Edited Volume: Essays in Popular Culture Call for Papers Date:
We are seeking contributions for an edited volume tentatively entitled Collected Essays in Popular Culture.
The academic field of Popular Culture has been active since the 80s, and it might be argued that what passes for popular culture today may be the classic of tomorrow. This volume seeks to draw together papers which not only focus on popular culture but are themselves reminiscent of the time and place which engendered them.
Papers may have already been published in journals or conference proceedings, but need not have been. They should reflect a now-historic sense of popular culture and may focus on any aspect or media.
Topics may include (but are not restricted to) graphic novels, comic books, television, film, radio, internet culture, queer, gay, and lesbian studies, advertising, poster art, propaganda, children's toys, feminist/egalitarian/masculinist studies, 9/11.
Due date for full papers is Dec. 29, 2008. Email submissions (in Word, odt, rtf) to: n.norris@st-jean.rmc.ca. Please include biographical info. and c.v.
Dr. Nanette Norrs
Email: n.norris@st-jean.rmc.ca
Visit the website at http://www.norris.ca
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Call for Contributions: Critical Pedagogy and Library Instruction: An Edited Collection
Call for Contributions: Critical Pedagogy and Library Instruction: An Edited Collection
Editors
Maria Accardi, Coordinator of Instruction, Indiana University Southeast: maccardi@gmail.com
Emily Drabinski, Reference Librarian, Sarah Lawrence College: emily.drabinski@gmail.com
Alana Kumbier, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Wellesley College: alana.kumbier@gmail.com
Critical pedagogy seeks to identify, critique, and disrupt the inequalities of the dominant culture, thus equipping learners to transform oppressive social, cultural, and economic conditions. While many theorists, critics, and practitioners have considered how critical pedagogical strategies and perspectives might be employed in higher education, the academic library remains mostly absent in these discussions. There have been few interventions in the library literature with specific reference to critical pedagogy, but these perspectives mostly consider critical literacy applications. Other forms of critical pedagogy, such as feminist, queer, and anti-racist, have yet to be fully explored in the context of the library instruction classroom. We intend for this book to intervene in this gap in the literature.
Objective of book
This book, to be published by Library Juice Press in September 2009, proposes to consider the following questions: How might library instruction benefit from exploring critical pedagogical strategies? What challenges are posed by the unique requirements of library instruction? And how might our use of critical pedagogical strategies help us embed library instruction in the critical classrooms on our campuses? We invite proposals that 1) investigate intersections between critical pedagogy and the library instruction classroom and 2) identify pedagogical applications that can be adopted in library instruction programs.
Target audience
The target audience for this book includes librarians who teach, library instruction program coordinators, faculty and instructors interested in bringing librarians into the classroom, and librarians interested in developing liberatory and anti-oppressive professional practices.
Suggested topics
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
• Envisioning what critical pedagogy might do for the library instruction classroom
• Examination of specific types of critical pedagogies--such as queer, feminist, or anti-racist--and their implications for the library instruction classroom
• Discussions of particular theories/theorists (e.g. Paulo Friere, Lisa Delpit, Peter Mclaren, Henry Giroux, Deborah Britzman, etc.) and their relevance for library instruction
• Illustrations of how critical pedagogy works in practice
• Examples of instruction sessions taught from a critical pedagogy framework
• Explorations of how critical pedagogy intersects with student and faculty research
• Considerations of how critical pedagogy can inform selection and collection development decisions
• Imagining how critical pedagogy can be useful in other teaching contexts -- e.g., during the reference interview, in workshops, when librarians teach in community spaces
Submission procedure
Please submit abstracts and proposals of up to 500 words and a short author's statement to criticallibraryinstruction@googlegroups.com by September 15, 2008, with notification by November 15. Final manuscripts of between 1500 and 5000 words will be due February 15.
Maria T. Accardi
Assistant Librarian
Coordinator of Instruction
Indiana University Southeast
812.941.2551
maccardi@ius.edu
http://homepages.ius.edu/maccardi/
Editors
Maria Accardi, Coordinator of Instruction, Indiana University Southeast: maccardi@gmail.com
Emily Drabinski, Reference Librarian, Sarah Lawrence College: emily.drabinski@gmail.com
Alana Kumbier, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Wellesley College: alana.kumbier@gmail.com
Critical pedagogy seeks to identify, critique, and disrupt the inequalities of the dominant culture, thus equipping learners to transform oppressive social, cultural, and economic conditions. While many theorists, critics, and practitioners have considered how critical pedagogical strategies and perspectives might be employed in higher education, the academic library remains mostly absent in these discussions. There have been few interventions in the library literature with specific reference to critical pedagogy, but these perspectives mostly consider critical literacy applications. Other forms of critical pedagogy, such as feminist, queer, and anti-racist, have yet to be fully explored in the context of the library instruction classroom. We intend for this book to intervene in this gap in the literature.
Objective of book
This book, to be published by Library Juice Press in September 2009, proposes to consider the following questions: How might library instruction benefit from exploring critical pedagogical strategies? What challenges are posed by the unique requirements of library instruction? And how might our use of critical pedagogical strategies help us embed library instruction in the critical classrooms on our campuses? We invite proposals that 1) investigate intersections between critical pedagogy and the library instruction classroom and 2) identify pedagogical applications that can be adopted in library instruction programs.
Target audience
The target audience for this book includes librarians who teach, library instruction program coordinators, faculty and instructors interested in bringing librarians into the classroom, and librarians interested in developing liberatory and anti-oppressive professional practices.
Suggested topics
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
• Envisioning what critical pedagogy might do for the library instruction classroom
• Examination of specific types of critical pedagogies--such as queer, feminist, or anti-racist--and their implications for the library instruction classroom
• Discussions of particular theories/theorists (e.g. Paulo Friere, Lisa Delpit, Peter Mclaren, Henry Giroux, Deborah Britzman, etc.) and their relevance for library instruction
• Illustrations of how critical pedagogy works in practice
• Examples of instruction sessions taught from a critical pedagogy framework
• Explorations of how critical pedagogy intersects with student and faculty research
• Considerations of how critical pedagogy can inform selection and collection development decisions
• Imagining how critical pedagogy can be useful in other teaching contexts -- e.g., during the reference interview, in workshops, when librarians teach in community spaces
Submission procedure
Please submit abstracts and proposals of up to 500 words and a short author's statement to criticallibraryinstruction@googlegroups.com by September 15, 2008, with notification by November 15. Final manuscripts of between 1500 and 5000 words will be due February 15.
Maria T. Accardi
Assistant Librarian
Coordinator of Instruction
Indiana University Southeast
812.941.2551
maccardi@ius.edu
http://homepages.ius.edu/maccardi/
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Call for Papers Baseball and Politics
Call for Papers Baseball and Politics
Editor Ron Briley is seeking manuscripts for an anthology on Baseball and Politics to be published by McFarland & Company. The recent front page newspaper coverage of the Barry Bonds indictment for perjury indicates that the interest in and impact of baseball extends well beyond the playing field. This collection will focus upon the intersection between baseball and the political arena—nationally as well as locally. A diverse range of political opinion will be encouraged in the volume. Possible topics for investigation include:
1. Racial integration and discrimination in the sport
2. The politics of stadium construction and financing
3. Baseball and the women’s question
4. Gays in baseball
5. Baseball and religion
6. Baseball and imperialism
7. Baseball and war (Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Iraq War)
8. Political opinions and activities of baseball players and management
9. Youth baseball
10. Baseball and anti-trust legislation
11. The merchandising of baseball both nationally and internationally
12. Baseball academies in Latin America
13. The response of baseball to national emergencies such as 9/11 or the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy
14. Baseball and the World Classic
Inquiries should be addressed to Ron Briley (Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico) at rbriley@sandiaprep.org Manuscripts should be approximately 15 to 20 pages double-spaced. Documentation should be in Chicago style (although exceptions may be made for academic disciplines for which MLA is the accepted mode of citation). Manuscripts should be sent electronically in Microsoft Word format to Ron Briley by July 1, 2008.
Ron Briley
Assistant Headmaster
532 Osuna Road, NE
Albuquerque,NM 87113
505-338-3019
505-338-3099 (fax)
Email: rbriley@sandiaprep.org
Editor Ron Briley is seeking manuscripts for an anthology on Baseball and Politics to be published by McFarland & Company. The recent front page newspaper coverage of the Barry Bonds indictment for perjury indicates that the interest in and impact of baseball extends well beyond the playing field. This collection will focus upon the intersection between baseball and the political arena—nationally as well as locally. A diverse range of political opinion will be encouraged in the volume. Possible topics for investigation include:
1. Racial integration and discrimination in the sport
2. The politics of stadium construction and financing
3. Baseball and the women’s question
4. Gays in baseball
5. Baseball and religion
6. Baseball and imperialism
7. Baseball and war (Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Iraq War)
8. Political opinions and activities of baseball players and management
9. Youth baseball
10. Baseball and anti-trust legislation
11. The merchandising of baseball both nationally and internationally
12. Baseball academies in Latin America
13. The response of baseball to national emergencies such as 9/11 or the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy
14. Baseball and the World Classic
Inquiries should be addressed to Ron Briley (Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico) at rbriley@sandiaprep.org Manuscripts should be approximately 15 to 20 pages double-spaced. Documentation should be in Chicago style (although exceptions may be made for academic disciplines for which MLA is the accepted mode of citation). Manuscripts should be sent electronically in Microsoft Word format to Ron Briley by July 1, 2008.
Ron Briley
Assistant Headmaster
532 Osuna Road, NE
Albuquerque,NM 87113
505-338-3019
505-338-3099 (fax)
Email: rbriley@sandiaprep.org
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Call for Papers: "Library Data: Empowering Practice and Persuasion" (an edited volume)
Call for Papers: "Library Data: Empowering Practice and Persuasion" (an edited volume)
Librarians increasingly have access to vast amounts of data, but more important than the data itself is how it is handled, interpreted, and used.
This is your opportunity to contribute to the critical discussion concerning the theory, uses, and best practices concerning numerical evidence in libraries today.
As its working title suggests, this collection proceeds from the basic observation that library data serves two primary functions: informing decision-making and providing support for communication beyond library walls. Some data analysis projects may support both activities, but most (appropriately) primarily address just one or the other. Therefore, the finished work will include papers that focus on data-driven practice or data-strengthened persuasion, as well as studies that may speak to both.
Some topics to address might include:
*how existing data sets may be used to make a case for funding, resource, or other changes
*how "non-library" data (community demographics, economics, etc.) may relate to library trends
*interesting or non-traditional sources of data and how they may be used in library decision-making
*assessing the integrity of electronic data (web site "hits," vendor-supplied versus internal data, etc.)
*librarians for planning, assessment, data analysis, etc.: a new specialization within the profession?
*critiques of commercially available tools for data analysis
*comparing apples and oranges: data on different scales
*a crash course in statistics for non-statistician librarians
*how you have made a potentially "ho-hum" data presentation data engaging and persuasive
You may find inspiration in:
*Summary and presentation documents from the recent ACRL Education & Behavioral Sciences Section's 2007 conference panel, "Empowering Data," available at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/aboutacrl/acrlsections/EBSS/ebssconferenceinfo/empoweringdata.htm
*Publicly available (and understudied) reports and data from the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) web site: http://www.nclis.gov/survey.htm
*Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statistics,available at:
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/arl/
Please send inquiries or brief proposals (of approx. 150 words) to:
darby_orcutt@ncsu.edu (Darby Orcutt, North Carolina State University
Libraries)
Deadline for proposals: November 19, 2007
Deadline for completed chapters: March 31, 2008
*[NB: FYI, I will be away from email for much of October and November, so please don't worry if you do not receive confirmation right away of your received proposal. -Darby]*
Librarians increasingly have access to vast amounts of data, but more important than the data itself is how it is handled, interpreted, and used.
This is your opportunity to contribute to the critical discussion concerning the theory, uses, and best practices concerning numerical evidence in libraries today.
As its working title suggests, this collection proceeds from the basic observation that library data serves two primary functions: informing decision-making and providing support for communication beyond library walls. Some data analysis projects may support both activities, but most (appropriately) primarily address just one or the other. Therefore, the finished work will include papers that focus on data-driven practice or data-strengthened persuasion, as well as studies that may speak to both.
Some topics to address might include:
*how existing data sets may be used to make a case for funding, resource, or other changes
*how "non-library" data (community demographics, economics, etc.) may relate to library trends
*interesting or non-traditional sources of data and how they may be used in library decision-making
*assessing the integrity of electronic data (web site "hits," vendor-supplied versus internal data, etc.)
*librarians for planning, assessment, data analysis, etc.: a new specialization within the profession?
*critiques of commercially available tools for data analysis
*comparing apples and oranges: data on different scales
*a crash course in statistics for non-statistician librarians
*how you have made a potentially "ho-hum" data presentation data engaging and persuasive
You may find inspiration in:
*Summary and presentation documents from the recent ACRL Education & Behavioral Sciences Section's 2007 conference panel, "Empowering Data," available at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/aboutacrl/acrlsections/EBSS/ebssconferenceinfo/empoweringdata.htm
*Publicly available (and understudied) reports and data from the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) web site: http://www.nclis.gov/survey.htm
*Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statistics,available at:
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/arl/
Please send inquiries or brief proposals (of approx. 150 words) to:
darby_orcutt@ncsu.edu (Darby Orcutt, North Carolina State University
Libraries)
Deadline for proposals: November 19, 2007
Deadline for completed chapters: March 31, 2008
*[NB: FYI, I will be away from email for much of October and November, so please don't worry if you do not receive confirmation right away of your received proposal. -Darby]*
Friday, August 03, 2007
CFP: Edited Book on e-Book Collections in Libraries
CFP: Edited Book on e-Book Collections in Libraries
Please contact by August 17, 2007
For a forthcoming edited book on the growth and importance of e-book collections in libraries, we seek articles on any aspect of this topic. If you are currently working on something or have an idea that could be turned into an article over the next several months, please contact us by August 17, 2007.
Please e-mail both co-editors, William Miller (miller@fau.edu) and Rita Pellen (pellen@fau.edu) with your inquiry or proposal.
Please contact by August 17, 2007
For a forthcoming edited book on the growth and importance of e-book collections in libraries, we seek articles on any aspect of this topic. If you are currently working on something or have an idea that could be turned into an article over the next several months, please contact us by August 17, 2007.
Please e-mail both co-editors, William Miller (miller@fau.edu) and Rita Pellen (pellen@fau.edu) with your inquiry or proposal.
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