology
• Space and identity
• Writing spaces: the desk, the study, the page
Submit proposals, including an abstract of no more than 500 words, by email, fax or post by 1 November, 2004. If you email a proposal, please paste it into the body of the email message, rather than attaching a separate file.
Proposals should include the following information:
• Name
• Institutional affiliation (if applicable)
• Mailing address (including zip code)
• Phone number
• Email address
• Title for the proposed presentation.
If you are proposing a panel, the panel organizer should include the above information for all proposed participants.
Address all conference correspondence to the Program Chair:
Ann R. Hawkins
CEA 2005 Program Chair
Department of English
Texas Tech University
Lubbock TX 79409
Phone: 806 742-2500, ext. 296
Fax: 806 742-0989
Email: ann.hawkins@ttu.edu
Conference Main Page& Call for Papers
URL: http://www.as.ysu.edu/%7Eenglish/cea/conf_2005.htm
PDF Verision: http://www.as.ysu.edu/%7Eenglish/cea/Call_for_Papers_2005_2.pdf
Conference Date: March 31- April 2005
Conference Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Deadline: November 1, 2004
We invite papers or panels on literature, languages, film, composition, pedagogy, creative writing, business/technical writing, and book history responding to the conference theme of Space(s).
Proposals may interpret the conference theme broadly, including—but not limited to—the following “space(s)”: (this is only a sample of library-related suggestions)
• Academic spaces: the library, the classroom
• Cultural spaces: the theater, the stage, the gallery, the concert hall, the
screening-room
• Cyberspace: the Web, hypertext, the cyborg
• Disciplinary spaces: cross-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary
• Private spaces: the boudoir, the bedroom, the study
• Public spaces: the monument, the gallows, the assembly room, the club, the
garden
• Recreational spaces: the game field, the ballpark
• Space and community
• Space and ideology
• Space and identity
• Writing spaces: the desk, the study, the page
Submit proposals, including an abstract of no more than 500 words, by email, fax or post by 1 November, 2004. If you email a proposal, please paste it into the body of the email message, rather than attaching a separate file.
Proposals should include the following information:
• Name
• Institutional affiliation (if applicable)
• Mailing address (including zip code)
• Phone number
• Email address
• Title for the proposed presentation.
If you are proposing a panel, the panel organizer should include the above information for all proposed participants.
Address all conference correspondence to the Program Chair:
Ann R. Hawkins
CEA 2005 Program Chair
Department of English
Texas Tech University
Lubbock TX 79409
Phone: 806 742-2500, ext. 296
Fax: 806 742-0989
Email: ann.hawkins@ttu.edu
Conference Main Page& Call for Papers
URL: http://www.as.ysu.edu/%7Eenglish/cea/conf_2005.htm
PDF Verision: http://www.as.ysu.edu/%7Eenglish/cea/Call_for_Papers_2005_2.pdf
Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Computers in Libraries - 2005 topics posted
Computers in Libraries - 2005 topics posted
Deadline: Ongoing
Computers in Libraries has posted the topics for the 2005 issues. (NOTE: This is a great writing opportunity and they are great to work with.)
The topics include:
For more information, visit: http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/contrib.shtml
The deadlines for proposals run from October 1, 2004 - June 1, 2005 (depending on the issue) and the articles are dues typically one to two months after the proposal deadline.
Deadline: Ongoing
Computers in Libraries has posted the topics for the 2005 issues. (NOTE: This is a great writing opportunity and they are great to work with.)
The topics include:
- Small-Library & Do-It- Yourself Technologies(products for smaller libraries and those you’ve built or customized yourself)
- Using Technology to Build Relationships(RSS feeds, blogs, chat, listservs, alert services, community calendars, online surveys & newsletters)
- Keeping Your Network Secure(firewalls, security hardware and software, anti-spyware solutions, authentication)
- Digital Asset Management(setting up solutions to store and access e-reserves, e-journals, repositories; ownership & licensing)
- Open Access/Open Source(the latest technology for open source, OpenURL, open repositories, metasearch, federated search)
- The Technology of Library Politics(systems you’ve set up to deal with privacy/RFID, filters, USA PATRIOT Act, CIPA/COPA, patron info management)
- Tech Training: Keeping Staff Up-to-Speed(dealing with evolving roles, learning curves, and technostress)
- Designing GUIs to Fit User Behavior(evaluating user reactions in order to design better interfaces, portals, and Web sites)
- Hip High-Tech (library technology on the cutting edge)
For more information, visit: http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/contrib.shtml
The deadlines for proposals run from October 1, 2004 - June 1, 2005 (depending on the issue) and the articles are dues typically one to two months after the proposal deadline.
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