Monthly Archives: September 2007

EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2008

New Directions in Higher Ed IT: Navigating the Course While Still Drawing the Map
Whether your focus is administrative services, information resources, teaching and learning, technology infrastructure, or management, you can benefit from attending the Sixth Annual EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference, March 17–19, 2008. Join us at the InterContinental Chicago to:

Hear from innovators and forward thinkers about current and emerging best practices in higher education information services

Connect with others in positions similar to yours to exchange experiences and explore ways to tackle common challenges

Learn about what’s going on in the profession and at the institutions in your area
This year’s conference, “New Directions in Higher Ed IT: Navigating the Course While Still Drawing the Map,” will provide a rich agenda defining the rapidly evolving challenges facing information technology in higher education, including teaching and learning, infrastructure, security and compliance, and personnel management. The program will include keynote presentations from acknowledged experts who will provide the “big picture” on current issues, presentations highlighting practical solutions, and interactive discussion sessions to facilitate networking and sharing.

Preconference seminars begin the morning of March 17, with the full conference program March 17– 19, 2008. The program follows five key tracks:

Collaborate from Where You Are
IT Agility for a Constantly Changing Environment
IT Infrastructure: Adding Value and Helping Organizations Achieve Their Strategic Objectives
Technology to Support Learning
Corporate and Campus Solutions
Make the most of your visit to Chicago. The InterContinental Chicago Hotel is conveniently located on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, home to great shopping and restaurants.

Participate As a Presenter
Play an active part in this leading higher education IT conference—submit a presentation proposal for the 2008 Midwest Regional Conference. You help create an innovative and informative program, make valuable contacts, and gain recognition for yourself and your institution’s achievements. The deadline for submissions is November 5 , 2007.

For more information go to http://www.educause.edu/mwrc08

EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2008

Empowering Community Through Technology

Whether your focus is administrative services, information resources, teaching and learning, technology infrastructure, or management, you can benefit from attending the Eighth Annual EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference, February 20–22, 2008. Join us at the Four Seasons Hotel Houston:

Hear from innovators and forward thinkers about current and emerging best practices in higher education information services

Connect with others in positions similar to yours to exchange experiences and explore ways to tackle common challenges

For more information go to http://www.educause.edu/swrc08

Learn about what’s going on in the profession and at the institutions in your area
This year’s conference, “Empowering Community Through Technology,” will explore the convergence of technology throughout the higher education environment. Whether your focus is faculty or staff, technical or functional, this conference will offer a variety of opportunities for you to learn about and share with colleagues technological changes and uses on campuses in your region.

Preconference seminars begin the morning of February 20, with the full conference program February 20–22, 2008. The program follows four key tracks:

Empowering Our Teaching and Learning Communities
Leading the Charge for Change
Making IT work – the confluence of technology, people, and expectations
Corporate and Campus Solutions
Make the most of your visit to Houston. The Four Seasons Hotel Houston is conveniently located downtown with quick access to a variety of local attractions and restaurants.

Participate As a Presenter
Play an active part in this leading higher education IT conference—submit a presentation proposal for the 2008 Southwest Regional Conference. You help create an innovative and informative program, make valuable contacts, and gain recognition for yourself and your institution’s achievements. The deadline for submissions is October 10 , 2007.

Maine Women Writers Collection

Research Support Grant Program, 2007-8

The Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England in Portland, Maine, solicits applications for its Research Support Grant Program. These grants are intended for faculty members, independent researchers, and graduate students at the dissertation stage who are actively pursuing research that requires or would benefit from access to the holdings of the Maine Women Writers Collection.

MWWC Research Support Grants will range between $250 and $1000, and may be used for transportation, housing, and research-related expenses.

For application instructions and more information about the program and the Collection holdings, please see the MWWC website at www.une.edu/mwwc and click on “research.”

Questions may be directed to Cally Gurley, MWWC Curator, at (207) 221-4324; cgurley@une.edu.

Deadline for receipt of applications: December 1, 2007.

The Maine Women Writers Collection, Abplanalp Library, Westbrook College Campus of the University of New England, is a pre-eminent special collection of published and non-published literary, cultural and social history sources, by and about women authors, either native or residents of Maine.

DOCAM ’08

The Document Academy Invites:

PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS

DOCAM ’08

March 28-29, 2008

University of Wisconsin-Madison
School of Library and Information Studies
Madison, Wisconsin USA

DOCAM ’08 is the fifth annual meeting of the Document Academy, an
international network of scholars, artists and professionals in various
fields interested in the exploration of the document as a useful
approach, concept and tool in Sciences, Arts, Business, and Society.

The aim of The Document Academy is to create an interdisciplinary space
for experimental and critical research on documents in a wide sense,
drawing on traditions and experiences around the world. It originated as
a co-sponsored effort by The Program of Documentation Studies,
University of Tromso, Norway and the School of Information, University
of California, Berkeley. For 2008, the University of Wisconsin-Madison
School of Library and Information Studies will be hosting the meeting.

The conference will run from 9 AM Friday, March 28, to 5 PM Saturday,
March 29. In order to keep the open-ended discussion atmosphere of
previous DOCAMs alive along with a growing number of participants, we
have decided to have only plenary sessions and a relatively limited, but
well-selected number of presentations.

Call for proposals:

Scholars, developers, artists and practitioners working with document
research and development are invited to submit proposals for full and
short papers for plenary sessions and exhibits by December 1, 2007.

Full papers (6,000-7,500 words) for plenary sessions will address these
themes:

– DOCUMENT THEORY (general issues)
– DOCUMENT ANALYSIS (case-studies and methodological issues)

Short papers (2,400-3,600 words) for plenary sessions will focus on

– DOCUMENT RESEARCH (theory, methods, case-studies)

Each author or group of authors of FULL papers will have 45 minutes for
their presentation, including discussion; authors or groups presenting
SHORT papers will be allotted 30 minutes. The order of presentations
will be arranged according to themes as much as possible.

Conference language is English. Conference organizers can provide an LCD
projector; other equipment is the responsibility of the presenter.

All proposals must include:

*Description:

– a short (500 words) verbal description of the work to be presented
– Explanation of how the work will be presented (verbal presentation,
PowerPoint, video, performance, etc.; and any equipment needs)

*Names of all contributors,
*Addresses, including email contacts and
*Up to 5 keywords

Proposals should be submitted electronically to Catherine Arnott Smith
at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of
Wisconsin-Madison (casmith24@wisc.edu). Please include “DOCAM 2008” in
the subject line of all correspondence, including proposal submission.
File format: RTF or PDF

Submission deadline for proposals: 11:59 PM, December 1st, 2007

Receipt will be confirmed within one week. Decisions will be announced
no later than January 15, 2008.

Final deadline for accepted full papers: 11:59 PM, March 1st, 2008.

For more information contact the co-chairs of Docam 2008:

Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
600 N. Park Street
Madison, WI 53706

(608) 890-1334
fax: (608) 263-4849
casmith24@wisc.edu

Prof. Niels Windfeld Lund
Documentation Studies
University of Tromsø
NO-9037 Tromsø, Norge

Tel: +47- 776 46284
niels.windfeld.lund@hum.uit.no


Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Studies
Room 4263 Helen C. White Hall
600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 890-1334
Fax: (608) 263-4849

Thirteenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference

The Call for Participation for the Thirteenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference is an open invitation to present your research, your knowledge and your experience to your peers. All professional, faculty, administrative and staff members who are involved in providing library services for students in non-traditional settings are invited to submit a paper. The proceedings will be printed in the Journal of Library Administration and as a separate volume by Haworth Press.

SUBJECT TRACK

Research
Surveys, assessment, statistics, theories, overviews

Teaching and learning
Methods, strategies, models, one-on-one, classroom

Electronic information and delivery
E-books, databases, web technology, virtual reference

Collaboration
Librarian, faculty, consortia, or other

Administration and support services
Program development, ILL, document delivery, reference management systems, collection development, budgets, staffing

FORMATS

Presentations should be planned for a fifty-five minute session including 10 minutes for questions. Written papers must have text (exclusive of graphs, charts, or references) over five pages in length and be formatted according to the APA Style Manuel. They should contain a reference list that shows you have researched your topic. Please specify on the Presentation Proposal form if you would be willing to present your session twice, which topic track you have chosen, the objective of your paper and the format that you will be using.

Workshops will last two hours. They will include hands-on learning for the participant. An abstract will be required for the program but no paper is required.

Panel discussions will include several speakers for a total of fifty-five minutes including 10 minutes for questions. A paper is required for the proceedings. See Presentations above.

Poster sessions are a visual display intermixed with narratives, tables, handouts and graphs. They may be print or in an electronic format or a mix of both. An electronic format will enable you to display web designs, instructional modules and other virtual resources. You will be required to set-up and host your display for an hour and 10 minutes and provide an abstract for the program. No written paper is required.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Complete the proposal form with a 500 word maximum abstract that describes your proposed presentation, workshop or poster session. DO NOT INCLUDE institutional or personal identification in the abstract. Each submission will be acknowledged.
The deadline for submission is September 30, 2007. All presenters will be notified regarding their proposal status by October 31, 2007. The written paper will be due January 5, 2008.
Successful presenters need to complete all forms and read the standards and manuscript guidelines for the printed proceedings on the conference web site under Presenters.

EVALUATION AND ACCEPTANCE

The OCLS Conference Program Advisory Board members will be provided with blind copies of the proposal abstracts. Presenter and institutional identification will not be supplied or will be deleted if it is included in the text. Proposals will be evaluated based on their relevance to the interests of the attendees, contribution to the body of knowledge associated with the field of off-campus library services in distance education and their clarity of expression. Program balance and room space will also be considered in paper selection.

For more information:
http://ocls.cmich.edu/conference/call.htm

International Journal of Doctoral Studies

International Journal of Doctoral Studies (IJDS) (http://ijds.org/) is an academically peer reviewed journal. All submissions are blind refereed by three or more peers. Papers accepted for publication by IJ! DS appear online as accepted. Papers published online at http://ijds.org/, are available to colleagues around the world without charge and without regard to membership. Papers are also printed annually in print and on CD.
IJDS, an official publication of the Informing Science Institute (ISI), is now accepting submissions for Volume 3 (2008). !

Mission:

The mission of the IJDS is to provide readers worldwide with high quality peer-reviewed scholarly articles on a wide variety of issues in doctoral studies using the Informing Science (IS) framework. The editorial objective of IJDS is the facilitation of knowledge enhancement related to doctoral studies in areas ! such as (but not limited to): informing science, information systems, information technology, information science, information security, and IT education. IJDS especially encourages publications authored by faculty members who actively supervise doctoral students. Joint publications between faculty members and their doctoral students are also encouraged.

Coverage:

IJDS is an interdisciplinary forum that publishes high quality articles on theory, practice, innovation, and research that cover all aspects of doctoral studies. Book reviews are also welcome. Authors may use body of knowledge from business, information systems, computer science, education, psychology, engineering, anthropology, and such. Reviews of book related to the IJDS missions are also of interest. In additio! ns to the topics mentioned above, other topics of interest to IJDS include (but not limited) to the following:

Admissions Criteria
Online Doctoral Programs
Advisement
Oral Defense
Attrition and Persistence
Outcomes Assessment
Career Path and Employment
Practitioner Doctorate
Climate and Support for Doctoral Study
Public Policy and Doc Studies
Comparative Studies (e.g. U.S. versus EU models)
Research Assistant
Comprehensive Exams
Research Competence
Copyright and Intellectual Property
Research Doctorate
Dissertation Committee
Research Ethics
Diversity
Research Grants
Doctoral Faculty Qualifications
Research Methods and Traditions
Family Support
Residency Requirement
Historical and Philosophical Foundations of DS
Structure of Doctoral Programs
Innovative Doctoral Programs
Writing Skills
Statistical Skills, and Computer Skills

Please consider submitting a well-developed paper to IJDS. To view the author’s guidelines, references style, and paper submission process, please visit http://www.ijds.org/submit.html.

Society for Disability Studies 21st Annual Conference

Society for Disability Studies 21st Annual Conference
New York City, June 18-22, 2008
?Cosmopolitan? Disability Studies Crips the City?
Submission Deadline: 1 December 2007

As Disability Studies becomes more aware of the boundaries of its own
discourses, we want to explore critically the lands of its origins,
the limits of its imagination, and the challenges of experiencing
wider space. Bodies, ideas, and words travel across borders, negotiate
restricted space and resistance, and become transformed as they
journey. How do notions of disability, Disability Studies, and
disability culture shift in these travels? Who participates in these
travels and who is denied entrance? How is space produced, enacted,
and lived in by disabled people? How are local life worlds configured
in space? What is at stake in seeing ourselves as citizens of a more
complex world in which multiple, simultaneous identities are engaged
in transit and dialogue?

New York, this city of immigrants, is the staging ground for the 2008
SDS conference. Thus, many cherished American ideas are up for grabs:
melting pots and assimilation, the energy of new beginnings, the
emergence of undergrounds and renaissances, beliefs in rugged
individualism and transnational capitalism, mechanisms of control and
security, and architectures of access. As we imagine disability and
disability studies in this iconic location, we ask, What are our Ellis
Islands, our Statues of Liberty, our Grand Central Stations, our
Stonewalls? Where are our Christopher Streets, our Broadways, our
Greenwich Villages?

How might New York City, a site both global and local, guide our
understandings of disability and Disability Studies from international
and transnational perspectives? How might such multiple locations in
turn illuminate, enrich, and challenge disability experiences and
Disability Studies within the United States? What are the assumptions
at work in casting New York as a cosmopolitan city, and to what
effect? What does it mean to imagine cosmopolitanism?evoking the city
without borders, people as citizens of the world?from disability
perspectives? How might notions of the city, cosmopolitanism, and the
urban produce Disability Studies scholarship that speaks to applied
disciplines and theoretical examinations of identity, citizenship,
space, and authenticity?

We invite proposals from any field that examine the ways in which
disability and urban issues intersect; engage the mobility of metaphor
and the refiguration of space; and/or explore the ways in which
Disability Studies shifts and translates in application to specific
sites and communities. Potential topics include:

? Public Health
? Violence, War, and Terror
? Mobility and Metaphor
? Housing, Home, and Homelessness
? Access and Spatiality
? Immigration and Translation
? Education
? Globalization and Transnational Critique
? Artistic Practices, Cultural Production, and Crip Culture
? History and Memory
? Categorization and Citizenship
? Public Policy in the Global City
? Bodies and Borders
? Surveillance and Security, Visibility and Invisibility
? Activist Communities, Strategies, and Identities
? Architectural Mappings and Geographical Textures
? Pollution, Garbage, and Environmental Devastation

SDS invites activists, artists, and scholars to submit proposals for
all work in progress in Disability Studies. We welcome
interdisciplinary proposals that bring together scholars in different
fields or using different methodologies, embodying the kinds of
translation and movement evoked in this year?s theme. Work can be
submitted in a variety of formats, including workshops, paper
presentations, poster sessions, performances, video/DVD recordings,
etc. For the 2008 conference, we also would like to introduce new
seminar slots for the discussion of shared readings, pre-circulated
papers, or other focused topics.

Accessibility in presentations is central to the philosophy of SDS.
Presenters should explore ways to make physical, sensory, and
intellectual access a fundamental part of their presentation. All
presenters are required to, at minimum, provide e-text versions of
papers in advance of the conference (for open captioning), large-print
hard copies (18 point font or larger) of all handouts, hard copies or
outlines of their talks in 12 point and 18 point fonts, audio
description of visual images, charts, and video/DVDs, and open or
closed captioning of films and video clips. Presentations should also
be planned so that their delivery will accommodate open-captioning and
ASL translation. In order to facilitate ASL interpretation and open
captioning, drafts of accepted presentations will be due by 1 May
2008. If you have questions about making your presentation accessible,
please contact Alison Kafer at kafera@southwestern.edu or Petra
Kuppers at petra@umich.edu. Please note: English and ASL are the two
main languages in use at SDS; if you have other language needs, please
indicate such on your proposal and we will try to assist you in
obtaining accommodations.

For details on submission, please visit the SDS website
www.disstudies.org. Questions about the conference program or
submission process should be directed to Alison Kafer at
kafera@southwestern.edu or Petra Kuppers at petra@umich.edu.

Public Services Quarterly

Public Services Quarterly is currently soliciting manuscripts to be considered for upcoming issues. It also has an opening for the editor of the Best of the Literature column. The journal’s goal is to keep academic librarians in a variety of public service roles up to date with developments in the field. Public Services Quarterly covers the areas of reference and research assistance, information literacy and instruction, and access and delivery services and examines creative ways to use technology to provide your students and faculty with the support they need. Combining research findings and case studies with authoritative articles, the journal tracks the changing patterns in organizational and managerial structures to present new initiatives for expanding and improving library services. Each issue includes a number of columns filled with practical ideas and important resources. The columns are Technology, Marketing, Best of the Literature, Professional Reading, Future Voices in Public Services, and Internet Resources. Additional information can be found at http://tinyurl.com/38na7r

I hope that you will consider PSQ when you are writing an article related to public services in academic libraries. Submissions to PSQ are peer-reviewed, and instructions for authors are available through a link on the PSQ page. Please don’t hesitate to contact the editor if you have questions. Initial queries about an article topic are welcome. Please note that the article, when completed, is still subject to a complete editorial review. Also make sure that you include a cover page listing only the article title, as well as a second title page with the full information that is specified on the Instructions for Authors web page.

Column Editor Position Available: Currently, there is a vacancy for the editor of the Best of the Literature column. You can see examples of this column starting with volume 2 of the journal. If you are interested in applying, contact Wayne Bivens-Tatum, the current column editor, at rbivens@princeton.edu.

Trudi E. Jacobson, Editor, Public Services Quarterly, University Libraries, University at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave, Albany NY 12222; tjacobson@uamail.albany.edu; 518/442-3581.

Women in Information Science

CALL FOR PAPERS

Libraries & the Cultural Record – Special issue on Women in Information Science

GUEST EDITORS

Diane Barlow and Trudi Bellardo Hahn
College of Information Studies
University of Maryland
dbarlow@umd.edu, thahn@umd.edu

ISSUE FOCUS

This special issue will spotlight the lives and contributions of remarkable women pioneers in information science. Papers may be about women whose field of specialty and accomplishments fall in a wide variety of areas—documentation, classification, standards, information retrieval, library technologies, LIS education, social epistemology, information use, information policy, STI, or other. A paper may address a subject’s leadership, innovation, advocacy, research, or other significant contributions, and should place the subject historically in her social, cultural, and professional context. Further, bios should show the relationship of her particular specialty to the larger discipline.

Possible subjects for bios are Jean Antes, Henrietta Avram, Marcia Bates, Helen Brownson, Elfreda Chatman, Pauline Atherton Cochrane, Diana Crane, Susan Crawford, Edith Ditmas, Margaret Egan, Madeline (Berry) Henderson, Mary Herner, Karen Sparck-Jones, Barbara Kyle, Lotsee Patterson, Phyllis Richmond, Jane Robbins, Claire Schultz, Jean Tague-Sutcliffe, Winifred Sewell, and Martha Williams. These individuals are named as examples. We welcome papers on other women pioneers in information science as well.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please submit the name of the individual you wish to write on and a brief outline of your paper by October 7, 2007. Authors will be selected by October 19. Submit full papers (4,000-8,000 words) by March 15, 2008. Authors will receive reviews by May 1. Final papers will be due by June 15, 2008.

ANTICIPATED PUBLICATION: spring 2009

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Libraries & the Cultural Record is an interdisciplinary journal that explores the significance of collections of recorded knowledge–their creation, organization, preservation, and utilization–in the context of cultural and social history, unlimited as to time and place. It is the only journal that covers the broad history of the related disciplines and professions of the emerging Information Domain. For more information, see: www.ischool.utexas.edu/~lcr.

Samuel Lazerow Fellowship For Research in Collections and Technical Services in Academic and Research Libraries

http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlawards/samuellazerow.cfm

Samuel Lazerow led a distinguished career as a major contributor to the advancement of information technology at the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and the National Agriculture Library among others. He ended his career as Senior Vice-president at the Institute for Scientific Information.

This award fosters advances in collections or technical services by providing fellowships to librarians for travel or writing in those fields. Research projects in the compilation of bibliographies will not be supported by this fellowship.

Award
$1,000 cash and a citation donated by the Thomson Scientific.

Criteria
The proposals will be judged with an emphasis on the following:

Potential significance of the project to acquisitions or technical services work
Originality and creativity
Clarity and completeness of the proposal
Evidence of an interest in scholarship (previous publication record)
Application Procedure
Brief proposals (five pages or less, double-spaced) should include the following:

Description of research, travel, or writing project
Schedule for project
Estimate of expenses (e.g., travel, faxing, data analysis, computer time, photocopying, typing)
An up-to-date curriculum vitae should accompany proposal
Awardee Obligation
Recipients of the fellowship are required to submit a 6-10 page report of the results of their research to the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) within two months of the project’s completion. A 500-word summary for possible publication in C&RL News is also due at that time.

Submissions
Send eight (8) copies of the application to: Association of College and Research Libraries, Samuel Lazerow Fellowship, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611.

Submission Deadline: Postmarked by Friday, December 7, 2007

Information & Assistance
If you have questions or need help in compiling a nomination, please contact the award committee chair, Richard Bradberry, Dean, University Library, Bowie State University, Bowie, MD 20715, T: (310) 860-3849, E-mail: rbradberry@bowiestate.edu, or Megan Griffin, at (800)545-2433, ext. 2514, (312) 280-2514 or via e-mail at mgriffin@ala.org.

Previous Recipients
2007 – No recipient
2006 – Kyung-Sun Kim, “Factors Affecting the Selection of Information Sources.”
2005– Kristin R. Eschenfelder, “Investigating the Impact of Digital Rights Management Systems on Libraries: A Pilot Study.”
2004 – Karen M. Letarte and Jacqueline P. Samples for their research proposal entitled “Looking at FRBR Through Users’ Eyes: Toward Improved Catalog Displays for Electronic Serials.”
2003 – Katharine Farrell & Marc Truitt
2002 – Jeffrey Beall
2001 – Adam Chandler
2000 – Kyle Banerjee
1998 – Dilys E. Morris
1997 – Linda M. Golian
1996 – Jimmie Lundgren & Betsy Simpson
1995 – Karen A. Schmidt
1994 – Kuang-Hwei (Janet) Lee-Smeltzer
1992 – Eric A. Johnson
1990 – Terence K. Huwe
1989 – Robert H. Burger
1988 – Carol Kelley
1987 – Margaret Johnson
1985 – Anne L. Highsmith
1983 – Denise Bedford

Sponsorship provided by Thomson Scientific