Monthly Archives: October 2012

LCTS-CaMMS Cataloging Norms Interest Group

LCTS- CaMMS Cataloging Norms Interest Group invites speakers to participate at the ALCTS- CaMMS CNIG session, ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013 at 10:30-11:30 AM. 
 
The mission of the CaMMS Cataloging Norms Interest Group is to offer a forum for the exploration, communication, and exchange of ideas and best practices on the dynamics of cataloging/metadata norms and workflows in the hybrid environment.
 
Presentation topics should be of current interest to catalogers, cataloging managers and administrators.
 
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
    
 
–Evolution, definition, and functions of the catalog and cataloging norms
–Emerging concepts and implementations of “next generation catalogs”
–Cataloging in hybrid and digital libraries
–Changes in catalogers’ workflows
–Quality control and benchmarking
–How end users’ expectations and behaviors affect cataloging norms
–Metadata records and elements in different contexts
–The impact of web norms on cataloging norms from the perspectives of web developers and catalogers
–Cataloging education/continuing education
–RDA: Integration of records, training
Presentations should be approximately 15-20 minutes in length. Additional time will be allowed for questions and discussion.  Please send abstracts of proposals to co-chairs by Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012.  If you have questions, please contact us.  We look forward to hearing from you!
 
Cataloging Norms Co-Chairs:
 
Ophelia Payne
Faculty/Principal Cataloging Coordinator, University of Virginia Co-Chair, ALCTS CaMMS Cataloging Norms Interest Group – omp2w@virginia.edu
 
Karen Sigler
Special Collections Cataloger, Texas State University-San Marcos Co-Chair, ALCTS CaMMS Cataloging Norms Interest Group �- ks10@txstate.edu
 
 

Academic Publication and Contingent Faculty

Book Proposal: Academic Publication and Contingent Faculty
Editors: Lynée Lewis Gaillet and Letizia Guglielmo

Many publication manuals and writing guides targeted to graduate students and young professionals are currently on the market, particularly given the media attention focused on the ubiquitous “crises is scholarly publication”; however, current publications neither fully account for the range of academic positions often characterized as “other” nor offer comprehensive discussions of publishing scenarios coupled with practical advice for novice scholars. Nontraditional, hybrid, contingent faculty positions proliferate the academic landscape in the wake of economic downturn–with no resolution or plans for returning to “status quo” in sight. We see as our target audience, a range of professionals who seek advancement, including graduate students, lecturers and instructors, academic professionals in non-tenure track positions, adjunct instructors, junior academic program directors, and distance learning instructors among others.

We seek proposals addressing the current protean nature of faculty positions and offering concrete advice for maintaining a research and publishing agenda, even without department (financial or professional) support. Although the nature and look of publishing is shifting, the admonishment to “publish or perish” is still relevant; publications equal cultural currency in academia and often provide the means for purchasing advancement.

While we do not limit the scope and direction of proposed essays, we especially welcome proposals that explore:

• Publishing opportunities for advancement in a variety of fields
• Professional development opportunities that led to personal advancement
• Frustrations and experiences being “passed over” for lack of publishing
• Workshop and faculty development ideas for empowering contingent faculty
• Hiring (and firing) practices at various institutions
• Experiences with digital publication or non-traditional venues for publication
• Strategies for successful collaboration in publishing or professional development
• Experiences with IRB approval and research with human subjects
• Strategies for enacting and making public the scholarship of administration
• Strategies for securing grants for scholarship or professional development
• Alternate funding opportunities for scholarship or professional development
• Intellectual property issues, especially in online learning and digital course content
• Experiences developing and/or hosting in-house (departmental) or local conferences
• Connections between professional service and scholarship
• Creative discoveries of scholarship opportunities and topics for research

Proposals for essays should include: a 350-500 word abstract, a 100 word bio for each author, and complete contact information. Essays must be previously unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere.

Please send proposals and contact information to both editors by November 5, 2012:

Lynée Lewis Gaillet lgaillet@gsu.edu and Letizia Guglielmo lgugliel@kennesaw.edu

Letizia Guglielmo, PhD
Associate Professor, English
Assistant Director of Composition
Department of English MB 2701
Kennesaw State University
1000 Chastain Road
Kennesaw, GA 30144
Office 770-423-6764

The Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians: “Social Entrepreneurship in Action”

 

Call for Proposals


As David Bornstein and Susan Davis succinctly define, “Social entrepreneurship is a process by which citizens build or transform institutions to advance solutions to social problems, such as poverty, illiteracy, environmental destruction, human rights abuses and corruption, in order to make life better for many.”*  At the third “Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians,” sponsored by the libraries at Wake Forest University and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, we will explore the paths by which librarians have engaged in social entrepreneurship to promote social change in their communities and beyond.  

This conference will provide a forum to:

  • Share and celebrate the social entrepreneurial accomplishments of librarians and information professionals
  • Inspire each other to innovate and promote change
  • Create a community to promote entrepreneurial practices

We seek presentations from librarians and information professionals about projects that have transformed library services or have provided solutions to social problems. The successful presentation could include:

  • An innovative approach that used social entrepreneurship to fill an unmet need or promoted change
  • A description of how a solution was designed and implemented
  • A discussion of lessons learned and what could have been done differently
  • A description of the keys to a successful project
  • A tone that inspires social entrepreneurship, no matter how small the project

The conference will feature keynote addresses from noted professionals in our field:

         Mandy Henk, Librarian at The People’s Librarian, Occupy Wall Street, as well as the Coordinator of Access Services at DePauw University.

         Brian Mathews, Associate Dean for Learning and Outreach at Virginia Tech’s University Libraries.  Creator of the popular blog, “The Ubiquitous Librarian,” Mathews recently wrote “Think Like a Startup: A White Paper to Inspire Library Entrepreneurialism.”

         Michael Porter, President of Library Renewal, a non-profit organization dedicated to finding equitable ways for library users to access electronic content.

 


Conference dates and location:


May 16 & 17, 2013 on the campus of the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

 

For more information please see the conference web page.


Formats:

Presentations may be made in one of two formats:

  • One-hour break-out sessions with 45 minutes for presenting and 15 minutes for Q&A.  These may be panels or single presenters.  Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 250 words.
  • Five minute “lightning rounds” with time for Q&A after all have presented.  Only a microphone will be provided so be prepared without visual aids!  Proposals should include a description of 25-50 words.


Submission Deadline:


Proposals will be accepted until November 1, 2012.  Please
click here for the submission form.


For more information, contact:
Kathryn Crowe kmcrowe@uncg.edu
Mary Beth Lock lockmb@wfu.edu

*in Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know, New York: Oxford UP, 2010.

Peer Reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO)

The Peer Reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO) Committee of the ACRL Instruction Section invites you to submit your online information literacy tutorial, virtual tour, or other online library instruction project for review and possible inclusion in PRIMO: Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online.

***Deadlines for Fall 2012***

Nominations: October 31, 2012

Submissions: November 14, 2012

Additional information about PRIMO, as well as the submission and nomination forms, is available from the following link:

 http://www.ala.org/acrl/aboutacrl/directoryofleadership/sections/is/iswebsite/projpubs/primo

Site submissions for PRIMO are accepted continually, but are reviewed for possible inclusion twice per year.   If you would like to submit your own project for consideration, please use the Submission form rather than the Nomination form.  For further information, please contact committee co-chairs Duffy Tweedy at dtweedy@ucsd.edu or Ben Oberdick at oberdic1@mail.lib.msu.edu

**Important note**

All submissions will be acknowledged shortly after the submission deadline. If you submit a project for review and do not receive an acknowledgment after the submission deadline, please contact the PRIMO co-chairs with a request for verification.

Duffy Tweedy
PRIMO Co-chair
dtweedy@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-4810

Benjamin Oberdick
PRIMO Co-chair
oberdic1@mail.lib.msu.edu
517-884-0895

SITE 2013

Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education

March 25-29, 2013
New Orleans, Louisiana

 

The Conference invites proposals from the introductory through advanced

level on all topics related to:

(1) the use of information technology in teacher education, and

(2) instruction about information technology in

• Preservice • Graduate Teacher Education

• Inservice • Faculty & Staff Development

Proposals which address the theory, research and applications as well as

describe innovative projects are encouraged.

 

Presentation Categories

The Technical Program includes a wide range of interesting and useful activities

designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information.

• Keynote Speakers • Invited Panels/Speakers

• Full & Brief Papers • Panels

• Best Practices Session • Roundtables

• Posters/Demonstrations • Corporate Demos/Literature

• Corporate Showcases • Workshops

• Symposia • Virtual Brief Papers

• Virtual Showcases • Virtual Corporate Presentations

Proposals which address the theory, research and applications as well

as describe innovative projects are encouraged.

For more information go to” http://site.aace.org/conf/call.htm

Virtual conference proposals http://site.aace.org/conf/vp/

 

 

Researching the Reading Experience

Consider the following call for papers for a small scholarly conference to feature research about the reading experience. Our colleagues at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences will host the conference next summer, 11-12 June 2013. As the deadline for abstracts is December 1, we would appreciate your help in getting the call out. 
You can find more information about the conference call here: http://www.hioa.no/Forskning/FoU-SAM/konferanser/Researching-the-Reading-Experience

ACRL 2013: Cyber Zed Shed Call for Proposals

Are you a tech savvy librarian using new technologies in innovative ways to help your students and faculty? Adapting existing technologies to reach user needs? Here is an opportunity to share your innovations with your colleagues, library administrators, and others at ACRL 2013 in Indianapolis. The Cyber Zed Shed Committee is looking for proposals that document technology-related innovations in every area of the library. Cyber Zed Shed presentations provide an opportunity to share ideas that can inspire your colleagues to incorporate a new technology in their library or find a new application for an existing technology to address new and old problems in various library environments:

  • teaching in a classroom
  • providing answers to questions from patrons
  • acquiring, cataloging, processing or preserving materials
  • providing other library services

Cyber Zed Shed presentations are 20 minutes, with 15 minutes to present a demonstration, and five additional minutes for audience questions. Presentations should document technology-related innovations in academic and research libraries. A computer, data projector, screen, microphone, and stage will be provided. You will be responsible for bringing all other equipment required for your demonstration, except as agreed to in advance. 

We invite you to submit your most innovative proposals. Submissions are due by November 9, 2013 and may be submitted via the online form available in the Call for Participation

Questions should be directed to Margot Conahan at mconahan@ala.org or call (312) 280-2522.

2013 ACRL CyberZed Shed Committee:

Lynn Sutton, Wake Forest University, (Co-Chair)
Arlene Salazar, Texas State University, (Co-Chair)
Meg Atwater-Singer, University of Evansville
Roy Degler, Oklahoma State University
Courtney Hoffner, UCLA
Sue McFadden, Indiana University East
Kathy Ray, University of Nevada Reno
Jacqueline Sipes, George Mason University
Danielle Skaggs, Danielle, CSU Northridge
Rosalind Tedford, Wake Forest University
Rhianna Williams, Michigan Technological University

 

 

Research and Statistics Committee of the Reference Services Section of RUSA

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS


The Research and Statistics Committee of the Reference Services Section of RUSA invites the submission of research projects for presentation at the 19th Reference Research Forum at the 2013 American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago, IL.


The Reference Research Forum continues to be one of the most popular and valuable programs during the ALA Annual Conference, where attendees can learn about notable research projects conducted in the broad area of reference services such as user behavior, electronic services, reference effectiveness and assessment, and organizational structure and personnel. All researchers, including reference practitioners from all types of libraries, library school faculty and students, and other interested individuals, are encouraged to submit a proposal.


For examples of projects presented at past Forums, please see the Committee’s website: http://connect.ala.org/node/187004


The Committee employs a blind review process to select three projects for 20-minute presentations, followed by open discussion. Selected submissions must be presented in person at the Forum in Chicago, IL.


Criteria for selection:


• Quality and creativity of the research design and methodologies;

• Significance of the study for improving the quality of reference service;

• Potential for research to fill a gap in reference knowledge or to build on previous studies;

• Research projects may be in-progress or completed;

• Previously published research or research accepted for publication will not be accepted.


Proposals are due by Monday, December 31, 2012. Notification of acceptance will be made by Monday, February 11, 2013. The submission must not exceed two pages. Please include:


1. A cover sheet including your name(s), title(s), institutional affiliation(s), mailing address(es), fax number(s) and email address(es).


2. The second page should NOT show your name, any personal information, or the name of your institution. Instead, it must include:


a. Title of the project;

b. Explicit statement of the research problem;

c. Description of the research design and methodologies used, and preliminary findings if any;

d. Brief discussion of the unique contribution, potential impact, and significance of the research.


Please send submissions by email to:


Lynda Duke

Chair, RUSA RSS Research and Statistics Committee

lduke@iwu.edu

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE IETC 2013

KUALA LUMPUR – MALAYSIA

13-15 May                  2013

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Call for papers

IETC 2013 seeks a diverse and comprehensive program covering all areas of educational technology. The program includes a wide range of activities designed to facilitate the exchange of expertise, experience, and resources with your colleagues. These include keynote and invited talks, full and brief paper presentations, panels, and round table discussion sessions.

 

We would like to invite you to share your experience and your papers with academicians, teachers and professionals. 

 

Conference Language

The official languages of the conference are English, Turkish and Malay Language. Proposals can be sent and be presented in either language. But all submission proccess will be done in English. Please, submit your proposal according to the following presentation category descriptions in paper guidelines.

 

Conference Venue

IETC 2013 will be held at University of Malaya, Faculty of Education in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Deadlines

Abstract Deadline : Until May 6, 2013

Full Article Deadline : Until May 8, 2013

Registration Fee Deadline : Until May 6, 2013


 

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Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU) 2013

WILU 2013 marks the 42nd year of the Workshop for Instruction in Library Use, the Canadian-based conference on teaching and learning in a library context.

Call for Proposals

The WILU Programming Committee invites proposals to be considered for presentation at WILU 2013 (lib.unb.ca/WILU). The Conference will be held at The University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, May 8-10, 2013.

As Canada’s oldest English-language university, UNB carries its traditions into all opportunities and innovations. The theme for WILU 2013 is Synchronicity: The Time is Now and it reflects the increasing need for Instruction Librarians to balance a myriad of seemingly competing demands. We invite proposals that consider what it means to provide timely information literacy programs in a world of synched devices, decentralized instruction, and information overload, all while serving institutions in flux.

Possible  topics include

�      Merging tradition with innovation
�      Balancing educational theory with pedagogical practice
�      Providing instruction for interdisciplinary programs
�      Theorizing instructional technology
�      Distributed instruction
�      Information ethics
�      Open access resources for instruction
�      Literacies: information and beyond

 

** Deadline for proposal submissions is Monday, December 3rd, 2012.**

 

Types of Sessions:

Presentation Sessions

A forty-five (45) minute session grounded in formal research or applied practice, which includes a thirty-five (35) minute presentation and a ten (10) minute question/discussion period.

Ignite Talks

A five (5) minute presentation accompanied by twenty (20) slides which automatically advance every fifteen (15) seconds. Ignite talks promote awareness of a topic and foster conversation. They can focus on anything from quick tips to big picture thinking on an issue, and can be provocative, tangential, irreverent or just plain fun. Ignite Talks are part of a growing global tradition. More information about style and structure can be found at http://igniteshow.com/

Pre-Conference Workshops

A two-and-half (2.5) hour participatory workshop on one aspect of the theory, practice or social/political dynamics of library instruction. Venue will be assigned according to space and/or technology needs.

Submission Information

Please submit your proposal by Monday December 3rd, 2012. All proposals should be submitted using the WILU 2013 proposal submission form found online at  http://lib.unb.ca/WILU/program/proposals/  .  Potential presenters will be notified by January 31st, 2013. All presenters are responsible for their own registration, travel and accommodation.

The Programming Committee will employ a blind selection process where all identifying information including the presenter’s name, institution and contact information will be excluded. Proposals will be evaluated based on originality, practicality, relevance to the conference theme, and contribution to the field.

Questions? Please email wilu2013@unb.ca

 
Lesley Balcom and Joanne Smyth

WILU 2013 Co-Chairs