Applications/Nominations Invited for C&RL Social Media Editor

Applications/Nominations Invited for C&RL Social Media Editor

Applications and nominations are invited for the position of social media editor of College & Research Libraries (C&RL), the scholarly research journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). The social media editor is a new position, identified by the Editorial Board as a critical component of the journal’s planned transition to an e-only publication model in January 2014. Like the book review editor, the social media editor will work closely with the editor and the members of the Editorial Board to shape the social media strategy for the journal and to identify opportunities for effective integration with the social media programs established by other ACRL publications and by the Association. The social media editor will be appointed for an initial, three-year term, at the conclusion of which the Editorial Board will determine if the position should continue for an additional three years (dependent on the state of the ACRL and C&RL social media strategy and structure in 2016). Applicants must be a member of ALA and ACRL.

Qualifications include:

·         professional experience in academic libraries;

·         a record of successful social media planning and implementation;

·         knowledge of best practices in social media planning and innovative practices in the use of social media as a component of scholarly communications;

·         ability to identify, prioritize, and implement social media projects that enhance and amplify the content disseminated through the journal;

·         ability to meet deadlines; and

·         familiarity with the existing social media program employed by the Association of College & Research Libraries.

Appointment will be made by the ACRL Publications Coordinating Committee upon the recommendation of the C&RL Editorial Board. The social media editor will begin a three-year term of appointment following the ALA Annual Conference in July 2013. A nominal honorarium may be available for this position, pending final review of the C&RL editorial budget for 2013-14.

Applications and nominations (including self-nominations), including a current CV and a statement addressing the nominee’s qualifications in the areas noted above, should be sent to:

Scott Walter

Editor, College & Research Libraries

swalte11@depaul.edu

The College & Research Libraries Web site may be found at: http://crl.acrl.org/

The deadline for receipt of applications is March 15, 2013.
Finalists will be interviewed by conference call during April 2013.

Call for Chapters: Creative Management of Small Public Libraries in the 21st Century

Call for Chapters: Creative Management of Small Public Libraries in the 21st Century

Book Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Co-editor: Carol Smallwood, public libraries consultant; Library Management Tips That Work, ed., (ALA Editions, 2011);  Library Services for Multicultural Patrons to Encourage Library Use co-ed., (Scarecrow Press, 2013)

Co-editor:  Lawrence Grieco, library director, Gilpin County Public Library, Black Hawk, Colorado; Key Contact,  Association for Rural & Small Libraries; contributor, Bringing the Arts into the Library: An Outreach Handbook (ALA Editions, 2013)

Chapters sought for an anthology by practicing public librarians and LIS faculty in the United States and Canada: creative, practical how-to chapters for a handbook on strengthening small and rural public libraries as centers of communities serving populations under 25,000. Possible topics: fostering positive staff attitudes; making an inviting atmosphere; successful living endowments; programming; handling patrons, volunteers, meetings;  using technology; effective networking; staff evaluations; professional development; needs assessment surveys.

Concise, how-to chapters based on experience to help colleagues totaling 3,000-4,000 words, or two chapters that come to 3,000-4,000 words. No previously published or simultaneously submitted material. One, two, or three authors per chapter; if two chapters they are to be by the same author(s).  A complimentary copy per 3,000-4,000 word accepted submission as compensation, discount on more.

Please e-mail titles of  2-3 topics each described in 2 sentences by March 31, 2013 with brief biography sketch(s);  place SMALL and Last Name on the subject line to: smallwood@tm.net

EBLIP Journal Seeks 2 Associate Editors

EBLIP Journal Seeks 2 Associate Editors

*Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP)* is expanding and restructuring.  *EBLIP* is looking for two additional Associate Editors to join our Editorial Team.  One will be responsible for Articles and the second will be responsible for Evidence Summaries.  Ideally candidates will be in place by April 2013 and will serve a 3 year term.

The Associate Editor (Articles) will become one of two Associate Editors (Articles) and will be responsible for:

- Overseeing the complete editorial process for items submitted to the Articles section (this includes assignment of peer reviewers, monitoring the peer review process, communicating with authors and peer reviewers, making acceptance decisions, ensuring required changes to manuscripts are made, communicating with copyeditors and the production editor to ensure the final copy is as expected).
- Communicating and consulting with the Editor-in-Chief on a regular basis.
- Attending Editorial Team meetings, via Skype, on a monthly basis and participating in the overall governance of the journal. 
- Ensuring that all necessary deadlines are met.
- Communicating with potential authors and responding to queries.

The Associate Editor (Evidence Summaries) will be responsible for:

- Supervising a team of Evidence Summary writers.
- Identifying published research articles for assignment to ES writers for appraisal and commentary.
- Overseeing the complete editorial process for items selected for the Evidence Summary Section (this includes assignment of peer reviewers, monitoring the peer review process, communicating with ES writers and
peer reviewers, making acceptance decisions, ensuring required changes to manuscripts are made,  Commmunicating with copyeditors and the production editor to ensure the final copy is as expected.
- Communicating and consulting with the Editor-in-Chief on a regular basis.
- Attending Editorial Team meetings, via Skype, on a monthly basis and participating in the overall governance of the journal.
- Ensuring that all necessary deadlines are met.

The ideal candidates will be well-versed in evidence based practice and research methods. These positions require dedicated time on a regular basis, and it is therefore essential that interested persons ensure available time to devote to this position prior to applying. It is estimated that the workload is approximately 10-15 hours per month. Terms of office are renewable once.

Interested persons should send a statement of interest, indicating the post of interest, areas of strength they would bring to the role, and a brief resume to Alison Brettle, Editor-in-Chief, at *a.brettle@salford.ac.uk* by
4 March 2013.

Specific queries about each role should be addressed to:

Alison Brettle (a.brettle@salford.ac.uk) for Associate Editor (Articles) position

Lorie Kloda (lorie.kloda@mcgill.ca) for Associate Editor (Evidence Summaries) position

**Please note that *Evidence Based Library and Information Practice* is a non-profit, open access journal and all positions are voluntary and unpaid. 

About the journal:
Published quarterly, and hosted by the University of Alberta, this peer-reviewed, open access journal is targeted at all library and information professionals interested in an evidence based model of practice. By facilitating access to librarianship research via original research articles and evidence summaries of relevant research from the library literature, *Evidence Based Library and Information Practice* will enable librarians to practice their profession in an evidence based manner.

Please visit the Evidence Based Library and Information Practice web site (http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP) for further information about the journal.

Call for Applications: Editorial Intern (online, volunteer, student position) for open access LIS journal

Call for Applications: Editorial Intern (online, volunteer, student position) for open access LIS journal

*Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP)* is expanding and restructuring.  *EBLIP *is looking for a new intern to assist our Editorial Team.  Ideally candidates will be in place by April 2013 and will serve a
two year term.

The role of the intern is to:
   - Provide a final check of proofed copy before publication, using a predeveloped checklist.
   - Check and edit the item metadata to ensure title, author and abstract correspond to manuscript.
   - Assist the Editor-in-Chief with calls for papers and calls for volunteers.
   - Contact potential authors, asking them to consider submission to the journal.
   - Assist with investigation and implementation of new projects related to the journal.

The ideal candidate will be an MLIS student interested in evidence based practice and research methods and who has strong attention to detail. The position requires dedicated time on a regular basis, and it is therefore
essential that interested persons ensure available time to devote to this position prior to applying. It is estimated that the workload is approximately 10 hours per month.

Interested persons should send a statement of interest, indicating the post of interest, areas of strength they would bring to the role, and a brief resume to Alison Brettle, Editor-in-Chief, at *a.brettle@salford.ac.uk* by
4 March 2013.

Specific queries about the role should be addressed to the outgoing Intern, Michelle Dunaway, at mdunawa@gmail.com.

**Please note that *Evidence Based Library and Information Practice* is a non-profit, open access journal and all positions are voluntary and unpaid.

About the journal:
Published quarterly, and hosted by the University of Alberta, this peer-reviewed, open access journal is targeted at all library and information professionals interested in an evidence based model of practice. By facilitating access to librarianship research via original research articles and evidence summaries of relevant research from the library literature, *Evidence Based Library and Information Practice* will enable librarians to practice their profession in an evidence based manner.

Please visit the Evidence Based Library and Information Practice web site (
http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP) for further information about the journal.

CFP: Symposium Safeguarding Image Collections, Brussels (KIK-IRPA), 31 October 2013

CFP: Symposium Safeguarding Image Collections, Brussels (KIK-IRPA), 31 October 2013

URL: http://org.kikirpa.be/coma2013/

On October 31st 2013 IRPA-KIK organises a conference on management and conservation of photographic collections. Many institutions (museums, libraries, archives, etc.) that have photographic collections are facing problems concerning their management: storage, inventory, digitalization, access, copyright issues, status and value attached to the collection etc. The conference offers professionals who are confronted with these problems an occasion to develop a practical and ethical framework for the conservation of photographic collections.

If you would like to present a paper on one of the diverse topics concerning this theme, you can send your proposal to IRPA-KIK before March 31 2013.

More information: see attached document or conference website: http://org.kikirpa.be/coma2013/

CFP: Art Libraries Section (IFLA World Library and Information Congress - Singapore 2013)

CFP: Art Libraries Section (IFLA World Library and Information Congress - Singapore 2013)

Theme: 
Crossing Boundaries: Art Libraries, Museums and Archives in a Global Context

URL: http://conference.ifla.org/ifla79/calls-for-papers/crossing-boundaries-art-libraries-museums-and-archives-in-global-context 

Global communications, free access to digitized collections, and the ability to cross-search widely dispersed information sources are having a profound impact on cultural studies. In art libraries, museums and archives, global data exchange is enabling all sorts of new discoveries. As traditional hierarchies, categories and distinctions lose their significance, previously unknown contexts are being revealed. In Western countries, networks of library catalogues, digitized museum collections, inventories, etc., have been activated from the very beginning of internet communication onwards. However, the exchange of knowledge and data between non-Western and Western cultures is only beginning. The IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Singapore in 2013 is a welcome occasion to bring together the experiences, expertise and projects of art libraries, museums and archives that have developed against the background of global communication networks—crossing old boundaries and exploring new intercultural frontiers.

The Art Libraries Section of IFLA and members of the National Library of Singapore are organizing a workshop dedicated to highlighting communication, collaboration and networking among Asian cultural institutions with their neighbors in the region and beyond. Speakers will have the opportunity to showcase their current activities and to discuss them with representatives from around the world.

The workshop will be held in the Ngee Ann Auditorium at the Asian Civilizations Museum on Wednesday 21 August 2013 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Specialists in the fields of art libraries, museum libraries, archives and related areas are invited to submit proposals for 15-20 minute presentations. Presentations will be followed by discussions with the audience. English as the conference language is requested.

The proposals must be submitted in electronic format and must contain

• Title of the paper
• Author(s) of the paper
• Abstract or summary of the paper (400 words maximum)
• Speaker’s name, address, professional affiliation, email address, and biographical note (40 words maximum)

Please submit proposals to

Jan Simane, Chair of the Art Libraries Section (simane@khi.fi.it)
Martin Flynn, Secretary of the Section (m.flynn@vam.ac.uk)
Kong Leng Foong, National Library Board Singapore (Leng_Foong_KONG@nlb.gov.sg)

Submissions

All proposals must be in before 31 March 2013.

All expenses, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation etc., are the responsibility of the authors/presenters. No financial support can be provided by IFLA, but a special invitation can be issued to authors.

Congress Attendance Grants

The Singapore National Committee and IFLA have worked hard to secure funds for Conference Participation Grants. Up-to-date information will be available on our Conference Participation Grantswebpage.

CFP: Progressive Bridges: Changing the Landscape (Substance Abuse Librarians & Information Specialists 35th Annual Conference)

CFP: Progressive Bridges: Changing the Landscape (Substance Abuse Librarians & Information Specialists
35th Annual Conference)

April 30 - May 3, 2013
Berkeley, California, USA

Call for Abstracts

Andrea Mitchell, Institute for Scientific Analysis; Julie Murphy, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation; and Tom Colthurst, Silver Gate Group, co-hosts for the SALIS 35th Annual Conference , Berkeley, CA April 30-May 3, 2013, invite you to submit an abstract for a presentation or poster.

While this year's theme, Progressive Bridges: Changing the Landscape speaks to the location of the SALIS 2013, more importantly it was the decision of the hosts to make it broad enough to engage presentation ideas which encompass the changing and progressive landscapes of both the ATOD arena and the information science fields.

For example, in the ATOD arena, we have been witnessing a new look at the drug war and its implications in human rights abuse. Activists and scholars have been questioning incarceration for small amounts of marijuana possession and the practice of stopping and frisking youth, the greater percentage of whom are Black and Hispanic.  Medical marijuana is now legal in more than a third of the US states, and more recently two states have legalized consumption of small amounts of marijuana for personal use.

Transformation and change continues exponentially for the information science and technology arena. Social media, cloud computing, open access, digitization, digital libraries and E-books are all major topics of information professionals today. At the same time, ATOD librarians and information specialists have been witnessing the ever constant erosion and loss of the alcohol and other drug physical libraries and databases. The challenges facing those libraries and information centers still remaining is to do more with less funding, and reduction in staff, yet satisfy demands to be in the forefront of the new media.

Abstracts should be 200 words or less and must be submitted by March 8, 2013,  using the online submission form at: http://bit.ly/VBZuWx for full consideration. The online form enables you to create a unique login account that will allow you to return and edit your submission at any time before the deadline. You will receive an email confirmation when your abstract is selected for the conference,  with additional information for presenters. If you would like to discuss your presentation idea, please email Andrea Mitchell, amitchell@salis.org.

SALIS Home will keep you informed of new information regarding the conference, hotel, and transportation, as it becomes available .  We look forward to receiving your abstract  and welcoming you to Berkeley and the Bay Area.

Your conference hosts,

Julie Murphy
Tom Colthurst
Andrea Mitchell

CFP: Second Call for Proposals: Open Repositories 2013

Second Call for Proposals: Open Repositories 2013

URL: http://duraspace.org/second-call-proposals-open-repositories-2013-keynote-speaker

From 
program co-chairs:
 Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington and Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

OR2013 2nd Call for Proposals and Keynote Announced!

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, CA  This year’s Open Repositories conference takes place in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada between Monday, July 8 and Friday, July 12. Registration is now open at http://or2013.net - register early and reserve your accommodation as soon as you can! 

We are very pleased to announce that the opening keynote this year will be Victoria Stodden of Columbia University and co-founder of http://www.runmycode.org/. See more about Dr. Stodden here: http://www.stodden.net/. 

We invite you to contribute to the conference program. The deadline (Feb 22) is quickly approaching!

This year’s conference theme is Use, Reuse, Reproduce. One of the most important roles of repositories is to enable greater use and reuse of their contents— whether those contents are library collections, scholarly articles, research data, or software—and metadata. The notion of use and reuse can be extended to repository infrastructure as well. Many repositories are based on open source software that can be freely reused and adapted to serve local needs; other efforts are also emerging both in conjunction with and outside traditional repository platforms to encourage discipline or community specific reuse and sharing of software, services, and infrastructure. In addition there is a growing interest and need to document and share the code and workflows used to produce research results - particularly in computationally intensive fields - in order to promote reproducible research.

Some specific areas of interest for OR2013 are:
 

• Effective re-use of content--particularly research data--enabled by embedded repository tools and services

• Effective re-use of software, services, and infrastructure to support repository development

• Facilitation of reproducible research through access to data, workflows, and code

• Services making use of repository metadata

• Focused, disciplinary or community-based software, services, and infrastructure for use and reuse of content

• Integration of data, including linked data, and external services with repositories to provide solutions to specific domains

• Added-value services for repositories

• Long-term preservation of repositories and their contents

• Role and impact of repositories in the research ecosystem
 

The aim of the Open Repositories Conference is to bring those responsible for the development, implementation and management of digital repositories together with stakeholders, such as researchers, librarians, publishers and others, to address theoretical, practical, and strategic issues across the entire lifecycle of information, from the creation and management of digital content, to enabling use, re-use, and interconnection of information, and ensuring long-term preservation and archiving. The current economic climate dictates that repositories operate across administrative and disciplinary boundaries and to interact with distributed computational services and social communities.



Submissions can take the form of proposals for presentations, panels, posters, demonstrations, and workshops. We will consider any submission that seems to us sufficiently original and repository-related to merit attention at this event, but we’ll give preference to submissions that address our primary theme. In some cases, papers submitted to the general conference may be referred to user groups if appropriate.



Key dates and contacts:

• 22 February 2013: Deadline for submissions

• 12 April 2013: Submitters notified of acceptance to general conference

• 19 April 2013: Submitters notified of acceptance to user groups

• 8-12 July 2013: OR2013 conference:

• 8 July 2013: Pre-conference workshops

• 9-11 July 2013: General Conference

• 11-12 July 2013: DSpace, EPrints, and Fedora user group meetings
 

Submission process


• Conference Papers and Panels

We welcome two- to four-page proposals for presentations or panels that deal with organizational, theoretical, practical, or administrative issues of digital repositories and repository services that are not specific to a particular technical platform. Abstracts of accepted papers will be made available through the conference’s web site, and later they and associated materials will be made available in a repository intended for current and future OR content. In general, sessions are an hour and a half long with three papers per session; panels may take an entire session. Relevant papers unsuccessful in the main track will automatically be considered for inclusion, as appropriate, as a User Group presentation. 



• User Group Presentations

One to two-page proposals for presentations or panels that focus on use of one of the major repository platforms (EPrints, DSpace and Fedora) are invited from developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners describing novel experiences or developments in the construction and use of repositories involving issues specific to these technical platforms.

• 24x7 Presentation Proposals

We welcome one- to two-page proposals for 7 minute presentations comprising no more than 24 slides. Similar to Pecha Kuchas or Lightning Talks, these 24x7 presentations will be grouped into blocks based on conference themes, with each block followed by a moderated discussion / question and answer session involving the audience and whole block of presenters. This forum will provide conference goers with a fast-paced survey of like work across many institutions, and presenters the chance to disseminate their work in more depth and context than a traditional poster.

• 

Posters and Demos

We invite developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners to submit one-page proposals for posters and demonstrations. Posters provide an opportunity to present work that isn’t appropriate for a paper; you’ll have the chance to do a 60-second pitch for your poster or demo during a plenary session at the conference.



• Workshops and Tutorials

One- to two-page proposals for Workshops and Tutorials addressing theoretical or practical issues around digital repositories are welcomed. Workshops and tutorials will take place on the Monday before the conference. Please address the following in your proposal:
 

• The subject of the event and what knowledge you intend to convey

• Length of session (e.g., 1-hour, 2-hour? half a day? whole day?)

• How many attendees you plan to accommodate

• Technology and facility requirements

• Any other supplies or support required

• A brief statement on the learning outcomes from the session

• Anything else you believe is pertinent to carrying out the session
 

• Developer Challenge

Each year a significant proportion of the delegates at Open Repositories are software developers who work on repository software or related services, and once again OR2013 will feature a Developer Challenge. An announcement will be made in the future with more details on the Challenge. Developers are also encouraged to make submissions to the other tracks--including posters, demonstrations, and 24x7 presentations--to present on recently completed work and works-in-progress.

If you have any requests that fall outside of the call, such as satellite meetings, please contact the local conference chair, Mark Leggott, University of Prince Edward Island, at mleggott@upei.ca.

PLEASE submit your paper, poster, demo or workshop proposal through the conference system. PDF format is preferred. Please include presentation title, authors’ names and affiliations in the submission. The conference system is linked from the conference web site (http://or2013.net/).

Call for Papers on Social Media (Social Science Computer Review)

Call for Papers on Social Media (Social Science Computer Review)

The special issue of Social Science Computer Review aims to investigate and understand different aspects of social media use in government, nonprofit, education, and healthcare organizations. We are soliciting original contributions in the form of evidence-based, “best practices” studies, scholarship on legal and ethical issues, case studies, and empirical research. All lenses of inquiry, including strategic, organizational, behavioral, legal, economic, and technical are encouraged. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary and international research that develops and applies multiple perspectives. We are interested in success stories, but we believe that valuable lessons can be learned from failures as well.

If you are interested, please see the Call For Papers at: http://faculty.gvsu.edu/hoffmanm/ssrc_cfp.pdf

---------

Mark C. Hoffman

Associate Professor and Director

School of Public, Nonprofit &  Health Administration

401 Fulton Street West, #236C DeVos

Grand Valley State University

Grand Rapids, MI 49504

The Informed Librarian Online seeks article writers

The Informed Librarian Online seeks article writers
        
The Informed Librarian Online is a monthly compilation of the most recent tables of contents from over 320 titles - valuable domestic and foreign library and information-related journals, e-journals, magazines, e-magazines, newsletters and e-newsletters. This current awareness service helps keep you informed and abreast of all library trends. It is an easy, timesaving way to tame your professional reading tiger, and is very popular among all types of library and information professionals.
The Informed Librarian Online ( http://www.informedlibrarian.com) is seeking librarians with something to say to author a one-time "Guest Forum" article for our service. We are looking for practical, helpful articles on an issue of interest to YOU (and our readers). Would you like to write a short article (about 1,000 words) for us?  Librarians from all around the world read the articles in The Informed Librarian Online. Writers will receive a complimentary one-year subscription to the service.
        
If you are interested in writing for The Informed Librarian Online, email aeis@optonline.net a brief description of your proposed subject matter.

CFP: Opportunities and Barriers to Integrating Service Learning in Engineering Into Engineering Education

CFP: Opportunities and Barriers to Integrating Service Learning in Engineering Into Engineering Education

IJSLE Special Edition Announcement

The editors of the International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (IJSLE) are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a Special Edition of the Journal.  The special edition will be entitled ‘Opportunities and Barriers to Integrating Service Learning in Engineering into Engineering Education’. 

Manuscript submittal deadline is August 30^th 2013 - with publication planned for December, 2013.  Website:  www.ijsle.org

Purpose and Scope

The editors invite submission of high-quality manuscripts that explore: 1) assessment, 2) scholarship, and 3) interdisciplinary engagement related to Service Learning in Engineering (SLE) - both domestically and internationally.   A few examples of potential topics which might be addressed are provided below:

1.      Assessment of Service Learning in Engineering

a.      Methods and results of assessment of student learning

b.      Methods and results of assessment of community impacts

c.      Methods and results of assessment of impacts on the University, College,
    Department and Employers

d.      How might SLE practices be changing what, and how, we assess in  
     engineering education? 

2.      Scholarship of Service Learning in Engineering

a.      What is ‘scholarship’ as related to service learning in engineering?

b.      P&T committees and the review process – what is SLE ‘value’?

c.       Comparison of publications valued by the SLE community and those valued by P&T committees

d.      Other avenues to scholarship: conferences, books, grants, workshops, etc.

e.      Comparisons with service-learning in other disciplines - what is the state of the art.  What can engineering learn from other disciplines?

3.      Interdisciplinary Engagement

a.    Examples of technically rigorous engineering research with strong socio-economic context

b.    Entrepreneurship and SLE

c.    Curricular models of ‘breaking down the silos’ with SLE

Manuscript submittal deadline is August 30^th 2013 - with publication planned for December, 2013.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Thomas Colledge, PE at thc100@psu.edu.  

CFP: NWILL 2013 Conference (Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference) - September 2013

CFP: NWILL 2013 Conference (Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference) - September 2013

Mark your calendars!
The 12th annual Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference will take place September 11-13, 2013, in Portland, Oregon at Portland Community College - Sylvania Campus! Look for registration opening early in May. 
Xavier Helgesen, co-founder of Better World Books, will be this year's keynote speaker.
Call for Proposals
The NWILL Conference Program Committee invites proposals for sessions of interest to interlibrary loan and resource sharing practitioners. 

The following topics are of interest to the Program Committee, but we welcome proposals on other topics as well:

• Managing your ILL statistics
• Sustainable ILL, greening practices
• Coping with fewer resources
• ILL for public libraries
• Succession planning
• Libraries without books, what does it mean for ILL?
• Keeping track of licensing of e-content for ILL
• Training staff and students

Check our Program page for more information and to submit a proposal. Deadline: March 4th, 2013.

Call for Virtual Projects for New JMLA Column (Journal of the Medical Library Association)

The Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) is devoting a new annual column to describing innovative and notable virtual projects in health sciences libraries. This column will complement the annual Building Projects column, which was launched in July 2012, but will focus on library virtual spaces. In an increasingly digital world, the library’s virtual space can be as much of a hub as the library’s physical space. Digital content and technology-rich library services are moving the library “presence” outside the physical building to support users in their digital spaces wherever and whenever needed.

The JMLA welcomes submissions of recent virtual projects for the Virtual Projects column that will be published in October 2013. To be considered for this column, please submit a 200-word abstract of your virtual project or a link to a project web page that describes the project and why it is innovative/notable. Send your submissions to Susan Lessick, AHIP, FMLA, by March 15, 2013. Examples of health sciences library projects that could be submitted include:

• projects that improve the quality of the library’s virtual presence through web pages or its catalog
• development of technologies that facilitate information discovery and content delivery (e.g., federated searching products and portals)
• mobile-friendly resource and service initiatives
• development of web 2.0/Library 2.0 initiatives (e.g., social networking applications)
• hosting and preserving digital content activities
• projects that demonstrate the use of library resources and services through the institution’s electronic health record (EHR)
• collaborative ventures with campus or other partners to develop new digital resources and services

Journal URL: http://www.mlanet.org/publications/jmla/

CFP: IFLA Classification and Indexing Section (Singapore 2013)

World Library and Information Congress: 79th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
Singapore, 17-23 August 2013
Classification & Indexing Section Open Session
Call for Papers
"Subject access: Infinite possibilities"

For the Classification & Indexing Section Open Session we invite presentations showing new, unique, or innovative ways of providing subject access to users from all types of libraries - approaches or applications that go beyond the traditional or the ordinary, being exemplars of "infinite possibilities".

For example ...
*         Are you developing or applying subject access tools that exceed expectations, facilitating infinite possibilities for your users' needs?
*         Do you  provide subject access to resources through library architecture or shelving design that is unique, innovative, or seen as "cutting edge"?
*         Have you designed new or particularly creative tools for navigating subject repositories?
*         Do you use subject metadata  in novel or unexpected ways in recommendation or other subject access services?
*         Is there a connection between your subject access policies and learning environments that are creative, or encouraging of "thinking outside the box"?
*         Are you designing structured vocabularies for the linked data cloud that lead the way to infinite possibilities for subject access?
*         Do you offer innovative genre access for fiction, children's literature, audiovisual media, or emerging digital objects?
*         Do you work in a library or other information institution with a unique social tagging success story?
*         Has your library or information institution devised strategic approaches to managing the vast landscape of subject access systems and tools that threaten to overwhelm users with infinite possibilities?

If so, then please consider submitting a short paper to present at our Open Session in Singapore.

We are particularly interested in presentations from Singaporean libraries or libraries of the Asian/Southeast Asian areas.


Submissions

The deadline for submitting short papers is 8 February, 2013
Papers should be in English and no more than 2000 words in length. The submission should also include:

  *   Abstract of approximately 150 words, summarizing the paper
  *   Author's name, professional affiliation, postal address, and email address.
Short papers and presentations should represent unpublished, original work.  Submissions will be reviewed by a selection committee of members of the Standing Committee of the Classification and Indexing Section. Successful short papers will be identified by March 1, 2013, and authors notified shortly thereafter.

Authors should be prepared to give presentations at the C&IS Open Session at the IFLA Conference, held between August 17-23, 2013.  The length of the presentations should be approximately 15 minutes with 5 minutes for questions/discussion. The conference will be conducted in English and all presentations will be required to be in English.

Successful short papers will be translated into the official languages of IFLA.  IFLA has first publication rights to papers selected.

Short paper submissions should be sent to Lynne C. Howarth, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, at:  lynne.howarth@utoronto.ca


Please note
All expenses, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation etc., are the responsibility of the authors/presenters. No financial support can be provided by IFLA, but a special invitation can be issued to authors.

Library Research Round Table (LRRT) Call for Proposals for 2013 ALA Annual Conference

Library Research Round Table (LRRT) Call for Proposals for 2013 ALA Annual Conference

The Library Research Round Table (LRRT) will sponsor two Research Forums at the 2013 American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago, IL (June 27-July 2).  The LRRT Forums are a set of programs at the ALA Annual Conference featuring presentations of LIS research, in progress or completed, followed by discussion.  One of the forums is broad in scope and one is on a more specific topic. The forums are:

Research: Data-Driven Services

Libraries collect data on usage of collections, services, and physical space. However, much of these data are not utilized to capacity. This session will feature three research papers that demonstrate how to leverage user-centered data to develop services. Audience members will learn about methods and techniques that they can use locally to answer questions in their own organizations. Attendees will be able to take away results that could be applied directly in local settings and make connections with presenters and one another to explore creative ways to respond to challenges.

Research: Creative Problem Solving

Novelty and innovation are needed to respond to many of today’s challenges. Libraries and librarians require new and creative approaches to defining questions and finding answers. Three papers that demonstrate innovative inquiry will be selected by a committee for inclusion in this Forum. Attendees will discover methods and techniques that they previously were not familiar with, but can be employed in their libraries. Audience members will become cognizant of new questions or emerging ways to state and think about problems. The results presented will offer directly applicable solutions that can be adapted by attendees in their organizations.

This is an opportunity to present and discuss your research project conducted in the broad area of library and information science or in a more specialized area of the field. LRRT welcomes papers emphasizing the problems, theories, methodologies, or significance of research findings for LIS. Topics can include, but are not limited to, user studies and user behavior, electronic services, service effectiveness, organizational structure and personnel, library value determination, shared collections, collection assessment, digital libraries, archiving, preservation, and evaluation of library and information services.  Both completed research and research in progress will be considered.  All researchers, including practitioners from all types of libraries, library school faculty and students, and other interested individuals are encouraged to submit proposals.  LRRT Members and nonmembers of LRRT are invited and welcomed to submit proposals.

The Committee will use a blind review process to select a maximum of six projects, three for each of the two forums.  The selected researchers will be required to present their papers in person at the forums and to register for the conference.  All expenses, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation, etc., are the responsibility of the researchers/presenters.  Criteria for selection are:

1. Significance of the study to library and information science research;
2. Quality and creativity of the methodology;
3. Potential to fill a research gap or to build on previous LIS studies;
4. Adherence to submission requirements (see below).

Please submit a two-page proposal by Monday, February 18, 2013.  Late submissions will not be considered, and submissions must be limited to two pages in length.  On the first page, please list your name(s), title(s), institutional affiliation(s), and contact information (telephone number, mailing address, and email address). The second page should NOT show your name or any other identifying information.  Instead, it must include: 1) The title of your project, and 2) A 500-word or less abstract.  The abstract must include a problem statement, problem significance, project objectives, methodology, and conclusions (or tentative conclusions for work in progress), and an indication of whether the research is in-progress or completed. Previously published research or research accepted for publication by February 18, 2013, will not be considered.

Notification of acceptance will be made by Friday, March 29, 2013. Please email submissions (with an indication of which of the two forums for which the abstract should be considered) to:

Lynn Silipigni Connaway

OCLC Research

(Email): connawal@oclc.org

(Fax): 614-718-7378