CFP: Librarianship by Walking Around

CFP: Librarianship by Walking Around

The Library Society of the World is putting together an online and print-on-demand anthology of weblog posts, essays, articles, and other material entitled Librarianship by Walking Around, patterned after the successful Hacking the Academy project.

Librarianship doesn't just happen in the library! Librarianship happens wherever information exchange happens--that is, just about everywhere. Librarianship by Walking Around celebrates librarians who leave their libraries and their comfort zones to ply the library trade.


Submit your work or suggest another's by commenting here, tweeting the link with the hashtag #libwalk, or posting to the Library Society of the World's FriendFeed group by Friday, October 21. Themes may include (but are not limited to):

• Serendipitous encounters (and how to engineer them)
• Joining patron communities
• Walking around online
• Walking around non-library literature and non-library conferences
• Embedded librarianship (in all its forms)

All on-topic submissions will appear on the project's web page. The LSW will select from these for the anthology, expected to be available in free .epub and low-cost print-on-demand versions. All authors whose pieces are chosen for the anthology will be asked to license the piece as CC-BY. Authors unwilling to do so will not appear in the anthology.

CFP: Museums and the Web 2012 (MW2012)

CFP: Museums and the Web 2012 (MW2012)

Perfect weather, clear waters, and your favorite museum people from around the world...

--> Join us in San Diego, 11-14 April 2012, for MW2012! <--

Find the call for proposals https://conference.archimuse.com/mw2012/call on the MW2012 website https://conference.archimuse.com/mw2012

And submit your proposal online through September 30, 2011 https://conference.archimuse.com/mw2012/proposal [login required] Demonstration proposals will be accepted through December 31, 2011.

Proposals are extended Abstracts, with full details (including biographies) of all co-authors

Full written papers for all accepted proposals are due January 31, 2012.

Read more: http://conference.archimuse.com/forum/mw2012_when_where_how

Nancy Proctor & Rich Cherry

MW2012 Co-chairs

*Questions?*

info@museumsandtheweb.com

nancy@museumsandtheweb.com

rcherry@museumsandtheweb.com

Follow us on Twitter:

@museweb

@nancyproctor

@richcherry

CFP: Special Issue of Collection Management on Shared or Collaborative Print Repositories

CFP: Special Issue of Collection Management on Shared or Collaborative Print Repositories

Collection Management seeks well-researched, refereed articles on the topic of shared or collaborative print repositories. The special issue will be published in volume 37(3/4) (July 2012). Topics may include, but are not limited to:

Planning and development of shared print repositories

Procedures and staffing of shared print repositories

Selection of materials (including weeding) for archiving

Coordination of archiving and preservation of print resources among libraries

Business models that the support of coordination of shared repositories

Establishment of funding for regional shared repositories

Implications of the reliance on electronic resources and microfilm for humanities scholars

Technological considerations and protocols to support a shared repository

Implications of a shared regional repository on interlibrary loan, space availability, or staff relocations

A history of shared print repositories and/or a comprehensive literature review

Article abstracts (maximum one page) with title and proposed topic should be submitted by October 15, 2011. The deadline for accepted articles will be February 15, 2012. Abstracts should be submitted electronically to the in-coming editor, Karen Fischer, at karen-fischer@uiowa.edu. Please include the subject line "CM special issue article proposal".

Editor

Faye A. Chadwell

Oregon State University

Call for Authors: Libraries Unlimited Library Management Collection

 Call for Authors: Libraries Unlimited Library Management Collection

Libraries Unlimited Library Management Collection (http://www.abc-clio.com/series.aspx?id=51965) reaches out to librarians world-wide and seeks authors /editors for books on issues and  aspects of management for all types of libraries, and encourages recruiting  authors for chapters from other countries.  To see current titles click on this url; the third and sixth titles in the top row have such chapters.  For more information please contact Editor/series adviser  Gerard McCabe  mgmted@comcast.net

Gerard B. McCabe-Editor/series adviser  mgmted@comcast.net
Libraries Unlimited Library Management Collecton:New Books
2011:http://www.abc-clio.com/series.aspx?id=51965

CFP: Library’s Efficiency, Impact and Outcomes IFLA Satellite Pre-conference (Finland)

IFLA Satellite Pre-conference "Library's Efficiency, Impact and Outcomes: Statistical Evaluation and Other Methods as Tools for Management and Decision-making" will be arranged on August 9, 2012 in University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Main themes:

1 Statistical analysis, qualitative methods as tools for the advocacy of libraries
2 Evidence based management
3 Case studies about efficiency, impact and outcomes measurement

Sponsor: IFLA Statistics and Evaluation Section, In cooperation with Management and Marketing Section & Academic and Research Libraries Section 

For more information, see the:

Call for Papers (PDF)

Meeting Information

Call for POSTERS - National Council on Public History and Organization of American Historians

Call for POSTERS - National Council on Public History and Organization of American Historians

The National Council on Public History and Organization of American Historians invite proposals for the Poster Session at their joint 2012 Annual Meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Poster Session is a format for history and public history presentations about projects that use visual evidence. It offers an alternative for presenters eager to share their work through one-on-one discussion, can be especially useful for work-in-progress, and may be a particularly appropriate format for presentations where visual or material evidence represents a central component of the project.

The poster session will be held on Saturday afternoon, April 21, 2012 at the Frontier Airlines Center in Milwaukee.

How to Submit a Proposal
Proposals must be submitted electronically (in ONE PDF document) and include:

1. Contact information, including participant(s’) name(s), address(es), email(s), phone number(s), and affiliation(s), and a brief explanation of needs. (You may request ½ of a 6’ table, access to one electrical outlet, and/or an easel.) Wireless internet access will be available. Participants must provide own computer if one will be used in the presentation. Due to limited space, projectors may not be used during the poster presentation.

2. An abstract of no more than 300 words (including title) that explains and promotes the project. Be persuasive! Imagine that the audience for the proposal abstract is a museum visitor, potential funding agency, recalcitrant policy board or client, or fractious community group.

3. A one-page c.v. or resume for each participant.

4. You are encouraged, but not required, to include a simple one- or two-page visual mock-up of the display (e.g., created in PowerPoint, Photoshop, or Publisher, etc. and saved as a PDF).

Deadline: NOVEMBER 1, 2011. Email your proposal to ncph@iupui.edu with the subject line “2012 Poster.” You will receive a confirmation email within three business days. If you do not receive a confirmation email, contact the NCPH Executive Office because your proposal may not have been received. You will receive notification of whether or not your poster has been accepted in December 2011. If accepted, graduate students who are members of NCPH are eligible to apply for a Graduate Student Travel Award.

    National Council on Public History
327 Cavanaugh Hall - IUPUI
425 University Blvd
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Phone: (317) 274-2716
Email: dowdyc@iupui.edu
Visit the website at http://ncph.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2012_Call_for_Posters.pdf

CFP: Museum Utopias 2012 - A Conference

CFP: Museum Utopias 2012 - A Conference

In everyday life, the chance to dream, to imagine, to explore the idea of the museum is limited, leaving many museums reacting to change, rather than being able to think about how the museum could be. This Symposium will give museum researchers, students and practitioners the opportunity to consider the changes that are taking place in the world and how museums might respond to them, using the idea of Utopia as a place for dreaming as well as thinking practically about how these challenges might be addressed.

This conference will be held at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK, on the 27th and 28th March 2012.

For the full Call for Papers, and more information about the themes to be addressed, please visit the URL in this announcement

    Mona Al Ali or Julia Petrov
School of Museum Studies University of Leicester Museum Studies Building 19 University Road Leicester LE1 7RF
Email: msphdconf@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museum-utopias/

CFP: University of Maryland Libraries Symposium: “Women & the Civil War”

Call for Papers - University of Maryland Libraries Symposium:
“Women & the Civil War”

Paper proposals are invited for a half-day symposium entitled “Women and the Civil War,” to be held April 27, 2012, at the University of Maryland, College Park. The symposium in being organized in connection with an exhibit at the university’s Hornbake Library, "Women on the Border: Maryland Perspectives of the Civil War," which draws on materials in the University Libraries’ Special Collections. The symposium will provide a forum for discussing the multitude of roles women played in the war and the many ways in which the war affected them. The keynote speaker will be Thavolia Glymph, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Duke University.

The symposium committee is especially interested in scholarship relating to Maryland women and the Civil War or to women’s experiences in the border states. Proposals relating to these topics will be given preference, but proposals relating to other aspects of the topic of women and the Civil War will also be considered. The committee welcomes proposals from graduate students as well as more experienced scholars. Papers should be no longer than twenty minutes when delivered.

Paper proposals (500 words or less) and brief presenter bios should be e-mailed to Elizabeth Novara at enovara@umd.edu.

Submissions deadline is November 15, 2011, and the program committee expects to notify successful applicants by December 15, 2011.

Symposium Program Committee:
Elizabeth A. Novara, Curator, Historical Manuscripts, University of Maryland Libraries
Leslie S. Rowland, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland, and Editor of Freedmen and Southern Society Project Lauren Brown, Special Collections Curator, University of Maryland Libraries
Eric N. Lindquist, History Subject Specialist, University of Maryland Libraries

    Elizabeth Novara
Curator, Historical Manuscripts
2208C Hornbake Library
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: 301-314-2712

Email: enovara@umd.edu
Visit the website at http://www.lib.umd.edu/mdrm/gallery/index.html

CFP:The Second Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2012

Librasia 2012 - The Second Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2012
6 to 8 April 2012
Osaka, Japan

As the country that gave the world the novel one thousand years ago, and subsequently haiku and manga, Japan's long and rich literary history make it an ideal place to bring together academics, writers, and librarians to celebrate, debate, and explore their common passion. The aim of this International Conference is to encourage academics, scholars and practitioners representing an exciting diversity of countries, cultures, and religion to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum encouraging respectful dialogue. By bringing together a number of university scholars working throughout Japan, Asia, and beyond to share ideas, LibrAsia 2012 will afford the opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, and networking across higher education and beyond.

LibrAsia 2012 is not only an academic conference, but will again this year offer a number of talks, workshops, and readings of original works, in an exciting long weekend of interdisciplinary and intercultural discussion. The Land of the Rising Sun offers an amazing juxtaposition of cultures, of east and west, of religious and secular, and of course of the “Exchanges and Encounters” of the conference theme.

FEATURED SPEAKER: TBA
Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 1 2011
Results of abstract reviews returned to authors: December 15 2011
Deadline for submission of full papers: May 1 2012
Deadline for full conference registration payment for all presenters: March 15 2012
Conference Programme Published Online: March 25 2012
Librasia Conference: April 6-8 2012

Enquiries: librasia@iafor.org
Web address: http://librasia.iafor.org/
Sponsored by: The International Academic Forum (IAFOR)

CFP: Online Northwest February 10, 2012

CFP: Online Northwest February 10, 2012


Call For Proposals - Deadline October 21, 2011

Online Northwest is a one-day conference focusing on topics that intersect libraries, technology and culture. The conference is sponsored by the Oregon University System Library Council.

The 2012 conference will be held at CH2M Hill Alumni Center, Corvallis, Oregon (on the Oregon State University campus) on Friday, February 10, 2012.

The conference explores how technology is being applied within library settings and how technology is affecting library patrons and services. Academic, public, school, and special librarians are strongly encouraged to submit proposals.

Online Northwest seeks 60-minute presentations or 5-minute lightning talks on all topics relating to technology and libraries including:
* Cloud computing
* Institutional repositories
* Augmented reality
* Semantic web
* Virtual research environments
* Information discovery
* Web 3.0
* Library apps
* Mobile computing
* Technology competencies
* Electronic books
* Other topics related to technology in libraries are welcome

Submit Proposals: http://goo.gl/gx9bs
Proposal Submission Deadline: Friday, October 21, 2011

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

Blog: http://onlinenw.blogspot.com/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/onlinenw

CFP: The Faculty of Information Quarterly (FIQ) Issue on the History of Information

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Faculty of Information Quarterly  (FIQ), VOL. 4, ISSUE 1.

FIQ is currently accepting submissions for the first issue of its fourth year. In dialogue with the journal's previous issue on the current state and future of information, FIQ would like to dedicate this issue to the history of information, broadly conceived, in its various aspects: to name a few, information organization, storage, and dissemination; information technology; information systems and their design; information practices; information science/studies. We also invite papers that focus on the fundamental question of what "information" is, and encourage all papers to pay attention to this question and to the implications of the concept of "information" that they are working with or advocating.  

The deadline for submissions is Monday, October 17, 2011, 5 pm. For detailed submission guidelines and instructions on how to make a submission please visit Author Guidelines.

The editor-in-chief, Samhita Gupta, will be happy to answer any questions or concerns regarding submissions and can be reached at fiquarterly@gmail.com.We look forward to receiving your submissions.

LOEX 2012: Call for Proposals

LOEX 2012: Call for Proposals
Energize! Accelerate! Transform!

40^th Annual LOEX Conference
May 3 - 5, 2012
Columbus, Ohio
Proposals due: Friday, November 18, 2011

Instruction librarians know that it’s essential to Energize! their teaching, Accelerate! change, and Transform! student learning. We invite you to contribute your recipes for instructional excellence at LOEX 2012, in Columbus, Ohio.

Successful proposals will model best practices, provide useful information that participants can use at their libraries, showcase effective and innovative practices, support collaboration, and be as applicable as possible to a wide range of academic institution types.

Successful proposals should attempt to reflect elements of one of seven tracks:

* Cocktails: Shake it up -- Engaging students with active learning
* Salads: A mixture of unique ingredients -- Reaching diverse populations
* Entrees: The foundation of every meal -- Developing your teachers and your program
* Combo Platter: One from column A, one from column B -- Collaborating across campus and with different institutions
* To Go: Take it with you -- Learning on the go, anytime, anywhere
* Chef’s Surprise: Something different and unexpected -- Pursuing cutting-edge trends in teaching and learning
* Dessert: Always leave room for this -- Measuring the effectiveness of programs and learning

Breakout Session Formats

Two types of proposals will be accepted:

* Presentation: A 50-minute session that includes time for a 40-45 minute presentation and 5-10 minutes of question and answer. Most feature a successful program, practice or key issue related to instruction or information literacy. Presentations are intended for an audience typically of 30-70 people. Presenters should include in the proposal description the topic and an outline of the presentation.

* Interactive Workshop: A 50-minute session where the presenter facilitates a learning experience in which attendees develop or explore teaching and/or research techniques. Presenters are expected to facilitate a well-planned and interactive session. Workshops are intended for an audience typically of 30-50 people. Proposals should include a description of the topic and details on how the presenter will make this session a “hands-on” experience for attendees.

In addition to breakout sessions:
1. Students currently enrolled in a Master's program in library and information sciences, along with librarians in resident or intern programs, will be invited to propose poster sessions. Details about poster sessions will be issued in a separate call for proposals.

2. (New this year!)  Lightning Talks—short (eight minutes or less) presentations given during a single Saturday session by different presenters.  There will only be handful (~ five) lightning talk presentations, as they are intended to be an energizing, but small, part of the conference.  Proposals will be due in late January.  More details about Lightning Talks will be issued in an early November call for proposals.

Submission Information

Proposals can be submitted only through the online submission form and must be received by Friday, November 18, 2011. The primary contact for the proposal will receive a message indicating receipt of the proposal when it is submitted and will be notified if the proposal has been accepted for presentation by Friday, January 13, 2012.

If your proposal is accepted, then up to three presenters will be automatically registered for the conference and required to pay registration in full by Monday, March 26, 2012.

More information, including the proposal submission form, can be found at:
http://www.loexconference.org/breakoutproposals.html

If you have any questions about submitting a proposal, contact Catherine Cardwell at sessions2012@loexconference.org.

Learn more about the LOEX 2012 Conference at http://www.loexconference.org/
Learn more about LOEX at http://www.emich.edu/public/loex/index.html