CFP: Second Annual International Conference on Social Science Research

CFP: Second Annual International Conference on Social Science Research

Hilton Hotel Orlando/Altamonte, Florida.
December 4-6, 2005
Proposal Deadline: 9/15/2005
http://www.centrepp.org/socialscience.html

URLS:
Submit a Paper Proposal by 9/15/05: http://www.centrepp.org/socscippr.html
Offer to be a Chair/Discussant: http://www.centrepp.org/socscichair.html
Register to receive a trip to the Conference: http://www.centrepp.org/socscifree.html

*****ABOUT THE CONFERENCE*****

This interdisciplinary conference will draw together faculty members, research scientists, and professionals from the social sciences, and provide them with the opportunity to interact with colleagues from the same field and from other, related fields. Cross-disciplinary submissions are particularly encouraged as is participation by international scholars. The disciplines represented will include:

* Anthropology,
* Area Studies (Asia, Latin Am, Europe, America),
* Criminology,
* Economics,
* Geography,
* Gender Studies,
* History,
* International Studies,
* Political Science,
* Policy/Public Administration,
* Psychology,
* Race/Ethnic Studies,
* Sociology, and
* Urban Studies.

The registration fee includes two lunches and two breakfasts as well as breaks/receptions. The registration fees are discounted by $50 for people who stay in the conference hotel. Registration fees are lower for graduate students than for faculty/professionals, and the form is available on the website

To give you some idea of the papers presented at this conference, the program from the previous conference is located on the conference website. Here are a few comments from attendees at the meeting last year:

"I particularly enjoyed the interdisciplinary nature of the meeting, and that it draws so many international scholars - it provides a wonderful perspective..."

"The quality of the food was the best that I have experienced at a professional meeting."

"I appreciated the many opportunities to network with other researchers - at meals, during receptions and during sessions."

"The meeting was professionally helpful, but it was also a lot of fun. Make sure you send me information about the next meeting."

*****REGISTER TO WIN A TRIP TO ATTEND THE CONFERENCE*****

We will have a drawing to select one person to who will win a trip to attend the conference. The winner will receive: Complementary Conference Registration; Free hotel room during the conference at the headquarters hotel (three night maximum); a $250 gift certificate from a travel agency for air travel. This does not cover the cost of any other aspects of attending the conference, nor does it cover any meals other than those included in the conference registration.

*****TRAVEL INFORMATION*****

Orlando, is one of the top travel destinations in the United States. The weather is great (well except for summer which can be a bit warm), and with Disney and the many theme parks, it is the top destination for vacationing families. However Orlando has more than Mickey Mouse; the city is a short drive from the beach and there is now a vibrant nightlife. With golf, NASA, and Universal Studios, Orlando is a great place to visit in the winter. If you wish to extend your stay, the hotel will honor the conference rage for three days before or after the meeting.

For more information on the conference, including hotel information, travel information, registration information, presentation formats and to submit a proposal on-line, please go to the website: http://www.centrepp.org/socialscience.html

*****CONTACT INFORMATION*****

This conference is sponsored by the Centre for Policy and Practice, an independent, nonpartisan organization that supports research and its application to real world questions. This work is inter-disciplinary in nature. Form more information:

Centre for Policy and Practice
http://www.centrepp.org/socialscience.html
900 E. Seventh St., #202
Bloomington, IN 47405
Email: info@centrepp.org

CFP: Webology

CFP: Webology
http://www.webology.ir/

Webology, an international online journal, is a scholarly journal in English devoted to the various fields of Library and Information Science and the World Wide Web. It serves as a forum for discussion and experimentation. Webology publishes scholarly articles, essays and reviews, and encourages the participation of academics and practitioners alike.

Volume 2, Number 3 will publish papers focus on the following topics, but not limited to:

World Wide Web:
Web information retrieval; Web crawling and indexing; Web cataloging; Web searching; Search engines and directories; Search behavior; Metadata; Link analysis; Semantic Web; Web ontology; Web Thesaurus; Webometrics; Cybermetrics; Invisible Web; Web Intelligence (WI), Web Competitive Intelligence (WCI), Web mining; New technologies of Web services; Web impacts; Web users and usage studies; International issues of the Web; Social studies of the Web; Evaluating Web resources; Web Visibility, popularity and diversity; Web accessibility; Validity of information; Information mining; Information extraction; Information management and organization; Information or resource discovery; Knowledge management; Knowledge organization; The role of the Web and ICTs in research, education, economy, development, customer services, marketing, productivity improvement, and etc.

Library and Information Science:
Information retrieval systems; Indexing; Abstracting; Information and communication technology; Information Evaluation and measurement; Information representation, organization, and classification; Library classification theories; Data processing; Information systems design; Electronic document management; Digital libraries; Libraries and the Web; Information and communication theories; Information transferring; Information economics; Information policy; Information seeking behavior; Social and cultural impacts of information; Information marketing; Management information systems (MIS); Informetric; Scientometric; Bibliometric; ...

We welcome and encourage all contributions on these or other aspects of the World Wide Web before the deadline on September 30, 2005.

For further information, please visit our web site, or contact one of our Editors.

URLS:

Main page: http://www.webology.ir/
Call for Papers Page: http://www.webology.ir/callforpapers.html
Author Guidelines: http://www.webology.ir/guidelines.html

Articles needed: Book on content management systems (CMSs)

Articles needed: Book on content management systems (CMSs)

I have a contract to deliver a book on opinions and case studies on the topic of content management systems (CMSs) to Scarecrow Press by December 2006. Most of the content is already done and written as a special issue for the journal _Library Hi Tech_. I am, however, looking for more chapters to add to this book. If you are currently implementing, experimenting with, and/or doing user assessment regarding CMSs, or consider yourself an expert on CMSs and would like to submit an opinion or futures chapter, I would be most willing to see a proposal. I don't need anything fancy; just your contact information, along with a paragraph or two about what your chapter would be about. Deadline for chapters is June 1, 2006. Please address all inquiries and proposals to the email indicated below. Thanks.

Brad Eden, Ph.D.
Head, Web and Digitization Services
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries
beden@ccmail.nevada.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS - New Review of Information Networking

CALL FOR PAPERS - New Review of Information Networking

Editor: Michael Breaks, Heriot-Watt University, UK

New Review of Information Networking presents groundbreaking research and discussion on the potential of computer networks to integrate and transform information provision, communication and learning. It is essential reading for all within the library and information science community who wish to keep abreast of the benefits computer networks can bring to information provision.

The journal is currently seeking contributions from both library and information science researchers and practitioners on the following topics:

-the needs and behaviour of the network user;
-the role of networks in teaching, learning, research and scholarly communication;
-the implications of networks for service development and delivery in both academic and public libraries;
-the development of campus learning and information strategies;
-the interface between libraries and new learning and research environments;
-the challenges of information literacy in the digital environment;
-the new and changing role of information publishers;
-the role of networks in archives and records management;
-the development of standards and protocols for network applications.

For further details on submitting a paper to New Review of Information Networking, please visit:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rinnauth.asp


If you would like to discuss ideas for a paper with the journal’s editor, please contact Michael Breaks m.l.breaks@hw.ac.uk

Call for articles: Caribbean Libraries in the 21st Century.

Call for articles: Caribbean Libraries in the 21st Century.

What has been the response of Caribbean libraries to the changes, challenges and choices in the 21st century information environment? Changes as evidenced by the unprecedented growth of information and communication technologies and the myriad of formats now available for storing and retrieving information. Challenges in the form of budget cuts; shrinking resources; re-training of staff and the need to deliver traditional and innovative services to a technology savvy consumer.

Have Caribbean libraries made the right and sometime obvious choices in this complex information environment? Have they opted to harness and integrate new technologies into library services thus ensuring their viability and continued existence? Have they become complacent, creating a vacuum to be filled by new and aggressive competitors in the information arena such as online search engines? Caribbean Libraries in the 21st Century: Changes,
Challenges and Choices is a unique collection of essays, which will provide answers to these questions and much more.

Cheryl Peltier-Davis (Librarian, Western Washington University, USA) and I are collaborating (as editors) on publishing a book on Caribbean Libraries entitled "Caribbean Libraries in the 21st Century: Changes, Challenges and Choices - a Collection of Selected Articles". The book will be published by Information Today. Publication date is tentatively set as Aug 2007. It will
be peer-reviewed by a panel of regional and international reviewers.

A call for articles is posted at URL:
http://ttemail.com/~srenwick/default.htm .

Please have a look at the web page and note deadlines, especially the one for submission of a 1-2 page proposal by October 15, 2005. Selection of articles for inclusion in the book will be based on these proposals.

Shamin Renwick (Mrs)
Librarian III
Multimedia and Information Technology Unit
Medical Sciences Library
The University of the West Indies
Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex
Champs Fleurs
Trinidad and Tobago
Tel: 868-645-4673 ext 5253
Fax: 868-662-1392
srenwick@library.uwi.tt

To be published by Information Today by Aug 2007

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - THRESHOLDS 31 - 'EPHEMERA'

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - THRESHOLDS 31 - 'EPHEMERA'

thresholds, the bi-annual critical journal of architecture, art and media culture of the department of architecture at MIT invites submissions for issue 31 'ephemera'

DUE: 31 October 2005 (please see details for submissions below)

http://architecture.mit.edu/thresholds/CallForSubmissions/cfp31.htm

THRESHOLDS 31 - 'EPHEMERA'

We have accelerated into an age in which information is as fleeting as our response to it, and the capacity for its processing the new world currency. The relevance of the moment has become eclipsed by that of its own passage, and absolute position has become an easy sacrifice for the velocity on offer. We have been at last swept by the flux of our times into a time defined by its own flux. Time has become both the axis and the function.

thresholds 31 seeks to explore this condition through identifying, suggesting, tracing and questioning the notion of ephemera* through time and cultural relevance. What role does ephemera play within current cultural practice and thought? What are its historical traces and its cultural import? What are the projects in which it has become manifest – deliberately, or not – and why? Are we longing for a future or a past, or neither?

Contributions from all fields including, but not limited to, scholarly works are welcome. thresholds 31 will be the first issue to accept both text and time-based media submissions. Time-based media submissions might include but are not limited to, video, sound, animation, etc. and will be published in digital format.

* ephemera, n., transf. and fig. One who or something which has a transitory existence. [Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition 1989]

SUBMISSIONS

thresholds invites submissions, including but not limited to scholarly works, from all fields. thresholds attempts to publish only original material. Materials should be postmarked by October 31, 2005.

TEXT: Manuscripts for review should be no more than 2,500 words. Text must be formatted in accordance with The Chicago Manual of Style. Spelling should follow American convention and quotations must be translated into English.

All submissions must be submitted electronically, via e-mail or disk, and accompanied by hard copies of text and images. Text should be saved as Microsoft Word or RTF format, while any accompanying images should be sent as TIFF files with a resolution of at least 300 dpi at 8" x 9" print size.

Figures should be numbered clearly in the text. Image captions and credits must be included with submissions. It is the responsibility of the author to secure permissions for image use and pay any reproduction fees. A brief author bio must accompany the text.

MEDIA: Media submissions below 8MB can be submitted via e-mail to : thd@mit.edu and by disk. Submissions above 8MB must be sent on disk and/or posted on a server for download. Most common file formats will be accepted. Thresholds reserves the right to request reformatting of works for final publication. It is the responsibility of the author to secure
permissions for proprietary media use and pay any reproduction fees. A brief author bio must accompany the work.

submissions due: 31 October 2005

Please send materials or correspondence to:

Talia Dorsey, Editor
thresholds
MIT Department of Architecture
Room 7-337
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

http://architecture.mit.edu/thresholds/
inquiries: thresh@mit.edu
text/image submissions: thresh@mit.edu
media submissions (below 8MB): thd@mit.edu

Call for Papers: The Wild, Wild Wiki: Unsettling the Frontiers of Cyberspace

Call for Papers: The Wild, Wild Wiki: Unsettling the Frontiers of Cyberspace

*The Wild, Wild Wiki: Unsettling the Frontiers of Cyberspace, *edited by Matt Barton and Robert Cummings

Wikis are without a doubt one of the most interesting and radical of the new writing media available to the wired society, yet they also one of the most misunderstood. Many of us know of them only by encounters with "that wacky website anybody in the world can edit," the (in)famous Wikipedia, that is showing up more and more in our students' works cited lists. For others, wikis represent the incarnation of the openness, decentralization, and collaboration dreamt of by the Internet's founders. For those of us in the computers and writing community, wikis represent a fertile field for rhetorical analysis and one of the richest opportunities for teaching writing in the classroom.

The time has come for an edited collection of essays on wikis entitled *The Wild, Wild Wiki: Unsettling the Frontiers of Cyberspace.* Editors Matt Barton and Robert Cummings would like to invite you to submit your thoughts for a volume on the theory, politics, future, and application of wikis for teachers of college composition (and beyond). These essays will be organized into the following three categories:

* Theory and Politics: 12-25 page essays that discuss wiki issues from theoretical perspectives. Such essays might examine how knowledge gets constructed and legitimated in wikis, or how wiki users negotiate authorship. Do wikis liberate or erase identities? What roles, if any, should copyright laws play in the regulation of wiki discourse? Why is that the most famous wiki happens to be encyclopedic; could other types of discourse flourish in wikis? How do wikis remediate other media, old or new? What can you do with a wiki that you can't do with any other media? Should we think of wikis as related to the open source phenomenon through Commons-Based? Peer Production and, if so, does this predict how and where wikis will expand? Do wikis fundamentally alter the practice of revision? The concept of collaboration?

* Applications: 8-12 page essays that examine how teachers can use wikis in the classroom. This includes assignments involving Wikipedia, but also creating new wikis specifically for classroom use. The essays here will look at practical applications as well as limitations and technological matters (How hard is it to install a wiki? What kind of support is needed? What are the differences among the many wiki servers now available? Can a classroom wiki achieve critical mass or low cost content integration? What are the ethical implications of asking students to write in a wiki where writers, other than their teachers, make editorial decisions about their text? Do contributions by student writers, as part of a class assignment, differ substantially from those offered freely by self-selecting wiki contributors?)

* Lore: 6-12 page narratives that describe teachers' experience using (or reacting) to wikis in their classrooms. How have you been using wikis in your writing or teaching? What went right and what went wrong? What would you do differently next time? How have you assessed writing in wikis?

We also plan to "eat our dogfood" during this project--in other words, we will be using wikis extensively to plan, draft, review, and revise the essays in our collection. All authors will share in the reviewing and editing process. We also hope to secure a publisher who will allow us to publish under a Creative Commons license rather than traditional, full-blown copyright. Our goal is to produce a volume of accessible and engaging works that will help secure wikis a prominent place in composition.

Tentative Timeline:

Abstracts: October 10, 2005
Abstract acceptances: October 17, 2005
Submissions Deadline: May 1, 2006

No simultaneous submissions. We also cannot accept previously published essays. Send your enquiries, queries, or abstracts to either of the co-editors:

Matt Barton
mdbarton@stcloudstate.edu
(320) 308-3061 (phone)
(320) 308-5524 (fax)
Dept of English
720 Fourth Avenute South
St. Cloud, MN 56301-3061

or

Robert Cummings
rec@uga.edu
(706) 542-2103 (vox)
(706) 542-2128 (fax)
Dept of English
University of Georgia
254 Park Hall
Athens, Georgia 30602-6205

Call for Manuscripts - Journal of Internet in Technical Services

Call for Manuscripts - Journal of Internet in Technical Services

The Journal of Internet in Technical Services (JITS), a new peer-reviewed journal published by The Haworth Press, Inc., welcomes the submission of manuscripts for its first issue. The journal offers aims to offer readers examples of innovative applications of technologies in library technical services operations. And at this point in time, the nature of what is included in technical services is a very dynamic topic.

Research-based studies, case studies of successful services or programs, and authoritative articles highlighting best practices are welcome. Topics of interest to us include: the integration of ERM's and Knowledge Bases with integrated library systems, metadata integration with cataloging operations, licensing and archival issues, digital libraries and the preservation of Internet resources, authority control/integration, outsourcing and other work on vendor web sites, the use of online training/tutorials and blogs and RDF Site Summaries (RSS) in technical
library operations.

Submissions should follow the Haworth guidelines for manuscript format and preparation available at http://www.haworthpress.com/journals/instructionsforauthors.asp .

All submissions should be accompanied by a Manuscript Submission and
Copyright Transfer form, available at
http://www.haworthpressinc.com/pdfs/jmanuscript.pdf.

All accepted manuscripts will be published in the journal's first issue, Volume 1, No. 1. The due date for submission of manuscripts is Sept. 30, 2005. For more information or manuscript submission questions, please contact Martha Hruska at mhruska@ufl.edu or at the address below. We look forward to reading your work and having the opportunity to share it with other librarians.

Martha Hruska Editor, Journal of Internet in Technical Services
Director for Technology Services
George A. Smathers Libraries
POB 117001
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
Phone: 352 392-0342
Email: mhruska@ufl.edu

CFP: Pottermania 2005: A Harry Potter Conference

CFP: Pottermania 2005: A Harry Potter Conference
Friday October 14, 2005
Co-sponsored by UC Riverside's English Department and the Center for Ideas and Society

Pottermania 2005 will be a one day conference for scholars and fans of the Harry Potter novels. Given the broad interest in all things Potter, our aim is to hold a conference open to the general public and the press, creating a forum for scholarly analysis of the books as well as a forum for open discussion between scholars and fans of these works. Our hope is that we will be able to provide a space for scholarly discussion that is at the same time welcoming to a more general reading audience. In order to accomplish this goal, we are asking for shorter presentations, of approximately 10 minutes, and are encouraging the use of more creative and interesting presentational methods. We are also building in more time for open discussion than that found at many conferences.

Proposals are sought for papers on any topic relating to the Harry Potter novels, the films, the general Harry Potter phenomenon, or the fan community. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

-Harry Potter and Issues of Translation and Adaptation
Philosophical, Political, and Ethical Issues: May include the depiction of evil or the issues of slavery, sexism, and racism
-Harry Potter seen through the lens of ethnic or gender studies,
anthropology, sociology, psychology, folklore, etc.
-Harry Potter and Its Influences
-Harry Potter and Genre Considerations
-Harry Potter and Audience Expectations
-Harry Potter and Educational Theory
-Harry Potter in the Context of Young Adult or Children's Literature
-Harry Potter and Fanfiction
-Harry Potter and Its Reception: May explore the varied responses and political controversies surrounding the books

Proposals should take the form of an approximately 500-word abstract, as well as a 50-100 word summary for the program book and a 50-100 word biography. All proposals must be received by email by September 1, 2005. Please send all abstracts and questions to Craig Svonkin at svonkco@netzero.com

CFP: Academic Blogging and Workplace Politics (ongoing; e-journal)

CFP: Academic Blogging and Workplace Politics (ongoing; e-journal)
Sobriquet Magazine

In recent weeks, a heated debate over the dangers academic bloggers may face when applying for jobs has emerged as a result of a recent essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com/jobs/2005/07/2005070801c.htm ). The author, writing under the pseudonym Ivan Tribble, claims, among other things, that often the simple practice of maintaining a “blog was a negative” for applicants seeking employment in his department. “The content of the blog,” Tribble continues, “may be less worrisome than the fact of the blog itself. Several committee members expressed concern that a blogger who joined our staff might air departmental dirty laundry (real or imagined) on the cyber clothesline for the world to see. Past good behavior is no guarantee against future lapses of professional decorum.”

Elsewhere, the author warns “[y]ou may think your blog is a harmless outlet. You may use the faulty logic of the blogger, ‘Oh, no one will see it anyway.’ Don't count on it. Even if you take your blog offline while job applications are active, Google and other search engines store cached data of their prior contents. So that cranky rant might still turn up.”

He concludes the essay with “[w]e've seen the hapless job seekers who destroy the good thing they've got going on paper by being so irritating in person that we can't wait to put them back on a plane. Our blogger applicants came off reasonably well at the initial interview, but once we hung up the phone and called up their blogs, we got to know ‘the real them’ -- better than we wanted, enough to conclude we didn't want to know more.”

Not surprisingly, a large number of blog postings addressing Tribble’s essay appeared around the web in the days following the essay’s appearance on the Chronicle’s website. While many bloggers criticized Tribble’s essay as hypocritical, close-minded, bigoted, or unrealistic, others reluctantly agreed that blogging, for academics, can be a very risky practice.

Sobriquet Magazine, a non-profit online publication, seeks intelligent, scholarly consideration of the impact blogging has had on the academic job market, the potential benefits and risks of academic blogging, and speculation on the future role academic blogs may have both in and out of the classroom.

Essays must follow the MLA style sheet.

All essays accepted for publication remain the property of the author.

Questions, queries, and submissions may be sent to: editor_at_sobriquetmagazine_dot_com

Call for Papers (Copyright, a new open-access peer-reviewed journal)

Call for Papers (Copyright, a new open-access peer-reviewed journal)

URL: http://www.copyrightjournal.org/index.php/Copyright

URL for submissions: http://copyrightjournal.com//index.php/Copyright/about/submissions

Copyright, a new open-access, peer-reviewed journal led by a renowned editorial team, seeks papers on all aspects of copyright in the Internet age. The journal features an extremely rapid review and publication time while maintaining rigorous standards on the quality of work. Every effort will be made to have the initial reviewers' decision within two weeks of submission. The journal focuses on detailed research and case studies vetted by peer-review; opinion pieces and shorter communications are also invited and will be accepted at the editors' discression. Because the journal is open-access, the author retains the copyright to his or her works.

Copyright is structured to be a new type of journal, not just a place to publish ideas but a locus to generate them--vital in an area of academic interest largely composed of subdisciplines of other fields. For instance, while the majority of articles will still be published in the traditional fashion, a novel, collaborative approach has been implemented as well. Potential authors can simply begin contributing to such an article while the system tracks the individuals' contributions. The article is then submitted through the normal review process and, if accepted, authorship is assigned based on the tracked contributions as the last step of the review process.

Copyright is particularly interested in publishing interdisciplinary works and works not normally considered within the purview of such a journal, such as those covering social and political impact of copyright. The journal also encourages lay participation through community projects.

Copyright seeks articles on all topics related to copyright, including:

-Digital Rights Management
-Quantitative studies of the effects of legislation
-Scholarly communication and Open Access
-Peer-to-peer networks
-International copyright
-Collaborative authorship
-Blogs and other new media
-Collaborative filtering
-Copyright in developing nations
-Social implications of copyright

This list is not intended to be exhaustive. Indeed, high-quality papers relating to any aspect of copyright are welcome.

For guidelines on submissions, or to submit a paper, see the submissions page. The editors of Copyright invite you to submit papers, case studies, and opinion pieces. Registration to be notified of new issues is also available, as is guidance in using the collaborative systems in place.

Call for Papers: New Reference Research: 12th Reference Researech Forum, 2006

Call for Papers: New Reference Research: 12th Reference Researech Forum, 2006

The Research and Statistics Committee of the Reference Services sSection of RUSA (ALA) is have their 12th Reference Research Forum at ALA in New Orleans (June 2006).

Information is not up on the website, but past meeting information is available here:

http://www.ala.org/rssTemplate.cfm?Section=rssresstat&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=71579

For information on the 2006 Forum, please contact Sarah Hammill (himmills@fiu.edu). The deadline for submission of a one page proposal is 12-2, 2005 and notifications will be made by March 13, 2006.

They are looking for up to three projects to be presented during the forum.

CFP: Computers in Libraries 2006

CFP: Computers in Libraries 2006
March 22-24, 2006,
Washington, DC, USA.
The submission deadline is 15 August 2005.

MANAGING DIGITAL: INNOVATIONS, INITIATIVES & INSIGHTS
We now live, work and play digitally. Some of our key resources are created digitally while others, including physical libraries, books and, most importantly, people are not digital. Others are born digital. How do we reconcile, and manage, the digital and non-digital so that our work flows cohesively? How do we keep a personal touch in a virtual world? How do we plan for a successful, productive, future with many complex challenges and opportunities? Our conference theme, Managing Digital, focuses on digital initiatives and innovations in all types of information enterprises, tools and techniques for enhancing user-friendly digital work flows, mining and archiving "born digital" data, information discovery and visualization methods for dealing with large digital databases, supporting digital communities, and more. Join us at the most comprehensive conference for library and information professionals interested in technology to discover the insights, strategies and practices that will allow us to manage computers, libraries, digital information, and people in a cohesive and productive way.

Information Today Inc., a key provider of technology conferences for more than twenty years with Internet Librarian, and KMWorld & Intranets, is pleased to announce the 21st annual Computers in Libraries – the most comprehensive North American conference and exhibition concentrating on all aspects of library technology. The conference offers a multifaceted program designed to meet the needs of librarians, information managers, systems professionals, Webmasters and Web managers, content evaluators, intranet strategists, portal creators, and information specialists. The focus of the conference is on leading edge technology that is transforming library operations, products and services, and roles within all types and sizes of library and information services.

Computers in Libraries caters to all interests and all levels of knowledge, offering four simultaneous tracks plus many workshops, networking opportunities, and an extensive exhibit hall. This year’s tracks and themes encompass: Building Communities; Integrating Systems & Strategies; Information Discovery & Search; Technology Planning; Managing Content & eResrouces; Web Tools & Leading Edge Technology; Intranets & Portals; Search Engines, Case Studies of Internet & Intranet Librarians, Digital/Virtual Library Services, Library Automation & Infrastructure, Managing Knowledge Assets, eLearning & Training, Web Design & Development, Streaming Multimedia, Managing Digitally, and more. Speakers are knowledgeable, authoritative and focus on practical applications, "how to" solutions, and case studies as well as technical and managerial issues. Please consider sharing your knowledge and sending us a proposal to speak. Below are some of the topics we hope to cover, but don’t let this list limit your imagination! We look forward to hearing from you.


For more information, please see http://www.infotoday.com/cil2006/CallForSpeakers.shtml

or http://www.infotoday.com/cil2006/CIL2006_CallForSpeakers.pdf

CFP: Docs, Blogs, Zines, Online Media (Society for Cinema and Media Studies)

CFP: Docs, Blogs, Zines, Online Media (Society for Cinema and Media Studies)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
March 2-5, 2006
Vancouver, Canada
http://www.cmstudies.org/conference_index.html

The SCMS Caucus on Class ( http://terri1.home.mindspring.com) is sponsoring the following call for papers. Please send 150-word proposal, plus brief bibliography and bio statement, by August 20, 2005.

"Filling the Void: How Docs, Blogs, Zines, and Other Online Media Are Redefining Journalism"

While mainstream media grows more economically consolidated and politically conservative, social issue documentaries like Fahrenheit 9/11 and Supersize Me have achieved surprising box office success and received extensive critical attention. Other critical documentaries (e.g. Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War) have reached audiences through links to
progressive political organizations. This panel seeks papers exploring the ways in which contemporary documentaries-as well as other forms of alternative, online distribution (websites, blogs, online journals, etc.) and exhibition venues-are explicitly engaging political discourse. How has the "new journalism" influenced documentary technique and challenged that of corporate and mainstream media? How are online distribution and alternative exhibition venues related to the politics of such films/videos? Are there significant differences from political documentary strategies of the 1930s and 1960s?

CONTACT: Christopher Sharrett - sharrech@shu.edu

CFP from D-Lib Magazine (July/August 2005)

CFP from D-Lib Magazine (July/August 2005)

NOTE: Links go to D-Lib with links then to the resources

Calls for Participation

Computers in Libraries 2006, 22 - 24 March 2006, Washington, DC, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 15 August 2005.

SIGCSE 2006 Symposium, 1 - 5 March 2006, Houston, Texas, USA. Call for papers. The submission date is 9 September 2005.

The IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Technology - ACST 2006, 23 - 25 January 2006, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Call for papers. The submission date is 15 September 2005.

The Fifth IASTED International Conference on Web-based Education - WBE 2006, 23 - 25 January 2006, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Call for papers. The submission date is 15 September 2005.

IUI '06: Tenth International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2006, 29 January - 1 February 2006, Sydney, Australia. Call for papers. The submission date is 19 September 2005.

CHI 2006: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 22 - 27 2006, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Call for papers. The submission date is 23 September 2005.

The 14th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision'2006, 30 January - 3 February 2006, Plzen, Czech Republic. Call for papers. The submission date is 27 September 2005.

10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 9 - 12 April 2006, Singapore. Call for papers. The submission date is 30 September 2005.

OpenURL Registry , NISO Request for Proposal (RFP). The submission date for submitting a propsal is 15 October 2005.

ICEIS 2006 - 8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 23 - 27 May 2006 in Paphos. Cyprus. Call for papers. The submission date is 18 October 2005.

Main D-Lib page: http://www.dlib.org/

General Information: Information Research: an international electronic journal

General Information: Information Research: an international electronic journal

Information Research: an international electronic journal attracts high usage - currently averaging more than 3,000 hits a month on the top page and, more than 200,000 hits a year on the site as a whole. Most papers attract several hundred hits a month and average more than 1,300 hits a year. Items appearing in the journal are now being cited in other, print publications and the journal is indexed in ISI's Social Science Citation Index, LISA and Information Science Abstracts.

Information Research is a fully refereed journal, although we also publish Working Papers, and we have an Editorial Board representative of all areas covered by the journal.

These Instructions to Authors are published so that submissions may be prepared to a standard format and style. A .pdf file is available for downloading and printing.

In addition, all authors should remember that the journal has an international readership - local acronyms or organizations, for example, need to be explained.

URLS:

Information for Authors Page: http://informationr.net/ir/author1.html

Journal Home Page: http://informationr.net/ir/index.html

CFP: (LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, AND POPULAR CULTURE RESEARCH AREA)POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION 2006

CFP: (LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, AND POPULAR CULTURE RESEARCH AREA)POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION 2006
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Date: April 12-15, 2005
Deadline: November 1, 2005

The Popular Culture Association will be holding its annual joint meeting with the American Culture Association April 12-15, 2006 at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, Georgia. Scholars from numerous disciplines will meet to share their Popular Culture research and interests.

The Libraries, Archives, and Popular Culture Research Area is soliciting papers dealing with any aspect of Popular Culture as it pertains to libraries, librarians, archives, museums, or research. In the past this has included descriptions of research collections, studies of popular images of libraries or librarians, or reports on developments in technical services for collecting popular culture materials.

Prospective presenters should send a one page abstract with full contact information, preferably by e-mail, to:

Allen Ellis
Professor of Library Services
W. Frank Steely Library
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY 41099-6101
USA
E-Mail: ellisa@nku.edu
859-572-5527
FAX: 859-572-5390

DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2005

For more information, see the PCA/ACA conference web site at:
http://www.popularculture.org/Index.asp

CFP: 2006 Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Annual Conference

CFP: 2006 Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Annual Conference

May 17-20, 2006 - Seattle, Washington

ARSC invites submissions of program proposals for its 40th annual conference, to be held May 17–20, 2006 in Seattle. ARSC is dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings—in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods—and welcomes proposals on all aspects of recorded sound which would be of interest to our community of collectors, historians, musicians, preservationists, and archivists. Presentations on recording activities in the Seattle area are especially encouraged. In general, we seek demonstrations, papers, and panels that are informative and well organized, display a passion about the subject, and include compelling audio and/or visual content. The deadline for submissions is November 5, 2005. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by January 2006. Following ARSC policy, presenters will be expected to register for the conference.

For more information, please visit:

CFP: http://arsc-audio.org/2006presentations.pdf

Main Conference Page: http://arsc-audio.org/conference2006.html

NASIG 21st Annual Conference - Call for Proposals and Program Ideas

NASIG (North American Serials Interest Group) 21st Annual Conference - Call for Proposals and Program Ideas

"Mile High Views: Surveying the Serials Vista"
May 4-7, 2006
The Denver Marriott City Center
Denver, CO

http://www.nasig.org/public/2006proposals.html

The President of the North American Serials Interest Group will open the first session of the 21st annual conference on May 4, 2006 in Denver, Colorado. The Rocky Mountains provide a dramatic backdrop to a bustling metropolitan area that enjoys 300 days of sunshine a year. Denver has a lively downtown area as the city is overflowing with colleges, parks, museums, sporting events and more. Denver attracted people to its frontier atmosphere, starting off as a rowdy frontier and mining town. Today it still attracts individuals of the same spirit and they have helped it grow into a modern and sophisticated city. Denver's magnetism will be the perfect environment as we survey the serials vista.

To this end, the 2006 Program Planning Committee (PPC) invites proposals and/or program ideas for pre-conference, vision, strategy and tactics sessions. Please keep in mind the following:

The PPC will review all submitted proposals for their content, timeliness, and relevance to the conference theme and reserves the right to combine, blend, or refocus proposals to maximize their relevance and to avoid duplication.

PPC will treat all submissions as suggestions and guideposts.

Time management issues and reimbursement guidelines generally limit each session to two speakers.

Proposals may be suggested as one type of session and/or format and ultimately be accepted as any one of the other types of sessions or formats; this decision is the purview of the PPC.

Vision and Strategy speakers are required to produce a written paper for the conference proceedings. Because NASIG publishes its conference proceedings, content needs to be unique for copyright purposes.

ALL presentations must be original and not previously presented at other conferences.
For more information about the North American Serials Interest Group, please see:

http://www.nasig.org

NASIG has a reimbursement policy for conference speakers whose organizations do not cover expenses. For more information about this policy, please see:

http://www.nasig.org/public/reimbursement_policy.htm

Call for Papers: HLG (Health Libraries Group) Conference 2006

Call for Papers: HLG (Health Libraries Group) Conference 2006
10th-12th July 2006
Devonshire Park Conference Centre, Eastbourne, East Sussex

http://www.cilip.org.uk/specialinterestgroups/bysubject/health/events/conference/conference2006/default.htm

Informed and Interactive - Health Knowledge for all

Call for papers
The 2006 Conference Programme aims to reflect the innovative and multi-faceted nature of health information across all sectors and the contribution of information to patient care, medical research and training. We hope that there will be something to attract everyone as delegates and that the themes of the Conference will provide plenty of opportunities for you to participate as a presenter.

Authors are invited to submit abstracts.

We are very keen to hear from first time conference speakers and can promise a very supportive environment for that first step into the public arena.

We are looking for abstracts across 5 broad interlinking themes:

1. Expanding Roles
2. Information Literacy
3. Collaboration
4. Harnessing Information Technology
5. Evidence Based Librarianship

You can find more information below on the themes, with examples. However, these are just examples, so please do not hesitate to contribute with other subjects.

We are looking for THREE types of contribution (and please feel free to enter for more than one) so, hopefully something for everyone!

-Oral Presentations
-Posters
-Workshops. A chance to impart your specialist knowledge by leading small groups through discussions and activities. When submitting an abstract for this category please give a description of the subject and a short summary of content.

The closing date for abstract submission is Wednesday 30th November 2005.

For more information, follow the link above.

Call for Manuscripts - Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Call for Manuscripts - Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Internet Reference Services Quarterly (IRSQ), a peer-reviewed journal published by The Haworth Press, Inc., welcomes the submission of manuscripts for its next issue. This comprehensive and highly respected journal offers readers examples of cutting-edge technologies innovatively applied for the enhancement of library service. Don't let the word "reference" in the title fool you: the journal has a broader focus, seeking to highlight the theory and practice behind emerging Internet services, sources and resources in all areas of librarianship. If you are using technology to make the lives of you or your patrons better, we want to hear from you!

Research-based studies, case studies of successful services or programs, and authoritative articles highlighting best practices are welcome. Topics of interest to us include: course management systems, blogs, statistical packages and analyzers, web tutorials, federated searching technologies, link resolvers, digital collections and digital object repositories, information services for cell phones, iPods or PDAs, Internet and copyright law, plagiarism, electronic information access (e-reserves, document delivery, electronic theses of dissertations, home-grown databases), digital or virtual reference services, streaming video and audio, library web site innovations, management of electronic resources, IT/library mergers, Internet security, Googlization, etc.

Submissions should follow the Haworth guidelines for manuscript format and preparation available at http://www.haworthpress.com/journals/instructionsforauthors.asp. All submissions should be accompanied by a Manuscript Submission and Copyright Transfer form, available at http://www.haworthpressinc.com/pdfs/jmanuscript.pdf.

All accepted manuscripts will be published in the journal's next issue, Volume 11, No. 1. The due date for submission of manuscripts is August 1st, 2005. For more information or manuscript submission questions, please contact Christopher Cox at coxcn@uwec.edu or at the address below. We look forward to reading your work and having the opportunity to share it with other librarians.

Sincerely,
Christopher Cox
Editor, Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Christopher Cox
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director of Libraries
Editor, Internet Reference Services Quarterly
McIntyre Library
University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
105 Garfield Avenue - L 3002A
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
Phone: (715) 836-4454
Fax: (715) 836-2949
Email: coxcn@uwec.edu

ALA: Volunteer for the LITA Blog

ALA: Volunteer for the LITA Blog

There is still time to volunteer to blog for the LITA Blog. To view the schedule, visit the schedule page at http://litablog.org/?page_id=21.

Take a gander at what all the fuss is about here http://litablog.org/. Thank you to everyone who has volunteered so far. Contact me if you would like to be a part of the fun.
Michelle
--
Michelle Boule
Social Sciences Librarian
University of Houston
713-743-9776
mlboule@uh.edu

Call for Particiaption from D-Lib (June 2005)

Calls for Participation

Request for Proposals for a National Study on User Satisfaction with Access to Government Information and Services at Public Libraries and Public Access Computing Centers, The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The deadline for proposals to be received at the IMLS is July 20, 2005.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june05/06clips.html#IMLS-SOL

New Book Series: Topics in the Digital Humanities, The University of Illinois Press. Call for proposals for monographs and co-authored works that directly serve the community of those engaging with humanities computing tools and methodologies.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june05/06clips.html#TOPICS

For full Clips and Pointers Section, see:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june05/06contents.html#CLIPS

Bloggers Wanted - Come Blog with Library Technology NOW about the ALA Conference

Bloggers Wanted - Come Blog with Library Technology NOW about the ALA Conference

Library Technology NOW!
News, Opinions, Wisdom
http://LibraryTechnologyNow.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
June 17, 2005

http://www.librarytechnologynow.org/ -- June 17, 2005 -- Library Technology NOW,the website devoted to library technology news and product reviews written by library people for library people, is seeking participants to blog about the June 23-29th American Library Association Conference on LTN’s blogspot http://librarytechnologynow.blogspot.com/.

Speaking at the conference? Planning on meeting up with other librarians? Participating in any exhibits? Simply want to share your thoughts on some of Chicago’s hot spots? Contact Adam Wright at awright@ntrls.org, Co-Web Producer of LTN, to receive your exclusive invitation to begin blogging.

Log on and let us know just what’s on your ALA conference agenda!

For more information:

Diane Neal, dneal@uta.edu

International Society for the Systems Sciences, Arts-informed Inquiry Special Interest Group

International Society for the Systems Sciences, Arts-informed Inquiry Special Interest Group

Next summer at the Sonoma 2006: The 50th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, USA July 9th - 14th 2006 a special session on arts-based inquiry is being proposed by the planning committee. This note is a special invitation for participation in the planning of that event. There will be time for discussion, presentations of artistic, musical, literary, performance and scholarly works as well as a show arranged for artists working in sculpture, painting and other visual media. Weave a little over a year to create this special event together.

For those of you using the tools of art in scholarly research already (or, conversely, the tools of research in art), this will be a very exciting opening of some doors and a meeting of minds, indeed! (If you would like an interesting link to some researchers engaged in arts-informed research go to: http://home.oise.utoronto.ca/~aresearch/publications or http://www.iirc.mcgill.ca/methodology/artificiality)

If you would like(or if you know someone who would to) to help in the planning an preparation of this exciting project, please contact Lezlie Kinyon, Ph.D.,(isss06lezlie@yahoo.com) or Bela A Banathy, Ph.D.(babanathy@sbcglobal.net) for further information. This project is truly in the beginning of the planning stages, and your participation will be eagerly accepted!

Information about he International Society for the Systems Sciences can be found at http://www.isss.org including information for the 2005 conference. If you would like(or if you know someone who would to) to help in the planning an preparation of this exciting project, please contact Lezlie Kinyon, Ph.D.,(isss06lezlie@yahoo.com) or Bela A Banathy, Ph.D.(babanathy@sbcglobal.net) for further information. This project is truly in
the beginning of the planning stages, and your participation will be eagerly
accepted!
Email: isss06lezlie@yahoo.com
Visit the website at http://www.isss.org/projects

CFP: Mourning urban change: testimonies of disaster and urban catastrophe since 1945

CFP: Mourning urban change: testimonies of disaster and urban catastrophe since 1945
Date: 2005-10-01
Description: Call for papers Mourning urban change: testimonies of disaster and urban catastrophe since 1945 Specialist session at the 8th International Conference on Urban History Stockholm, 30 August 2 September 2006.

Deadline for proposal submissions: 1 October 2005.

Contact: gulin@ief.hr
URL: www.eauh.org
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=146501

CFP: Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities

CFP: Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities
Location: Virginia
Deadline: 2005-06-20
Description: This summit will bring together scholars from diverse disciplines of the humanities to discuss issues surrounding digital tools and the underlying cyber-infrastructure that: Enable new and innovative approaches to humanistic scholarship; Provide students deeper and more sophisticated access to cultu

Contact: digitaltoolssummit@virginia.edu
URLs: www.iath.virginia.edu/dtsummit/index.html
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=146388

Call for Book Reviewers - New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing

Call for Book Reviewers - New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing

The journal New Writing seeks Book Reviewers for books about creative writing (practice, theory, pedagogy, history), by creative writers (all kinds of genre work), and in relation to "companion subjects" (eg. literature, media/film, theatre).

Our reviewer database currently includes Peer Reviewers in the field of Creative Writing, from around the world.

The journal, which is published in paper twice a year (with occasional, additional Special Issues), is entering an exciting new phase of its growth and development, and is seeking enthusiastic,
informed Book Reviewers to add to this growing range of Peer Reviewers worldwide.

Anyone interested in being included as a possible Book Reviewer is welcome to send an email to the New Writing Editor, Professor Graeme Harper, at graeme.harper@port.ac.uk, or via creative@port.ac.uk, including with this a (max.) five line bio. note, and contact details.

Subscription details for New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing can be found at http://www.newwriting.up.to

Send Book Reviewer details by 1 August 2005, if possible -- seeking reviewers for New Writing journal issues onwards from 2.2.
--
Professor Graeme Harper BA MLitt DCA PhD FRGS
Head, School of Creative Arts, Film and Media,
University of Portsmouth, UK
http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/scafm
graeme.harper@port.ac.uk Ph: 00 44 23 92846132
Join the Top Ten - See our School website for Details.
Visit: http://www.brookebiaz.co.uk -- director@newwriting.org

Resources for ALA Program: Why Can't Johnnie and Jane Get Published: Part 2, Research Methodologies

Resources for ALA Program: Why Can't Johnnie and Jane Get Published: Part 2, Research Methodologies

Description: Johnnie and Jane (librarians) gained a better understanding of research basics from the ALCTS program, “Why Can’t Johnnie and Jane Get Published, Research Basics,” held in Toronto in June 2003 and are ready to conduct their first research project. Led by a panel of experts, Trisha Davis, Claudia Gollop, Peggy Johnson, and Barbara Moran, this program will provide an overview of format of a research paper, in-depth presentations and discussions on selecting appropriate research methodologies to carry out the project, data collection procedures, presentation of analysis, and get the research findings published in a referred journal. This is an interactive program. The audience will have opportunities to interact with the panel and with other participants through group discussions and Q&A sessions.

Speakers
Trisha Davis, Head, Serials & Electronic Res, Ohio State University Libraries
Claudia J. Gollop, Assoc. Prof. & Assoc. Dean, SLIS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peggy Johnson, Association University Librarian, University of Minnesota
Barbara B. Moran, Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sponsored by ALCTS Acquisitions Section (AS)

Cosponsored by ALCTS Serials Section's (SS) Research and Publications Committee, ALCTS Cataloging and Classification Section's (CCS) Research and Publications Committee, and ACRL Research Committee.

Planning Chair Sha Li Zhang, slzhang@uncg.edu

URLS:

Program Page:
http://www.ala.org/ala/alcts/alctsconted/alctsceevents/alctsannual/johnjane2prog.htm

Handouts:
http://www.ala.org/ala/alcts/alctsconted/alctsceevents/alctsannual/Johnnie_Prog_Handouts.pdf

Call for Submissions: Post-Tracks

Call for Submissions: Post-Tracks

Submission Deadline: July 22, 2005

Post-Tracks, an online peer-reviewed student publication hosted by http://Webjunction.org, is seeking articles for inclusion in its second issue scheduled for August 2005. This quarterly publication gives LIS students the opportunity to publish their work.

http://Webjunction.org is an online community where library staff meet to share ideas, solve problems, take online courses - and have fun. Post-Tracks is the latest development of the Faculty & Student Lounge, an open discussion forum focused on connecting persons taking or teaching a course in library and information science.

Please submit original manuscripts of 1,500-3,000 words. Current topics of particular interest include information literacy, services to special populations, and virtual reference. All articles will be considered for publication. Every paper submitted will be subject to blind review by LIS student reviewers.

Submissions should be sent as an email attachment in plain text format to the editor at junction@ischool.utexas.edu, and must be received prior to the July 22, 2005 deadline. Late submissions will be considered, but may not be reviewed in time for inclusion in this issue. The cover page of the manuscript should include the title, the author's name, the institution with which the author is affiliated, and the author's contact information. The author's name should not appear anywhere else in the document. References should follow APA Style (5th edition). Please include a brief abstract of 150 words or less with the manuscript.

http://Webjunction.org uses the Creative Commons system of rights management for contributed content. For more information, please visit www.creativecommons.org.

If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact the Post-Tracks editor.

Angela Kille
Post-Tracks Editor for Webjunction.org
School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station, D7000, Austin, TX 78712
junction@ischool.utexas.edu

CFP: Technology and the Home

CFP: Technology and the Home

One could reasonably argue that without technology in its simplest form, homes would not exist. Technology has also made homes more comfortable, attractive, safer, and sturdier. In the pre-industrial past, the home’s relationship to technology was fairly straightforward: homes either
benefitted from changes in technology or they did not. Today, the relationships between the home and technology are complex and, at times, contradictory. For example, owners of a historic house will often research and revive outdated technologies in order to "correctly" restore a house to its former glory. Yet, they may incorporate modern decorative materials, lighting, heating, and appliances. On the other hand, the owner of a more recent home has an unprecedented range of environmentally friendly and fireproof materials, energy efficient appliances, and innovative furniture and furnishings from which to chose. In addition, some contemporary technologies that may seem benign, such as computers, RFID tags, smart
technology and the latest appliances, may have detrimental effects. Technology and the Home welcomes papers examining the home's positive and negative relationships to technology in any and all past, present, and future applications. There is no limit on the time frame nor upon the
methodology. Proposals from undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals welcome.

The 2005 conference is from November 4-6 in New Brunswick, NJ. Registration
fees apply. For more information, please go to
http://www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette/

Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2005

Send 1-page proposal, CV & AV needs via snail mail to:
Loretta Lorance
P.O. Box 461
Inwood Station
New York, NY 10034-0461

Call for Posters -- Michigan Library Association

Call for Posters -- Michigan Library Association

Reminder that the deadline for submitting a poster session for the MLA conference is June 30.

Check here: https://orders.mlc.lib.mi.us/mla/arldposter.htm for the submission page.

Check here: http://myhomepage.ferris.edu/~scottd/MLA%20call%20for%20posters.pdf
for a flyer on the sessions Questions, let me know!

Thanks!! --David A. Scott
Reference/Inter Library Loan Librarian
Ferris Library for Information Technology & Education
Office: FLITE 140-D1010 Campus Drive, Big Rapids, MI 49307-2279
ph: (231) 591-3540 fax: (231) 591-2662 scottd@ferris.edu

Call for Reviewers for ALA Conference 2005 -- Library Hi Tech News

Call for Reviewers for ALA Conference 2005 -- Library Hi Tech News

Library Hi Tech News are is conference reviewers to write in-depth conference reports for the upcoming American Library Association meeting in Chicago. The notes for contributors are located at:
http://caliban.emeraldinsight.com/vl=1368075/cl=15/nw=1/rpsv/journals/lhtn/notes.htm

The following is a list of programs that would be of interest to our readers. There probably are other programs, which could be included too. Please send an email to jgelfand@lib.uci.edu if you are interested in
writing a conference report - we would like multiple opinions of a session, as that is valuable to readers as well.

Thank you for your consideration,
Julia Gelfand
co-editor, Library Hi Tech News
University of California, Irvine Libraries

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LITA

* Developing a Culture of Assessment in Library Information Technology Services
* Implementing and Integrating Shibboleth
* Introduction to Web Services
* Analog and Digital Preservation Policy: Managing Transition
* Access, Preservation, and Interchange: Digital Imaging with JPEG 2000
* Radio Frequency Identification Technology in Libraries: Meeting with the RFID Experts Searching Digital Resources: How do people search? How do we know what they want? How do we know when they
find what they need?
* Implementing a Federated Search Tool
* Project Shibboleth Issues and Answers
* To Save or Not to Save? Strategies for Protecting Patron Information Revisited
* Greenstone Digital Libraries: Installation to Production
* Top Technology Trends - An Ongoing Discussion with Library Technology Experts
* President's Program: Digital Searching to Digital Reading: Helping Users in an Online World
* Policies and Practices of Institutional Repositories
* Google's Library: What's in Store for Google Print and Google Scholar

RUSA

* Do You Trust Your IT Staff? Do They Trust You?
* Hot Topics DG - Metasearch and the cutting edge: what are libraries doing to extend basic metasearch services
* Sustaining Digital Programs in Cultural Heritage
* Digitizing Medieval Manuscripts: East & West

ACRL

* Pay to Play: Debating Models for Scholarly Publishing
* Bits and Bytes: Using Technology to Train Academic Librarians as Coaches

ALA -SRRT

* The Googlization of Everything: A Threat to the Information Commons?

ALA -IFC

* Tiny Trackers: Protecting Privacy in an RFID World
* Going Digital: Experiences from East Asia

CFP: Online Northwest (2006)

CFP: Online Northwest (2006)
Date: February 10, 2006 (this will be the 23rd annual conference)
Location: Corvallis, Oregon (Oregon State University)
Submission Deadline: Monday, October 10, 2005

WHAT IS ONLINE NORTHWEST?
A one-day conference focusing on the use of technology within libraries, attracting librarians from the Pacific Northwest and around the country. It is sponsored by the Oregon University System.

WHAT TOPICS ARE APPROPRIATE?
The coordinating committee seeks presentations that discuss how technology is being applied within library settings and how technology is affecting library patrons and services. We are especially interested in presentations that discuss innovative uses of technology. We strongly encourage academic, public, school, and special librarians to submit proposals. All topics relating to technology and libraries are welcome, including:

*Resource sharing applications (e.g. ILL, document delivery)
*Collection development and assessment applications
*Assessing the impact of technology on patrons or services
*User interface design and evaluation
*Current trends in information literacy and instruction
*Metadata design, application, or evaluation
*Approaches to managing electronic resources or digital repositories
*Computer programming and development of computer applications to support delivery of library services

HOW DO I SUBMIT A PROPOSAL?
Use the online submission form available at:
https://secure.oregonstate.edu/ocse/register.php?event=88

For examples of past presentations or more information, see:
http://www.ous.edu/onlinenw/

WHAT IS THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL?
Monday, October 10, 2005

WHERE IS THE CONFERENCE?
CH2M Hill Alumni Center, Corvallis, Oregon (on the Oregon State
University campus)

Call for Book Reviewers: New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing

Call for Book Reviewers: New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing

The journal New Writing seeks Book Reviewers for books about creative writing (practice, theory, pedagogy, history), by creative writers (all kinds of genre work), and in relation to "companion subjects" (eg. literature, media/film, theatre).

Our reviewer database currently includes Peer Reviewers in the field of Creative Writing, from around the world.

The journal, which is published in paper twice a year (with occasional, additional Special Issues), is entering an exciting new phase of its growth and development, and is seeking enthusiastic,
informed Book Reviewers to add to this growing range of Peer Reviewers worldwide.

Anyone interested in being included as a possible Book Reviewer is welcome to send an email to the New Writing Editor, Professor Graeme Harper, at graeme.harper@port.ac.uk, or via creative@port.ac.uk, including with this a (max.) five line bio. note, and contact details.

Subscription details for New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing can be found at http://www.newwriting.up.to

Send Book Reviewer details by 1 August 2005, if possible -- seeking reviewers for New Writing journal issues onwards from 2.2.
--
Professor Graeme Harper BA MLitt DCA PhD FRGS
Head, School of Creative Arts, Film and Media,
University of Portsmouth, UK
http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/scafm
graeme.harper@port.ac.uk Ph: 00 44 23 92846132
Join the Top Ten - See our School website for Details.
Visit: http://www.brookebiaz.co.uk -- director@newwriting.org

Rewiring "The Nation": The Place of Technology in American Studies

Rewiring "The Nation": The Place of Technology in American Studies

An American Quarterly Speical Issue

Edited by Carolyn de la Peña, University of california, Davis and Siva Vaidhyanathan, New York University

We invite submissions for a special issue of American Quarterly on "Technology and American Culture" to be published in September 2006. We challenge scholars working among an array of "technologies" and "Americas" to interrogate why we might study technology in a post-Eurocentric, post-national American studies. Join us in re-reading the narrative of U.S. technologies as we move beyond celebrations of exceptional tinkerers and a deterministic machine-driven sense of progress to a more complex understanding of the opportunities and responsibilities that befall a nation that interweaves its identities, labors, and creative cultures with its machines. We seek to put a variety of conversations in dialogue, including the present and historical, the national and international, the material and theoretical, and the critical and celebratory. We invite authors who employ a variety of methodologies to contribute their work. We are particularly interested in projects that explore the place of "American" technologies in an increasingly globalized, multi-polar, "high-technology" world and those that illuminate the relationship between technological positivism and dynamics of imperialism and war. Papers with hypertext elements and proposals for online components for papers are also encouraged

Essays should be no longer than 10,000 words, including notes. Please send essays to American Quarterly by September 1, 2005. Please send any questions about the call for papers to american.quarterly@usc.edu. Information about American Quarterly and submission guidelines can be found on our web site: www.americanquarterly.org.

For additional information on Call for Papers, please visit http://chnm.gmu.edu/asa/callforpapers.php?cf=2

CFP: Indiana Academic Library Association

CFP: Indiana Academic Library Association

The Program Committee of the Indiana Academic Library Association is accepting program proposals and ideas for programs for the 2006 Indiana Library Federation Annual Conference.

If you have a program you would like to present at the 2006 ILF conference, please e-mail a short abstract (50 to 150 words) of that program.

Additionally, if you have a suggestion for a program topic that you would like to see presented at ILF 2006, please e-mail a brief description.

The deadline for program proposals and program suggestions is 5 pm on Friday, July 1, 2005.

Steve Duecker skduecker@bsu.edu
Chair, IALA program committee
Information Services Librarian 765-285-3324 Office
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306

Publishing Opportunity: The Cultural History of Reading

Publishing Opportunity: The Cultural History of Reading

Project Overview
The Cultural History of Reading (forthcoming from Greenwood Press, 2007) examines written documents (books, pamphlets, treatises, plays, poems, essays etc.) that shaped, and were shaped by, crucial cultural events throughout the world and in the United States. Each volume explores the relationship between the historical moments that shaped a nation or region, and the texts that challenged, incited, enforced, or subverted those events. A list of recent references and other sources will also be included.

The Editor seeks contributors to write chapters in the following areas for the American Literature volume.

1. Pre-colonial (prior to 1700)
2. Settlement and Colonization (1700-1776)
3. Revolution and the New Republic (1776-1820)
4. The Civil War (1861-1865)
5. Growth of a Nation (1865-1913)
6. Rebellions and Countercultures (1960-1979)
7. (Sub)cultures of the late twentieth-century (1980-2000)
8. The 21st Century (2000-present)

Chapters will be approximately 50-60 pages and include: 1) an introduction to the region or time period; 2) a timeline of important cultural events; 3) information about the specific texts that stand in relation to the era, including author, date of first publication, overview of content; and 4) discussion of cultural significance.


Sara Quay
Endicott College
376 Hale Street
Beverly, MA 01915
squay@endicott.edu
Email: squay@endicott.edu

Call for Particiaption from D-Lib (May 2005)

Call for Particiaption from D-Lib (May 2005)

Calls for Participation (full section)

2005 International Symposium on Wikis, 17 - 18 October 2005, San Diego, California, USA. Call for demonstrations. The submission date is 1 July 2005.

HDL 2005: Healthcare Digital Libraries Workshop 2005, 22 September 2005 (in conjunction with the European Conference on Digital Libraries), Vienna, Austria. Call for papers. The submission date is 10 July 2005.

First on-Line conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'05), 21 - 30 November 2005. Call for papers. The submission date is 25 July 2005.

ICADL2005: The 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, 12 - 15 December 2005, Bangkok, Thailand. Call for panel/tutorial/workshop proposals. The submission date is 31 July 2005.

Journal of Education for Library and Information Science (JELIS). Call for papers. The submission date is open.

2nd Call for Papers: Best Practices in Electronic Reserves

The (peer reviewed) Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery, and E-reserves is seeking articles for a special issue on E-Reserves.

Submitted papers should focus on best practices in Electronic Reserves and may include the following topics:

- Issues and obstacles you face in marketing this service to faculty (especially if as a new service), and how you were able to overcome them to bring this service to your campus community.

- Integration of E-Reserves with Course Management Software; security/authentication and other issues involved.

- Best practices in E-reserves. Process description. Benefits (cost and others) of who retrieves material (faculty or library staff?) Who seeks and pays for copyright permission? (Please limit discussion on copyright
however).

- Other topics may be suggested.

Interested authors should submit a brief (1 - 2 paragraphs) description of their topic to me at tdawes@Princeton.edu by Friday, 27 May 2005 (deadline extended!) Full paper will be due shortly afterwards.

Final submissions need to be at least five pages in length but no more than fifty, double spaced. Papers are welcome. For more instructions please go to
http://www.lesmorris.com/JILIS%20Page.htm or
http://www.haworthpress.com/web/JILDD/, and review the instructions for authors.

Thank you,
Trevor

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Trevor A. Dawes
Circulation Services Director
Princeton University Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544
609.258.3231 - voice
609.258.0441 - fax
tdawes@Princeton.EDU

Call for Contributors: The Encyclopedia of Africa and the Americas (ABC-Clio)

Call for Contributors: The Encyclopedia of Africa and the Americas (ABC-Clio)

Deadline for receipt of all entries: July 1, 2005
Please request specific entries by May 30, 2005

ABC-Clio, Incorporated seeks contributors for its latest installment in a series of encyclopedias treating Africa and the African diaspora. ABC-Clio is a well-known and authoritative publisher of educational and reference products that focus on history and social studies resources for the student, teacher and librarian in universities and secondary schools.

Scope:
The Encyclopedia of Africa and the Americas will provide information concerning the important historical, political and cultural links between the African continent and North America, South America, and the Caribbean. The Encyclopedia will be an important resource tool primarily focusing on the needs of secondary school students. Consequently, contributors should be aware of their target audience and write their entries accordingly. Overall, we are requesting relatively short entries of 250-500 words; word count is included in parenthesis following the listed entry. Each contributor will receive full author credit. Graduate students are strongly encouraged to contribute.

Entries must include:
Documentation of cited works
List of recommended readings (brief)

Contact information:

Dr. Noelle Morrissette Searcy
noelle.searcy@oberlin.edu

For a full list of entries to be assigned, click here:

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=145927

Call for Research Articles for Journal Titled "Serials"

Call for Research Articles for Journal Titled "Serials"

The UK Serials Group Editorial Board has recently carried out a review of the content of its highly successful journal "Serials". It is now looking for more research-based articles covering, for example, e-journal acquisition and usage, print and electronic publishing, continuing resources, and e-content management systems. All articles will go through a rigorous peer review process.

To find out more about "Serials click on:

http://serials.uksg.org/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0953-0460

Potential authors are invited to submit their papers to the editors of the journal whose contact details are given below.

Dr Hazel Woodward

University Librarian & Director of Cranfield University Press
Kings Norton Library
Cranfield University
Tel: +44 (0) 1234 754446
Fax: +44 (0) 1234 752391

Email: h.woodward@cranfield.ac.uk

Helen Henderson
Information Power
32 Balliol Court
Rutherway
Oxford
OX2 6QZ
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 552261
Email: Helen@helenhenderson.com

ALA 2005: Speakers needed: ALCTS CCS Heads of Cataloging

ALA 2005: Speakers needed: ALCTS CCS Heads of Cataloging

We're looking for speakers at the Heads of Cataloging Discussion Group for Chicago. If you are interested, please let me know, or if you have discussion topics you're interested in, that too. Also, we are looking
for candidates for Vice-Chair/Chair Elect.

Heads of Cataloging Discussion Group
Monday, June 27 2005
9:30 am-11:00 am
Palmer House Hilton, Empire Room

tgatti@umich.edu
Timothy H. Gatti
Head of Technical Services
University of Michigan Law Library
S-110E Legal Research Building
801 Monroe St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1210
Phone 734-764-4200; Fax 734-615-0179

CFP: Eastern Great Lakes Innovative Users Group (Annual Meeting, September 2005)

CFP: Eastern Great Lakes Innovative Users Group (Annual Meeting, September 2005)

We would like to invite interested presenters to submit program proposals for the: Eastern Great Lakes Innovative Users Group
2005 Annual Conference
September 16, 2005
Wright State University
Dayton, Ohio

Did you just learn a new/better way to use the III system?
Is your library being creative in using III?
Would you like to help others learn basic or advanced functionality?

This is an excellent way to share your expertise with other libraries in the Great Lakes region!

If you are interested in presenting, please contact leigh.french@wright.edu with a brief description of your program.

Please visit the EGL-IUG website in the near future for more details about the conference! The URL is http://www.rodmanlibrary.com/iug/

Leigh French
Chair, EGL-IUG Program Planning Committee
Wright State University
Dayton, Ohio 45435
leigh.french@wright.edu

Call for Posters: Michigan Library Association Meeting (October 2005)

Call for Posters: Michigan Library Association Meeting (October 2005)
Conference Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Conference Date: October 25, 2005
Deadline: June 30, 2005

Once again, ARLD will be sponsoring poster sessions at the Annual Conference in Grand Rapids. This year, the sessions will be held in the exhibit hall during a no conflict time, so we expect a good amount of traffic for the sessions. Depending on the number of proposals accepted, we will have two sessions on Wednesday, Oct. 26 starting around noon. Please see the flyer for more information as well as the submission site which contains the guidelines. If you have questions, please let me know. Deadline for submission is June 30.

Submission link: https://orders.mlc.lib.mi.us/mla/arldposter.htm

Flyer Link: http://myhomepage.ferris.edu/~scottd/

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David A. Scott
Reference/Inter Library Loan Librarian
Ferris Library for Information Technology & Education
scottd@ferris.edu

CFP: Building a Case for the Teaching Library: Approaches to the Assessment of Information Literacy Instruction

CFP: Building a Case for the Teaching Library: Approaches to the Assessment of Information Literacy Instruction

20 years ago, Carla Stoffle, Alan Guskin, and Joseph Boisse opened a landmark collection of essays appearing in New Directions for Teaching and Learning (no. 18, 1984) by describing the services and programs that defined the "teaching library." Over the past two decades, academic librarians have embraced the instructional role at the heart of their service in a teaching library by articulating standards for student learning in the area of information literacy; identifying a research agenda focused on moving theory and practice of information literacy instruction forward; and developing active partnerships with a variety of instructional programs across the college campus.

Many of us are committed to our role as teachers and to the idea that the academic library is an active participant in the development and delivery of instructional programs on campus, but how do we tell the story of the teaching library to our colleagues on campus and to our colleagues within the library profession?

Assessment of instructional services and of library-based instruction programs is critical to telling the story of the teaching library. Whether we are looking at student learning, instructional effectiveness, program development, or contribution to broadly-defined campus programs (e.g., First-Year-Experience), we can build no case for the teaching library without evidence, and we can gather no evidence without a well-defined plan for assessment.

Building on a forthcoming issue focused on assessment of reference services, Public Services Quarterly invites proposals for a special issue focused on the assessment of information literacy instruction. Essays may address:
assessment of student learning;
assessment of instructional performance by librarians (or library staff);
assessment of instruction programs or program development; or
other issues related to the assessment of instructional services programs in libraries.
An excellent set of suggestions for possible research in this area can be found in Section IV (“Assessment”) of the Association of College & Research Libraries’ “Research Agenda for Library Instruction and Information Literacy,” available at http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrlbucket/is/iscommittees/webpages/research/researchagendalibrary.htm

While the editors expect the issue to center around information literacy instruction in academic libraries, essays are also welcomed on assessment of instruction in other venues (e.g., assessment of how instructional services provided in a special library helped to advance organizational goals). Any library may be a teaching library and we welcome a diverse collection of proposals.

This special issue of Public Services Quarterly will be edited by Scott Walter, Assistant Dean of Libraries for Information & Instructional Services at the University of Kansas. Proposals of no more than two (2) pages should be submitted to no later than September 1, 2005. First drafts of completed essays will be due no later than March 1, 2006. Final drafts (following peer review) will be due no later than July 15, 2006. This issue is scheduled for publication in Spring 2007 and will also be issued as a monograph by Haworth Press.

For more information on Public Services Quarterly, please visit: http://www.haworthpress.com/web/PSQ/

Please direct any questions regarding the special issue or about ideas for proposals to Scott Walter at slwalter@ku.edu.

Second Annual Best Practices in Higher Education Conference: Today's Legal Challenges in Academia

Second Annual Best Practices in Higher Education Conference: Today's Legal Challenges in Academia
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Call for Papers Deadline: 2005-05-31

Legal issues in hihger education arise with greater frequency than ever as regulation continues to evolve and issues of civil liberties emerge in educational contexts. This conference will provide attendees with both practical knowledge on essential issues of legal concern in the higher education environment and with an understanding of the current and future evolution of these ideas.
Topics include but are not limited to:
-Academic Freedom
-Academic Integrity
-Cheating and Plagiarism
-Cases studies on legal issues affecting the classroom
-The impact of privacy laws on higher education
-Legal requirements in the student appeals process
-Developments in anti-discrimination law in higher education
-Legal and ethical uses of email communication
-[MY SUGGESTION -- COPYRIGHT]

Kathy Smith
Chair, Dept. of Social Sciences and Director, Center for Law and Society
Community College of Philadelphia
1700 Spring Garden Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
215-751-8874

Email: ksmith@ccp.edu

Visit the website at http://www.ccp.edu

CFP: Re-Thinking Ephemera in the Classroom and Beyond

CFP: Re-Thinking Ephemera in the Classroom and Beyond

Seeking proposals for a volume of essays tentatively entitled Re-Thinking Ephemera in the Classroom and Beyond. The editors are looking for 5-6,000 word manuscripts to fill the roughly ten-essay volume. By presenting a wide range of definitions and theoretical perspectives as well as a variety of pedagogical strategies and approaches for teaching and exploring notions of early modern ephemera, contributors will seek to address the following kinds of questions.

· What do we mean by ephemera? (non-extant, performative/gestural/anecdotal, non-canonical, produced or circulated for singular or temporary use, other meanings)
· How can ephemeral matters/texts complicate discussions of plays/performance/cultural contexts?
· How can we problematize binaries between ephemera and canonical works?
· To what extent can ephemeral traces and remnants serve pedagogical ends? What kinds of justifications are there for incorporating ephemera in the classroom?
· What kinds of teaching strategies and lesson plans work and what kinds are less effective in the exploration of ephemeral matters?

The aim of Re-Thinking Ephemera is two-fold: (1) to work toward defining ephemera as a complex and multi-faceted critical category in terms of its literary, cultural, and historical significance and (2) to serve as a
handbook to provide pedagogical strategies and teaching tools for exploring ephemeral matters in the undergraduate and graduate level classroom.

Please submit proposals (preferably by email) of no more than 500 words by
June 30th, 2005 to:

Joshua B. Fisher
Campus Box 3052
Department of English
Wingate University
Wingate, NC 28174
jbfisher@wingate.edu

CFP: Popular Entertainment and American Theater prior to 1900

CFP: Popular Entertainment and American Theater prior to 1900
A Special Issue of Comparative Drama

Living as we do in an age dominated by such mechanically reproducible media as television, cinema, and photography, we are often hard-pressed to recall that for most Americans prior to 1900, the most widely available and accessible medium of visual entertainment was theater (and theater-like productions). From Royall Tyler to Augustin Daly, from Uncle Tom?s Cabin to P. T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill, the late 18th- and 19th- centuries offered a stunning array of staged performances that not only offered idle amusement
but also crafted and reflected the very frameworks within which knowledge of the world could be organized or produced.

This special issue of Comparative Drama seeks to illuminate and explore the wide range of theatrical productions in the United States before 1900. Topics may include (but need not be limited to): popular melodrama; minstrelsy; touring performers and performances; Wild West shows, historical reenactments, and Indian plays; museums and traveling circuses; the rise of the Broadway impresario; the development of stage realism; technological innovation and stagecraft; race and gender as factors in popularity and/or
appeals to specific audience(s); humbugs and hoaxes; regionalism and theater; the relationship of theater with other arts (i.e., the contributions and/or representations crafted by painters, photographers, and novelists); social and cultural performance beyond the formal stage. Send completed essays (25 pages max., double-spaced) to:

Nicolas S Witschi
Dept. of English
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5331.

Any queries may be directed to Nicolas Witschi at nicolas.witschi@wmich.edu

For manuscript preparation guidelines, please see:

http://www.wmich.edu/compdr/Pages/submissi.html

Deadline: July 31, 2005

CFP: DaVinci to Derrida: Breaking Codes Across Disciplines

CFP: DaVinci to Derrida: Breaking Codes Across Disciplines

***Open to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates***
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EGAD (English Graduates for Academic Development)
15th Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium
Texas A&M University-Commerce
October 14, 2005

Now accepting proposals for papers and panels dealing with contemporary issues in academia. We welcome submissions from all areas of academic discourse including, but not limited to: English, History, Journalism, Political Science, Education, Psychology, and Sociology. Suggestions of possible areas of interest:

--Critical Theory
--Academia/Professional Issues
--Pedagogy
--Graduate Student Issues
--Technology in the Classroom
--Foreign Language Studies
--Composition & Rhetoric
--Pop Culture
--Creative Writing
--Film Studies
--Science Fiction
--Linguistics/ESL
--Writing Center Theory & Practice
--Literary Studies

Deadline for Submission of 250-Word Abstract: August 1, 2005
Electronic Submissions Encouraged -- Panel proposals and Workshops Welcome Notification of acceptance and conference registration materials will be mailed electronically by August 15, 2005
Please send inquiries and abstracts to:

EGAD
c/o Stella Williams
Department of Literature and Languages
PO Box 3011
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, TX 75429-3011
stella@boisdarc.tamu-commerce.edu
(903)886-5260

Collaborations on Campus: Opportunities for New Partnerships

Collaborations on Campus: Opportunities for New Partnerships

WHEN: Friday, October 7, 2005 -- save the date!

The ninth annual October Conference for all New England academic librarians, sponsored by the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries.

FIRST CALL FOR PRESENTERS!

We are seeking presenters for the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries' ninth annual October Conference for New England Librarians! The topic this year is "Collaborations on Campus: Opportunities for New Partnerships." The Conference is scheduled for Friday, October 7, 2005. The day-long event will be held at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire (an easy two-hour drive from Boston, Springfield MA, and many other New England locations).

Working with others can bring fresh perspectives and new ideas--the whole really can be greater than the sum of its parts. Various units on our campuses also support faculty and students; when we share experience and insight, we are all enriched and enlivened.

We are seeking speakers to describe innovative collaborations they've developed with other campus entities. For example, have you and your IT department worked together to enhance your course management system? Do you plan your orientations with the first-year students office? Have you and a faculty member worked together to creatively incorporate library content into courses or the curriculum? Do you, with the international student office, provide special programs or training for international students? Do you work with your writing center to provide research training for the tutors?

Would you like to give an informal, brief presentation (30-45 minutes, including question/discussion time)? If so, please contact one of us (by telephone or email) by Friday, April 22. You don't have to have your presentation finished by then; you just need to be able to describe your presentation to us.

If you wouldn't give a presentation, yourself, but know of someone who might, we'd like to know that, too.

If you have any questions, please contact Pamela Bagley (Pamela.Bagley@dartmouth.edu, phone: 603-650-1894) or Karen Odato (Karen.Odato@dartmouth.edu, phone: 603-650-8562).

We have had between 70 and 120 participants at each of our eight previous October Conferences; we expect similar attendance this year.

Previous Presentations: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/services.htmld/october_conf.shtml