Monthly Archives: May 2009

Corporate Libraries deadline extended to May 25

Posted on May 15, 2009 | Leave a comment
Call for Chapter Proposals: Edited Collection on Corporate Libraries
We are seeking chapter proposals for a new edited collection on
corporate libraries.  This book will be an edited collection of
chapters describing best practices in a variety of corporate libraries
worldwide, providing both a foundation of knowledge for scholars in
library and information science areas and information and ideas for
practicing corporate librarians.  The editors have obtained an
interest from the publisher, and a contract is pending a list of
potential chapters and contributors.
Please submit a proposal of 250 words, or a full chapter, for
consideration.   Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Planning a Corporate Library, including chapters on topics such as
design, architecture, and facility planning, budget and staffing, long
range planning, technology planning, hiring, recruiting, and training
for a new library.
Collaborations, including chapters on interlibrary lending and
borrowing, joint libraries, consortia and other types of
collaborations and organizations.

Technology, including chapters on best practices, discussions of the
use of technology, and the scope of a corporate librarian’s job such
as what technological support they offer, web sites and internet
databases in relations to corporate librarianship, electronic
services.

Staffing, including human resources, continuing education,
professional networking, core competencies, management, routines

Communications, including articles regarding communications; for
example, with satellite offices, with overseas branches,
interdepartmental, computer mediated communication, and more.

Knowledge Management/ Organization, including topics covering how
Corporate Libraries manage data and knowledge and organize it, and
share it.

Special Issues This section will include articles about any special
issues pertaining to Corporate Librarianship, such as copyright and
other legal topics, especially those that are unique to corporate
librarianship.

Please send chapters or chapter proposals by May 25, 2009, through email to:

Paul and Sigrid Kelsey, editors
sigridkelsey@gmail.com

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PaLA Annual Conference Poster Sessions

Posted on May 14, 2009 | Leave a comment

The 2009 PALA Conference Planning Committee invites you to present a poster session at the PALA Annual Conference to be held October 18 – 21, 2009 at the Hilton Harrisburg located in downtown Harrisburg.

What is a poster session?  It is an opportunity, set aside during the conference, when author- librarians, students, staff or others participating in the professional conference can present an idea, the outcomes of a completed project, or research results to an audience of their peers. The tone is casual and the mode is highly interactive.  The object is to gather feedback and to make connections with others interested in the same subject. This is a forum for library professionals from across the state to highlight their libraries and to share their successful ideas or innovations with colleagues.

Poster sessions are displayed on poster boards (4 ft x 6ft). Pictures, graphs, data and text are used to illustrate the presentation.   An effective poster presentation highlights, with visual display, the main points or components of your topic; the presenter fills in the details verbally. Poster Sessions can cover any project or program. They are a great way to share your interesting work without doing a formal presentation.  

Some suggested subject categories for poster sessions include but are not limited to:  Conservation and Preservation, Library Services to Special Groups, Reference and Information Services, Management, Children’s Services, Information and Referral Services, Young Adults’ Services, Reference, Personnel, Library Use Instruction, Planning and Evaluation, Circulation Services, Organization, Special Collections, Technology, Automation, Archives, Education, Continuing Education, Telecommunications, Library Education, Computers, Rare Books, Literacy.

This year’s conference theme is Pennsylvania Libraries: Capitalize on Your Future.  The poster sessions will take place in the Strawberry Arcade, the main walkway between the parking garage and the hotel.  We expect a lot of traffic in this area, which is also the location of the conference registration desk.   The 2009 conference schedule will include the following poster session periods: 

Monday, 10/19/09, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. for topics of interest to youth services librarians.

(Immediately precedes the Carolyn Field Award Luncheon)

Tuesday, 10/20/09, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. for all topics.

There will also be a special poster session display by PaLA divisions and round tables during the New Member Reception on Sunday night to inform new PaLA members of groups that they may wish to join.

We invite you to submit a poster session proposal online via this link:  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=zmAWWQALf69l8DigTT6haw_3d_3d.  A link is also available on the PaLA Website, www.palibraries.org.  The deadline for proposals is May 31, 2009.

Come join us in Harrisburg and capitalize on your future!

 

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Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference

Posted on May 14, 2009 | Leave a comment
November 5-7, 2009
Boston, MA

Travel and Tourism Studies as a discipline continues to gain popularity in academia, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that discuss and explore any aspect of travel and/or tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:

– travel and gender/race/class
– travel and religion
– travel and war
– personal travel narratives
– heritage tourism
– material culture and tourism

Please feel free to consider a wide range of materials, texts and experiences. Applicants are encouraged to consider multi-media (or other alternative format) presentations if those formats would better suit their topics, and may also propose 3- or 4-person panels and roundtables.

Send a brief (400 words) abstract, including AV needs and short bio, by June 15th to Jennifer Erica Sweda at jesweda_at_pobox.upenn.edu. Students (both undergraduate and graduate) and independent scholars are encouraged to apply. Please feel free to send questions via email to the address above.

For more information about the conference, please see www.mapacagazette.net.

 

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Abstracts for Geoscience Information Society Annual Meeting

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Call for Abstracts for Geoscience Information Society Annual Meeting in Portland in October

Share your recent research project or your library’s latest innovation with the Geoscience Information Society at the 2009 GSIS Annual Meeting in Portland from October18-21.  The meeting is held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America whose theme will be “From Volcanoes to Vineyards: Living with Dynamic Landscapes.” GSIS will sponsor two technical sessions at the meeting.  The themes for the two sessions are broad, which should allow for a wide variety of topics at both the oral presentations and the poster sessions.
     
      Oral presentations–“Navigating the Geoscience Information Landscape:  Pathways to Success” (Topical Session #118)
     
      Poster sessions–“Geoscience Information Landscape:  Pathways to Success” (Topical Session #117).
    
      Beginning April 1 you can submit your abstract on the electronic submission form on the GSA website:

      http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2009AM/index.epl < http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2009AM/index.epl>
   
      The deadline for submitting your abstract is midnight (Eastern time) on August 11.
   
      The final schedule with dates and times for technical sessions will be announced in late August.  GSIS will reimburse all presenters (oral presentations and poster sessions) who are GSIS members for the cost of submitting their abstracts ($20 for students and $30 for non-students).  When you submit your abstract on the GSA website, you will need to pay the fee by credit card in order to submit it.  Following the conference, a reimbursement check will be sent to all presenters who are GSIS members.
    
       Contact Jody Foote, Technical Sessions Chair, (jbfoote@ou.edu < mailto:jbfoote@ou.edu>  or 405-325-6451) if you have questions.
   

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Current Issue Discussion Groups -Instruction

Posted on May 14, 2009 | Leave a comment
Have a instruction topic you’d like to get your fellow librarians’ opinions on? Want to get some input on an instruction idea? Now’s your chance! Propose a topic for discussion at ALA’s Midwinter Conference in Boston next year. The Call for Proposals is up at:

Deadline for submitting a proposal is June 1, 2009, so don’t delay!

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Corporate Libraries

Posted on May 14, 2009 | Leave a comment
Call for Chapter Proposals: Edited Collection on Corporate Libraries
We are seeking chapter proposals for a new edited collection on
corporate libraries.  This book will be an edited collection of
chapters describing best practices in a variety of corporate libraries
worldwide, providing both a foundation of knowledge for scholars in
library and information science areas and information and ideas for
practicing corporate librarians.  The editors have obtained an
interest from the publisher, and a contract is pending a list of
potential chapters and contributors.
Please submit a proposal of 250 words, or a full chapter, for
consideration.   Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Planning a Corporate Library, including chapters on topics such as
design, architecture, and facility planning, budget and staffing, long
range planning, technology planning, hiring, recruiting, and training
for a new library.
Collaborations, including chapters on interlibrary lending and
borrowing, joint libraries, consortia and other types of
collaborations and organizations.

Technology, including chapters on best practices, discussions of the
use of technology, and the scope of a corporate librarian’s job such
as what technological support they offer, web sites and internet
databases in relations to corporate librarianship, electronic
services.

Staffing, including human resources, continuing education,
professional networking, core competencies, management, routines

Communications, including articles regarding communications; for
example, with satellite offices, with overseas branches,
interdepartmental, computer mediated communication, and more.

Knowledge Management/ Organization, including topics covering how
Corporate Libraries manage data and knowledge and organize it, and
share it.

Special Issues This section will include articles about any special
issues pertaining to Corporate Librarianship, such as copyright and
other legal topics, especially those that are unique to corporate
librarianship.

Please send chapters or chapter proposals by May 25, 2009, through email to:

Paul and Sigrid Kelsey, editors
sigridkelsey@gmail.com

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THE 18TH ANNUAL WOMEN & SOCIETY CONFERENCE

Posted on May 14, 2009 | Leave a comment
 To be held OCTOBER 23RD & 24TH 2009  at Marist College, Poughkeepsie NY
Proposals and abstracts are being solicited for the 2009 Women & Society
Conference. This feminist conference is interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary, covering all aspects of women & gender being studied in the
academy. The conference mentors and models feminist inquiry/scholarship
for undergraduate students so joint faculty/student papers and excellent
student papers are also considered, undergraduates may attend at no cost.
As 2009 marks the 125th anniversary of Eleanor Roosevelt’s birth, the
Women and Society Conference is pleased to announce the 2009 keynote
speaker Robin Gerber.
Gerber’s acclaimed Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless
Strategies From the First Lady of Courage focuses on the continuing need
for women to take on more leadership roles and draws on the values,
tactics, and beliefs that enabled Eleanor to bring about transformational
change in her own time.
For more information about Robin Gerber and her books visit

The 2009 Women in Society Conference would like to encourage the submission
of any papers,
workshops, or panels dealing with Eleanor Roosevelt or the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. A special part of the conference will be
dedicated to all presentations dealing with these topics.
CALL FOR PAPERS
For more information or to see programs from other years please visit :

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Please send your 250 word abstract with a brief bio by July 17th 2009
Papers, workshops, roundtables and panels are welcome. For panel
submissions please
include abstracts and bios for all participants, with one contact person.
Please include all contact information–including home and e-mail addresses
for summer
Online submissions go to :
Snail Mail correspondence to:
Women & Society Conference c/o JoAnne Myers
Fontaine 315
School of Liberal Arts
Marist College Poughkeepsie, NY 12601

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Mellen Encyclopedia of Infanticide

Posted on May 13, 2009 | Leave a comment
The following entries are needed for the Mellen Encyclopedia of Infanticide
 

The number of words is in parentheses following the entries:
 

A   Apartheid (250)

B   Birth order (500)

C   Caribbean (1000);

D   Darfur, murder of infants (250); Darwinism (500); Denial of pregnancy (500)

F    Freud, Sigmund (250)

H   Hugo, Victor (250)

I     Indigenous peoples in North America (1000); Infant depositories (750); Infant mortality rates (500)

K   Korea (750)

L    Literary fiction (750)

P    Pacific Islands (500); Poor farms (500); Prostitution (500)

S    Sex ratio (500); Sex selection (250); Slavery (750); South America (1000); Suicide (500)

 

 

 

Co-editors: Brigitte Bechtold (Department of Sociology, Central Michigan University; becht1bh@cmich.edu <mailto:becht1bh@cmich.edu> ) and Donna Cooper Graves (Department of History and Philosophy, University of Tennessee at Martin; dgraves@utm.edu <mailto:dgraves@utm.edu> ).

 

This one-volume specialized encyclopedia, to be published by the Edwin Mellen Press, will be devoted to the topic of infanticide across human history and in its worldwide context. While remaining accessible to the general public, this interdisciplinary encyclopedia is aimed primarily at college students, scholars in related fields, and professionals. All will be signed by their authors, who will also receive individual bylines in the volume.

 

*       Identify the entries you are interested in submitting via email to both co-editors.
*       Include an attachment in Windows 97-2003 of your 2-page CV, with your academic affiliation, and areas of research and teaching.
*       Entries of 250, 500 or 750 words are due preferably July1, 2009. Entries of 1000 words are due preferably  July 15, 2009.
*       The number of references per entry is as follows: 3 for entries of 250 words; 4 for entries of 500 words; 5 for entries of 750 words, and 7 for entries of 1000 words.
*       At most one internet source should be included per entry.

 

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ACRL New Members Discussion Group

Posted on May 13, 2009 | Leave a comment
The ACRL New Members Discussion Group invites the submission of proposals for presentation at its meeting at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL on Saturday, July 11, 2009. The ACRL New Members Discussion Group is for new (and aspiring) academic librarians. We meet twice a year­at both ALA conferencess­to chat about whatever is on our minds. It’s an opportunity for networking and a friendly place to ask any questions you have about succeeding in ACRL. Presenters at this meeting have the opportunity to contribute to the professional development of other academic librarians, gain conference presentation experience, and build their CV. Our meeting topic for the conference is The Publication Process: Getting Published in LIS Journals. We are interested in presentations that share personal experiences with the publication process, that will help new and aspiring academic librarians gain a better understanding of the various steps that are involved in this process. We seek proposals for presentations that address this topic from a variety of angles, including (but not limited to): •    Planning a systematic research program •       The puublication process: Generating topics, writing up and submitting the manuscript, working with an editor, responding to reviewers, etc.   Targeting various journals for publication •    What to do if your manuscript is not acccepted The ACRL New Members Discussion Group meeting will take place on Saturday, July 11, 2009, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Presenters should plan to speak for 10 minutes and allow 5 minutes for questions/discussion. There will be three presentations. Following the presentations, we will open the floor for discussion on the topic, or we can answer your questions about getting involved in national activities and/or academic librarianship in general. Proposals are due by June 8, 2009. Notification of acceptance will be made by June 15, 2009. Please include the following information in your proposal: 1.   A cover sheet with your name, title, institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone number, and email address. 2.    A second sheet that contains no identifying information and includes the title and a 200-300 word description of your presentation. The description should clearly identify the topic of your presentation, your personal experience with this topic, and how your presentation will contribute to new and aspiring librarians’ understanding of the publication process. 3. Keep in mind that there will be no use of technology for these presentations. Feel free to bring handouts if you’d like to provide a list of further reading, etc. Please submit proposal by email to Merinda Hensley (ACRL Convener) at mhensle1@illinois.edu. For an archive of past messages from the ILI listserv, visit: http://lists.ala.org/wws/arc/ili-l.

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Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy

Posted on May 7, 2009 | Leave a comment

The editors of Transformations seek articles (5,000 � 10,000 words), media reviews (books, film, video, performance, art, music, etc. � 3,000 to 5,000 words), and photo-essays that explore nation in a variety of pedagogical contexts and from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Topics might include:

Defining, defending, crossing national borders; Conceptualizing and contesting ideas of nation in the classroom;  Courses on Im/migration and/or emigration; Pedagogical approaches to nation, identity, citizenship, and language;  Globalization, economics and labor; diaspora, transnationalism, exile; Nations, states, nation-states; Colonialism, post-colonialism and nation; Nation and communities;  Nation, race-ethnicity, religion, class, gender, and sexuality;    National conflict and cooperation; Nationalism, patriotism, xenophobia in the classroom; Articulating and representing cultural identities; Teaching indigeneity and sovereignty.
 
Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary forum for pedagogical scholarship exploring intersections of identities, power, and social justice. The journal features a range of approaches � from theoretical articles to creative and experimental accounts of pedagogical innovations from teachers and scholars from all areas of education.

Send submissions or inquiries in MLA format as attachments in MS Word or Rich Text format to: transformations@njcu.edu. Author(s) name and contact information should be included on a SEPARATE page.  For submission guidelines go to: www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations.

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