CFP: 38th Annual LOEX Conference

CFP: 38th Annual LOEX Conference
April 29 – May 1, 2010
Dearborn, Michigan

The Michigan LOEX Committee invites you to submit proposals to be considered for presentation at the 38th Annual LOEX Conference, April 29 – May 1, 2010 in Dearborn, Michigan. The conference theme, Bridging and Beyond: Developing Librarian Infrastructure, spans the information literacy landscape, looking for the best in library instruction.

Presenters are encouraged to develop unique and creative proposals related to the theme. Proposals should showcase effective and innovative practices, provide useful information that participants can use at their libraries, support collaboration, and be as applicable as possible to a wide range of academic institution types. Successful proposals reflect elements of one of seven themes:

* Structural Supports: Assessment and Evaluation focuses on the use of peer evaluation, evaluating instructional tools, assessing student needs and learning, and judging information literacy initiatives.

* Infrastructure: Designing Enhanced Learning Spaces looks at how specially designed spaces improve and/or impact information literacy or instruction initiatives.

* New Materials: Innovative Use of Instructional Technology examines ways new technology is being utilized in the classroom. This track can include looking at the building, implementation, or maintenance of technology in the classroom.

* Expansion: Utilizing Nontraditional Instruction Methods asks presenters to show the unique ways they approach information literacy. The emphasis is on creative teaching strategies, curriculum designs, and engagement exercises.

* Bridges Near and Far: Forming Innovative Collaborations showcases connections with others to further information literacy initiatives. Connections and collaboration can be of all sorts, including within the library or library system, within the campus community, or with connections located off-campus.

* Removing the Tolls: Employing Effective Leadership illustrates the different ways leadership can eliminate barriers to create an improved environment for information literacy initiatives.

* Reinforcements: Curriculum Lesson Plans “to Go“ has the presenter share a proven lesson or unit plan, including processes and materials. Session participants should be able to go back to their respective institutions and readily implement the lesson plan.

SESSION FORMATS

Two types of proposals will be accepted.

* Presentation: A 60-minute session that includes time for a 45-minute presentation and 10-15 minutes of question and answer. Most feature a successful program, practice or key issue related to instruction or information literacy. Presentations are intended for an audience typically of 50-70 people. Presenters should include in the proposal description the topic and an outline of the presentation.

* Interactive Workshop: A 60-minute session where the presenter facilitates a learning environment in which attendees develop or explore teaching and/or research techniques. Presenters are expected to facilitate a well-planned and interactive session. Workshops are intended for an audience typically of 30-60 people. Proposals should include a description of the topic and details on how the presenter will make this session a “hands-on” experience for attendees.

In addition, there will be Poster sessions. Students currently enrolled in a Master's program in library and information sciences along with librarians in resident or intern programs will be invited to propose poster sessions. Details about proposing poster sessions will be posted in a separate call for proposal.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Proposals must be received by November 20, 2009. Proposals only can be submitted through the online submission form. The primary contact on the proposal will be notified if the proposal has been accepted for presentation by Friday, January 15, 2010.

More information can be found at: http://www.loexconference.org/callforproposals.html

Contact for presenters: Jennifer Zimmer at sessions2010@loexconference.org
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Brad Sietz
Director, LOEX Clearinghouse for Library Instruction
Bruce T. Halle Library
Eastern Michigan University
734-487-0020 x2152

CFP: Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning

CFP: Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning

The Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning, a peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge/The Haworth Press, 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, send the manuscript directly to the Editor, Jodi Poe at jpoe@jsu.edu by March 27, 2009. Inquiries and questions are welcome.

Instructions for authors are available at www.haworthpress.com or can be emailed to you directly.

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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

Call for Posters: “Business Information Literacy” (SLA Annual Conference)

Call for Posters: “Business Information Literacy” (SLA Annual Conference)

Location: SLA Annual Conference – Washington, 2009

Date/Time: Monday, June 15, 2009 – 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Business is everywhere. As a result, business information literacy is crucial to success in almost every aspect of daily life in academic, corporate or public library environments.

In this call for posters, the Business and Finance Division of SLA is providing an opportunity for business librarians to share ideas on this important topic. We are looking for case studies or practical applications on a wide range of issues including:

• Standards and competencies for business information literacy
• Pedagogic approaches to business information literacy education
• Assessment of learning outcomes
• Integrating business information literacy in the curriculum
• Librarian / faculty collaboration
• New technologies for teaching business information literacy
• Business information literacy in multi-disciplinary contexts
• Professional development for business information literacy
• Promoting business information literacy in the corporate environment

Help your colleagues learn from your work, both successful and unsuccessful. Share the results of your efforts at the upcoming poster session at SLA in Washington, June 2009.

This session is sponsored by the Business & Finance Division. Guidelines for materials and layout of poster presentations are available on the SLA Business & Finance Division website at http://units.sla.org/division/dbf/conferences/2009conference_posters.html

The deadline for abstract submissions is March 1, 2009. Please submit your name, institution, fax, email address, poster title, and description (250 words or less) by email, fax, or surface mail to Karen MacDonald at the address given below.

Any SLA Member is welcome to submit an abstract for consideration. In the event that a greater number of submissions are received than can be accommodated, members of the Business & Finance Division will be given preference. Not a member of the SLA Business & Finance Division?

Click here to join: http://www.sla.org/

All applicants will be notified no later than April 1, 2009 as to whether or not their proposal has been accepted. If you have any questions about this session, contact

Karen I. MacDonald, MBA, MLIS
Assistant Professor / Business Liaison Librarian
PO Box 3967
University Library
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303 USA
Ph. (404) 413-2856
Fax: (404) 413-2851
Email: kimacdonald@gsu.edu

Call for Posters: “Business Information Literacy” (SLA Annual Conference)

Call for Posters: “Business Information Literacy” (SLA Annual Conference)

Location: SLA Annual Conference – Washington, 2009

Date/Time: Monday, June 15, 2009 – 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Business is everywhere. As a result, business information literacy is crucial to success in almost every aspect of daily life in academic, corporate or public library environments.

In this call for posters, the Business and Finance Division of SLA is providing an opportunity for business librarians to share ideas on this important topic. We are looking for case studies or practical applications on a wide range of issues including:

• Standards and competencies for business information literacy
• Pedagogic approaches to business information literacy education
• Assessment of learning outcomes
• Integrating business information literacy in the curriculum
• Librarian / faculty collaboration
• New technologies for teaching business information literacy
• Business information literacy in multi-disciplinary contexts
• Professional development for business information literacy
• Promoting business information literacy in the corporate environment

Help your colleagues learn from your work, both successful and unsuccessful.
Share the results of your efforts at the upcoming poster session at SLA in Washington, June 2009.

This session is sponsored by the Business & Finance Division.
Guidelines for materials and layout of poster presentations are available on the SLA Business & Finance Division website at
http://units.sla.org/division/dbf/conferences/2009conference_posters.html

The deadline for abstract submissions is March 1, 2009. Please submit your name, institution, fax, email address, poster title, and description (250 words or less) by email, fax, or surface mail to Karen MacDonald at the address given below.

Any SLA Member is welcome to submit an abstract for consideration. In the event that a greater number of submissions are received than can be accommodated, members of the Business & Finance Division will be given preference. Not a member of the SLA Business & Finance Division?
Click here to join: http://www.sla.org/

All applicants will be notified no later than April 1, 2009 as to whether or not their proposal has been accepted.
If you have any questions about this session, contact

Karen I. MacDonald, MBA, MLIS
Assistant Professor / Business Liaison Librarian
PO Box 3967
University Library
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303 USA
Ph. (404) 413-2856
Fax: (404) 413-2851
Email: kimacdonald@gsu.edu

Call for manuscripts: New Literacies (Peter Lang Publishing)

Call for manuscripts: New Literacies (Peter Lang Publishing)

One of the premier education publishing groups, Peter Lang Publishing is
looking for works that understand how new literacies and new ways of seeing
education are being invented -- as people from all walks of life, in diverse
sites, wrestle with new technologies, shifting values, changing
institutional forms and processes, and emerging structures characteristic of
postmodernity/New Times/the Global Informational Age. These texts aim to
explore these emerging domains and to create awareness of key trends and
features, translating them into educational consciousness and practice.
These texts should explore in depth and from a range of perspectives the
extent, nature, and implications of new literacies in global context,
challenging familiar ways of framing education, and what it means for
education to be powerful, effective, and enabling under current and
foreseeable conditions.

We wish to encourage and support new, early-career authors as well as
established scholars.

We welcome single-author manuscripts as well as edited collections which
examine and engage with the current concerns of education, educators,
students, learning, especially how technology has impacted education.

Topics of particular interest are:

* critical pedagogy/ies
* literacy/ies and technology/ies
* education and disability
* the history of schools and schooling, particularly institutional histories
* education and innovation
* education psychology
* multiculturalism, urban schooling
* environmental education

* theory of play
* gender and education, particularly masculinity and adolescents

Thank you. To send proposals or for more information and a full list of
guidelines, please email:

Rebecca.Shapiro@plang.com
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Rebecca Shapiro, Ph. D.
Acquisitions Editor
Peter Lang Publishing
29 Broadway, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10006
212.647.7700, ex. 3006

CFP: Journal for Computing Teachers (JCT)

CFP: Journal for Computing Teachers (JCT)

JCT is published under the auspices of the Special Interest Group for Computer Teachers (SIGCT) in the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). The primary mission of SIGCT is to enhance precollege instruction in computer science. JCT accepts manuscripts for possible publication in two ways – editor reviewed and peer reviewed.

In the “editor reviewed” process, articles are reviewed by the editor. In the “peer-reviewed” portion of the journal, manuscripts are acknowledged by the editor upon receipt and, after a preliminary review to judge their appropriateness for JCT, are sent to at least two members of the Editorial Review Board. Following the completion of the review process, the editor contacts the author(s) to accept the paper for publication, to accept the paper conditional on the completion of any recommended revisions, or to reject it.

Submission topics include but are not limited to:
• Academic and research articles relating to the teaching of computing in K-12 education
• Pedagogical articles describing and explaining the rationale for some teaching practice, approach, or lesson
• Theoretical articles explaining or arguing particular principles or models of learning, teaching, curriculum development, content perspective-taking, etc.
• Explanatory articles providing teachers with professional development information, e.g., understanding hardware and software (TCP/IP, worm/virus operation, file systems, etc.), conceptual understanding (e.g., encryption, XML), etc.
• Reports concerning computing (e.g., curriculum and policy recommendations)

For information about the journal and submission guidelines for authors, go to http://www.iste.org/JCT. Potential authors do not have to be members of ISTE or SIGCT to publish in JCT. Submission deadline for fall 2008 issue is September 1, 2008.

Also, members for the Editorial Review Board for the Journal for Computing Teachers (JCT) are sought. The quality of JCT is reliant upon thorough outside reviews from qualified professionals.

For further information on submitting papers and/or the Editorial Review Board, contact:

John Thompson, PhD
Editor, Journal for Computing Teachers
Associate Professor
Educational Computing Program
Computer Information Systems Dept.
Chase 208, Buffalo State College
1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222 USA
(716) 878-3531 thompsjt@buffalostate.edu

BOBCATSSS 2009 in Portugal: Call for papers!

BOBCATSSS 2009 in Portugal: Call for papers!
From 1st of March until 15th of July 2008
CHALLENGES FOR THE NEW INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL

http://www.stkate.edu/~mlisweb/files/bobcatsss.pdf

http://www.bobcatsss2009.org/

The field of information science is in ongoing change. New technology and innovations, such as electronic material in libraries and archives, causes changes in job descriptions and challenges the old ways of thinking and working. Changes in material, the growth in the use of web environment and increasing the pace at work makes information professional to think about the identity of the profession and oneself. Amount of information has been rising exponentially.

BOBCATSSS 2009 symposium explores these questions: How to help the users identify good information from all the spam? How to keep the databases running and all the data available to the users at all situations? And what about the physical material? Is there any use for books and paper documents anymore? Information science has many interests with other disciplines like communications theory and mass media, data processing. What kind of collaboration information scientists have with scholars from other fields and how to improve it? What is Librarian 2.0?

SUB THEMES

Interdisciplinarity of Information Science
Information Professional and Information Management
The current impact of the new technologies in the life of the Information Professional
The rise and fall of physical libraries and archives
Information Literacy
eLibraries & eArchives
Librarian 2.0

CFP: UNAK'08: Information = Diversity and Awareness (Turkey)

CFP: UNAK'08: Information: Diversity and Awareness (Turkey)

http://www.unak.org.tr/unak08eng/ (for all detail)
Location: Yasar University-Izmir, Turkey in 9th-11th October 2008


At the present day, rapidly increasing information and constantly developing information technologies in various science fields have brought up information services being given quicker, more efficiently and economically in this field. In conformity with this, during the production, presentation and accession of information, it has obliged information professionals, computer specialists and librarians to work together.

UNAK General Meetings, performed in different universities in Turkey every year since 2001, This year It will be held in Yasar University-Izmir, Turkey in 9th-11th October 2008, under the name of ‘‘Information: Diversity and Awareness’’.

We are very proud to be attendance of this conference, and very glad that you come to participate in this conference.
THEMES;
• Information Management
• Information Systems
• Information Network
• Information Security
• Information Marketing
• Information Centers and Services
o Collection Management
o Bibliographic Control
o User Services
o Reference Services
o Periodicals
• Indexing
• Electronic Content Management
• e-Books and e-Journal
• Non-governmental Organizations(NGO)
• Consortium
• Open Source Archive
• Search Engine
• New Generation Information Services
o Web 2.0
 Social Network
o Web 3.0
 Semantic Web Site
• Publishing and e-Publishing
• Archive and Archive Systems
o Institutional Information and Document Management
o Digital Archive
• Copyright
• Innovation
• European Union(EU) Process
• Education, Life Long Education, Distance Education
• Information Literacy

Important Date
• 01.07.2008 Deadline for sending Presentation Title and Summary
• 15.09.2008 Deadline for Paper Submission
• 06.10.2008 Deadline for Participants

CFP: Education Libraries (from SLA's Education Division)

CFP: Education Libraries (from SLA's Education Division)

We are accepting papers for the next two issues of Education Libraries, a peer-reviewed journal published by SLA's Education Division. This journal is indexed in ERIC, and Wilson Library Literature and Information Science. For information about the journal, instructions for authors, and full-text copies of selected back issues, please go to http://units.sla.org/division/ded/education_libraries.html. You do not have to be a member of SLA or the Education Division to publish in Education Libraries. We welcome additional book reviewers.

Call for papers, Spring 2008:
The next issue will focus on children's resources.
Deadline: February 1, 2008

Call for papers, Fall 2008:
Topics could include archives and digitization; historical collections;
digital libraries; workforce development and information literacy.
Deadline: August 1, 2008

Email queries and manuscripts to co-editor, Jacqueline Snider at
jacqueline-snider@uiowa.edu.

CFP: 37th IASL Conference is: World Class Learning and Literacy through School Libraries

CFP: 37th IASL Conference is: World Class Learning and Literacy through School Libraries

Location: University of California at Berkeley
Dates: August 4, 2008 – August 8, 2008
Call for Papers Deadline: January 15, 2008

The conference coordinator is Dr. Blanche Woolls, bwoolls@slis.sjsu.edu

URL: http://iasl.wordpress.com/2007/12/01/iasl-2008-call-for-papers/

Sub-themes:

1. Digital Literacy — For example, digital libraries, digital resources related to reading, specialized strategies and techniques for “reading” online text, images and multimedia.

2. Building a Community of Readers — For example, book clubs, literature circles, collaborative reading projects.

3. Strategies for Building Literacy Skills in School Libraries — For example, How can the school librarian use his/her library curriculum and instruction to develop reading and literacy skills among students? What reading and literacy skills can be”taught” in school libraries by school librarians? What are best practices for teaching these skills?

4. Support Reading Instruction — For example, how school libraries can provide resources for classroom teachers and staff support for literacy initiatives throughout the school, including collection development, literacy libraries, reader’s advisory, reading incentive programs.

5. Research Forum — For example, scholarly research about school libraries. Researchers are encouraged to discuss their research methodologies as well as the results.

Four types of presentations will be offered in this conference:

-Professional papers: Papers that describe and discuss the presenter’s work in relation to theory and/or practice.
-International Research Forum Presentations: Papers that describe the presenter’s research, either completed or on-going, in relation to the conference theme.
-Workshops/Demonstrations: Presentations that feature one or more persons working with a group to help them develop skills in a specific teaching or research technique.
-Poster Sessions: Description of practice or theory presented visually. Presenters are required to be present for a specific period of time in order to answer questions.

All proposals will be independently reviewed before acceptance. The Review Panel for the International Research Forum will be drawn from IASL members worldwide.

Criteria for Selection:
-Relevance to conference themes
-Clarity of description
-Intellectual significance
-Relevance to audience
-Originality

All proposals must be in English and submitted by 15 January 2008.

For information - please follow the links above.

CFP: 24th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning

CFP: 24th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning
August 5-8, 2008
Madison, Wisconsin

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Teach.........Learn.........Connect
We encourage you to submit a proposal contributing to the ongoing quality of
distance education development, delivery, support, assessment, and management.

* Share your expertise in the application of technology to the teaching and learning process
* Lead sessions on the planning and management of distance education/training programs
* Demonstrate your successful course and/or training materials
* Guide discussions among colleagues

Submit online by January 15, 2008 at
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference

The Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning is recognized as one of
the premier events on distance education. The conference gathers approximately
1,000 educators, trainers, managers, and designers from throughout the world
who are involved in distance teaching/training programs.

Conference contact: Kimary Peterson,
distel2@education.wisc.edu

Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education

CFP: Australian Library Journal - Special Issue on COMMUNITY and WORKPLACE INFORMATION LITERACY

CFP: Australian Library Journal - Special Issue on COMMUNITY and WORKPLACE INFORMATION LITERACY

ALIA Information Literacy Forum - CALL FOR PAPERS

URL: http://alia.org.au/publishing/alj/

The Australian Library Journal - Special Issue on COMMUNITY and WORKPLACE INFORMATION LITERACY

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Information Literacy Forum
Contact: Helen Partridge Email: h.partridge@qut.edu.au

IMPORTANT DATES:
Full papers due: February 15 2008
Authors receive reviews: February 29 2008
Final papers due: April 4 2008
Anticipated publication: May/June 2008

The Australian Library Journal has been published since 1951. Published quarterly, it contains a wide coverage of Australian library issues. It is the acknowledged flagship publication of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). The journal is available through subscription.

ISSUE FOCUS
This special issue is seeking papers on any aspect of information literacy within community and workplace contexts. Information literacy refers to the ability to access, evaluate and use information from a variety of sources. Whilst information literacy has rapidly become an object of scholarly interest in the education and the library and information science disciplines, the majority of this interest has been confined to educational settings. Little research has been conducted exploring information literacy within the community or workplace setting. According to ALIA, information literacy can contribute to learning for life, personal and professional empowerment, social inclusion, participative citizenship and innovation and enterprise. The Alexandria Proclamation on information literacy and lifelong learning argues that information literacy is a basic human right. This special issue of ALJ will provide a forum to identify, share and develop the issues relevant to information literacy within workplace and community settings. Contributors to the special issue may like to consider the following questions to guide the development of their submissions:

Submissions of 3000-5000 words should be emailed in Word format to the special issue editor, Helen Partridge at h.partrdige@qut.edu.au

The AGPS Style Manual is used. For further information see - http://alia.org.au/publishing/alj/

Helen Partridge Senior Lecturer Course Coordinator Master of Information Management (Acting)
Faculty of Information Technology QUT 2 George St. Brisbane Q. 4000
h.partridge@qut.edu.au 07 3138 9047 07 3138 1969 (fax) S840
Gardens Point Campus
CRICOS No 00213J

CFP: Online Learning Article for Academic Exchange Quarterly

CFP: Online Learning Article for Academic Exchange Quarterly

The summer issue of _Academic Exchange Quarterly_ is nearly ready for publication:

http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/

If you have an article of approximately 3,000 words focusing on "Online Learning," please consider placing it with our journal:

http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/5onlin.htm

If you have any questions, feel free to send them to Ben Varner
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Feature Editor
Academic Exchange Quarterly
http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/edpbva.htm

CFP: 1st Global Conference - Visual Literacies: Exploring Critical Issues

CFP: 1st Global Conference - Visual Literacies: Exploring Critical Issues

Tuesday 3rd July - Thursday 5th July 2007
Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Papers
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues surrounding visual literacy in regard to theory and praxis. Perspectives are sought from those engaged in the fields of education, visual arts, fine arts, literature, philosophy, psychology, critical theory and theology. These disciplines are indicative only as papers are welcomed from any area, profession and vocation in which visual literacy plays a part.

Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related to any of the following themes;

* the concept and tools of visual literacy
* pre-school children and visual literacy
* visual literacy and cultural identity
* interpreting elements and examples of visual literacy
* visual literacy as therapy
* the liminal elements and facets of visual literacy
* social and cultural reactions to visual literacy
* visual literacy in literature
* visual literacy in television and film
* visual literacy and the media
* visual literacy as a social semiotic
* teaching visual literacy
* visual literacy as deformed discourse
* theology and visual literacy – use and/or abuse
* teleology and visual literacy
* the history of visual literacy

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 9th March 2007. If selected for presentation, 8 page draft conference papers should be submitted by Friday 8th June 2007.

Papers should be submitted to the Joint Organising Chairs: these should be sent as an email attachment in Word or WordPerfect; abstracts can also be submitted in the body of the email text rather than as an attachment. Papers will be blind peer reviewed. Joint Organising Chairs

Dr Phil Fitzsimmons
Faculty of Education
University of Wollongong
Australia
Email: philfitz@uow.edu.au

Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
United Kingdom
Email: vl1@inter-disciplinary.net

All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be published in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be published in a themed hard copy volume. Three themed volumes are in print and/or in press from previous
meetings of the project.

The conference is sponsored by Inter-Disciplinary.Net as part of the 'Critical Issues' programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/vl/vl.html


For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/vl/vl1/cfp.html

Information Literacy Case Studies (Primary Research Group)

Information Literacy Case Studies (Primary Research Group)

Primary Research Group, publisher of Training College Students in Information Literacy, is planning to release a new publication entitled “Training executives, lawyers and other non-information professionals in information literacy” This report will present case studies of how corporate, legal, hospital and other libraries develop their information literacy efforts.:

1) formal or informal information literacy programs for professional employees
2) integration of library education into training programs
3) development of continuing education efforts for librarians themselves
4) development of special classes, tutorials and other educational vehicles for new employees
5) development of computer literacy for medical students and students of other professional schools
6) development of tests, exams, and other evaluation tools
7) development of help desks, FAQ’s and other guides and means to help employees or professional school students to find the information that they need in the most productive way.

Submissions should be between 600 and 2,500 words. Tentative closing date
for submissions is: April 25, 2007.

For writer’s guidelines and a more complete project description, please send an email to Mr. James Moses at primarydat@mindspring.com. To learn more about Primary Research Group, visit our website at www.primaryresearch.com.

Call for Participation: ACRL IS/AS Conference Program Virtual Poster Sessions (ALA Annual)

Call for Participation: ACRL IS/AS Conference Program Virtual Poster Sessions (ALA Annual)

Together with the Arts Section, the Instruction Section of ACRL invites proposal submissions for Virtual Poster Sessions being offered in connection with the Conference Program at ALA 2007 in Washington, D.C. The conference program, titled Eye to I: Visual Literacy Meets Information Literacy, will explore the relationship between these two sets of abilities.

More information, including the official call for proposals, is available at: http://www.indiana.edu/~libinstr/eye2i/index.html

Meghan Sitar
Instruction and Outreach Librarian
Library Instruction Services
University of Texas Libraries
The University of Texas at Austin

PCL 1.342E Mail Code S5475
Phone: 512-495-4449 Fax: 512-495-4296
msitar@austin.utexas.edu

CFP: Information: Interactions and Impact (i3)

CFP: Information: Interactions and Impact (i3)
25 - 28 June 2007, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland
http://www.i3conference.org.uk

i3 is concerned with the quality and effectiveness of the interaction between people and information and how this interaction can bring about change in individuals, organisations, communities and society. The conference will look beyond the issues of use and accessibility of
technology to questions about the way people interact with the information and knowledge content of today's systems and services, and how this might ultimately affect the impact of that information on individuals, organisations and communities.

We invite the submission of high quality papers that report original research or critically discuss underlying methodological issues associated with the main themes of the conference: the quality and effectiveness of user/information interactions (e.g. information literacy); patterns of information behaviour in different contexts; impact of information or information services on people, organisations, communities and society (e.g. social, learning, cultural and economic
outcomes of engagement with information).

Submission of abstracts are invited for Full Papers, Short Papers,
Posters and round table discussions. Full details of the submission
requirements are available at http://www.i3conference.org.uk/call.htm .

Contributors should submit abstracts electronically by downloading the
online submissions form, located at:
http://www.i3conference.org.uk/AbstractSubmissionForm.doc . This should
then be emailed (as an attachment) to i3submissions@rgu.ac.uk . The
conference language will be English.

All abstracts should be submitted by 22nd January 2007. Notification of
acceptance will be emailed in early March.

Authors who are accepted to give Full Papers at i3 are also invited to
submit their paper for publication in a special issue for Libri
(http://www.librijournal.org). The final copy of full papers for Libri
should be received by 1st August 2007. Acceptance of a paper for the
conference does not necessarily mean acceptance of the full paper for
publication.

Further details about the conference are available from
http://www.i3conference.org.uk .

Call for Participation: ACRL IS/AS Conference Program Virtual Poster Sessions (ALA Annual, Washington, D.C.)

Call for Participation: ACRL IS/AS Conference Program Virtual Poster Sessions (ALA Annual, Washington, D.C.)

Together with the Arts Section, the Instruction Section of ACRL invites proposal submissions for Virtual Poster Sessions being offered in connection with the Conference Program at ALA 2007 in Washington, D.C. The conference program, titled Eye to I: Visual Literacy Meets Information Literacy, will explore the relationship between these two sets of abilities.

More information, including the official call for proposals, is available at: http://www.indiana.edu/~libinstr/eye2i/index.html.


Meghan Sitar
Instruction and Outreach Librarian
Library Instruction Services
University of Texas Libraries
The University of Texas at Austin

PCL 1.342E Mail Code S5475
Phone: 512-495-4449 Fax: 512-495-4296
msitar@austin.utexas.edu www.lib.utexas.edu