CFP: Library, Archives, Museums and Collections Area - Northeast Popular/American Culture Association 2015 Fall Conference (New London, NH)

Northeast Popular/American Culture Association Call for Papers:

Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Collections area

The Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Collections area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association welcomes paper submissions from librarians, archivists, curators, graduate students, faculty, collectors, writers, patrons, and researchers of popular culture and information settings of all types.

We encourage panel proposals, as well as, individual submissions.  

NEPCA’s 2015 fall conference will be held on the campus of Colby-Sawyer College (New London, NH) the weekend of October 30-31, 2015. 

The deadline for proposals is June 15, 2015.

 Some suggested topics:

• Histories and profiles of museums, archives, libraries, and other popular culture resources.
• Intellectual freedom or cultural sensitivity issues related to popular culture resources.
• Book clubs and reading groups, city- or campus-wide reading programs.
• Collection building and popular culture resources.
• Organization and description of popular culture resources.
• New media formats and popular culture in libraries, archives, or museums.
• New media, digital literacies, databases, content management systems, access and discovery systems, websites (such as wikis, YouTube, Google, Amazon, eBay, etc.) and their impact on libraries and popular culture collections.
• Public libraries and librarians supporting programming and outreach around popular culture resources (graphic novels, streaming video, etc.)
• Other topics welcome!!!

Area Chair: Julie A. DeCesare, Providence College     

E-mail: jdecesa1@providence.edu Area: Libraries, Archives, Museums and Collections

Paper Proposal Submission Form (email form and 1 page CV to area chair by June 15, 2015): https://nepca.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/nepca-paper-proposal-form1-1.pdf

For information about the Fall 2015 Conference: https://nepca.wordpress.com/fall-conference/

CFP: 2015 LACUNY Institute (Privacy and Surveillance: Library Advocacy for the 21st Century)

***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
The Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY) seeks
proposals for the 2015 LACUNY Institute.

*****
Call for Proposals
Privacy and Surveillance: Library Advocacy for the 21st Century LACUNY Institute 2015

Date: May 8, 2015
Location: John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

Keynote Speaker: Rainey Reitman (Activism Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Freedom of the Press Foundation)

Deadline Extended: January 23, 2015

Historically, librarians have defended patron privacy on the grounds that it is crucial to free speech, freedom of thought, and equal access to information. These core values, which occasionally have led librarians to confrontation with law enforcement, are embedded in our professional ethics. The American Library Association’s Privacy Toolkit demarcates a broad territory for the profession to safeguard: “In libraries, the right to privacy is the right to open
inquiry without having the subject of one’s interest examined or scrutinized by others” (Privacy and Confidentiality: Library Core Values).

Nevertheless, patron data can now be scrutinized not just by FBI agents with secret warrants, but also by database and e-book vendors, social media companies, and Internet marketers. The digital nature of today’s information sources has allowed for mass collection of patron data--as demonstrated by the NSA’s covert collection of telephone and Internet records. Our profession has been slow to respond. In this new technological and political landscape, which privacy violations pose a threat to our mission of promoting free speech and free thought? How can librarians convince those in power that patron privacy is crucial to our institutions and our communities? Can we negotiate contracts with vendors that protect reader privacy? How should we talk to our students about these issues, and what can we learn from them about the future of privacy?

The LACUNY Institute seeks proposals that explore all aspects of privacy in libraries, with a special emphasis on academic settings. We welcome proposals from those inside and outside the profession. This year, we will feature two kinds of presentations:

*Paper Presentations* (20 minutes)
The Institute will include several moderated panel presentations, which may be historical, theoretical, legal, or practical in nature. Please include time for questions and discussion.

A few examples include:
•         Library Code of Ethics and its relevance today
•         Current laws and precedents relating to privacy
•         The information economy and user data
•         Predictive analytics
•         Assessment and student privacy
•         The Dark Web

*Lightning Presentations* (10 minutes)
At the close of the Institute, attendees will disperse to a number of simultaneous lightning presentations. These should be highly practical in nature and focused on a single, specific issue. The goal is to provide attendees with concrete steps for action. Please build in substantial time for questions and discussion, and plan to bring handouts or other takeaways.

A few examples include:
•         Lesson plans for teaching students about privacy
•         How to read vendor contracts and negotiate for privacy rights
•         Privacy-protecting alternatives to common tools and websites (e.g., ownCloud, DuckDuckGo)
•         Setting up a Tor relay
•         Proven steps for promoting privacy initiatives among faculty and administrators

Please submit proposals for paper and lightning presentations, including a 300-500 word abstract, to http://lacuny.org/institute-call-for-proposals/ by January 23, 2015.

Questions may be directed to Jennifer.Poggiali@lehman.cuny.edu. For more information, visit the Institute website: http://2015lacunyinst.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Texas Digital Humanities Conference CFP - Deadline extended to 1/27/15

The second annual Texas Digital Humanities Conference, cosponsored by the UT Arlington College of Liberal Arts; the UTA Libraries; and the UTA Departments of English, History, Linguistics, and Art and Art History, welcomes submissions for twenty-minute individual papers and poster presentations for a conference on work in the Digital Humanities. This conference encourages submissions from a broad spectrum of communities: university and K-12 educators, graduate students, and undergrads; museum and archives professionals; library professionals; and independent scholars. https://conferences.tdl.org/uta/index.php/txdhc/txdhc2015/schedConf/cfp

The deadline for submissions has been extended to Jan. 27, 2015. 

The conference will begin with a keynote address on the evening of Thursday, April 9, and will conclude with a hackfest on the afternoon ofSaturday, April 11.

Keynote Speakers:
Alan Liu, Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Adeline Koh, Director, DH@Stockton, Associate Professor of Literature, Richard Stockton College

Topics:
We welcome oral presentation and poster session submissions on any topic relevant to digital humanities. Possible topics include (but are not limited to)
* Digital humanities in the classroom: K-12 or higher ed
* Funding digital humanities at your institution
* Sourcing DH projects: how & where to find what/whom you need to do your DH project
* GIS and humanities
* Starting and sustaining a DH lab space
* Locating the edge of digital in broaders ways that impact humanities
* Current DH projects in different humanities disciplines
* Interdisciplinary DH: pitfall or career boost?

Proposal Submissions:
The conference will include oral presentation and poster session opportunities. The twenty-minute presentations slots will include fifteen minutes for presentation and five minutes for questions. Submissions for twenty-minute presentations should include a maximum 500-word abstract. Submission of themed panel presentations (with an anticipated panel time of forty minutes) are also encouraged. Graduate students should also indicate whether they would like to be considered for a travel bursary (see below). We will also accept poster-only submissions, and submissions for twenty-minute presentations will automatically be considered for poster presentations. Posters should be ready for display by the conference, which will include a dedicated poster session in which poster presenters can interact with other participants, as well as a “minute madness” session, for which the presenter should prepare 1 slide and be prepared to explain it in sixty seconds.

The deadline for submissions has been extended to Jan. 27, 2015. 
https://conferences.tdl.org/uta/index.php/txdhc/txdhc2015/schedConf/cfp

Jody Bailey, MA, MLIS

Director of Grants and Research and Liaison Librarian to Linguistics & TESOL

Central Library Room 214A

University of Texas at Arlington Libraries

817.272.7516

jbailey@uta.edu

http://libguides.uta.edu/profile/jodybailey

CFP: LITA Forum 2015 (Minneapolis MN - November 12-15, 2015)

LITA Forum 2015 Call for Proposals

The Call for Proposals for the 2015 LITA Forum is out and proposals are due February 28, 2015. The 18th annual Forum of the Library Information and Technology Association will be held in Minneapolis Minnesota, November 12-15, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis.

The Forum Committee welcomes proposals for full-day pre-conferences, 50-minute concurrent sessions, or poster sessions related to all types of libraries: public, school, academic, government, special, and corporate.
Proposals could relate to any of the following topics:

• Cooperation & collaboration
• Scalability and sustainability of library services and tools
• Researcher information networks
• Practical applications of linked data
• Large- and small-scale resource sharing
• User experience & users
• Library spaces (virtual or physical)
• “Big Data” — work in discovery, preservation, or documentation
• Data driven libraries or related assessment projects
• Anything else that relates to library information technology

Proposals may cover projects, plans, ideas, or recent discoveries. We accept proposals on any aspect of library and information technology, even if not covered by the above list. The committee particularly invites submissions from first time presenters, library school students, and individuals from diverse backgrounds. Submit your proposal through this link by February 28, 2015.

Presentations must have a technological focus and pertain to libraries. Presentations that incorporate audience participation are encouraged. The format of the presentations may include single- or multi-speaker formats, panel discussions, moderated discussions, case studies and/or demonstrations of projects.

Vendors wishing to submit a proposal should partner with a library representative who is testing/using the product.

Presenters will submit draft presentation slides and/or handouts on ALA Connect in advance of the Forum and will submit final presentation slides or electronic content (video, audio, etc.) to be made available on the web site following the event. Presenters are expected to register and participate in the Forum as attendees; discounted registration will be offered.

Please submit your proposal through http://bit.ly/lita-2015-proposal

ALA-LLAMA Call for Mentors and Mentees

The LLAMA Mentoring Committee has begun recruiting for both mentors and mentees for our July 2015-June 2016 year. The mentoring program pairs librarians who are currently in leadership positions with librarians who are interested in becoming leaders.

For mentors, it is a chance to pass on your experience and knowledge by working one-on-one with an enthusiastic  colleague who is ready to learn and benefit  from your experience.

For mentees, it is a great opportunity to learn from an accomplished leader how to:
• explore your leadership potential
• demonstrate leadership in your current position
• acquire the skills, attitudes and relationships that you will need to move into leadership roles.

Participants must be ALA and LLAMA members as of the start of the program, and must either attend the Mentor/Mentee orientation at ALA Annual or be able to participate in a virtual orientation at a time to be determined.

The deadline to apply to become a mentor or a mentee is February 20th, 2015.

To apply to become a mentor, go to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SW9LV2Q

To apply to become a mentee, go to: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8M6PS2R

For more information on the program, contact Debbie Tenofsky at tenofsdg@uc.edu

Thank you!

Joyce Wright

Melissa Laning

Julene Jones

LLAMA Mentoring Committee members

CFP: SEMLOL (Southeastern Michigan League of Libraries) Spring Meeting - "Libraries as Service) - April 10, 2015 in Detroit

CFP: SEMLOL (Southeastern Michigan League of Libraries) Spring Meeting - "Libraries as Service) - April 10, 2015 in Detroit

SEMLOL [http://www.semlol.org/] is preparing a program for the Spring meeting on “Libraries as Service” and you are invited to submit a proposal! 

Libraries’ focus on service as a main guiding philosophy is being re-affirmed as libraries re-envision themselves to meet the 21st century needs of their patrons. We invite you to submit proposals on topics such as innovative service models, space redesigns implemented to offer library spaces as service, technology or other planning processes that are guided by a vision of libraries as service – just to name a few. Best practices, case studies, projects, and creative ideas are all welcome.

The Spring SEMLOL meeting will take place on April 10, 2015, 1:00pm - 4:00pm at the College for Creative Studies. Presentations should be 40 minutes long, including time for questions.

To submit a presentation proposal, please send a title, name of speaker(s), and an abstract of no more than 250 words to semlol.board@gmail.com by February 2nd, 2015. Accepted proposals will be notified by the end of February. 

 

Regards,

Julia Eisenstein

Univ. of Detroit Mercy

CFP: EBSS RESEARCH FORUM - ALA Annual 2015 (Education and Behavioral Sciences Section Research Committee)

CFP: EBSS RESEARCH FORUM - ALA Annual 2015 (Education and Behavioral Sciences Section Research Committee)

 

The Education and Behavioral Sciences Section Research Committee is holding its 9th Annual Research Poster Forum during the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco, California.  The Research Forum and reception follows the announcement and speech of the 2015 award winner for APA Excellence in Librarianship, and will take place on the afternoon of Saturday June 27, 2015.

 

The Forum seeks to provide beginning and established researchers an opportunity to present research in progress, receive collaborative feedback on their work and recommendations for future publishing.  Research / Posters will be simultaneously presented and discussed in small informal groups.   Attendees at the forum will find an arena for discussion and networking with their colleagues interested in research related issues and trends in the profession.  The committee will use a blind review process. 

 

Proposals are due February 13, 2015.

 

SELECTION CRITERIA

Proposals will be evaluated based on the extent to which they:

 

1.       Measure and/or investigate library and information aspects in the fields of communication, psychology, social work and/or education.

2.       Represent the current interests of the membership of EBSS. 

3.       Represent an original research project. 

4.       Show evidence of carefully planned research design and thoughtful analysis.

5.       Clearly identify what stage of the project has been completed and estimate a timeline for the remainder of the project.

 

Note:  Research that has been previously published or accepted for publication by December 1, 2014 will not be considered.

 

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

 

1.       Format: Proposals should be 250-350 words, double spaced, 12 pt. font, one inch margins.

 

2.       The first page should include:

-          Date of Submission

-          Name of applicant(s) institution(s)

-          Applicant address(es)

-          Phone number(s)

-          E-mail address(es)

-          Title of the proposal

 

3.       Subsequent page(s) should include:  

-          Title of the proposal

-          Statement of the research question(s)

-          Research goals and objectives

-          Description of the methodology

-          Discussion and/or conclusions

 

Please email submissions to Benjamin Andrus at bandrus@binghamton.edu by Friday, February 13, 2015. 

 

 

Jill Morningstar, Co-chair

Education, Psychology & Children’s Literature Librarian

Michigan State University Libraries

366 W. Circle Drive

East Lansing, MI 48824

jmorning@msu.edu

517-884-0852

@jillmorningstar

 

Yu-Hui Chen, Co-chair

Bibliographer and Outreach Librarian for Education 

University Libraries - LI 304

University at Albany, SUNY

1400 Washington Avenue

Albany, New York 12222

(518) 442-3586 phone

(518) 442-3088 fax

CFP: Michigan Sound Conference (Detroit - May 22, 2015)

Michigan Sound Conference

10 am – 8 pm, Friday May 22, 2015 at the Detroit Public Library.

Music, Arts & Literature Department, Third Floor

This event is free and open to the public.

Please RSVP and / or donate here.

Call for Papers

The Detroit Sound Conservancy (DSC) will host our second annual conference on Friday, May 22, 2015 at the Detroit Public Library dedicated to Michigan and Detroit’s musical heritage. The question our presenters will explore is how has Michigan generally, and Detroit in particular, been a leader in the creation of the global modern soundscape?

The inspiration for the conference comes from the Michigan Modern exhibition held summer 2013 at Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, MI that focused on Michigan architecture and design. Similarly, our conference will focus on the relationship between sound and music as they relate to Michigan design and architecture in the 20th century. How have Michigan’s spaces of sound (studios, radio stations, clubs, concert venues, cars, etc.) played a key role in how we have come to hear and experience sound and music? What role do they still play today?

This conference connects directly to the DSC’s mission of preserving sounds and telling stories. It also educates the public, helping to disseminate historic designation knowledge and resources not just in Detroit but across Michigan.

Our first successful conference held last Memorial Day weekend in the Music Sheet Room in the Music, Arts, and Literature Department of the Detroit Public Library, featured 28 local and national speakers on a wide range of topics related to Detroit music history, from the influence of Latin culture on Detroit music to the influence of Detroit’s ballroom architecture on live music performance. (See our video recap here.)

It is our hope that this “Michigan Sound” conference will encourage and spread a more robust discussion on how we might preserve, protect, and celebrate Michigan’s sonic story.

Please note: while we encourage papers to address the conference theme, we remain open to papers concerning Detroit music.

The deadline for presentation/workshop proposals and sponsorship opportunities is Friday, February 6, 2015.

Single presentations should be 15-20 minutes long; panels 60-75 minutes plus Q&A.

Please send a 250-word abstract plus 100-word author bio, as well as any inquiries, to Conference Chair Denise Dalphond via denisedalphondATgmail.com

Please tweet to @detroitsound with the hashtag #michigansound

Call for Chapters: Integrating Curricular and Co-Curricular Endeavors to Enhance Intellectual, Intercultural, Global, Community, and Personal Student Outcomes

Integrating Curricular and Co-Curricular Endeavors to Enhance Intellectual, Intercultural, Global, Community, and Personal Student Outcomes

Charles Wankel, St John's University, New York, and Laura A. Wankel, Northeastern University, Boston

Call for Chapter proposals

In too many ways higher education is still a series of silo-like endeavors rather than collaborative integrated fabrics. Integrating classroom learning with out of class experience designed to produce significant outcomes remains elusive and haphazard. Evidence that significant student learning and development takes place in multiple venues such as internships, service learning, clubs and organizations, student employment etc. invites thoughtful integration of intellectual, personal, and behavioral linkages between curricular and co-curricular offerings. A more seamless intentional approach to such integration can overcome some of the sub-optimal structures of the past. This volume will be a forum to share theory, research, and practice of the integration of academic programs with co-curricular, community, international, study abroad, NGOs, service learning, internships, alumni networks, secondary school programs, clubs and organizations etc. For example, medical education in the United States traditionally had a two plus two year structure where two years of science study was followed by two years of clinical training at hospitals, often without adequate facilitation of the transfer of learning from classroom to practice. We are interested in reports on change to more integrated curricula that overcome inherent problems of the separation of academic learning from that related to other spheres.

SCHEDULE:

Book chapter proposals submission deadline: February 9, 2015
Notification of peer-review decisions: ongoing with a rolling review process
Receipt of full book chapters: April 23, 2015
Chapter authors receive peer reviews with editorial feedback: May 7, 2015
Final revisions due: June 7, 2015
Anticipated book publication date: January 2016

Charles currently holds series editor positions with Palgrave Macmillan,
Emerald and IAP and we have also published volumes with Springer, Sage, IGI
Global, and Pearson Prentice Hall

Submit a one-page or so chapter proposal.  Also, include for each of the coauthors a brief biography including terminal degree, current institutional affiliation and position, and a listing of any related publications. For each coauthor include contact information, so we can readily contact you ideally including: email address, mobile phone, work phone, home phone, and Skype (if you do not mind us contacting you through these). We realize that this is a very aggressive schedule.  However, we believe that moving agilely to a first draft during the spring term will work best for getting our book done in a timely and robust way.

Send proposals and inquiries to both editors:

Charles Wankel wankelc@stjohns.edu and Laura Wankel wankella@gmail.com



Collegially,

Charles Wankel

http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~wankelc

CFP: Journal of Web Librarianship

CALL FOR PAPERS: Journal of Web Librarianship

The Journal of Web Librarianship is an international, peer-reviewed journal focused on all aspects of librarianship as practiced on the World Wide Web, including both existing and emerging roles and activities of information professionals.

The journal strives to find a balance between original, scholarly research, and practical communications on relevant topics in web librarianship.  Web services and systems librarians are encouraged to contribute, as are librarians working in public services, technical services, special collections, archives, and administration.

The Journal of Web Librarianship welcomes articles covering topics including but not limited to:

• Library Web page design and redesigns
• Web project management
• Usability testing of library or library-related sites
• Cataloging or classification of Web information
• Library apps, mobile Web sites, and other topics related to mobile devices and libraries
• International issues in Web librarianship
• Library integration with other Web sites
• Future aspects of Web librarianship 

The Journal of Web Librarianship receives all manuscript submissions electronically via its ScholarOne Manuscripts site located at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/JWebLib 

CFP: The Commonwealth and its People: Diasporas, Identities, Memories (DIM'2015)

The Commonwealth and its People: Diasporas, Identities, Memories (DIM'2015)

Conference and Exhibition
Affiliated with the People’s Forum of CHoGM 2015

Valletta, 24-25 June 2015
First Call for Papers

OBJECTIVES

The Commonwealth is one of the most striking examples of extensive relocation and migration on a world-wide scale. This proposal aims to bring together two ways of exploring the topic of Diasporas, Identities and Memories – as a subject for academic study and discussion, and as a theme captured in artistic expression.

The concept behind the conference is to bring for discussion state-of-the-art research related to the theme which will inspire the exhibition taking place during the CHoGM forum.

The conference aims to bring together academics specializing in social history, history, information science, art history as well as curators, archivists and librarians interested in the theme.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

The conference welcomes contributions that focus on, but are not limited to the following themes:

- What role do researchers have in the capturing and articulation of diasporas, memories and identities?
- How do memory institutions support engagement with researchers and the general public?
- How the artistic expression captures identity and changes and conflicts related to it?
- How to capture and convey trans-generational and community memories?
- How does the right to forget manifest in the diasporas’ memories?
- What are the specific issues around capturing memories and experiences of children and young people?
- What has been the role of Commonwealth institutions or Commonwealth-based supra-national organisations in the formation of memory/identity/diasporas?
- How do memory institutions contribute to the development and management of heritage?
- How memory institutions across the Commonwealth countries could cooperate better to serve diasporas?
- What educational activities targeting memory institutions across the Commonwealth could help cooperation?
- How social media are transforming engagement and participation in archival processes?
- How is transnationalism influencing the transmission of cultural values?
- How much can technologies be of help in capturing memories/nostalgia and in representing identities?

SUBMISSION DETAILS:

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers related to the aforementioned topics. We invite:

- regular papers (8 to 12 pages)
- short papers (2 to 6 pages)

All submissions are required to be in PDF format. Long and short paper submissions must be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS format (www.springer.com/computer/lncs).

Please submit your manuscript using the EasyChair online submission system

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dim2015. All submissions will be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. All papers accepted for the conference should be presented during the event.
Papers will be published in open access proceedings, with selected papers will be published as a special issue of a journal (currently negotiated with The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs).

IMPORTANT DATES:

- Deadline for submissions: 15 February 2015
- Acceptance Notification: 20 March 2015
- Camera-ready papers: 30 April 2015
- Conference: 24-25 June 2015

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Selenay Aytac (Long Island University, USA)
Nilufer Bharucha (University of Mumbai, India)
Milena Dobreva (University of Malta, Malta)
Joanne Evans (Monash University, Australia)
Neil Forbes (University of Coventry, England)
Lorna Hughes (National Library of Wales, Wales)
Marinos Ioannides (Technical University Cyprus, Cyprus)
Gabriella Ivacs (Open Society Archives, Budapest, Hungary)
Marc Kosciejew (University of Malta, Malta)
Triantafillia Kourtoumi (Archives Thessaloniki, Greece)
Alice Nemcova (OSCE Archives, Czech Republic)
Gillian Oliver (Victoria University, New Zealand)
Seamus Ross (University of Toronto, Canada)
Maria Roussou (Hellenic Diaspora Archive, KCL, UK)
Daniela Sime (University of Strathclyde, Scotland)
Beverley Wood (The University of the West Indies, Barbados)


FURTHER INFORMATION:

For further information please contact Prof. Milena Dobreva, milena.dobreva@um.edu.mt

CFP: 17th Distance Library Services Conference

Proposals are now being accepted for the 17th Distance Library Services Conference to be held April 20-22, 2016, in Pittsburgh, PA. The DLS Conference is the perfect opportunity to showcase your research, knowledge and experience in providing library services to those who are teaching and learning at a distance or online.

Proposals will be accepted for contributed papers, posters and workshops in the following subject tracks:

• Administration & Management
• Assessment
• Emerging Technologies
• Marketing
• Teaching & Learning

As practices that are effective in distance learning become increasingly applicable in any library environment, the professional development and networking opportunities offered by the DLS Conference can benefit all librarians, educators, administrators, and staff who are interested in expanding their reach beyond the physical campus.

To learn more about the conference and submitting a proposal, please visit http://libguides.cmich.edu/dls2016

Eligible presenters can also apply to win the Conference Award, which includes free conference registration. Learn more at http://libguides.cmich.edu/dls2016/award

The deadline for proposal and Conference Award submissions is April 7, 2015.

We hope to see you in Pittsburgh in 2016!

********************************

Thad Dickinson

Conference Coordinator

17^th Distance Library Services Conference

Global Campus Library Services

Central Michigan University

dicki1te@cmich.edu

CFP: 2015 KLA/SLA Joint Spring Conference - Adapt, Evolve, Innovate: Embracing Change in Libraries - April 2015 (Prestonsburg, Kentucky)

The 2015 Joint Spring Conference will take place April 15-17, 2015 at Jenny Wiley State Park, in Prestonsburg, Kentucky. The conference will start at 1 PM Eastern Time on Wednesday, April 15 and end at 12 PM Eastern Time on Friday, April 17, giving you two full days of sessions and networking opportunities.

The theme for this year’s conference is “Adapt, Evolve, Innovate: Embracing Change in Libraries.” Proposals addressing the theme in some fashion will receive preference from the committee. This is a call for both Mini-Sessions and Poster Session Proposals.  Posters will be displayed during the Welcoming Social on Wednesday evening (April 15, 2014) at 5:30 p.m.

Submissions are due by January 15, 2015. Notification of accepted proposals will take place by February 1, 2015. All proposals must be submitted electronically.  To submit a proposal click here.

We look forward to reviewing your proposal!  Please let me know if you have any questions!

2015 Joint Spring Conference Planning Committee

Ben Rawlins

Assistant Library Director & Digital Services Coordinator

Georgetown College

Georgetown, KY

Ben_Rawlins@georgetowncollege.edu

(502) 863-8403

CFP: Journal of Library and Information Service in Distance Learning

The Journal of Library and Information Service in Distance Learning, a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis, welcomes the submission of manuscripts.  The journal is devoted to the issues and concerns of librarians and information specialists involved with distance education and delivering library resources and services to this growing community of students. Topics can include but are not limited to:

• Faculty/librarian cooperation and collaboration
• Information literacy
• Instructional service techniques
• Information delivery
• Reference services
• Document delivery
• Developing collections

If you are interested in submitting an article, this journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the “Guide for ScholarOne Authors” at http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/submission/ScholarOne.asp before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided at http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=journal&issn=1533-290X. WLIS receives all manuscript submissions electronically via their ScholarOne Manuscripts website located at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/WLIS. ScholarOne Manuscripts allows for rapid submission of original and revised manuscripts, as well as facilitating the review process and internal communication between authors, editors and reviewers via a web-based platform. ScholarOne Manuscripts technical support can be accessed via http://scholarone.com/services/support/.

Inquiries and questions are welcome and can be sent directly to the editor, Jodi Poe, at jpoe@jsu.edu.

Please note: We accept manuscript submissions through the year; however, the deadline to have your article appear in our next issue, if accepted, is May 1, 2015. Accepted and approved manuscripts received after this date have no guarantee of being included in the next published issue.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jodi W. Poe, Editor
Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning
Associate Professor, Head of Technical Services
Houston Cole Library
Jacksonville State University
700 Pelham Road North
Jacksonville, AL  36265-1602
TEL: (256) 782-8103
FAX: (256) 782-5872
Email: jpoe@jsu.edu