Monthly Archives: October 2011

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 2011*** Nominations: October 31, 2011 Submissions: November 14, 2011 Additional information about PRIMO, as well as the submission and nomination forms, is available from the following link: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/about/sections/is/projpubs/primo/index.cfm Site submissions for PRIMO are accepted continually, but are reviewed for possible inclusion twice per year. For further information, please contact committee co-chairs David Wilson at dwilson3@austincc.edu and Duffy Tweedy at dtweedy@ucsd.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 that your submission was transmitted successfully. 

MOTHERING AND REPRODUCTION

CALL FOR PAPERS Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI) MOTHERING AND REPRODUCTION featuring an embedded conference on the topic of MOTHERING, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY October 18-20, 2012, Toronto, ON, Canada We welcome submissions from scholars, students, artists, mothers and others who research in this area. Cross-cultural and comparative work is encouraged. We are open to a variety of submissions including academic papers from all disciplines and creative submissions including visual art, literature, and performance art. This conference will examine the ethical, political, social/cultural, economic, historical, religious, spiritual, and psychological dimensions of reproduction and mothering. While the larger conference will be broad in its interpretation and engagement with the subject of 'Mothering and Reproduction', an embedded conference will be specific to exploring how mothers' decisions and experiences of reproduction and mothering have been/are influenced by science and technology. This Call For Papers is for both the larger conference, and the embedded one. Please feel free to submit to either, without necessarily specifying which you have in mind for your abstract/presentation. Topics may include but are not restricted to: Bioethics and fertility; abortion, birth control and assisted fertility in a cross cultural context; reproductive technologies and the interplay of religion; mothering in families of high order multiple births; mothering on the blogosphere; queer engagements with reproduction; motherhood and the technological womb; modern childbirth and maternity care; (mis)educative experiences teaching and learning about menstruation and reproduction; re/productive roles mothers play in de/constructing embodied understandings of reproduction; surviving tramautic birth experiences; mothers in academe/research; mothering and the workplace, how technology permeates the work/home barrier; attachment with adopted and biological children; birth plans; how science and technology inform social justice issues; assisted reproductive technologies, state policy, and federalism's impacts on women in the United States and around the world; reproductive decisions and a politics of location; impact of social media on opinions regarding reproduction; "mothering" from a distance; the experience of egg donation; mothers' changing relationship with "the experts" regarding birthing, infant care in the age of infectious diseases, baby books and birth control; reproductive rights and wrongs, including rise of contraceptive technology alongside state-coerced sterilization; mothering in the Information Age; maternalist political rhetoric in favor of labor rights; mothering bodies; pre and postnatal bodies and reconstructive surgery; eating disorders and reproduction; reproductive consciousness and politics of reproduction; outcomes associated with scientific/technological intervention; outsourcing of reproduction to developing nations; maternal and erotic/maternal eroticism; history of reproductive technologies; Indigenous mothers and mothering; cross-cultural perspectives on reproduction including reproductive technologies. Keynote Speakers TBA If you are interested in being considered as a presenter, please send a 250 word abstract and a 50-word bio by March 15th, 2012 to info@motherhoodinitiative.org ** TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT FOR THIS CONFERENCE, ONE MUST BE A MEMBER OF MIRCI http://www.motherhoodinitiative.org/membership.html Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI) 140 Holland St. West, PO Box 13022, Bradford, ON, L3Z 2Y5 (905) 775-9089 http://www.motherhoodinitiative.org info@motherhoodinitiative.org 

The Readers’ Advisory Research and Trends Forum

Call for Papers/Presentations

Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2012.

 

The RUSA/CODES Readers’ Advisory Research and Trends Committee invites submissions of presentations and/or papers for the 5th Readers’ Advisory Research and Trends Forum to be held in Anaheim, CA during ALA’s Annual Conference. The Forum will take place on Saturday, June 23rd from 10:30-12:00.

 

We invite papers or presentations on various responses to:

 

Browsing for Pleasure Reading in the Digital Age

 

All aspects of the topic, including information encountering, 2.0 applications, the intersection of human/computer guidance, ILS integration, the impact of ebook sites, and the implications for cataloging, reviewing, organizing, and searching data are welcome. As are other interpretations and approaches to the topic.

 

The committee employs a blind review process and will select three projects for 20-minute presentations.

 

To submit: Send an abstract of your paper or description of your presentation (up to 350 words) to: rusa.raforum@gmail.com by January 15, 2012. Please include on a separate cover sheet your name, title of presentation/paper, institutional affiliation, full contact information, and any technological needs. Include on your abstract ONLY the title of your presentation/paper.

 

Notification of acceptance will be made by February 27, 2012.

 

 

 

 

2012 International Conference on Information Resources Management

 ** Conf-IRM is an AIS Affiliated Conference ** WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria May 21-23, 2012 Conference Website: http://conf-irm2012.wu.ac.at ------------- Call for Papers ------------- Theme: Information Systems and Accountability in a Digital World Important Dates Submission deadline: December 6, 2011 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: February 1, 2012 Final Submission and Early Registration due date: March 1, 2012 The organizing committee invites you to submit your research work, teaching cases, and proposals for panels and tutorials to Conf-IRM. All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer reviewed. The review process will be handled by the track chairs and co-chairs. Conference Tracks & Track Chairs: 1 IT Evaluation, Decision Making and Compliance Alessio Ishizaka, University of Portsmouth, UK, Alessio.Ishizaka@port.ac.uk Volker Stix, WU Wien, Austria, Volker.Stix@wu.ac.at 2 IT Service Management, Service Computing and Engineering Rob Benyon, Rhodes University, South Africa, r.v.benyon@ru.ac.za Sue Conger, University of Dallas, USA, sconger@gsm.udallas.edu Alan Pilkington, RHUL, UK, a.pilkington@rhul.ac.uk 3 Green IS/IT Strategies and Technologies Roya Gholami, Aston Business School, UK, r.gholami@aston.ac.uk Petra Staufer-Steinocher, WU Wien, Austria, petra.staufer-steinnocher@wu.ac.at 4 Knowledge Management Pramila Gupta, CQU, Australia, p.gupta@mel.cqu.edu.au Alexander Kaiser, WU Wien, Austria, Alexander.Kaiser@wu.ac.at Annette Mills, UC, New Zealand, annette.mills@canterbury.ac.nz 5 ICT for Development Antonio D�az Andrade, AUT University, New Zealand, antonio.diaz@aut.ac.nz Luiz Antonio Joia, Brazilian School of Publ. & Bus. Admin. at Getulio Vargas Found., lajoia@w3e.com.br 6 ICT in Latin America and the Caribbean (including submissions in Spanish and Portuguese) Renata Lebre La-Rovere, UFRJ, Brazil, renataieufrj@gmail.com Cesar Alexandre de Souza, FEA-USP, Brazil, calesou@usp.br 7 Information Security, Privacy, and Risk Management Brian Cusack, AUT University, New Zealand, brian.cusack@aut.ac.nz Matthew Nicolas Kreeger, University of London & Thales IT Security, UK, matthew.kreeger@thales-esecurity.com Shaobo Ji, Carleton University, Canada, shaobo_ji@carleton.ca 8 ICT in Government, Education, and Healthcare Jose-Rodrigo Cordoba-Pachon, RHUL, UK, J.R.Cordoba-Pachon@rhul.ac.uk Andy Igonor, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Canada, andyi@nait.ca 9 E-Commerce, M-Commerce and Social Networking Zhang Cheng, Fudan University, China, zhangche@fudean.edu.cn George Ditsa, Tshwane Univ. of Techn., So. Africa, DitsaGE@tut.ac.za Maria Madlberger, Webster Univ., Austria, madlberger@webster.ac.at 10 Cloud Computing and Virtualization Daniel Beimborn, University of Bamberg, Germany, daniel.beimborn@uni-bamberg.de Konradin Maier, WU Wien, konradin.maier@wu.ac.at 11 Impacts of ICT on People, Organizations, and Society Jyoti Choudrie, University of Hertfordshire, UK, jyoti.choudrie@btopenworld.com Peijian Song, Nanjing University China, songpeijian@nju.edu.cn 12 Strategic IT Management and Governance Romano Dyerson, RHUL, UK, r.dyerson@rhul.ac.uk Tim McLaren, Ryerson University, Canada, tmclaren@ryerson.ca Geoffery Seaver, NDU, USA, Seaverg@ndu.edu 13 Design Thinking in Information Systems Development Marko Forsell, Central Ostrobothnia University of Applied Sciences, Finland, marko.forsell@cou.fi 14 IS Research Methods Johann Mitl�hner, WU Wien, Austria, mitloehn@wu-wien.ac.at Frantisek Sudzina, Aarhus University, Denmark, fransu@asb.dk PT Panels and Tutorials Roman Brandtweiner, WU Wien, Austria, roman.brandtweiner@wu.ac.at Lech Janczewski, University of Auckland, New Zealand, l.janczewski@auckland.ac.nz We also welcome papers in Spanish and Portuguese in track 6 (ICT in Latin America and the Carribean). All other submissions are only accepted in English. Submission Types and Guidelines: (i) Full Length Submissions Submissions must be no more than 5000 words, including references, appendices and title page, with a maximum of 5 figures/tables. Submissions must be original, and previously unpublished, conceptual or empirical research manuscript for review. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in their entirety upon payment of registration fees. Papers accepted and presented at the conference will also be placed in the AIS e-Library. Papers not presented at the conference, for any reason, will not be included in the AIS e-Library. Highly rated papers by the reviewers will be considered for publications in selected Journals. Moreover, the paper that best represents, in terms of quality and suitability to the theme and ideals of the conference will be awarded the "Best Paper Award" during the conference. (ii) Research-in-Progress Submissions Submissions of no more than 2000 words with a maximum of 3 figures/tables. All research-in-progress submissions will be published in the proceedings as short papers. (iii) Teaching Cases We welcome submissions of teaching cases. The cases should be based on real situations and targeted at specific learning objectives. Cases should be no more than 5000 words and must be accompanied by instructor teaching notes (not included in the 5000 words). The teaching notes will not be published. (iv) Panel and Tutorial Submissions Submissions of not more than 1000 words. Proposals should include the objectives, issues to be covered and full details of all presenters. Method of presentation is at the submitter's discretion; however, the submitter has the responsibility for providing his/her own panel members. All accepted proposals will appear in the conference proceedings (Please note that all panelists and tutorial presenters must register for the conference). Further Announcements - The number of submissions by an author (including joint authorship) is strictly limited to a maximum of two submissions. - Authors of accepted papers (at least one person per submission) and all panel members MUST register and attend the conference. - Submissions of ALL TYPES must be received by December 6, 2011. - Details of track descriptions and how to submit will be announced soon. Send all your inquiries to the Conference Secretariat (conf-irm@wu.ac.at) or directly to: Conference Co-Chairs Edward Bernroider, WU Wien, Austria, edward.bernroider@wu.ac.at G. Harindranath, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, g.harindranath@rhul.ac.uk Program Co-Chairs Roman Brandtweiner, WU Wien, Austria, roman.brandtweiner@wu.ac.at Lech Janczewski,University of Auckland, New Zealand, l.janczewski@auckland.ac.nz Publications and Proceedings Chair Lech Janczewski, University of Auckland, New Zealand, l.janczewski@auckland.ac.nz International Co-Chairs Gerald Grant, Carleton University, Canada, gerald_grant@carleton.ca Sherif Kamel, American University in Cairo, Egypt, skamel@aucegypt.edu Felix B Tan, AUT University, New Zealand, felix.tan@aut.ac.nz Administrative Co-Chairs Stefan Bauer, WU Wien, Austria, stefan.bauer@wu.ac.at Nikolaus Obwegeser, WU Wien, Austria, nikolaus.obwegeser@wu.ac.at Advisory Board Felix Hampe, University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz & Landau, Germany, hampe@uni-koblenz.de Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland, markus.helfert@computing.dcu.ie Stefan Koch, Bogazici University, Turkey, stefan.koch@boun.edu.tr We look forward to seeing you in Vienna in May 2012. Edward Bernroider and G. Harindranath 

Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian

Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian is now accepting manuscripts for volume
31:2. The submission deadline is November 30, 2011.

B&SS Librarian is a peer-reviewed, quarterly journal focusing on all aspects of
behavioral and social sciences information with emphasis on librarians,
libraries and users of social science information in libraries and information
centers including the following subject areas:

Anthropology
Business
Communication Studies
Criminal Justice
Education
Ethnic Studies
Political Science
Psychology
Social Work
Sociology
Women’s Studies

And the following areas of focus:
publishing trends
Technology
User behavior
Public service
Indexing and abstracting
Collection Development and evaluation
Library Administration/management
Reference and library instruction
Descriptive/critical analysis of information resources

Please consider Behavioral&  Social Sciences Librarian as the journal for your
publication.

The journal’s website includes Instructions to Authors at:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=0163-9269&linktype=44

Please send all submissions and questions to the editor at:
L-ROMERO@illinois.edu

Sincerely,
Lisa Romero

012 IEEE GREEN TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE

April 19-20, 2012 TULSA, OKLAHOMA, USA http://www.ieeegreentech.org/ *** SUBMISSION DEADLINE NOVEMBER 15 ** Submission Process Abstract and full paper submissions will be accepted beginning September 15, 2011 with a deadline for submission of November 15, 2011. A final version of a full paper must not exceed 6 pages, including all text, references, appendices and figures. Contributed papers, particularly in the following areas, are solicited: - Energy Generation & Storage Technologies including nuclear, wind, solar, water, geothermal, biomass, energy harvesting, and storage. - Energy Usage Reduction and Conservation including energy management, planning and forecasting, home and commercial automation, and innovative HVAC and lighting. - Architectural and Engineering Sustainable Designs including strategies for sustainability, performance evaluation, use of green building components, and green systems management. - Environmental, Legal, Social, Economic, and Political Impacts including emerging standards for renewable and reduced carbon emission energy sources, safety, technologies for developed and underdeveloped countries. - Smart Grid Communication and Control, Evolution and Integration of renewable and reduced emission energy sources. - Protection of the Environment, including oil spill prevention and control. - Green IT and Sustainable Computing including IT de-manufacturing and legitimate recycling, energy efficient IT solutions, network concepts and architectures for lowering energy consumption, energy efficient algorithms, sensor networks for climate and disaster monitoring, and power-aware software design and development. - Biofuels and Emerging Fuels Technology Generating combustion fuels from renewable sources such as algae, non-food plants, and vegetable oils. All accepted papers will be presented in oral sessions or poster sessions during the conference, 19-20 April at the Hilton Tulsa Southern Hills or at Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma. All presented papers will also be published through the digital library IEEE Xplore. For paper submission, please use EDAS Paper Submission Link below. http://edas.info/N11261 Submission Deadlines Paper Submission Deadline: November 15, 2011 Paper Acceptance/Declination Notice: January 4, 2012 For the latest information please check the Green Technologies Conference website http://www.ieeegreentech.org/ If you have any question contact: Sophie Liu, PhD Chair 2012 Green Technologies Conference slui@oru.edu 

8th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC’12) and the 9th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD’12)

We cordially invite you to submit a paper or invited session proposal to the upcoming 8th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC’12) and the 9th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD’12), to be jointly held from 29-31 May 2012, in Chongqing, China.

 

Renowned as the Mountain City, Chongqing is a magnet for visitors from home and abroad for its cultural heritage and numerous attractions. There are many karst caves, hot springs, and gorges in the area. Major tourist spots in and near Chongqing include Dazu Grottoes (rock carvings began in the Tang Dynasty 650 A.D.), Three Gorges, Jinyun Mountain Natural Reserve, Hongya Cave, Shibaozhai, Wulong Karst, etc..

 

All papers in the conference proceedings will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by both EI Compendex and ISTP as with the past ICNC-FSKD conferences. Extended versions of selected best papers will appear in an ICNC-FSKD special issue of an SCI-indexed journal  (ICNC’12: Conference Record Number 19846; IEEE Catalog Number CFP12CNC-ART; ISBN 978-1-4577-2133-5; FSKD’12: Conference Record Number 19847; IEEE Catalog Number CFP12FSK-ART; ISBN 978-1-4673-0024-7). ICNC’12-FSKD’12 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

 

ICNC-FSKD is a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of data mining and intelligent methods inspired from nature, particularly biological, linguistic, and physical systems, with applications to computers, circuits, systems, control, communications, and more. This is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary area in which a wide range of theory and methodologies are being investigated and developed to tackle complex and challenging problems. The registration fee of US-D400 includes proceedings, lunches, dinners, banquet, coffee breaks, and all technical sessions.

 

To promote international participation of researchers from outside the country/region where the conference is held (i.e., China’s mainland), researchers outside of China’s mainland are encouraged to propose invited sessions. An honorarium of US-D400 will be enjoyed by the organizer(s) for each completed (with at least 6 registered papers) invited session. The first author of each paper in an invited session must not be affiliated with an organization in China’s mainland. “(Invited Paper)” may be added below the title of each paper in the invited sessions. Invited session organizers will solicit submissions, conduct reviews and recommend accept/reject decisions on the submitted papers. Invited session organizers will be able to set their own submission and review schedules, as long as a set of recommended papers is determined by 21 March 2012. Each invited session proposal should include: (1) the name, bio, and contact information of each organizer of the invited session; (2) the title and a short synopsis of the invited session. Please send your proposal to icnc-fskd@cqupt.edu.cn

 

For more information, visit the conference web page:

 

   http://icnc-fskd.cqupt.edu.cn

 

If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the secretariat at icnc-fskd@cqupt.edu.cn

 

Join us at this major event in beautiful Chongqing !!!

 

Organizing Committee

icnc-fskd@cqupt.edu.cn

Time Organization for Librarians: Beating Budget and Staff Cuts

Book Publisher: Scarecrow Press

 

Co-editor: Carol Smallwood, Tips for Librarians Running Libraries Alone and Preserving Local Writers, Genealogy, Photographs, Newspapers and Related Materials (both forthcoming from Scarecrow Press)

 

Co-editor: Jason Kuhl, Library Operations Director, Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Arlington Heights, Illinois; contributor, The Frugal Librarian: Thriving in Tough Economic Times (ALA Editions, 2011) 

 

Co-editor: Lisa Fraser, Public Services Librarian, Bellevue Library, King County Library System, Bellevue, Washington; Guest Lecturer, Information School, University of Washington

 

Chapters sought for an anthology by practicing academic, public, school, special librarians, LIS faculty in the United States and Canada sharing practical how-to chapters on ways to organize time the most effectively especially with budget and staff cuts: Administration,  Daily Operations,  Maximizing Technology, Personal Life, Goal Setting. Creative methods are sought that work in various types of libraries and job titles.

 

Concise, how-to chapters words based on experience to help colleagues. Your article should total 3000-3500 words; or two articles each 1500-1750 words to equal 3000-3500. No previously published or simultaneously submitted material. One or two authors per chapter; complimentary copy as compensation, discount on more.

 

Please e-mail 2-4 topics each fully described in 2 sentences by November 14, 2011 with brief biography sketch(s). Please place TIME/Last Name on the subject line to: jkuhl@ahml.info

 

World Library and Information Congress: 78th IFLA General Conference and Council “Libraries Now! – Inspiring, Surprising, Empowering” Poster sessions

 

11-17 August 2012, Helsinki, Finland

 

Are you involved in an interesting project or in an area of work that you would like to discuss with or show to other congress attendees? Why not present your work in the IFLA Poster Session?

 

Your topic could be described on a printed poster or by photographs, graphics and pieces of text that you attach to the presentation panel. All IFLA official languages – Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish – are welcome. Presenters of a poster will be expected to be present on Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 August 2012 in order to explain their poster and to hand out any leaflets or other information material they have available for viewers of their poster.

 

Conference participants interested in presenting a poster session are requested to complete the attached form and send it together with a brief description of not more than 200 words of the poster (we would appreciate receiving a summary in English with your proposal). The deadline is 09 March 2012, after the deadline applications will no longer be accepted. A jury comprised of 2 members of the Professional Committee of IFLA will review all submissions.

 

The application form can be found at: http://conference.ifla.org/ifla78/call-for-poster-sessions

 

Please send the completed form and description to:

 

Lidia Putziger Administrative Officer lidia.putziger@ifla.org

 

IFLA Headquarters                         

PO Box 95312                                      

2509 CH The Hague                              

Netherlands       

TEL – +31 70 3140884 

FAX – +31 70 3834827                               

 

Reference Research Forum

The deadline for submissions is January, 2, 2012.
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 18th Reference Research Forum at the 2012 American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA.
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://tinyurl.com/rssresearchstatistics
The Committee employs a blind review process to select three projects for 20 minute presentations, followed by open discussion. Winning submissions must be presented in person at the Forum in Anaheim, CA.
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, January 2, 2012. Notification of acceptance will be made by Monday, February 6, 2012. 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:
Qiana Johnson
Chair, RUSA RSS Research and Statistics Committee