CFP: Collaborative Information Seeking and Sharing: An Annual Research

CFP: Collaborative Information Seeking and Sharing: An Annual Research
Symposium

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (Deadline: September 11, 2009)

Collaborative Information Seeking and Sharing: An Annual Research Symposium of the Special Interest Group on Information Needs, Seeking & Use (SIG USE) in celebration of SIG USE?s 10th Anniversary.

Saturday, November 7, 2008, 1:30pm-6pm. Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, BC. ASIS&T 2009's conference theme, ?Thriving on Diversity,? provides an important opportunity for our Annual Symposium in celebration of SIG USE?s 10th Anniversary. Building on our people-centered approach, the reflective moment to be offered by this year's Symposium will be used
to consider the particular challenges of Collaborative Information Seeking and Sharing. This symposium will offer guided reflection on essential questions around information behavior research and practice in social and collaborative information environments: Where is
collaborative information behavior research headed? How are we to communicate our insights to researchers and practitioners in related areas of study and design? How can and should our models, theories and findings inform the design and delivery of collaborative and innovative information products and services?

The symposium consists of two keynote speeches as well as intensive seminar discussions. Our speakers include:

* Dr. Diane H. Sonnenwald, Director, Center for Collaborative
Innovation, and Professor at the Swedish School of Information &
Library Science, University of Gothenburg & University of Bor?s,
Sweden. Diane will share insights gained from her research regarding
the challenges, opportunities and new ways of conducting
multidisciplinary research to facilitate information sharing and
knowledge transfer to better enable our models, theories and findings
to inform the design and implementation of collaboration technology.

* Dr. David McDonald, Associate Professor, the Information School,
University of Washington, and NSF Program Officer in the CISE/IIS
Human-Centered Computing program. Dave will discuss some of the
challenges inherent in conducting computer-supported cooperative work
(CSCW) and collaborative systems design, as well as the new trends
contemplated by NSF.

Submission: Attendees will be asked to submit a short Position Paper (not a formal paper). The Symposium will follow a seminar format focusing on rich and stimulating participant discussions. Researchers and professionals interested in participating should submit a 1-page position paper (about 300 words) reflecting upon critical questions for collaborative information behavior research to the Symposium Organizers not later than September 11, 2009. Please send your
position papers to Nadia Caidi and Soo Young Rieh (nadia.caidi@utoronto.ca; rieh@umich.edu). Applicants are invited to
reflect on the four questions that will frame the symposium and
present ways that their research addresses them:
* How does our research address the transformative relationship
between people and information?
* What are the fundamental questions that we should be looking at in
our research?
* How are we to move towards making a greater impact on organizations
and designers?
* How can or should collaborative information behavior research be
presented to translate effectively into the language of other
information research communities?

Experienced researchers may share information about their current
research and insights from lessons learned through past projects,
while those new to the field may describe their research or
professional interests related to the Symposium themes. Upon
acceptance, position papers will be posted on a wiki accessible
through the SIG USE website (www.siguse.org) prior to the Symposium.
Small discussion groups will be organized around symposium questions
and themes emerging from position papers. In keeping with the theme of
the Symposium, we will also maintain a Twitter stream for the
Symposium, thus encouraging people to exchange information and
contribute their musings before, during and after the Symposium.
Participants must register with ASIS&T at www.asis.org for the
Symposium. Symposium participants are invited to attend a SIG SI/USE
networking lunch during the time between the SIG SI and USE symposia.
Cost: Pay-on-your-own.
The SIG USE 10th Anniversary Reception will follow the Symposium at 6:30pm.

Fees: Before September 25, 2009, members: $95, non-members: $105.
After September 25, 2009 members $105, non-members: $115. SIG USE
members attending both SIG SI (Morning of Saturday, Nov. 7) and SIG
USE symposiums will receive a $10 discount.

Symposium Organizers:

Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto, Canada. Email: nadia.caidi@utoronto.ca
Soo Young Rieh, University of Michigan. Email: rieh@umich.edu
Guillermo Oyarce, University of North Texas. Email: oyga@unt.edu

Revised call for papers for Collections 2009: Collections in times of innovation and change

Revised call for papers for Collections 2009: Collections in times of innovation and change
Le Palais des congrès de Montréal
Montréal, Quebec

Friday, May 29, 2009
(note the revised date)
9:00 am – 4:00 pm

The Collection Development & Management Interest Group (CDMIG) of the Canadian Library Association is still acceptiong proposals for papers that deal with the theme of “Collections in times of innovation and change” or other collections-related topics. Each presentation should feature one or two speakers and be about 30 minutes in length. Papers with broad applications or with applications to more than one library sector or community of users will be given preference. Panel proposals will also be considered. Proposals will be reviewed by a committee of three collections librarians.

The deadline for submission of proposals has been extended. It is now March 6, 2009

Send proposals, including a short abstract, to:

Andrew Waller
MLB 402B
University of Calgary Library
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB
T3K 2C3
waller@ucalgary.ca
(403) 220-8133 voice
(403) 284-2109 fax

CFP: Collections 2009: Collections in times of innovation and change

CFP: Collections 2009: Collections in times of innovation and change
Le Palais des congrès de Montréal
Montréal, Quebec

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
9:00 am – 4:00 pm

The Collection Development & Management Interest Group of the Canadian Library Association seeks proposals for papers that deal with a “Collections in times of innovation and change” theme or other collections-related topics and should result in a presentation of about 30 minutes in length. Each presentation should feature one or two speakers. Papers with broad applications or with applications to more than one library sector or community of users will be given preference. Panel proposals will also be considered. Proposals will be reviewed by a committee of three collections librarians.


Deadline for submission of proposals: February 23, 2009
Send proposals, including a short abstract, to:

Andrew Waller
MLB 402B
University of Calgary Library
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB
T3K 2C3
waller@ucalgary.ca

(403) 220-8133 voice
(403) 284-2109 fax


Keynote speaker for the pre-conference to be announced soon!
Registration begins on February 3, 2009

CFP: 2009 Child and the Book Conference for graduate students

CFP: 2009 Child and the Book Conference for graduate students
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, May 1-3, 2009

Call for Papers:

Vancouver Island University is pleased to host the 2009 Child and the Book Conference for graduate students, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, May 1-3, 2009. The keynote speakers will be noted scholars Perry Nodelman and Mavis Reimer. For conference information, see www.viu.ca/childandbook . The registration page will be posted shortly after the close of the call-for-paper deadline, as will a revised conference schedule.

We particularly invite proposals for papers exploring the conference theme, although all scholarly papers on topics related to children's literature will be given careful consideration.

The theme of this year's conference is This Land is Our Land, and we welcome proposals on the following topics:

• Children's literature and place
• Children's literature and heritage
• Children's literature and Indigenous Peoples
• Children's literature and ecology
• Children's literature and animals

Proposals for 20-minute presentations should be 250 words and should indicate texts to be discussed and the theoretical/critical framework underpinning your argument. Also include a separate brief biography for use by panel chairs when introducing presenters.

Please submit your proposal by Jan. 15, 2009, to the following:
Virginia MacCarthy
Faculty of Education
Vancouver Island University
900 Fifth St.
Nanaimo, BC,
Canada V9R 5S5
Or electronically to Virginia.MacCarthy@viu.ca

Terri Doughty
Vancouver Island University
900 Fifth St.
Nanaimo, BC,
Canada
V9R 5S5

Email: d.wilford@shaw.ca
Visit the website at http://www.viu.ca/childandbook

CFP: Codices and Communities (Medieval and Early Modern Institute Graduate Student Colloquium)

CFP: Codices and Communities (Medieval and Early Modern Institute Graduate Student Colloquium)

The Medieval and Early Modern Institute invites submissions for their 6th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Colloquium – Codices and Communities: Material, Book and Print Culture and their Medieval and Early Modern Contexts – December 4-5, 2008 at the University of Alberta. Dr. Erik Kwakkel, from the University of Victoria, will be giving the keynote address entitled “Lost in Translation: Michael Scot and the Oldest Manuscript of his Abbreviatio Avicenne.” Several travel subsidies are available.
Proposals can be sent to judith.anderson@ualberta.ca by September 19, 2008.

Judith Anderson
Department of English and Film Studies
University of Alberta

Email: judith.anderson@ualberta.ca
Visit the website at http://www.ualberta.ca/~juditha/MEMIconf

CFP: Conference on Comics

CFP: Conference on Comics
University of Regina (Saskatchewan, Canada)
May 2nd, 2009

Comics have become an important cultural vehicle, as can be attested by the numerous movie adaptations, the hundreds of manga titles that are translated yearly and the recent trend to consider graphic novels for literary prizes. Scholars from any discipline are invited to send proposals for papers on any matters regarding comics: Canadian identity in comics, comics for education, the psychology of super-heroes, etc.

Please submit by e-mail a 250 words proposal by January 15th, 2009, along with a request for audio-visual equipment.

Gail Chin/Sylvain Rheault
Depts. of Visual Arts/French
University of Regina
Regina, SK
Canada, S4S 0A2
Email: gail.chin@uregina.ca

CFP: Collections 2008: Collections 3.0

CFP: Collections 2008: Collections 3.0

The Sheraton Wall Centre
Vancouver, British Columbia

The deadline for submission of proposals is this Friday, March 7, 2008

Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Deadline: March 7, 2008

The Collection Development & Management Interest Group of the Canadian Library Association seeks proposals for papers that deal with a "Collections 3.0" theme or other collections-related topics and should result in a presentation of about 30 minutes in length. Each presentation should feature one or two speakers. Papers with broad applications or with applications to more than one library sector or community of users will be given preference. Panel proposals will also
be considered. Proposals will be reviewed by a committee of three collections librarians.

Deadline for submission of proposals: *March 7, 2008 *

Send proposals, including a short abstract, to:

Andrew Waller
MLB 402B
University of Calgary Library
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB
T3K 2C3
waller@ucalgary.ca
(403) 220-8133 voice
(403) 284-2109 fax

CFP Active History - History for the Future

CFP Active History - History for the Future
Location: Ontario, Canada
Call for Papers Date: March 31, 2008

Active History: History for the Future
Glendon College, York University, September 27-28th 2008

Active History: History for the Future is a two-day symposium designed to bring together university-based and community-based historians interested in assessing the ways in which historians engage with communities beyond the academy. Given that historians are also inevitably community members, it is important to consider not only the ways in which our work is taken up by the media, the courts, and so on, but also how we engage with and are responsible to communities in our research. How do, and how can, historical investigations of the past transform both historians and communities in the present and for the future?

The organizers define active history variously as history that listens and is responsive; history that will make a tangible difference in people's lives; history that makes an intervention and is transformative to both practitioners and communities. We seek a practice of history that emphasizes collegiality, builds community among active historians and other members of communities, and recognizes the public responsibilities of the historian.

The purpose of Active History: History for the Future is to make connections and to foster the development of working relationships among people doing active history within and between the many historical subfields. In this spirit, the symposium will provide an opportunity for graduate students and junior scholars interested in pursuing historical projects that will make an imprint beyond the academy to connect with and learn from colleagues who have been engaged in such historical pursuits for a long time.

Symposium Themes:
* The relationship between active history and activism
* The relationship between history and public policy
* The relationship between active history and public history
* Methodological, ethical, and historiographical issues in active history
* Early models and past experiences of active history: history workshop, community history, oral history, experiential history, movement history, progressive public history
* Creating active archives
* Active history and relations of power
* Showcase of current active history projects
* Active history and new technology
* Active history and teaching
* History for the future

Call for presentations, panels and round tables:
We are seeking applications from historians with multiple perspectives on active history. We encourage both historians working inside and outside the academy to contribute to the symposium. This is a call for presentations, not papers, as we welcome different approaches to communicating ideas about active history. Please send a one page proposal for a presentation, panel or round table, along with a brief CV of the presenter or presenters, to Jim Clifford by March 31, 2008: cljim22@gmail.com or History Department, 2172 Vari Hall, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3.

Jim Clifford
History Department, 2172 Vari Hall, York University, 4700 Keele St.,
Toronto,
ON, M3J 1P3
Email: cljim22@gmail.com

Visit the website at http://activehistory.wordpress.com/

CFP: Access 2008

CFP: Access 2008

Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (map)

Date: October 1-3, 2008 (Hackfest: Oct 1; Conference: Oct 2-4)

CFP Deadline: Friday, February 22, 2008

URL: http://access2008.mcmaster.ca

Access is Canada's premier library technology conference, featuring a single stream of sessions that deal with technology planning, development, challenges and solutions. We are now accepting proposals for prepared talks on the following topics (other ideas are more than welcome):

-open source software
-national and provincial/state-wide consortia technology initiatives
-information policy
-digital and social media
-library catalogue innovations
-digitization projects
-institutional repositories
-end-user searching behaviours
-protocols and metadata
-customized web interfaces
...or anything else suitably geeky, innovative and/or awe-inspiring! Sessions are usually 45 minutes or 1 hour in length. Proposals should include:

your name, title, institutional affiliation, contact information, blog/website URL
100 word (max) abstract describing your proposed presentation
co-presenters you will (or hope to) present with
Submission Procedures:

deadline for submission is February 22, 2008.
send your proposal to Amanda Etches-Johnson, Program Chair, at etchesa@mcmaster.ca
each submission will be acknowledged and all presenters will be notified of the status of their proposal by April 15, 2008.
if you'd simply like to recommend topics and/or speakers (other than yourself), feel free to get in touch!
Depending on the number of submissions, we can't promise that every proposal will be accepted. However, we will have sessions set aside for Lightning/Thunder talks, which provide an informal opportunity to share your ideas with your peers.

For more information about Access, see the Access 2007 website at http://access2007.uvic.ca. Alternatively, feel free to get in touch with the members of the Program Planning Committee:

Amanda Etches-Johnson

etchesa@mcmaster.ca


Jenn Horwath

jhorwath@hpl.ca

CFP: 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing

CFP: 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing
25 to 27 June 2008, Toronto, Canada

Second Call for Papers ELPUB2008
New submission deadline: January 31, 2008

Conference URL: http://www.elpub.net

Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0

Scholarly communications, in particular scholarly publications, are undergoing tremendous changes. Researchers, universities, funding bodies, research libraries and publishers are responding in different ways, from active experimentation, adaptation, to strong resistance.

The ELPUB2008 conference will focus on key issues on the future of scholarly communications resulting from the intersection of semantic web technologies, the development of cyberinfrastructure for humanities and the sciences, and new dissemination channels and
business models. We welcome a wide variety of papers from members of these communities whose research and experiments are transforming the nature of scholarly communications. Topics include but are not restricted to:

* New Publishing models, tools, services and roles
* New scholarly constructs and discourse methods
* Innovative business models for scholarly publishing
* Multilingual and multimodal interfaces
* Services and technology for specific user communities, media, and content
* Content search, analysis and retrieval
* Interoperability, scalability and middleware infrastructure to facilitate awareness and discovery
* Personalisation technologies (e.g. social tagging, folksonomies, RSS, microformats)
* Metadata creation, usage and interoperability
* Semantic web issues
* Data mining, text harvesting, and dynamic formatting
* User generated content and its relation to publisher's content
* Usage and citation impact
* Security, privacy and copyright issues
* Digital preservation, content authentication
* Recommendations, guidelines, interoperability standards

For more information, please visit this link

Conference URL: http://www.elpub.net

Call for Papers: IFLA Social Science Libraries Section, Satellite Conference

Call for Papers: IFLA Social Science Libraries Section, Satellite Conference

Disappearing disciplinary borders in the social science library - global studies or sea change?
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
6-7 August 2008

Conference Web:
http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/ssls/

Theme and Objectives

Over the past decade, the nature of social science research and scholarship has undergone shifts that have blurred the traditional disciplinary boundaries as research attempts to grapple with phenomena and issues that require interdisciplinary knowledge and collaboration. For example, a growing number of institutions and scholars are venturing into the arena of global studies and globalization studies. Situated in economics, political science, policy studies, and other discrete fields of the social sciences, global studies encompass both the perception and reality of an
interconnected world society. The multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary nature of studies and resources in this and similar emerging disciplines draws upon and influences knowledge in the natural sciences, social sciences, and policy studies, spanning the entire spectrum of IFLA
interests, including agricultural libraries, information literacy programs, digital libraries, government libraries, information technology, health and biosciences libraries, and professional development, and while covering all of the world's geographic regions.

Given the changes within the social sciences as they have traditionally been defined, how can academic and special libraries continue to provide services and resources to researchers who are working on necessarily interdisciplinary research questions within the constraints of organizational structures (universities, libraries, associations, and journals) that can't easily support this work?

The conference organizing committee invites proposals for papers on any topic related to the theme of Disappearing Disciplinary Borders in the Social Science Library. Conference papers will be peer reviewed for acceptance and become eligible for the Social Science Section's proposed
IFLA monograph on the subject.

Paper topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

* What resources are available to support the librarian's work in interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary fields?
* What strategies are available to promote this type of librarianship?
* What resources are being developed to assist the interdisciplinary scholar?
* How are virtual spaces being used to foster collaboration?
* How can libraries foster and support research communities that focus on interdisciplinary research and teaching among colleagues locally and internationally?
* How are new library services such as support for electronic publishing and archiving affecting interdisciplinary scholarship?
* How are changing models of librarianship, such as the "field" or "imbedded" librarian, changing the scholarly landscape?
* How do libraries respond to emerging disciplines: at what point do they become emerging disciplines and when are they simply passing fads?
* How can collection development strategies support interdisciplinary collections?
* How can catalogers and indexers use classification systems to provide better access to works of interdisciplinary importance?
* How can we help better educate our "global" students?
* What are the changing roles of data and datasets?
* Social networking and digital difference, how can the librarian facilitate communication?

Final papers should be no more than 5,000 words in length.

Presentations
for the conference should be approximately 20 minutes in length, with an additional 10 minutes available for discussion of the presentation.

Submission of Proposals

Please submit an abstract of no more than 1,000 words in electronic format - preferably via e-mail. Proposals sent as e-mail attachments must be in either a generally available word-processing file format such as Word, or in RTF format. Include the following information:

1. Name of Presenter/s
2. Institutional Affiliation
3. Mailing address
4. E-mail address
5. Phone and/or fax information
6. Title of Paper
7. Abstract of Paper (maximum 1,000 words)
8. Brief biographical statement (maximum 150 words)

English is the official language of the conference.

Submit to

Steve Witt
Chair, Social Sciences Section
swwitt@uiuc.edu
FAX: 1.217.265.7519
Center for Global Studies
302 E. John, Suite 1705
Champaign, IL 61820
USA

Important Dates

1. Proposal must be received by February 8, 2008
2. Notification of acceptance will be sent by February 2008
3. Deadline for text of presentation is May 1, 2008

Conference Venue

The conference will be held in Toronto, Canada. The venue includes the University of Toronto Robards Library and the University Faculty Club. A block of rooms have been reserved at the Toronto Holiday Inn Midtown, 280 Bloor Street West, which is very nearby.

Registration Costs

$80.00

The fee will cover a set of the published conference presentations, lunch, mid-morning and mid-afternoon refreshments, and the conference dinner. Registration options will include registration for the full 2 day conference and single day registration. An optional tour package at the conclusion of the conference will also be available.

Presenters will be required to pay the registration fee and their own travel, accommodation and associated costs.

Register Online at http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/ssls/

Steve Witt
Associate Director
Center for Global Studies
University of Illinois
302 E. John St. Suite 1705
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
Phone: 217.265.7518
Fax: 217.265.7519
Web: http://www.cgs.uiuc.edu/

CFP: Collections 2008: Collections 3.0

CFP: Collections 2008: Collections 3.0

The Sheraton Wall Centre
Vancouver, British Columbia

Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Deadline: March 7, 2008

The Collection Development & Management Interest Group of the Canadian Library Association seeks proposals for papers that deal with a "Collections 3.0" theme or other collections-related topics and should result in a presentation of about 30 minutes in length. Each presentation should feature one or two speakers. Papers with broad applications or with applications to more than one library sector or community of users will be given preference. Panel proposals will also
be considered. Proposals will be reviewed by a committee of three collections librarians.

Deadline for submission of proposals: *March 7, 2008 *

Send proposals, including a short abstract, to:

Andrew Waller
MLB 402B
University of Calgary Library
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB
T3K 2C3
waller@ucalgary.ca
(403) 220-8133 voice
(403) 284-2109 fax

CFP: Manitoba Association for Distributed Learning and Training (MADLaT)

CFP: Manitoba Association for Distributed Learning and Training (MADLaT)
http://www.madlat.ca/

CFP URL: http://www.madlat.ca/call_for_papers.htm

2008 International Conference Call for Papers

"E-Learning Comes Together," the MADLaT 2008 conference will address the blend of information and communication technology with the wisdom of educators in learning environments. Our audience, a diverse community of practitioners, reflects this coming together--teachers, professors, instructors, designers and those involved in student support, planning and administrative issues, all sharing their knowledge and experience.

We are inviting you to Manitoba, May 8-9, 2008.

The Conference Program Planning Committee is accepting submissions for presentations, panel discussions, facilitated discussions, and poster sessions. These will enable participants to investigate, evaluate, rethink, and connect with contemporary trends in information and
communication technology, new media, and distance and distributed learning. We invite you to submit proposals for conference sessions that creatively address the theme “E-Learning Comes Together”

Who Should Submit?
This is an international conference. Submissions are strongly encouraged from individuals and groups working in education, training, business, industry, government, and military at all levels, including K-12, post-secondary, and adult education and/or training. Graduate students’ submissions in all formats are very welcome.

For more information, visit:

CFP URL: http://www.madlat.ca/call_for_papers.htm

World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council

World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council

"Libraries without borders: Navigating towards global understanding"
10-14 August 2008, Québec, Canada

URL: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/call-papers-en.htm

The content of the IFLA Conference Programme is organised by different professional groups (Sections and Core Programmes).

Call for papers will be submitted through these groups and made available on this web page as soon as delivered.

See the above links for the specific sections call for papers. Here is a list:


Acquisition and Collection Development Section
Theme: "In and Out (of Copyright): Contrasting Perspectives on Digitization of Library Collections"

Audiovisual and Multimedia Section, with the Committee on Copyright and Other Legal Matters, the National Libraries Section, and the Section on Bibliography
Theme: "The Legal Deposit of Audiovisual and Multimedia materials: practice around the world"

Asia and Oceania Section
Theme: "From me, to you, to us: how libraries in the Asia and Oceania region contribute to global understanding"

Bibliography
Theme: "National Bibliography Agencies without borders - experiences on collaboration with other producers of bibliographic data"

Cataloguing Section
Theme: "Sharing standards: cooperation with other actors"

Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section
Theme: "Global resource sharing across borders: crossing geographical, language and conceptual boundaries in interlibrary loan and document delivery services"

Government Information and Official Publications Section
Theme: "Globalization of government information: creating digital archives for increased access"

Health and Biosciences Libraries Section
Theme: "The Role of Humanities in Medical Education and Patient Care"

Information Technology Section
Theme: "Enabling access to the global library - Small is Beautiful: Distributed deployment of library services for small and special libraries"

Latin America and the Caribbean Section
Theme: "Cultural Identity and Technology in Latin America and the Caribbean libraries"

Library Theory and Research Section
Theme: "Theoretical Approaches to Research on Libraries as Space and Place"


Management of Library Associations Section with Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section and Action for Development through Libraries Programme (ALP)
Theme: "Leadership skills and advocacy for libraries: best practices in library association management"

Management & Marketing Section;Statistics & Evaluation Section; andLibrary Theory & Research Section
Theme: "Managing Libraries in a Changing Environment - Legal, Technical, and Organizational Aspects"

Newspapers Section
Theme: "The North American Ethnic Press"

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section
Theme: "Expanding Frontiers of Knowledge: Documents of Exploration, Discovery, and Travel"

Reading Section in co-operation with the Public Libraries and Multicultural Sections
Theme: The Global Literacy and Reading Fair: sharing good library practices in support of the United Nations Literacy Decade 2003-2012

Reference and Information Services Section
Theme: "Have we have blown up the reference desk? Reference Services in virtual worlds"

Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section
Theme: "Navigating the world of serials: New initiatives in management and cataloguing"

CFP: IFLA Acquisition & Collection Development Section

CFP: IFLA Acquisition & Collection Development Section

*IFLA Acquisition and Collection Development Section Division of Collections and Services

74th World Library and Information Congress, Quebec City, Canada, 10-14 August 2008

*Session Theme: "In and Out (of Copyright): Contrasting Perspectives on Digitization of Library Collections"

The IFLA Acquisition and Collection Development Section invites librarians and other interested parties to submit proposals for papers for the Section's two hour Open Programme during the Quebec Congress.

A broad range of initiatives are underway in the library and information community focusing on digitization of print collections, including materials both in and out of copyright. We invite papers that present contrasting views, from participating libraries or organizations, of these various digitization efforts. We are interested in learning about the opportunities that are presented and the challenges that have arisen in participating libraries and organizations.

Please send a detailed abstract (1 page or at least 300 words) of the proposed paper (must not have been published elsewhere) and relevant biographical information for the author(s)/presenter(s) _by 1 February 2008_ via email to:*

*Lynn Sipe (Mr.)
Chair, IFLA Acquisition and Collection Development Section
Standing Committee
Collection Development Coordinator
USC Libraries
University of Southern California
WAH B4D
Los Angeles, California 90089-0294
Tel: (213)740-2929 Fax: (213)740-3148
e-mail: lsipe@usc.edu

*The abstracts will be reviewed by members of the Acquisition and Collection Development Section's Standing Committee. Successful proposals will be identified by 22 February 2008. Full papers will be due by 15 May 2008. Papers should be no longer than 20 pages. A maximum
of 20 minutes will be allowed for a summary delivery of the paper during the Section's Open Programme in Quebec.

Please note that the expenses of attending the Quebec conference (including travel, conference fee, and any other expenses) will be the responsibility of the author(s)/presenter(s) of the accepted papers.

CFP: ELPUB2008 (Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0)

CFP: ELPUB2008 (Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0)

Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0
12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing
25 to 27 June 2008, Toronto, Canada

Submission Deadline: January 20, 2008
http://www.elpub.net
CFP URL: http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~elpub2008/call.html

Scholarly communications, in particular scholarly publications, are undergoing tremendous changes. Researchers, universities, funding bodies, research libraries and publishers are responding in different ways, from active experimentation, adaptation, to strong resistance. The ELPUB2008 conference will focus on key issues on the future of scholarly communications resulting from the intersection of semantic web technologies, the development of cyberinfrastructure for humanities and the sciences, and new dissemination channels and business models. We welcome a wide variety of papers from members of these communities whose research and experiments are transforming the nature of scholarly communications. Topics include but are not restricted to:

* New Publishing models, tools, services and roles
* New scholarly constructs and discourse methods
* Innovative business models for scholarly publishing
* Multilingual and multimodal interfaces
* Services and technology for specific user communities, media, and content
* Content search, analysis and retrieval
* Interoperability, scalability and middleware infrastructure to facilitate awareness and discovery
* Personalisation technologies (e.g. social tagging, folksonomies, RSS, microformats)
* Metadata creation, usage and interoperability
* Semantic web issues
* Data mining, text harvesting, and dynamic formatting
* User generated content and its relation to publisher's content
* Usage and citation impact
* Security, privacy and copyright issues
* Digital preservation, content authentication
* Recommendations, guidelines, interoperability standards

Author Guidelines
Contributions are invited for the following categories:
- Single papers (abstract minimum of 1,000 and maximum of 1500 words)
- Tutorial (abstract minimum of 500 and maximum of 1500 words)
- Workshop (abstract max of 1000 words)
- Poster (abstract max of 500 words)
- Demonstration (abstract max of 500 words)

Abstracts must be submitted following the instructions on the conference website

Key Dates:
January 20th 2008: Deadline for submission of abstracts (in all categories):

February 28, 2008: Authors will be notified of the acceptance of submitted
papers and workshop proposals.

April 11th, 2008: Final papers must be received. See website for
detailed author instructions.

Posters (A1-format) and demonstration materials should be brought
by their authors at the conference time. Only abstracts of these
contributions will be published in the conference proceedings.
Information on requirements for Workshops and tutorials proposals
will soon be posted on the website.

All submissions are subjected to peer review (double-blind) and
accepted by the international ELPUB Programme Committee. Accepted
full papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Printed proceedings are distributed during the conference.
Electronic versions of the contributions will be archived at:
http://elpub.scix.net

ABOUT ELPUB

The ELPUB 2008 conference will keep the tradition of the previous
international conferences on electronic publishing, held in the
United Kingdom (in 1997 and 2001), Hungary (1998), Sweden (1999),
Russia (2000), the Czech Republic (2002), Portugal (2003), Brazil
(2004), Belgium (2005), Bulgaria (2006) and Austria (2007), which
is to bring together researchers, lecturers, librarians,
developers, business executives, entrepreneurs, managers, users
and all those interested in issues regarding electronic
publishing in a wide variety of contexts. These include the
human, cultural, economic, social, technological, legal,
commercial, and other relevant aspects that such an exciting
theme encompasses.

Three distinguishing features of this conference are: broad scope
of topics which creates a unique atmosphere of active exchange
and learning about various aspects of scholarly communications
and electronic publishing; combination of general and technical
issues; and a condensed procedure of submission, revision and
publication of proceedings which guarantees presentations of most
recent work.

ELPUB 2008 offers a variety of activities, such as workshops,
tutorials, panel debates, poster presentation and demonstrations.
A variety of social events and sight-seeing tours will be
available to participants (at additional costs). Please see the
conference web site for details.

Conference Location: Toronto, Canada. Toronto is one of the most
vibrant cities in North-America. It has a large multicultural
population, is the largest city in Canada and the 5th-largest
city in North America. There are many world class galleries and
museums across the city and you will find authentic cuisines from
around the world at reasonable prices.

Conference Host: Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI),
University of Toronto. KMDI is a graduate research and teaching
institute at the University of Toronto, and an intellectual
incubator fostering cross-disciplinary initiatives across the
university. The work of the institute spans both the scientific
study of the ways in which media shapes and is shaped by human
activity, and the practical work of founding an interdisciplinary
nexus for design and evaluation of both media and media
technologies. KMDI has acknowledged leadership, substantial
research programs and broad participation in three major areas:
collaboration and collaboration technologies, the phenomenon of
openness and new forms of knowledge production and dissemination,
and public policy and citizen engagement.

General Chair: Leslie Chan, University of Toronto Scarborough
chan@utsc.utoronto.ca

Programme Chair: Susanna Mornati, CILEA - Inter-Academic
Consortium for ICT, Italy: mornati@cilea.it

CFP: ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization) 2008

CFP: ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization) 2008

10th biennial ISKO Conference
Culture and Identity in Knowledge Organization

The 10th biennial International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) is organised and hosted by the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal.

Time and Place of ISKO 2008: Tuesday 5 to Friday 8 of August 2008, at
the Université de Montréal (Québec, Canada).

Website: http://www.ebsi.umontreal.ca/isko2008/

Contact: isko2008@gmail.com

Conference Theme: Culture and Identity in Knowledge Organization.
The proposed research topics for this edition include:
– Epistemological Foundations in KO
– Models and Methods
– Systems and Tools – Ethics
– KO for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
– Non-Textual Materials
– KO in Multilingual Environments
– Users and Social Context
– Discourse Communities and KO
– KO for Information Management and Retrieval
– Evaluation

Types of Contributions Accepted to ISKO 2008
Research papers, posters, and workshop proposals are accepted for
this conference.

The authors should clearly outline the central objective or
hypothesis of the research, and present preliminary or intermediary
results. If authors intend to present their most recent findings (not
yet available at the submission date) at the conference, they should
clearly indicate their potential significance. Research-in-progress
papers may also be submitted but may not be retained if underdeveloped.

Research Papers
Professionals and researchers are invited to submit abstracts with a
maximum of 1500 words for full and research-in-progress papers by
November 9th, 2007. Full papers that are not accepted might be
retained as posters.

Posters
Professionals and researchers are invited to submit abstracts with a
maximum of 500 words for posters by November 9th, 2007.

Workshop Proposals
Submission for workshops are also invited.

Review of Contributions
The international programme committee will review the abstracts, and
authors will be notified of decisions by December 14th 2007. The
deadlines for submission of papers for the printed conference
proceedings are below. All abstracts should be submitted through
email (isko2008@gmail.com) by November 9th 2007. Late submission will
not be eligible for consideration.

Guidelines for Submission of Abstract
First page should include the following information (copy&paste in
your document):
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tenth International ISKO Conference
Montréal, August 5–8, 2008

Author name(s): {fill in}
Affiliation(s): {fill in}
Full contact information: {fill in}
Title: {fill in}
Conference topic: {fill in}
Type of submission: {Paper / Poster / Workshop}
Number of words: {fill in}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The abstract should follow on the second page (no name should appear
on this page).

Format: Word or RTF.

Conference Chair
Dr. Clément Arsenault, Associate Professor,
École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information.
Université de Montréal, Canada. E-mail: clement.arsenault@umontreal.ca

Programme Chair
Dr. Joseph T. Tennis, Assistant Professor,
The Information School of the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
E-mail: jtennis@u.washington.edu

Poster Session Chair
Dr. Michèle Hudon, Associate Professor,
École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information.
Université de Montréal, Canada. E-mail: michele.hudon@umontreal.ca

Programme Committee
To be announced soon (please check the website).

Authors will be requested to submit their final accepted
contributions using the ISKO 2008 formatting guidelines.

Valid Document Formats: Microsoft Word (.doc) and Rich Text Format
(.rtf).

Submission for Accepted Papers and Posters
– Papers — max. 7 pages (~3500 word). Papers will be published in
the printed proceedings.
– Posters — max. 2 pages (~1000 words). Posters will be published
on the website.
– To prepare your camera ready manuscript you must use and conform
to the ISKO 2008 paper template or to the ISKO 2008 poster template.
The templates and guidelines will be posted on the website at a later
date.
– Failure to conform to templates will lead to paper rejection from
Proceedings and Conference.
– The working language of the conference is English.

Important Dates
– Abstract submission, deadline: November 9th 2007.
– Notification of acceptance of paper submissions: December 14th 2007.
– Notification of acceptance of posters: January 18th 2008.
– Camera ready papers due in MS Word/RTF format: 1st March 2008.

Contact: isko2008@gmail.com

CFP: Collections 2007: Reinvigorating Collection Development and Management

CFP: Collections 2007: Reinvigorating Collection Development and Management

INCO Centre
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John*s, Newfoundland
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
9:00 am - 4:00 pm

The Collection Development & Management Interest Group of the Canadian Library Association seeks proposals for papers and presentations for the fifth Collections Pre-conference session. These can deal with almost any collections-related topic or topics and should result in a presentation of about 30 minutes in length. Each presentation should feature one or two speakers. Papers with broad applications or with applications to more than one library sector or community of users will be given preference. Proposals will be reviewed by a committee of three collections librarians. Five papers will be accepted. Deadline for submission of proposals: March 16, 2007 (deadline extended!)

Send proposals, including a short abstract, to:

Andrew Waller
MLB 402B
University of Calgary Library
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB
T3K 2C3
waller@ucalgary.ca
(403) 220-8133 voice
(403) 284-2109 fax

CFP: THIRD ANNUAL UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA ENGLISH GRADUATE CONFERENCE

CFP: THIRD ANNUAL UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA ENGLISH GRADUATE CONFERENCE

"Art Made Tongue-Tied By Authority": Expression, Suppression, and Censorship

Conference date: Friday September 21 ­ Saturday September 22, 2007
Place: Department of English, University of Ottawa
Deadline for proposals: June 1, 2007
Contact: uottawa.conference@gmail.com

According to playwright Eugene O'Neill, "Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretence, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot." Censorship continues to be a major impediment to freedom of speech in literature, music, and visual and other arts. Indeed, for every act of artistic expression there seems to be
an opposing act of artistic suppression.

Why have artistic works been censored throughout history, and why, in countries that pride themselves on freedom of speech like Canada and the U.S., do they continue to be? Have the reasons for censoring texts changed over history, or do they remain essentially the same? Who exactly are the "boob[s] and bigot[s]" that censor texts? Are there instances where
O'Neill's characterization of the censor is too narrow-minded or even inappropriate? Are there cases where censorship is appropriate or justifiable? Can suppression act as an influence for creative expression or re-presentation?

The Third Annual University of Ottawa English Graduate Conference invites graduate student papers that deal with the censorship of texts (books, films, music, visual arts, advertisements, etc.) in "any time, in any place, [and] on whatever pretence."

Possible topics for consideration include (but are certainly not limited to):

* Individual authors/artists who have been censored
* Censored/Banned/Burned Texts
* Taboo subjects/words
* Mechanisms of censorship (i.e. how it is implemented and enforced, and how these have changed over time)
* Censorship in the cause of political correctness
* The teaching of controversial literature and banned books
* The censoring of children's literature (high school libraries, etc.)
* Censorship of/and History (ie. Holocaust denial, history textbooks, war letters)
* Anti-censorship campaigns (ie. Canada's "Freedom to Read" Week)
* Censorship and Technology (internet, television, computer games, etc.)
* Censorship of the body
* The recovery of repressed or suppressed texts (religious texts, Aboriginal writing, etc.)
* Censorship and minority groups
* Journalistic censorship (Pamphlet wars, media control and ownership, etc.)
* Self-Censorship
* "bleeping" in music and television
* Censorship after 9/11 (journalism, film, etc.)
* Positive aspects of censorship (i.e., J.M. Coetzee: "there may even be cases where external censorship challenges the writer in interesting ways or spurs creativity.")

Submission Guidelines

Please email a 250 to 300 word abstract and a short biographical statement
to uottawa.conference@gmail.com by June 1, 2007. Papers should be 15-20
minutes in length. Please specify if you require any A/V equipment.

Call for Book Reviewers: Canadian Journal of History_/_Annales canadiennes d'histoire

Call for Book Reviewers: Canadian Journal of History_/_Annales canadiennes d'histoire

The _Canadian Journal of History_/_Annales canadiennes d'histoire_, Canada's premier journal for the general study of world histories, seeks reviewers for books in a range of fields and topics. We encourage interested scholars to visit our website (www.usask.ca/history/cjh) for guidelines and a list of available books. If you have not reviewed with us before, we also ask that you fill out our online form for reviewers, easily accessed at the same website.

Reviewers need not be Canadian or affiliated with a Canadian university. However, federal funding guidelines make it necessary for us to require that, with only rare exception, reviewers hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree.

For contact information and guidelines, or to ask any questions, for contributors, see our website or write us at cjh@usask.ca.