Call for Panels - Assn. of College & Research Libraries 2017 (Baltimore, MD)

The ACRL 2017 Panel Sessions Committee is currently accepting applications for panel discussions at the Association of College & Research Libraries 2017 conference! The deadline is May 6, 2016.

A panel session offers an opportuney occasion for two to four presenters to engage in a cohesive and productive conversation about a topic of importance to academic libraries and librarianship.  Lasting 60 minutes (including time for Q&A), the discussion proves effective in prompting the audience to think about the topic and/or share insights from different perspectives.

Conference tags can stimulate your thinking and position your proposal within the conference theme.  Proposals for traditionally underrepresented topics such as scholarly communication, special collections/archives, and technical services are especially welcome, so please share this with any friends or colleagues who may have expertise in those areas!

Information about submitting a proposal is online.  When you are ready to submit, click here to start the process.

The submission deadline is May 6, 2016.  Feel free to contact me or the Panel Sessions Committee Chairs Adrian Ho (hoadriank@gmail.com) and Heidi Steiner Burkhardt (heidisb@umich.edu) if you have any questions.

Call for Chapters: Women's Studies in the Library: Case Studies of Innovative Programs and Resources

Women's Studies in the Library: Case Studies of Innovative Programs and Resources
Book Publisher: McFarland

Carol Smallwood, ed. Library's Role in Supporting Financial Literacy for Patrons (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016); public library administrator, special, school librarian.

Lura Sanborn, co-ed. Women, Work, and the Web, contributor, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015); public, academic, school librarian.

One or two chapters sought from U.S. practicing academic, public, school, special librarians, LIS faculty, sharing practical know-how about what works for women's studies programs and resources. Chapters are encouraged that could apply to more than one type of library: useful to public, school, special, LIS faculty. Proven, creative, case studies encouraged. How-to chapters based on experience to help colleagues; innovative workshops, outreach, grant resources highly valued.

No previously published, simultaneously submitted material. One, two, or three authors per chapter; each chapter by the same author(s). Compensation: one complimentary copy per 3,000-4,000 word chapter accepted no matter how many co-authors, or if one or two chapters: author discount on more copies.

Please e-mail titles of proposed chapters, each described in a few sentences by March  28, 2016, brief bio on each author; place WOM, Your Name on subject line: smallwood@tm.net

Call for Chapters: Male Gender Studies in the Library: Case Studies of Innovative Programs and Resources

Male Gender Studies in the Library: Case Studies of Innovative Programs and Resources
Carol Smallwood:   Essays on Women's Studies in the Library (McFarland, 2016); public library administrator, special, school librarian.

Vera Gubnitskaia: How to STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education in Libraries. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014); public, college librarian.

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield. Exploring feasibility---when enough responses have been received you'll be contacted.

Anthology: 3,000-4,000 word chapters by public, school, special, academic librarians, LIS faculty and those involved with library outreach, programming, collection development, resources, community partnerships in the United States and Canada. Innovative chapters on a rapidly changing topic in popular media and an increasing presence in college and graduate classes.

One, two, or three authors per chapter; each chapter by the same author(s). Compensation: one complimentary copy per 3,000-4,000 word chapter accepted no matter how many co-authors or if one or two chapters: author discount on more copies.

Please send title for one or two proposed chapters: one or two sentence description for each chapter; brief bio to: smallwood@tm.net with MAL in subject line by March 28, 2016

Call for Chapters: Technology Instruction in Libraries for Staff, Patrons, and Students

Technology Instruction in Libraries for Staff, Patrons, and Students
Book Publisher: McFarland

Carol Smallwood, co-ed. Google  for Patron Library Use  ed. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015); public library administrator, special, school librarian.

Lura Sanborn, co-ed. Women, Work, and the Web, contributor, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015); public, academic, school librarian.

One or two chapters sought from U.S. practicing academic, public, school, special librarians about technology instruction for staff, patrons, and students. Chapters are encouraged that could apply to more than one type of library: public, school, special, academic, LIS faculty. Creative case studies especially encouraged. How-to chapters based on experience to help colleagues; innovation highly valued.

No previously published, simultaneously submitted material. One, two, or three authors per chapter; each chapter by the same author(s). Compensation: one complimentary copy per 3,000-4,000 word chapter accepted no matter how many co-authors or one/two chapters: author discount on more copies.

Please e-mail titles of proposed chapters each described in a few sentences by March 28, 2016, brief bio on each author; place TECH, Your Name on subject line: smallwood@tm.net

Call for Chapters: Library Outreach to Writers and Poets: Interviews and Case Studies of Cooperation

Library Outreach to Writers and Poets: Interviews and Case Studies of Cooperation
Book Publisher: McFarland

Carol Smallwood:  Water, Earth, Air, Fire, and Picket Fences (Lamar University Press, 2014);  Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching is on Poets & Writers Magazine list of Best Books for Writers.

Vera Gubnitskaia: contributor, Bringing the Arts into the Library (ALA, 2014); co-editor, Continuing Education for Librarians (McFarland, 2013); indexer

One or two chapters sought from U.S. writers, poets, academic, public, school, special librarians, LIS and Creative Writing faculty, sharing practical know-how about outreach, workshops, literary festivals, readings, librarian/author/poet visits to schools and other groups, spotlights-on-authors, book talks/clubs. Interview format chapters by librarians/writers/poets welcomed.

No previously published, simultaneously submitted material. One, two, or three authors per chapter/interview; each by the same author(s). Compensation: one complimentary copy per 3,000-4,000 word chapter/interview accepted no matter how many co-authors, or if one or two chapters: author discount on more copies.

Please e-mail titles of proposed chapters, each described in a few sentences by March 28, 2016, brief bio on each author; place WRI, Last Name on subject line: smallwood@tm.net

CFP: ACRL/NY 2016 Symposium: Money and Power (New York City - December 2, 2016)

ACRL/NY 2016 Symposium: Money and Power

Call for proposals

Economic, social, and political power affect the choices we all make as individuals and as institutions. The world of academic and research libraries is not exempt. Power and money determine who and what is included or excluded, affect our conscious and unconscious agendas, and can be used to further or hinder changes of many kinds. Yet as ever-present as these forces are, they are often assumed and unspoken. Let’s make the implicit explicit by directly addressing the undercurrents of money and power in academic and research libraries, so we can move forward together with productive analysis and action.

Some possible areas to consider:

•  Labor and power in the library: adjuncts, faculty status and other signifiers of professionalism;  collective bargaining; 

•  Budget decisions and funding strategies;

•  Critiques of cataloging/metadata and the power to name;

•  Power within discourse and scholarly communication: academic freedom; open access and questions of prestige; alt-metrics; 

•  Leveraging power to foster change within an institution;

•  Power dynamics in the library classroom and at the reference desk; teaching critical information literacy and the social construction of authority;

•  Sociopolitical hierarchies, including those based on race, class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, or disability that academic libraries replicate and/or challenge; and

•  Sharing power in collaborations both within and outside our institutions.

The above list is not meant to represent the limits of the theme, but to serve as a catalyst for your ideas. 

We are accepting submissions for:

•   50-minute solo presentations to be followed by a Q+A period

•   20-minute presentations that will be grouped into small panels by topic and followed by a moderated discussion 

A call for posters will be announced at a later date. 

Please submit an abstract of 250-550 words here.  Deadline for submissions is March 25, 2016, with notification of acceptance in early May. Selected presenters must confirm by May 19.

The 2016 ACRL/NY Symposium will be held December 2, 2016 at the Vertical Campus at Baruch College, City University of New York.

* Hat tip to Robert Darnton via Maura Seale in Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods for an anecdote that inspired this theme.

Questions about the submission process may be addressed to acrlnysymposiumchair@gmail.com 

CFP: 5th Annual Indiana University Libraries Information Literacy Colloquium (New Albany, IN - August 5, 2016)

Event: 5th Annual Indiana University Libraries Information Literacy Colloquium

Date: Friday, August 5, 2016

Location: Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, Indiana

Audience: Academic Librarians

Theme: Critical Information Literacy: Empowering Learners for Social Change

 

Critical pedagogy is an approach to teaching and learning that envisions the educational environment as a site for social change. In recent years, academic librarians have been drawing on the work of theorists and writers such as Paulo Freire and bell hooks in order to bring the theories and practices of critical pedagogy into conversation with information literacy and library instruction. Practitioners of critical information literacy instruction seek to incorporate an emphasis on social justice into the library setting in a number of ways, including resisting the passive banking method of teaching and learning, disrupting and transforming the power relations between teacher and learner, validating student voice and experiential knowledge, and exposing how oppression and societal inequities shape information production and dissemination. The ultimate goal is to empower learners with the knowledge and power to transform their own lives, learning experiences, and the world. 

 

The planning committee for the IU Libraries Information Literacy Colloquium is seeking proposals for 45-minute interactive breakout session presentations that investigate, examine, or describe how critical pedagogy can be enacted in the library instruction setting. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

 

• Critical pedagogy teaching strategies for information literacy instruction

• Successes and challenges of adopting critical approaches in information literacy instruction

• Critical approaches to revising the information literacy curriculum

• Critical approaches to information literacy at the reference desk

• Classroom or program assessment from critical pedagogy perspectives

• Communicating with faculty and the campus at large about critical pedagogy

• Incorporating critical information literacy into library outreach, programming, collection development, or other library services

Proposals should clearly describe how presenters will use interactive strategies to engage attendees. Please submit proposals to http://tinyurl.com/IULILC16 by May 9, 2016.  Presenters will be notified about the status of their proposal by June 1, 2016.

 

More information about the Colloquium can be found at: http://libguides.ius.edu/colloquium

Call for Lightning Round Presentations: Spring 2016 Meeting - Greater NYC Area- ACRL National Library Marketing & Outreach Interest Group

ACRL National Library Marketing & Outreach Interest Group - Greater NYC Area - is looking for lightning round presentations for our Spring 2016 meeting!


Do you have an interesting marketing project to share from your academic library? Did you create a great giveaway, social media campaign, or contest? We want to hear from you! The lightning round talks will be a series of short (5-7 minute) presentations designed to maximize your opportunity to learn about outreach & marketing activities of your ACRL colleagues.

Submit a lightning round presentation by February 26, 2016: http://tinyurl.com/acrl-lmao-nyc-spring2016

RSVP to attend the Spring 2016 meeting: http://tinyurl.com/acrl-lmao-nyc-spring2016-RSVP (please bring photo ID)

When: Friday March 11, 2016, 3pm-5pm
Where: Berkeley College, Manhattan Campus, 3 East 43rd Street, 6th floor, room 603, New York, NY (2 minute walk from Grand Central Terminal)
Link to Google map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/3+E+43rd+St,+New+York,+NY+10017

About the ACRL LMaO Interest Group:

Launched at the 2014 ALA Annual Conference, this interest group encourages regional meet ups around the U.S. as a central initiative. The ACRL National Library Marketing and Outreach Interest Group has been created for Academic Librarians interested in Marketing and Outreach. This group is open to ACRL National members & non-members. For more information, please see our Facebook presence at https://www.facebook.com/groups/acrl.lmao

Open to all members & non-members of ACRL national.

Refreshments will be served!! We look forward to seeing you!

Mark Aaron Polger, Co-Chair
First Year Experience Librarian
College of Staten Island, City University of New York
MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.edu
718-982-4065

Robin O'Hanlon, Co-Chair
Public Services Manager
The Levy Library, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai School of Medicine
robin.ohanlon@mssm.edu
212-241-1095

Maria Deptula, Co-Chair
Library Director, Berkeley College (Paramus Campus)
mde@berkeleycollege.edu
201-967-9667 ext. 1764

CFP: ournal Special Issue (Chinese American Archives, Collections and Librarians) & Conference (Chinese Pluralities Through the Americas)

This is just a kind reminder that the 2016 Special Issue (Chinese American Archives, Collections and Librarians) of History & Perspective is now accepting paper abstract and its due date is March 30. Full paper is due May 31. Chinese America: History and Perspectives-the Journal of the Chinese Historical Society of America, is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Chinese Historical Society of America. Prof. Jonathan Lee (https://faculty.sfsu.edu/~jlee/) from San Francisco State University is its chief editor. 

The issues from 2010-2014 (http://chsa.org/shop-chsa/publications/history-perspectives/) are available online. I am now serving as one of its editorial board members and the guest editor for the 2016 special issue. So please feel free to let me know if you have any questions.

History & Perspectives Journal

URL: http://chsa.org/shop-chsa/publications/history-perspectives/

Chinese America: History & Perspectives-The Journal of the Chinese Historical Society of America is published annually by CHSA. Starting with the 2010 issue, H&P ...

Please find more details about this special issue here:

History & Perspective Call for Paper Announcement. 2016 Special Issue: Chinese American Archives, Collections and Librarians.

CFP URL: http://overseaschineseconfederation.org/2015/11/17/call-for-paper-submissions/

Also, the Chinese Historical Society of America is organizing an international conference "The Land is Our Land": Chinese Pluralities Through the Americas" that will be held at San Francisco, October 6-8, 2017. The deadline for paper abstract is May 30. Please click the link for more details.

Yan He

hey@ohio.edu

Call for book chapters: Strategic Communication for Non-Profit Organisations: Challenges and Alternative Approaches

OSCS - ECREA | Call for Publication 2016

The Organisational and Strategic Communication Section of ECREA – European Communication Research and Education Association opens a Call for Publication of short chapters to be included in a forthcoming book on

Strategic Communication for Non-Profit Organisations: Challenges and Alternative Approaches

to be published by Vernon Press in the Fall 2016. The book will be edited by Evandro Oliveira (University of Leipzig, DE), Ana Duarte Melo (University of Minho, PT) and Gisela Gonçalves (University of Beira Interior, PT) and will be distributed worldwide by Vernon Press.

This call follows the conference held in December 2015 at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and is focused on but not limited to the full papers presented at the event. We invite contributions of relevant and original research related to the role of strategic communication at the core of non-profit communication challenges, specially on alternative approaches on value creation aimed towards goals such as public welfare, societal values, religious ideas, citizen engagement and community development.  Alternative insights, frameworks and concepts as well as reports on empirical research will be most valued. 

Topics of interest include:

·         External and internal communication of non-profit organisations

·         Communication in governmental and inter-governmental organisations

·         Communication by associations, charities and unions and civil society initiatives

·         Citizen engagement and new societal movements

·         International NGOs and their communication activities

·         Church communication and communication in the field of religion

Proposed book chapters should be between 4000-7000 words, prepared for double blind review, without any reference to the author(s), and must comply with the Vernon Press submission guidelines you can find here. Submissions must be original contributions and not under consideration for publication at another outlet at the same time.

Please send your submissions to oliveira.evandro@gmail.com by March 14^th 2016.

Important dates

Submission deadline: 14.3.16 

Acceptance notification: 15.4.16

Final papers: 6.5.16

Publication preview: Fall 2016

We are looking forward to receive your submission.

The Editors,

Evandro, Ana and Gisela

CFP: Exploring Online Student Engagement: Encouraging Active Learning at a Distance

Do you encourage active learning in your online instruction? Do you have strategies for promoting online student engagement? Would you like to share what you've learned with your colleagues?

The ACRL Distance Learning Section Instruction Committee would like to invite you to submit a proposal to be part of our Spring Online Panel Discussion where participants will share strategies and practical tips for engaging students and promoting active learning in online environments. The proposal from can be found here:

http://goo.gl/forms/qa5DnPP2aI

Proposals should not be more than 300 words in length and should include a very brief biographical sketch (additional 150 words or less) of the presenter(s), as well as links to any online materials that will be discussed in the presentation, if available. The Distance Learning Section Instruction Committee will review and select from the proposals submitted. The deadline for submitting proposals is March 9th, 2016.

Submit your proposal now!  

Best,

Mike Courtney

Outreach & Engagement Librarian

Indiana University

CFP: 15th annual Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference (Portland, OR - September 2016)

The 15th annual Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference will take place September 8-9, 2016, in Portland Oregon at Portland Community College - Sylvania Campus! Look for registration opening early in May.

Char Booth (https://infomational.wordpress.com/), Associate Dean of the Library at CSU San Marcos and an ACRL Immersion Institute faculty member, will be this year’s keynote speaker.


Call for Proposals

The NWILL Conference Program Committee invites proposals for lightning rounds (7 minutes) and regular sessions (45 minutes) of interest to interlibrary loan and resource sharing practitioners.


The following topics are of interest to the Program Committee, but we welcome proposals on other topics as well:

• Managing your ILL statistics & taking statistics to the next level
• Sustainable ILL & green practices
• Coping with fewer resources
• ILL for public libraries
• Succession planning, ILL department management
• Libraries without books, what does it mean for ILL?
• Keeping track of licensing of e-content for ILL
• Training staff and students
• Copyright, fair use, licensing, and open access in relation to resource sharing
• Best practices for ILL records management & policy creation

Check the conference site (http://www.nwill.org/) for more information.

To submit a proposal - use this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Z0an499Woe5rz4kBn0C1_ev2VkZTe1aK8c2Gu-Ma8Ns/viewform?usp=send_form

Deadline: February 25, 2016

Questions? Contact Jessica Bower, NWILL Program Chair: jbower@chapman.edu

Jessica Bower
Coordinator of Interlibrary Loan
Chapman University

Call for Proposals: Innovation and Risk Taking in Business Academic Librarianship: Lightning Talks - ALA Annual 2016)

Call for Proposals: Innovation and Risk Taking in Business Academic Librarianship: Lightning Talks

Do you have an innovative idea or project that you’re dying to share with others interested in academic librarianship, instruction, or business reference?  Did you take a risk that didn’t go how you planned, failed, and learned from the failure?

The Business Reference in Academic Libraries is hosting a set of seven lightning talks for their Forum at ALA Annual 2016. Lightning talks are 5-7 minute presentations and could present on a diversity of topics including successes or failures, innovative products implemented, new tools for reference, or risky new services.

Due March 1

Notification by April 15

Submit here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xwY0x6SSq7ATUnP9B3BKjfcIWnEyBWvTi6nH8YZNo6M/viewform


Van Houlson
​Chair, Business Reference in Academic Libraries Committee
University of Minnesota
612-624-1140
https://www.lib.umn.edu/about/staff/van

Call for Chapters: Data Analytics in Digital Humanities

Data Analytics in Digital Humanities

Editor: Dr. Shalin Hai-Jew, Kansas State University, haijes@gmail.com (and 1-785-532-5262)

Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media

Theme: Of late, the “digital humanities” have come to the fore with researchers, academics, and students using digital means to advance their humanities work. These efforts include endeavors to:

• annotate, present, and share raw data and digitized artifacts and processed information through Web-facing digital archives and databases;
• model human experiences digitally through virtual spaces and games;
• collect and analyze data from heterogeneous sources;
• code data;
• query the data and information (manually and computationally);
• extract models;
• pose questions;
• challenge cultural and historical understandings;
• reconfigure current constructs / challenge power and privilege, and
• broaden ways to knowing and being.

This text will focus on a range of technology tools and methods used for research and data analytics in the digital humanities, with particular focuses on local domain-specific applied theories, techniques, and approaches, as well as more global methods.

More: http://www.k-state.edu/ID/CallDataAnalyticsDigitalHumanities.pdf

Joelle Pitts

Assistant Professor | Instructional Design Librarian

203 Hale Library | Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506

785.532.5008 | jopitts@ksu.edu

Call for Abstracts: 2016 DataONE Users Group Meeting (July 17-18,2016 in Chapel Hill, NC)

Please save the date for our upcoming DataONE Users Group (DUG) meeting to be held July 17th-18th, 2016 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.  As in previous years, we will be co-locating with the ESIP Summer Meeting.  

There is no cost to register.

Meeting Theme and Objectives
The 2016 meeting theme, “Expanding Data Networks,” will focus on the new challenges and efforts in making data accessible, discoverable, and deliverable while promoting open data policies, standards, and compliance with funders’ emerging data management requirements. A strong emphasis is on data synthesis and technological progress made in data network infrastructure.

In a departure from previous years, the scientific program of the 2016 meeting invites both talks and posters from the community on the following topics:

• Leveraging research data level metrics for large data repositories and data networks
• Integrating the needs and inputs of data users to advance and improve data discoverability
• Assessing the progress, impact, and success in promoting open data policies

DataONE encourages DataONE Member Nodes, data scientists, researchers, scientists, students and others to submit abstracts for posters and talks.

Abstract Submission for Posters and Talks
Please submit an abstract (250 words maximum) and indicate whether you prefer to give a talk or present a poster to dugchairs@dataone.org. Talks will be approximately 10-20 minutes in duration, to be confirmed with development of the agenda. The poster session will be held the evening of Sunday evening July 17th during the reception events.

Submissions will be reviewed by the DataONE Users Group Steering Committee. Accepted abstracts will be published on the DataONE website.

Important Dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: April 15, 2016
Author Notification: May 15, 2016

Preliminary meeting information for the DUG Annual Meeting can be found here: https://www.dataone.org/dataone-users-group/2016-meeting

Preliminary information for the ESIP Summer Meeting can be found here: http://commons.esipfed.org/2016SummerMeeting

CFP: “Reading Redefined: Deep Reading, Learning, and the Impact of Digitization” - Lansing, Michigan, September 30, 2016

On behalf of the Conference Program Committee, we would like to invite you to submit a proposal for “Reading Redefined: Deep Reading, Learning, and the Impact of Digitization”. The event will be held in Lansing, Michigan at the Lansing Community College West Campus on September 30, 2016.

 

This program is an opportunity for librarians, educators, and others interested in understanding the ways that reading is changing to gather, debate, and learn.

 

We invite program proposals from February 1, 2016 to March 31, 2016.

 

Program proposal submissions should be 30 minutes in length including time for questions.  Proposals might focus on any of the following areas:

 

• Promise and threat of technology or increasing digitization for our youth
• Role of technology in dissemination of knowledge for libraries
• What are deep reading skills and how can libraries facilitate deep reading
• What is the role of the public or academic library in our digital culture
• The ways that technology is changing the mission and role of libraries
• Bi-literate children balancing deep reading and technology
• Online reading/skimming (DH)
• What does reading on different devices mean to education
• The impact of digital humanities on learning
• How do librarians balance print and electronic book acquisitions

 

Please submit a 150-200 word proposal for your presentation here

 

or https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Uieokx6gN2OJ35iyLmaYHec9EIzgQ1DqjlFDVvmu0JA/viewform

Program proposals will be reviewed by the program committee, and those presenters who are selected will be notified by mid-May 2016.

 

This event is co-sponsored by a collaborative of Michigan library service agencies.

CFP: Advances in Library Administration and Organization 2016 Volume: Student Retention and the Academic Library

Advances in Library Administration and Organization 2016 Volume:  Student Retention and the Academic Library

Series Editor: Samantha Hines, Missoula College at the University of Montana

Volume Editor: Kellian Clink, Minnesota State University, Mankato

As the costs of education continue to rise and competition increases, colleges and universities must find strategies to increase student retention. Do libraries have a role in student retention? Are the ways we deploy finances, personnel and other resources making a difference? What about the relationship between library staff and students, or the availability of study spaces and social spaces on campus or elsewhere—do they help create a sense of community that helps students stay in college?   What about specialized collections such as self-help books for wellness or dictionaries to address our immigrant students’ needs?  What does your library do, or ought to do, to intentionally support student retention, and how can it inform the future of libraries in student retention?

The second 2016 volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization will focus on the role of the academic library in student retention.  ALAO offers long-form research, comprehensive discussions of theoretical developments, and in-depth accounts of evidence-based practice in library administration and organization.  The series aims to answer the questions, “How have libraries been managed, and how should they be managed?” It goes beyond a platform for the sharing of research to provide a venue for dialogue across issues, in a way that traditional peer reviewed journals cannot.  Through this series, practitioners can glean new approaches in challenging times and collaborate on the exploration of scholarly solutions to professional quandaries. 

We are currently seeking proposals for the 2016 volume on the role of the academic library in student retention. The place, the people, or the collections might be your focus.  If you are interested in being part of this volume, please send a proposal including author details and estimated length of final submission to Kellian.clink@mnsu.edu by February 29, 2016. 

Submission deadlines:

• Submission deadline for proposals: February 29, 2016
• Notification of acceptance sent by:  March 31, 2016
• Submission deadline for full chapters:  May 15, 2016
• Comments returned to authors:  June 24, 2016
• Submission deadline for chapter revisions:  July 15, 2016

Call for Chapter Proposals/Abstracts: Organization, Representation, and Description through the Digital Age

Call for chapter abstracts for the forthcoming De Gruyter Saur book Organization, Representation, and Description through the Digital Age: Information in Libraries, Archives and Museums to be edited by Caroline Fuchs and Christine Angel. The editors invite a submission of 500-word abstracts proposing a chapter for this edited volume. Abstract due by April 3, 2015.

Submission Dates and Timeline:

• April 4, 2016: 500-word chapter abstract due
• April 18, 2016: Notification of proposal acceptance from editors
• June 6, 2016: Full chapter manuscripts submitted to editors. Chapter drafts should be approximately nine pages (4,500 – 5,000 words)
• July 18, 2016: Chapter authors receive feedback from editors
• August 15, 2016: Final revised chapters submitted to editors

The editors seek original scholarship on the metadata practices including the organization, representation, and/or description of information objects within the library, archive, and museum (LAM) environments. The frame of inquiry includes all types of libraries, archives, museums, and other information settings. Special consideration will be given to case studies that highlight successes, challenges, best practices, and lessons learned.

Chapter topics and case studies of interest include (but are not limited to):  

• The influence of technological developments on the way in which your institution organizes, describes and represents information objects
• The ways in which your institution’s catalog/finding aid/inventory practices have or have not changed in response to changes in technology
• The standards and data content used within your institution that govern the way in which your institution organizes, describes, and represents information objects
• The ways in which your institution’s internal structure has influenced the organization, representation, and description of information objects
• The ways in which different/new media types have influenced your institution’s metadata practices (i.e. still images, moving images, PDFs, gaming systems, etc.)
• The ways in which financial constraints have influenced cataloging practices at your institution
• The changing requirements for professional qualifications and skill sets at your institution for the organization, representation, and description of information objects
• Case studies of shared cataloging or other collaborative, consortial endeavors within the shared online cataloging environment (a.k.a. the Web), such as social networking
• Challenges, obstacles, and opportunities encountered at your institution during the migration of cataloging (organizing, describing, and representing information) from the analog to the digital environment
• Current or ongoing developments/projects concerning information representation and retrieval of objects within the Web 3.0 environment

Please direct submissions and inquires to Caroline Fuchs, Associate Professor at St. John’s University Libraries, New York (fuchs@stjohns.edu) and Christine Angel, Assistant Professor, Division of Library and Information Science at St. John’s University, New York (angelc@stjohns.edu).

Call for Chapters – The First-Year Experience Library Cookbook (ACRL Publications)

CALL FOR “RECIPES” (CHAPTER PROPOSALS)

Call for Chapters – The First-Year Experience Library Cookbook (ACRL Publications)

The First-Year Experience Library Cookbook is seeking recipes!

We’re looking for practice-based examples of lesson plans or projects that support First-Year and transfer students (ACRL Publications). We are seeking informative and approachable plans that librarians can implement to support these groups – they can be related to information literacy, assessment, programming, outreach, or other topics of interest.

Recipes will follow the Cookbook format. Your 500-to-700-word submission must describe a successful lesson plan or activity that support First-Year or transfer students.

Recipes will also include:

●      Recipe name (a.k.a. your “chapter” title)

●      Your name, university or other affiliation, and email

●      Potential cookbook category (see below)

Cookbook categories:

Part I:  Dessert First! Creating First-Year Library Orientations

Library orientation lesson or program plans.

Examples include:

• Innovative library orientations
• Scavenger hunts with a twist
• Interactive orientations, video orientations, etc.
• Social media use during library orientations
• Orientations for transfer, international, or other specific groups of students

Part II:  Library Instruction Appetizers

Lesson plans and learning activities focused on general First-Year students or specific groups/cohorts of First-Year students. Examples include:

• General First-Year student lesson plans
• Making the most of one-shots
• Threshold Concepts for First-Year students
• Information literacy in the STEM classroom
• Embedded librarianship (First-Year writing, business courses, communications, etc.)

• International students
• First generation college students
• Student athletes
• Distance education students
• Honor students

Part III: Cheese please! FYE Programs and the Academic Library

Plans or projects that showcase successful partnerships specifically with First-Year Experience programs. Examples include:

• FYE programs
• FYE projects
• Innovative FYE partnerships
• Curriculum mapping within the FYE
• IL training for FYE instructors
• Collaborative summer reading projects with the FYE program

Part IV: To Whip or to Blend? Creating Library Programs for First-Year Students

Spotlights innovative collaborations and partnerships with various academic departments and campus units that support student learning, wellbeing, and development in the First-Year, excluding FYE programs. Examples include:

• General library programs for First-Year students
• Programs focused on at-risk students
• Transfer students
• Teaching academic integrity and plagiarism to First-Year students
• International students
• Upward Bound / HS to college experience transition
• Veteran, nontraditional, students with Disabilities, etc.
• LGBT students
• DREAM Students
• Honor students
• Collaborations with high school librarians
• Connections/collaborations with writing/CORE programs for First-Year students
• Outreach to First-Year learning communities
• Health and wellness programming
• Peer mentoring
• Faculty training programs
• Personal librarian programming
• Building junior reading/leisure reading collections aimed at First-Year students
• Programming in diversity awareness
• Summer programs  
• Collaboration with National Resource Center on First Year Experience and Students in Transition
• Curriculum mapping

Part V: Taste Testing: Assessing the Library First-Year Experience

Case studies, practical examples, and best practices of assessment activities in the First-Year. Examples include:

• Assessing threshold concepts in the First-Year
• IL rubrics in the classroom
• First-Year Student Council or Advisory Board for the Library
• Focus groups
• Assessment toolkit
• Outreach assessment
• Program assessment (Assessment in Action examples encouraged)
• Ethnographic research

Email your draft recipes by April 29, 2016

Notifications will be sent out in June 2016

Final recipes will be due on August 1, 2016

Email us at  acrlfirstyear@gmail.com with any questions. Please refer to the The Library Instruction Cookbook (ACRL 2009) and The Embedded Librarian’s Cookbook (ACRL 2014) for examples of format and tone. We are willing to be flexible with wording, style, and topics.  Creativity encouraged!

We look forward to your proposals!

Co-editors:

Raymond Pun, First Year Student Success Librarian, California State University, Fresno

Meggan Houlihan, First-Year and Instructional Services Librarian, NYU Abu Dhabi