CFP: Biography Section - 2007 ANNUAL NATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE/AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS CONFERENCE
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
4-7 APRIL 2007
BOSTON MARRIOTT COPLEY PLACE
110 HUNTINGTON AVENUE
BOSTON, MA 02116
BIOGRAPHY SECTION - PCA
http://www.popularculture.org
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Biography section of the Popular Culture Association announces a call for papers on Biography and Popular Culture. Please submit a proposal for a panel of four presenters or individual panelist proposals on any themes concerning political biography, historical biography, film or theater and biography, art or literature and biography, memoir or autobiography and popular culture. Panels run 90 minutes, each panelist has 20 minutes for presentation
with questions and answers. Proposals must not be more than one page, include a one page curriculum vitae, make sure to include name, mailing address, institutional affiliation,
phone number, and email address. Do not send proposals via electronic mail. Send a paper copy of proposals to:
Jean-Paul Benowitz,
PCA Biography Chair
Elizabethtown College
Department of History
1 Alpha Drive
Elizabethtown, PA 17022
Deadline for proposal submissions is 1 November 2006.
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
CFP: "Comics and Childhood" special issue of ImageTexT
CFP: "Comics and Childhood" special issue of ImageTexT
URL: http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/
Deadline: October 15, 2006
The "Comics and Childhood" special issue of ImageTexT is accepting paper submissions that address the theme of comics and childhood, particularly the use of image and text in the hybrid forms of comics and children's literature.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
* History and evolution of the comics in relation to children's literature.
* Cross pollination between comics and children's literature authors and artists (Ian Falconer, Neil Gaiman, Berkeley Breathed, Chris Ware, Lynda Barry, William Steig).
* The Comics Code for comic books and regulations involving animation because they were viewed to be children's works.
* Disney's role in comics and in making comics into children's texts.
* Rising circulation in the USA of anime and manga for children (including translation of anime and manga for American audiences, and for children).
* Significance of regulation and awards for recognizing 'quality' works, including the importance of the Comics Code seal of approval, the Caldecott Award and Honor Emblems, the Eisner Award, and others.
* Synthesis of comics and children's literature with comicesque works for children like Mo Willems' works, picture books that could be classed as comics, as with Gaiman's "Stardust," and with works like Jeff Smith's "Bone," which is now being distributed by Scholastic.
* Animation being treated as a 'children's form', often being embedded in other children's programming like "Sesame Street" and "Pee Wee's Playhouse" as well as being often used to present children in non-children's shows (the focus on children characters in "The Simpsons," "South Park," "Family Guy," and others).
* Subversive workings of comics and children's literature due to their marginalized positions and due to difficulties in regulating hybrid forms.
* Revisionist traditions in comics and children's literature, particularly comics that revise children's literature works and children's literature works that revise comics ("Castle Waiting,"
"Fables," "Courtney Crumrin," "Nightmares and Fairytales," "Sleeping Beauty," and "Classics Illustrated").
* Cultural translation with animation, anime, comics, and children's literature (manga and anime being rewritten to be less violent for US viewers and readers).
* Big Little Books and Better Little Books.
* Issues of archiving and access in regards to comics and children's literature as it relates to their changing, mutable, and often ephemeral forms.
* Questions of audience with original comic strips at turn of century for mass audiences and children's literature seen as 'for all ages.'
Please send completed papers in MLA citation format to cmartin@english.ufl.edu by October 15, 2006.
Articles submitted should usually not exceed 10,000 words including notes and should be presented to generally accepted academic standards. Please submit all articles by sending an email with the submission attached (including images, video etc.) If you cannot send attachments of this size please send a copy of your article to the address below.
All postal mail submissions must include a copy of the article in electronic form on either a floppy disk or a CD along with 3 print copies of the article. Articles should be submitted preferably in HTML, or as Microsoft Word, StarOffice, or OpenOffice documents. Webbed essays
are encouraged.
Alternatively, send hard copies to:
Cathlena Martin
Department of English
Univ. of Florida
4008 Turlington Hall
P.O. Box 117310
Gainesville, FL 32611-7310
Guest editors for the special issue are Charles Hatfield and Cathlena
Martin. If you have any questions, please email cmartin@english.ufl.edu
ImageTexT (http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/) is a web-based journal published by the University of Florida, committed to advancing the academic study of comic books, comic strips, and animated cartoons. Under the guidance of an editorial board of scholars from a variety of
disciplines, ImageTexT publishes solicited and peer-reviewed papers that investigate the material, historical, theoretical, and cultural implications of visual textuality. ImageTexT welcomes essays emphasizing (but not limited to) the aesthetics, cognition, production, reception, distribution and dissemination of comics and other media as they relate
to comics, along with translations of previously existing research on comics as dimensions of visual culture.
URL: http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/
Deadline: October 15, 2006
The "Comics and Childhood" special issue of ImageTexT is accepting paper submissions that address the theme of comics and childhood, particularly the use of image and text in the hybrid forms of comics and children's literature.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
* History and evolution of the comics in relation to children's literature.
* Cross pollination between comics and children's literature authors and artists (Ian Falconer, Neil Gaiman, Berkeley Breathed, Chris Ware, Lynda Barry, William Steig).
* The Comics Code for comic books and regulations involving animation because they were viewed to be children's works.
* Disney's role in comics and in making comics into children's texts.
* Rising circulation in the USA of anime and manga for children (including translation of anime and manga for American audiences, and for children).
* Significance of regulation and awards for recognizing 'quality' works, including the importance of the Comics Code seal of approval, the Caldecott Award and Honor Emblems, the Eisner Award, and others.
* Synthesis of comics and children's literature with comicesque works for children like Mo Willems' works, picture books that could be classed as comics, as with Gaiman's "Stardust," and with works like Jeff Smith's "Bone," which is now being distributed by Scholastic.
* Animation being treated as a 'children's form', often being embedded in other children's programming like "Sesame Street" and "Pee Wee's Playhouse" as well as being often used to present children in non-children's shows (the focus on children characters in "The Simpsons," "South Park," "Family Guy," and others).
* Subversive workings of comics and children's literature due to their marginalized positions and due to difficulties in regulating hybrid forms.
* Revisionist traditions in comics and children's literature, particularly comics that revise children's literature works and children's literature works that revise comics ("Castle Waiting,"
"Fables," "Courtney Crumrin," "Nightmares and Fairytales," "Sleeping Beauty," and "Classics Illustrated").
* Cultural translation with animation, anime, comics, and children's literature (manga and anime being rewritten to be less violent for US viewers and readers).
* Big Little Books and Better Little Books.
* Issues of archiving and access in regards to comics and children's literature as it relates to their changing, mutable, and often ephemeral forms.
* Questions of audience with original comic strips at turn of century for mass audiences and children's literature seen as 'for all ages.'
Please send completed papers in MLA citation format to cmartin@english.ufl.edu by October 15, 2006.
Articles submitted should usually not exceed 10,000 words including notes and should be presented to generally accepted academic standards. Please submit all articles by sending an email with the submission attached (including images, video etc.) If you cannot send attachments of this size please send a copy of your article to the address below.
All postal mail submissions must include a copy of the article in electronic form on either a floppy disk or a CD along with 3 print copies of the article. Articles should be submitted preferably in HTML, or as Microsoft Word, StarOffice, or OpenOffice documents. Webbed essays
are encouraged.
Alternatively, send hard copies to:
Cathlena Martin
Department of English
Univ. of Florida
4008 Turlington Hall
P.O. Box 117310
Gainesville, FL 32611-7310
Guest editors for the special issue are Charles Hatfield and Cathlena
Martin. If you have any questions, please email cmartin@english.ufl.edu
ImageTexT (http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/) is a web-based journal published by the University of Florida, committed to advancing the academic study of comic books, comic strips, and animated cartoons. Under the guidance of an editorial board of scholars from a variety of
disciplines, ImageTexT publishes solicited and peer-reviewed papers that investigate the material, historical, theoretical, and cultural implications of visual textuality. ImageTexT welcomes essays emphasizing (but not limited to) the aesthetics, cognition, production, reception, distribution and dissemination of comics and other media as they relate
to comics, along with translations of previously existing research on comics as dimensions of visual culture.
Monday, September 04, 2006
CFP: The Question of Reading
CFP: The Question of Reading
According to Jean-Paul Sartre, “a concrete act called reading” is necessary for a text to become a literary object. LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory is soliciting critical, historical, and theoretical explorations of the act of reading. Suggested questions are: How should the act of reading be conceived? How do historical, social, and cultural conditions shape the reception of texts? How have readings of texts changed historically? How do gender, race, sexual orientation, and other categories of social difference factor into reader response and the reception of texts? How does one read across these categories of social difference? Submissions should engage with specific literary texts, range from 5,000-10,000 words, and must be in MLA style. Guest
Editor: Patsy Schweickart, Purdue University. Send three copies to Regina Barreca, Editor, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, University of Connecticut, Department of English, 215 Glenbrook Rd., Unit 4025, Storrs, CT 06269-4025, USA. Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2007.
According to Jean-Paul Sartre, “a concrete act called reading” is necessary for a text to become a literary object. LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory is soliciting critical, historical, and theoretical explorations of the act of reading. Suggested questions are: How should the act of reading be conceived? How do historical, social, and cultural conditions shape the reception of texts? How have readings of texts changed historically? How do gender, race, sexual orientation, and other categories of social difference factor into reader response and the reception of texts? How does one read across these categories of social difference? Submissions should engage with specific literary texts, range from 5,000-10,000 words, and must be in MLA style. Guest
Editor: Patsy Schweickart, Purdue University. Send three copies to Regina Barreca, Editor, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, University of Connecticut, Department of English, 215 Glenbrook Rd., Unit 4025, Storrs, CT 06269-4025, USA. Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2007.
Saturday, September 02, 2006
CFP: Innovative Users Group (IUG) Annual Meeting 2007
CFP: Innovative Users Group (IUG) Annual Meeting 2007
Location: San Jose, California
Dates: Monday May 14 - Thursday May 17, 2007
Deadline: October 12, 2006
I am very pleased to announce the availability of the Program Proposal Form for the Innovative Users Group (IUG) 2007 Conference to be held in San Jose, California from Monday, May 14 to Thursday, May 17, 2007. The deadline for submitting program proposals will be Thursday, October 12th, 2006.
Important URLs:
IUG 2007 main page:
http://innovativeusers.org/iug2007/
IUG 2007 Proposal Form:
http://innovativeusers.org/iug2007/prog-req.html
IUG 2007 Suggested Topics Page:
http://innovativeusers.org/iug2007/Suggested_Topics.html
If you would like to present a program or two, but do not know what might be of interest to colleagues from other Innovative libraries, take a look at the Suggested Topics Page that have been compiled over the past few years and on the responses to the IUG 2005 meeting in San
Francisco. You may find that you have the experience and ideas to share.
Remember, we aim for a variety of programs - basic to advanced, every library type, how you use various Innovative modules, and how you use other programs in conjunction with Innovative software. The topics list is not meant to be exhaustive. Some topics have been duplicated (as appropriate) under separate categories for your convenience. If you
have an idea of your own and don't see it listed, please submit a proposal anyway. You may also be interested in coordinating a panel discussion, but don't have all of the presenters lined up. It's perfectly fine to have some TBA's at this stage. The Program Committee can work with you to help identify potential co-presenters.
If you have presented or coordinated at past IUG programs, please consider resubmitting a proposal for this year. Many comments from recent IUG conferences attest to the fact that it is impossible to attend every program that our users would like to hear, so it is always
appreciated in having another chance to see popular programs. There are also a large number of regional user group meetings taking place this fall that offer an excellent variety of program offerings. If you are presenting in one of the regional conferences, please consider
repeating your program at the annual meeting, so many more colleagues can learn from your experiences.
Again, deadline for submitting program proposals is Thursday, October 12, 2006. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about the program proposal process.
The Program Committee and I look forward to getting all of your great proposals!
Regards,
Nancy Fleck
IUG Vice-Chair & 2007 Program Chair
Program Committee:
Nancy Fleck (Program Chair), Michigan State University
Corey Seeman (IUG Chair), University of Michigan Business Library
Jen Fritz, Dartmouth College
Jackie Licalzi, West Bloomfield Public Library
Janette Hansen, Mt. Hood Community College
Joe Reimers, Notre Dame Law School
Janet Crum, Oregon Health and Sciences Library
Location: San Jose, California
Dates: Monday May 14 - Thursday May 17, 2007
Deadline: October 12, 2006
I am very pleased to announce the availability of the Program Proposal Form for the Innovative Users Group (IUG) 2007 Conference to be held in San Jose, California from Monday, May 14 to Thursday, May 17, 2007. The deadline for submitting program proposals will be Thursday, October 12th, 2006.
Important URLs:
IUG 2007 main page:
http://innovativeusers.org/iug2007/
IUG 2007 Proposal Form:
http://innovativeusers.org/iug2007/prog-req.html
IUG 2007 Suggested Topics Page:
http://innovativeusers.org/iug2007/Suggested_Topics.html
If you would like to present a program or two, but do not know what might be of interest to colleagues from other Innovative libraries, take a look at the Suggested Topics Page that have been compiled over the past few years and on the responses to the IUG 2005 meeting in San
Francisco. You may find that you have the experience and ideas to share.
Remember, we aim for a variety of programs - basic to advanced, every library type, how you use various Innovative modules, and how you use other programs in conjunction with Innovative software. The topics list is not meant to be exhaustive. Some topics have been duplicated (as appropriate) under separate categories for your convenience. If you
have an idea of your own and don't see it listed, please submit a proposal anyway. You may also be interested in coordinating a panel discussion, but don't have all of the presenters lined up. It's perfectly fine to have some TBA's at this stage. The Program Committee can work with you to help identify potential co-presenters.
If you have presented or coordinated at past IUG programs, please consider resubmitting a proposal for this year. Many comments from recent IUG conferences attest to the fact that it is impossible to attend every program that our users would like to hear, so it is always
appreciated in having another chance to see popular programs. There are also a large number of regional user group meetings taking place this fall that offer an excellent variety of program offerings. If you are presenting in one of the regional conferences, please consider
repeating your program at the annual meeting, so many more colleagues can learn from your experiences.
Again, deadline for submitting program proposals is Thursday, October 12, 2006. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about the program proposal process.
The Program Committee and I look forward to getting all of your great proposals!
Regards,
Nancy Fleck
IUG Vice-Chair & 2007 Program Chair
Program Committee:
Nancy Fleck (Program Chair), Michigan State University
Corey Seeman (IUG Chair), University of Michigan Business Library
Jen Fritz, Dartmouth College
Jackie Licalzi, West Bloomfield Public Library
Janette Hansen, Mt. Hood Community College
Joe Reimers, Notre Dame Law School
Janet Crum, Oregon Health and Sciences Library
CFP: Electronic Resources & Libraries 2007 (thinkdigital)
CFP: Electronic Resources & Libraries 2007 (thinkdigital)
Electronic Resources & Libraries 2007
thinkdigital
February 22-24, 2007
Atlanta, GA
Call for Proposals URL: http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/call
Conference URL: http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/conf/conf.htm
ER&L Conference Program Planning Committee encourages you to submit a proposal for the Electronic Resources & Libraries 2007 Conference to be held February 22-24, 2007, with pre-conference sessions on February 21. The conference location will be the Global Learning and Conference Center, located on the campus of Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA.
ER&L provides a forum for information professionals to explore ideas, trends, and technologies related to electronic resources and digital services.
The idea of this event is to bring together stakeholders inside and outside of the library to look at the impact the digital environment has on library collections, access to resources, and our
organizations. We invite various perspectives and approaches to managing, promoting and accessing electronic resources. We hope to foster collaborative, cross-departmental, cross-community approaches to the issues e-resources have brought to our environment
The Program Planning Committee seeks proposals for a variety of session formats including presentations, panel sessions, and pre-conference workshops. Proposals that have topics of interest to many areas of the library or outside the library are of special interest to the ER&L Program Planning Committee.
The deadline for proposal submission is Nov. 1, 2006. Proposals will be evaluated as they are received, and priority may be given to those who submit early.
All Call For Proposal information and the proposal form are available at:
http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/call
Questions about the Call for Proposals in general should be directed to Elizabeth Winter(elizabeth.winter@library.gatech.edu) or Bonnie Tijerina (bonnie.tijerina@library.gatech.edu). Questions about pre-conferences in particular should be directed to Joan Conger(joan@joanconger.net).
Complete details about the conference are online at
http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/
Want to know what happened at ER&L 2006? 15-minute recap movie:
http://electroniclibrarian.org/video/erl2006movie.wmv
Conference sessions: http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/moodle/
Electronic Resources & Libraries 2007
thinkdigital
February 22-24, 2007
Atlanta, GA
Call for Proposals URL: http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/call
Conference URL: http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/conf/conf.htm
ER&L Conference Program Planning Committee encourages you to submit a proposal for the Electronic Resources & Libraries 2007 Conference to be held February 22-24, 2007, with pre-conference sessions on February 21. The conference location will be the Global Learning and Conference Center, located on the campus of Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA.
ER&L provides a forum for information professionals to explore ideas, trends, and technologies related to electronic resources and digital services.
The idea of this event is to bring together stakeholders inside and outside of the library to look at the impact the digital environment has on library collections, access to resources, and our
organizations. We invite various perspectives and approaches to managing, promoting and accessing electronic resources. We hope to foster collaborative, cross-departmental, cross-community approaches to the issues e-resources have brought to our environment
The Program Planning Committee seeks proposals for a variety of session formats including presentations, panel sessions, and pre-conference workshops. Proposals that have topics of interest to many areas of the library or outside the library are of special interest to the ER&L Program Planning Committee.
The deadline for proposal submission is Nov. 1, 2006. Proposals will be evaluated as they are received, and priority may be given to those who submit early.
All Call For Proposal information and the proposal form are available at:
http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/call
Questions about the Call for Proposals in general should be directed to Elizabeth Winter(elizabeth.winter@library.gatech.edu) or Bonnie Tijerina (bonnie.tijerina@library.gatech.edu). Questions about pre-conferences in particular should be directed to Joan Conger(joan@joanconger.net).
Complete details about the conference are online at
http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/
Want to know what happened at ER&L 2006? 15-minute recap movie:
http://electroniclibrarian.org/video/erl2006movie.wmv
Conference sessions: http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/moodle/
CFP: Medtadata and its Impact on Collections & Technical Services Librarians
CFP: Medtadata and its Impact on Collections & Technical Services Librarians
For the February 2007 issue of Against the Grain, the guest editors invite submissions examining metadata and its impact on the work of collections and technical services librarians.
Possible article topics include:
- Case studies of large or small digitization initiatives: How was a project carried out? What made it successful? What problems arose? How was the work incorporated into the day-to-day operations? In retrospect, what could have been done differently?
- Post-selection decisions: How do metadata specialists, working with collection "owners" and/or subject scholars, determine optimum schemas? How do they collaborate with different units within the library or with communities of practice (museums, archives and libraries) and discipline cultures?
- Interoperability: What aspects of shareability of collections are important? How do you assure cross-collection interoperability now and into the future?
- Preservation: What needs to be collected from the first scan? Are their ways to extract technical metadata easily? Where do you store the preservation metadata? What standard do you use to store metadata and where?
- User perspectives: Have user needs been assessed? What are the reactions of patrons / the public to digitized projects? Are there feedback mechanisms, and what has been reported? Do you use any aspects of "Library 2.0"?
Articles on other aspects of metadata are also welcome.
Against the Grain is a partially refereed publication, and articles are usually 2000 -- 2500 words in length. Article proposals and / or abstracts of articles should be submitted by Friday, September 23, 2006. The deadline for submission of the articles themselves is Friday,
November 11, 2006. If you are interested in submitting an article, please let me know by return email. (pam.rebarcak@wmich.edu or sheila.bair@wmich.edu)
Should you desire more information or have questions, please do not hesitate to contact the guest editors listed below.
Thank you,
Pam Rebarcak
Head Technical Services Department
Western Michigan University Libraries
Kalamazoo, MI 49009
269.387.5166
Or
Sheila Bair
Metadata Cataloger
Western Michigan University Libraries
Kalamazoo, MI 49009
For the February 2007 issue of Against the Grain, the guest editors invite submissions examining metadata and its impact on the work of collections and technical services librarians.
Possible article topics include:
- Case studies of large or small digitization initiatives: How was a project carried out? What made it successful? What problems arose? How was the work incorporated into the day-to-day operations? In retrospect, what could have been done differently?
- Post-selection decisions: How do metadata specialists, working with collection "owners" and/or subject scholars, determine optimum schemas? How do they collaborate with different units within the library or with communities of practice (museums, archives and libraries) and discipline cultures?
- Interoperability: What aspects of shareability of collections are important? How do you assure cross-collection interoperability now and into the future?
- Preservation: What needs to be collected from the first scan? Are their ways to extract technical metadata easily? Where do you store the preservation metadata? What standard do you use to store metadata and where?
- User perspectives: Have user needs been assessed? What are the reactions of patrons / the public to digitized projects? Are there feedback mechanisms, and what has been reported? Do you use any aspects of "Library 2.0"?
Articles on other aspects of metadata are also welcome.
Against the Grain is a partially refereed publication, and articles are usually 2000 -- 2500 words in length. Article proposals and / or abstracts of articles should be submitted by Friday, September 23, 2006. The deadline for submission of the articles themselves is Friday,
November 11, 2006. If you are interested in submitting an article, please let me know by return email. (pam.rebarcak@wmich.edu or sheila.bair@wmich.edu)
Should you desire more information or have questions, please do not hesitate to contact the guest editors listed below.
Thank you,
Pam Rebarcak
Head Technical Services Department
Western Michigan University Libraries
Kalamazoo, MI 49009
269.387.5166
Or
Sheila Bair
Metadata Cataloger
Western Michigan University Libraries
Kalamazoo, MI 49009
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Call for Proposals: LOEX 2007 (San Diego, May 2007)
Call for Proposals: LOEX 2007
LOEX 2007 will be held in San Diego, California, May 3-5 at the Bahia Resort Hotel.
Deadline for proposal submission is Friday, November 10, 2006
Learn more about LOEX at http://www.emich.edu/public/loex/loex.html
Learn more about LOEX 2007 at http://public.csusm.edu/acarr/loex/index.html
THEME: Uncharted Waters: Tapping the Depths of Our Community to Enhance Learning
More and more instruction and information literacy activities call for librarians to venture beyond the library and even beyond their campus to enhance student learning. Successful journeys beyond the familiar require that librarians be both passionate about what they do and willing to take risks, including identifying new partners, speaking new languages, incorporating new tools, developing non-traditional deliveries, and changing instruction and programs to meet student needs. Some librarians have already embarked on these voyages to tap the depths of our community and draw new maps for others to follow. This conference will highlight the successful ventures of those brave librarians who are doing new and unexpected things to enhance their library instruction and information literacy programs.
Successful New Ventures Might Include:
-Developing models that engage campus stakeholders in defining what information literacy means and determining who is responsible for its various facets.
-Developing models that incorporate information literacy into various aspects of the college or university curriculum.
-Establishing collaborations with life-long learning partners (K-12, postsecondary, public libraries, businesses, community, etc.).
-Establishing collaborations with co-curricular programs (writing centers, debate teams, undergraduate and graduate research symposiums, athletics, etc.).
-Connecting with other related literacies to enhance student learning
-Understanding and using technology to enhance student learning.
-Employing non-traditional deliveries to enhance student learning.
-Developing assessment plans that examine all facets of information literacy and its impact on learning.
-Applying student learning data to enhance instruction and information literacy programs.
-Using customer needs and expectations data to enhance instruction and information literacy programs.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION:
Proposals can be submitted online at http://www.csusm.edu/acarr/proposals.html. Only electronic proposals will be accepted.
Three types of proposals will be accepted:
Breakout Session: A 45 minute presentation followed by a 10-15 minute question and answer period. The proposal will include a description of the research and an outline of the presentation.
Discussion Session: A structured session to allow participants to share knowledge. The proposal will include a theme and its importance, discussion points, means to facilitate discussion, and how the information will be summarized and be disseminated back to all conference attendees.
Poster Session: Proposals for poster sessions will be limited to graduate students currently enrolled in a library and information science program. The LOEX conference poster session allows graduate students to graphically convey research in the areas of instruction and information literacy. Poster sessions should include brief narratives, data, graphics that quickly summarize the student’s research. Posters can also include computer displays, handouts, directions to websites and other materials to elaborate on the student’s research or allow conference attendees to learn more about the student’s research following the conference. A time will be set aside to view the posters, and allow conference attendees to interact with, and ask questions of, poster presenters.
Preference will be given to new, innovative, creative, untraditional, and other ventures that people called crazy until they worked.
Deadline for proposal submission is Friday, November 10, 2006.
The primary contact on the proposal will be notified that that the proposal has been received by Friday, November 17, 2006. The primary contact on the proposal will be notified if the proposal has been accepted by Friday, January 12, 2007.
If your proposal is accepted then up to three presenters will be automatically registered for the conference, and are required to pay registration in full by March 16th. Note: Failure to pay the registration fee will result in the cancellation of your presentation and conference registration. All presenters are responsible for paying their own travel and lodging expenses.
If you have any questions about proposal submission please contact, Amy Wallace at amy.wallace@csuci.edu
LOEX 2007 will be held in San Diego, California, May 3-5 at the Bahia Resort Hotel.
Deadline for proposal submission is Friday, November 10, 2006
Learn more about LOEX at http://www.emich.edu/public/loex/loex.html
Learn more about LOEX 2007 at http://public.csusm.edu/acarr/loex/index.html
THEME: Uncharted Waters: Tapping the Depths of Our Community to Enhance Learning
More and more instruction and information literacy activities call for librarians to venture beyond the library and even beyond their campus to enhance student learning. Successful journeys beyond the familiar require that librarians be both passionate about what they do and willing to take risks, including identifying new partners, speaking new languages, incorporating new tools, developing non-traditional deliveries, and changing instruction and programs to meet student needs. Some librarians have already embarked on these voyages to tap the depths of our community and draw new maps for others to follow. This conference will highlight the successful ventures of those brave librarians who are doing new and unexpected things to enhance their library instruction and information literacy programs.
Successful New Ventures Might Include:
-Developing models that engage campus stakeholders in defining what information literacy means and determining who is responsible for its various facets.
-Developing models that incorporate information literacy into various aspects of the college or university curriculum.
-Establishing collaborations with life-long learning partners (K-12, postsecondary, public libraries, businesses, community, etc.).
-Establishing collaborations with co-curricular programs (writing centers, debate teams, undergraduate and graduate research symposiums, athletics, etc.).
-Connecting with other related literacies to enhance student learning
-Understanding and using technology to enhance student learning.
-Employing non-traditional deliveries to enhance student learning.
-Developing assessment plans that examine all facets of information literacy and its impact on learning.
-Applying student learning data to enhance instruction and information literacy programs.
-Using customer needs and expectations data to enhance instruction and information literacy programs.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION:
Proposals can be submitted online at http://www.csusm.edu/acarr/proposals.html. Only electronic proposals will be accepted.
Three types of proposals will be accepted:
Breakout Session: A 45 minute presentation followed by a 10-15 minute question and answer period. The proposal will include a description of the research and an outline of the presentation.
Discussion Session: A structured session to allow participants to share knowledge. The proposal will include a theme and its importance, discussion points, means to facilitate discussion, and how the information will be summarized and be disseminated back to all conference attendees.
Poster Session: Proposals for poster sessions will be limited to graduate students currently enrolled in a library and information science program. The LOEX conference poster session allows graduate students to graphically convey research in the areas of instruction and information literacy. Poster sessions should include brief narratives, data, graphics that quickly summarize the student’s research. Posters can also include computer displays, handouts, directions to websites and other materials to elaborate on the student’s research or allow conference attendees to learn more about the student’s research following the conference. A time will be set aside to view the posters, and allow conference attendees to interact with, and ask questions of, poster presenters.
Preference will be given to new, innovative, creative, untraditional, and other ventures that people called crazy until they worked.
Deadline for proposal submission is Friday, November 10, 2006.
The primary contact on the proposal will be notified that that the proposal has been received by Friday, November 17, 2006. The primary contact on the proposal will be notified if the proposal has been accepted by Friday, January 12, 2007.
If your proposal is accepted then up to three presenters will be automatically registered for the conference, and are required to pay registration in full by March 16th. Note: Failure to pay the registration fee will result in the cancellation of your presentation and conference registration. All presenters are responsible for paying their own travel and lodging expenses.
If you have any questions about proposal submission please contact, Amy Wallace at amy.wallace@csuci.edu
CFP: Museums and the Web, 2007 (San Francisco, CA)
CFP: Museums and the Web, 2007 (San Francisco, CA)
Museums and the Web 2007
April 11 - 14, 2007
San Francisco, California, USA
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/
Proposal Form:
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/mw2007.proposal.form.html
You are invited to participate in the Eleventh Annual Museums and the Web Conference.
* THEMES FOR 2007 *
Social Issues and Impact
- Building Communities
- Public Content Creation
- On-going Engagement
Organizational Strategies
- Building + Managing Web Teams
- Multi-Institutional Ventures
- Facilitating Institutional Change
- Sustainability
Applications
- Wireless Inside/Outside
- Visitor Support On-site + On-line
- Schools + Educational Programs
- E-commerce for Museums
Technical and Design Issues
- Standards, Architectures + Protocols
- Interface + Design Paradigms
- New Tools + Methods
- Managing Content + Metadata
Museum 2.0 Services
- Podcasting, Blogging, RSS, Social Tagging,
- Folksonomy, Wikis, Cell Phone Tours ...
- Museum Mashups
Evaluation + User Studies
- Research Methods + Results
- Impact Studies
- User Analysis + Audience Development
[This list is not exhaustive; any relevant proposal will be considered.]
Museums and the Web 2007
April 11 - 14, 2007
San Francisco, California, USA
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/
Proposal Form:
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/mw2007.proposal.form.html
You are invited to participate in the Eleventh Annual Museums and the Web Conference.
* THEMES FOR 2007 *
Social Issues and Impact
- Building Communities
- Public Content Creation
- On-going Engagement
Organizational Strategies
- Building + Managing Web Teams
- Multi-Institutional Ventures
- Facilitating Institutional Change
- Sustainability
Applications
- Wireless Inside/Outside
- Visitor Support On-site + On-line
- Schools + Educational Programs
- E-commerce for Museums
Technical and Design Issues
- Standards, Architectures + Protocols
- Interface + Design Paradigms
- New Tools + Methods
- Managing Content + Metadata
Museum 2.0 Services
- Podcasting, Blogging, RSS, Social Tagging,
- Folksonomy, Wikis, Cell Phone Tours ...
- Museum Mashups
Evaluation + User Studies
- Research Methods + Results
- Impact Studies
- User Analysis + Audience Development
[This list is not exhaustive; any relevant proposal will be considered.]
Friday, August 25, 2006
Call for Contributions - website: Women Living With War
Call for Contributions - website: Women Living With War
Contributions are now being solicited for a new website on “Women Living with War” in the following two categories: (1) creative arts—including mixed media, photography, creative fiction and nonfiction, poetry, and artwork; and (2) profiles—brief biographies, with weblinks and bibliographies of women from various historical periods and geographical regions who dealt with/are dealing with war in their everyday lives.
Please email Emily Smith with queries, proposals, or submissions.
Emily Smith
Lawrence University
Email: c17women@earthlink.net
Visit the website at http://www.oldroads.org/war/womenwar.htm
Call for Contributions: http://www.oldroads.org/war/cfp.htm
Contributions are now being solicited for a new website on “Women Living with War” in the following two categories: (1) creative arts—including mixed media, photography, creative fiction and nonfiction, poetry, and artwork; and (2) profiles—brief biographies, with weblinks and bibliographies of women from various historical periods and geographical regions who dealt with/are dealing with war in their everyday lives.
Please email Emily Smith with queries, proposals, or submissions.
Emily Smith
Lawrence University
Email: c17women@earthlink.net
Visit the website at http://www.oldroads.org/war/womenwar.htm
Call for Contributions: http://www.oldroads.org/war/cfp.htm
Thursday, August 24, 2006
CFP: IAML International Association of Music Libraries Archives and Documentation Centres (2007, Sydney)
CFP: IAML International Association of Music Libraries Archives and Documentation Centres (2007, Sydney)
URL: http://www.iaml.info/en/conferences/call_for_papers
Conference URL: http://www.iamlaust.org/sydney.htm
Past Conferences: http://www.iaml.info/en/conferences
The Programme Committee invites proposals of paper presentations for the Association's upcoming meeting in Sydney, Australia 1 to 6 July 2007.
Papers concerning musics, collections, and/or library issues that focus on the Pacific Rim are most welcome, although presentations of a general nature are also appropriate. Please follow this link to submit your proposals.
Proposals must be submitted by 29 September 2006 in order to be considered.
You are invited to the IAML Conference 2007 to be held at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. The venue is in the historic centre of the city, on the edge on the Botanical Gardens, a short stroll from the Opera House and the Harbour. Experience the magic of a harbour cruise and savour the sunset behind the harbour bridge while enjoying a glass of Australian wine with colleagues. Sydney is an international city of over 4 million people with many concert halls, theatres, libraries, art galleries and museums. Visit the golden beaches, go bush walking in the Blue Mountains and tour the vineyards of the Hunter Valley. IAML Australia is looking forward to welcoming you to Sydney in 2007.
URL: http://www.iaml.info/en/conferences/call_for_papers
Conference URL: http://www.iamlaust.org/sydney.htm
Past Conferences: http://www.iaml.info/en/conferences
The Programme Committee invites proposals of paper presentations for the Association's upcoming meeting in Sydney, Australia 1 to 6 July 2007.
Papers concerning musics, collections, and/or library issues that focus on the Pacific Rim are most welcome, although presentations of a general nature are also appropriate. Please follow this link to submit your proposals.
Proposals must be submitted by 29 September 2006 in order to be considered.
You are invited to the IAML Conference 2007 to be held at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. The venue is in the historic centre of the city, on the edge on the Botanical Gardens, a short stroll from the Opera House and the Harbour. Experience the magic of a harbour cruise and savour the sunset behind the harbour bridge while enjoying a glass of Australian wine with colleagues. Sydney is an international city of over 4 million people with many concert halls, theatres, libraries, art galleries and museums. Visit the golden beaches, go bush walking in the Blue Mountains and tour the vineyards of the Hunter Valley. IAML Australia is looking forward to welcoming you to Sydney in 2007.
CFP: Investigating the Middlebrow One-Day Conference, Sheffield Hallam University, 23rd June 2007
CFP: Investigating the Middlebrow One-Day Conference, Sheffield Hallam University, 23rd June 2007
NOTE: This is not about the monobrow.
According to the OED, the term ‘middlebrow’ first made an appearance in 1925, in Punch: ‘it consists of people who are hoping that some day they will get used to the stuff that they ought to like.’ Perhaps so, but while considering the stuff they ought to like, that controversial figure, the general reader, was buying what it did like, creating best-sellers of novelists as diverse as Elizabeth von Arnim, Warwick Deeping, Winifred Holtby, J.B. Priestley, and Stella Gibbons. These widely-read novelists, contentiously labelled ‘middlebrow’, have received very little critical attention, and today the ‘middlebrow’ continues to be used to mark particular types of popular literature as unchallenging and of little cultural or intellectual value.
What does it mean to be labelled ‘middlebrow’? Is it a question of readership? Q.D. Leavis explicitly identified the growth of the ‘middlebrow’ as an unfortunate consequence of women forming the majority of library users; while 50 years later Bourdieu argued that ‘middlebrow’ culture, in its eternally reverential relationship to ‘legitimate culture’, was illegitimate simply because it was the taste of the middle-class, not because of any intrinsic qualities.
This conference invites papers on any aspect of the middlebrow. Topics could
include:
·the pleasures of reading
·the role of sentiment
·historicizing the middlebrow
·the gender of modernism
·taxonomies of taste
·cultural capital
We particularly welcome papers focussing on analyses of little-studied middlebrow novels, films, novelists or film-makers.
Proposals of 400 words for 20-minute papers should be sent via email to Erica Brown and Mary Grover at middlebrow@hotmail.co.uk by 24th November 2006.
NOTE: This is not about the monobrow.
According to the OED, the term ‘middlebrow’ first made an appearance in 1925, in Punch: ‘it consists of people who are hoping that some day they will get used to the stuff that they ought to like.’ Perhaps so, but while considering the stuff they ought to like, that controversial figure, the general reader, was buying what it did like, creating best-sellers of novelists as diverse as Elizabeth von Arnim, Warwick Deeping, Winifred Holtby, J.B. Priestley, and Stella Gibbons. These widely-read novelists, contentiously labelled ‘middlebrow’, have received very little critical attention, and today the ‘middlebrow’ continues to be used to mark particular types of popular literature as unchallenging and of little cultural or intellectual value.
What does it mean to be labelled ‘middlebrow’? Is it a question of readership? Q.D. Leavis explicitly identified the growth of the ‘middlebrow’ as an unfortunate consequence of women forming the majority of library users; while 50 years later Bourdieu argued that ‘middlebrow’ culture, in its eternally reverential relationship to ‘legitimate culture’, was illegitimate simply because it was the taste of the middle-class, not because of any intrinsic qualities.
This conference invites papers on any aspect of the middlebrow. Topics could
include:
·the pleasures of reading
·the role of sentiment
·historicizing the middlebrow
·the gender of modernism
·taxonomies of taste
·cultural capital
We particularly welcome papers focussing on analyses of little-studied middlebrow novels, films, novelists or film-makers.
Proposals of 400 words for 20-minute papers should be sent via email to Erica Brown and Mary Grover at middlebrow@hotmail.co.uk by 24th November 2006.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
ACRL Blog posting on what to do with a turned down presentation proposal
ACRL Blog posting on what to do with a turned down presentation proposal
From the ACRL Blog:
http://acrlblog.org/2006/08/23/the-thrill-of-victorythe-agony-of-defeat/
Well, those of us who submitted proposals for papers and panel sessions for the ACRL 13th National Conference in Baltimore (Mar. 31, 2007 - April 1, 2007) learned the fate of our proposals last Friday. I had previously reported on the number of proposals submitted for the number of slots available - and the odds of getting accepted were as slim as ever. So while there were a number of elated academic librarians who received the good news on Friday, there were far more feeling rejected and puzzled as to why their proposals didn’t make the cut. I would encourage those whose proposals were rejected to avoid dwelling on it too much. Instead, take some solace in knowing that you gave it your best effort. As the rejection e-mail said, it isn’t a reflection of the quality of your proposal but one of the sheer number of proposals received.
---see the blog posting for more information. An excellent document indeed!
Corey
From the ACRL Blog:
http://acrlblog.org/2006/08/23/the-thrill-of-victorythe-agony-of-defeat/
Well, those of us who submitted proposals for papers and panel sessions for the ACRL 13th National Conference in Baltimore (Mar. 31, 2007 - April 1, 2007) learned the fate of our proposals last Friday. I had previously reported on the number of proposals submitted for the number of slots available - and the odds of getting accepted were as slim as ever. So while there were a number of elated academic librarians who received the good news on Friday, there were far more feeling rejected and puzzled as to why their proposals didn’t make the cut. I would encourage those whose proposals were rejected to avoid dwelling on it too much. Instead, take some solace in knowing that you gave it your best effort. As the rejection e-mail said, it isn’t a reflection of the quality of your proposal but one of the sheer number of proposals received.
---see the blog posting for more information. An excellent document indeed!
Corey
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
CFP: Michigan Reading Association
Saturday, March 10, through Monday, March 12, 2007
DeVos Place & Amway Grand Plaza Hotel • Grand Rapids, Michigan
URL: http://www.michiganreading.org/
CFP URL: http://www.michiganreading.org/conferences/2007/2007_program_proposal.pdf
By Sept. 8: The Michigan Reading Association is seeking program proposals for its 52nd annual conference “Literacy Changes Everything,” to be held March 10–March 12, 2007. Members of the school library media community are encouraged to submit proposals to showcase such things as information literacy, media literacy, literacy coaches, lexile use and reading promotions. Liz Lewis, lewisl@caledonia.k12.mi.us.
MRA 2007 -Literacy Changes Everything
Saturday, March 10, through Monday, March 12, 2007
DeVos Place & Amway Grand Plaza Hotel • Grand Rapids, Michigan
Proposals must be postmarked no later than September 8, 2006. The Program Committee will consider all proposals submitted by the due date. Notification of the committee’s decision will be sent no later than November 17, 2006.
The individual submitting the proposal is responsible for notifying co-presenters of the Program Committee’s decision.
Factors that tend to enhance a proposal:
-relevance and interest of program to proposed audience and/or conference theme
-clarity, conciseness and coherence of proposal
-new issues or topics; innovative ways of viewing more traditional issues
-evidence of familiarity with current practices and/or research
-specific and articulate program description that does not need editing
PLEASE NOTE:
All presenters and co-presenters of accepted proposals are required to register and pay for the conference prior to February 26, 2007. Upon signing this proposal, it is also understood that presenters and co-presenters do not receive honoraria or reimbursement for travel, hotel or related expenses. Each presentation room will be equipped with an overhead projector and screen. However, handouts and any additional A/V equipment will be the responsibility of the
presenters.
Saturday, March 10, through Monday, March 12, 2007
DeVos Place & Amway Grand Plaza Hotel • Grand Rapids, Michigan
URL: http://www.michiganreading.org/
CFP URL: http://www.michiganreading.org/conferences/2007/2007_program_proposal.pdf
By Sept. 8: The Michigan Reading Association is seeking program proposals for its 52nd annual conference “Literacy Changes Everything,” to be held March 10–March 12, 2007. Members of the school library media community are encouraged to submit proposals to showcase such things as information literacy, media literacy, literacy coaches, lexile use and reading promotions. Liz Lewis, lewisl@caledonia.k12.mi.us.
MRA 2007 -Literacy Changes Everything
Saturday, March 10, through Monday, March 12, 2007
DeVos Place & Amway Grand Plaza Hotel • Grand Rapids, Michigan
Proposals must be postmarked no later than September 8, 2006. The Program Committee will consider all proposals submitted by the due date. Notification of the committee’s decision will be sent no later than November 17, 2006.
The individual submitting the proposal is responsible for notifying co-presenters of the Program Committee’s decision.
Factors that tend to enhance a proposal:
-relevance and interest of program to proposed audience and/or conference theme
-clarity, conciseness and coherence of proposal
-new issues or topics; innovative ways of viewing more traditional issues
-evidence of familiarity with current practices and/or research
-specific and articulate program description that does not need editing
PLEASE NOTE:
All presenters and co-presenters of accepted proposals are required to register and pay for the conference prior to February 26, 2007. Upon signing this proposal, it is also understood that presenters and co-presenters do not receive honoraria or reimbursement for travel, hotel or related expenses. Each presentation room will be equipped with an overhead projector and screen. However, handouts and any additional A/V equipment will be the responsibility of the
presenters.
Banquet Speaker [Western MLA Chapters Meeting, Seattle]
Banquet Speaker [Western MLA Chapters Meeting, Seattle]
The Middle East is at the forefront of the news today, but did you know Americans were there in the 1800's as teachers, printers, and missionaries? Among them was Dr. Asahel Grant, a country doctor from upstate New York with dreams of healing the sick and saving the world.
Gordon Taylor, a local Seattle author, will be the banquet speaker at the Western MLA Chapters meeting on Monday evening, October 16th. In his book, "Fever and Thirst: Dr. Grant and the Christian Tribes of Kurdistan," Taylor relates the odyssey of Dr. Grant in northwest Iran and nearby Hakkari in southeast Turkey. Gordon Taylor summarizes the state of medicine during Dr. Grant's era in just two words, "bleeding and purging." And yet, Dr. Grant was highly esteemed by those he treated.
In eight years Dr. Grant experienced ten lifetimes' worth of danger. He traversed deserts and glaciers, tended the sick, broke bread with thieves and murderers, and narrowly escaped death from drowning, disease, and assassination, before dying at the young age of 36.
Taylor's personal experiences serving in the Peace Corps in Turkey provided the inspiration for his writing, and his presentation will include stories and images you won't want to miss!
For more information about the book "Fever and Thirst," visit http://www.academychicago.com/feverandthirst.html
Join your colleagues at the banquet. Don’t forget to purchase a ticket when you register. http://www.pncmla.org/pncmla2006/
Contributed by Gail Kouame
Program Co-Chair
Pamela Corley
Publicity
Western MLA Chapters 2006 Annual Meeting Missions and Mountains: Believe and Achieve October 14-17, 2006 Red Lion Hotel, Seattle
Pamela M. Corley
Research Support Librarian
USC Norris Medical Library
2003 Zonal Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90089-9130
323-442-1125 fax: 323-221-1235
pcorley@usc.edu
The Middle East is at the forefront of the news today, but did you know Americans were there in the 1800's as teachers, printers, and missionaries? Among them was Dr. Asahel Grant, a country doctor from upstate New York with dreams of healing the sick and saving the world.
Gordon Taylor, a local Seattle author, will be the banquet speaker at the Western MLA Chapters meeting on Monday evening, October 16th. In his book, "Fever and Thirst: Dr. Grant and the Christian Tribes of Kurdistan," Taylor relates the odyssey of Dr. Grant in northwest Iran and nearby Hakkari in southeast Turkey. Gordon Taylor summarizes the state of medicine during Dr. Grant's era in just two words, "bleeding and purging." And yet, Dr. Grant was highly esteemed by those he treated.
In eight years Dr. Grant experienced ten lifetimes' worth of danger. He traversed deserts and glaciers, tended the sick, broke bread with thieves and murderers, and narrowly escaped death from drowning, disease, and assassination, before dying at the young age of 36.
Taylor's personal experiences serving in the Peace Corps in Turkey provided the inspiration for his writing, and his presentation will include stories and images you won't want to miss!
For more information about the book "Fever and Thirst," visit http://www.academychicago.com/feverandthirst.html
Join your colleagues at the banquet. Don’t forget to purchase a ticket when you register. http://www.pncmla.org/pncmla2006/
Contributed by Gail Kouame
Program Co-Chair
Pamela Corley
Publicity
Western MLA Chapters 2006 Annual Meeting Missions and Mountains: Believe and Achieve October 14-17, 2006 Red Lion Hotel, Seattle
Pamela M. Corley
Research Support Librarian
USC Norris Medical Library
2003 Zonal Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90089-9130
323-442-1125 fax: 323-221-1235
pcorley@usc.edu
CFP: Computer Using Educators
CFP: Computer Using Educators
Date: March 1-3, 2007
Location: Palm Springs, CA
Deadline: September 4, 2006
URL: http://www.cue.org/
CFP URL: http://www.cue.org/conference/present
The Computer Using Educators (CUE.org) annual conference is March 1-3,
2007 in Palm Springs, CA. We have been asked to re-create our large Linux thin-client lab again this year, and will hold concurrent speaker sessions on Free and Open Source Software in the lab.
The deadline for normal CUE applications for speaking sessions is September 4th. HOWEVER, speakers in our Open Source Lab for CUE will be handled outside of their normal submission process and should be made directly to me. If you have already submitted a proposal for a session at CUE that you would prefer be done in the lab, please let me know so that we can flag that.
We have also been asked to provide a lab/speaker venue for the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Atlanta next June.
Those interested in speaking at NECC as part of our Open Source lab there should also contact me directly, and I will let you know the procedure for submitting proposals when you do.
Both shows have expressed a great appreciation for the lab and will be including the speakers from our lab in their regular conference program. For my part, I am appreciative of the caliber of speakers that we have had, and thank those who have taken part.
Please forward this message to anyone that you feel might want to take part in presenting on Free and Open Source software at either of these shows.
Steve
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Steve Hargadon
steve@hargadon.com
916-899-1400 direct
www.SteveHargadon.com - (Blog on Educational Technology)
www.K12OpenSource.com (Public Wiki)
www.SupportBlogging.com (Public Wiki)
Date: March 1-3, 2007
Location: Palm Springs, CA
Deadline: September 4, 2006
URL: http://www.cue.org/
CFP URL: http://www.cue.org/conference/present
The Computer Using Educators (CUE.org) annual conference is March 1-3,
2007 in Palm Springs, CA. We have been asked to re-create our large Linux thin-client lab again this year, and will hold concurrent speaker sessions on Free and Open Source Software in the lab.
The deadline for normal CUE applications for speaking sessions is September 4th. HOWEVER, speakers in our Open Source Lab for CUE will be handled outside of their normal submission process and should be made directly to me. If you have already submitted a proposal for a session at CUE that you would prefer be done in the lab, please let me know so that we can flag that.
We have also been asked to provide a lab/speaker venue for the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Atlanta next June.
Those interested in speaking at NECC as part of our Open Source lab there should also contact me directly, and I will let you know the procedure for submitting proposals when you do.
Both shows have expressed a great appreciation for the lab and will be including the speakers from our lab in their regular conference program. For my part, I am appreciative of the caliber of speakers that we have had, and thank those who have taken part.
Please forward this message to anyone that you feel might want to take part in presenting on Free and Open Source software at either of these shows.
Steve
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Steve Hargadon
steve@hargadon.com
916-899-1400 direct
www.SteveHargadon.com - (Blog on Educational Technology)
www.K12OpenSource.com (Public Wiki)
www.SupportBlogging.com (Public Wiki)
CFP: Archiving 2007
CFP: Archiving 2007
Date: May 21-24, 2007
Location: Arlington, Virginia
Abstract Deadline: November 1, 2006
The Society for Imaging Science and Technology has announced the Call for Papers for Archiving 2007 to be held May 21-24, 2007 in Arlington, VA. The deadline for abstract submission is November 1, 2006
CFP URL: http://www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2007/authors.cfm
Conf URL: http://www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2007/
The Conference
From the personal to the corporate and institutional, digital memories, records, performances, and works are simpler to create, yet ever more complex to preserve. Museums, libraries, archives, universities, businesses, and individuals increasingly rely on digital media to organize, present, and save information. While new tools make the creation and use of digital documents, records, images, and collections easier and more convenient—as well as expand the audience for collections beyond traditional boundaries—the proliferation of collections and technologies means the need for strategies and solutions to archive and preserve digital materials for the long term grows as well.
The IS&T Archiving Conference brings together a unique community of imaging novices and experts from libraries, archives, records management, and information technology institutions to discuss and explore the expanding field of digital archiving and preservation. Attendees from across the world represent industry, academia, governments, and cultural heritage institutions. The conference presents the latest research results on archiving, provides a forum to explore new strategies and policies, and reports on successful projects that can serve as benchmarks in the field.
Techniques for producing, acquiring, preserving, indexing, and retrieving digital objects and images are explored in depth. The conference also strives to present unique perspectives from industry and academia on media and technology obsolescence, business models for sustainability, formats and standards for archiving, and solutions for content storage, access, and management.
The conference is a blend of invited focal papers, keynote talks, and refereed oral and interactive display presentations. The conference offers hands-on tutorial sessions on technical topics. The 2007 conference will also include a demonstration session at which attendees and select industry representatives will be able to showcase archiving programs, technologies, configurations, etc
Date: May 21-24, 2007
Location: Arlington, Virginia
Abstract Deadline: November 1, 2006
The Society for Imaging Science and Technology has announced the Call for Papers for Archiving 2007 to be held May 21-24, 2007 in Arlington, VA. The deadline for abstract submission is November 1, 2006
CFP URL: http://www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2007/authors.cfm
Conf URL: http://www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2007/
The Conference
From the personal to the corporate and institutional, digital memories, records, performances, and works are simpler to create, yet ever more complex to preserve. Museums, libraries, archives, universities, businesses, and individuals increasingly rely on digital media to organize, present, and save information. While new tools make the creation and use of digital documents, records, images, and collections easier and more convenient—as well as expand the audience for collections beyond traditional boundaries—the proliferation of collections and technologies means the need for strategies and solutions to archive and preserve digital materials for the long term grows as well.
The IS&T Archiving Conference brings together a unique community of imaging novices and experts from libraries, archives, records management, and information technology institutions to discuss and explore the expanding field of digital archiving and preservation. Attendees from across the world represent industry, academia, governments, and cultural heritage institutions. The conference presents the latest research results on archiving, provides a forum to explore new strategies and policies, and reports on successful projects that can serve as benchmarks in the field.
Techniques for producing, acquiring, preserving, indexing, and retrieving digital objects and images are explored in depth. The conference also strives to present unique perspectives from industry and academia on media and technology obsolescence, business models for sustainability, formats and standards for archiving, and solutions for content storage, access, and management.
The conference is a blend of invited focal papers, keynote talks, and refereed oral and interactive display presentations. The conference offers hands-on tutorial sessions on technical topics. The 2007 conference will also include a demonstration session at which attendees and select industry representatives will be able to showcase archiving programs, technologies, configurations, etc
Monday, August 21, 2006
Call For Presenters: Five Weeks to a Social Library
Call For Presenters: Five Weeks to a Social Library
CFP: Five Weeks to a Social Library
Location: Online
Dates: February 12 - March 17, 2007
CFP Deadline: September 22, 2006
We are pleased to present Five Weeks to a Social Library, the first free, grassroots, completely online course devoted to teaching librarians about social software and how to use it in their libraries. The course was developed to provide a free, comprehensive, and social online learning opportunity for librarians who do not otherwise have access to conferences or continuing education and who would benefit greatly from learning about social software. The course will take place in Drupal and on a MediaWiki installation, and will also involve a variety of other popular social software tools. The course will make use of synchronous components, with one or two weekly Webcasts and many IM chat sessions being made available to students each week. The course will culminate in each student developing a proposal for implementing a specific social software tool in their library.
The course will take place between February 12 and March 17 and will be limited to forty participants. However, course content will be freely viewable to interested parties and all live Webcasts will be archived for later viewing.
We are currently welcoming proposals for live presentations and course content on the following topics:
Blogs
RSS
Wikis
Social Networking Software and SecondLife
Flickr
Social Bookmarking Software
Selling Social Software @ Your Library (no live Webcasts on this topic)
We want the presentations to be as practical and useful to as wide a library-related audience as possible. Preference will be given to presentations that 1) are very "nuts-and-bolts" or 2) describe a successful use of the technology that could be replicated in different types of libraries.
We are looking for presentations in the following formats:
Webcast – a one-hour live online Webcast that will be archived.
Screencast/Vodcast – no more than 30 minutes (please note: most commercial screencasting software offer a 30-day free trial).
Podcast – we welcome proposals for podcast presentations, podcast interviews with innovators in the field or podcast discussions between innovators in the field.
Text presentations – we will accept a very limited number of text presentations, but we greatly prefer presentations that incorporate audio and video.
In addition to developing a presentation, presenters must also make themselves available via AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) for questions from students for one-hour during the week their presentation is shown.
All presentations will be made available under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
Format of Proposal: 250 – 500 words, written. Proposals are a way for the review team to assess your contribution quickly. Please do not submit full presentations.
Proposals should include the following:
Full name of presenter
E-mail address of presenter
Web-site and/or blog URL of presenter
IM screenname(s)
Institutional affiliation
Brief biographical information (under 150 words)
Include same personal information as above for any additional presenters after the lead presenter (if applicable)
Presentation title
Format(s) you are willing to present in (if you are flexible about the format you are willing to present in, please note that)
Presentation Abstract (250 – 500 words)
Proposals must be submitted by September 22, 2006 via e-mail to sociallibrary@gmail.com. Any questions about the CFP process can be addressed to the Planning Committee at sociallibrary@gmail.com.
Proposal Review: Proposals will be reviewed by the planning committee.
Planning Committee:
Michelle Boule
Karen Coombs
Amanda Etches-Johnson
Meredith Farkas
Ellyssa Kroski
Dorothea Salo
Key Dates:
Deadline for Proposals: Friday, September 22, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2006
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Michelle Boule
Social Sciences Librarian
University of Houston
713-743-9776
mlboule@uh.edu
CFP: Five Weeks to a Social Library
Location: Online
Dates: February 12 - March 17, 2007
CFP Deadline: September 22, 2006
We are pleased to present Five Weeks to a Social Library, the first free, grassroots, completely online course devoted to teaching librarians about social software and how to use it in their libraries. The course was developed to provide a free, comprehensive, and social online learning opportunity for librarians who do not otherwise have access to conferences or continuing education and who would benefit greatly from learning about social software. The course will take place in Drupal and on a MediaWiki installation, and will also involve a variety of other popular social software tools. The course will make use of synchronous components, with one or two weekly Webcasts and many IM chat sessions being made available to students each week. The course will culminate in each student developing a proposal for implementing a specific social software tool in their library.
The course will take place between February 12 and March 17 and will be limited to forty participants. However, course content will be freely viewable to interested parties and all live Webcasts will be archived for later viewing.
We are currently welcoming proposals for live presentations and course content on the following topics:
Blogs
RSS
Wikis
Social Networking Software and SecondLife
Flickr
Social Bookmarking Software
Selling Social Software @ Your Library (no live Webcasts on this topic)
We want the presentations to be as practical and useful to as wide a library-related audience as possible. Preference will be given to presentations that 1) are very "nuts-and-bolts" or 2) describe a successful use of the technology that could be replicated in different types of libraries.
We are looking for presentations in the following formats:
Webcast – a one-hour live online Webcast that will be archived.
Screencast/Vodcast – no more than 30 minutes (please note: most commercial screencasting software offer a 30-day free trial).
Podcast – we welcome proposals for podcast presentations, podcast interviews with innovators in the field or podcast discussions between innovators in the field.
Text presentations – we will accept a very limited number of text presentations, but we greatly prefer presentations that incorporate audio and video.
In addition to developing a presentation, presenters must also make themselves available via AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) for questions from students for one-hour during the week their presentation is shown.
All presentations will be made available under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
Format of Proposal: 250 – 500 words, written. Proposals are a way for the review team to assess your contribution quickly. Please do not submit full presentations.
Proposals should include the following:
Full name of presenter
E-mail address of presenter
Web-site and/or blog URL of presenter
IM screenname(s)
Institutional affiliation
Brief biographical information (under 150 words)
Include same personal information as above for any additional presenters after the lead presenter (if applicable)
Presentation title
Format(s) you are willing to present in (if you are flexible about the format you are willing to present in, please note that)
Presentation Abstract (250 – 500 words)
Proposals must be submitted by September 22, 2006 via e-mail to sociallibrary@gmail.com. Any questions about the CFP process can be addressed to the Planning Committee at sociallibrary@gmail.com.
Proposal Review: Proposals will be reviewed by the planning committee.
Planning Committee:
Michelle Boule
Karen Coombs
Amanda Etches-Johnson
Meredith Farkas
Ellyssa Kroski
Dorothea Salo
Key Dates:
Deadline for Proposals: Friday, September 22, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2006
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Michelle Boule
Social Sciences Librarian
University of Houston
713-743-9776
mlboule@uh.edu
Saturday, August 19, 2006
CFP: AASL (American Association of School Librarians) 13th National Conference & Exhibition (Reno, 2007)
CFP: AASL (American Association of School Librarians) 13th National Conference & Exhibition (Reno, 2007)
Dates: October 25-28, 2007
Location: Reno, Nevada
CFP URL: http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/conferencesandevents/national/presenters/rfp.htm
Guidelines for sessions: http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/conferencesandevents/national/presenters/concurrentrfp.htm
Guidelines for Exploratorium:
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/conferencesandevents/national/presenters/exploratoriumrfp.htm
Request for Program Proposals
AASL will hold its 13th National Conference and Exhibition October 25-28, 2007 in Reno, Nevada. One way to seek permission and funding from your school administrator or principal to attend the 2007 National Conference in Reno, NV, is to volunteer to showcase your best practices by speaking in a concurrent session, or participating in an Exploratorium presentation. What principal would turn down an opportunity to place his or her school in the national spotlight?
The National Conference Committee is pleased to announce the 2007 Request for Program Proposals.
The AASL 2007 National Conference theme is “the Future Begins @ your library.”
The committee encourages you to submit proposals to showcase your ideas, research, developments and vision about the future of school libraries.
For information, please follow the links above.
Dates: October 25-28, 2007
Location: Reno, Nevada
CFP URL: http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/conferencesandevents/national/presenters/rfp.htm
Guidelines for sessions: http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/conferencesandevents/national/presenters/concurrentrfp.htm
Guidelines for Exploratorium:
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/conferencesandevents/national/presenters/exploratoriumrfp.htm
Request for Program Proposals
AASL will hold its 13th National Conference and Exhibition October 25-28, 2007 in Reno, Nevada. One way to seek permission and funding from your school administrator or principal to attend the 2007 National Conference in Reno, NV, is to volunteer to showcase your best practices by speaking in a concurrent session, or participating in an Exploratorium presentation. What principal would turn down an opportunity to place his or her school in the national spotlight?
The National Conference Committee is pleased to announce the 2007 Request for Program Proposals.
The AASL 2007 National Conference theme is “the Future Begins @ your library.”
The committee encourages you to submit proposals to showcase your ideas, research, developments and vision about the future of school libraries.
For information, please follow the links above.
CFP: Special Libraries Association 2007 Conference (Denver)
CFP: Special Libraries Association 2007 Conference (Denver)
Location: Denver, Colorado
Dates: June 3-6, 2007
CFP URL: http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2007/callforpapers/index.cfm
Conf URL: http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2007/
SLA Denver 2007: Climbing to New Heights
SLA is accepting papers for presentation at its Annual Conference 3-6 June 2007, in Denver and for publication on its Web site.
The papers will not be formally peer reviewed. Instead, a panel of SLA members will evaluate abstracts of the papers. Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be asked to write the paper.
Topics of the papers should be related to library science, information management, research or other issues related to the work of special libraries. Abstracts will be judged on substance, potential member interest, and relevance to the conference theme (Climbing to New Heights) or to the SLA tag line (Connecting People and Information).
Authors need not be in academia, but the author (or at least one co-author) must be a member of SLA.
Submission Guidelines and Specifications
Click here for full guidelines, including formatting instructions.
Deadlines
8 December 2006 - Abstract due. Submit an abstract of your paper via e-mail to Martha McPhail at mmcphail@rohan.sdsu.edu. Abstracts should be approximately 250-300 words in length, roughly one page in 12-point text with normal margins. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by 16 January 2007.
1 May 2007 - Paper due. Submission deadline for the complete paper and copyright assignment to SLA. The paper should be in MS Word format and sent as an e-mail attachment to jadams@sla.org. The subject line of the e-mail should be "Contributed Papers" and the primary author's name. The copyright assignment form is available online at www.sla.org/documents/conf/copyrightform.html. Please print, complete and mail the copyright assignment to Contributed Papers, SLA, 331 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, VA 22314
3-6 June 2007 - Conference presentation. Presentation of papers will occur during the SLA Conference in Denver.
Minimum Requirements for Acceptance
In addition to the quality and relevance of the proposed paper, it must meet these requirements:
-The abstract has been received by the deadline.
-The author (or co-author) is a member of SLA. Not a member? You can join online at www.sla.org/content/membership/joinsla/index.cfm.
-The author (or a co-author) commits to present the paper at the annual conference.
-The paper has not been published in or submitted to any other publication or conference planning group.
-The author (and any co-authors) also must be willing to sign a copyright assignment that will permit SLA to use the paper in various formats. Accepted papers will be posted on the SLA Web site shortly before the 2007 conference begins.
-For examples of papers from SLA's 2006 Annual Conference in Baltimore, click here.
Location: Denver, Colorado
Dates: June 3-6, 2007
CFP URL: http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2007/callforpapers/index.cfm
Conf URL: http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2007/
SLA Denver 2007: Climbing to New Heights
SLA is accepting papers for presentation at its Annual Conference 3-6 June 2007, in Denver and for publication on its Web site.
The papers will not be formally peer reviewed. Instead, a panel of SLA members will evaluate abstracts of the papers. Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be asked to write the paper.
Topics of the papers should be related to library science, information management, research or other issues related to the work of special libraries. Abstracts will be judged on substance, potential member interest, and relevance to the conference theme (Climbing to New Heights) or to the SLA tag line (Connecting People and Information).
Authors need not be in academia, but the author (or at least one co-author) must be a member of SLA.
Submission Guidelines and Specifications
Click here for full guidelines, including formatting instructions.
Deadlines
8 December 2006 - Abstract due. Submit an abstract of your paper via e-mail to Martha McPhail at mmcphail@rohan.sdsu.edu. Abstracts should be approximately 250-300 words in length, roughly one page in 12-point text with normal margins. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by 16 January 2007.
1 May 2007 - Paper due. Submission deadline for the complete paper and copyright assignment to SLA. The paper should be in MS Word format and sent as an e-mail attachment to jadams@sla.org. The subject line of the e-mail should be "Contributed Papers" and the primary author's name. The copyright assignment form is available online at www.sla.org/documents/conf/copyrightform.html. Please print, complete and mail the copyright assignment to Contributed Papers, SLA, 331 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, VA 22314
3-6 June 2007 - Conference presentation. Presentation of papers will occur during the SLA Conference in Denver.
Minimum Requirements for Acceptance
In addition to the quality and relevance of the proposed paper, it must meet these requirements:
-The abstract has been received by the deadline.
-The author (or co-author) is a member of SLA. Not a member? You can join online at www.sla.org/content/membership/joinsla/index.cfm.
-The author (or a co-author) commits to present the paper at the annual conference.
-The paper has not been published in or submitted to any other publication or conference planning group.
-The author (and any co-authors) also must be willing to sign a copyright assignment that will permit SLA to use the paper in various formats. Accepted papers will be posted on the SLA Web site shortly before the 2007 conference begins.
-For examples of papers from SLA's 2006 Annual Conference in Baltimore, click here.
CFP: The Jewish Graphic Novel
CFP: The Jewish Graphic Novel
Essays sought for an interdisciplinary collection co-edited by an art historian and literary scholar. The growing subgenre of Jewish literary and graphic culture contains a number of significantly innovative aesthetic works that are increasingly recognized by literary critics as
an exciting form of alternative narrative that may also represent the inception of a new visual literacy that has significant implications for the future of Jewish literary and artistic expression. As the catalogue of a recent art exhibit devoted to this cultural phenomenon states, "Jewish Graphic novels represent an important genre in artistic expression and assert the intensity of word and image in conveying narratives that speak eloquently to the contemporary viewer. [They] offer intense visual elucidation of Jewish historic and literary events by combining intense illustration with searing social issues." Works to be addressed may include graphic novels by Will Eisner (A Contract With God: and Other Tenement Stories, Fagin the Jew, The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion) Czech writer Vittorio Giardino's trilogy of volumes about Jewish life under the shadow of totalitarianism: A Jew in Communist Prague: Loss of Innocence, A Jew in Communist Prague: Adolescence, and A Jew in Communist Prague: Rebellion; Ben Katchor's The Jew of New York; Miriam Katin's memoir of WWII
survival, We Are On Our Own; Neil Kleid's portrayal of mobsters in Brownsville; Etgar Keret's surreal tales, Jetlag: Five Graphic Novellas; Joe Kubert's stunning account of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in Yossel: April 14, 1943; Joann Sfar's whimsically philosophical The Rabbi's Cat,
James Strum's disturbing parable of American racism, The Golem's Mighty Swing; and J.T. Waldman's recent bold retelling of the essential Jewish myth of power and powerlessness in Megillat Esther. The editors also hope to include an essay or two on the impact of Art Spiegelman's seminal works of Holocaust oral history in Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My
Father Bleeds History and Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began, which crystallized the acceptance of the graphic novel as a legitimate literary form. This collection aspires to fill an important gap in existing scholarship by offering the first collection
of critical discussions to solely address the way that Jewish graphic novels grapple with Jewish history, cultural politics, antisemitism, portrayals of Ashkenazi and Sephardic identities, the role of the Holocaust in the artist's cultural and moral imagination, political controversy, literature, sacred texts, and myth through these captivating works that render image and text in hitherto unimagined forms. Other essays might consider the important role of autobiography
in the graphic novel and the role of the graphic novel in the Jewish Studies classroom. This list is by no means exhaustive; other relevant theoretical, pedagogical, or cultural approaches will be considered.
Authors are encouraged to use images whenever appropriate but they are individually responsible for all necessary permissions. Papers from all disciplines, or interdisciplinary submissions (whether focused on single works or comparative discussions), are welcomed. Send brief bios along with abstracts (300 words) or complete essays that follow the current
edition of the MLA Style Manual to both Ranen Omer-Sherman rosherman@miami.edu and Samantha Baskind s.baskind@csuohio.edu by 11/30/06.
Essays sought for an interdisciplinary collection co-edited by an art historian and literary scholar. The growing subgenre of Jewish literary and graphic culture contains a number of significantly innovative aesthetic works that are increasingly recognized by literary critics as
an exciting form of alternative narrative that may also represent the inception of a new visual literacy that has significant implications for the future of Jewish literary and artistic expression. As the catalogue of a recent art exhibit devoted to this cultural phenomenon states, "Jewish Graphic novels represent an important genre in artistic expression and assert the intensity of word and image in conveying narratives that speak eloquently to the contemporary viewer. [They] offer intense visual elucidation of Jewish historic and literary events by combining intense illustration with searing social issues." Works to be addressed may include graphic novels by Will Eisner (A Contract With God: and Other Tenement Stories, Fagin the Jew, The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion) Czech writer Vittorio Giardino's trilogy of volumes about Jewish life under the shadow of totalitarianism: A Jew in Communist Prague: Loss of Innocence, A Jew in Communist Prague: Adolescence, and A Jew in Communist Prague: Rebellion; Ben Katchor's The Jew of New York; Miriam Katin's memoir of WWII
survival, We Are On Our Own; Neil Kleid's portrayal of mobsters in Brownsville; Etgar Keret's surreal tales, Jetlag: Five Graphic Novellas; Joe Kubert's stunning account of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in Yossel: April 14, 1943; Joann Sfar's whimsically philosophical The Rabbi's Cat,
James Strum's disturbing parable of American racism, The Golem's Mighty Swing; and J.T. Waldman's recent bold retelling of the essential Jewish myth of power and powerlessness in Megillat Esther. The editors also hope to include an essay or two on the impact of Art Spiegelman's seminal works of Holocaust oral history in Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My
Father Bleeds History and Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began, which crystallized the acceptance of the graphic novel as a legitimate literary form. This collection aspires to fill an important gap in existing scholarship by offering the first collection
of critical discussions to solely address the way that Jewish graphic novels grapple with Jewish history, cultural politics, antisemitism, portrayals of Ashkenazi and Sephardic identities, the role of the Holocaust in the artist's cultural and moral imagination, political controversy, literature, sacred texts, and myth through these captivating works that render image and text in hitherto unimagined forms. Other essays might consider the important role of autobiography
in the graphic novel and the role of the graphic novel in the Jewish Studies classroom. This list is by no means exhaustive; other relevant theoretical, pedagogical, or cultural approaches will be considered.
Authors are encouraged to use images whenever appropriate but they are individually responsible for all necessary permissions. Papers from all disciplines, or interdisciplinary submissions (whether focused on single works or comparative discussions), are welcomed. Send brief bios along with abstracts (300 words) or complete essays that follow the current
edition of the MLA Style Manual to both Ranen Omer-Sherman rosherman@miami.edu and Samantha Baskind s.baskind@csuohio.edu by 11/30/06.
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