CFP: NASIG 24th Annual Conference "Riding the Rapids Through a Mountain of Change"
June 4-7, 2009
Asheville, North Carolina
The 2009 Program Planning Committee (PPC) invites proposals and/or program ideas for pre-conference, vision, strategy, and tactics sessions. The Program Planners are specifically
interested in hearing from publishers, vendors, librarians, and others in the field of serials and electronic resources about issues relating to scholarly communication, licensing, and publishing. Proposals based on both descriptive and experimental research findings are especially welcome. The Program Planning Committee will review all submitted proposals for their content, timeliness, and reserves the right to combine, blend, or refocus proposals to maximize their relevance and to avoid duplication.
This Call for Proposals will close on September 5, 2008.
Presentations must be original and not previously presented at other conferences. The Programming Planning Committee hopes to notify applicants by the end of the calendar year, but no earlier than December 1, 2008, as to the status of proposals.
Inquiries may be sent to the PPC co-chairs, Erika Ripley and Morag Boyd at: prog-plan@nasig.org. For additional details and to suggest a proposal or idea, please go to
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=gLDuSAnEoUWee0bttCXLgA_3d_3d.
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Thursday, August 07, 2008
Sunday, November 11, 2007
CFP: Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge (May 17-20, 2008)
CFP: Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge (May 17-20, 2008)
Saturday, May 17 through Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Timberline Lodge
One hour east of Portland, Oregon on the slope of Mt. Hood
Call for Papers
WHAT IS The Acquisitions Institute?
* The pre-eminent Western North America conference on acquisitions and collection development, now in its eighth year at Timberline Lodge.
* A small, informal and stimulating gathering in a convivial and glorious Northwestern setting.
* A three day conference focusing on the methods and madness of building and managing library collections and information content.
* See The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge for more information at http://libweb.uoregon.edu/ec/aitl/
WHAT TOPICS are we looking for?
* The planning committee is open to presentations on all aspects of library acquisitions and collection management. Presenters are encouraged to engage the audience in discussion. Panel discussions are well received. The planning committee may wish to bring individual proposals together to form panels. The committee is especially looking for submissions on the following topics:
Operations management of acquisitions or collection development
The culture of acquisitions
Organization for collection development
Role of consortia in collection development
Financial management, accounting practices, and audits
Integrated library systems as management information systems
Personnel issues and strategies for change
Recruiting and retaining technical services and collection development librarians
Changing roles of book vendors and subscription agents
Vendor selection and assessment
Economics of scholarly publishing
Publishing, pricing and distributing electronic journals
Electronic books: content, access, cataloging
External forces driving a library's collection management decisions
Problems of (and solutions for) managing electronic resources
Linking collections with learning outcomes
WHAT IS THE DEADLINE for submitting a proposal?
* December 30, 2007
HOW do I submit a proposal?
* Send an abstract of 200 words or less to:
Richard Brumley
Oregon State University Libraries, retired
Corvallis, OR 97331-4501
brumleyr@onid.orst.edu
Voice: (541) 725 - 6635
The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge planning committee consists of Richard Brumley, Oregon State University; Nancy Slight-Gibney, University of Oregon; Faye Chadwell, Oregon State University, and Scott Alan Smith, Blackwell’s Book Services.
Saturday, May 17 through Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Timberline Lodge
One hour east of Portland, Oregon on the slope of Mt. Hood
Call for Papers
WHAT IS The Acquisitions Institute?
* The pre-eminent Western North America conference on acquisitions and collection development, now in its eighth year at Timberline Lodge.
* A small, informal and stimulating gathering in a convivial and glorious Northwestern setting.
* A three day conference focusing on the methods and madness of building and managing library collections and information content.
* See The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge for more information at http://libweb.uoregon.edu/ec/aitl/
WHAT TOPICS are we looking for?
* The planning committee is open to presentations on all aspects of library acquisitions and collection management. Presenters are encouraged to engage the audience in discussion. Panel discussions are well received. The planning committee may wish to bring individual proposals together to form panels. The committee is especially looking for submissions on the following topics:
Operations management of acquisitions or collection development
The culture of acquisitions
Organization for collection development
Role of consortia in collection development
Financial management, accounting practices, and audits
Integrated library systems as management information systems
Personnel issues and strategies for change
Recruiting and retaining technical services and collection development librarians
Changing roles of book vendors and subscription agents
Vendor selection and assessment
Economics of scholarly publishing
Publishing, pricing and distributing electronic journals
Electronic books: content, access, cataloging
External forces driving a library's collection management decisions
Problems of (and solutions for) managing electronic resources
Linking collections with learning outcomes
WHAT IS THE DEADLINE for submitting a proposal?
* December 30, 2007
HOW do I submit a proposal?
* Send an abstract of 200 words or less to:
Richard Brumley
Oregon State University Libraries, retired
Corvallis, OR 97331-4501
brumleyr@onid.orst.edu
Voice: (541) 725 - 6635
The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge planning committee consists of Richard Brumley, Oregon State University; Nancy Slight-Gibney, University of Oregon; Faye Chadwell, Oregon State University, and Scott Alan Smith, Blackwell’s Book Services.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
CFP (edited volume): Library Data: Empowering Practice and Persuasion
CFP (edited volume): Library Data: Empowering Practice and Persuasion
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
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
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