CALL FOR POSTERS: OLAC 2006 CONFERENCE
Deadline extended to July 31st ...
Arizona, October 26-29, 2006
Have you developed creative methods to deal with special format materials? Completed some research studies? Found an imaginative solution to a special format materials problem in your library? If so, why not consider sharing those ideas that worked! Think about doing a poster presentation at the OLAC conference to be held October 26-29, 2006 in Mesa, Arizona.
All applicants should complete the Poster Session Application form [contact eicenhow@mun.ca
for a copy], and submit the completed form via e-mail, fax or postal mail to the Poster Session Coordinator. Applications will be reviewed by committee. Ten will be selected. Applicants will be notified by August 15, 2006 whether or not their posters have been selected.
An addition to yesterday's message. Your poster application should includea title and a 150 word abstract. Given the July 31st deadline, it mightbe wise to use fax or email; regular mail can be slow. We're lookingforward to learning about your ideas and projects!The deadline for receipt of applications: July 31, 2006.
OLAC provides the easels and tables; you provide the posters, graphics and handouts for your presentation. Presenters should plan to bring at least 50 copies of their handouts. Please make sure your contact information is on the handout. No network applications will be available, however, you may bring a laptop computer for your presentation. Presenters should plan
to be present for the entire time period.
The deadline for receipt of applications: July 31, 2006.
Liz Icenhower
Memorial University of Newfoundland
QE II Library
St. John's, NL A1B 3Y1
Canada
Fax: (709) 737-2153
E-mail: eicenhow@mun.ca
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Call for Chapters - casebook on online information literacy programs
Call for Chapters - casebook on online information literacy programs
You are invited to submit proposals for chapters for a forthcoming casebook on online information literacy [IL] programs. The book, to be published by ACRL, will be edited by Michael F. Russo and Alice L. Daugherty, librarians who have taught information literacy online.
The goal of the book is to identify and present significant and innovative online instruction programs in a straightforward, narrative way, focusing on the development, implementation, and assessment of each institution’s online information literacy instruction effort. We are not looking for research papers. We are looking for your experience. By pooling the experiences of numerous institutions and programs, large and small, we hope to provide a bank of knowledge that would serve as a resource to other institutions currently teaching IL online, as well as to those contemplating it.
Prospective authors are invited to submit chapter proposals of 250-500 words, by e-mail (Word document or plain text), to Alice L. Daughertyon or before Sept. 30, 2006. In their proposal, prospective authors should conceive a chapter of approximately 15 pages that will touch on the following:
• Rationale: What prompted your institution to begin online IL instruction?
• Content: What did you want your students to learn and to what depth?
• Development: What problems did you encounter in creating the structure of your instruction program, and how did you solve them? What form did your program ultimately take?
• Instruction: What do you actually do in the virtual classroom? How do you communicate with students? How do you create a sense of community? How do you teach? How do you assess your students?
• Program Assessment: Is the program working? How do you know? Was online instruction more or less effective than classroom instruction in any way? How do you know whether the students are using the IL skills you’re teaching them?
• Lessons Learned: As you developed and implemented your program, what worked and what didn’t? What glitches did you encounter? How did you solve the problems that popped up? What changes in the program did you or would you make, based on what you’ve learned?
We would like to delve into the range of online IL instruction, from tutorials concerning specific aspects of IL to fully-developed credit courses.
Please include some information about yourself, including your experience developing or implementing IL instruction and information about your institution, such as its size and type or Carnegie classification as well as any other information you may think relevant.
Authors will be notified of the status of their proposals and sent chapter organization guidelines by October 31, 2006. Deadlines for accepted manuscripts will be February 28, 2007.
Please use “Casebook” in the subject line of all correspondence.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Michael F. Russo
mrusso1@lsu.edu
Alice L. Daugherty
adaugher@lsu.edu
You are invited to submit proposals for chapters for a forthcoming casebook on online information literacy [IL] programs. The book, to be published by ACRL, will be edited by Michael F. Russo and Alice L. Daugherty, librarians who have taught information literacy online.
The goal of the book is to identify and present significant and innovative online instruction programs in a straightforward, narrative way, focusing on the development, implementation, and assessment of each institution’s online information literacy instruction effort. We are not looking for research papers. We are looking for your experience. By pooling the experiences of numerous institutions and programs, large and small, we hope to provide a bank of knowledge that would serve as a resource to other institutions currently teaching IL online, as well as to those contemplating it.
Prospective authors are invited to submit chapter proposals of 250-500 words, by e-mail (Word document or plain text), to Alice L. Daugherty
• Rationale: What prompted your institution to begin online IL instruction?
• Content: What did you want your students to learn and to what depth?
• Development: What problems did you encounter in creating the structure of your instruction program, and how did you solve them? What form did your program ultimately take?
• Instruction: What do you actually do in the virtual classroom? How do you communicate with students? How do you create a sense of community? How do you teach? How do you assess your students?
• Program Assessment: Is the program working? How do you know? Was online instruction more or less effective than classroom instruction in any way? How do you know whether the students are using the IL skills you’re teaching them?
• Lessons Learned: As you developed and implemented your program, what worked and what didn’t? What glitches did you encounter? How did you solve the problems that popped up? What changes in the program did you or would you make, based on what you’ve learned?
We would like to delve into the range of online IL instruction, from tutorials concerning specific aspects of IL to fully-developed credit courses.
Please include some information about yourself, including your experience developing or implementing IL instruction and information about your institution, such as its size and type or Carnegie classification as well as any other information you may think relevant.
Authors will be notified of the status of their proposals and sent chapter organization guidelines by October 31, 2006. Deadlines for accepted manuscripts will be February 28, 2007.
Please use “Casebook” in the subject line of all correspondence.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Michael F. Russo
mrusso1@lsu.edu
Alice L. Daugherty
adaugher@lsu.edu
Call for Chapters for the Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication
Call for Chapters for the Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication
Editor: Sigrid Kelsey, MLIS
Louisiana State University
Introduction: Technology has changed communication drastically in recent years. Podcasts, Email, the World Wide Web, Blackberries, cell phones, text messaging, wireless connections, and other forms of computer mediated communication (CMC) have transformed communication in numerous ways, not only facilitating the speed and sometimes ease of communicating, but redefining and shaping today's communication norms. The Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication will provide comprehensive coverage of the most important current issues, trends, and technologies related to professional computer mediated communication.
Coverage: The Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication will feature chapters (5000-7000 words) of a scholarly nature, written by experts offering in-depth descriptions of concepts, issues, and trends in various areas of CMC. The purpose of this handbook is to provide academic articles written in a more non-academic style, in the sense that each article should focus on a specific topic -- rather than a general treatment of CMC -- keeping in mind a readership with a varied background. This will allow scholarly ideas to be accessible to a wide range of readers. This book will explore various forms of CMC chapter by chapter and discuss the broad implications that each medium is having on communication.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to:
- Email
- Web Sites, web pages
- Blackberries
- Podcasts, RSS
- Chatrooms
- Instant messaging
- Text messaging
- Cell phones
- Corporate blogging (may mention implications of personal blogging in the workplace)
- Digital divide
- File sharing, peer to peer networking
- Online forums
- Computer mediated collaboration
- Wikis
- Historical aspects of CMC
- Effects of CMC on research participation
- Web Design and visual CMC
Submission Procedure: Individuals interested in submitting chapters should submit a chapter proposal of one single-spaced page on or before September 30, 2006 to Sigrid Kelsey at sigridkelsey@gmail.com (Rich Text Format or Microsoft Word is acceptable). The proposal should include the purpose and content of the proposed chapter and how the proposed chapter relates to the overall objectives of the book. Upon acceptance of their proposals, authors will have until December 31, 2006, to prepare their chapters of 5000-7000 words. Guidelines for preparing chapters will be sent upon acceptance of proposals. This book is tentatively scheduled for publishing by Idea Group Reference (an imprint of Idea Group Inc.), www.idea-group-ref.com, in 2008.
Editor: Sigrid Kelsey, MLIS
Louisiana State University
Introduction: Technology has changed communication drastically in recent years. Podcasts, Email, the World Wide Web, Blackberries, cell phones, text messaging, wireless connections, and other forms of computer mediated communication (CMC) have transformed communication in numerous ways, not only facilitating the speed and sometimes ease of communicating, but redefining and shaping today's communication norms. The Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication will provide comprehensive coverage of the most important current issues, trends, and technologies related to professional computer mediated communication.
Coverage: The Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication will feature chapters (5000-7000 words) of a scholarly nature, written by experts offering in-depth descriptions of concepts, issues, and trends in various areas of CMC. The purpose of this handbook is to provide academic articles written in a more non-academic style, in the sense that each article should focus on a specific topic -- rather than a general treatment of CMC -- keeping in mind a readership with a varied background. This will allow scholarly ideas to be accessible to a wide range of readers. This book will explore various forms of CMC chapter by chapter and discuss the broad implications that each medium is having on communication.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to:
- Web Sites, web pages
- Blackberries
- Podcasts, RSS
- Chatrooms
- Instant messaging
- Text messaging
- Cell phones
- Corporate blogging (may mention implications of personal blogging in the workplace)
- Digital divide
- File sharing, peer to peer networking
- Online forums
- Computer mediated collaboration
- Wikis
- Historical aspects of CMC
- Effects of CMC on research participation
- Web Design and visual CMC
Submission Procedure: Individuals interested in submitting chapters should submit a chapter proposal of one single-spaced page on or before September 30, 2006 to Sigrid Kelsey at sigridkelsey@gmail.com (Rich Text Format or Microsoft Word is acceptable). The proposal should include the purpose and content of the proposed chapter and how the proposed chapter relates to the overall objectives of the book. Upon acceptance of their proposals, authors will have until December 31, 2006, to prepare their chapters of 5000-7000 words. Guidelines for preparing chapters will be sent upon acceptance of proposals. This book is tentatively scheduled for publishing by Idea Group Reference (an imprint of Idea Group Inc.), www.idea-group-ref.com, in 2008.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Applications/nominations invited for C&RL editor
Contact: Dawn Mueller
ACRL Production Editor
312-280-2516
For Immediate Release
July 10, 2006
Applications/nominations invited for C&RL editor
CHICAGO - Applications and nominations are invited for the position of editor of College & Research Libraries (C&RL), the bimonthly, scholarly research journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). The editor is appointed for a three-year term, which may be renewed for an additional three years. Applicants must be a member of the American Library Association (ALA) and ACRL.
Qualifications include professional experience in academic libraries, a record of scholarly publication, editing experience, an ability to meet publication deadlines, an understanding of the scholarly communication process and a broad knowledge of the issues confronting academic libraries.
Some funding for editorial assistance and travel to relevant conferences is available, and there is a small honorarium for the editor. The ACRL Board of Directors will make the appointment at the 2007 Annual Conference upon the recommendation of the search committee and of the ACRL Publications Coordinating Committee. The incoming editor will serve for at least one year as editor-designate, working with the current editor, before assuming full responsibility for C&RL in July 2008.
Nominations or resumes and letters of application, including the names of three references, should be sent to: C&RL Search Committee, c/o Dawn Mueller, ACRL, Production Editor, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611, e-mail: dmueller@ala.org. The deadline for receipt of applications is December 4, 2006. Finalists will be interviewed at the Midwinter Meeting in January 2007.
ACRL is a division of the American Library Association (ALA), representing more than 13,000 academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the only individual membership organization in North America that develops programs, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research environments.
ACRL Production Editor
312-280-2516
For Immediate Release
July 10, 2006
Applications/nominations invited for C&RL editor
CHICAGO - Applications and nominations are invited for the position of editor of College & Research Libraries (C&RL), the bimonthly, scholarly research journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). The editor is appointed for a three-year term, which may be renewed for an additional three years. Applicants must be a member of the American Library Association (ALA) and ACRL.
Qualifications include professional experience in academic libraries, a record of scholarly publication, editing experience, an ability to meet publication deadlines, an understanding of the scholarly communication process and a broad knowledge of the issues confronting academic libraries.
Some funding for editorial assistance and travel to relevant conferences is available, and there is a small honorarium for the editor. The ACRL Board of Directors will make the appointment at the 2007 Annual Conference upon the recommendation of the search committee and of the ACRL Publications Coordinating Committee. The incoming editor will serve for at least one year as editor-designate, working with the current editor, before assuming full responsibility for C&RL in July 2008.
Nominations or resumes and letters of application, including the names of three references, should be sent to: C&RL Search Committee, c/o Dawn Mueller, ACRL, Production Editor, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611, e-mail: dmueller@ala.org. The deadline for receipt of applications is December 4, 2006. Finalists will be interviewed at the Midwinter Meeting in January 2007.
ACRL is a division of the American Library Association (ALA), representing more than 13,000 academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the only individual membership organization in North America that develops programs, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research environments.
Monday, July 10, 2006
CFP: Internet Reference Services Quarterly special issue on social software
CFP: Internet Reference Services Quarterly special issue on social software
Internet Reference Services Quarterly, a refereed journal published by The Haworth Press Inc., invites proposals for a special issue focusing on social software and libraries. The issue (12/3) will tentatively be published in Winter 2007, edited by Michael Stephens, Instructor, Dominican University and blogger at http://tametheweb.com.
We hope the issue will cover a wide range of topics pertaining to implementations and uses of various Web 2.0 tools in library settings of all types. For the purposes of this issue, social software or Web 2.0 will be defined as the next incarnation of the World Wide Web, where digital tools allow users to create, change, and publish dynamic content of all kinds. Other Web 2.0 tools syndicate and aggregate this content. Some of these Web applications include RSS, Weblogs, wikis, tagging, bookmarking, IM, social networking sites, etc.
-Implementations of the various tools in libraries
-Issues related to implementation or use of the tools
-Information literacy issues related to Web 2.0
-Instruction of these tools to various groups
-Utilization of Web 2.0 at the Reference Desk
-Usability studies
-Assessment of the technologies
-Studies of how widespread the phenomenon is, etc.
Theory-based manuscripts and case studies are acceptable. While the editors expect the issue to center around social software in academic libraries, manuscripts are also welcomed from other libraries (public, state, special) or consortia which have implemented such technologies. Additional manuscripts may be independently solicited.
Proposals of no more than two (2) pages should be submitted to Michael Stephens at mstephens7@mac.com no later than August 1, 2006. Other dates:
First drafts by November 1, 2006
Final drafts by Feb 1, 2007
For more information about Internet Reference Services Quarterly, please visit http://www.haworthpress.com/web/IRSQ/ . For any questions related to this announcement please contact the editor of this issue, Michael Stephens, via e-mail or at:
Michael Stephens
Instructor
Dominican University GSLIS
7900 W. Division Street
River Forest, IL 60305
Internet Reference Services Quarterly, a refereed journal published by The Haworth Press Inc., invites proposals for a special issue focusing on social software and libraries. The issue (12/3) will tentatively be published in Winter 2007, edited by Michael Stephens, Instructor, Dominican University and blogger at http://tametheweb.com.
We hope the issue will cover a wide range of topics pertaining to implementations and uses of various Web 2.0 tools in library settings of all types. For the purposes of this issue, social software or Web 2.0 will be defined as the next incarnation of the World Wide Web, where digital tools allow users to create, change, and publish dynamic content of all kinds. Other Web 2.0 tools syndicate and aggregate this content. Some of these Web applications include RSS, Weblogs, wikis, tagging, bookmarking, IM, social networking sites, etc.
-Implementations of the various tools in libraries
-Issues related to implementation or use of the tools
-Information literacy issues related to Web 2.0
-Instruction of these tools to various groups
-Utilization of Web 2.0 at the Reference Desk
-Usability studies
-Assessment of the technologies
-Studies of how widespread the phenomenon is, etc.
Theory-based manuscripts and case studies are acceptable. While the editors expect the issue to center around social software in academic libraries, manuscripts are also welcomed from other libraries (public, state, special) or consortia which have implemented such technologies. Additional manuscripts may be independently solicited.
Proposals of no more than two (2) pages should be submitted to Michael Stephens at mstephens7@mac.com no later than August 1, 2006. Other dates:
First drafts by November 1, 2006
Final drafts by Feb 1, 2007
For more information about Internet Reference Services Quarterly, please visit http://www.haworthpress.com/web/IRSQ/ . For any questions related to this announcement please contact the editor of this issue, Michael Stephens, via e-mail or at:
Michael Stephens
Instructor
Dominican University GSLIS
7900 W. Division Street
River Forest, IL 60305
CFP: Librarians Publishing for Professional and Personal Development (Essays for Monograph)
CFP: Librarians Publishing for Professional and Personal Development (Essays for Monograph)
As a successfully published librarian, please consider contributing to Librarians Publishing for Professional and Personal Development aimed at helping U.S. librarians become published.
Since publishers only give contracts/royalties to authors or co-authors, I will do the sending of royalty checks myself based on paperwork I receive. Only the first year's royalties will be divided among the 18 contributors; subsequent royalties remaining with me as editor. Contributors receive a complimentary book.
Word total for 3 articles based on the writer's experience is 4,000: one article may be 1500 words, another 1500 words, the last 1,000 to total 4,000. Deadline for e-mailing articles is September 1, 2006.
Please e-mail a 50-55 word bio with your present position, relevant publications, awards, and highlights as a librarian for the contributor page.
One of the books I co-authored is http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-2108-8. The most recent one for Peter Lang Publishing is forthcoming.
To check my background, enter Smallwood
http://authors.libraryofmichigan.org/publicsearch.asp
Librarians as poets, YA authors, book reviewers, columnists, essayists, magazine contributors, textbook writers, children's books, are just a few ways librarians are interested in knowing how to get published.
Thank you for your consideration and do ask questions!
Carol Smallwood
smallwood@tm.net
As a successfully published librarian, please consider contributing to Librarians Publishing for Professional and Personal Development aimed at helping U.S. librarians become published.
Since publishers only give contracts/royalties to authors or co-authors, I will do the sending of royalty checks myself based on paperwork I receive. Only the first year's royalties will be divided among the 18 contributors; subsequent royalties remaining with me as editor. Contributors receive a complimentary book.
Word total for 3 articles based on the writer's experience is 4,000: one article may be 1500 words, another 1500 words, the last 1,000 to total 4,000. Deadline for e-mailing articles is September 1, 2006.
Please e-mail a 50-55 word bio with your present position, relevant publications, awards, and highlights as a librarian for the contributor page.
One of the books I co-authored is http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-2108-8. The most recent one for Peter Lang Publishing is forthcoming.
To check my background, enter Smallwood
http://authors.libraryofmichigan.org/publicsearch.asp
Librarians as poets, YA authors, book reviewers, columnists, essayists, magazine contributors, textbook writers, children's books, are just a few ways librarians are interested in knowing how to get published.
Thank you for your consideration and do ask questions!
Carol Smallwood
smallwood@tm.net
Sunday, July 09, 2006
CFP: CULTURES OF NOISE: Communicating Error in an Information Age (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference)
CFP: CULTURES OF NOISE: Communicating Error in an Information Age (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference)
Boston, MA
April 4-7, 2007
Deadline for Submissions: November 1, 2006
The Electronic Communication and Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association is soliciting proposals for panels and individual papers on the theme of error/noise in a cybernetic society.
In a culture of information, “noise” marks a rupture of signification that lays bare the dispersive and dissipative features of digital networks. In what ways are “error” and “noise” structured in popular culture as a threat to social and cultural forms? How might “aberrant” communicative
practices suggest a poetics of noise?
Possible topics include:
--“Web Junk” & “Viral Videos”
--Spam
--Phishing
--Denial of Service Attacks
--Online Jihadists
--YTMND & Other Web Fads
--The PATRIOT Act
--Flash Mobbing
--Blog Hoaxes
--“Something Awful”
Submit a 250 word maximum proposal to:
Mark Nunes, Chair
Department of English, Technical Communication, and Media Arts
Southern Polytechnic State University
1100 South Marietta Parkway
Marietta, GA 30060-2896
mnunes@spsu.edu
Boston, MA
April 4-7, 2007
Deadline for Submissions: November 1, 2006
The Electronic Communication and Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association is soliciting proposals for panels and individual papers on the theme of error/noise in a cybernetic society.
In a culture of information, “noise” marks a rupture of signification that lays bare the dispersive and dissipative features of digital networks. In what ways are “error” and “noise” structured in popular culture as a threat to social and cultural forms? How might “aberrant” communicative
practices suggest a poetics of noise?
Possible topics include:
--“Web Junk” & “Viral Videos”
--Spam
--Phishing
--Denial of Service Attacks
--Online Jihadists
--YTMND & Other Web Fads
--The PATRIOT Act
--Flash Mobbing
--Blog Hoaxes
--“Something Awful”
Submit a 250 word maximum proposal to:
Mark Nunes, Chair
Department of English, Technical Communication, and Media Arts
Southern Polytechnic State University
1100 South Marietta Parkway
Marietta, GA 30060-2896
mnunes@spsu.edu
CFP: "Art in the Age of Technological Seduction"
CFP: "Art in the Age of Technological Seduction"
CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE JULY 30, 2006
"Art in the Age of Technological Seduction" Fall 2006 issue of NMC media-N: journal of the new media caucus Guest Editors: Legier Biederman and Joshua Callaghan
http://www.newmediacaucus.org/media-n/call.htm
The fall 2006 issue of Media-N, “Art in the Age of Technological Seduction,” is a collaborative platform, a diverse questioning, re-considering and re-imaging of what, when and how new media arts practice is viewed by artists, practitioners, theorists, critics and historians working in the field today. We seek a broad range of contributions discussing the scope, values, and definitions of diverse new media arts practices and hope that this issue of Media-N
will be a departure as much as much as an arrival. Four general questions have been posed by the members of the new media caucus as points of entry for an engaging, vibrant discussion.
The issue will be divided into two sections: The first section invites brief personal accounts and anecdotal responses addressing and/or expanding one of the four questions, and we encourage everyone to respond to this section, as we’d like to include as many responses as possible. The second section invites papers that address these questions in a more lengthy and detailed form.
Four Questions:
1. Defining and Re-imagining
What are new media arts? Is it necessary that we define new media arts? How do we begin to discuss or teach new media arts? What sets new media arts apart from other disciplines or practices, or what connects them? What's (still) new about new media or what was, if
anything ever was? What defines your work as new media art and why? How do you explain new media arts to your students and colleagues? What did or currently does attract you to new media arts practices?
2. Discourses on New Media Arts: What do the discourses do to the practice? How might one describe or define the discourse/s on new media arts? How does new media arts discourse relate to new media practices? In other words, what does the discourse/s do or attempt to do to new media arts? Are theory and practice being brought together in new media arts discourse, and if not, how might we begin to do so? What do you find interesting or problematic about new media arts discourses? Do you think there is a disjuncture between new media arts practice and the discourses on it? As a new media artist, do new media arts discourses affect your practice?
3. Authorship, Relationships & Relationality
Does your work maintain a traditional relationship between the artist/ author/producer and the spectator/viewer? If not, how does it transgress these boundaries? Do you feel it necessary to challenge these boundaries? Do you consider relationality, the non-hierarchical intertwining of data, artwork, artists, and viewers etc., an important aspect of your work? In what context/s is your work shown and how does effect it. How do recombinatory practices commonly
found in new media such as sampling, appropriation, and mash-ups, challenge traditional author/viewer conventions? While autonomy and relationality have long lineages in art history, how do they function within new media arts practices and discourses?
4. E-litism: Technospheres and the Everyday
How do notions of location, language, identity, and cultural understandings of communication inform or effect new media practices? Who is left out of, disproportionately under-represented, in the world of new media art practices? Is, as some have argued, the openness often associated with information technologies and new media practices, paradoxically, replacing the national politics of a past with the global connectivity of cosmopolitan tourism? How does your
particular specificity (sexual, gender, ethnic, racial, class) affect your practice, your work or its reception?
Event reviews:
The editorial board also invites proposals for reviews of exhibitions/ events/festivals/conferences, etc.
For more information: http://www.newmediacaucus.org/media-n/call.htm
[] Send manuscripts via email to: Legier Biederman
(lbiederm@ucla.edu) by July 30, 2006
[] Paper format and media format are in the 'Submission Guidelines' link
[] Media-N author's agreement is available from the 'Copyright
Statement' link
[] [] Questions: contact guest editors Legier Biederman
(lbiederm@ucla.edu) and Joshua Callaghan (joshua@joshuacallaghan.com)
THANK YOU!!
CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE JULY 30, 2006
"Art in the Age of Technological Seduction" Fall 2006 issue of NMC media-N: journal of the new media caucus Guest Editors: Legier Biederman and Joshua Callaghan
http://www.newmediacaucus.org/media-n/call.htm
The fall 2006 issue of Media-N, “Art in the Age of Technological Seduction,” is a collaborative platform, a diverse questioning, re-considering and re-imaging of what, when and how new media arts practice is viewed by artists, practitioners, theorists, critics and historians working in the field today. We seek a broad range of contributions discussing the scope, values, and definitions of diverse new media arts practices and hope that this issue of Media-N
will be a departure as much as much as an arrival. Four general questions have been posed by the members of the new media caucus as points of entry for an engaging, vibrant discussion.
The issue will be divided into two sections: The first section invites brief personal accounts and anecdotal responses addressing and/or expanding one of the four questions, and we encourage everyone to respond to this section, as we’d like to include as many responses as possible. The second section invites papers that address these questions in a more lengthy and detailed form.
Four Questions:
1. Defining and Re-imagining
What are new media arts? Is it necessary that we define new media arts? How do we begin to discuss or teach new media arts? What sets new media arts apart from other disciplines or practices, or what connects them? What's (still) new about new media or what was, if
anything ever was? What defines your work as new media art and why? How do you explain new media arts to your students and colleagues? What did or currently does attract you to new media arts practices?
2. Discourses on New Media Arts: What do the discourses do to the practice? How might one describe or define the discourse/s on new media arts? How does new media arts discourse relate to new media practices? In other words, what does the discourse/s do or attempt to do to new media arts? Are theory and practice being brought together in new media arts discourse, and if not, how might we begin to do so? What do you find interesting or problematic about new media arts discourses? Do you think there is a disjuncture between new media arts practice and the discourses on it? As a new media artist, do new media arts discourses affect your practice?
3. Authorship, Relationships & Relationality
Does your work maintain a traditional relationship between the artist/ author/producer and the spectator/viewer? If not, how does it transgress these boundaries? Do you feel it necessary to challenge these boundaries? Do you consider relationality, the non-hierarchical intertwining of data, artwork, artists, and viewers etc., an important aspect of your work? In what context/s is your work shown and how does effect it. How do recombinatory practices commonly
found in new media such as sampling, appropriation, and mash-ups, challenge traditional author/viewer conventions? While autonomy and relationality have long lineages in art history, how do they function within new media arts practices and discourses?
4. E-litism: Technospheres and the Everyday
How do notions of location, language, identity, and cultural understandings of communication inform or effect new media practices? Who is left out of, disproportionately under-represented, in the world of new media art practices? Is, as some have argued, the openness often associated with information technologies and new media practices, paradoxically, replacing the national politics of a past with the global connectivity of cosmopolitan tourism? How does your
particular specificity (sexual, gender, ethnic, racial, class) affect your practice, your work or its reception?
Event reviews:
The editorial board also invites proposals for reviews of exhibitions/ events/festivals/conferences, etc.
For more information: http://www.newmediacaucus.org/media-n/call.htm
[] Send manuscripts via email to: Legier Biederman
(lbiederm@ucla.edu) by July 30, 2006
[] Paper format and media format are in the 'Submission Guidelines' link
[] Media-N author's agreement is available from the 'Copyright
Statement' link
[] [] Questions: contact guest editors Legier Biederman
(lbiederm@ucla.edu) and Joshua Callaghan (joshua@joshuacallaghan.com)
THANK YOU!!
Friday, July 07, 2006
CFP: Beyond the Book: Contemporary Cultures of Reading
CFP: Beyond the Book: Contemporary Cultures of Reading
September 1-2, 2007
Location: United Kingdom
Deadline: January 15, 2007
First Call for Papers
Beyond the Book: Contemporary Cultures of Reading
A conference at the University of Birmingham, UK
1 & 2 September 2007
Keynote Speakers:
Janice Radway (Duke University) & Elizabeth Long (Rice University)
Book groups, Lit Blogs, on-line bookstores, book festivals, reader magazines, ‘One Book, One Community,’ Reader’s Guides, ‘Richard & Judy’s Book Club,’ Book TV, ‘Canada Reads,’ the ‘Nancy Pearl Action Figure,’ ‘Tuesday Night Book Club,’… reading is hot!
This conference will explore the diverse formations, mediations, practices and representations of reading and readers in the contemporary moment. Cultures of reading are dynamic and complex: they involve not only readers reading, but also multiple agencies including publishers, booksellers, broadcast networks, national, regional and municipal governments, and educational institutions. The aim of the conference is to interrogate the relations among these agents and their investment in the meanings of reading. The study of readers and reading encourages, maybe demands, multi- and interdisciplinary analysis. We therefore invite scholars from across the humanities and social sciences to consider the contemporary meanings and experiences of reading in any culture or location. Selected papers will be included in an edited collection on contemporary cultures of reading/book cultures.
Possible topics for consideration:
• Reading as a form of popular culture
• Books & reading as cultural events
• Investigating reading and reader response: methodological problems & strategies
• The production of readers and/or reading
• Books/Reading and/in/through the mass media
• Reading spaces
• Reading together: shared reading
• Reading as a medium of/for social change
• Reading practices
• Reading and the state
Please send proposals for 20-minute papers (abstracts of 200-300 words) or complete three-person panel sessions (including abstracts for each paper) by 15 January 2007 to: burrealz@adf.bham.ac.uk, using “BTB proposal” as the subject line in your email. Proposals may also be sent to:
Beyond the Book Conference
Department of American & Canadian Studies
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
Beyond the Book is a three-year collaborative interdisciplinary AHRC-funded research project investigating contemporary cultures of reading. The transatlantic BTB team are: DeNel Rehberg Sedo (Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada), Danielle Fuller, Anouk Lang & Anna Burrells (University of Birmingham, UK).
Find out more about our research at: www.beyondthebookproject.org
Beyond the Book Conference
Department of American & Canadian Studies
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham
B15 2TT, UK
Email: burrealz@adf.bham.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.beyondthebookproject.org
September 1-2, 2007
Location: United Kingdom
Deadline: January 15, 2007
First Call for Papers
Beyond the Book: Contemporary Cultures of Reading
A conference at the University of Birmingham, UK
1 & 2 September 2007
Keynote Speakers:
Janice Radway (Duke University) & Elizabeth Long (Rice University)
Book groups, Lit Blogs, on-line bookstores, book festivals, reader magazines, ‘One Book, One Community,’ Reader’s Guides, ‘Richard & Judy’s Book Club,’ Book TV, ‘Canada Reads,’ the ‘Nancy Pearl Action Figure,’ ‘Tuesday Night Book Club,’… reading is hot!
This conference will explore the diverse formations, mediations, practices and representations of reading and readers in the contemporary moment. Cultures of reading are dynamic and complex: they involve not only readers reading, but also multiple agencies including publishers, booksellers, broadcast networks, national, regional and municipal governments, and educational institutions. The aim of the conference is to interrogate the relations among these agents and their investment in the meanings of reading. The study of readers and reading encourages, maybe demands, multi- and interdisciplinary analysis. We therefore invite scholars from across the humanities and social sciences to consider the contemporary meanings and experiences of reading in any culture or location. Selected papers will be included in an edited collection on contemporary cultures of reading/book cultures.
Possible topics for consideration:
• Reading as a form of popular culture
• Books & reading as cultural events
• Investigating reading and reader response: methodological problems & strategies
• The production of readers and/or reading
• Books/Reading and/in/through the mass media
• Reading spaces
• Reading together: shared reading
• Reading as a medium of/for social change
• Reading practices
• Reading and the state
Please send proposals for 20-minute papers (abstracts of 200-300 words) or complete three-person panel sessions (including abstracts for each paper) by 15 January 2007 to: burrealz@adf.bham.ac.uk, using “BTB proposal” as the subject line in your email. Proposals may also be sent to:
Beyond the Book Conference
Department of American & Canadian Studies
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
Beyond the Book is a three-year collaborative interdisciplinary AHRC-funded research project investigating contemporary cultures of reading. The transatlantic BTB team are: DeNel Rehberg Sedo (Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada), Danielle Fuller, Anouk Lang & Anna Burrells (University of Birmingham, UK).
Find out more about our research at: www.beyondthebookproject.org
Beyond the Book Conference
Department of American & Canadian Studies
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham
B15 2TT, UK
Email: burrealz@adf.bham.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.beyondthebookproject.org
Thursday, July 06, 2006
CFP: Imagining Transatlantic Slavery And Abolition (Chawton House Library in Hampshire, England)
CFP: Imagining Transatlantic Slavery And Abolition (Chawton House Library in Hampshire, England)
16-17 MARCH 2007
Chawton House Library in Hampshire, England
Deadline: Spetember 15, 2006
2007 will be the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British transatlantic slave trade. To mark this event, Dr John Oldfield (University of Southampton) and Professor Cora Kaplan (Southampton and Queen Mary, University of London) are organizing a 2 day international conference on 16 and 17 March, 2007 that will explore cultural and historical representations of slavery and abolition from the eighteenth century through the present. The conference will focus on the relationship between history, cultural memory and transatlantic slavery. It will highlight both historical and contemporary examples, and welcomes papers on all those geographical areas involved in transatlantic slavery, including Africa and the United States, which in 2008 will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the American transatlantic slave trade.
Plenary speakers/panels include: Professor Beth Kowaleski-Wallace, Professor Moira Ferguson, and Professor Catherine Hall.
The conference, co-sponsored by Chawton House Library and the University of Southampton, will be held at Chawton House Library in Hampshire, an Elizabethan manor house that once belonged to Jane Austen’s brother. An independent research library and study centre, it focuses on women’s writing in English from 1600 to 1830 and houses a magnificent collection of early editions.
We are particularly interested in contributions on the following topics:
• Cultural representations of slavery and anti-slavery-- literature, visual art, theatre, performance, film.
• Women’s writing on anti-slavery—18th/19th century and its 20th and 21st century legacies.
• Women’s participation in anti-slavery campaigns.
• Slave narrative.
• Teaching the history and representation of slavery and abolition.
• Critical and historiographical debates on slavery and abolition.
• Contemporary debates over reparations and/or apologies for transatlantic slavery.
• Contemporary debates over the representation of slavery in museums and other public spaces, particularly with 2007 in mind.
• The treatment and interpretation of historical sites associated with slavery in Africa, the Caribbean and the United States.
• Historical examples of how transatlantic slavery has been commemorated in the past; and contemporary debates surrounding how it might be commemorated in the present and the future.
Abstracts should be no more than one page. Papers should be no more than 15-20 minutes long. Please send abstracts to Ms. Sandy White, e-mail: sw17@soton.ac.uk by 15 September 2006.
16-17 MARCH 2007
Chawton House Library in Hampshire, England
Deadline: Spetember 15, 2006
2007 will be the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British transatlantic slave trade. To mark this event, Dr John Oldfield (University of Southampton) and Professor Cora Kaplan (Southampton and Queen Mary, University of London) are organizing a 2 day international conference on 16 and 17 March, 2007 that will explore cultural and historical representations of slavery and abolition from the eighteenth century through the present. The conference will focus on the relationship between history, cultural memory and transatlantic slavery. It will highlight both historical and contemporary examples, and welcomes papers on all those geographical areas involved in transatlantic slavery, including Africa and the United States, which in 2008 will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the American transatlantic slave trade.
Plenary speakers/panels include: Professor Beth Kowaleski-Wallace, Professor Moira Ferguson, and Professor Catherine Hall.
The conference, co-sponsored by Chawton House Library and the University of Southampton, will be held at Chawton House Library in Hampshire, an Elizabethan manor house that once belonged to Jane Austen’s brother. An independent research library and study centre, it focuses on women’s writing in English from 1600 to 1830 and houses a magnificent collection of early editions.
We are particularly interested in contributions on the following topics:
• Cultural representations of slavery and anti-slavery-- literature, visual art, theatre, performance, film.
• Women’s writing on anti-slavery—18th/19th century and its 20th and 21st century legacies.
• Women’s participation in anti-slavery campaigns.
• Slave narrative.
• Teaching the history and representation of slavery and abolition.
• Critical and historiographical debates on slavery and abolition.
• Contemporary debates over reparations and/or apologies for transatlantic slavery.
• Contemporary debates over the representation of slavery in museums and other public spaces, particularly with 2007 in mind.
• The treatment and interpretation of historical sites associated with slavery in Africa, the Caribbean and the United States.
• Historical examples of how transatlantic slavery has been commemorated in the past; and contemporary debates surrounding how it might be commemorated in the present and the future.
Abstracts should be no more than one page. Papers should be no more than 15-20 minutes long. Please send abstracts to Ms. Sandy White, e-mail: sw17@soton.ac.uk by 15 September 2006.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
CFP: Canada and the League of Hockey Nations: Critical Perspectives on Hockey in Canada and Beyond
CFP: Canada and the League of Hockey Nations: Critical Perspectives on Hockey in Canada and Beyond
(NOTE: OK, this has really little to do with libraries, but it would be interesting to address the issue of the literature of hockey. For example, what kind of collection does a Southern city need for hockey in the public library when they get a franchise in the NHL or in the minor leagues)
An interdisciplinary conference will be held in Victoria, British Columbia, April 20-22, 2007 to explore significant aspects of hockey in Canada and elsewhere in the world. The conference will attempt to give some special attention to international issues in relation to hockey, but proposals are welcomed on all hockey-related topics. Some possible topics might include (but are not limited to):
hockey’s place on the world stage
the significance of the internationalization of hockey on Canadian hockey
hockey and national identities
hockey and gender
the hockey memoire
literary portrayals of hockey
spectacle and spectatorship
hockey and spirituality
the business of hockey
hockey and the possibilities and limits of sport in modern life
the significance of “other” hockeys: old timers’hockey, ball hockey, and so on
hockey in history
500 word proposals for papers 15-20 minutes long should be sent by email to Jamie Dopp, Department of English, University of Victoria, jdopp@uvic.ca. Proposals are due by December 15, 2006.
Jamie Dopp
Dept of English
University of Victoria
ph: 250) 721-7278
Email: jdopp@uvic.ca
(NOTE: OK, this has really little to do with libraries, but it would be interesting to address the issue of the literature of hockey. For example, what kind of collection does a Southern city need for hockey in the public library when they get a franchise in the NHL or in the minor leagues)
An interdisciplinary conference will be held in Victoria, British Columbia, April 20-22, 2007 to explore significant aspects of hockey in Canada and elsewhere in the world. The conference will attempt to give some special attention to international issues in relation to hockey, but proposals are welcomed on all hockey-related topics. Some possible topics might include (but are not limited to):
hockey’s place on the world stage
the significance of the internationalization of hockey on Canadian hockey
hockey and national identities
hockey and gender
the hockey memoire
literary portrayals of hockey
spectacle and spectatorship
hockey and spirituality
the business of hockey
hockey and the possibilities and limits of sport in modern life
the significance of “other” hockeys: old timers’hockey, ball hockey, and so on
hockey in history
500 word proposals for papers 15-20 minutes long should be sent by email to Jamie Dopp, Department of English, University of Victoria, jdopp@uvic.ca. Proposals are due by December 15, 2006.
Jamie Dopp
Dept of English
University of Victoria
ph: 250) 721-7278
Email: jdopp@uvic.ca
CFP: IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2006
CFP: IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2006
Murcia, Spain, 5 to 8 October 2006
Deadline for submissions (second call): 28 July 2006
(http://www.iadis.org/icwi2006)
CFP URL: http://www.iadis.org/icwi2006/cfp.asp
* co-organised by University of Murcia
* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Professor Katia Sycara, Director of the Intelligent Software Agents Lab, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Professor Fausto Giunchiglia, Head of the Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, Italy
* Conference background and goals
The IADIS WWW/Internet 2006 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just technical anymore but other aspects have aroused. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to these developments. Main tracks have been identified (see below). However innovative contributes that don’t fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference attendees.
* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl). The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and also in other selected Journals.
* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.
* Topics related to WWW/Internet are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas:
- Accessibility
- Adaptive Web Systems
- Collaboration
- Computer-Mediated Communication
- Data Mining
- Database Planning and Development
- Digital Economy
- Digital Libraries and E-Publishing
- Distributed and Parallel Applications
- E-Business and E-Commerce
- E-Government
- E-Learning
- Electronic Data Interchange
- Quality, Evaluation and Assessment
- Extensible Languages
- Global Tendencies in WWW/Internet
- Groupware
- Human Computer Interaction
- Hypermedia
- Information Architectures
- Information Visualization
- Intelligent Agents
- Interfaces
- Internet & Customer Relationship Management
- Internet Payment Systems
- Internet Services
- Languages
- Metadata
- Multimedia
- Performance Issues
- Personalized Web Sites and Services
- Portal strategies
- Protocols and Standards
- Searching and Browsing
- Security Issues
- Semantic Web
- Social & Legal Issues
- Storage Issues
- System Integration
- Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Technology Innovation and Competitiveness
- Technology Management
- Technology Strategies
- Tele-Work
- WWW/Internet Applications
- WWW/Internet Case studies
- WWW/Internet Impacts
- Web Engineering
- Web Personalization
- Web Software
- Wireless Applications
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Usability
- User Modelling
- Virtual Communities
- Virtual Reality
- XML
* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (second call) - 28 July 2006
- Notification to Authors (second call) - 4 September 2006
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (first call)
- Until 26 June 2006
- Late Registration (first call) - After 26 June 2006
- Conference: Murcia, Spain, 5 to 8 October 2006
* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Murcia, Spain.
* Program Committee
Conference Co-Chairs
Pedro Isaias, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal
Inmaculada J. MartÃnez, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Program Chair
Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to
http://www.iadis.org/icwi2006/committees.asp
* Conference Workshops
The conference will host several specialised workshops (information available at http://www.iadis.org/icwi2006/workshops.asp):
- W1 - IADIS International Workshop in Understanding Social Aspects of Internet Computing 2006 (USAIC 2006)
- W2 - IADIS International Workshop on Risk Management of Internet Computing 2006 (RMIC2006)
- W3 - IADIS International Workshop on Web Services and the Future of Internet Computing 2006 (WSFIC 2006)
- W4 - IADIS International Workshop on Educational Internet Computing 2006 (EIC 2006)
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2006
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
Email: icwi_sec@iadis.org
Visit the website at http://www.iadis.org/icwi2006
Murcia, Spain, 5 to 8 October 2006
Deadline for submissions (second call): 28 July 2006
(http://www.iadis.org/icwi2006)
CFP URL: http://www.iadis.org/icwi2006/cfp.asp
* co-organised by University of Murcia
* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Professor Katia Sycara, Director of the Intelligent Software Agents Lab, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Professor Fausto Giunchiglia, Head of the Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, Italy
* Conference background and goals
The IADIS WWW/Internet 2006 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just technical anymore but other aspects have aroused. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to these developments. Main tracks have been identified (see below). However innovative contributes that don’t fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference attendees.
* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl). The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and also in other selected Journals.
* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.
* Topics related to WWW/Internet are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas:
- Accessibility
- Adaptive Web Systems
- Collaboration
- Computer-Mediated Communication
- Data Mining
- Database Planning and Development
- Digital Economy
- Digital Libraries and E-Publishing
- Distributed and Parallel Applications
- E-Business and E-Commerce
- E-Government
- E-Learning
- Electronic Data Interchange
- Quality, Evaluation and Assessment
- Extensible Languages
- Global Tendencies in WWW/Internet
- Groupware
- Human Computer Interaction
- Hypermedia
- Information Architectures
- Information Visualization
- Intelligent Agents
- Interfaces
- Internet & Customer Relationship Management
- Internet Payment Systems
- Internet Services
- Languages
- Metadata
- Multimedia
- Performance Issues
- Personalized Web Sites and Services
- Portal strategies
- Protocols and Standards
- Searching and Browsing
- Security Issues
- Semantic Web
- Social & Legal Issues
- Storage Issues
- System Integration
- Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Technology Innovation and Competitiveness
- Technology Management
- Technology Strategies
- Tele-Work
- WWW/Internet Applications
- WWW/Internet Case studies
- WWW/Internet Impacts
- Web Engineering
- Web Personalization
- Web Software
- Wireless Applications
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Usability
- User Modelling
- Virtual Communities
- Virtual Reality
- XML
* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (second call) - 28 July 2006
- Notification to Authors (second call) - 4 September 2006
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (first call)
- Until 26 June 2006
- Late Registration (first call) - After 26 June 2006
- Conference: Murcia, Spain, 5 to 8 October 2006
* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Murcia, Spain.
* Program Committee
Conference Co-Chairs
Pedro Isaias, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal
Inmaculada J. MartÃnez, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Program Chair
Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to
http://www.iadis.org/icwi2006/committees.asp
* Conference Workshops
The conference will host several specialised workshops (information available at http://www.iadis.org/icwi2006/workshops.asp):
- W1 - IADIS International Workshop in Understanding Social Aspects of Internet Computing 2006 (USAIC 2006)
- W2 - IADIS International Workshop on Risk Management of Internet Computing 2006 (RMIC2006)
- W3 - IADIS International Workshop on Web Services and the Future of Internet Computing 2006 (WSFIC 2006)
- W4 - IADIS International Workshop on Educational Internet Computing 2006 (EIC 2006)
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2006
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
Email: icwi_sec@iadis.org
Visit the website at http://www.iadis.org/icwi2006
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Call for Chapters: Student Plagiarism in an Online World: Cases and Solutions
Call for Chapters: Student Plagiarism in an Online World: Cases and Solutions
Edited by Tim S Roberts, Faculty of Business and Informatics, Central Queensland University
Call for Chapters - deadline for submission of proposals: July 15, 2006
Overall objectives of the book
Twenty years ago, plagiarism was seen as an isolated misdemeanour, restricted to a small group of dishonest students. Today, it is widely recognised as a ubiquitous, systemic problem. Some 90% of students admit to cheating of some form during their academic careers. Some 70% admit to copying material directly from the Internet.
This is a major concern to educators in all fields and at all levels. How can students be assessed fairly, when the problem of plagiarism is so widespread? This book will address the issue of student plagiarism directly. What is the scale of the problem? Why should it be taken seriously? What tools and techniques can be used to combat the problem?
These questions will be answered using as exemplars cases and solutions from real-life situations.
Target audience
Professionals working in the area of online teaching and learning; researchers from a wide variety of backgrounds including educationalists, psychologists, sociologists, cognitive theorists, computer scientists, etc, teachers, particularly those in colleges and universities, instructional designers, web developers, and undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The editor
The editor has previously edited three books in related areas, Online Collaborative Learning: Theory and Practice (2003), Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning in Higher Education (2004), and Self, Peer, and Group Assessment in E-Learning (2006), all available through amazon.com, and maintains the Online Collaborative Learning website at http://clp.cqu.edu.au
, and the Assessment in Higher Education web site at http://ahe.cqu.edu.au
.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before July 15, 2006, a 2 to 5 page proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of their proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by August 8, 2006 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters will be expected to be submitted by October 15, 2006. All submitted chapters will be reviewed by at least three reviewers on a double- blind review basis. Authors of accepted chapters will then have a further opportunity to refine their work, based upon the comments of the reviewers and the editor. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group, Inc., www.idea-group.com, publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group Reference imprints, in 2007.
Inquiries and submissions should be forwarded electronically (Word document preferred) to:
Tim S Roberts
Faculty of Business and Informatics
Central Queensland University
Bundaberg Queensland 4670
Australia
phone +61 7 4150 7057 fax +61 7 4150 7090
email t.roberts@cqu.edu.au
Edited by Tim S Roberts, Faculty of Business and Informatics, Central Queensland University
Call for Chapters - deadline for submission of proposals: July 15, 2006
Overall objectives of the book
Twenty years ago, plagiarism was seen as an isolated misdemeanour, restricted to a small group of dishonest students. Today, it is widely recognised as a ubiquitous, systemic problem. Some 90% of students admit to cheating of some form during their academic careers. Some 70% admit to copying material directly from the Internet.
This is a major concern to educators in all fields and at all levels. How can students be assessed fairly, when the problem of plagiarism is so widespread? This book will address the issue of student plagiarism directly. What is the scale of the problem? Why should it be taken seriously? What tools and techniques can be used to combat the problem?
These questions will be answered using as exemplars cases and solutions from real-life situations.
Target audience
Professionals working in the area of online teaching and learning; researchers from a wide variety of backgrounds including educationalists, psychologists, sociologists, cognitive theorists, computer scientists, etc, teachers, particularly those in colleges and universities, instructional designers, web developers, and undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The editor
The editor has previously edited three books in related areas, Online Collaborative Learning: Theory and Practice (2003), Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning in Higher Education (2004), and Self, Peer, and Group Assessment in E-Learning (2006), all available through amazon.com, and maintains the Online Collaborative Learning website at http://clp.cqu.edu.au
, and the Assessment in Higher Education web site at http://ahe.cqu.edu.au
.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before July 15, 2006, a 2 to 5 page proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of their proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by August 8, 2006 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters will be expected to be submitted by October 15, 2006. All submitted chapters will be reviewed by at least three reviewers on a double- blind review basis. Authors of accepted chapters will then have a further opportunity to refine their work, based upon the comments of the reviewers and the editor. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group, Inc., www.idea-group.com, publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group Reference imprints, in 2007.
Inquiries and submissions should be forwarded electronically (Word document preferred) to:
Tim S Roberts
Faculty of Business and Informatics
Central Queensland University
Bundaberg Queensland 4670
Australia
phone +61 7 4150 7057 fax +61 7 4150 7090
email t.roberts@cqu.edu.au
CFP: Picture Books and Children's Comics: Semiotics of Text and Image
CFP: Picture Books and Children's Comics: Semiotics of Text and Image
38th Annual NeMLA Convention, 1-4 Mar. 2007, Baltimore, MD
Panel: Picture Books and Children's Comics: Semiotics of Text and Image
Chair: Vanessa Raney, Michigan State University
If we follow the argument that comics are for children, then what
distinguishes them from picture books? In the last decade, a newer focus on
the semiotics of picture books has begun to inform scholarship on comics.
Yet, for comics specifically written for children, do these reflect similar
patterns as found in picture books? If not, where do children's comics
diverge to be grouped along with comics intended for adults?
Regarding picture books, one of its distinguishing characteristics is voice.
Also, picture books depend primarily on illustrative art where comics employ
diverse arts, especially evident in works like Lynda Barry's
100 Demons!.
So, then, do children's picture books appear "childish" because of the
textures of artistic contribution against the oversized properties of text?
If so, do the bolder colors in children's comics, like Art Spiegelman's
Little Lit series, point to reflexes of adult imaginations possible in
children?
You are welcome to contribute other ideas you think are pertinent to this
discussion. The idea, though, is to connect, challenge and comment on
opposing mediums that nonetheless depend on image and text to tell the
stories children love.
Ideally, I would like to have two papers that focus on picture books, and
two papers on children's comics. I will accept abstracts through Sept. 15,
2006. Please include your name, affiliation, e-mail, complete mailing
address, telephone number, and any A/V needs. Thanks!
Vanessa Raney, Graduate Caucus Director
NeMLA
raneyvan@msu.edu
38th Annual NeMLA Convention, 1-4 Mar. 2007, Baltimore, MD
Panel: Picture Books and Children's Comics: Semiotics of Text and Image
Chair: Vanessa Raney, Michigan State University
If we follow the argument that comics are for children, then what
distinguishes them from picture books? In the last decade, a newer focus on
the semiotics of picture books has begun to inform scholarship on comics.
Yet, for comics specifically written for children, do these reflect similar
patterns as found in picture books? If not, where do children's comics
diverge to be grouped along with comics intended for adults?
Regarding picture books, one of its distinguishing characteristics is voice.
Also, picture books depend primarily on illustrative art where comics employ
diverse arts, especially evident in works like Lynda Barry's
100 Demons!.
So, then, do children's picture books appear "childish" because of the
textures of artistic contribution against the oversized properties of text?
If so, do the bolder colors in children's comics, like Art Spiegelman's
Little Lit series, point to reflexes of adult imaginations possible in
children?
You are welcome to contribute other ideas you think are pertinent to this
discussion. The idea, though, is to connect, challenge and comment on
opposing mediums that nonetheless depend on image and text to tell the
stories children love.
Ideally, I would like to have two papers that focus on picture books, and
two papers on children's comics. I will accept abstracts through Sept. 15,
2006. Please include your name, affiliation, e-mail, complete mailing
address, telephone number, and any A/V needs. Thanks!
Vanessa Raney, Graduate Caucus Director
NeMLA
raneyvan@msu.edu
CFP: for [working title] The Story of O: an edited volume on Oprah Winfrey
CFP: for [working title] The Story of O: an edited volume on Oprah Winfrey
by Kimberly Springer and Angela Cotten
Few public figures traverse the cultural, political, economic, and media boundaries with such savvy and success as Oprah Winfrey. Her story is one of rags-to-billion, and she has achieved international fame through her media productions, philanthropy, and global networking. There is probably no one in America who hasn't heard of Oprah, and her word carries more weight in most households than the President's (CNN's Anderson Cooper). Oprah's influence is felt
throughout the world and everyone has an opinion about her. But not everyone can articulate their passion for or reservations about her.
The Story of O initiates this long overdue conversation by assembling thoughtful critical and reflective papers that explore aspects of Oprah Winfrey life and work, and its impact on the world. Topics include but are not limited to the following:
--Oprah's widespread appeal, including her inter/national fame and influence;
--Philanthropy (perhaps a case can be made for radicalism in that her attention to social issues is sustained and active);
--Race/gender/class politics of audience relation and captivation;
--Her impact on the talk-show industry in the last 25 years;
--Oprah, money & politics; Tropes of the self-made billionaire;
--Oprah's role in increasing social awareness of child abuse;
--Oprah as self-help promoter: as svengali to self-help gurus who build their own empires based on affiliation with her (e.g. her personal trainer Bob Green, chefs Rosie Daley & Art Smith, bootcamp psychologist Dr. Phil, spiritualist Iyanla Vanzant);
--Oprah's "love/hate" relationship with African-Americans;
--Oprah and African-American men; Oprah and African-American women
--Oprah as a culture industry including: O (her magazine); Oxygen (television network); HARPO film productions; Make-A-Wish Foundation; Book Club; her restaurants
--Oprah as actress; Reading/positioning Oprah's body in the Hollywood typology of black female body
--Public obsession with Oprah's body;
--Oprah’s impact on increased reading, literacy and community;
--Oprah’s relationship to genre and form; --Oprah as status arbiter;
--Oprah’s relationship to international communities (e.g. South Africa)
One-page abstracts addressing any of these or other topics regarding Oprah Winfrey's life and work are due 30 September 2006. Completed papers will be due 15 February 2007.
Please send abstracts (one-side 8½? x 11?/A4) and a 300-word bio (via email or post) to:
In the US: Angela Cotten, Ethnic and Gender Studies Program, California
State University (Stanislaus), Turlock, CA 95382, acotten@csustan.edu,
or
Outside the U.S.: Kimberly Springer, American Studies Department,
King’s College London, Strand Campus, London WC2R 2LS,
kimberly.springer@kcl.ac.uk.
by Kimberly Springer and Angela Cotten
Few public figures traverse the cultural, political, economic, and media boundaries with such savvy and success as Oprah Winfrey. Her story is one of rags-to-billion, and she has achieved international fame through her media productions, philanthropy, and global networking. There is probably no one in America who hasn't heard of Oprah, and her word carries more weight in most households than the President's (CNN's Anderson Cooper). Oprah's influence is felt
throughout the world and everyone has an opinion about her. But not everyone can articulate their passion for or reservations about her.
The Story of O initiates this long overdue conversation by assembling thoughtful critical and reflective papers that explore aspects of Oprah Winfrey life and work, and its impact on the world. Topics include but are not limited to the following:
--Oprah's widespread appeal, including her inter/national fame and influence;
--Philanthropy (perhaps a case can be made for radicalism in that her attention to social issues is sustained and active);
--Race/gender/class politics of audience relation and captivation;
--Her impact on the talk-show industry in the last 25 years;
--Oprah, money & politics; Tropes of the self-made billionaire;
--Oprah's role in increasing social awareness of child abuse;
--Oprah as self-help promoter: as svengali to self-help gurus who build their own empires based on affiliation with her (e.g. her personal trainer Bob Green, chefs Rosie Daley & Art Smith, bootcamp psychologist Dr. Phil, spiritualist Iyanla Vanzant);
--Oprah's "love/hate" relationship with African-Americans;
--Oprah and African-American men; Oprah and African-American women
--Oprah as a culture industry including: O (her magazine); Oxygen (television network); HARPO film productions; Make-A-Wish Foundation; Book Club; her restaurants
--Oprah as actress; Reading/positioning Oprah's body in the Hollywood typology of black female body
--Public obsession with Oprah's body;
--Oprah’s impact on increased reading, literacy and community;
--Oprah’s relationship to genre and form; --Oprah as status arbiter;
--Oprah’s relationship to international communities (e.g. South Africa)
One-page abstracts addressing any of these or other topics regarding Oprah Winfrey's life and work are due 30 September 2006. Completed papers will be due 15 February 2007.
Please send abstracts (one-side 8½? x 11?/A4) and a 300-word bio (via email or post) to:
In the US: Angela Cotten, Ethnic and Gender Studies Program, California
State University (Stanislaus), Turlock, CA 95382, acotten@csustan.edu,
or
Outside the U.S.: Kimberly Springer, American Studies Department,
King’s College London, Strand Campus, London WC2R 2LS,
kimberly.springer@kcl.ac.uk.
Panel: Fan Cultures in the Palm of Your Hand: Cult TV in the Age of Podcasts
Panel: Fan Cultures in the Palm of Your Hand: Cult TV in the Age of Podcasts
Society for Cinema And Media Studies Conference (SCMS)
Chicago Hilton, Chicago, IL
March 8-11, 2007
Deadline: August 10, 2006
Proposals are being sought for a panel entitled "Fan Cultures in the Palm of Your Hand: Cult TV in the Age of Podcasts." Besides exploring the subject of cult television from a variety of thematic perspectives, this panel will examine the ways in which consumption patterns and fan cultures have changed over the past three years due to the increased viability of podcasts as both method and content of multimedia delivery. How have mobile viewing technologies (or vodcasts) transformed fans' relationships to televisual texts that can now be downloaded from the Internet onto personal video players and consumed in public spaces? What role has the Internet played in strengthening and diversifying "interpretative communities" made up of fans who communicate daily, share files, and actively contribute to the cultivation of particular television shows? How have producers of cult TV series such as DOCTOR WHO, LOST, and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA utilized the digital podcasting platform to expand the textual universe of their programs? And how might the audio commentaries being authored by participatory audience
members filter into and inform that universe in a meaningful, interactive way?
I welcome submissions that explore any of the above questions. Panelists might also consider any of the following topics:
** Particular cult programs that began online and have since gone on to
broadcast television (HAPPY TREE FRIENDS, QUEER DUCK, etc.)
** Adult Swim programing (ROBOT CHICKEN, SEALAB 2021, etc.)
** Podcasting and "textual poaching"
** Podcasting and "subcultural" sensibilities
** Podcast forms and aesthetics
** The cult of I-Pod
** Fan podcasts for particular TV series (including but not limited to):
***** GILMORE GIRLS (Stars Hollow)
***** ALIAS (Previously on Alias)
***** VERONICA MARS (V for Veronica Mars)
***** DOCTOR WHO (Podshock; The WhoCast)
***** LOST (The Lost Experience)
***** BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (Buffcast)
***** ANGEL (Angel Investigations)
***** FIREFLY (The Signal)
***** STAR TREK (Starship Exeter)
***** BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (Galactica Actual)
***** XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS (XenaCast)
***** BABYLON 5 (The Babylon Podcast)
***** FARSCAPE (The ScapeCast)
Information about the conference can be found at
http://www.cmstudies.org/
Send proposals of 250-350 words and a short bio via email to David Scott
Diffrient (sdiffrient@msn.com) by August 10, 2006 for consideration.
David Scott Diffrient
University of Washington in St. Louis
Mallinckrodt Center
Room 310
Campus Box 1174
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
Society for Cinema And Media Studies Conference (SCMS)
Chicago Hilton, Chicago, IL
March 8-11, 2007
Deadline: August 10, 2006
Proposals are being sought for a panel entitled "Fan Cultures in the Palm of Your Hand: Cult TV in the Age of Podcasts." Besides exploring the subject of cult television from a variety of thematic perspectives, this panel will examine the ways in which consumption patterns and fan cultures have changed over the past three years due to the increased viability of podcasts as both method and content of multimedia delivery. How have mobile viewing technologies (or vodcasts) transformed fans' relationships to televisual texts that can now be downloaded from the Internet onto personal video players and consumed in public spaces? What role has the Internet played in strengthening and diversifying "interpretative communities" made up of fans who communicate daily, share files, and actively contribute to the cultivation of particular television shows? How have producers of cult TV series such as DOCTOR WHO, LOST, and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA utilized the digital podcasting platform to expand the textual universe of their programs? And how might the audio commentaries being authored by participatory audience
members filter into and inform that universe in a meaningful, interactive way?
I welcome submissions that explore any of the above questions. Panelists might also consider any of the following topics:
** Particular cult programs that began online and have since gone on to
broadcast television (HAPPY TREE FRIENDS, QUEER DUCK, etc.)
** Adult Swim programing (ROBOT CHICKEN, SEALAB 2021, etc.)
** Podcasting and "textual poaching"
** Podcasting and "subcultural" sensibilities
** Podcast forms and aesthetics
** The cult of I-Pod
** Fan podcasts for particular TV series (including but not limited to):
***** GILMORE GIRLS (Stars Hollow)
***** ALIAS (Previously on Alias)
***** VERONICA MARS (V for Veronica Mars)
***** DOCTOR WHO (Podshock; The WhoCast)
***** LOST (The Lost Experience)
***** BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (Buffcast)
***** ANGEL (Angel Investigations)
***** FIREFLY (The Signal)
***** STAR TREK (Starship Exeter)
***** BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (Galactica Actual)
***** XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS (XenaCast)
***** BABYLON 5 (The Babylon Podcast)
***** FARSCAPE (The ScapeCast)
Information about the conference can be found at
http://www.cmstudies.org/
Send proposals of 250-350 words and a short bio via email to David Scott
Diffrient (sdiffrient@msn.com) by August 10, 2006 for consideration.
David Scott Diffrient
University of Washington in St. Louis
Mallinckrodt Center
Room 310
Campus Box 1174
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
CFP: Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars, Poets, Writers, and Filmmakers.
CFP: Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars, Poets, Writers, and Filmmakers.
The 37th Annual Symposium of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature will be held at Michigan State University May 10-12, 2007.
The submission deadline is December 1, 2006.
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature is devoted to the study and production of Midwestern literature in whatever directions the insight, imagination, and curiosity of its members may lead. Proposals of criticism, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, films on Midwestern literature for individual papers, panels, roundtables, and reading of creative work-and screening of films with Midwestern subject matter. Filmmakers are encouraged to propose the screening of films with Midwestern subject matter.
Please include the following information in the proposal: The title of the proposed paper or reading; your name; university or other affiliation; mailing address and e-mail address; audio-visual needs; and times during the conference that it would be impossible for you to present. If a student, please let us know if you would like to be considered for a scholarship. If you are a new
participant, please provide an abstract, or if you are proposing to read creative work, please submit a short sample of recent work.
All presenters must be members (or must become members) of the Society. The Society offers prizes of $250.00 for the best creative work and literary criticism read at the conference. Writing presented at the conference is eligible for inclusion in MidAmerica or Midwest
Misceollany. Scholarships to fund conference attendance are available to graduate and undergraduate students; there is a prize for student work.
Please submit proposals (and queries) to the program chair, Mary
Obuchowski at obuch1mc@cmich.edu, or to SSML Program Committee,
Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures, Michigan State
University, E. Lansing, MI 48824.
Further information about membership, conference registration, travel
and lodging are available at www.ssml.org.
The 37th Annual Symposium of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature will be held at Michigan State University May 10-12, 2007.
The submission deadline is December 1, 2006.
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature is devoted to the study and production of Midwestern literature in whatever directions the insight, imagination, and curiosity of its members may lead. Proposals of criticism, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, films on Midwestern literature for individual papers, panels, roundtables, and reading of creative work-and screening of films with Midwestern subject matter. Filmmakers are encouraged to propose the screening of films with Midwestern subject matter.
Please include the following information in the proposal: The title of the proposed paper or reading; your name; university or other affiliation; mailing address and e-mail address; audio-visual needs; and times during the conference that it would be impossible for you to present. If a student, please let us know if you would like to be considered for a scholarship. If you are a new
participant, please provide an abstract, or if you are proposing to read creative work, please submit a short sample of recent work.
All presenters must be members (or must become members) of the Society. The Society offers prizes of $250.00 for the best creative work and literary criticism read at the conference. Writing presented at the conference is eligible for inclusion in MidAmerica or Midwest
Misceollany. Scholarships to fund conference attendance are available to graduate and undergraduate students; there is a prize for student work.
Please submit proposals (and queries) to the program chair, Mary
Obuchowski at obuch1mc@cmich.edu, or to SSML Program Committee,
Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures, Michigan State
University, E. Lansing, MI 48824.
Further information about membership, conference registration, travel
and lodging are available at www.ssml.org.
CFP: Against the Grain Special Issues on “Collections Assessment in the Digital Age”
CFP: Against the Grain Special Issues on “Collections Assessment in the Digital Age”
Deadline July 7, 2006
Possible Article Topics Could Include:
-Development of new technologies/systems/tools for assessing electronic collections
-future of collections assessment
-impact of the internet as a tool for collection assessment
-Redesigning collection assessment procedures to reflect digital/electronic collections.
-Challenges unique to assessing electronic collections
- methods used for assessment of print materials vs. methods used to assess electronic collections
-collections assessment in digital/virtual libraries
-achieving effective assessment of electronic collections
-increased data available for use in collection assessment
Articles on other aspects of collections assessment are also welcome.
Against the Grain is a partially refereed publication, and articles are usually 2000 -- 2500 words in length. Article proposals and / or abstracts of articles should be submitted by Friday, July 7, 2006.
The deadline for submission of the articles themselves is Friday, August 25, 2006.
If you are interested in submitting an article, please let me know by return email. (devoek@cofc.edu)
If you need more information or have further questions, please do not hesitate to ask. My contact information is below.
Thanks so much for your time and attention.
Sincerely,
Kristen DeVoe
Guest Editor of the November 2006 Issue of Against the Grain.
Kristen E. DeVoe
Electronic Resources Librarian
Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library
College of Charleston
66 George Street
Charleston, South Carolina 29424
Phone: (843) 953-6671
Email: devoek@cofc.edu
Deadline July 7, 2006
Possible Article Topics Could Include:
-Development of new technologies/systems/tools for assessing electronic collections
-future of collections assessment
-impact of the internet as a tool for collection assessment
-Redesigning collection assessment procedures to reflect digital/electronic collections.
-Challenges unique to assessing electronic collections
- methods used for assessment of print materials vs. methods used to assess electronic collections
-collections assessment in digital/virtual libraries
-achieving effective assessment of electronic collections
-increased data available for use in collection assessment
Articles on other aspects of collections assessment are also welcome.
Against the Grain is a partially refereed publication, and articles are usually 2000 -- 2500 words in length. Article proposals and / or abstracts of articles should be submitted by Friday, July 7, 2006.
The deadline for submission of the articles themselves is Friday, August 25, 2006.
If you are interested in submitting an article, please let me know by return email. (devoek@cofc.edu)
If you need more information or have further questions, please do not hesitate to ask. My contact information is below.
Thanks so much for your time and attention.
Sincerely,
Kristen DeVoe
Guest Editor of the November 2006 Issue of Against the Grain.
Kristen E. DeVoe
Electronic Resources Librarian
Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library
College of Charleston
66 George Street
Charleston, South Carolina 29424
Phone: (843) 953-6671
Email: devoek@cofc.edu
CFP: Library Research Seminar IV (London, Ontario)
CFP: Library Research Seminar IV
London, Ontario
October 10-12, 2007
Theme: The Library in its Socio-Cultural Context: Issues for Research and Practice
Abstracts of 600-800 words, including references, are due by February 1, 2007 to the Conference Chair, Dr. Gloria Leckie (address noted below).
CFP Home: http://lrs4.fims.uwo.ca/cfp.htm
Conference Home: http://lrs4.fims.uwo.ca/main.htm
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It is a longstanding truism that for too long, too much library research has been focused inward, on practices, means, and ends articulated in our own logic and language. Research which accounts for the social and cultural contexts of libraries is much needed and will expand this horizon by more fully integrating the insights and methods of other fields to inform library practices and research, with a view to improving service to users. Libraries do not stand outside of their communities, schools, universities or organizations - and those institutional contexts are themselves powerfully affected by the social and cultural contexts of the societies they inhabit.
The goal of Library Research Seminar IV is to stimulate and share research on libraries and the people who might benefit from them, utilizing many disciplinary perspectives which allow for analysis and insights into libraries in their various contexts. For example, the context of school reform efforts like No Child Left Behind powerfully affects the direction, funding, relationship to curricula of school libraries, and library research should address the fiscal, ethical, or educational implications of this context.
We invite papers that critically explore:
-the intellectual contexts that inform library research and practice
-the local, community contexts that shape the development and implementation of library programs and services
-the policy issues and general social forces shaping libraries
-the broad cultural trends affecting libraries
-multi- or interdisciplinary perspectives on the everyday contexts of libraries affecting their collections, services, budgets, user groups, external relations etc.
Abstracts of 600-800 words, including references, are due by February 1, 2007 to the Conference Chair:
Dr. Gloria Leckie
Faculty of Information and Media Studies
The University of Western Ontario
North Campus Building, Room 240
London, ON N6A 5B7
Canada
E-Mail: leckie@uwo.ca
Fax: 519-661-3506
London, Ontario
October 10-12, 2007
Theme: The Library in its Socio-Cultural Context: Issues for Research and Practice
Abstracts of 600-800 words, including references, are due by February 1, 2007 to the Conference Chair, Dr. Gloria Leckie (address noted below).
CFP Home: http://lrs4.fims.uwo.ca/cfp.htm
Conference Home: http://lrs4.fims.uwo.ca/main.htm
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It is a longstanding truism that for too long, too much library research has been focused inward, on practices, means, and ends articulated in our own logic and language. Research which accounts for the social and cultural contexts of libraries is much needed and will expand this horizon by more fully integrating the insights and methods of other fields to inform library practices and research, with a view to improving service to users. Libraries do not stand outside of their communities, schools, universities or organizations - and those institutional contexts are themselves powerfully affected by the social and cultural contexts of the societies they inhabit.
The goal of Library Research Seminar IV is to stimulate and share research on libraries and the people who might benefit from them, utilizing many disciplinary perspectives which allow for analysis and insights into libraries in their various contexts. For example, the context of school reform efforts like No Child Left Behind powerfully affects the direction, funding, relationship to curricula of school libraries, and library research should address the fiscal, ethical, or educational implications of this context.
We invite papers that critically explore:
-the intellectual contexts that inform library research and practice
-the local, community contexts that shape the development and implementation of library programs and services
-the policy issues and general social forces shaping libraries
-the broad cultural trends affecting libraries
-multi- or interdisciplinary perspectives on the everyday contexts of libraries affecting their collections, services, budgets, user groups, external relations etc.
Abstracts of 600-800 words, including references, are due by February 1, 2007 to the Conference Chair:
Dr. Gloria Leckie
Faculty of Information and Media Studies
The University of Western Ontario
North Campus Building, Room 240
London, ON N6A 5B7
Canada
E-Mail: leckie@uwo.ca
Fax: 519-661-3506
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS for the Handbook of Research on Global Information Technology
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS for the Handbook of Research on Global Information Technology
Editor: Dr. Mahesh S. Raisinghani, Texas Woman's University, School of Management, USA
INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBJECT AREA
Global Information Technology Management encompasses multiple levels of analysis:
1. the nation(s), or international policy-making body.
2. the firm(s), the MultiNational Enterprise (MNE) or the IT vendors
3. the group(s) or team(s)
4. the individual
5. the technology overlay
Referent Disciplines: Clearly, these five levels of analysis look to numerous referent disciplines: Political Science, Economics, Law, Management, International Business, Human-computer interface, Cross-cultural studies, Sociology, Psychology, Telecommunications, Computer Science.
OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK
The Handbook of Research on Global Information Technology will provide comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends and technologies in the field of the emerging sub-discipline of Global Information Technology Management (also referred to within the Information Systems (IS) discipline as Global Information Technology Management, as International Information Systems, and as Global Management Information Systems). The volume will feature entries of between 8,500-12,000 words covering a wide range of topics related to the subject of Global Information Technology Management. Successful contributions will provide definitions, explanations, and applications of various pertinent topics and issues rather than in-depth discussions of narrow subjects. The publication will help in providing researchers, scholars, students and professionals access to the latest knowledge related to this field and solving related problems and challenges.
AUDIENCE FOR THE PROPOSED TEXT
* Global executives, managers, and other business decision makers who need to make informed choices about how their organizations can use global information technology/systems effectively
* Researchers (both academic and corporate) studying global information technology/systems and global information technology/systems business models for industry and/or academic purposes
* Educators and trainers who increasingly find themselves using/teaching global information technology/systems
* Administrators of global/international/multi-domestic/transnational organizations who wish to leverage global information technology/systems for competitive advantage
RECOMMENDED CONTENT AREAS
Prospective subject areas and specific topics for this publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Aligning global information systems (IS) strategy to global business strategy
* Issues involving the technical platform for global IS applications
* Issues involved in international sharing of data
* Issues of IS projects spanning cultures
* Key GIT issues such as: (1) managerial/strategic, (2) technological/application, (3) host country social/cultural, (4) host country economic, (5) host country technological, and (6) host country political/legal
* Issues and trends in global information technology education
* Managing information technology in multi-domestic/international/global/transnational corporations
* Global information technology/systems and socio-economic development in under-developed/ developing/developed countries
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Prospective authors are invited to submit chapter proposals of 200-500 words on or before July 31, 2006. In their proposal, prospective authors should clearly explain:
*The purpose and the contents of their proposed chapter
* How their proposed chapter relates to the overall objectives of the book
Authors will be notified of the status of their proposal and sent chapter organization guidelines by August 15, 2006. Drafts of chapters will be due by October 15, 2006.
Please send inquiries or submit material electronically (Microsoft Word, or Rich Text files) to
Dr. Mahesh S. Raisinghani at
mraisinghani@mail.twu.edu
The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group Inc., http://www.idea-group.com, publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing, and Idea Group Reference imprints, in the fall of 2007.
Editor: Dr. Mahesh S. Raisinghani, Texas Woman's University, School of Management, USA
INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBJECT AREA
Global Information Technology Management encompasses multiple levels of analysis:
1. the nation(s), or international policy-making body.
2. the firm(s), the MultiNational Enterprise (MNE) or the IT vendors
3. the group(s) or team(s)
4. the individual
5. the technology overlay
Referent Disciplines: Clearly, these five levels of analysis look to numerous referent disciplines: Political Science, Economics, Law, Management, International Business, Human-computer interface, Cross-cultural studies, Sociology, Psychology, Telecommunications, Computer Science.
OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK
The Handbook of Research on Global Information Technology will provide comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends and technologies in the field of the emerging sub-discipline of Global Information Technology Management (also referred to within the Information Systems (IS) discipline as Global Information Technology Management, as International Information Systems, and as Global Management Information Systems). The volume will feature entries of between 8,500-12,000 words covering a wide range of topics related to the subject of Global Information Technology Management. Successful contributions will provide definitions, explanations, and applications of various pertinent topics and issues rather than in-depth discussions of narrow subjects. The publication will help in providing researchers, scholars, students and professionals access to the latest knowledge related to this field and solving related problems and challenges.
AUDIENCE FOR THE PROPOSED TEXT
* Global executives, managers, and other business decision makers who need to make informed choices about how their organizations can use global information technology/systems effectively
* Researchers (both academic and corporate) studying global information technology/systems and global information technology/systems business models for industry and/or academic purposes
* Educators and trainers who increasingly find themselves using/teaching global information technology/systems
* Administrators of global/international/multi-domestic/transnational organizations who wish to leverage global information technology/systems for competitive advantage
RECOMMENDED CONTENT AREAS
Prospective subject areas and specific topics for this publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Aligning global information systems (IS) strategy to global business strategy
* Issues involving the technical platform for global IS applications
* Issues involved in international sharing of data
* Issues of IS projects spanning cultures
* Key GIT issues such as: (1) managerial/strategic, (2) technological/application, (3) host country social/cultural, (4) host country economic, (5) host country technological, and (6) host country political/legal
* Issues and trends in global information technology education
* Managing information technology in multi-domestic/international/global/transnational corporations
* Global information technology/systems and socio-economic development in under-developed/ developing/developed countries
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Prospective authors are invited to submit chapter proposals of 200-500 words on or before July 31, 2006. In their proposal, prospective authors should clearly explain:
*The purpose and the contents of their proposed chapter
* How their proposed chapter relates to the overall objectives of the book
Authors will be notified of the status of their proposal and sent chapter organization guidelines by August 15, 2006. Drafts of chapters will be due by October 15, 2006.
Please send inquiries or submit material electronically (Microsoft Word, or Rich Text files) to
Dr. Mahesh S. Raisinghani at
mraisinghani@mail.twu.edu
The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group Inc., http://www.idea-group.com, publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing, and Idea Group Reference imprints, in the fall of 2007.
CFP: 8th Conference of the ISKO Spanish Chapter - Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity in the Organization of Scientific Knowledge
CFP: 8th Conference of the ISKO Spanish Chapter - Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity in the Organization of Scientific Knowledge
Organized by the University of Leon
Leon, Spain, 18 to 20 April 2007
Deadline: July 31, 2006
Interdisciplinarity draws its strength from the ontological view that reality may be explained from various different angles that permit interpretation of phenomena in a more complete way without becoming mere eclecticism. From an epistemological point of view, interdisciplinarity
attempts to unify the field of action of the disciplines that study social facts and phenomena. It has no intention of achieving a priori integration of the paradigms of knowledge. Rather, its efforts are aimed at the enrichment and rational exchanging of the methods of various
disciplines, to some extent independently of the categories specific to each science, in order to improve study of reality.
Transdisciplinarity, for its part, simultaneously covers what lies between disciplines, cuts across various disciplines or goes beyond any discipline. Its aim is to understand the present world, one essential feature of which is the unity of knowledge. Transdisciplinary research is in no way antagonistic to multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research, but rather is complementary to it.
As Basarab Nicolescu has pointed out, disciplinarity, multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are four arrows for one and the same bow: the bow of knowledge.
Our objective is to make the Eighth Isko Spain Congress a meeting devoted to reflection and applications in the area of transdisciplinary organization of knowledge.
TOPICS
Interdisciplinarity and/or transdisciplinarity of Science in the Knowledge
Society.
Paradigms of modern science
Scientific maps
Social networks
Distributed scientific resources, Grid computing
Scientific communication
Epistemological foundations of the organization of knowledge.
Trends in interdisciplinary and/or transdisciplinary research into the
organization of knowledge
Linguistic foundations
Mathematical foundations
Social and cultural foundations
Developments in the organization of interdisciplinary knowledge
Representation and characterization of knowledge in a computerized
environment.
Automatic information processing
Bibliographic catalogues and databases. FRBR (functional requirements for
bibliographic records), FRAR (functional requirements for authority
records), FRSAR (functional requirements for subject authority records).
Metadata and identifiers in a computer environment: Dublin Core, DOI
(digital object identifiers), Crossref, and similar.
Vocabularies, thesauri and classifications
Ontologies, language and ontology, ontological domains
Recovery of transdisciplinary information
Semantic information recovery
Integration of semantic tools
Interfaces and user interaction
Expert systems
User-centred systems
PLENARY LECTURES
Dr. Basarab Nicolescu
Theoretical physicist, CRNS, Universiti Paris 6
Chair of the International Centre for Transdisciplinary Research and
Studies (CIRET) Fellow of the Rumanian Academy
Dr. Nicola Guarino
Chair of the Laboratory for Applied Ontologies (LOA) at the Institute for
Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council
(ISTC-CNR), Trent, Italy. Editor of the journal Applied Ontology (IOS
Press)
DEADLINES
Call for abstracts (500 to 1000 words)
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 31 July 2006
Deadline for confirmation of acceptance of papers: 30 September 2006
Deadline for submission of complete text of papers: 15 December 2006
COORDINATOR:
Dra. Blanca Rodriguez Bravo
Biblioteconomia y Documentacion
Universidad de Leon
24071 Leon
Spain
FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS AND GENERAL INFORMATION:
Dra. Blanca Rodriguez Bravo / Dra. Maria Luisa Alvite Diez
Biblioteconomia y Documentacion
Universidad de Leon
24071 Leon
Spain
Telephone: +34 987291469
dphabd@unileon.es
ttp://www.ugr.es/~isko/
http://www3.unileon.es/dp/abd
Jose Antonio Frias
Universidad de Salamanca
Departamento de Biblioteconomia y Documentacion
Francisco Vitoria, 6-16
E-37008 Salamanca
Tlf. 34-923-294-580
Fax 34-923-294-582
frias@usal.es
Organized by the University of Leon
Leon, Spain, 18 to 20 April 2007
Deadline: July 31, 2006
Interdisciplinarity draws its strength from the ontological view that reality may be explained from various different angles that permit interpretation of phenomena in a more complete way without becoming mere eclecticism. From an epistemological point of view, interdisciplinarity
attempts to unify the field of action of the disciplines that study social facts and phenomena. It has no intention of achieving a priori integration of the paradigms of knowledge. Rather, its efforts are aimed at the enrichment and rational exchanging of the methods of various
disciplines, to some extent independently of the categories specific to each science, in order to improve study of reality.
Transdisciplinarity, for its part, simultaneously covers what lies between disciplines, cuts across various disciplines or goes beyond any discipline. Its aim is to understand the present world, one essential feature of which is the unity of knowledge. Transdisciplinary research is in no way antagonistic to multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research, but rather is complementary to it.
As Basarab Nicolescu has pointed out, disciplinarity, multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are four arrows for one and the same bow: the bow of knowledge.
Our objective is to make the Eighth Isko Spain Congress a meeting devoted to reflection and applications in the area of transdisciplinary organization of knowledge.
TOPICS
Interdisciplinarity and/or transdisciplinarity of Science in the Knowledge
Society.
Paradigms of modern science
Scientific maps
Social networks
Distributed scientific resources, Grid computing
Scientific communication
Epistemological foundations of the organization of knowledge.
Trends in interdisciplinary and/or transdisciplinary research into the
organization of knowledge
Linguistic foundations
Mathematical foundations
Social and cultural foundations
Developments in the organization of interdisciplinary knowledge
Representation and characterization of knowledge in a computerized
environment.
Automatic information processing
Bibliographic catalogues and databases. FRBR (functional requirements for
bibliographic records), FRAR (functional requirements for authority
records), FRSAR (functional requirements for subject authority records).
Metadata and identifiers in a computer environment: Dublin Core, DOI
(digital object identifiers), Crossref, and similar.
Vocabularies, thesauri and classifications
Ontologies, language and ontology, ontological domains
Recovery of transdisciplinary information
Semantic information recovery
Integration of semantic tools
Interfaces and user interaction
Expert systems
User-centred systems
PLENARY LECTURES
Dr. Basarab Nicolescu
Theoretical physicist, CRNS, Universiti Paris 6
Chair of the International Centre for Transdisciplinary Research and
Studies (CIRET) Fellow of the Rumanian Academy
Dr. Nicola Guarino
Chair of the Laboratory for Applied Ontologies (LOA) at the Institute for
Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council
(ISTC-CNR), Trent, Italy. Editor of the journal Applied Ontology (IOS
Press)
DEADLINES
Call for abstracts (500 to 1000 words)
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 31 July 2006
Deadline for confirmation of acceptance of papers: 30 September 2006
Deadline for submission of complete text of papers: 15 December 2006
COORDINATOR:
Dra. Blanca Rodriguez Bravo
Biblioteconomia y Documentacion
Universidad de Leon
24071 Leon
Spain
FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS AND GENERAL INFORMATION:
Dra. Blanca Rodriguez Bravo / Dra. Maria Luisa Alvite Diez
Biblioteconomia y Documentacion
Universidad de Leon
24071 Leon
Spain
Telephone: +34 987291469
dphabd@unileon.es
ttp://www.ugr.es/~isko/
http://www3.unileon.es/dp/abd
Jose Antonio Frias
Universidad de Salamanca
Departamento de Biblioteconomia y Documentacion
Francisco Vitoria, 6-16
E-37008 Salamanca
Tlf. 34-923-294-580
Fax 34-923-294-582
frias@usal.es
Library Student Journal is ready to accept submissions
Library Student Journal is ready to accept submissions.
Library Student Journal is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal that will publish papers in which STUDENTS are the primary authors. With editors chosen, review is set to begin. If you are a Library or Information Studies student with a great paper, this may be an opportunity to get published.
For more information, please visit these links:
Submission Guidelines: http://informatics.buffalo.edu/org/lsj/submissions.html
Journal Home: http://informatics.buffalo.edu/org/lsj/index.html
This journal is a peer-reviewed student publicationof the University at Buffalo Department of Library and Information Studies.
Library Student Journal is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal that will publish papers in which STUDENTS are the primary authors. With editors chosen, review is set to begin. If you are a Library or Information Studies student with a great paper, this may be an opportunity to get published.
For more information, please visit these links:
Submission Guidelines: http://informatics.buffalo.edu/org/lsj/submissions.html
Journal Home: http://informatics.buffalo.edu/org/lsj/index.html
This journal is a peer-reviewed student publicationof the University at Buffalo Department of Library and Information Studies.
Call for Local History Authors in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut
Call for Local History Authors in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut
The History Press is searching for historians, archivists, and historical societies who are interested in publishing books about towns and regions in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
History Press books focus on a particular town or region. We have developed a variety of series that 1) provide authors with guidance on how to present their work and 2) attract readers and encourage sales. We also accept books for publication on history subjects not captured by the series we have established.
The History Press publishes a wide range of books. Examples include the following: brief or comprehensive histories of towns, the history of significant buildings and sites, natural history, oral history, historical walking and driving tours, collections of essays on historical events and people, folklore, crime history, architectural history, Native American history and the historical role of a town industry. I invite you to visit our website at http://historypress.net, where you will find our catalogue and information about publishing with The History Press.
The History Press is a traditional trade publisher, meaning that we handle all stages of publishing including financing, sales, marketing, and distribution and compensate in the form of royalties. We are not a vanity press. For more information and to view our catalogue, see historypress.net or e-mail Commissioning Editor, Maureen Benes.
Maureen Benes
Commissioning Editor
The History Press
PO Box 7111
Gloucester, MA 01930
Maureen.Benes@historypress.net
866.223.5778
Visit the website at http://historypress.net
The History Press is searching for historians, archivists, and historical societies who are interested in publishing books about towns and regions in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
History Press books focus on a particular town or region. We have developed a variety of series that 1) provide authors with guidance on how to present their work and 2) attract readers and encourage sales. We also accept books for publication on history subjects not captured by the series we have established.
The History Press publishes a wide range of books. Examples include the following: brief or comprehensive histories of towns, the history of significant buildings and sites, natural history, oral history, historical walking and driving tours, collections of essays on historical events and people, folklore, crime history, architectural history, Native American history and the historical role of a town industry. I invite you to visit our website at http://historypress.net, where you will find our catalogue and information about publishing with The History Press.
The History Press is a traditional trade publisher, meaning that we handle all stages of publishing including financing, sales, marketing, and distribution and compensate in the form of royalties. We are not a vanity press. For more information and to view our catalogue, see historypress.net or e-mail Commissioning Editor, Maureen Benes.
Maureen Benes
Commissioning Editor
The History Press
PO Box 7111
Gloucester, MA 01930
Maureen.Benes@historypress.net
866.223.5778
Visit the website at http://historypress.net
CFP: Special issue of MELUS on Multi-Ethnic American Graphic Narrative
CFP: Special issue of MELUS on Multi-Ethnic American Graphic Narrative
Revised deadline for final submissions is July 15, 2006
The journal MELUS has recently placed a moratorium on submissions. However, this moratorium DOES NOT apply to the special graphic narrative issue of MELUS already in progress. In order to account for any misunderstanding and confusion concerning this matter, the deadline for essay submissions for this special issue has been pushed back to July 15, 2006. For more details, go to the special issue website:
http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/droyal/melus.htm, or see below:
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MELUS Special Issue - Multi-Ethnic American Graphic Narrative
In his book REINVENTING COMICS, Scott McCloud explores some of the problems concerning ethnicity and comics. Not only does he argue for an increased awareness of ethnic and gender representation in contemporary comics, but he also highlights many of the ethnoracial concerns underlying the history of comics in the United States. Using McCloud's arguments as a springboard, MELUS plans on publishing a special issue devoted to multi-ethnic American graphic narrative. The scope of this issue could include the theoretical, literary, and historical sweep of graphic narrative and its links to multi-ethnic discourse. Possible topics could include, but are certainly not limited to:
* The evolution of ethnic representation in comics since the 1980s (presented through the work of such artists as Gilbert and Jamie Hernandez, Adrian Tomine, Art Spiegelman, Ben Katchor, Kyle Baker, Ho Che Anderson, Howard Cruise, and R. Kikuo Johnson)
* The coinage of "graphic novel" (by Will Eisner) as a literary form and its links to multi-ethnic expression
* The growth of graphic novels as a vehicle of American ethnic expression in the wake of Art Spiegleman's groundbreaking MAUS
* The ways in which recent films have adapted comic-inspired figures to explore the ethnic other
* The impact of Japanese Magna on American comics and culture Problems of ethnoracial representation in the underground comix of the 1960s
* The uses of classic superheroes, historic and contemporary, as images of the ethnic outsider
* Comic journalism, such as that found in the work of Joe Sacco, as a medium to explore ethnoracial conflicts
* Tropes of the monster, mutant, or zombie as a figuration of "the alien"
* Graphic narratives of the U.S. border, both in south (e.g., the work of Los Bros Hernandez) and in the Canadian north (e.g, the comic art of Seth, Julie Douchet, Ho Che Anderson, and Chester Brown)
* The cross-fertilization of comics and more traditional fictional narrative (such as that surrounding Michael Chabon's character, The Escapist)
All essay submissions should be between 5,000 and 7,500 words, including notes and works cited. Contributors should format submissions based on the MLA Style Manual, 2nd edition. Manuscripts emailed as attached MS Word files are strongly encouraged. If mailed, please send along a SASE if requesting return of copies.
Please address all manuscripts for and queries about this special issue to:
Derek P. Royal
Department of Literature and Languages
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, Texas 75429-3011
E-mail: Derek_Royal@tamu-commerce.edu
Fax: 903-886-5980
Revised deadline for final submissions is July 15, 2006
The journal MELUS has recently placed a moratorium on submissions. However, this moratorium DOES NOT apply to the special graphic narrative issue of MELUS already in progress. In order to account for any misunderstanding and confusion concerning this matter, the deadline for essay submissions for this special issue has been pushed back to July 15, 2006. For more details, go to the special issue website:
http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/droyal/melus.htm, or see below:
------------------------------------
MELUS Special Issue - Multi-Ethnic American Graphic Narrative
In his book REINVENTING COMICS, Scott McCloud explores some of the problems concerning ethnicity and comics. Not only does he argue for an increased awareness of ethnic and gender representation in contemporary comics, but he also highlights many of the ethnoracial concerns underlying the history of comics in the United States. Using McCloud's arguments as a springboard, MELUS plans on publishing a special issue devoted to multi-ethnic American graphic narrative. The scope of this issue could include the theoretical, literary, and historical sweep of graphic narrative and its links to multi-ethnic discourse. Possible topics could include, but are certainly not limited to:
* The evolution of ethnic representation in comics since the 1980s (presented through the work of such artists as Gilbert and Jamie Hernandez, Adrian Tomine, Art Spiegelman, Ben Katchor, Kyle Baker, Ho Che Anderson, Howard Cruise, and R. Kikuo Johnson)
* The coinage of "graphic novel" (by Will Eisner) as a literary form and its links to multi-ethnic expression
* The growth of graphic novels as a vehicle of American ethnic expression in the wake of Art Spiegleman's groundbreaking MAUS
* The ways in which recent films have adapted comic-inspired figures to explore the ethnic other
* The impact of Japanese Magna on American comics and culture Problems of ethnoracial representation in the underground comix of the 1960s
* The uses of classic superheroes, historic and contemporary, as images of the ethnic outsider
* Comic journalism, such as that found in the work of Joe Sacco, as a medium to explore ethnoracial conflicts
* Tropes of the monster, mutant, or zombie as a figuration of "the alien"
* Graphic narratives of the U.S. border, both in south (e.g., the work of Los Bros Hernandez) and in the Canadian north (e.g, the comic art of Seth, Julie Douchet, Ho Che Anderson, and Chester Brown)
* The cross-fertilization of comics and more traditional fictional narrative (such as that surrounding Michael Chabon's character, The Escapist)
All essay submissions should be between 5,000 and 7,500 words, including notes and works cited. Contributors should format submissions based on the MLA Style Manual, 2nd edition. Manuscripts emailed as attached MS Word files are strongly encouraged. If mailed, please send along a SASE if requesting return of copies.
Please address all manuscripts for and queries about this special issue to:
Derek P. Royal
Department of Literature and Languages
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, Texas 75429-3011
E-mail: Derek_Royal@tamu-commerce.edu
Fax: 903-886-5980
WANTED: REVIEWERS OF COMIC BOOK SERIES (Journal MELUS)
WANTED: REVIEWERS OF COMIC BOOK SERIES (Journal MELUS)
Final Copy Deadline: October 1, 2006
In 2007, the journal MELUS will be publishing a special issue on multi-ethnic American graphic narrative (comics/comix/graphic novels). Along with the critical essays and the regular book reviews, I would like to include reviews of current and ongoing comic book series that address ethnoracial issues in the U.S., either directly or indirectly. Pertinent series could include a variety of topics and genres, from traditional superhero narratives to alternative comics of any kind. Series may refer explicitly to American ethnic concerns—like those found in the Hernandez brother’s LOVE AND ROCKETS—or explore issues such as ethnoraical identity, marginalization, and border crossing in more subtle ways, such as that found in Bill Willingham’s FABLES or Mike Mignola’s HELLBOY.
Please contact me as soon as possible if you have a review recommendation. I am open to any suggestions for possible review titles, but potential reviewers should keep in mind the subject of the special issue: the multi-ethnic scope of American graphic narrative.
Reviews of current comic book series should be no more than 1,000 words. The deadline for review manuscripts is October 1, 2006.
Derek P. Royal
Department of Literature and Languages
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, Texas 75429-3011
E-mail: Derek_Royal@tamu-commerce.edu
Fax: 903-886-5980
Final Copy Deadline: October 1, 2006
In 2007, the journal MELUS will be publishing a special issue on multi-ethnic American graphic narrative (comics/comix/graphic novels). Along with the critical essays and the regular book reviews, I would like to include reviews of current and ongoing comic book series that address ethnoracial issues in the U.S., either directly or indirectly. Pertinent series could include a variety of topics and genres, from traditional superhero narratives to alternative comics of any kind. Series may refer explicitly to American ethnic concerns—like those found in the Hernandez brother’s LOVE AND ROCKETS—or explore issues such as ethnoraical identity, marginalization, and border crossing in more subtle ways, such as that found in Bill Willingham’s FABLES or Mike Mignola’s HELLBOY.
Please contact me as soon as possible if you have a review recommendation. I am open to any suggestions for possible review titles, but potential reviewers should keep in mind the subject of the special issue: the multi-ethnic scope of American graphic narrative.
Reviews of current comic book series should be no more than 1,000 words. The deadline for review manuscripts is October 1, 2006.
Derek P. Royal
Department of Literature and Languages
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, Texas 75429-3011
E-mail: Derek_Royal@tamu-commerce.edu
Fax: 903-886-5980
Monday, July 03, 2006
Call for Chapters for the Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication
Call for Chapters for the Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication
Editor: Sigrid Kelsey, MLIS
Louisiana State University
Deadline: September 30, 2006
Introduction: Technology has changed communication drastically in recent years. Podcasts, Email, the World Wide Web, Blackberries, cell phones, text messaging, wireless connections, and other forms of computer mediated communication (CMC) have transformed communication in numerous ways, not only facilitating the speed and sometimes ease of communicating, but redefining and shaping today's communication norms. The Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication will provide comprehensive coverage of the most important current issues, trends, and technologies related to professional computer mediated communication.
Coverage: The Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication will feature chapters (5000-7000 words) of a scholarly nature, written by experts offering in-depth descriptions of concepts, issues, and trends in various areas of CMC. The purpose of this handbook is to provide academic articles written in a more non-academic style, in the sense that each article should focus on a specific topic -- rather than a general treatment of CMC -- keeping in mind a readership with a varied background. This will allow scholarly ideas to be accessible to a wide range of readers. This book will explore various forms of CMC chapter by chapter and discuss the broad implications that each medium is having on communication.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to:
- Email
- Web Sites, web pages
- Blackberries
- Podcasts, RSS
- Chatrooms
- Instant messaging
- Text messaging
- Cell phones
- Corporate blogging (may mention implications of personal blogging in the workplace)
- Digital divide
- File sharing, peer to peer networking
- Online forums
- Computer mediated collaboration
- Wikis
- Historical aspects of CMC
- Effects of CMC on research participation
- Web Design and visual CMC
Submission Procedure: Individuals interested in submitting chapters should submit a chapter proposal of one single-spaced page on or before September 30, 2006 to Sigrid Kelsey at sigridkelsey@gmail.com (Rich Text Format or Microsoft Word is acceptable). The proposal should include the purpose and content of the proposed chapter and how the proposed chapter relates to the overall objectives of the book. Upon acceptance of their proposals, authors will have until December 31, 2006, to prepare their chapters of 5000-7000 words. Guidelines for preparing chapters will be sent upon acceptance of proposals. This book is tentatively scheduled for publishing by Idea Group Reference (an imprint of Idea Group Inc.), www.idea-group-ref.com, in 2008.
Editor: Sigrid Kelsey, MLIS
Louisiana State University
Deadline: September 30, 2006
Introduction: Technology has changed communication drastically in recent years. Podcasts, Email, the World Wide Web, Blackberries, cell phones, text messaging, wireless connections, and other forms of computer mediated communication (CMC) have transformed communication in numerous ways, not only facilitating the speed and sometimes ease of communicating, but redefining and shaping today's communication norms. The Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication will provide comprehensive coverage of the most important current issues, trends, and technologies related to professional computer mediated communication.
Coverage: The Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication will feature chapters (5000-7000 words) of a scholarly nature, written by experts offering in-depth descriptions of concepts, issues, and trends in various areas of CMC. The purpose of this handbook is to provide academic articles written in a more non-academic style, in the sense that each article should focus on a specific topic -- rather than a general treatment of CMC -- keeping in mind a readership with a varied background. This will allow scholarly ideas to be accessible to a wide range of readers. This book will explore various forms of CMC chapter by chapter and discuss the broad implications that each medium is having on communication.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to:
- Web Sites, web pages
- Blackberries
- Podcasts, RSS
- Chatrooms
- Instant messaging
- Text messaging
- Cell phones
- Corporate blogging (may mention implications of personal blogging in the workplace)
- Digital divide
- File sharing, peer to peer networking
- Online forums
- Computer mediated collaboration
- Wikis
- Historical aspects of CMC
- Effects of CMC on research participation
- Web Design and visual CMC
Submission Procedure: Individuals interested in submitting chapters should submit a chapter proposal of one single-spaced page on or before September 30, 2006 to Sigrid Kelsey at sigridkelsey@gmail.com (Rich Text Format or Microsoft Word is acceptable). The proposal should include the purpose and content of the proposed chapter and how the proposed chapter relates to the overall objectives of the book. Upon acceptance of their proposals, authors will have until December 31, 2006, to prepare their chapters of 5000-7000 words. Guidelines for preparing chapters will be sent upon acceptance of proposals. This book is tentatively scheduled for publishing by Idea Group Reference (an imprint of Idea Group Inc.), www.idea-group-ref.com, in 2008.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
CFP: Auslib Conference 2007 - Learning Futures: public libraries for the new generations in Australia and New Zealand
CFP: Auslib Conference 2007 - Learning Futures: public libraries for the new generations in Australia and New Zealand
March 9-10, 2007
Adelaide, South Australia
CFP URL: http://www.auslib.com.au/Call%20for%20papers.pdf
This second Auslib Adelaide conference will be of special interest to Children’s and Young Adults Librarians, Community Librarians, Library Managers and Councillors and Council staff concerned to foster learning, literacy and support for young people in their communities.
Much important learning for life takes place beyond the confines of the classroom and formal
education. Public libraries have unique ‘cradle to grave’ responsibilities which are still not
understood or recognised by those who allocate funds for education and libraries. Learning
Futures will profile the achievements and potential of public libraries, from both sides of the
Tasman, towards the learning, literacy and socialisation future of the new generations – from very early childhood to young adulthood. The conference will have panel sessions, targeted
recommendations and full published proceedings.
(For examples, please visit the link above).
March 9-10, 2007
Adelaide, South Australia
CFP URL: http://www.auslib.com.au/Call%20for%20papers.pdf
This second Auslib Adelaide conference will be of special interest to Children’s and Young Adults Librarians, Community Librarians, Library Managers and Councillors and Council staff concerned to foster learning, literacy and support for young people in their communities.
Much important learning for life takes place beyond the confines of the classroom and formal
education. Public libraries have unique ‘cradle to grave’ responsibilities which are still not
understood or recognised by those who allocate funds for education and libraries. Learning
Futures will profile the achievements and potential of public libraries, from both sides of the
Tasman, towards the learning, literacy and socialisation future of the new generations – from very early childhood to young adulthood. The conference will have panel sessions, targeted
recommendations and full published proceedings.
(For examples, please visit the link above).
CFP: Reference book on American popular fiction (seeking author/editor for book)
CFP: Reference book on American popular fiction (seeking author/editor for book)
Facts On File, a New York publisher of reference books for schools and libraries, is seeking a scholar to write or edit a one-volume reference book on American popular fiction, with entries on best-selling writers and their works. The ideal author/editor will have a Ph.D., broad
knowledge of the subject, and an ability to write clearly and succinctly for students in both high school and college. If the book is done with contributors, the editor should also have extensive experience, good contacts in the field, and excellent managerial and editorial skills. This large project (300,000 words) must be completed within 2 years. Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines will be required. If interested please send letter and cv, preferably by e-mail, to
Jeff Soloway
Executive Editor
Facts on File, Inc.
132 W. 31st St., 17th Floor
New York, NY 10001
jsoloway@factsonfile.com
Facts On File, a New York publisher of reference books for schools and libraries, is seeking a scholar to write or edit a one-volume reference book on American popular fiction, with entries on best-selling writers and their works. The ideal author/editor will have a Ph.D., broad
knowledge of the subject, and an ability to write clearly and succinctly for students in both high school and college. If the book is done with contributors, the editor should also have extensive experience, good contacts in the field, and excellent managerial and editorial skills. This large project (300,000 words) must be completed within 2 years. Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines will be required. If interested please send letter and cv, preferably by e-mail, to
Jeff Soloway
Executive Editor
Facts on File, Inc.
132 W. 31st St., 17th Floor
New York, NY 10001
jsoloway@factsonfile.com
CFP: 19TH SOUTHERN WRITERS SYMPOSIUM (Focus on Author Raymond Andrews)
CFP: 19TH SOUTHERN WRITERS SYMPOSIUM (Focus on Author Raymond Andrews)
February 23-24, 2007
METHODIST COLLEGE
FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
FEATURED SPEAKER: TRUDIER HARRIS.
Abstracts Due October 15, 2006
The theme of the next Southern Writers Symposium will be NEGLECTED SOUTHERN WRITERS. We invite papers and panels describing the works of little-known southern writers and exploring their relationship to the southern literary canon.
A special focus of the Symposium will be the writings of RAYMOND ANDREWS. We especially solicit papers exploring this author and his works: Appalachee Red, Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee, Baby Sweet’s, The Last Radio Baby, and Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire. Papers and panels exploring any aspect of Andrews’s life and/or writing are welcome. Publication opportunities for selected papers on Andrews will be sought. Abstracts will be due by October 15. A second call for papers will follow in August. For further information or to place your name on the mailing list, contact Emily Wright, Department of English and Writing, Methodist College, 5400 Ramsey St., Fayetteville, NC, 28311. Phone: 910-630-7551. Email: ewright@methodist.edu.
February 23-24, 2007
METHODIST COLLEGE
FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
FEATURED SPEAKER: TRUDIER HARRIS.
Abstracts Due October 15, 2006
The theme of the next Southern Writers Symposium will be NEGLECTED SOUTHERN WRITERS. We invite papers and panels describing the works of little-known southern writers and exploring their relationship to the southern literary canon.
A special focus of the Symposium will be the writings of RAYMOND ANDREWS. We especially solicit papers exploring this author and his works: Appalachee Red, Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee, Baby Sweet’s, The Last Radio Baby, and Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire. Papers and panels exploring any aspect of Andrews’s life and/or writing are welcome. Publication opportunities for selected papers on Andrews will be sought. Abstracts will be due by October 15. A second call for papers will follow in August. For further information or to place your name on the mailing list, contact Emily Wright, Department of English and Writing, Methodist College, 5400 Ramsey St., Fayetteville, NC, 28311. Phone: 910-630-7551. Email: ewright@methodist.edu.
CFP: Archives: From Memory to Event (UCL English Postgraduate Conference)
CFP: Archives: From Memory to Event (UCL English Postgraduate Conference)
UCL English Postgraduate Conference
March 9th 2007
Institute of English Studies
Senate House
London
Deadline: November 1st, 2006
In recent years the word 'archive' has been used to describe many things. An archive is first of all a physical place that houses documents or material relating to a specific person, event or time period. However, Michel Foucault uses the term archive more generally to describe 'the system
of the formation and transformation of statements' - a set of rules that determines what can be said in a given context. Jacques Derrida identifies the archive as a site of power, which is manifested by the act of assembling, structuring and interpreting signs. According to his theories, archiving techniques are far from innocent in the archival process: they determine the content of the archive itself. Derrida stresses the materiality of the archive. He later suggests, however, that one should 'take into account unconscious, and more generally virtual archives'.
Discussions around the archive evolve between different poles: Is the archive actual or virtual; is it a place or a set of ordering principles; or does the archive operate as place and principle simultaneously? Does it document certain historical events or does it in effect create events
through its own assembled narrative? What is its effect on the content it organizes?
We welcome contributions from the humanities, the social sciences and the arts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
. discussions of specific archives and their relation to individual or collective memory and commemorative acts
. the (literary) text as archive and monument
. self-narration and autobiography as a way of constructing archived and archivable memory
. the archiving and remembering of traumatic events
. questions of power with regard to the archive and memory/commemoration
. literature on mourning and its structuring of memory and commemoration
. self-censorship and confession in texts which stage the archiving of memory
. memory and the possibility of the archive in 'unfinishing' texts
Proposal submission deadline: November 1st 2006
250 words limit
Please send proposals to sandeep.parmar@ucl.ac.uk
UCL English Postgraduate Conference
March 9th 2007
Institute of English Studies
Senate House
London
Deadline: November 1st, 2006
In recent years the word 'archive' has been used to describe many things. An archive is first of all a physical place that houses documents or material relating to a specific person, event or time period. However, Michel Foucault uses the term archive more generally to describe 'the system
of the formation and transformation of statements' - a set of rules that determines what can be said in a given context. Jacques Derrida identifies the archive as a site of power, which is manifested by the act of assembling, structuring and interpreting signs. According to his theories, archiving techniques are far from innocent in the archival process: they determine the content of the archive itself. Derrida stresses the materiality of the archive. He later suggests, however, that one should 'take into account unconscious, and more generally virtual archives'.
Discussions around the archive evolve between different poles: Is the archive actual or virtual; is it a place or a set of ordering principles; or does the archive operate as place and principle simultaneously? Does it document certain historical events or does it in effect create events
through its own assembled narrative? What is its effect on the content it organizes?
We welcome contributions from the humanities, the social sciences and the arts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
. discussions of specific archives and their relation to individual or collective memory and commemorative acts
. the (literary) text as archive and monument
. self-narration and autobiography as a way of constructing archived and archivable memory
. the archiving and remembering of traumatic events
. questions of power with regard to the archive and memory/commemoration
. literature on mourning and its structuring of memory and commemoration
. self-censorship and confession in texts which stage the archiving of memory
. memory and the possibility of the archive in 'unfinishing' texts
Proposal submission deadline: November 1st 2006
250 words limit
Please send proposals to sandeep.parmar@ucl.ac.uk
Monday, June 19, 2006
CFP: Eastern Great Lakes Innovative Users Group (Fall 2006 Meeting)
CFP: Eastern Great Lakes Innovative Users Group (Fall 2006 Meeting)
Date: Friday October 20, 2006
Location: Toledo Lucas County Public Library
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Eastern Great Lakes-IUG invites you to present your ideas, experiences and views on the various modules of the Innovative system at our annual fall meeting, Friday, October 20, 2006.
Sessions may take the form of contributed papers, demonstrations, or panel discussions.
Birds of a feather (BOF) sessions may take the form of discussions on a particular topic, module or issue(s). Please use the EGL proposal submission form posted on the Eastern Great Lakes website www.rodmanlibrary.com/iug/program/iug-proposal.html
Presentation and Birds of a Feather Session Proposal Deadline: July 25, 2006.
Please read the Program Guidelines also located on the EGL website (www.rodmanlibrary.com/iug).
Thank you,
Laura E. Kinner
Program Chair, 2006 Eastern Great Lakes IUG
Date: Friday October 20, 2006
Location: Toledo Lucas County Public Library
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Eastern Great Lakes-IUG invites you to present your ideas, experiences and views on the various modules of the Innovative system at our annual fall meeting, Friday, October 20, 2006.
Sessions may take the form of contributed papers, demonstrations, or panel discussions.
Birds of a feather (BOF) sessions may take the form of discussions on a particular topic, module or issue(s). Please use the EGL proposal submission form posted on the Eastern Great Lakes website www.rodmanlibrary.com/iug/program/iug-proposal.html
Presentation and Birds of a Feather Session Proposal Deadline: July 25, 2006.
Please read the Program Guidelines also located on the EGL website (www.rodmanlibrary.com/iug).
Thank you,
Laura E. Kinner
Program Chair, 2006 Eastern Great Lakes IUG
New open access electronic journal: Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research
New open access electronic journal: Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research
The first issue is scheduled for the fall of 2006 and we are now calling for submissions for the peer-reviewed sections: Innovations in Practice and Theory and Research. Deadline for submissions is July 15, 2006.
Scope:
This electronic journal is a practitioner’s journal of The Partnership published twice a year. Articles may be contributed at any time for publication consideration. Potential articles are reviewed by members of an editorial review committee. Articles fall into several categories. Feature articles on theory & research and on innovations in practice are in-depth, peer-reviewed articles and fall in the range of 1,000 to 5,000 words. Other types of articles include viewpoints, conference presentations, profiles, news & announcements, professional development and reviews.
Sections:
Feature Articles:
Theory and Research
May include, but are not limited to, theoretical issues surrounding philosophies, policies and trends in all types of library and information environments. Research articles can be either quantitative or qualitative in nature. Empirical models (evidence-based or experimental techniques) and exploratory models of investigation are welcome. Articles should be 1500-5000 words and will be subject to a double blind peer review process.
Section editor: Heather Morrison
Innovations in Practice
This section will publish articles of 1000-4000 words that describe new initiatives and analyze their outcomes. Let others know how you put your best ideas into practice, and what lessons can be learned from the experience. Articles should include enough background to create a context for the general reader, and local acronyms and specialized terminology should be kept to a minimum or clearly explained.
Section Editor: TBA
Professional Development:
This will be a regular column that features short reviews or highlights of new resources, projects, web tools or other areas with a goal of providing current awareness for professional development. While the section will have an editor, guest experts will be sought by the editor so each column will be on a theme – i.e. Update on Scholarly Communication, New Blogging Tools, etc.
Section Editor: TBA
Profiles:
This section will feature short profiles of practitioners in the LIS field. It will showcase well-known and not-so-well-known librarians and information professionals who have made a difference with their work. Each submission should include brief biographical information on the practitioners, details of their notable endeavor, and should be approximately 300-500 words in length.
Section Editor: Virginia Wilson
Viewpoints:
This section allows for the _expression of opinions or viewpoints on current or topical issues in the library and information profession. The pieces would be relatively short in length and should engage the reader (call to action, identifying issues not to be ignored). The section could be a vehicle for The Partnership, either the Board or for the Presidents or Directors of the associations involved. Open to any information professional with a strong and engaging viewpoint.
Section Editor: Catherine Steeves
News and Announcements:
What went on, what’s going on and what’s happened to whom. A News & Announcement article briefly describes things such as an award received, a new library, a new appointment, or research in progress.
Section Editor: Cynthia McKeich
Leading Lights:
These contributions, based on presentations at Canadian library or library-related conferences, may be nominated by anyone in the library community at large. Submissions could also be recommended by members of the Editorial Board. Presenters will be contacted and invited to prepare and send a submission for peer-review. Up to three items will ultimately be selected by the Leading Lights Editor for any issue of ECLIPSE. Topics may range from theoretical to technological highlights to view points to new practices. The format may also range widely including but not limited to videorecordings, online posters and formal papers. The length of the article will be guided by the format. Text-based submissions should be 1,000 to 4,000 words. Videorecordings would normally be 15 to 60 minutes. International presenters are welcome.
Section Editor: Cynthia Archer
Media/Publication Reviews:
The purpose of the reviews section is to provide critical appraisals of new print and non-print resources that will assist readers of the Journal in selecting works for their own professional use or addition to their library collections. Reviewers are chosen on the basis of their knowledge and experience in areas of relevance in the library and information world.
Section Editor: Michael Hohner
Peer Review Process
Articles featured in the Research and Theory and Innovation in Practice sections will peer reviewed using a double blind process. A pool of reviewers will be assembled by the Editorial Board through contacts with all of the Provincial and Territorial Library Associations.
All other submissions will be vetted through the section editors.
Publication Frequency
The Journal will be published twice per year. Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer.
Open Access Policy
This Journal is fully open access, completely available to anyone, anywhere, as soon as it is published, and in perpetuity. Creative Commons License: read Creative Commons Canada
http://creativecommons.ca/ Attribution – Noncommercial – No derivates
For more information contact:
Jennifer Richard
Editor in Chief
Vaughan Memorial Library
Acadia University
Wolfville, NS
B4P 2R6
Tel: 902-585-1403
Fax: 902-585-1748
Email: jennifer.richard@acadiau.ca
The first issue is scheduled for the fall of 2006 and we are now calling for submissions for the peer-reviewed sections: Innovations in Practice and Theory and Research. Deadline for submissions is July 15, 2006.
Scope:
This electronic journal is a practitioner’s journal of The Partnership published twice a year. Articles may be contributed at any time for publication consideration. Potential articles are reviewed by members of an editorial review committee. Articles fall into several categories. Feature articles on theory & research and on innovations in practice are in-depth, peer-reviewed articles and fall in the range of 1,000 to 5,000 words. Other types of articles include viewpoints, conference presentations, profiles, news & announcements, professional development and reviews.
Sections:
Feature Articles:
Theory and Research
May include, but are not limited to, theoretical issues surrounding philosophies, policies and trends in all types of library and information environments. Research articles can be either quantitative or qualitative in nature. Empirical models (evidence-based or experimental techniques) and exploratory models of investigation are welcome. Articles should be 1500-5000 words and will be subject to a double blind peer review process.
Section editor: Heather Morrison
Innovations in Practice
This section will publish articles of 1000-4000 words that describe new initiatives and analyze their outcomes. Let others know how you put your best ideas into practice, and what lessons can be learned from the experience. Articles should include enough background to create a context for the general reader, and local acronyms and specialized terminology should be kept to a minimum or clearly explained.
Section Editor: TBA
Professional Development:
This will be a regular column that features short reviews or highlights of new resources, projects, web tools or other areas with a goal of providing current awareness for professional development. While the section will have an editor, guest experts will be sought by the editor so each column will be on a theme – i.e. Update on Scholarly Communication, New Blogging Tools, etc.
Section Editor: TBA
Profiles:
This section will feature short profiles of practitioners in the LIS field. It will showcase well-known and not-so-well-known librarians and information professionals who have made a difference with their work. Each submission should include brief biographical information on the practitioners, details of their notable endeavor, and should be approximately 300-500 words in length.
Section Editor: Virginia Wilson
Viewpoints:
This section allows for the _expression of opinions or viewpoints on current or topical issues in the library and information profession. The pieces would be relatively short in length and should engage the reader (call to action, identifying issues not to be ignored). The section could be a vehicle for The Partnership, either the Board or for the Presidents or Directors of the associations involved. Open to any information professional with a strong and engaging viewpoint.
Section Editor: Catherine Steeves
News and Announcements:
What went on, what’s going on and what’s happened to whom. A News & Announcement article briefly describes things such as an award received, a new library, a new appointment, or research in progress.
Section Editor: Cynthia McKeich
Leading Lights:
These contributions, based on presentations at Canadian library or library-related conferences, may be nominated by anyone in the library community at large. Submissions could also be recommended by members of the Editorial Board. Presenters will be contacted and invited to prepare and send a submission for peer-review. Up to three items will ultimately be selected by the Leading Lights Editor for any issue of ECLIPSE. Topics may range from theoretical to technological highlights to view points to new practices. The format may also range widely including but not limited to videorecordings, online posters and formal papers. The length of the article will be guided by the format. Text-based submissions should be 1,000 to 4,000 words. Videorecordings would normally be 15 to 60 minutes. International presenters are welcome.
Section Editor: Cynthia Archer
Media/Publication Reviews:
The purpose of the reviews section is to provide critical appraisals of new print and non-print resources that will assist readers of the Journal in selecting works for their own professional use or addition to their library collections. Reviewers are chosen on the basis of their knowledge and experience in areas of relevance in the library and information world.
Section Editor: Michael Hohner
Peer Review Process
Articles featured in the Research and Theory and Innovation in Practice sections will peer reviewed using a double blind process. A pool of reviewers will be assembled by the Editorial Board through contacts with all of the Provincial and Territorial Library Associations.
All other submissions will be vetted through the section editors.
Publication Frequency
The Journal will be published twice per year. Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer.
Open Access Policy
This Journal is fully open access, completely available to anyone, anywhere, as soon as it is published, and in perpetuity. Creative Commons License: read Creative Commons Canada
http://creativecommons.ca/ Attribution – Noncommercial – No derivates
For more information contact:
Jennifer Richard
Editor in Chief
Vaughan Memorial Library
Acadia University
Wolfville, NS
B4P 2R6
Tel: 902-585-1403
Fax: 902-585-1748
Email: jennifer.richard@acadiau.ca
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Call for Posters: Michigan Library Association Academic and Research Library Division
Call for Posters: Michigan Library Association Academic and Research Library Division
Michigan Library Association Meeting
Detroit, Michigan
October 10-13, 2006
http://www.mla.lib.mi.us/development/conference/2006/index.htm
This is a reminder to submit your poster session proposals soon. Deadline is June 30! Email your 250 word abstract to me by then.
Guidelines: http://www.mla.lib.mi.us/units/division/arld/Posterguide.doc
--
David A. Scott
Access Services Librarian
Ferris Library for Information Technology & Education
Office: FLITE 140-D
1010 Campus Drive, Big Rapids, MI 49307-2279
ph: (231) 591-3540 fax: (231) 591-2662 scottd@ferris.edu
Michigan Library Association Meeting
Detroit, Michigan
October 10-13, 2006
http://www.mla.lib.mi.us/development/conference/2006/index.htm
This is a reminder to submit your poster session proposals soon. Deadline is June 30! Email your 250 word abstract to me by then.
Guidelines: http://www.mla.lib.mi.us/units/division/arld/Posterguide.doc
--
David A. Scott
Access Services Librarian
Ferris Library for Information Technology & Education
Office: FLITE 140-D
1010 Campus Drive, Big Rapids, MI 49307-2279
ph: (231) 591-3540 fax: (231) 591-2662 scottd@ferris.edu
Call for Presenters - CapCue Technology Conference - Oct. 21st -Sacramento, CA
Call for Presenters - CapCue Technology Conference - Oct. 21st -Sacramento, CA
Call for Presenters: Come present your favorite tried-and-true technology success-in-the -classroom. Share your expertise with other educators!
CapCue "Expand Your Technology Horizons" Conference, Oct. 21, in Sacramento, CA
The northern California "Computer Using Educators" conference is back! Come enjoy the ideas, demonstrations, and how-to's from real teachers sharing how they integrate technology into their classrooms!
For presenters forms visit: http://www.djusd.k12.ca.us/technology/curriculum.htm
For more information contact:
-Alix
Alix E. Peshette
Technology Training Specialist
Technological Support
Davis Joint Unified School District
526 B Street
Davis, CA 95616
530-757-5300 ext. 160
fax: 530-757-5303
apeshette@djusd.k12.ca.us
Call for Presenters: Come present your favorite tried-and-true technology success-in-the -classroom. Share your expertise with other educators!
CapCue "Expand Your Technology Horizons" Conference, Oct. 21, in Sacramento, CA
The northern California "Computer Using Educators" conference is back! Come enjoy the ideas, demonstrations, and how-to's from real teachers sharing how they integrate technology into their classrooms!
For presenters forms visit: http://www.djusd.k12.ca.us/technology/curriculum.htm
For more information contact:
-Alix
Alix E. Peshette
Technology Training Specialist
Technological Support
Davis Joint Unified School District
526 B Street
Davis, CA 95616
530-757-5300 ext. 160
fax: 530-757-5303
apeshette@djusd.k12.ca.us
Library Hi Tech News Request for ALA reviewers
Library Hi Tech News Request for ALA reviewers
Library Hi Tech News (LHTN) is seeking conference reviewers to write
in-depth program reports for the upcoming American Library Association
Conference in New Orleans. The notes for contributors to LHTN are located at:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/lhtn/notes.jsp LHTN is publication
issued in print and via the Emerald database.
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. What we are most interested in are programs centered on a wide range of technology applications in all library sectors and environments, new
technology products and newly initiated or revised services that utilize different technologies. Please send an email to jgelfand@uci.edu if you are interested in writing a conference report indicating your choices and plans.
The deadline for the submissions is August 4. Please share with your colleagues and any interested persons.
Thank you for your consideration,
Julia Gelfand
co-editor, Library Hi Tech News
University of California, Irvine Libraries
jgelfand@uci.edu
949-824-4971
Library Hi Tech News (LHTN) is seeking conference reviewers to write
in-depth program reports for the upcoming American Library Association
Conference in New Orleans. The notes for contributors to LHTN are located at:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/lhtn/notes.jsp LHTN is publication
issued in print and via the Emerald database.
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. What we are most interested in are programs centered on a wide range of technology applications in all library sectors and environments, new
technology products and newly initiated or revised services that utilize different technologies. Please send an email to jgelfand@uci.edu if you are interested in writing a conference report indicating your choices and plans.
The deadline for the submissions is August 4. Please share with your colleagues and any interested persons.
Thank you for your consideration,
Julia Gelfand
co-editor, Library Hi Tech News
University of California, Irvine Libraries
jgelfand@uci.edu
949-824-4971
Monday, June 05, 2006
ACRL Program (at ALA Annual): PUBLISH, DON'T PERISH: Helpful Hints for Authors
ACRL Program (at ALA Annual): PUBLISH, DON'T PERISH: Helpful Hints for Authors
ALA Program - Sunday June 25, 2006 from 1:30-3:30 -- Convention Center, Rooms 398-399
PUBLISH, DON'T PERISH: Helpful Hints for Authors
Share the wealth! Share your professional knowledge through writing!
This program is the place to start if you have ever wanted to publish a book or journal article.
Join the panelists for a spirited presentation. Learn practical ways you can turn your idea into the reality of becoming a published author!
Speakers:
+++ Marie Radford, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Rutgers University, co-author of Web Research: Selecting, Evaluating, and Citing, and numerous other books and journal articles.
+++ Tony Schwartz, Associate Director for Collection Management, Florida International University, editor of ACRL's monographic series Publications in Librarianship.
+++ Patricia Glass Schuman, President of Neal-Schuman Publishers
Remember to bring your questions for a Q & A discussion.
Sponsored by the ACRL New Publications Advisory Board and the College Library Section, Research Committee.
ALA Program - Sunday June 25, 2006 from 1:30-3:30 -- Convention Center, Rooms 398-399
PUBLISH, DON'T PERISH: Helpful Hints for Authors
Share the wealth! Share your professional knowledge through writing!
This program is the place to start if you have ever wanted to publish a book or journal article.
Join the panelists for a spirited presentation. Learn practical ways you can turn your idea into the reality of becoming a published author!
Speakers:
+++ Marie Radford, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Rutgers University, co-author of Web Research: Selecting, Evaluating, and Citing, and numerous other books and journal articles.
+++ Tony Schwartz, Associate Director for Collection Management, Florida International University, editor of ACRL's monographic series Publications in Librarianship.
+++ Patricia Glass Schuman, President of Neal-Schuman Publishers
Remember to bring your questions for a Q & A discussion.
Sponsored by the ACRL New Publications Advisory Board and the College Library Section, Research Committee.
Second Call: Western Medical Library Association Chapters 2006 Annual Meeting
Second Call for Papers and Posters, Western Medical Library Association Chapters 2006 Annual Meeting
Conference URL: http://pncmla.org/pncmla2006/
Important Dates:
-All submissions are due by July 1, 2006.
-Applicants will be notified of acceptance decisions by August 1, 2006.
-The Results and Conclusions sections of the abstracts are due by September 1, 2006.
-Conference: October 14-17, 2006.
The Western Chapters of MLA welcome the submission of papers and posters for their joint annual meeting - Missions and Mountains: Believe and Achieve - to be held in Seattle, WA, October 14-17, 2006. This is your opportunity to share great ideas, research or other projects with colleagues and friends. Topics may be informational or research-oriented and should relate to some aspect of medical librarianship or medical informatics, including local practices, study results, current trends, or development and/or use of innovative technologies. Eligible presenters will receive AHIP points for their participation. We look forward to hearing from you! For complete submission information please see: http://pncmla.org/pncmla2006/
Thank you very much,
Danielle Carlock, MLS, AHIP
Reference and Instruction Librarian
Arizona State University at the Polytechnic campus
(480) 727-1278
danielle.carlock@asu.edu
Conference URL: http://pncmla.org/pncmla2006/
Important Dates:
-All submissions are due by July 1, 2006.
-Applicants will be notified of acceptance decisions by August 1, 2006.
-The Results and Conclusions sections of the abstracts are due by September 1, 2006.
-Conference: October 14-17, 2006.
The Western Chapters of MLA welcome the submission of papers and posters for their joint annual meeting - Missions and Mountains: Believe and Achieve - to be held in Seattle, WA, October 14-17, 2006. This is your opportunity to share great ideas, research or other projects with colleagues and friends. Topics may be informational or research-oriented and should relate to some aspect of medical librarianship or medical informatics, including local practices, study results, current trends, or development and/or use of innovative technologies. Eligible presenters will receive AHIP points for their participation. We look forward to hearing from you! For complete submission information please see: http://pncmla.org/pncmla2006/
Thank you very much,
Danielle Carlock, MLS, AHIP
Reference and Instruction Librarian
Arizona State University at the Polytechnic campus
(480) 727-1278
danielle.carlock@asu.edu
Friday, June 02, 2006
CFP: Special issue of CLUES: A Journal of Detection--The Girl Sleuth Call for Papers
CFP: Special issue of CLUES: A Journal of Detection--The Girl Sleuth Call for Papers
Guest Editor: Leona Fisher, Georgetown University
This special issue of _Clues_ will focus on the “girl sleuth” rendered iconic from the 1930s onward by Nancy Drew, Vicki Barr, Judy Bolton, the Dana Girls, and others. The whole range of technical and thematic critical approaches is welcomed, including feminist, Marxist, and cultural studies perspectives. Articles might include the following topics:
-- the relationship among agency, imagination, and voice;
-- a focus on feminism, independence, courage, and heroism;
-- female bonding and empowerment;
-- issues of race and class, both historically and currently;
-- plotting and narrative point of view in relation to suspense;
-- characterization and the construction of American girlhood;
-- psychological and emotional self-awareness and the discovery of new knowledge;
-- violence and contemporary culture;
-- the generic relationship of formula fiction to other genres, including realism and fantasy;
-- the trend toward historical and period mysteries; or
-- the influence of girlhood mysteries on female adult detective writers.
Submissions should include a 50-word abstract and be between 15 and 20 double-spaced, typed pages (approximately 3,300 to 6,000 words) in Microsoft Word with minimal formatting. Manuscripts should follow the _MLA Style Manual_ by Joseph Gibaldi (2nd ed., 1998), including parenthetical citations in text and an alphabetized list of Works Cited. Please confirm that manuscripts have been submitted solely to _Clues_.
Submit online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/heldref/clues.
Elizabeth Foxwell
Managing Editor, CLUES: A Journal of Detection
Email: clu@heldref.org
Visit the website at http://www.heldref.org/clues.php
Guest Editor: Leona Fisher, Georgetown University
This special issue of _Clues_ will focus on the “girl sleuth” rendered iconic from the 1930s onward by Nancy Drew, Vicki Barr, Judy Bolton, the Dana Girls, and others. The whole range of technical and thematic critical approaches is welcomed, including feminist, Marxist, and cultural studies perspectives. Articles might include the following topics:
-- the relationship among agency, imagination, and voice;
-- a focus on feminism, independence, courage, and heroism;
-- female bonding and empowerment;
-- issues of race and class, both historically and currently;
-- plotting and narrative point of view in relation to suspense;
-- characterization and the construction of American girlhood;
-- psychological and emotional self-awareness and the discovery of new knowledge;
-- violence and contemporary culture;
-- the generic relationship of formula fiction to other genres, including realism and fantasy;
-- the trend toward historical and period mysteries; or
-- the influence of girlhood mysteries on female adult detective writers.
Submissions should include a 50-word abstract and be between 15 and 20 double-spaced, typed pages (approximately 3,300 to 6,000 words) in Microsoft Word with minimal formatting. Manuscripts should follow the _MLA Style Manual_ by Joseph Gibaldi (2nd ed., 1998), including parenthetical citations in text and an alphabetized list of Works Cited. Please confirm that manuscripts have been submitted solely to _Clues_.
Submit online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/heldref/clues.
Elizabeth Foxwell
Managing Editor, CLUES: A Journal of Detection
Email: clu@heldref.org
Visit the website at http://www.heldref.org/clues.php
ALA 2006: volunteers needed, Creative Ideas in Tech. Services DG
ALA 2006: volunteers needed, Creative Ideas in Tech. Services DG
The ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group will meet at the ALA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA on Sunday, June 25, 2006, from 4:00pm - 5:30pm, in the Vieux Carre room of the Hotel Monteleone. Participants can join breakout discussions on the eight topics listed below. The chair and vice-chair will provide a list of sub-topics at the meeting to serve as a discussion guide. At the end of the discussion period, each group will give a short summary for the benefit of all attendees.
This year, the chair is Kalyani Parthasarathy, Ohio State University and the vice-chair/chair-elect is Carla Davis Cunningham, Temple University.
VOLUNTEER FACILITATOR AND RECORDERS SOUGHT: We need volunteers to facilitate and record the discussions at each topic table. If you would like to facilitate or record, please send your information to Carla Davis Cunningham at ccunni01@temple.edu (that's ccunni zero one). Indicate all the topics you would be willing to facilitate or record. We would appreciate flexibility on your part as we finalize the assignments.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF VOLUNTEERS: FACILITATORS guide the discussion on the
topics at their tables, making sure everyone participates, and keeping within the allotted time. RECORDERS take notes during discussions and send written reports to the vice-chair soon after the conference is over. These reports form the basis for the report the chair sends to ALCTS. A written summary report is also sent to the Technical Services Quarterly.
The discussion topics are:
1. The Library of Congress' decisions on series titles
2. The impact of RLG/OCLC merger on technical services
3. Policy and procedure manuals for technical services
4. Disaster preparedness in technical services
5. Filling staff positions in technical services
6. Statistics gathering in acquisitions
7. Looking at technical services organization
8. Link resolvers and federated searching for access to electronic resources
VICE-CHAIR/CHAIR-ELECT SOUGHT: The ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group is also seeking a volunteer to serve as Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect. This position is a two year term and a great opportunity to do some relatively non-threatening service to the profession.
Please send your volunteer interests to Carla Davis Cunningham
by June 15. ccunni01@temple.edu
The ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group will meet at the ALA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA on Sunday, June 25, 2006, from 4:00pm - 5:30pm, in the Vieux Carre room of the Hotel Monteleone. Participants can join breakout discussions on the eight topics listed below. The chair and vice-chair will provide a list of sub-topics at the meeting to serve as a discussion guide. At the end of the discussion period, each group will give a short summary for the benefit of all attendees.
This year, the chair is Kalyani Parthasarathy, Ohio State University and the vice-chair/chair-elect is Carla Davis Cunningham, Temple University.
VOLUNTEER FACILITATOR AND RECORDERS SOUGHT: We need volunteers to facilitate and record the discussions at each topic table. If you would like to facilitate or record, please send your information to Carla Davis Cunningham at ccunni01@temple.edu (that's ccunni zero one). Indicate all the topics you would be willing to facilitate or record. We would appreciate flexibility on your part as we finalize the assignments.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF VOLUNTEERS: FACILITATORS guide the discussion on the
topics at their tables, making sure everyone participates, and keeping within the allotted time. RECORDERS take notes during discussions and send written reports to the vice-chair soon after the conference is over. These reports form the basis for the report the chair sends to ALCTS. A written summary report is also sent to the Technical Services Quarterly.
The discussion topics are:
1. The Library of Congress' decisions on series titles
2. The impact of RLG/OCLC merger on technical services
3. Policy and procedure manuals for technical services
4. Disaster preparedness in technical services
5. Filling staff positions in technical services
6. Statistics gathering in acquisitions
7. Looking at technical services organization
8. Link resolvers and federated searching for access to electronic resources
VICE-CHAIR/CHAIR-ELECT SOUGHT: The ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group is also seeking a volunteer to serve as Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect. This position is a two year term and a great opportunity to do some relatively non-threatening service to the profession.
Please send your volunteer interests to Carla Davis Cunningham
Thursday, June 01, 2006
LITA Blog now accepting volunteers for ALA Annual
LITA Blog now accepting volunteers for ALA Annual
LITA Blog has a tentative schedule up http://litablog.org/blog-schedule-ala-annual-06/ for Annual on the blog. Please go, check out the schedule, and volunteer. We require no experience, just someone with an opinion to share about things they have heard and seen. If you want to blog something not on the list, please volunteer for that instead and we can add it to the list. We are very flexible.
If you have questions regarding policies, please read http://litablog.org/lita-blog-policies-and-procedures/.
If you have other questions or would like to volunteer, please email me (not the list) at mlboule@uh.edu or AIM me as LeFey6.
Have a wonderful Thursday!
Michelle
LITA Blog Scheduling Maven
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Michelle Boule
Social Sciences Librarian
University of Houston
713-743-9776
mlboule@uh.edu
LITA Blog has a tentative schedule up http://litablog.org/blog-schedule-ala-annual-06/ for Annual on the blog. Please go, check out the schedule, and volunteer. We require no experience, just someone with an opinion to share about things they have heard and seen. If you want to blog something not on the list, please volunteer for that instead and we can add it to the list. We are very flexible.
If you have questions regarding policies, please read http://litablog.org/lita-blog-policies-and-procedures/.
If you have other questions or would like to volunteer, please email me (not the list) at mlboule@uh.edu or AIM me as LeFey6.
Have a wonderful Thursday!
Michelle
LITA Blog Scheduling Maven
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Michelle Boule
Social Sciences Librarian
University of Houston
713-743-9776
mlboule@uh.edu
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Sea Stories journal now online (opportunity for new online journal)
Sea Stories journal now online (opportunity for new online journal)
Blue Ocean Institute is proud to announce the inaugural issue of Sea Stories, a new online journal devoted to nurturing appreciation and concern for the world’s oceans through writing, art, and conversation. Our first issue features poetry, prose, photography, and painting from a wide variety of contributors – artists and activists, fishers and scientists, students and vacationers, a veteran ocean researcher and a ten-year-old girl on her first dive to a coral reef ... and a former U.S. Poet Laureate, Billy Collins. Educators are encouraged to use Sea Stories as a focus for writing assignments in your classroom and as a publishing opportunity for yourself or your students. Please visit us at www.seastories.org to peruse our first issue, sign up for our mailing list, learn more about us (including submissions guidelines) – and refresh your own connection to the sea!
Steven Pavlos Holmes, Ph.D.
Sea Stories Editor and Project Coordinator
Blue Ocean Institute
Cold Spring Harbor, NY
617-971-9764
Email: sholmes@blueocean.org
Visit the website at http://www.seastories.org
Blue Ocean Institute is proud to announce the inaugural issue of Sea Stories, a new online journal devoted to nurturing appreciation and concern for the world’s oceans through writing, art, and conversation. Our first issue features poetry, prose, photography, and painting from a wide variety of contributors – artists and activists, fishers and scientists, students and vacationers, a veteran ocean researcher and a ten-year-old girl on her first dive to a coral reef ... and a former U.S. Poet Laureate, Billy Collins. Educators are encouraged to use Sea Stories as a focus for writing assignments in your classroom and as a publishing opportunity for yourself or your students. Please visit us at www.seastories.org to peruse our first issue, sign up for our mailing list, learn more about us (including submissions guidelines) – and refresh your own connection to the sea!
Steven Pavlos Holmes, Ph.D.
Sea Stories Editor and Project Coordinator
Blue Ocean Institute
Cold Spring Harbor, NY
617-971-9764
Email: sholmes@blueocean.org
Visit the website at http://www.seastories.org
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