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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The proposals must be submitted in electronic format and must contain

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

Please submit proposals to

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

Submissions

All proposals must be in before 31 March 2013.

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

Congress Attendance Grants

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

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

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

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

Call for Abstracts

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your conference hosts,

Julie Murphy
Tom Colthurst
Andrea Mitchell

CFP: Second Call for Proposals: Open Repositories 2013

Second Call for Proposals: Open Repositories 2013

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

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

OR2013 2nd Call for Proposals and Keynote Announced!

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

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

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

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

Some specific areas of interest for OR2013 are:
 

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

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

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

• Services making use of repository metadata

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

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

• Added-value services for repositories

• Long-term preservation of repositories and their contents

• Role and impact of repositories in the research ecosystem
 

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



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



Key dates and contacts:

• 22 February 2013: Deadline for submissions

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

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

• 8-12 July 2013: OR2013 conference:

• 8 July 2013: Pre-conference workshops

• 9-11 July 2013: General Conference

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

Submission process


• Conference Papers and Panels

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



• User Group Presentations

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

• 24x7 Presentation Proposals

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

• 

Posters and Demos

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



• Workshops and Tutorials

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

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

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

• How many attendees you plan to accommodate

• Technology and facility requirements

• Any other supplies or support required

• A brief statement on the learning outcomes from the session

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

• Developer Challenge

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

---------

Mark C. Hoffman

Associate Professor and Director

School of Public, Nonprofit &  Health Administration

401 Fulton Street West, #236C DeVos

Grand Valley State University

Grand Rapids, MI 49504

The Informed Librarian Online seeks article writers

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

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

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

IJSLE Special Edition Announcement

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

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

Purpose and Scope

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

1.      Assessment of Service Learning in Engineering

a.      Methods and results of assessment of student learning

b.      Methods and results of assessment of community impacts

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

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

2.      Scholarship of Service Learning in Engineering

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

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

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

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

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

3.      Interdisciplinary Engagement

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

b.    Entrepreneurship and SLE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CFP: IFLA Classification and Indexing Section (Singapore 2013)

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

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

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

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

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


Submissions

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

Research: Data-Driven Services

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

Research: Creative Problem Solving

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lynn Silipigni Connaway

OCLC Research

(Email): connawal@oclc.org

(Fax): 614-718-7378

CFP: IFLA Acqusitions & Collection Development Section - Conference Theme: Future Libraries: Infinite Possibilities (IFLA Singapore 2013)

CFP: IFLA Acqusitions & Collection Development Section - Conference Theme:  Future Libraries: Infinite Possibilities (IFLA Singapore 2013)

http://www.ifla.org/acquisition-collection-development

The Section’s 2 hour Open Session is: *Collaboration in Collections: Libraries, 
Users and Information Providers *

Building and maintaining relevant collections requires innovation in these 
challenging times as libraries establish a greater digital footprint and explore 
different channels of scholarly communication and information delivery.  Working 
together with publishers and vendors to find ways to meet the diverse 
expectations and needs of library users demands new models of communication, 
programming, organizational infrastructure, reliance on multiple and changing 
technologies, and accompanying services.  This Open Session will emphasize how 
innovation and collaboration within libraries, among users and with the 
publishing and provider community will advance the role of collections.

Suggested subthemes, with a focus on innovation and best practices for potential 
speakers to consider:

  * Responding to users’ expectations – how & when
  * Role of Open Access
  * Impact of eResources – challenges with acquisitions, licensing, pricing,
    perpetuity, use
  * Cooperative collection development
  * Resource relevance
  * Relationships with information providers
  * Collection assessment
  * Selection and de-selection
  * Discovery of collections
  * Promoting collections

The section invites speakers from all library environments (academic, public, 
government, school, special) who can address any of these themes in a 15 minute 
presentation at the WLIC meeting.  The goal is to create a diverse program of 
4-5 speakers representing libraries from different parts of the world who have 
different experiences to share. Proposed papers must be original and not have 
been published elsewhere.  It is hoped that all presenters will be able to 
prepare a formal paper, as well as a PowerPoint presentation, however IFLA 
realizes that it may be impractical to require that every speaker prepare a 
formal paper and PowerPoint slides.  If that is the case, those speakers must 
prepare a substantial abstract, including references with URLs and 
bibliographies to accompany their presentation.  All selected papers will have 
abstracts and links to full papers on the conference website. Presentations can 
be made in any of the official IFLA languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, 
German, Spanish, Russian, but an accompanying translation of all papers into 
English must be provided.

*Important Dates with which to comply:*

*15 February 2013* – Deadline for submitting 300 word proposals for papers and 
presentations, or substantial abstracts of 500 words if no paper will be 
prepared, plus a very brief biographical statement of speaker(s).  Information 
should include: title of presentation; subthemes that it addresses, abstract, 
all authors, noting likely presenter; institutional affiliations; contact 
information, including all eMail addresses

*28 February 2013* – Announcement of final program and communication with all 
who submit proposals.  IFLA HQ notified of outcome from call.

*1 May 2013* – Deadline for submission of final paper.  Papers should be no more 
than 3,000 words and papers can be submitted in any of the official IFLA 
languages: Arabic, Chinese, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Russian, but an 
accompanying translation of all papers into English must be provided.  Attempts 
will be made to provide translations into other official languages.

*30 June 2013* – Deadline for all PowerPoint presentations from Speakers

*June/July 2013* – All speakers will be notified of the time of the program.

All proposals will be reviewed by a jury composed of members of the Acquisitions 
and Collection Development Section.

Please note that unfortunately, there are no funds to assist with your 
attendance at WLIC 2013.  Please also note that in accordance with IFLA’s Open 
Access Statement, all papers that are presented at the WLIC 2013 should be 
available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

All submissions and any questions should be sent to be sent via eMail in a MS 
Word attachment to Julia Gelfand (jgelfand@uci.edu 
<http://webmail1e.orange.fr/webmail/fr_FR/read.html?FOLDER=SF_INBOX&IDMSG=28797&check=&SORTBY=1#>) 
by 31 January 2013. The receipt of all submissions will be acknowledged.

Call for Chapters: Anarcho- narrative book about Information Discovery Journeys

Call for Chapters: Anarcho- narrative book about Information Discovery Journeys

“Only connect ...” discovery pathways, library explorations, and the information adventure.

A collection of information discovery journeys.

Andrew Walsh & Emma Coonan

A call for chapter submissions for an anarcho- narrative book about Information Discovery Journeys.

Full details on http://innovativelibraries.org.uk/onlyconnect/

Learning is about creating relationships between entities and establishing a narrative that makes sense of the world

Research is about juxtaposing entities that were previously unrelated

The book will consist of a series of narratives connected by the over arching theme of information discovery journeys. The authors of the individual chapters are free to decide the most appropriate structure to tell these stories about information discovery, whether that is traditional textual formats, more free form text (e.g. transcripts of social media interactions; poetry; illustrative fictional prose), through images, video, or whatever media seems appropriate to the author.

The text will be electronic by default, available freely under CC license (see note below). Print on demand versions will be made available if deemed appropriate when editing the finished text.

Contributors will be selected by the editors after submitting a proposal to the call for papers. Final submissions will be subject to the lightest possible editing, in conjunction with the author, to insure the integrity of the original submission is maintained.

Please send a title and short description (around 200 words) of the chapter you propose to the editors at: infojourneys@innovativelibraries.org.uk

Include the topics you would cover, the structure your chapter would take and any special format or structure your contribution would require. We'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Timescales:

Call for Papers ends 1st March

First Drafts due 1st June

Book published Autumn 2013

Bypassing established publisher routes means that our ‘unbook’ can be:

·         Creative Commons licensed, giving contributors recognition and making the material immediately free and sharable online

·         Multimedia - contributors pick their preferred format: prose, video, images, Storify’d tweets, graphs, data ... (print-on-demand an option for textual parts, linking to additional non-textual material via an app such as Aurasma. Details of this to be confirmed at a later date.)

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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Library and Information Science Research in Asia-Oceania: Theory and Practice

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Library and Information Science Research in Asia-Oceania: Theory and Practice

Proposal Submission Deadline: February 28, 2013

Title: Library and Information Science Research in Asia-Oceania: Theory and Practice

A book edited by

Dr. Jia Tina Du (University of South Australia, Australia)

Professor Qinghua Zhu (Nanjing University, China)

Professor Andy Koronios (University of South Australia, Australia)

To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/901

Introduction:

The book Library and Information Science Research in Asia-Oceania: Theory and Practice seeks to present the development and trends in library and information science (LIS) research, both theoretically and practically, in the Asia-Oceania region. Two major trends have occurred nowadays in the LIS field across Asia-Oceania, including a growth in the number of schools and expansion of programs, and a growth in research outputs. The LIS education growth is more significant in the Asian countries, particularly in China and India. The Directory of Library & Information Science Programs in Asia shows that there are 67 universities having LIS programs in China. The numbers of LIS schools in India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore are 86, 11, 8, 5, and 1, respectively. Australia and New Zealand have been fairly stable in LIS education growth compared to Asia, but they provide significant distance education and training programs. Historically, the major centres of the world producing LIS research have largely been the universities and information institutions in North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe. However, accompanying the growth of the Asian economies, universities, and information industries, LIS research being conducted and published in the Asia-Oceania region is increasing rapidly. Up to 2011, there were totally 377,649 LIS document records in the database Web of Science, and approximately 12,000 of them were written by Asia-Oceania region researchers.

Overall, the LIS field in the Asia-Oceania region is experiencing prominent growth, and the trends of development are worth exploring. This book will provide a timely look at LIS research development and practice in Asia-Oceania as the region continues to grow and develop. It will provide an ideal forum for this international research area, allowing a presentation and comparison of international history and trends in LIS research, along with an investigation of reasons for similarities and differences in the outcomes. As such, this book will be a significant contribution to the LIS research literature.

The book chapters will take critical and historical approaches as well as contemporary analysis. Authors are invited to submit chapters based on original research that has not been published elsewhere.  We are seeking high quality and scholarly book chapters that cover the evolution of LIS research and developments in theory and practice in the Asia-Oceania region, including research progress in the field, evolution of theory development and, where applicable, their practical applications and significance, and the impact of information technologies on the development of the field.  

Objective of the Book:

The main goal of the publication is to bring together theories and practices development, achievements, and challenges in international LIS studies. This book will assemble researchers from the major LIS schools in Asia and Oceania to disseminate and discuss the changing nature of the research, the major advances, and practical development in the field. The book will demonstrate evolving and emerging research and practice development in diverse countries in the region. It will highlight the current concerns and issues surrounding both theory and practice. This book is expected to be an excellent collection and representation of Asian and Oceanian LIS research and practice today.

Target Audience:

This book is intended as a useful resource for library and information science researchers, scholars, students, professionals, and practitioners, and is an appropriate text for courses in library and information science. In addition, anyone interested in understanding the LIS field in the region will find this book a fascinating and enlightening read.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to the following:

I. Evolution of the Field of LIS

·      Development of fundamental ideas and theories in LIS

·      Historical contexts of information technology innovations and impacts

·      The characteristics of the innovation system and its influence on the formulation of LIS research

II. New Directions in LIS Research

·      Leading edge theories and models

·      Trends in LIS research

·      Evolving and emerging research methodologies

III. Diversity in Research Topics

·      Virtual community research

·      Human information behaviour

·      Collaborative information behaviour

·      Web search and information retrieval

·      Interactive information retrieval and user interfaces

·      Social media and social network

·      Community informatics

·      LIS community, its research and publication

·      Information literacy

·      Information quality

·      Human-computer interaction

·      Human-information interaction

·      Information architecture

·      Bibliometrics, informetrics, and webometrics

·      Digital library and databases

·      Information security and privacy

·      LIS education

IV. LIS Practice

·      Policy issues

·      Practical and social impact and implications, including case analysis

·      LIS professionals in the Web 2.0 era

Submission Procedure:

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before February 28, 2013, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 10, 2013 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters should be at least 9,000-10,000 words in length and are expected to be submitted by June 30, 2013. Chapters should be written in the 6th edition of APA format and submitted (in Word document) via email to the editors at tina.du@unisa.edu.au and qhzhu@nju.edu.cn. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This book is anticipated to be released in 2014.

Important Dates

February 28, 2013:         Proposal Submission Deadline

March 10, 2013:             Notification of Acceptance

June 30, 2013:                  Full Chapter Submission

August 1, 2013:               Review Results Returned

August 31, 2013:            Revised Chapter Submission

September 15, 2013:     Final Notification of Acceptance

September 30, 2013:     Final Chapter Submission

Editorial Advisory Board Members

Professor Lisa Given, Charles Sturt University, Australia

Professor Mu-hsuan Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Associate Professor Chris Khoo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Professor Nahyun Kwon, Myongji University, South Korea

Professor Feicheng Ma, Wuhan University, China

Professor Makiko Miwa, The Open University of Japan, Japan

Professor Helen Partridge, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Professor Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere, Finland

Professor Peiling Wang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

Professor Iris Xie, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document):

Dr. Jia Tina Du

University of South Australia

Email: tina.du@unisa.edu.au

Professor Qinghua Zhu

Nanjing University

Email: qhzhu@nju.edu.cn