CFP: Cataloging & Classification Quarterly
CCQ welcomes the submission of research, theory, and practice papers relevant to the broad field of bibliographic organization.
This journal, published now 8 times a year by Taylor & Francis, LLC, is respected as an international forum that emphasizes research and review articles, description of new programs and technologies relevant to cataloging and classification, and considered speculative articles on improved methods of bibliographic control for the future.
Articles are particularly welcome in areas dealing with research-based cataloging practice, including user behavior, user needs and benefits.
Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts via email with attached word document to the Editor, Sandra K. Roe, Bibliographic Services Librarian, Illinois State University email: skroe@ilstu.edu.
Special Issues
Colleagues interested in guest editing a special issue or expanded double issue are invited to contact the Editor with a general proposal, tentative schedule, and CVs. Previous special issues have included:
*Metadata and Open Access Repositories (Michael Babinec and Holly Mercer, Guest Editors)
*Bibliographic Database Quality (Jeffrey Beall and Stephen Hearn, Guest Editors)
*The Intellectual and Professional World of Cataloging (Qiang Jin, Guest Editor)
*Knitting the Semantic Web (Jane Greenberg and Eva Méndez, Guest Editor)
*Cataloger, Editor and Scholar: Essays in Honor of Ruth C. Carter (Robert Holley, Guest Editor)
Annual Best Paper Award
Taylor & Francis sponsors an annual prize for CCQ with a small financial stipend for the Best Paper of the Year.
Complimentary Print Sample
A free print specimen copy may be obtained by sending an email to Jason McAndrew jason.mcandrew@taylorandfrancis.com
Free Digital (Electronic) Sample...(available immediately)
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b) Go down five lines to this line (it will be in light blue)
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For More Details
Further details may be found at the CCQ home page: http://catalogingandclassificationquarterly.com/
Friday, June 26, 2009
Call for Papers: Beyond Semantics - the linguistic turn of Library and Information Science
Call for Papers: Beyond Semantics - the linguistic turn of Library and Information Science
LIBREAS (Library Ideas) is an electronic journal which operates under a free-access model,
meaning no costs for authors and readership (http://www.LIBREAS.eu or http://www.libreas.eu/formal/english.htm). This eJournal was
launched in 2005 by students at Berlin School of Library and Information Science (IBI)
which is part of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. It still is housed at the IBI.
Now the editorial board consists of eight unpaid editors (mostly alumni of IBI, some
currently students). Recently LIBREAS established a branch in St. Paul,
Minnesota (USA) to strengthen our focus on North American scholarship.
LIBREAS aims to be the gateway between the "young and wild ones" and the
"old hands" in research and practice. It acts as a place for dialogue and idea exchange. By
now it is an established institution within the field of library and information science. We
particularly encourage emerging professionals and students to identify with LIBREAS.
Open-mindedness for new ideas and trends throughout the field of library and information
science is one characteristic of LIBREAS. Accompanied by at least two issues
per year, we publish self-produced audio recordings and podcasts, blogs, travel reports
and photo slide shows on a regular basis. LIBREAS seeks to provide a space
for development, identify niches and encourage controversial thoughts.
We invite you to submit articles, podcasts or reviews for our upcoming issue. We also encourage you to distribute this CfP to other interested parties.
LIBREAS Issue 15 Call for Papers: Beyond Semantics - the linguistic turn of Library and Information Science
A key challenge in Library and Information Science is the fundamental change in the content carriers. While traditionally physical media, such as books, served as the content carrier the increasing shift to digital content requires a radical change in perspective.
In the digital environment the content is flexible; hyperlinked, dynamically distributed and automatically indexed. In this environment the sheer amount of content limits the ability of intellectual indexing.
There are three branches of semiotics:
• Syntactics: referring to the relation of signs to each other
• Semantics: referring to the relation between signs and the respective things they refer to
• Pragmatics: referring to the relation of signs to their impacts on those who use them.
Current technical means of indexing are mostly limited to the syntactic level. The indexing process only requires the use of algorithms and the application of respective relations. Because of the binary structure of digital texts, those means and methods tend to be accurate. This method clearly has its limitations when it comes to the meaning of some texts. Therefore, we propose the application and elaboration of semiotic approaches to address these limitations.
On the semantic level there are some technical approaches within the research of the so-called semantic web (e.g. the development of ontologies). As of now, both the practicality and the outcomes of these technical approaches appear to be rather limited. Intellectual assistance is still necessary to actualize the relations of meaning.
On the pragmatic level there is currently no technical approach. Still, the pragmatic level has attracted an increasing amount of attention and gains relevance as the communication processes are increasingly handled in the digital realm. Currently, different types of content are mixed-up; such that the line between official publication and personal utterances (e.g. blogs, Twitter) is blurred.
The major thesis of the next issue of LIBREAS is as follows:
It is imperative that any contemporary discourse in signs and sign-structures includes the whole semiotic framework. A solely intellectual and pragmatic approach inevitably fails because of the sheer amount of material, while a reduction of syntactic and structural aspects leads to the contraction of perspective regarding the actual usage of such environments. The combination of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels is vital for LIS to effectively deal with the complexity of digital and netted content.
We are far from understanding what a combination of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels will look like in a technical application framework. For the next issue of LIBREAS we ask for contributions to address the issue from a conceptual and/or methodological perspective in a broader sense and/or that discuss the given thesis. The goal is to elaborate on the relationships between signs and text regarding the syntactic and semantic values, as well as their relationship with human users. Furthermore, we will try to formulate fields of application and methodological potential for LIS within this context.
The deadline for submissions is July 24th, 2009. Please note our guidelines for authors.
You may contact us via redaktion@libreas.eu.
LIBREAS (Library Ideas) is an electronic journal which operates under a free-access model,
meaning no costs for authors and readership (http://www.LIBREAS.eu or http://www.libreas.eu/formal/english.htm). This eJournal was
launched in 2005 by students at Berlin School of Library and Information Science (IBI)
which is part of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. It still is housed at the IBI.
Now the editorial board consists of eight unpaid editors (mostly alumni of IBI, some
currently students). Recently LIBREAS established a branch in St. Paul,
Minnesota (USA) to strengthen our focus on North American scholarship.
LIBREAS aims to be the gateway between the "young and wild ones" and the
"old hands" in research and practice. It acts as a place for dialogue and idea exchange. By
now it is an established institution within the field of library and information science. We
particularly encourage emerging professionals and students to identify with LIBREAS.
Open-mindedness for new ideas and trends throughout the field of library and information
science is one characteristic of LIBREAS. Accompanied by at least two issues
per year, we publish self-produced audio recordings and podcasts, blogs, travel reports
and photo slide shows on a regular basis. LIBREAS seeks to provide a space
for development, identify niches and encourage controversial thoughts.
We invite you to submit articles, podcasts or reviews for our upcoming issue. We also encourage you to distribute this CfP to other interested parties.
LIBREAS Issue 15 Call for Papers: Beyond Semantics - the linguistic turn of Library and Information Science
A key challenge in Library and Information Science is the fundamental change in the content carriers. While traditionally physical media, such as books, served as the content carrier the increasing shift to digital content requires a radical change in perspective.
In the digital environment the content is flexible; hyperlinked, dynamically distributed and automatically indexed. In this environment the sheer amount of content limits the ability of intellectual indexing.
There are three branches of semiotics:
• Syntactics: referring to the relation of signs to each other
• Semantics: referring to the relation between signs and the respective things they refer to
• Pragmatics: referring to the relation of signs to their impacts on those who use them.
Current technical means of indexing are mostly limited to the syntactic level. The indexing process only requires the use of algorithms and the application of respective relations. Because of the binary structure of digital texts, those means and methods tend to be accurate. This method clearly has its limitations when it comes to the meaning of some texts. Therefore, we propose the application and elaboration of semiotic approaches to address these limitations.
On the semantic level there are some technical approaches within the research of the so-called semantic web (e.g. the development of ontologies). As of now, both the practicality and the outcomes of these technical approaches appear to be rather limited. Intellectual assistance is still necessary to actualize the relations of meaning.
On the pragmatic level there is currently no technical approach. Still, the pragmatic level has attracted an increasing amount of attention and gains relevance as the communication processes are increasingly handled in the digital realm. Currently, different types of content are mixed-up; such that the line between official publication and personal utterances (e.g. blogs, Twitter) is blurred.
The major thesis of the next issue of LIBREAS is as follows:
It is imperative that any contemporary discourse in signs and sign-structures includes the whole semiotic framework. A solely intellectual and pragmatic approach inevitably fails because of the sheer amount of material, while a reduction of syntactic and structural aspects leads to the contraction of perspective regarding the actual usage of such environments. The combination of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels is vital for LIS to effectively deal with the complexity of digital and netted content.
We are far from understanding what a combination of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels will look like in a technical application framework. For the next issue of LIBREAS we ask for contributions to address the issue from a conceptual and/or methodological perspective in a broader sense and/or that discuss the given thesis. The goal is to elaborate on the relationships between signs and text regarding the syntactic and semantic values, as well as their relationship with human users. Furthermore, we will try to formulate fields of application and methodological potential for LIS within this context.
The deadline for submissions is July 24th, 2009. Please note our guidelines for authors.
You may contact us via redaktion@libreas.eu.
Call for Reviewers, Technical Services Quarterly
Call for Reviewers, Technical Services Quarterly
Technical Services Quarterly is looking for reviewers to contribute to the column, Tech Services on the Web. We are always interested in learning which sites are useful for your own work, so please consider sharing your expertise with our readers. Contact Column Editor: Marta Deyrup marta.deyrup@shu.edu
Site URL:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t792306978~db=all
Technical Services Quarterly is looking for reviewers to contribute to the column, Tech Services on the Web. We are always interested in learning which sites are useful for your own work, so please consider sharing your expertise with our readers. Contact Column Editor: Marta Deyrup marta.deyrup@shu.edu
Site URL:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t792306978~db=all
Thursday, June 25, 2009
ALA's Guide to Reference
ALA's Guide to Reference http://www.guidetoreference.org/ is recruiting contributing editors to identify and describe the best reference sources in assigned subject categories. Grounded in a hundred-year history as the standard for reference service, the new online Guide to Reference now offers over 16,000 authoritative print and web reference resources with browse and search
capabilities and is updated on an ongoing basis.
The complete and updated list of vacancies in subject and language sections is
maintained at: http://www.guidetoreference.org/DynamicContent.aspx?ctype=13
To join the team, please see the position description and application form at:
http://www.guidetoreference.org/DynamicContent.aspx?ctype=8
If you are attending the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago and would like to learn more about the Guide, please join us on:
Saturday, July 11
1:30-3:30 p.m.
McCormick Place West, W-476
or stop by our exhibit booth #1426.
(Please excuse duplication; message cross-posted to several lists.)
Denise Bennett, incoming General Editor for Guide to Reference
University of Florida, Marston Science Library
dbennett@ufl.edu
352-273-2864
capabilities and is updated on an ongoing basis.
The complete and updated list of vacancies in subject and language sections is
maintained at: http://www.guidetoreference.org/DynamicContent.aspx?ctype=13
To join the team, please see the position description and application form at:
http://www.guidetoreference.org/DynamicContent.aspx?ctype=8
If you are attending the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago and would like to learn more about the Guide, please join us on:
Saturday, July 11
1:30-3:30 p.m.
McCormick Place West, W-476
or stop by our exhibit booth #1426.
(Please excuse duplication; message cross-posted to several lists.)
Denise Bennett, incoming General Editor for Guide to Reference
University of Florida, Marston Science Library
dbennett@ufl.edu
352-273-2864
CFP: LITA at ALA Annual, 2010
CFP: LITA at ALA Annual, 2010
LITA Committee Chairs, IG Chairs, and other technically inclined library folk,
This year, the LITA Program Planning Committee, in an effort to modernize the workflow for planning programs for ALA Annual, has moved the process entirely online! The following is the form that you can fill out if you are interested in proposing a program via LITA for ALA Annual 2010, June 24-30th in Washington, DC:
http://tinyurl.com/LITAPrograms2010
The form will be available at the above link, on ALA Connect (http://connect.ala.org/node/76611), on LITABlog (http://litablog.org/ala-annual-2010-program-proposals/), and anywhere else we can embed it.
Once you submit your program proposal, the Program Planning Committee will be in touch with you by the middle of August, 2009. The soft deadline for submitting proposals to LITA for a program for Annual 2010 is July 31st, 2009.
Questions
If you have questions about anything relating to programs at ALA Annual, there is a public discussion board on ALA Connect designed just for that:
http://connect.ala.org/forum/6608
You do have to have an ALA Connect login, but you do not have to be an ALA member...you can register as a non-ALA member and still ask questions of the PPC. If you are an ALA member, you can login to Connect using your ALA login information.
If you have any problems that the Connect group doesn't solve (or you have other issues), you can email me directly, Jason Griffey, at griffey@gmail.com or find me on Twitter at @griffey. But please try to use the forum first. :-)
What can you submit
I am well aware of the challenge inherent with planning technology programming a full year in advance of the conference. Feel free to be a general as you need to be in describing your program on first draft...we can always approach you and ask you for details as we move through the process. But you do not have to have every speaker booked, and every topic decided, to put forward a proposal. Have a topic area, a theme, an idea for where you think tech will be? Go with it.
Who Can Submit Proposals
There is one more difference in the process this year that everyone should be aware of. In the past, all programs were driven by Committee and Interest Group submissions, with each group effectively submitting one program. While the PPC is happy to get submissions from these groups, it is NOT NECESSARY to be backed by a group in order for LITA PPC to examine and forward your proposal for a program.
If you, as an individual member, have a great idea and want to be considered, please put in a proposal. If you and two friends want to throw your hats in the ring, please do. If you aren't a LITA or ALA member _at all_ and think you have the best idea for a program at ALA Annual in the history of technology, fill out the form!
Library Society of the World, Code4Lib, and other library groups: here's your chance! Please participate and share with us! Let LITA give you a stage for your ideas. If you have an idea worth putting in front of 300 people at the largest gathering of librarians in the world, we are interested in giving you that opportunity.
Bring it.
Jason Griffey
Chair, LITA Program Planning Committee
LITA Committee Chairs, IG Chairs, and other technically inclined library folk,
This year, the LITA Program Planning Committee, in an effort to modernize the workflow for planning programs for ALA Annual, has moved the process entirely online! The following is the form that you can fill out if you are interested in proposing a program via LITA for ALA Annual 2010, June 24-30th in Washington, DC:
http://tinyurl.com/LITAPrograms2010
The form will be available at the above link, on ALA Connect (http://connect.ala.org/node/76611), on LITABlog (http://litablog.org/ala-annual-2010-program-proposals/), and anywhere else we can embed it.
Once you submit your program proposal, the Program Planning Committee will be in touch with you by the middle of August, 2009. The soft deadline for submitting proposals to LITA for a program for Annual 2010 is July 31st, 2009.
Questions
If you have questions about anything relating to programs at ALA Annual, there is a public discussion board on ALA Connect designed just for that:
http://connect.ala.org/forum/6608
You do have to have an ALA Connect login, but you do not have to be an ALA member...you can register as a non-ALA member and still ask questions of the PPC. If you are an ALA member, you can login to Connect using your ALA login information.
If you have any problems that the Connect group doesn't solve (or you have other issues), you can email me directly, Jason Griffey, at griffey@gmail.com or find me on Twitter at @griffey. But please try to use the forum first. :-)
What can you submit
I am well aware of the challenge inherent with planning technology programming a full year in advance of the conference. Feel free to be a general as you need to be in describing your program on first draft...we can always approach you and ask you for details as we move through the process. But you do not have to have every speaker booked, and every topic decided, to put forward a proposal. Have a topic area, a theme, an idea for where you think tech will be? Go with it.
Who Can Submit Proposals
There is one more difference in the process this year that everyone should be aware of. In the past, all programs were driven by Committee and Interest Group submissions, with each group effectively submitting one program. While the PPC is happy to get submissions from these groups, it is NOT NECESSARY to be backed by a group in order for LITA PPC to examine and forward your proposal for a program.
If you, as an individual member, have a great idea and want to be considered, please put in a proposal. If you and two friends want to throw your hats in the ring, please do. If you aren't a LITA or ALA member _at all_ and think you have the best idea for a program at ALA Annual in the history of technology, fill out the form!
Library Society of the World, Code4Lib, and other library groups: here's your chance! Please participate and share with us! Let LITA give you a stage for your ideas. If you have an idea worth putting in front of 300 people at the largest gathering of librarians in the world, we are interested in giving you that opportunity.
Bring it.
Jason Griffey
Chair, LITA Program Planning Committee
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Call for Reporters (ALCTS Preconferences and Programs at ALA Annual, 2009)
Call for Reporters (ALCTS Preconferences and Programs at ALA Annual, 2009)
I need reporters for ALCTS preconferences and programs that will take place during the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago in July. Reports are typically about 500 words, will be published in the September issue of the ALCTS Newsletter Online (ANO), and include a
byline. Last year's reports are available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/resources/ano/v19/n4/rpts/prog.cfm.
Contact me if you're interested in reporting or would like to suggest someone, and I'll send you a list of preconferences and programs. Reporters don't have to be ALCTS members, but they must be registered for the ALA Conference. Reports are due by August 15 and will run in
the September issue of ANO.
Sincerely,
Mary Beth Weber
Editor, ALCTS Newsletter Online
--
Mary Beth Weber
Head, Technical Services Department
Technical and Automated Services
Rutgers University Libraries
(732)445-0500
mbfecko@rci.rutgers.edu
I need reporters for ALCTS preconferences and programs that will take place during the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago in July. Reports are typically about 500 words, will be published in the September issue of the ALCTS Newsletter Online (ANO), and include a
byline. Last year's reports are available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/resources/ano/v19/n4/rpts/prog.cfm.
Contact me if you're interested in reporting or would like to suggest someone, and I'll send you a list of preconferences and programs. Reporters don't have to be ALCTS members, but they must be registered for the ALA Conference. Reports are due by August 15 and will run in
the September issue of ANO.
Sincerely,
Mary Beth Weber
Editor, ALCTS Newsletter Online
--
Mary Beth Weber
Head, Technical Services Department
Technical and Automated Services
Rutgers University Libraries
(732)445-0500
mbfecko@rci.rutgers.edu
Monday, June 15, 2009
Call for Chapters: Gen-X perspectives on libraries and librarianship
Call for Chapters: Gen-X perspectives on libraries and librarianship
This is a call for previously unpublished papers on Gen-X perspectives on libraries and librarianship, to go into an anthology co-edited by the wonderful Rebecca Tolley-Stokes of ETSU's Sherrod Library, who also edits TLA's journal *Tennessee Libraries*. It looks like they want submissions from all types of libraries and perspectives (academic, public, et cetera),
and they've given some suggested topics but appear to be open to others. Publishing and presenting can be make-or-break factors in the job search, as well as great ways to contribute to the life of the profession, and this looks like a really neat opportunity to get in on it. Only a short summary is needed for the proposal; you don't have to write the full paper unless it's accepted.
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/33175
Y'all are welcome to holler at me to run interference with Rebecca for
questions, or you can contact her directly at the email given at this link.
Sarah Searles sarah.culp@GMAIL.COM
This is a call for previously unpublished papers on Gen-X perspectives on libraries and librarianship, to go into an anthology co-edited by the wonderful Rebecca Tolley-Stokes of ETSU's Sherrod Library, who also edits TLA's journal *Tennessee Libraries*. It looks like they want submissions from all types of libraries and perspectives (academic, public, et cetera),
and they've given some suggested topics but appear to be open to others. Publishing and presenting can be make-or-break factors in the job search, as well as great ways to contribute to the life of the profession, and this looks like a really neat opportunity to get in on it. Only a short summary is needed for the proposal; you don't have to write the full paper unless it's accepted.
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/33175
Y'all are welcome to holler at me to run interference with Rebecca for
questions, or you can contact her directly at the email given at this link.
Sarah Searles sarah.culp@GMAIL.COM
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Call for Bloggers at ALA Annual (Metadata and Digital Library Development)
Call for Bloggers at ALA Annual (Metadata and Digital Library Development)
Calling ALA Annual attendees with an interest in metadata and digital library development! We are searching for bloggers to report on selected sessions on the Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group's Blog. Planning to attend a session or already reporting on a
session? Think about blogging it here too! Help out your colleagues who are unable to travel year and get a little writing experience yourself. If you would like to blog any of the sessions, please contact Kristin Martin at kmarti@uic.edu with your name, e-mail address, and preferred
session. A list of recommended sessions is available at:
http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php?title=ala_annual_2009_best_bets_for_metadata_l&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1.
Interested in a section not listed that you think would be of interest?
Suggest it!
Thanks,
Kristin
--
Kristin E. Martin
Metadata Librarian
Catalog Department (MC 234)
2-390 Richard J. Daley Library
University of Illinois at Chicago
801 S. Morgan
Chicago, IL 60607
312-413-5052
312-413-0424 (Fax)
kmarti@uic.edu
Calling ALA Annual attendees with an interest in metadata and digital library development! We are searching for bloggers to report on selected sessions on the Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group's Blog. Planning to attend a session or already reporting on a
session? Think about blogging it here too! Help out your colleagues who are unable to travel year and get a little writing experience yourself. If you would like to blog any of the sessions, please contact Kristin Martin at kmarti@uic.edu with your name, e-mail address, and preferred
session. A list of recommended sessions is available at:
http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php?title=ala_annual_2009_best_bets_for_metadata_l&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1.
Interested in a section not listed that you think would be of interest?
Suggest it!
Thanks,
Kristin
--
Kristin E. Martin
Metadata Librarian
Catalog Department (MC 234)
2-390 Richard J. Daley Library
University of Illinois at Chicago
801 S. Morgan
Chicago, IL 60607
312-413-5052
312-413-0424 (Fax)
kmarti@uic.edu
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
CFP: Journal of Web Librarianship Issue on Library Intranets
CFP: Journal of Web Librarianship Issue on Library Intranets
The Journal of Web Librarianship is pleased to announce an upcoming special issue, "Library Intranets 2.0." Manuscript proposals are now being accepted!
Web 2.0 tools have dramatically increased opportunities for communication and collaboration in all areas of our online lives. Library literature abounds with accounts of how libraries are successfully using these tools to connect with users, but how are librarians and library staff leveraging 2.0 technologies to improve internal communication? This special peer-reviewed issue of the Journal of Web Librarianship focuses on use of 2.0 tools, technologies, and philosophies for creating organizational synergy via Web 2.0 intranets in all kinds of libraries.
Nina McHale, Assistant Professor and Web Librarian at the University of Colorado Denver, will be guest editing this special issue. She has experience in reference and systems, and prior to coming to Auraria Library, she held academic positions at Howard Community College (Columbia, Maryland) and Georgetown University. Her research interests include Web and Library 2.0, usability testing, user-centered design, and federated searching. She holds a joint MA/MSLS in English and library science from The Catholic University of America.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
-identifying/creating best practices for internal information sharing (formats, workflow, access control, etc.)
-2.0 tools for improving internal communication
-use of open source software, i.e., Drupal, MediaWiki, for library intranets
-use of proprietary products, i.e., Microsoft SharePoint
-migrating intranets, managing content
-failed intranets: lessons learned
-2.0 buy-in and staff training
-spanning physical distances: connecting consortium members, branches, etc.
Query letters and preliminary proposals are welcome if potential authors would like to discuss their ideas with the editors. Please submit queries and manuscripts to guest editor Nina McHale at jwl.special@gmail.com. Please refer to the JWL web site, http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/jwl for Instructions for Authors.
Timeline:
November 1, 2009 - Manuscript submissions due.
January 2010 - Authors will receive preliminary notices and/or peer-review comments
March 2010 - Revisions due for accepted manuscripts
The Journal of Web Librarianship
Nina McHale, Special Issue Editor
Jody Condit Fagan, Editor
Email: jwl.special@gmail.com
Website: http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/jwl/
The Journal of Web Librarianship is pleased to announce an upcoming special issue, "Library Intranets 2.0." Manuscript proposals are now being accepted!
Web 2.0 tools have dramatically increased opportunities for communication and collaboration in all areas of our online lives. Library literature abounds with accounts of how libraries are successfully using these tools to connect with users, but how are librarians and library staff leveraging 2.0 technologies to improve internal communication? This special peer-reviewed issue of the Journal of Web Librarianship focuses on use of 2.0 tools, technologies, and philosophies for creating organizational synergy via Web 2.0 intranets in all kinds of libraries.
Nina McHale, Assistant Professor and Web Librarian at the University of Colorado Denver, will be guest editing this special issue. She has experience in reference and systems, and prior to coming to Auraria Library, she held academic positions at Howard Community College (Columbia, Maryland) and Georgetown University. Her research interests include Web and Library 2.0, usability testing, user-centered design, and federated searching. She holds a joint MA/MSLS in English and library science from The Catholic University of America.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
-identifying/creating best practices for internal information sharing (formats, workflow, access control, etc.)
-2.0 tools for improving internal communication
-use of open source software, i.e., Drupal, MediaWiki, for library intranets
-use of proprietary products, i.e., Microsoft SharePoint
-migrating intranets, managing content
-failed intranets: lessons learned
-2.0 buy-in and staff training
-spanning physical distances: connecting consortium members, branches, etc.
Query letters and preliminary proposals are welcome if potential authors would like to discuss their ideas with the editors. Please submit queries and manuscripts to guest editor Nina McHale at jwl.special@gmail.com. Please refer to the JWL web site, http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/jwl for Instructions for Authors.
Timeline:
November 1, 2009 - Manuscript submissions due.
January 2010 - Authors will receive preliminary notices and/or peer-review comments
March 2010 - Revisions due for accepted manuscripts
The Journal of Web Librarianship
Nina McHale, Special Issue Editor
Jody Condit Fagan, Editor
Email: jwl.special@gmail.com
Website: http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/jwl/
CFP: Northwest Innovative Users Group Meeting (September 2009)
CFP: Northwest Innovative Users Group Meeting (September 2009)
The Northwest Innovative Users Group is currently accepting proposals for one hour (60 minute) program presentations at the Fifteenth Annual NWIUG Users Group meeting on Thursday, September 10 and Friday, September 11, 2009 at the Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon. This is your chance to share III expertise/issues with your colleagues, and, for those of you from out-of-town, a chance to enjoy both the beautiful Chemeketa Community College campus and Salem's historic sites.
The conference will be structured as it has been in past years - concurrent presentations within each program session.
Your ideas on programs you would like to see presented are also welcome.
Just e-mail these ideas to: nwiugsteers@googlegroups.com with a description of what you would like covered.
Please submit proposals for presentations using the form on the NWIUG web site: http://www.nwiug.org/proposal.html
We're also looking for moderators for the following forums: Acquisitions, Cataloging, Circulation, Serials, WebOPAC, VIA.
Questions? Ideas? Let us know!
Thanks so much.
Your NWIUG Steering Committee
Janet Crum Chair / Oregon Health & Science University
Sandra Dyer / Washington State Law Library
Karen Kunz / Oregon Institute of Technology Library
Hana Levay / University of Washington Doris Munson / Eastern Washington University
Sion Romaine / Past Chair, University of Washington
Katherine Rouzie / Portland Public Schools
John Goodyear / Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service
The Northwest Innovative Users Group is currently accepting proposals for one hour (60 minute) program presentations at the Fifteenth Annual NWIUG Users Group meeting on Thursday, September 10 and Friday, September 11, 2009 at the Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon. This is your chance to share III expertise/issues with your colleagues, and, for those of you from out-of-town, a chance to enjoy both the beautiful Chemeketa Community College campus and Salem's historic sites.
The conference will be structured as it has been in past years - concurrent presentations within each program session.
Your ideas on programs you would like to see presented are also welcome.
Just e-mail these ideas to: nwiugsteers@googlegroups.com with a description of what you would like covered.
Please submit proposals for presentations using the form on the NWIUG web site: http://www.nwiug.org/proposal.html
We're also looking for moderators for the following forums: Acquisitions, Cataloging, Circulation, Serials, WebOPAC, VIA.
Questions? Ideas? Let us know!
Thanks so much.
Your NWIUG Steering Committee
Janet Crum Chair / Oregon Health & Science University
Sandra Dyer / Washington State Law Library
Karen Kunz / Oregon Institute of Technology Library
Hana Levay / University of Washington Doris Munson / Eastern Washington University
Sion Romaine / Past Chair, University of Washington
Katherine Rouzie / Portland Public Schools
John Goodyear / Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service
Call for Bloggers - ALA Annual (2009, Chicago)
Call for Bloggers - ALA Annual (2009, Chicago)
Attending the ALA 2009 Annual Conference in Chicago this July? Be a part of the fun and blog for LITA! We need volunteers to blog about sessions, speakers, and general conference atmosphere.
We would like coverage for as many of the sessions as possible, so see the current Blog Schedule: http://litablog.org/blog-schedule-ala-annual-2009/
Pick one (or more) items to cover and join the LITA Blogging Community. No experience is required to blog, though we would love to see some of our experienced volunteers back again.
Attending the ALA 2009 Annual Conference in Chicago this July? Be a part of the fun and blog for LITA! We need volunteers to blog about sessions, speakers, and general conference atmosphere.
We would like coverage for as many of the sessions as possible, so see the current Blog Schedule: http://litablog.org/blog-schedule-ala-annual-2009/
Pick one (or more) items to cover and join the LITA Blogging Community. No experience is required to blog, though we would love to see some of our experienced volunteers back again.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Call for Book Chapters on Corporate Libraries
Call for Book Chapters on Corporate Libraries
NEW DATE: Please send chapters or chapter proposals by July 28, 2009
We are seeking chapter proposals for a new edited collection on corporate libraries. This book will be an edited collection of chapters describing best practices in a variety of corporate libraries worldwide, providing both a foundation of knowledge for scholars in library and information science areas and information and ideas for practicing corporate librarians. The editors have obtained an interest from the publisher, and a contract is pending a list of potential chapters and contributors.
Please submit a proposal of 250 words, or a full chapter, for consideration.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Planning a Corporate Library, including chapters on topics such as design, architecture, and facility planning, budget and staffing, long range planning, technology planning, hiring, recruiting, and training for a new library.
Collaborations, including chapters on interlibrary lending and borrowing, joint libraries, consortia and other types of collaborations and organizations.
Technology, including chapters on best practices, discussions of the use of technology, and the scope of a corporate librarian’s job such as what technological support they offer, web sites and internet databases in relations to corporate librarianship, electronic services.
Staffing, including human resources, continuing education, professional networking, core competencies, management, routines
Communications, including articles regarding communications; for example, with satellite offices, with overseas branches, interdepartmental, computer mediated communication, and more.
Knowledge Management/ Organization, including topics covering how Corporate Libraries manage data and knowledge and organize it, and share it.
Special Issues This section will include articles about any special issues pertaining to Corporate Librarianship, such as current challenges, copyright and other legal topics, especially those that
are unique to corporate librarianship.
Please send chapters or chapter proposals by July 28, 2009, through email to:
Sigrid Kelsey and Jorie Porter, editors
sigridkelsey@gmail.com
NEW DATE: Please send chapters or chapter proposals by July 28, 2009
We are seeking chapter proposals for a new edited collection on corporate libraries. This book will be an edited collection of chapters describing best practices in a variety of corporate libraries worldwide, providing both a foundation of knowledge for scholars in library and information science areas and information and ideas for practicing corporate librarians. The editors have obtained an interest from the publisher, and a contract is pending a list of potential chapters and contributors.
Please submit a proposal of 250 words, or a full chapter, for consideration.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Planning a Corporate Library, including chapters on topics such as design, architecture, and facility planning, budget and staffing, long range planning, technology planning, hiring, recruiting, and training for a new library.
Collaborations, including chapters on interlibrary lending and borrowing, joint libraries, consortia and other types of collaborations and organizations.
Technology, including chapters on best practices, discussions of the use of technology, and the scope of a corporate librarian’s job such as what technological support they offer, web sites and internet databases in relations to corporate librarianship, electronic services.
Staffing, including human resources, continuing education, professional networking, core competencies, management, routines
Communications, including articles regarding communications; for example, with satellite offices, with overseas branches, interdepartmental, computer mediated communication, and more.
Knowledge Management/ Organization, including topics covering how Corporate Libraries manage data and knowledge and organize it, and share it.
Special Issues This section will include articles about any special issues pertaining to Corporate Librarianship, such as current challenges, copyright and other legal topics, especially those that
are unique to corporate librarianship.
Please send chapters or chapter proposals by July 28, 2009, through email to:
Sigrid Kelsey and Jorie Porter, editors
sigridkelsey@gmail.com
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Call for Articles: "Biz of Acq" column of Against the Grain
Call for Articles: "Biz of Acq" column of Against the Grain
Against the Grain is a down-to-earth, practice-oriented library journal. Its goal is to provide acquisitions librarians in all types of libraries, and information sellers, with current information on events in the field, and practical insights into acquisitions techniques and processes. The "Biz of Acq" column features discussions of key acquisitions topics by working librarians.
Ideas for upcoming "Biz of Acq" articles include:
-Acquisition of electronic resources, eg., streaming videos, electronic scores, MP3's, e-books, etc.
-Acquisitions/Cataloging workflows eg. exporting at point of order, purchasing bibliographic records with materials, the impact of cataloging considerations on the decision to purchase databases, etc.
-The technology of acquisitions eg. library systems, databases, spreadsheets, the web, etc.
-Acquisitions in a bad economy with a declining budget, eg. reallocation of funds, serials cuts, policy changes regarding purchasing paperbacks, second copies, and content in a 2nd format, etc. -Finding and selecting vendors and vendor comparison and assessment.
-Workflow analysis.
-Managing accounting and accounts.
-Acquisitions workflows to take advantage of sales.
-Managing customer expectations and difficult selectors.
-Recruiting, training, and retaining Acquisitions Librarians and staff.
Feel free to choose any of these topics, or one of your own. Theoretical articles, research reports, "how-to" articles, case studies, literature reviews and conceptual or opinion pieces are welcome. Article length should be approximately 1200-1500 words (4-5 pages, double-spaced).
Contributions may be written by individuals or co-authored.
URL: http://www.against-the-grain.com/
If you are interested in writing for "Biz of Acq", please contact the editor:
Michelle Flinchbaugh
flinchba@UMBC.EDU
Acquisitions Librarian
Albin O. Kuhn Library
UMBC
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Against the Grain is a down-to-earth, practice-oriented library journal. Its goal is to provide acquisitions librarians in all types of libraries, and information sellers, with current information on events in the field, and practical insights into acquisitions techniques and processes. The "Biz of Acq" column features discussions of key acquisitions topics by working librarians.
Ideas for upcoming "Biz of Acq" articles include:
-Acquisition of electronic resources, eg., streaming videos, electronic scores, MP3's, e-books, etc.
-Acquisitions/Cataloging workflows eg. exporting at point of order, purchasing bibliographic records with materials, the impact of cataloging considerations on the decision to purchase databases, etc.
-The technology of acquisitions eg. library systems, databases, spreadsheets, the web, etc.
-Acquisitions in a bad economy with a declining budget, eg. reallocation of funds, serials cuts, policy changes regarding purchasing paperbacks, second copies, and content in a 2nd format, etc. -Finding and selecting vendors and vendor comparison and assessment.
-Workflow analysis.
-Managing accounting and accounts.
-Acquisitions workflows to take advantage of sales.
-Managing customer expectations and difficult selectors.
-Recruiting, training, and retaining Acquisitions Librarians and staff.
Feel free to choose any of these topics, or one of your own. Theoretical articles, research reports, "how-to" articles, case studies, literature reviews and conceptual or opinion pieces are welcome. Article length should be approximately 1200-1500 words (4-5 pages, double-spaced).
Contributions may be written by individuals or co-authored.
URL: http://www.against-the-grain.com/
If you are interested in writing for "Biz of Acq", please contact the editor:
Michelle Flinchbaugh
flinchba@UMBC.EDU
Acquisitions Librarian
Albin O. Kuhn Library
UMBC
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
CFP: ALCTS Catalog Form and Function Interest Group (ALA Annual, Chicago, Ill.)
CFP: ALCTS Catalog Form & Function Interest Group (ALA Annual, Chicago, Ill.)
11 July 2009, 10:30-12:00 AM
Hilton Continental C
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The ALCTS Catalog Form & Function IG will be meeting in its usual high-impact, high-conflict time slot at ALA Annual this year, this time at the Chicago Hilton, the main conference hotel. Our topic this summer will be *Accentuating the "e-"*, and we are currently looking for presenters for that session. Presentations should be approximately 15 minutes in length with 10 minutes for follow-up questions.
*Accentuating the "e-"*: Libraries are increasingly looking for ways to draw attention to their growing local and consortial investments in e-resources by flagging these titles in the catalog, adding URLs to print and e-versions, adding search filters or facets for "Online", "Internet", "e-book", and "e-journal" offerings, creating external lists, RSS feeds, and so on. We will look at some of these methods and see if they are really serving the need they were intended to serve.
A separate call will be made within CFFIG, seeking nominations for the office of Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect. At the conclusion of Annual, the role of Chair is to pass to Richard R. Guajardo of the University of Houston. Congratulations Richard!
Charley Pennell
Chair, CFFIG
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Charley Pennell mailto:cpennell@ncsu.edu
11 July 2009, 10:30-12:00 AM
Hilton Continental C
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The ALCTS Catalog Form & Function IG will be meeting in its usual high-impact, high-conflict time slot at ALA Annual this year, this time at the Chicago Hilton, the main conference hotel. Our topic this summer will be *Accentuating the "e-"*, and we are currently looking for presenters for that session. Presentations should be approximately 15 minutes in length with 10 minutes for follow-up questions.
*Accentuating the "e-"*: Libraries are increasingly looking for ways to draw attention to their growing local and consortial investments in e-resources by flagging these titles in the catalog, adding URLs to print and e-versions, adding search filters or facets for "Online", "Internet", "e-book", and "e-journal" offerings, creating external lists, RSS feeds, and so on. We will look at some of these methods and see if they are really serving the need they were intended to serve.
A separate call will be made within CFFIG, seeking nominations for the office of Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect. At the conclusion of Annual, the role of Chair is to pass to Richard R. Guajardo of the University of Houston. Congratulations Richard!
Charley Pennell
Chair, CFFIG
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Charley Pennell mailto:cpennell@ncsu.edu
Monday, May 25, 2009
Freelance Writer on Library-Related Subjects (Primary Research Group)
Freelance Writer on Library-Related Subjects (Primary Research Group)
Primary Research Group is seeking writers, preferably practicing librarians, to summarize the results of surveys of professors, librarians and college students. Familiarily with research data a plus. All materials supplied; no research required. Please reply with resume to Primarydat@mindspring.com.
Primary Research Group is seeking writers, preferably practicing librarians, to summarize the results of surveys of professors, librarians and college students. Familiarily with research data a plus. All materials supplied; no research required. Please reply with resume to Primarydat@mindspring.com.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
CFP: Handheld Librarians Conference (online - July 30 & 31, 2009)
CFP: Handheld Librarians Conference (online - July 30 & 31, 2009)
Alliance Library System, Learning Times, and the Infoquest project are cosponsoring a
Handheld Librarians Conference to be held online on July 30 and 31, 2009 online using
Adobe Connect.
You are invited to submit a proposal for a 60 minute program on a mobile library topic If your proposal is accepted, you will receive free registration to the two day conference.
Please send your name, institution, position, email address, phone number, address, and the title of your presentation to: handheldlconference@gmail.com by June 22. Include a brief abstract about your program which discusses how your project started, how you staff your project, and the impact it has had on your library and services. We will contact you by July 1 regarding your program status.
If you have questions about the conference or the process, please contact handheldconference@gmail.com.
Thanks.
Lori Bell
Director of Innovation
Alliance Library System
600 High Point Lane
East Peoria, IL 61611
(309)694-9200 ext. 2128
lbell@alliancelibrarysystem.com
Alliance Library System, Learning Times, and the Infoquest project are cosponsoring a
Handheld Librarians Conference to be held online on July 30 and 31, 2009 online using
Adobe Connect.
You are invited to submit a proposal for a 60 minute program on a mobile library topic If your proposal is accepted, you will receive free registration to the two day conference.
Please send your name, institution, position, email address, phone number, address, and the title of your presentation to: handheldlconference@gmail.com by June 22. Include a brief abstract about your program which discusses how your project started, how you staff your project, and the impact it has had on your library and services. We will contact you by July 1 regarding your program status.
If you have questions about the conference or the process, please contact handheldconference@gmail.com.
Thanks.
Lori Bell
Director of Innovation
Alliance Library System
600 High Point Lane
East Peoria, IL 61611
(309)694-9200 ext. 2128
lbell@alliancelibrarysystem.com
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
CFP: International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web (ICSD 2009)
CFP: International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web (ICSD 2009)
September 8-11, 2009 - University of Trento, Trento (ITALY)
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The CONVENORS of ICSD 2009
*Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento (Italy)
*Johannes Keizer, FAO of the United Nations (Italy)
*Devika Madalli,Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore (India)
*Wolfgan Nejdl, University of Hannover (Germany)
*ARD Prasad, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore (India)
*Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland (USA)
*Heiko Stoermer, University of Trento (Italy)
are pleased to announce:
the Reopening of Papers Submissions and Deadline Extension to JUNE 8, 2009;
to present
the Conference KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
-Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento, Italy)
-Sankar. K Pal (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
and to invite submissions for the
"Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries" Workshop (http://www.icsd-conference.org/node/10)!
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Digital libraries, in the central view of the term, focus on storing and organizing digital objects and providing access to these objects through professional or user-generated metadata or content-based search (full text, image content, full musical score). In an expanded view, DLs also support annotation, generation or editing of digital objects and provide tools for processing digital objects. The semantic Web focuses on the formal representation of data for more precise retrieval and, more importantly, for reasoning so that many often disparate items of data can be combined to directly answer a user's question or to devise a plan of action. ICDLSW addresses two main questions:
(1) How can digital libraries support Semantic Web functionality?
(2) How can Semantic Web technology improve digital libraries?
Ultimately the goal is an environment in which all functionality is available to the user without the perception of different systems or system boundaries. Contributions are sought that address one or both of the main questions or steps towards the ultimate system.
SPECIFIC TOPICS that address one or both of the main questions can be found at: http://www.icsd-conference.org/node/20.
FULL CALL FOR PAPERS available at: http://www.icsd-conference.org/node/1.
The conference will explore the area of digital libraries and the semantic web through tutorials, workshops, demonstrations, invited talks and presentations. The conference will also serve as a working platform for communities to discuss and agree on joint work. We also encourage the submission of WORKSHOP proposals for this purpose.
IMPORTANT DATES:
*** June 8, 2009***: Submission (Papers, Posters & Workshops)
July 1, 2009: Notification
July 13, 2009: Camera-ready copy
Tuesday, September 8, 2009: Workshop on "Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries"
Wednesday-Friday, September 9-11, 2009 - 13 h: International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web (ICSD 2009)
FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://www.icsd-conference.org/
September 8-11, 2009 - University of Trento, Trento (ITALY)
*********************************************************
The CONVENORS of ICSD 2009
*Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento (Italy)
*Johannes Keizer, FAO of the United Nations (Italy)
*Devika Madalli,Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore (India)
*Wolfgan Nejdl, University of Hannover (Germany)
*ARD Prasad, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore (India)
*Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland (USA)
*Heiko Stoermer, University of Trento (Italy)
are pleased to announce:
the Reopening of Papers Submissions and Deadline Extension to JUNE 8, 2009;
to present
the Conference KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
-Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento, Italy)
-Sankar. K Pal (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
and to invite submissions for the
"Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries" Workshop (http://www.icsd-conference.org/node/10)!
************************************************************
CALL FOR PAPERS
Digital libraries, in the central view of the term, focus on storing and organizing digital objects and providing access to these objects through professional or user-generated metadata or content-based search (full text, image content, full musical score). In an expanded view, DLs also support annotation, generation or editing of digital objects and provide tools for processing digital objects. The semantic Web focuses on the formal representation of data for more precise retrieval and, more importantly, for reasoning so that many often disparate items of data can be combined to directly answer a user's question or to devise a plan of action. ICDLSW addresses two main questions:
(1) How can digital libraries support Semantic Web functionality?
(2) How can Semantic Web technology improve digital libraries?
Ultimately the goal is an environment in which all functionality is available to the user without the perception of different systems or system boundaries. Contributions are sought that address one or both of the main questions or steps towards the ultimate system.
SPECIFIC TOPICS that address one or both of the main questions can be found at: http://www.icsd-conference.org/node/20.
FULL CALL FOR PAPERS available at: http://www.icsd-conference.org/node/1.
The conference will explore the area of digital libraries and the semantic web through tutorials, workshops, demonstrations, invited talks and presentations. The conference will also serve as a working platform for communities to discuss and agree on joint work. We also encourage the submission of WORKSHOP proposals for this purpose.
IMPORTANT DATES:
*** June 8, 2009***: Submission (Papers, Posters & Workshops)
July 1, 2009: Notification
July 13, 2009: Camera-ready copy
Tuesday, September 8, 2009: Workshop on "Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries"
Wednesday-Friday, September 9-11, 2009 - 13 h: International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web (ICSD 2009)
FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://www.icsd-conference.org/
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
CFP: 13th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International
CFP: 13th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International
13th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI): Integrating Weather, Climate and Social Studies: Challenges and Opportunities for Librarians, 20-21 January 2010, Atlanta, Georgia. Weather events and climate change have impacted societies since the dawn of civilization. From long-term droughts causing massive disruptions of populations of Southwest Native Americans in the 1200s to singular weather catastrophes such as Hurricane Katrina to extreme meteorological events that changed the course of history, the societal impacts from short and long-term weather and climate events are enormous. Now more than ever, the demand for accurate climate and weather information and resources from almost every aspect of society are critical to our understanding of the historical context of such events. Libraries and archives are treasure troves of historical weather data and information, and librarians are particularly skilled in synthesizing information from seemingly disparate disciplines as
meteorology and policy, history, and economics.
The purpose of this meeting, to be held on 20-21 January 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia, is to focus on how the library community is responding to the challenges and opportunities of integrating information from social sciences such as history, anthropology, socioeconomics, government and policy with weather and climate change.
We invite proposals for papers describing how libraries are responding to the challenges of weather impacts on society, covering topics such as specialized historical collections and archives, risk/emergency management, climate and weather data sets, socioeconomic resources, interactions with academic social studies programs, tools for the distribution of knowledge, and ideas on how best to meet user demands for more integrated information products. Submissions should include full contact information, a title, and brief abstract of less than 250 words. We will repeat last year's successful "Technology Tools and Tips" session and invite anyone who is using a useful new technology or an old technology in new and interesting ways to participate in this "lightning round" session, consisting of back-to-back 5-minute talks. Students are particularly encouraged to submit proposals.
Please submit proposals to: Gene R. Major, ASLI Chair-elect, NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center Library, Code 272, Greenbelt, MD 20771
USA; 301-286-4394; Eugene.R.Major@nasa.gov.
The deadline for abstracts: October 1, 2009.
http://www.aslionline.org/
Gene R. Major
Program Manager, Library Associates
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA/GSFC Library
Code 272
Greenbelt, MD 20771
301-286-4394
Eugene.R.Major@nasa.gov
13th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI): Integrating Weather, Climate and Social Studies: Challenges and Opportunities for Librarians, 20-21 January 2010, Atlanta, Georgia. Weather events and climate change have impacted societies since the dawn of civilization. From long-term droughts causing massive disruptions of populations of Southwest Native Americans in the 1200s to singular weather catastrophes such as Hurricane Katrina to extreme meteorological events that changed the course of history, the societal impacts from short and long-term weather and climate events are enormous. Now more than ever, the demand for accurate climate and weather information and resources from almost every aspect of society are critical to our understanding of the historical context of such events. Libraries and archives are treasure troves of historical weather data and information, and librarians are particularly skilled in synthesizing information from seemingly disparate disciplines as
meteorology and policy, history, and economics.
The purpose of this meeting, to be held on 20-21 January 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia, is to focus on how the library community is responding to the challenges and opportunities of integrating information from social sciences such as history, anthropology, socioeconomics, government and policy with weather and climate change.
We invite proposals for papers describing how libraries are responding to the challenges of weather impacts on society, covering topics such as specialized historical collections and archives, risk/emergency management, climate and weather data sets, socioeconomic resources, interactions with academic social studies programs, tools for the distribution of knowledge, and ideas on how best to meet user demands for more integrated information products. Submissions should include full contact information, a title, and brief abstract of less than 250 words. We will repeat last year's successful "Technology Tools and Tips" session and invite anyone who is using a useful new technology or an old technology in new and interesting ways to participate in this "lightning round" session, consisting of back-to-back 5-minute talks. Students are particularly encouraged to submit proposals.
Please submit proposals to: Gene R. Major, ASLI Chair-elect, NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center Library, Code 272, Greenbelt, MD 20771
USA; 301-286-4394; Eugene.R.Major@nasa.gov.
The deadline for abstracts: October 1, 2009.
http://www.aslionline.org/
Gene R. Major
Program Manager, Library Associates
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA/GSFC Library
Code 272
Greenbelt, MD 20771
301-286-4394
Eugene.R.Major@nasa.gov
CFP: ALCTS CCS Catalog Management Interest (ALA Annual, Chicago)
CFP: ALCTS CCS Catalog Management Interest (ALA Annual, Chicago)
The ALCTS CCS Catalog Management Interest Group invites proposals for presentations for our meeting at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. The group will be meeting on Saturday, July 11th, from 1:30-3:30.
Topics for presentations are open, but must fit within the group's mission statement, outlined below:
To discuss the various issues involved with cataloging, classification, and authority control after the initial cataloging has been performed. In this respect, catalog management is defined as the continuous upgrading and updating of a catalog, regardless of its format, be it card, microform, book or on-line. The group will provide a forum for exchanging information and discussing techniques, new developments, and problems in managing the bibliographic integrity of library catalogs.
Deadline for submissions is May 22, 2009. Please submit proposals and any questions to:
Melissa De Fino
Chair, ALCTS CCS Catalog Management Interest Group, 2009
Special Collections Catalog Librarian
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
mdefino@rci.rutgers.edu
(732)445-5903
The ALCTS CCS Catalog Management Interest Group invites proposals for presentations for our meeting at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. The group will be meeting on Saturday, July 11th, from 1:30-3:30.
Topics for presentations are open, but must fit within the group's mission statement, outlined below:
To discuss the various issues involved with cataloging, classification, and authority control after the initial cataloging has been performed. In this respect, catalog management is defined as the continuous upgrading and updating of a catalog, regardless of its format, be it card, microform, book or on-line. The group will provide a forum for exchanging information and discussing techniques, new developments, and problems in managing the bibliographic integrity of library catalogs.
Deadline for submissions is May 22, 2009. Please submit proposals and any questions to:
Melissa De Fino
Chair, ALCTS CCS Catalog Management Interest Group, 2009
Special Collections Catalog Librarian
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
mdefino@rci.rutgers.edu
(732)445-5903
Monday, May 18, 2009
Call for Articles: Library Worklife: HR E-News for Today's Leaders
Call for Articles: Library Worklife: HR E-News for Today's Leaders
Do you have a story to tell?
Come and share it at Library Worklife!
Library Worklife: HR E-News for Today's Leaders is looking for aspiring and experienced writers - library employees and graduate students who have stories to tell about their careers, jobs, research, and pathways to success. Library Worklife is a monthly, electronic newsletter published by the American Library Association-Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA). Stories can be about:
• You or a great project that you want to share with colleagues - Spotlight
• Advice, testimonials, opportunities and research about advancing your career – Career Advancement
• Why it is important to participate in professional development and continuing education, including state and national certification programs - Certification
• Legal issues facing or concerning library personnel - Human Resources Law
• How to manage library staffing issues, such as training, budgeting, performance appraisals, hiring, outsourcing, and motivation - Human Resources Practice
• What you, your library or your state has done to address pay inequities - Salaries and Pay Equity and Statistics
• How do we attract people to the profession? - Recruitment
• Profiles, standards, innovative approaches, conferences or topics of concern for support staff - Support Staff
• How you manage the two (or more) roles you play on a daily basis - Work/life Balance
Write about your ideas or use some of ours on almost any other topic related to working in libraries.
Submission should range from 200 – 1200 words, although longer articles can be accepted by arrangement. They can be in almost any style from serious academic research to humorous work-life articles. Further details can be found at the Library Worklife web page, http://www.ala-apa.org/newsletter/newsletter.html or by emailing the editor, Jenifer Grady at jgrady@ala.org.
And the best news is… If you commit to writing three (3), count ‘em THREE, articles in one year, you get a free subscription to Library Worklife, a $35 value (for ALA Regular members.)
So come and share your story, at Library Worklife.
Jenifer Grady, MSLS, MBA, CAE - jgrady@ala.org
Director, American Library Association-Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA)
50 East Huron, Chicago, IL 60611
312-280-2424 (o), 312-280-5013 (f)
http://www.ala-apa.org/
ALA-APA advocates for improving the Salaries and Status of Library Employees
Have you contributed to ALA-APA this year?
Do you have a story to tell?
Come and share it at Library Worklife!
Library Worklife: HR E-News for Today's Leaders is looking for aspiring and experienced writers - library employees and graduate students who have stories to tell about their careers, jobs, research, and pathways to success. Library Worklife is a monthly, electronic newsletter published by the American Library Association-Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA). Stories can be about:
• You or a great project that you want to share with colleagues - Spotlight
• Advice, testimonials, opportunities and research about advancing your career – Career Advancement
• Why it is important to participate in professional development and continuing education, including state and national certification programs - Certification
• Legal issues facing or concerning library personnel - Human Resources Law
• How to manage library staffing issues, such as training, budgeting, performance appraisals, hiring, outsourcing, and motivation - Human Resources Practice
• What you, your library or your state has done to address pay inequities - Salaries and Pay Equity and Statistics
• How do we attract people to the profession? - Recruitment
• Profiles, standards, innovative approaches, conferences or topics of concern for support staff - Support Staff
• How you manage the two (or more) roles you play on a daily basis - Work/life Balance
Write about your ideas or use some of ours on almost any other topic related to working in libraries.
Submission should range from 200 – 1200 words, although longer articles can be accepted by arrangement. They can be in almost any style from serious academic research to humorous work-life articles. Further details can be found at the Library Worklife web page, http://www.ala-apa.org/newsletter/newsletter.html or by emailing the editor, Jenifer Grady at jgrady@ala.org.
And the best news is… If you commit to writing three (3), count ‘em THREE, articles in one year, you get a free subscription to Library Worklife, a $35 value (for ALA Regular members.)
So come and share your story, at Library Worklife.
Jenifer Grady, MSLS, MBA, CAE - jgrady@ala.org
Director, American Library Association-Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA)
50 East Huron, Chicago, IL 60611
312-280-2424 (o), 312-280-5013 (f)
http://www.ala-apa.org/
ALA-APA advocates for improving the Salaries and Status of Library Employees
Have you contributed to ALA-APA this year?
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
CFP: ACRL New Members Discussion Group (ALA Annual, 2009)
CFP: ACRL New Members Discussion Group (ALA Annual, 2009)
The ACRL New Members Discussion Group invites the submission of proposals for presentation at its meeting at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL on Saturday, July 11, 2009.
The ACRL New Members Discussion Group is for new (and aspiring) academic librarians. We meet twice a year–at both ALA conferences–to chat about whatever is on our minds. It’s an opportunity for networking and a friendly place to ask any questions you have about succeeding in ACRL. Presenters at this meeting have the opportunity to contribute to the professional development of other academic librarians, gain conference presentation experience, and
build their CV.
Our meeting topic for the conference is “The Publication Process: Getting Published in LIS Journals.” We are interested in presentations that share personal experiences with the publication process, that will help new and aspiring academic librarians gain a better understanding of the various steps that are involved in this process. We seek proposals for presentations that address this topic from a variety of angles, including (but not limited to):
-Planning a systematic research program
-The publication process: Generating topics, writing up and submitting the manuscript, working with an editor, responding to reviewers, etc.
-Targeting various journals for publication
-What to do if your manuscript is not accepted
The ACRL New Members Discussion Group meeting will take place on Saturday, July 11, 2009, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Presenters should plan to speak for 10 minutes and allow 5 minutes for questions/discussion. There will be three presentations. Following the presentations, we will open the floor for discussion on the topic, or we can answer your questions about getting involved in national activities and/or academic librarianship in general.
Proposals are due by June 8, 2009. Notification of acceptance will be made by June 15, 2009. Please include the following information in your proposal:
1. A cover sheet with your name, title, institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone number, and email address.
2. A second sheet that contains no identifying information and includes the title and a 200-300 word description of your presentation. The description should clearly identify the topic of your presentation, your personal experience with this topic, and how your presentation will contribute to new and aspiring librarians’ understanding of the publication process.
3. Keep in mind that there will be no use of technology for these presentations.
Feel free to bring handouts if you’d like to provide a list of further
reading, etc.
Please submit proposal by email to Merinda Hensley (ACRL Convener) at
mhensle1@illinois.edu
The ACRL New Members Discussion Group invites the submission of proposals for presentation at its meeting at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL on Saturday, July 11, 2009.
The ACRL New Members Discussion Group is for new (and aspiring) academic librarians. We meet twice a year–at both ALA conferences–to chat about whatever is on our minds. It’s an opportunity for networking and a friendly place to ask any questions you have about succeeding in ACRL. Presenters at this meeting have the opportunity to contribute to the professional development of other academic librarians, gain conference presentation experience, and
build their CV.
Our meeting topic for the conference is “The Publication Process: Getting Published in LIS Journals.” We are interested in presentations that share personal experiences with the publication process, that will help new and aspiring academic librarians gain a better understanding of the various steps that are involved in this process. We seek proposals for presentations that address this topic from a variety of angles, including (but not limited to):
-Planning a systematic research program
-The publication process: Generating topics, writing up and submitting the manuscript, working with an editor, responding to reviewers, etc.
-Targeting various journals for publication
-What to do if your manuscript is not accepted
The ACRL New Members Discussion Group meeting will take place on Saturday, July 11, 2009, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Presenters should plan to speak for 10 minutes and allow 5 minutes for questions/discussion. There will be three presentations. Following the presentations, we will open the floor for discussion on the topic, or we can answer your questions about getting involved in national activities and/or academic librarianship in general.
Proposals are due by June 8, 2009. Notification of acceptance will be made by June 15, 2009. Please include the following information in your proposal:
1. A cover sheet with your name, title, institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone number, and email address.
2. A second sheet that contains no identifying information and includes the title and a 200-300 word description of your presentation. The description should clearly identify the topic of your presentation, your personal experience with this topic, and how your presentation will contribute to new and aspiring librarians’ understanding of the publication process.
3. Keep in mind that there will be no use of technology for these presentations.
Feel free to bring handouts if you’d like to provide a list of further
reading, etc.
Please submit proposal by email to Merinda Hensley (ACRL Convener) at
mhensle1@illinois.edu
Call for chapters: Reference in the Modern World(s)
Call for chapters: Reference in the Modern World(s)
Reference has gotten more complicated in recent years, with the plethora of materials online and in paper, more ways to ask questions and deliver answers, a larger multicultural public, and interdisciplinary subjects. All this is complicated by declining budgets as usage increases.
This is a call for chapters for a new book that covers these issues and more, for public and academic libraries. New authors as well as experienced authors are welcome. Chapters can be co-written. The deadlines are short to get it to press while still timely; a letter of commitment is needed by June 1, with a brief abstract or outline of topics and a short CV. Please feel free to ask
questions!
Working title: Reference in the Modern World(s)
Topics:
Length - 3,000 - 5,000 words (negotiable)
Bibliography is required
Reference for the unattached - freelancers, distance students, entrepeneurs, home schoolers, military, self-employed Business and academic support in the library, and vice versa
Balancing online and onshelf - budgeting for both, balancing services, training staff and patrons
Changing where we work - roving, virtual, embedded, and co-operative
Changing how we work - FAQs, websites, metadata, wikis, and knowledge management
Changing who does the work - staff and paraprofessionals, training, outsourcing
Specialists and generalists - new breeds and hybrids
Teaching your library - instruction, orientation, and learning commons
Images and media - reference when it's not written
Multicultural and multilingual - same skills, different outlooks
Special collections - getting patrons to the good stuff Geneology, rare books, archives, manuscripts, local history
More topics are welcome, please feel free to contact me.
Schedule:
Letters of commitment due June 1
First draft due week of August 2
Edited drafts returned week of August 30
Final draft due week of November 1
Audience:
Adult reference librarians in public and academic libraries, and LIS students.
Editor : Susan Knoer, MLS
susan.knoer@gmail.com
Reference has gotten more complicated in recent years, with the plethora of materials online and in paper, more ways to ask questions and deliver answers, a larger multicultural public, and interdisciplinary subjects. All this is complicated by declining budgets as usage increases.
This is a call for chapters for a new book that covers these issues and more, for public and academic libraries. New authors as well as experienced authors are welcome. Chapters can be co-written. The deadlines are short to get it to press while still timely; a letter of commitment is needed by June 1, with a brief abstract or outline of topics and a short CV. Please feel free to ask
questions!
Working title: Reference in the Modern World(s)
Topics:
Length - 3,000 - 5,000 words (negotiable)
Bibliography is required
Reference for the unattached - freelancers, distance students, entrepeneurs, home schoolers, military, self-employed Business and academic support in the library, and vice versa
Balancing online and onshelf - budgeting for both, balancing services, training staff and patrons
Changing where we work - roving, virtual, embedded, and co-operative
Changing how we work - FAQs, websites, metadata, wikis, and knowledge management
Changing who does the work - staff and paraprofessionals, training, outsourcing
Specialists and generalists - new breeds and hybrids
Teaching your library - instruction, orientation, and learning commons
Images and media - reference when it's not written
Multicultural and multilingual - same skills, different outlooks
Special collections - getting patrons to the good stuff Geneology, rare books, archives, manuscripts, local history
More topics are welcome, please feel free to contact me.
Schedule:
Letters of commitment due June 1
First draft due week of August 2
Edited drafts returned week of August 30
Final draft due week of November 1
Audience:
Adult reference librarians in public and academic libraries, and LIS students.
Editor : Susan Knoer, MLS
susan.knoer@gmail.com
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Out Behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians (Book Chapter)
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Out Behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians (Book Chapter)
Out Behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians (a working title), edited by Tracy Nectoux and published by Library Juice Press as part of the series Gender and Sexuality in Librarianship.
Seeking submissions for an anthology of personal accounts by librarians and library workers relating experiences of being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, or queer at work. This volume seeks to represent a broad spectrum of orientations and gender identities, highlighting a range of experiences of being and/or coming out at work. Also welcome are critical and historical perspectives on the challenges of navigating gender and sexuality in the library workplace.
Objective of Book
Librarians and library workers are in a singular position to discuss the difficulty—even today, even in libraries—of choosing to be out at work. Our situations are unique. We are educators, leaders, and often advocates of some of our most vulnerable citizens: LGBTQ youth. We face two enormous, yet conflicting consequences when we decide to come out: the risk of jeopardizing our own professional security while simultaneously presenting ourselves as allies to LGBTQ patrons. The discussions in this volume will be an uncommon and valuable addition to the literature of gender and sexuality in the workplace, a topic that has been little examined in library literature.
Suggested Topics:
• Personal narratives of coming and being out in the library workplace
• Personal, historical, and critical approaches to hostile environments and/or colleagues
• Accounts of supportive environments and/or colleagues
• Narratives of workplace discrimination struggles
• Narratives of coming out in rural and urban contexts
• The challenges of coming and being out in historical perspective
• When and why library workers stay closeted
• Other critical, historical, and personal perspectives related to being out in the library
Target Audience:
LGBTQ librarians, library workers, and library school students, as well as library administrators who might find such a volume helpful in creating an inclusive, diverse, and safe workplace for both employees and patrons who are sexual minorities.
Submission Guidelines:
We welcome and encourage submissions from a broad spectrum of librarians and library workers and seek to be inclusive of all ages, library types (public, academic, or private libraries), geographies (rural, urban, international), and sexual orientations and gender identities (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual, gender-queer, questioning, etc.). A range of submissions are welcome, including essays, poetry, and visual art.
Anonymous submissions will be accepted from librarians and library workers who are not out.
Deadline for summaries: May 31, 2009
Submit a brief summary (3 paragraphs maximum) and a short author’s statement or URLs where appropriate. Electronic submissions only to tnectoux@illinois.edu.
Deadline for manuscripts: December 31, 2009
One electronic copy. Black-and-white artwork may be submitted in hard copy; author responsible for securing image copyright permissions. Text may range from 100 to 5,000 words.
Contact:
Tracy Nectoux
Cataloger, Illinois Newspaper Project
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
tnectoux@illinois.edu
217-244-2498
Cell: 217-766-7984
Out Behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians (a working title), edited by Tracy Nectoux and published by Library Juice Press as part of the series Gender and Sexuality in Librarianship.
Seeking submissions for an anthology of personal accounts by librarians and library workers relating experiences of being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, or queer at work. This volume seeks to represent a broad spectrum of orientations and gender identities, highlighting a range of experiences of being and/or coming out at work. Also welcome are critical and historical perspectives on the challenges of navigating gender and sexuality in the library workplace.
Objective of Book
Librarians and library workers are in a singular position to discuss the difficulty—even today, even in libraries—of choosing to be out at work. Our situations are unique. We are educators, leaders, and often advocates of some of our most vulnerable citizens: LGBTQ youth. We face two enormous, yet conflicting consequences when we decide to come out: the risk of jeopardizing our own professional security while simultaneously presenting ourselves as allies to LGBTQ patrons. The discussions in this volume will be an uncommon and valuable addition to the literature of gender and sexuality in the workplace, a topic that has been little examined in library literature.
Suggested Topics:
• Personal narratives of coming and being out in the library workplace
• Personal, historical, and critical approaches to hostile environments and/or colleagues
• Accounts of supportive environments and/or colleagues
• Narratives of workplace discrimination struggles
• Narratives of coming out in rural and urban contexts
• The challenges of coming and being out in historical perspective
• When and why library workers stay closeted
• Other critical, historical, and personal perspectives related to being out in the library
Target Audience:
LGBTQ librarians, library workers, and library school students, as well as library administrators who might find such a volume helpful in creating an inclusive, diverse, and safe workplace for both employees and patrons who are sexual minorities.
Submission Guidelines:
We welcome and encourage submissions from a broad spectrum of librarians and library workers and seek to be inclusive of all ages, library types (public, academic, or private libraries), geographies (rural, urban, international), and sexual orientations and gender identities (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual, gender-queer, questioning, etc.). A range of submissions are welcome, including essays, poetry, and visual art.
Anonymous submissions will be accepted from librarians and library workers who are not out.
Deadline for summaries: May 31, 2009
Submit a brief summary (3 paragraphs maximum) and a short author’s statement or URLs where appropriate. Electronic submissions only to tnectoux@illinois.edu.
Deadline for manuscripts: December 31, 2009
One electronic copy. Black-and-white artwork may be submitted in hard copy; author responsible for securing image copyright permissions. Text may range from 100 to 5,000 words.
Contact:
Tracy Nectoux
Cataloger, Illinois Newspaper Project
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
tnectoux@illinois.edu
217-244-2498
Cell: 217-766-7984
Call for Poster Sessions (Michigan Library Association Conference)
Call for Poster Sessions (Michigan Library Association Conference)
The 2009 MLA Conference will be held November 3- 6 in Lansing. Poster Sessions will be from 12 p.m.- 4 p.m. on November 4 and 5 in the Lansing Center Exhibit Hall. Poster sessions provide an opportunity for individual librarians or libraries to share graphic representations of current research, programs or creative solutions to library problems. Presenters are given a one hour time slot during the conference to present posters, answer questions, and give away handouts relating to the session. Accepted presenters will be notified by July 31, 2009
Guidelines for the poster session are found here:
http://www.mla.lib.mi.us/files/annual%202009%20poster%20guidelines.doc
Please submit a 200 word abstract via email to: David Scott, scottd@ferris.edu
The 2009 MLA Conference will be held November 3- 6 in Lansing. Poster Sessions will be from 12 p.m.- 4 p.m. on November 4 and 5 in the Lansing Center Exhibit Hall. Poster sessions provide an opportunity for individual librarians or libraries to share graphic representations of current research, programs or creative solutions to library problems. Presenters are given a one hour time slot during the conference to present posters, answer questions, and give away handouts relating to the session. Accepted presenters will be notified by July 31, 2009
Guidelines for the poster session are found here:
http://www.mla.lib.mi.us/files/annual%202009%20poster%20guidelines.doc
Please submit a 200 word abstract via email to: David Scott, scottd@ferris.edu
Second Call for Submissions: Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning
Second Call for Submissions: Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning
The Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning, a peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge/The Haworth Press, welcomes the submission of manuscripts.
The journal is devoted to the issues and concerns of librarians and information specialists involved with distance education and delivering library resources and services to this growing community of students.
Topics can include but are not limited to:
• Faculty/librarian cooperation and collaboration
• Information literacy
• Instructional service techniques
• Information delivery
• Reference services
• Document delivery
• Developing collections
If you are interested in submitting an article, send the manuscript directly to the Editor, Jodi Poe at jpoe@jsu.edu by June 1, 2009. Inquiries and questions are welcome.
Instructions for authors are available at www.haworthpress.com or can be emailed to you directly.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jodi W. Poe, Editor
Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning
Associate Professor, Head of Technical Services
Houston Cole Library
Jacksonville State University
700 Pelham Road North
Jacksonville, AL 36265-1602
TEL: (256) 782-8103
FAX: (256) 782-5872
Email: jpoe@jsu.edu
The Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning, a peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge/The Haworth Press, welcomes the submission of manuscripts.
The journal is devoted to the issues and concerns of librarians and information specialists involved with distance education and delivering library resources and services to this growing community of students.
Topics can include but are not limited to:
• Faculty/librarian cooperation and collaboration
• Information literacy
• Instructional service techniques
• Information delivery
• Reference services
• Document delivery
• Developing collections
If you are interested in submitting an article, send the manuscript directly to the Editor, Jodi Poe at jpoe@jsu.edu by June 1, 2009. Inquiries and questions are welcome.
Instructions for authors are available at www.haworthpress.com or can be emailed to you directly.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jodi W. Poe, Editor
Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning
Associate Professor, Head of Technical Services
Houston Cole Library
Jacksonville State University
700 Pelham Road North
Jacksonville, AL 36265-1602
TEL: (256) 782-8103
FAX: (256) 782-5872
Email: jpoe@jsu.edu
CFP: Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice
CFP: Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice
Are you using data in decision-making? Has taking an evidence-based approach to your work helped you to make the right choices for your library, your staff, and your users? We want to know, and we want to help you share the lessons you've learned about implementing evidence-based practice in your library.
Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice has launched a new feature called "Using Evidence in Practice" to provide brief reports of LIS practitioners' use of evidence to assist with decision making. Have you followed an evidence- based approach in your daily work? Have you begun a new project and incorporated assessment to measure outcomes and success? Have you tried to incorporate evidence but not had any success? All of these scenarios lend themselves to a retelling that may benefit others. Please consider writing about your experience and submitting it to EBLIP.
Submissions to the "Using Evidence in Practice" feature follow a structured format to report practical implementations of an evidence-based approach to tackling workplace problems and are reviewed by the editorial team for publication in the journal.
A sample "Practice" feature can be found at:
https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/4580/5081
Author guidelines are available at:
http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
If you have questions about the "Using Evidence in Practice" feature of EBLIP, please contact Scott Walter, Associate Editor, at swalter@illinois.edu.
EBLIP is a peer reviewed, open access journal published quarterly by the University of Alberta Learning Services, using the OJS Software. The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for librarians and other information professionals to discover research that may contribute to decision making in professional practice. EBLIP publishes original research and commentary on the topic of evidence based library and information practice, as well as reviews of previously published research (evidence summaries) on a wide number of topics.
Visit the journal at:
https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP
Are you using data in decision-making? Has taking an evidence-based approach to your work helped you to make the right choices for your library, your staff, and your users? We want to know, and we want to help you share the lessons you've learned about implementing evidence-based practice in your library.
Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice has launched a new feature called "Using Evidence in Practice" to provide brief reports of LIS practitioners' use of evidence to assist with decision making. Have you followed an evidence- based approach in your daily work? Have you begun a new project and incorporated assessment to measure outcomes and success? Have you tried to incorporate evidence but not had any success? All of these scenarios lend themselves to a retelling that may benefit others. Please consider writing about your experience and submitting it to EBLIP.
Submissions to the "Using Evidence in Practice" feature follow a structured format to report practical implementations of an evidence-based approach to tackling workplace problems and are reviewed by the editorial team for publication in the journal.
A sample "Practice" feature can be found at:
https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/4580/5081
Author guidelines are available at:
http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
If you have questions about the "Using Evidence in Practice" feature of EBLIP, please contact Scott Walter, Associate Editor, at swalter@illinois.edu.
EBLIP is a peer reviewed, open access journal published quarterly by the University of Alberta Learning Services, using the OJS Software. The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for librarians and other information professionals to discover research that may contribute to decision making in professional practice. EBLIP publishes original research and commentary on the topic of evidence based library and information practice, as well as reviews of previously published research (evidence summaries) on a wide number of topics.
Visit the journal at:
https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP
ACRL Research Writer's Consultations @ ALA Annual (Chicago)
ACRL Research Writer's Consultations @ ALA Annual (Chicago)
New for the 2009 ALA Annual Conference! The ACRL Research Program Committee (RPC) is sponsoring Research Writer’s Consultations at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference, held July 9-15 in Chicago. Aimed at the new or inexperienced writer, the Research Writer’s Consultations will bring together small groups of two to three writers matched with an experienced writer or editor, who will offer guidance and critique.
AUTHORS
Are you an ACRL member working on a research article? Would you like some constructive feedback? Submit a draft research paper for consultation. RPC will match new writers with experienced writers and the groups will meet face-to-face during the Chicago conference. Draft research papers must be submitted by June 1, 2009. Papers will be shared only among members of the designated groups. Submission details follow:
Include on first page: Author’s name and contact information in upper left and a paragraph describing what you would like others to comment on about your paper (e.g. grammar, writing style, clarity, presentation of the research methodology, etc).
Page limit: 25 double-spaced pages, standard 1” margins
Preferred format: Microsoft Word. Number pages. Footers should include author’s full name and e-mail.
Draft research papers should be in complete enough form for others to read easily.
Submit by June 1 to: Ruth Vondracek at ruth.vondracek@oregonstate.edu
REVIEWERS
Are you an experienced, published writer or editor? Interested in providing guidance to your colleagues who may be writing their first research article? Submit your name and a description of your areas of expertise by June 1, 2009. Reviewers are expected to review papers submitted for their small group in advance of the Chicago conference, as well as guide their small group consultation onsite during the conference.
Please send your current contact information, a copy of your current resume or list of publications, and a brief description of your current research interests.
Submit by June 1 to: Ruth Vondracek at ruth.vondracek@oregonstate.edu
MEET DURING ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Each group will correspond ahead of time to set up their own meeting time and place at the Annual Conference to critique the papers, discuss approaches for writing, and share ideas on where to submit articles.
Questions should be directed to Ruth Vondracek at ruth.vondracek@oregonstate.edu.
New for the 2009 ALA Annual Conference! The ACRL Research Program Committee (RPC) is sponsoring Research Writer’s Consultations at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference, held July 9-15 in Chicago. Aimed at the new or inexperienced writer, the Research Writer’s Consultations will bring together small groups of two to three writers matched with an experienced writer or editor, who will offer guidance and critique.
AUTHORS
Are you an ACRL member working on a research article? Would you like some constructive feedback? Submit a draft research paper for consultation. RPC will match new writers with experienced writers and the groups will meet face-to-face during the Chicago conference. Draft research papers must be submitted by June 1, 2009. Papers will be shared only among members of the designated groups. Submission details follow:
Include on first page: Author’s name and contact information in upper left and a paragraph describing what you would like others to comment on about your paper (e.g. grammar, writing style, clarity, presentation of the research methodology, etc).
Page limit: 25 double-spaced pages, standard 1” margins
Preferred format: Microsoft Word. Number pages. Footers should include author’s full name and e-mail.
Draft research papers should be in complete enough form for others to read easily.
Submit by June 1 to: Ruth Vondracek at ruth.vondracek@oregonstate.edu
REVIEWERS
Are you an experienced, published writer or editor? Interested in providing guidance to your colleagues who may be writing their first research article? Submit your name and a description of your areas of expertise by June 1, 2009. Reviewers are expected to review papers submitted for their small group in advance of the Chicago conference, as well as guide their small group consultation onsite during the conference.
Please send your current contact information, a copy of your current resume or list of publications, and a brief description of your current research interests.
Submit by June 1 to: Ruth Vondracek at ruth.vondracek@oregonstate.edu
MEET DURING ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Each group will correspond ahead of time to set up their own meeting time and place at the Annual Conference to critique the papers, discuss approaches for writing, and share ideas on where to submit articles.
Questions should be directed to Ruth Vondracek at ruth.vondracek@oregonstate.edu.
Monday, May 11, 2009
CFP: ICITST-2009
CFP: ICITST-2009
The 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2009), Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Section, November 9–12, 2009, London, UK
(www.icitst.org)
The 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2009) is co-sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Section. The ICITST is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of secured
Internet transactions and to fostering discussions on information technology evolution. The ICITST aims to provide a highly professional and comparative academic research forum that promotes collaborative excellence between academia and industry. The objectives of the ICITST are to bridge the knowledge gap between academia and industry, promote research esteem in secured Internet transactions and the importance of information technology evolution to secured transactions.
The ICITST-2009 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICITST papers are indexed by DBLP.
The topics in ICITST-2009 include but are not confined to the following areas:
* Application of agents
* Application security
* Blended Internet security methods
* Biometrics
* Boundary issues of Internet security
* Broadband access technologies
* Challenges of content authoring
* Data mining security
* E-society
* Globalisation of information society
* Government, and corporate Internet security policy
* Internet architecture
* Infonomics
* IPSec quality of services
* Patentability
* Regulation, self-regulation, and co-regulation Web services
* Secured database systems
* Synchronising e-security
* Software Architectures
* Technology-enabled information
* Trust, privacy, and data security
* Wireless transactions
* Context-Awareness and its Data mining for Ubi-com service
* Human-Computer Interface and Interaction for Ubi-com
* Smart Homes and its business model for Ubi-com service
* Intelligent Multimedia Service and its Data management for Ubi-com
* USN / RF-ID for Ubi-com service
* Network security issues, protocols, data security in Ubi-com
* Database protection for Ubi-com
* Privacy Protection and Forensic in Ubi-com
* Multimedia Security in Ubi-com
* Quality of Service Issues
* Authentication and Access control for data protection in Ubi-com
* Information visualization
* Web services
* Service, Security and its Data management for U-commerce
* New novel mechanism and Applications for Ubi-com
* Information Management
* Multimedia Information Systems
* Information Retrieval
* Natural Language Processing
* Digital Libraries
* Data and Information Quality Management
* Data Grids, Data and Information Quality
* Database Management
* Web Databases
* Temporal and Spatial Databases
* Data Mining
* Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0
* E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government
* Web Metrics and its applications
* XML and other extensible languages
* Semantic Web and Ontology
* Human-Computer Interaction
* Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
* Knowledge Management
* Ubiquitous Systems
* Peer to Peer Data Management
* Interoperability
* Mobile Data Management
* Data Models for Production Systems and Services
* Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain
* Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes
* Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis
* Security and Access Control
* Information Content Security
* Software Architecture
* System design and verification
* Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security
* Distributed information systems
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Date May 31, 2009
Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection June 30, 2009
Camera Ready Paper Due September 1, 2009
Author Registration September 15, 2009
Early Bird Attendee registration October 01, 2009
Conference Dates November 9-12, 2009
The ICITST also encourages organisations to submit their Job
Fair Booth Reservations and/or Exhibit Proposals. If your
organisation is interested, kindly submit a brief Proposal (not
more than 1 side of A4 page) to jobfair@icitst.org
For more details, visit www.icitst.org
The 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2009), Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Section, November 9–12, 2009, London, UK
(www.icitst.org)
The 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2009) is co-sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Section. The ICITST is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of secured
Internet transactions and to fostering discussions on information technology evolution. The ICITST aims to provide a highly professional and comparative academic research forum that promotes collaborative excellence between academia and industry. The objectives of the ICITST are to bridge the knowledge gap between academia and industry, promote research esteem in secured Internet transactions and the importance of information technology evolution to secured transactions.
The ICITST-2009 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICITST papers are indexed by DBLP.
The topics in ICITST-2009 include but are not confined to the following areas:
* Application of agents
* Application security
* Blended Internet security methods
* Biometrics
* Boundary issues of Internet security
* Broadband access technologies
* Challenges of content authoring
* Data mining security
* E-society
* Globalisation of information society
* Government, and corporate Internet security policy
* Internet architecture
* Infonomics
* IPSec quality of services
* Patentability
* Regulation, self-regulation, and co-regulation Web services
* Secured database systems
* Synchronising e-security
* Software Architectures
* Technology-enabled information
* Trust, privacy, and data security
* Wireless transactions
* Context-Awareness and its Data mining for Ubi-com service
* Human-Computer Interface and Interaction for Ubi-com
* Smart Homes and its business model for Ubi-com service
* Intelligent Multimedia Service and its Data management for Ubi-com
* USN / RF-ID for Ubi-com service
* Network security issues, protocols, data security in Ubi-com
* Database protection for Ubi-com
* Privacy Protection and Forensic in Ubi-com
* Multimedia Security in Ubi-com
* Quality of Service Issues
* Authentication and Access control for data protection in Ubi-com
* Information visualization
* Web services
* Service, Security and its Data management for U-commerce
* New novel mechanism and Applications for Ubi-com
* Information Management
* Multimedia Information Systems
* Information Retrieval
* Natural Language Processing
* Digital Libraries
* Data and Information Quality Management
* Data Grids, Data and Information Quality
* Database Management
* Web Databases
* Temporal and Spatial Databases
* Data Mining
* Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0
* E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government
* Web Metrics and its applications
* XML and other extensible languages
* Semantic Web and Ontology
* Human-Computer Interaction
* Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
* Knowledge Management
* Ubiquitous Systems
* Peer to Peer Data Management
* Interoperability
* Mobile Data Management
* Data Models for Production Systems and Services
* Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain
* Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes
* Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis
* Security and Access Control
* Information Content Security
* Software Architecture
* System design and verification
* Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security
* Distributed information systems
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Date May 31, 2009
Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection June 30, 2009
Camera Ready Paper Due September 1, 2009
Author Registration September 15, 2009
Early Bird Attendee registration October 01, 2009
Conference Dates November 9-12, 2009
The ICITST also encourages organisations to submit their Job
Fair Booth Reservations and/or Exhibit Proposals. If your
organisation is interested, kindly submit a brief Proposal (not
more than 1 side of A4 page) to jobfair@icitst.org
For more details, visit www.icitst.org
Friday, May 08, 2009
Call for Papers Issue 16: Children in the Library (LIBREAS)
Call for Papers Issue 16: Children in the Library (LIBREAS)
http://www.libreas.eu/formal/english.htm
Children represent one of the largest groups of patrons served by the public library. This may be one of the reasons why many positive associations are linked to these institutions in society. Despite their importance, children lack representation within the LIS literature or, if they are subjects of literature, authors refer to well-intentioned but more paternalistic strategies which result in one-sided approaches. For instance, literacy is one of the main issues at which libraries work is aimed. However, a short glance in public libraries reveals that literacy programs constitute only one small portion of the children’s interaction with the library – children mostly make use of a library as a playground and a place for adventure.
Apart from the practice-oriented discussion, LIS literature also lacks interdisciplinary connectivity to fields such as pedagogy, educational research, anthropology and sociology to name a few. One may assume that the already achieved knowledge which scrutinizes one-sided approaches to learning activities may influence the discussion. One may also expect a growing influence of the ongoing debate about new perspectives on early childhood education in the LIS literature.
Last but not least, recent demographic changes within western societies are changing the social structure that children inhabit. On one hand, immigration leads to a higher proportion of children with multi-cultural backgrounds; on the other hand children are growing up in a more distinguished media landscape. These developments are undeniable and cause new challenges in practise. Nevertheless, there is a striking discrepancy between reality and scientific discourse.
LIBREAS aims at shedding light on this discrepancy and proposes an interdisciplinary symposium held in Berlin complementing issue #16. Our purpose is to bring together representatives from the respective disciplines and librarians in order to debate the benefits and limits of library work for children.
General sample questions for discussions are:
• What is the impact of library work on children and how can it be assessed in an evidence-based manner?
• What is the relationship between libraries and educational institutions?
• Do librarians take enough advantage of educational research?
• What does an appropriate learning environment of children look like? What kind of needs must such an environment fulfill?
• What are children doing in the library and what keeps them there?
• Why do children stop going to a library when they grow up?
• How does library work reflect diverse cultural and social backgrounds of children?
• Are children really “digital natives”?
• What kind of media do children expect in the library and elsewhere?
As an E-Journal with an editorial board both in Berlin (Germany) and St. Paul, Minnesota (US) we aim to compare the situation in the US and Germany both on a national and on a local level.
• Social and demographic conditions
• Ambitions and realities of library programs
• The role of immigrants (e.g., in Germany it seems that library services are often aim at white, middle-class kids)
• Personal experiences of parents, librarians, teachers and children
• Best-Practises apart from read-aloud, gaming and Harry Potter parties
LIBREAS is looking forward to your fresh and controversial contributions on the topic of “Children in the Library”. Indeed, we welcome new perspectives on that issue not outlined above, too. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate in contacting us.
Proposed submission deadline: End of October 2009
http://www.libreas.eu/formal/english.htm
Children represent one of the largest groups of patrons served by the public library. This may be one of the reasons why many positive associations are linked to these institutions in society. Despite their importance, children lack representation within the LIS literature or, if they are subjects of literature, authors refer to well-intentioned but more paternalistic strategies which result in one-sided approaches. For instance, literacy is one of the main issues at which libraries work is aimed. However, a short glance in public libraries reveals that literacy programs constitute only one small portion of the children’s interaction with the library – children mostly make use of a library as a playground and a place for adventure.
Apart from the practice-oriented discussion, LIS literature also lacks interdisciplinary connectivity to fields such as pedagogy, educational research, anthropology and sociology to name a few. One may assume that the already achieved knowledge which scrutinizes one-sided approaches to learning activities may influence the discussion. One may also expect a growing influence of the ongoing debate about new perspectives on early childhood education in the LIS literature.
Last but not least, recent demographic changes within western societies are changing the social structure that children inhabit. On one hand, immigration leads to a higher proportion of children with multi-cultural backgrounds; on the other hand children are growing up in a more distinguished media landscape. These developments are undeniable and cause new challenges in practise. Nevertheless, there is a striking discrepancy between reality and scientific discourse.
LIBREAS aims at shedding light on this discrepancy and proposes an interdisciplinary symposium held in Berlin complementing issue #16. Our purpose is to bring together representatives from the respective disciplines and librarians in order to debate the benefits and limits of library work for children.
General sample questions for discussions are:
• What is the impact of library work on children and how can it be assessed in an evidence-based manner?
• What is the relationship between libraries and educational institutions?
• Do librarians take enough advantage of educational research?
• What does an appropriate learning environment of children look like? What kind of needs must such an environment fulfill?
• What are children doing in the library and what keeps them there?
• Why do children stop going to a library when they grow up?
• How does library work reflect diverse cultural and social backgrounds of children?
• Are children really “digital natives”?
• What kind of media do children expect in the library and elsewhere?
As an E-Journal with an editorial board both in Berlin (Germany) and St. Paul, Minnesota (US) we aim to compare the situation in the US and Germany both on a national and on a local level.
• Social and demographic conditions
• Ambitions and realities of library programs
• The role of immigrants (e.g., in Germany it seems that library services are often aim at white, middle-class kids)
• Personal experiences of parents, librarians, teachers and children
• Best-Practises apart from read-aloud, gaming and Harry Potter parties
LIBREAS is looking forward to your fresh and controversial contributions on the topic of “Children in the Library”. Indeed, we welcome new perspectives on that issue not outlined above, too. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate in contacting us.
Proposed submission deadline: End of October 2009
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Call For Proposals: Pay-Per-View Options: Is Transactional Access Right For My Institution? (ALA Annual, 2009)
Call For Proposals: Pay-Per-View Options: Is Transactional Access Right For My Institution? (ALA Annual, 2009)
Please send abstracts of presentations to ERIG co-chairs, Jennifer Lang and Amira Aaron , by Friday, May 22, 2009.
ALCTS CCS Electronic Resources Interest Group
ALA Annual Conference Chicago
In a world where funding is decreasing and demand is increasing, libraries and librarians are looking for ways to provide access to content without submitting their bottom line to costly and sometimes little-used online journal subscriptions.
The ALCTS CCS Electronic Resources Interest Group invites proposals for its panel discussion at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, on Saturday, July 11, 2009, from 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
The discussion will center on the experiences of libraries and electronic resources librarians as they implement and manage transactional access models at their institutions. The panelists will
discuss why transactional access was right for their institution, the driving forces behind their decisions, the implementation process, technical implementation and management of the access, and the outcomes of their endeavors. The panelist presentations will be followed with a question and answer session, as well as an open forum for audience members to share their experience(s) with the session participants.
Please send abstracts of presentations to ERIG co-chairs, Jennifer Langand Amira Aaron , by Friday, May 22, 2009.
Jennifer Lang
Electronic Resources Cataloging Coordinator
Room 2-7-G, Firestone Library
Princeton University
One Washington Road
Princeton NJ 08544-2098
609.258.5476 phone
609.258.0441 fax
lang@princeton.edu
Amira Aaron
Director for Information Resources
Brandeis University Library and Technology Services
415 South Street MS045
Waltham MA 02454
781.736.4647 phone
781.736.4724 fax
aaaron@brandeis.edu
Please send abstracts of presentations to ERIG co-chairs, Jennifer Lang and Amira Aaron , by Friday, May 22, 2009.
ALCTS CCS Electronic Resources Interest Group
ALA Annual Conference Chicago
In a world where funding is decreasing and demand is increasing, libraries and librarians are looking for ways to provide access to content without submitting their bottom line to costly and sometimes little-used online journal subscriptions.
The ALCTS CCS Electronic Resources Interest Group invites proposals for its panel discussion at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, on Saturday, July 11, 2009, from 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
The discussion will center on the experiences of libraries and electronic resources librarians as they implement and manage transactional access models at their institutions. The panelists will
discuss why transactional access was right for their institution, the driving forces behind their decisions, the implementation process, technical implementation and management of the access, and the outcomes of their endeavors. The panelist presentations will be followed with a question and answer session, as well as an open forum for audience members to share their experience(s) with the session participants.
Please send abstracts of presentations to ERIG co-chairs, Jennifer Lang
Jennifer Lang
Electronic Resources Cataloging Coordinator
Room 2-7-G, Firestone Library
Princeton University
One Washington Road
Princeton NJ 08544-2098
609.258.5476 phone
609.258.0441 fax
lang@princeton.edu
Amira Aaron
Director for Information Resources
Brandeis University Library and Technology Services
415 South Street MS045
Waltham MA 02454
781.736.4647 phone
781.736.4724 fax
aaaron@brandeis.edu
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Call for Chapter Proposals: Edited Collection on Corporate Libraries
Call for Chapter Proposals: Edited Collection on Corporate Libraries
We are seeking chapter proposals for a new edited collection on corporate libraries. This book will be an edited collection of chapters describing best practices in a variety of corporate libraries worldwide, providing both a foundation of knowledge for scholars in library and information science areas and information and ideas for practicing corporate librarians. The editors have obtained an interest from the publisher, and a contract is pending a list of potential chapters and contributors.
Please submit a proposal of 250 words, or a full chapter, for consideration.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
-Planning a Corporate Library, including chapters on topics such as design, architecture, and facility planning, budget and staffing, long range planning, technology planning, hiring, recruiting, and training for a new library.
-Collaborations, including chapters on interlibrary lending and borrowing, joint libraries, consortia and other types of collaborations and organizations.
-Technology, including chapters on best practices, discussions of the use of technology, and the scope of a corporate librarian’s job such as what technological support they offer, web sites and internet databases in relations to corporate librarianship, electronic services.
-Staffing, including human resources, continuing education, professional networking, core competencies, management, routines
-Communications, including articles regarding communications; for example, with satellite offices, with overseas branches, interdepartmental, computer mediated communication, and more.
-Knowledge Management/ Organization, including topics covering how Corporate Libraries manage data and knowledge and organize it, and share it.
-Special Issues This section will include articles about any special issues pertaining to Corporate Librarianship, such as copyright and other legal topics, especially those that are unique to corporate librarianship.
Please send chapters or chapter proposals by May 15, 2009, through email to:
Paul and Sigrid Kelsey, editors
sigridkelsey@gmail.com
Sigrid Kelsey
Louisiana State University Libraries
Email: sigridkelsey@gmail.com
We are seeking chapter proposals for a new edited collection on corporate libraries. This book will be an edited collection of chapters describing best practices in a variety of corporate libraries worldwide, providing both a foundation of knowledge for scholars in library and information science areas and information and ideas for practicing corporate librarians. The editors have obtained an interest from the publisher, and a contract is pending a list of potential chapters and contributors.
Please submit a proposal of 250 words, or a full chapter, for consideration.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
-Planning a Corporate Library, including chapters on topics such as design, architecture, and facility planning, budget and staffing, long range planning, technology planning, hiring, recruiting, and training for a new library.
-Collaborations, including chapters on interlibrary lending and borrowing, joint libraries, consortia and other types of collaborations and organizations.
-Technology, including chapters on best practices, discussions of the use of technology, and the scope of a corporate librarian’s job such as what technological support they offer, web sites and internet databases in relations to corporate librarianship, electronic services.
-Staffing, including human resources, continuing education, professional networking, core competencies, management, routines
-Communications, including articles regarding communications; for example, with satellite offices, with overseas branches, interdepartmental, computer mediated communication, and more.
-Knowledge Management/ Organization, including topics covering how Corporate Libraries manage data and knowledge and organize it, and share it.
-Special Issues This section will include articles about any special issues pertaining to Corporate Librarianship, such as copyright and other legal topics, especially those that are unique to corporate librarianship.
Please send chapters or chapter proposals by May 15, 2009, through email to:
Paul and Sigrid Kelsey, editors
sigridkelsey@gmail.com
Sigrid Kelsey
Louisiana State University Libraries
Email: sigridkelsey@gmail.com
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
CFP: 14th Off-Campus Library Services Conference (2010)
CFP: 14th Off-Campus Library Services Conference (2010)
Cleveland, Ohio
April 28-30, 2010
Deadline: September 15, 2009
Conference URL: https://ocls.cmich.edu/conf2010/
CFP URL: https://ocls.cmich.edu/conf2010/proposal.html
The Off-Campus Library Services Conference is extending a formal invitation to librarians, administrators, and educators to present their research and share their knowledge with their peers. Individuals who provide library resources and services to students and faculty participating in instruction either away from a main campus or in the online environment are invited to submit a proposal. Through formal proceedings and the publication of Conference papers in the Journal of Library Administration, this information is made available to all who have an interest in this field.
For more information, please visit the conference website or contact us at ocls2010@cmich.edu
Guidelines for Presenters
Please use the guidelines below when preparing a proposal for presentation to the 14th Off-Campus Library Service Conference. If you have any additional questions or need assistance, please contact us.
SUBJECT TRACKS
The following subject tracks are appropriate for this conference. It is understood that a presentation may fall into more than one track.
-Research
-Surveys, assessment, statistics, theories, overviews
-Teaching and learning
-Methods, strategies, models, one-on-one, classroom
-Electronic information and delivery
-E-books, databases, online tutorials, streaming video, virtual reference
-Collaboration
-Librarian, faculty, consortia, or other
-Administration and support services
-Program development, ILL, document delivery, reference management systems, collection development, budgets, staffing
FORMATS
Presentations
Presentation sessions should be 55 minutes in total length, with 10 minutes included for questions. Presenters are encouraged to use technological aids to augment their presentations. Online access and a laptop will be available in all rooms; please see our audio-visual request form if you need additional support. Presenters are encouraged to supply handouts or other materials as appropriate. Session evaluation forms may be provided at the discretion and expense of the presenters. A written paper that will be included in the official conference proceedings is required of all presentations. Please refer to the manuscript guidelines for proper formatting and other details.
Workshops
Workshops will be scheduled for two-hour sessions and should offer hands-on learning for the attendees. An abstract for the workshop must be presented for inclusion in the proceedings but no written paper is required.
Panel Discussions
Panel discussions should include several speakers and run a total of 55 minutes, with 10 minutes included for questions. A written paper is not required for the proceedings.
Poster Sessions
Posters sessions provide an informal forum to report innovative projects, introduce new services and resources, or test research ideas of interest to the off-campus library community. Posters may include narratives, tables, graphs, and handouts. They may be in print or electronic format or a combination of the two. Presenters must provide their own laptop if needed. Internet access will be available. Presenters are required to set-up and host their display for one hour and 10 minutes and to provide an abstract for the program. No written paper is required.
SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL
To submit a proposal, complete the online proposal form available from the link below. The deadline for submission is September 15, 2009.
EVALUATION AND ACCEPTANCE
After September 15, 2009, the OCLS Conference Program Advisory Board members will be provided with blind copies of the proposal abstracts. Proposals will be evaluated based on their potential interest to conference attendees, contribution to the body of knowledge associated with the field of off-campus library services, and their clarity of organization and expression. Program balance and room space will also be a factor in proposal selection. All presenters will be notified regarding their status of their proposals by October 15, 2009.
Cleveland, Ohio
April 28-30, 2010
Deadline: September 15, 2009
Conference URL: https://ocls.cmich.edu/conf2010/
CFP URL: https://ocls.cmich.edu/conf2010/proposal.html
The Off-Campus Library Services Conference is extending a formal invitation to librarians, administrators, and educators to present their research and share their knowledge with their peers. Individuals who provide library resources and services to students and faculty participating in instruction either away from a main campus or in the online environment are invited to submit a proposal. Through formal proceedings and the publication of Conference papers in the Journal of Library Administration, this information is made available to all who have an interest in this field.
For more information, please visit the conference website or contact us at ocls2010@cmich.edu
Guidelines for Presenters
Please use the guidelines below when preparing a proposal for presentation to the 14th Off-Campus Library Service Conference. If you have any additional questions or need assistance, please contact us.
SUBJECT TRACKS
The following subject tracks are appropriate for this conference. It is understood that a presentation may fall into more than one track.
-Research
-Surveys, assessment, statistics, theories, overviews
-Teaching and learning
-Methods, strategies, models, one-on-one, classroom
-Electronic information and delivery
-E-books, databases, online tutorials, streaming video, virtual reference
-Collaboration
-Librarian, faculty, consortia, or other
-Administration and support services
-Program development, ILL, document delivery, reference management systems, collection development, budgets, staffing
FORMATS
Presentations
Presentation sessions should be 55 minutes in total length, with 10 minutes included for questions. Presenters are encouraged to use technological aids to augment their presentations. Online access and a laptop will be available in all rooms; please see our audio-visual request form if you need additional support. Presenters are encouraged to supply handouts or other materials as appropriate. Session evaluation forms may be provided at the discretion and expense of the presenters. A written paper that will be included in the official conference proceedings is required of all presentations. Please refer to the manuscript guidelines for proper formatting and other details.
Workshops
Workshops will be scheduled for two-hour sessions and should offer hands-on learning for the attendees. An abstract for the workshop must be presented for inclusion in the proceedings but no written paper is required.
Panel Discussions
Panel discussions should include several speakers and run a total of 55 minutes, with 10 minutes included for questions. A written paper is not required for the proceedings.
Poster Sessions
Posters sessions provide an informal forum to report innovative projects, introduce new services and resources, or test research ideas of interest to the off-campus library community. Posters may include narratives, tables, graphs, and handouts. They may be in print or electronic format or a combination of the two. Presenters must provide their own laptop if needed. Internet access will be available. Presenters are required to set-up and host their display for one hour and 10 minutes and to provide an abstract for the program. No written paper is required.
SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL
To submit a proposal, complete the online proposal form available from the link below. The deadline for submission is September 15, 2009.
EVALUATION AND ACCEPTANCE
After September 15, 2009, the OCLS Conference Program Advisory Board members will be provided with blind copies of the proposal abstracts. Proposals will be evaluated based on their potential interest to conference attendees, contribution to the body of knowledge associated with the field of off-campus library services, and their clarity of organization and expression. Program balance and room space will also be a factor in proposal selection. All presenters will be notified regarding their status of their proposals by October 15, 2009.
Monday, April 27, 2009
CFP: Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning
CFP: Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning
The Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning, a peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge/The Haworth Press, welcomes the submission of manuscripts.
The journal is devoted to the issues and concerns of librarians and information specialists involved with distance education and delivering library resources and services to this growing community of students.
Topics can include but are not limited to:
• Faculty/librarian cooperation and collaboration
• Information literacy
• Instructional service techniques
• Information delivery
• Reference services
• Document delivery
• Developing collections
If you are interested in submitting an article, send the manuscript directly to the Editor, Jodi Poe at jpoe@jsu.edu by June 1, 2009. Inquiries and questions are welcome.
Instructions for authors are available at www.haworthpress.com or can be emailed to you directly.
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Jodi W. Poe, Editor
Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning
Associate Professor, Head of Technical Services
Houston Cole Library
Jacksonville State University
700 Pelham Road North
Jacksonville, AL 36265-1602
TEL: (256) 782-8103
FAX: (256) 782-5872
Email: jpoe@jsu.edu
The Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning, a peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge/The Haworth Press, welcomes the submission of manuscripts.
The journal is devoted to the issues and concerns of librarians and information specialists involved with distance education and delivering library resources and services to this growing community of students.
Topics can include but are not limited to:
• Faculty/librarian cooperation and collaboration
• Information literacy
• Instructional service techniques
• Information delivery
• Reference services
• Document delivery
• Developing collections
If you are interested in submitting an article, send the manuscript directly to the Editor, Jodi Poe at jpoe@jsu.edu by June 1, 2009. Inquiries and questions are welcome.
Instructions for authors are available at www.haworthpress.com or can be emailed to you directly.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jodi W. Poe, Editor
Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning
Associate Professor, Head of Technical Services
Houston Cole Library
Jacksonville State University
700 Pelham Road North
Jacksonville, AL 36265-1602
TEL: (256) 782-8103
FAX: (256) 782-5872
Email: jpoe@jsu.edu
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Writers Wanted: Heart of the Campus (Blog About Campus Outreach)
Writers Wanted: Heart of the Campus (Blog About Campus Outreach)
If anyone is interested in joining a new blog for academic librarians to discuss outreach, I wanted to let you know about The Heart of the Campus:
http://heartofthecampus.wordpress.com/
Some parts of it are still somewhat under construction (Resources), but I'd love to participate in discussion with anyone who is interested in joining me there.
Karen
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Karen J. Wanamaker
kwanamak@kutztown.edu
If anyone is interested in joining a new blog for academic librarians to discuss outreach, I wanted to let you know about The Heart of the Campus:
http://heartofthecampus.wordpress.com/
Some parts of it are still somewhat under construction (Resources), but I'd love to participate in discussion with anyone who is interested in joining me there.
Karen
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Karen J. Wanamaker
kwanamak@kutztown.edu
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Do you have a story to tell? Come and share it at Library Worklife!
Do you have a story to tell? Come and share it at Library Worklife!
Library Worklife is looking for aspiring and experienced writers - library employees and graduate students who have stories to tell about their careers, jobs, research, and pathways to success. Stories can be about:
• You or a great project that you want to share with colleagues - Spotlight
• Advice, testimonials, opportunities and research about advancing your career – Career Advancement
• Why it is important to participate in professional development and continuing education, including state and national certification programs - Certification
• Legal issues facing or concerning library personnel - Human Resources Law
• How to manage library staffing issues, such as training, budgeting, performance appraisals, hiring, outsourcing, and motivation - Human Resources Practice
• What you, your library or your state has done to address pay inequities - Salaries and Pay Equity and Statistics
• How do we attract people to the profession? - Recruitment
• Profiles, standards, innovative approaches, conferences or topics of concern for support staff - Support Staff
• How you manage the two (or more) roles you play on a daily basis - Work/life Balance
Write about your ideas or use some of ours on almost any other topic related to working in libraries.
Submission should range from 200 – 1200 words, although longer articles can be accepted by arrangement. They can be in almost any style from serious academic research to humorous work-life articles. Further details can be found at the Library Worklife web page, http://www.ala-apa.org/newsletter/newsletter.html or by emailing the editor, Jenifer Grady at jgrady@ala.org.
And the best news is… If you commit to writing three (3), count ‘em THREE, articles in one year, you get a free subscription to Library Worklife, a $35 value (for ALA Regular members.)
So come and share your story, at Library Worklife.
Library Worklife is looking for aspiring and experienced writers - library employees and graduate students who have stories to tell about their careers, jobs, research, and pathways to success. Stories can be about:
• You or a great project that you want to share with colleagues - Spotlight
• Advice, testimonials, opportunities and research about advancing your career – Career Advancement
• Why it is important to participate in professional development and continuing education, including state and national certification programs - Certification
• Legal issues facing or concerning library personnel - Human Resources Law
• How to manage library staffing issues, such as training, budgeting, performance appraisals, hiring, outsourcing, and motivation - Human Resources Practice
• What you, your library or your state has done to address pay inequities - Salaries and Pay Equity and Statistics
• How do we attract people to the profession? - Recruitment
• Profiles, standards, innovative approaches, conferences or topics of concern for support staff - Support Staff
• How you manage the two (or more) roles you play on a daily basis - Work/life Balance
Write about your ideas or use some of ours on almost any other topic related to working in libraries.
Submission should range from 200 – 1200 words, although longer articles can be accepted by arrangement. They can be in almost any style from serious academic research to humorous work-life articles. Further details can be found at the Library Worklife web page, http://www.ala-apa.org/newsletter/newsletter.html or by emailing the editor, Jenifer Grady at jgrady@ala.org.
And the best news is… If you commit to writing three (3), count ‘em THREE, articles in one year, you get a free subscription to Library Worklife, a $35 value (for ALA Regular members.)
So come and share your story, at Library Worklife.
CFP: LIBRARY LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
CFP: LIBRARY LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
THE SPRING 2009 ISSUE OF LIBRARY LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT IS NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE AT:
http://ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/llama/llamapublications/llandm/llmhome/llmonline.cfm
It is a special issue on leadership in libraries and includes contributions from across the profession.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE TO LL&M?
Library Leadership & Management is seeking manuscripts for publication. Contributions can take many forms: scholarly research on issues related to leadership and management of libraries, reports of successful project implementation, interviews with important movers and shakers in the profession, presentations from conferences and symposia, or invited articles. For more information or to discuss your ideas, email the editor: eric.shoaf@utsa.edu.
THE SPRING 2009 ISSUE OF LIBRARY LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT IS NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE AT:
http://ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/llama/llamapublications/llandm/llmhome/llmonline.cfm
It is a special issue on leadership in libraries and includes contributions from across the profession.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE TO LL&M?
Library Leadership & Management is seeking manuscripts for publication. Contributions can take many forms: scholarly research on issues related to leadership and management of libraries, reports of successful project implementation, interviews with important movers and shakers in the profession, presentations from conferences and symposia, or invited articles. For more information or to discuss your ideas, email the editor: eric.shoaf@utsa.edu.
Friday, March 13, 2009
INTERNET LIBRARIAN 2009 CALL FOR SPEAKERS INVITATION
INTERNET LIBRARIAN 2009 CALL FOR SPEAKERS INVITATION
https://secure.infotoday.com/forms/default.aspx?form=il2009speakers
URL: http://www.infotoday.com/IL2009/
Deadline is 3/27
Net Initiatives For Tough Times: Digital Publishing, Preservation & Practices
We live and work in challenging times. How can our digital practices solve our current dilemmas? Internet pioneer, Vint Cerf, who has been called one of the "Fathers of the Internet" and is currently VP & Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, believes that the Internet and WWW are still young, yet are "poised to become the greatest communications platform humanity has ever known." Cerf is the opening keynote speaker at Internet Librarian 2009 and begins the discussions of our conference theme, ‘Net Initiatives for Tough Times: Digital Publishing, Preservation & Practices.' This theme emphasizes creative and innovative Internet techniques and practices being used in library and information services to meet today's challenges -- the many creative ways in which information is published, accessed and shared by libraries, information professionals and their communities. The conference highlights leading edge practices for connecting, communicating, learning, innovating and more. It focuses on exciting new initiatives and innovations in all types of information enterprises, tools and techniques for enhancing user-friendly digital information flows, fresh ideas for traditional and emerging roles and values of information professionals, information discovery and visualization methods for dealing with today's information overload, building new communities and supporting online connections in engaging ways.
Join us at the most comprehensive conference for library and information professionals interested in technology to discover the insights, strategies and practices that allow us to push the envelope in expanding the net, manage libraries and digital information, and enhance
the information sharing and learning experience of people in our communities. Internet Librarian 2009 provides attendees with many chances to meet and hear from leading edge information professionals in all types of environments – leaders in the information industry who are integrating content and delighting their clients, organizing and managing digital content in creative ways, setting the context for excellence in information utilization in their organizations, revolutionizing the roles of info pros, building strong collaborative communities among their customers and colleagues, and using new technologies in creative and exciting ways. his conference encourages you to bring and share your ideas and champion new practices – this is where ideas and action come together, where innovation ignites.
https://secure.infotoday.com/forms/default.aspx?form=il2009speakers
POSSIBLE TOPICS
(suggestions only the more creative the topic, the better!)
* Creative Funding of Tech Initiatives
* Using Tech for Results in Tough Times
* Leading Edge Technologies & Libraries
* Library Apps for New Social Media
* Integrating Content for Creative Products
* Streamlining user online experiences
* User generated content & services
* 2.0 Roles for Info Pros
* Leading Edge Digital Library Practices
* Wireless campuses & communities
* Improving Digital Info Flows & Access
* Identifying & Working with Information Partners
* Usability & Web Site Functionality
* Cool tools for navigating & searching content
* Web 2.0 & Library 2.0 strategies & services
* Semantic web strategies and applications
* Social Computing Tools for Libraries
* Managing digitally & Building digital collections
* Internet librarians & Careers in Search
* Next generation ebook strategies & policies
* Designing for Web devices & appliances
* Taxonomies & auto-categorization tools
* Knowledge Management Strategies for Internet Librarians
* Desktop strategies for information access
* Publishing Techniques for Info Pros
* Streamlining Intranet Management
* Identifying quality Internet resources
* Navigating strategies & techniques
* Integrating K-12 Curriculum & Net Technology
* Web development tools & techniques
https://secure.infotoday.com/forms/default.aspx?form=il2009speakers
URL: http://www.infotoday.com/IL2009/
Deadline is 3/27
Net Initiatives For Tough Times: Digital Publishing, Preservation & Practices
We live and work in challenging times. How can our digital practices solve our current dilemmas? Internet pioneer, Vint Cerf, who has been called one of the "Fathers of the Internet" and is currently VP & Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, believes that the Internet and WWW are still young, yet are "poised to become the greatest communications platform humanity has ever known." Cerf is the opening keynote speaker at Internet Librarian 2009 and begins the discussions of our conference theme, ‘Net Initiatives for Tough Times: Digital Publishing, Preservation & Practices.' This theme emphasizes creative and innovative Internet techniques and practices being used in library and information services to meet today's challenges -- the many creative ways in which information is published, accessed and shared by libraries, information professionals and their communities. The conference highlights leading edge practices for connecting, communicating, learning, innovating and more. It focuses on exciting new initiatives and innovations in all types of information enterprises, tools and techniques for enhancing user-friendly digital information flows, fresh ideas for traditional and emerging roles and values of information professionals, information discovery and visualization methods for dealing with today's information overload, building new communities and supporting online connections in engaging ways.
Join us at the most comprehensive conference for library and information professionals interested in technology to discover the insights, strategies and practices that allow us to push the envelope in expanding the net, manage libraries and digital information, and enhance
the information sharing and learning experience of people in our communities. Internet Librarian 2009 provides attendees with many chances to meet and hear from leading edge information professionals in all types of environments – leaders in the information industry who are integrating content and delighting their clients, organizing and managing digital content in creative ways, setting the context for excellence in information utilization in their organizations, revolutionizing the roles of info pros, building strong collaborative communities among their customers and colleagues, and using new technologies in creative and exciting ways. his conference encourages you to bring and share your ideas and champion new practices – this is where ideas and action come together, where innovation ignites.
https://secure.infotoday.com/forms/default.aspx?form=il2009speakers
POSSIBLE TOPICS
(suggestions only the more creative the topic, the better!)
* Creative Funding of Tech Initiatives
* Using Tech for Results in Tough Times
* Leading Edge Technologies & Libraries
* Library Apps for New Social Media
* Integrating Content for Creative Products
* Streamlining user online experiences
* User generated content & services
* 2.0 Roles for Info Pros
* Leading Edge Digital Library Practices
* Wireless campuses & communities
* Improving Digital Info Flows & Access
* Identifying & Working with Information Partners
* Usability & Web Site Functionality
* Cool tools for navigating & searching content
* Web 2.0 & Library 2.0 strategies & services
* Semantic web strategies and applications
* Social Computing Tools for Libraries
* Managing digitally & Building digital collections
* Internet librarians & Careers in Search
* Next generation ebook strategies & policies
* Designing for Web devices & appliances
* Taxonomies & auto-categorization tools
* Knowledge Management Strategies for Internet Librarians
* Desktop strategies for information access
* Publishing Techniques for Info Pros
* Streamlining Intranet Management
* Identifying quality Internet resources
* Navigating strategies & techniques
* Integrating K-12 Curriculum & Net Technology
* Web development tools & techniques
Call for Papers and Posters: 2009 Midwest Chapter/MLA Annual Meeting
Call for Papers and Posters: 2009 Midwest Chapter/MLA Annual Meeting
Organization URL: http://midwestmla.org/
Conference URL: http://midwestmla.org/conference2009/
CFP URL: http://midwestmla.org/conference2009/cfpp.html
The Program Committee of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association invites proposals for contributed papers and posters for the 2009 Midwest Chapter/MLA Annual Meeting in Columbus, Ohio from October 3-6 at the Hyatt on Capitol Square. The conference theme of Seek, Discover, Explore lends itself to a variety of topics, and provides opportunities for presenters to show how they endeavor to seek out new and improved ways to provide cutting-edge library services, to discover innovative techniques for using technology and the Internet, or to explore how libraries connect people to information in creative ways. Papers and posters may highlight practical problem-solving approaches, report on research in librarianship, document collaborative efforts or outreach activities, or describe innovative programs, resources or services. Contributed paper and poster topics are as unlimited as your imagination, talents and creativity can devise.
Contributed papers will be presented on Sunday, October 4 from 2 pm until 4pm.
Posters will be on display on Monday, October 5 from 11am until 5pm.
Presenters should be available to discuss their posters from 11am to noon on October 5.
For contributed paper proposals, submit a 250 word abstract to describe your paper. Include your name, position title, address, phone number and email address. The abstract should be sent to: Leslie Schick, University of Cincinnati Health Sciences Library, PO Box 670574, 231 Albert Sabin Way, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574 or emailed to leslie.schick at uc dot edu.
For poster proposals, submit a 250 word abstract to describe your poster. Include your name, position title, address, phone number and email address. The abstract should be sent to: Linda DeMuro, Director of Library Services, Nationwide Children’s Hospital Library, 700 Children’s Dr., Columbus OH 43205 or emailed to Linda.DeMuro at NationwideChildrens dot org.
The deadline for abstract submission is May 31, 2009. Notifications of paper/poster acceptance/rejection will be made by June 30, 2009.
Organization URL: http://midwestmla.org/
Conference URL: http://midwestmla.org/conference2009/
CFP URL: http://midwestmla.org/conference2009/cfpp.html
The Program Committee of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association invites proposals for contributed papers and posters for the 2009 Midwest Chapter/MLA Annual Meeting in Columbus, Ohio from October 3-6 at the Hyatt on Capitol Square. The conference theme of Seek, Discover, Explore lends itself to a variety of topics, and provides opportunities for presenters to show how they endeavor to seek out new and improved ways to provide cutting-edge library services, to discover innovative techniques for using technology and the Internet, or to explore how libraries connect people to information in creative ways. Papers and posters may highlight practical problem-solving approaches, report on research in librarianship, document collaborative efforts or outreach activities, or describe innovative programs, resources or services. Contributed paper and poster topics are as unlimited as your imagination, talents and creativity can devise.
Contributed papers will be presented on Sunday, October 4 from 2 pm until 4pm.
Posters will be on display on Monday, October 5 from 11am until 5pm.
Presenters should be available to discuss their posters from 11am to noon on October 5.
For contributed paper proposals, submit a 250 word abstract to describe your paper. Include your name, position title, address, phone number and email address. The abstract should be sent to: Leslie Schick, University of Cincinnati Health Sciences Library, PO Box 670574, 231 Albert Sabin Way, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574 or emailed to leslie.schick at uc dot edu.
For poster proposals, submit a 250 word abstract to describe your poster. Include your name, position title, address, phone number and email address. The abstract should be sent to: Linda DeMuro, Director of Library Services, Nationwide Children’s Hospital Library, 700 Children’s Dr., Columbus OH 43205 or emailed to Linda.DeMuro at NationwideChildrens dot org.
The deadline for abstract submission is May 31, 2009. Notifications of paper/poster acceptance/rejection will be made by June 30, 2009.
Monday, March 09, 2009
Call for Poster Session Proposals: NASIG 2009
Call for Poster Session Proposals: NASIG 2009
The NASIG Program Planning Committee (PPC) invites poster session proposals for the 24th NASIG conference in Asheville, North Carolina, June 4-7, 2009. The theme of the conference is "Riding the Rapids through Mountains of Change."
Posters will be on display 9AM-5PM on Friday, June 5th. Presenters should be available to discuss their topics during the afternoon break on this day. Submission form is online.
Poster sessions provide an opportunity to share innovative ideas and new applications of technology. Sessions may present a report of a research study, an analysis of a practical problem-solving effort, or a description of an innovative program that may be of interest to the
serials community. In keeping with NASIG's tradition of non-commercialism, poster sessions focusing solely on a commercial product will not be accepted.
Deadline for submission: Applications must be received by 5 p.m. EST on Friday, March 27, 2009. Members of the PPC's Sub-committee on Poster Sessions will evaluate abstracts. Presenters will be notified in April 2009.
Inquiries may be sent to the PPC co-chairs, Erika Ripley and Morag Boyd
at: prog-plan@nasig.org
Marilyn M. Carney
Publicist, NASIG, Inc.
mmcarney@waketech.edu
The NASIG Program Planning Committee (PPC) invites poster session proposals for the 24th NASIG conference in Asheville, North Carolina, June 4-7, 2009. The theme of the conference is "Riding the Rapids through Mountains of Change."
Posters will be on display 9AM-5PM on Friday, June 5th. Presenters should be available to discuss their topics during the afternoon break on this day. Submission form is online.
Poster sessions provide an opportunity to share innovative ideas and new applications of technology. Sessions may present a report of a research study, an analysis of a practical problem-solving effort, or a description of an innovative program that may be of interest to the
serials community. In keeping with NASIG's tradition of non-commercialism, poster sessions focusing solely on a commercial product will not be accepted.
Deadline for submission: Applications must be received by 5 p.m. EST on Friday, March 27, 2009. Members of the PPC's Sub-committee on Poster Sessions will evaluate abstracts. Presenters will be notified in April 2009.
Inquiries may be sent to the PPC co-chairs, Erika Ripley and Morag Boyd
at: prog-plan@nasig.org
Marilyn M. Carney
Publicist, NASIG, Inc.
mmcarney@waketech.edu
Sunday, March 08, 2009
CALL FOR SPECIAL TRACKS: The 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions 2009 (ICITST-2009)
CALL FOR SPECIAL TRACKS: The 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions 2009 (ICITST-2009)
Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Section, November 9–12, 2009, London,
UK (http://www.icitst.org)
The 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2009) is co-sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Section. The ICITST-2009 encourages you to submit special track proposals. All the accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. You can consider organising a special track that is related to ICITST-2009 topics (Please see topics coverage at http://www.icitst.org/SpecialTracks.html)
The special track of ICITST-2009 will be the forum for high-quality presentations on innovative applications and engineering solutions. You are welcome to send email with any questions you
might have to info@icitst.org. Authors should submit papers (8 pages MAXIMUM) with the same formatting rules as research papers. The reviews of submissions will be provided to authors during notification.
Your special track proposals will be reviewed by the Steering Committees and all the accepted special tracks will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore and DBLP.
Please submit your special track paper to specialtracks@icitst.org
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 12, 2009
Full Paper Submission Due Date: June 19, 2009
Note: Please do NOT submit your special tracks to the regular research
track. Double submissions will be
automatically rejected without review.
Steering Committee Chair
Charles A. Shoniregun, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced
Learning, Canada
Steering Committees
Paul Hofmann, Vice President Research, SAP Labs, USA
Brendan O’Shea, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Centre, New York, USA
Maaruf Ali, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Dragana Martinovic, University of Windsor, Canada
Victor Ralevich, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning,
Canada
Ali Al-Dahoud, Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, Jordan
Charles Winer, Purdue University Calumet, USA
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEES
Technical Program Committee members names and their affiliations are
available at www.icitst.org
Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Section, November 9–12, 2009, London,
UK (http://www.icitst.org)
The 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2009) is co-sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Section. The ICITST-2009 encourages you to submit special track proposals. All the accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. You can consider organising a special track that is related to ICITST-2009 topics (Please see topics coverage at http://www.icitst.org/SpecialTracks.html)
The special track of ICITST-2009 will be the forum for high-quality presentations on innovative applications and engineering solutions. You are welcome to send email with any questions you
might have to info@icitst.org. Authors should submit papers (8 pages MAXIMUM) with the same formatting rules as research papers. The reviews of submissions will be provided to authors during notification.
Your special track proposals will be reviewed by the Steering Committees and all the accepted special tracks will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore and DBLP.
Please submit your special track paper to specialtracks@icitst.org
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 12, 2009
Full Paper Submission Due Date: June 19, 2009
Note: Please do NOT submit your special tracks to the regular research
track. Double submissions will be
automatically rejected without review.
Steering Committee Chair
Charles A. Shoniregun, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced
Learning, Canada
Steering Committees
Paul Hofmann, Vice President Research, SAP Labs, USA
Brendan O’Shea, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Centre, New York, USA
Maaruf Ali, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Dragana Martinovic, University of Windsor, Canada
Victor Ralevich, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning,
Canada
Ali Al-Dahoud, Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, Jordan
Charles Winer, Purdue University Calumet, USA
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEES
Technical Program Committee members names and their affiliations are
available at www.icitst.org
CFP: MCN 37th Annual Conference (Portland, Oregon)
CFP: MCN 37th Annual Conference (Portland, Oregon)
MCN 37th Annual Conference, November 11-14, 2009, Portland, Oregon
Online proposal submissions will be accepted March 6-27, 2009
http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=2266
The Museum Computer Network (MCN) will host its 2009 Conference with the theme
"Museum Information, Museum Efficiency: Doing More with Less!" in lovely Portland,
Oregon. The annual MCN meeting is one of the most important conferences serving
international cultural heritage professionals, collections and new technologies.
The MCN 2009 program committee seeks innovative sessions (panels, papers, case
studies, and workshops) that illustrate how institutions are effectively functioning
and planning to function during the tough times ahead. We are looking for active,
engaged individuals and groups of individuals thinking about and using best practices
in the following areas:
- Serving institutional mission with cost-effective strategies in tough economic
times
- Making, managing, and delivering digital media in new and effective ways
- Building the future now: innovations coming soon to a museum near you!
Conference Topics
Prospective authors are invited to make submissions in areas including, but not
limited to:
- Technology and Information Management Serving the Institutional Bottom Line
- Digital Readiness, Digital Accomplishments, Digital Accountability (Image
Capture, Digital Asset Management, Best Practices, Preservation, Access)
- Implementing Systems in Adverse Conditions
- Digital Convergence: Archives, Libraries, and Museums
- Doing More with Less
- Leadership, Sustainability, Accountability
- Social Media
- Superior Content, Superior Delivery
Innovative formats and interaction with audience are highly desirable and will
be important factors, as will practicability, in the 2009 selection process.
Online proposal submissions will be accepted March 6-27, 2009
http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=2266
If you have questions or need more information please contact Holly Witchey,
MCN Program Chair, 216-707-2653, hwitchey@clevelandart.org or Christina DePaolo,
MCN Conference Chair, 206 654-3165, christinad@seattleartmuseum.org.
MCN 37th Annual Conference, November 11-14, 2009, Portland, Oregon
Online proposal submissions will be accepted March 6-27, 2009
http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=2266
The Museum Computer Network (MCN) will host its 2009 Conference with the theme
"Museum Information, Museum Efficiency: Doing More with Less!" in lovely Portland,
Oregon. The annual MCN meeting is one of the most important conferences serving
international cultural heritage professionals, collections and new technologies.
The MCN 2009 program committee seeks innovative sessions (panels, papers, case
studies, and workshops) that illustrate how institutions are effectively functioning
and planning to function during the tough times ahead. We are looking for active,
engaged individuals and groups of individuals thinking about and using best practices
in the following areas:
- Serving institutional mission with cost-effective strategies in tough economic
times
- Making, managing, and delivering digital media in new and effective ways
- Building the future now: innovations coming soon to a museum near you!
Conference Topics
Prospective authors are invited to make submissions in areas including, but not
limited to:
- Technology and Information Management Serving the Institutional Bottom Line
- Digital Readiness, Digital Accomplishments, Digital Accountability (Image
Capture, Digital Asset Management, Best Practices, Preservation, Access)
- Implementing Systems in Adverse Conditions
- Digital Convergence: Archives, Libraries, and Museums
- Doing More with Less
- Leadership, Sustainability, Accountability
- Social Media
- Superior Content, Superior Delivery
Innovative formats and interaction with audience are highly desirable and will
be important factors, as will practicability, in the 2009 selection process.
Online proposal submissions will be accepted March 6-27, 2009
http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=2266
If you have questions or need more information please contact Holly Witchey,
MCN Program Chair, 216-707-2653, hwitchey@clevelandart.org or Christina DePaolo,
MCN Conference Chair, 206 654-3165, christinad@seattleartmuseum.org.
Friday, March 06, 2009
International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web (ICSD 2009)
International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web (ICSD 2009)
The International Conferences on Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web 2009 (ICSD2009) will take place from September 8-11 at the University of Trento.
http://www.icsd-conference.org/
CFP: http://www.icsd-conference.org/node/1
Important DatesApril 16, 2009: Submission (Papers, Posters & Workshops)
June 24, 2009: Camera-ready copy
The International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web (ICSD
2009) addresses two main questions:
(1) How can digital libraries support Semantic Web functionality?
(2) How can Semantic Web technology improve digital libraries?
Ultimately the goal is an environment in which all functionality is available
to the user without the perception of different systems or system boundaries.
Contributions are sought that address one or both of the main questions or
steps towards the ultimate system.
For more information about topics and deadlines please see:
http://www.icsd-conference.org/
The International Conferences on Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web 2009 (ICSD2009) will take place from September 8-11 at the University of Trento.
http://www.icsd-conference.org/
CFP: http://www.icsd-conference.org/node/1
Important DatesApril 16, 2009: Submission (Papers, Posters & Workshops)
June 24, 2009: Camera-ready copy
The International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web (ICSD
2009) addresses two main questions:
(1) How can digital libraries support Semantic Web functionality?
(2) How can Semantic Web technology improve digital libraries?
Ultimately the goal is an environment in which all functionality is available
to the user without the perception of different systems or system boundaries.
Contributions are sought that address one or both of the main questions or
steps towards the ultimate system.
For more information about topics and deadlines please see:
http://www.icsd-conference.org/
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Call for Submissions – Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Awards
Call for Submissions – Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Awards
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 30, 2009!!
The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative was started to advocate for a complete rethink of the way libraries conduct resource sharing in the context of the global internet revolution. In order to showcase resource sharing innovation, the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative has created an award to encourage libraries and librarians all over the world to make changes in how they do resource sharing and improve service to users.
Up to three winning submissions will be awarded a cash prize of $1,000 each. Recipients will be announced at the Rethinking Resource Sharing Forum 2009 on May 13 and 14, 2009 in Dublin, OH. Funding for the 2009 Innovation Awards is provided by the Alliance of Library Service Networks www.librarynetworks.org, a group of U.S. independent regional networks that includes Amigos, BCR, FEDLINK, ILLINET, INCOLSA, MINITEX, MLC, MLNC, NELINET, Nylink, OHIONET, PALINET, SOLINET, and WiLS. The Nebraska Library Commission is also a member.
To be considered for the award, please submit a description of the user-centric service change you have made that has improved resource sharing in your library, consortium or state. Full details for submission can be found at www.rethinkingresourcesharing.org.
The deadline for applications/nominations is March 30, 2009. (post-mark or date of e-mail).
Submissions are sent to the chair of the Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Awards Committee:
Beth Farmer
Assistant Director
Tampa Bay Library Consortium
1202 Tech Blvd., Ste 202
Tampa, FL 33619
farmerb@tblc.org
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 30, 2009!!
The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative was started to advocate for a complete rethink of the way libraries conduct resource sharing in the context of the global internet revolution. In order to showcase resource sharing innovation, the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative has created an award to encourage libraries and librarians all over the world to make changes in how they do resource sharing and improve service to users.
Up to three winning submissions will be awarded a cash prize of $1,000 each. Recipients will be announced at the Rethinking Resource Sharing Forum 2009 on May 13 and 14, 2009 in Dublin, OH. Funding for the 2009 Innovation Awards is provided by the Alliance of Library Service Networks www.librarynetworks.org, a group of U.S. independent regional networks that includes Amigos, BCR, FEDLINK, ILLINET, INCOLSA, MINITEX, MLC, MLNC, NELINET, Nylink, OHIONET, PALINET, SOLINET, and WiLS. The Nebraska Library Commission is also a member.
To be considered for the award, please submit a description of the user-centric service change you have made that has improved resource sharing in your library, consortium or state. Full details for submission can be found at www.rethinkingresourcesharing.org.
The deadline for applications/nominations is March 30, 2009. (post-mark or date of e-mail).
Submissions are sent to the chair of the Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Awards Committee:
Beth Farmer
Assistant Director
Tampa Bay Library Consortium
1202 Tech Blvd., Ste 202
Tampa, FL 33619
farmerb@tblc.org
Monday, March 02, 2009
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice announces new Associate Editor
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice announces new Associate Editor
The journal Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP) is pleased to announce that Scott Walter has joined the Editorial Team as an Associate Editor. Scott is the Associate University Librarian for Services and Associate Dean of Libraries at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He brings a wealth of experience to our team, having served on the boards of several LIS journals. He is actively involved in professional activities, notably with the Association of College & Research Libraries, and he has an extensive record of publishing his own research. Scott will be responsible for Classics and a new section called Using Evidence in Practice.
The new Using Evidence in Practice section of the journal features brief reports of LIS practitioners' use of evidence to assist with decision making. The section follows a structured format to report practical implementations of an evidence based approach to tackling workplace problems. Have you followed an evidence based approach in your daily work? Have you begun a new project and incorporated assessment to measure outcomes and success? Have you tried to incorporate evidence but not had any success? All of these scenarios lend themselves to a retelling that may benefit others. Please consider writing about your experience and submitting it to EBLIP.
For questions about the Using Evidence in Practice section of EBLIP, please contact Scott Walter, Associate Editor at swalter@illinois.edu.
EBLIP is a peer reviewed, open access journal published quarterly by the University of Alberta Learning Services, using the OJS Software. The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for librarians and other information professionals to discover research that may contribute to decision making in professional practice. EBLIP publishes original research and commentary on the topic of evidence based library and information practice, as well as reviews of previously published research (evidence summaries) on a wide number of topics. Visit the journal at:
https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP
Denise Koufogiannakis
Editor-in-Chief
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice
Denise.Koufogiannakis@Ualberta.ca
The journal Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP) is pleased to announce that Scott Walter has joined the Editorial Team as an Associate Editor. Scott is the Associate University Librarian for Services and Associate Dean of Libraries at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He brings a wealth of experience to our team, having served on the boards of several LIS journals. He is actively involved in professional activities, notably with the Association of College & Research Libraries, and he has an extensive record of publishing his own research. Scott will be responsible for Classics and a new section called Using Evidence in Practice.
The new Using Evidence in Practice section of the journal features brief reports of LIS practitioners' use of evidence to assist with decision making. The section follows a structured format to report practical implementations of an evidence based approach to tackling workplace problems. Have you followed an evidence based approach in your daily work? Have you begun a new project and incorporated assessment to measure outcomes and success? Have you tried to incorporate evidence but not had any success? All of these scenarios lend themselves to a retelling that may benefit others. Please consider writing about your experience and submitting it to EBLIP.
For questions about the Using Evidence in Practice section of EBLIP, please contact Scott Walter, Associate Editor at swalter@illinois.edu.
EBLIP is a peer reviewed, open access journal published quarterly by the University of Alberta Learning Services, using the OJS Software. The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for librarians and other information professionals to discover research that may contribute to decision making in professional practice. EBLIP publishes original research and commentary on the topic of evidence based library and information practice, as well as reviews of previously published research (evidence summaries) on a wide number of topics. Visit the journal at:
https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP
Denise Koufogiannakis
Editor-in-Chief
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice
Denise.Koufogiannakis@Ualberta.ca
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