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Exploring Discovery: The Front Door to a Library’s Licensed and Digitized Content

Posted on January 8, 2015 | Leave a comment

This call for chapter proposals is for a book tentatively titled Exploring Discovery: The Front Door to a Library’s Licensed and Digitized Content, edited by Ken Varnum (University of Michigan), to be published by ALA Editions (http://www.alaeditions.org/).

Proposal Submission Deadline: January 16, 2015

About the Book

Exploring Discovery will examine the range of discovery-focused tools and technologies being deployed by libraries. It will provide a series of case studies illustrating the interfaces and technologies that can be used by libraries today. What cutting-edge tools and services are emerging from the growing suite of discovery interfaces and indexes? Where is “discovery” going, and what tools and techniques are emerging as standard elements in the library technology toolbox? Chapter topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Implementations of discovery tools based on commercial products such as Summon, EBSCO Discovery Service, Primo Central, and WorldCat Discovery Services.
  • Implementation of discovery tools using locally developed or other back-end databases and services.
  • Novel discovery implementations using open source tools such as Blacklight, Solr, Hydra/Fedora, VuFind, etc.
  • Investigations and/or implementations of user-focused services based on discovery tools.
  • Case studies about integrating services and tools from multiple discovery vendors into a single system.

Target Audience

Librarians and library technology staff who work with discovery interfaces, course management systems, provide current awareness or alert services, or are otherwise involved in electronic resource reference.

How to Submit a Proposal

Chapters will be in the range of 3,000-4,500 words. To propose a chapter, please prepare a brief (300 word) abstract of your proposed chapter and a brief biographical paragraph for each author. Email it to Ken Varnum, varnum@umich.edu, by January 16, 2015.

Compensation: one complimentary copy per published submission no matter how many co-authors. Authors retain copyright in their own contribution.

Important Dates

January 16, 2015: Final deadline for chapter proposals

January 31, 2015: Notification of proposal decisions

April 15, 2015: Chapter first drafts due

May 15, 2015: Editor’s comments returned to authors

June 15, 2015: Revised drafts due

July 15, 2015: Final acceptance notification

July 31, 2015: Final revision due

August 15, 2015: Submission of manuscript to publisher

Contact for More Information

Submit proposals and questions to Ken Varnum <varnum@umich.edu> by January 16, 2015.

 

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17th Distance Library Services Conference

Posted on January 7, 2015 | Leave a comment

Proposals are now being accepted for the 17th Distance Library Services Conference to be held April 20-22, 2016, in Pittsburgh, PA. The DLS Conference is the perfect opportunity to showcase your research, knowledge and experience in providing library services to those who are teaching and learning at a distance or online.

 

Proposals will be accepted for contributed papers, posters and workshops in the following subject tracks:

  • Administration & Management
  • Assessment
  • Emerging Technologies
  • Marketing
  • Teaching & Learning

As practices that are effective in distance learning become increasingly applicable in any library environment, the professional development and networking opportunities offered by the DLS Conference can benefit all librarians, educators, administrators, and staff who are interested in expanding their reach beyond the physical campus.

 

To learn more about the conference and submitting a proposal, please visit http://libguides.cmich.edu/dls2016

 

Eligible presenters can also apply to win the Conference Award, which includes free conference registration. Learn more at http://libguides.cmich.edu/dls2016/award

 

The deadline for proposal and Conference Award submissions is April 7, 2015.

 

We hope to see you in Pittsburgh in 2016!

 

 

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Thad Dickinson

Conference Coordinator

17th Distance Library Services Conference

Global Campus Library Services

Central Michigan University

dicki1te@cmich.edu

 

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Growing Great Minds Kappa Delta Pi Biennial Convocation

Posted on January 7, 2015 | Leave a comment

Submission deadline is February 15, 2015 Notification of acceptance by March 31, 2015

It’s not too early to start planning! Convo 2015 will be held in beautiful Orlando, Florida. You won’t want to miss this amazing opportunity to connect with other chapters, professional members and leading educators. Convo will take place from Thursday, October 22 to Saturday, October 24, at the Rosen Plaza Hotel, located on International Drive, right in the heart of Orlando!

Kappa Delta Pi strives to be the source of what’s new in education and to promote the latest techniques in teaching and learning. Convocation 2015 is an opportunity to offer a cutting-edge conference experience where attendees of all generations and experience levels gain as much from the information shared as possible. With the abundance of new information about how conference attendees learn best, a number of sessions with new, innovative formats that align with learning effectiveness are being offered. Two new featured formats are the EdTalks and Story Slam:

  • EdTalks will be a mix of focused presentations on related topics. Individual presenters will be assigned a 15-minute time slot within the session, and presentations will be followed by reflection and discussion.
  • The Story Slam gives individual presenters a chance to share their powerful stories of teaching experiences in memorable ways that include a key lesson from applying a new pedagogy, strategy, technology, or reflection on lessons learned from experiences with a particular student. In this fast-paced session, presenters will be assigned a 10-minute time slot.

The number of traditional workshop sessions with single presenters will be limited, so those who desire to present are encouraged to consider submitting proposals in other session formats. Note that proposal reviewers may ask proposal submitters to modify their presentations to fit a different session format. Kappa Delta Pi strives to ensure that Convocation 2015 offers a balanced program of educational sessions that provide meaningful, timely information attendees can use in their professional educational careers. Following peer review, the highest-quality presentations that best fit the framework of the Convocation will be added to the program. Though the number of presentations is limited, KDP encourages a wide variety of submissions for each type of opportunity to present. All proposals will be evaluated according to established criteria. Refer to the Guidelines for Proposals and Selection Criteria prior to completing the online proposal submission form.

Guidelines for Proposals Selection Criteria Workshop Criteria EdTalks Criteria Story Slam Criteria Chapter Poster Session Criteria Idea Swap Criteria Proposal Form You must be an active member of KDP to submit a proposal and serve as a lead presenter.

 

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Professing Feminism: Teaching Through the Digital Divide

Posted on January 7, 2015 | Leave a comment

Callfor Submissions

Deadline: Mar 15 2015
Pagelimit 15-25 pages
Format: Email articles in MLA style. Double spaced. MSWord attachments only.

Contact:professingfeminism@hotmail.com

Professing Feminism, inspired by own own online teaching experiences in for-profit andnot-for-profit higher education, is an anthology exploring feminist pedagogy and feminist content in online courses. Have you had experience teaching feminism online? How can your shared experience help facilitate the inclusionof feminist pedagogy and feminist content in the growth of online teaching that is to come?

We are open to essays that both critique and positively evaluate the potential for professing feminism in online work, in a variety of contexts. Submissions can cover any aspect of the experience of feminism, feminist pedagogy, online teaching and online learning.

We are especially interested in articles that address the following topics:

Enacting a feminist pedagogy in online courses
Feminism and for-profit schools
Teaching other people’s feminism (teaching from prewritten courses in for-profit or not-for-profit online programs).
Providing feminist context in classes that include  women’s literature, but provide no feminist context to the works.
Men and feminism in online classes.
Encouraging feminism in composition classes (or any classes where feminist content is rarely found or emphasized).
Academic hierarchy and feminism in online schools.
Feminist collaboration: issues of  isolation, networking and publishing as an online adjunct
Addressing the stigma of teaching online and the divide between online and on ground schools and instructors.
Addressing the negative perceptions of online teaching.
The role of feminism in  the new model of online teaching and for-profit schools
Feminism’s role within the  job preparation emphasis in online schools

About the Editors:

Melissa Rigney hasover 10 years online teaching and course development experience in both for-profit and not-for-profit higher education. In addition to a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska,  she also has an M.S in Educational Technology from Texas A&M.
Batya Weinbaum holds a doctorate in English from University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has been teaching online since 2007, and has been editing the journal Femspec since1997. Her scholarship, including writings on feminist pedagogy,  has appeared innumerous venues, including Transformations, a journal of inclusive teaching practices.

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The Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research . Special issue on Big Data

Posted on January 6, 2015 | Leave a comment

The Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research is planning a special issue on Big Data Analytics.
Big Data Analytics is a recent and rapidly evolving field in technology driven business world, and private and public organizations are eagerly waiting to collect the promised results. Empowered by advancement of information and communication technology, the volume and complexity of data are growing exponentially. Big Data is formed of large, diverse, complex, longitudinal, and distributed data sets generated from various instruments, sensors, Internet transactions, email, video, click streams, and other sources. It is commonly characterized in three or more Vs: volume, velocity, variety, and additionally value, veracity etc. Big Data Analytics is characterized by the requirement of advanced data storage, management, analysis, and visualization technologies, which traditional business analytics is not able to offer. These technologies include, among others: interfusion of various data sources, real-time analysis, online analytical processing, business performance management, data mining, machine learning, cloud computing, distributed processing, parallel algorithms, and parallel DBMS.

Big Data Analytics generates new opportunities for the benefit of our society, but it also introduces challenges. Applications of Big Data Analytics are expected to change the world, how people and organizations are doing things in the future, as it provides increasing awareness and deeper insight on various real world and virtual phenomena. It is to change business models, management and decision making processes in companies and public organizations, and to affect usage of resources in creating products and services.

Electronic commerce is one of the most promising and high impact application areas of Big Data Analytics2. It has already transformed markets when adopted by many leading electronic commerce vendors. Wide adoption of social media and crowdsourcing applications in various forms still offer new possibilities for collecting and analysing Big Data for supporting business, as well as unexplored opportunities for developing Big Data Analytics based information services for customers. Even if Big Data Analytics research is at its currents stage significantly technology driven, focusing on such topics as data mining and cloud computing technologies2, there is and evident need for also understanding it better from the electronic commerce point of view.

Subject Coverage

The objective of this Special Issue is to present the current state of research and practical experiences on Big Data Analytics from the viewpoint of electronic commerce research. The disciplines can cover any area of electronic commerce, including computer science, information technology, information systems, information management, telecommunications, business administration, law, social sciences, financial services, and other related fields. Particularly we like to see interdisciplinary papers presenting innovative applications and uses of Big Data Analytics in electronic commerce that are able to connect theory with practice. We are looking for experiences of successful Big Data Analytics applications as well as critical views and challenges. We encourage submitting papers that present genuine, rigorous research on electronic commerce in transit, which shows how Big Data Analytics is related with business practices, social, cultural and legal environments, personal privacy and security concerns, information systems, and emerging smart environments and device technologies.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

1.    New opportunities in business environment

  • Changes of eCommerce in business and public sector services attributed to Big Data Analytics
  • Big Data Analytics based services innovation
  • Business models built on Big Data Analytics
  • Big Data Analytics in business ecosystems
  • Big Data Analytics with public and open data
  • Big Data Analytics and data markets

2.    Big Data Analytics and strategy

  • Big Data Analytics strategies in eCommerce
  • Impact of Big Data Analytics in eCommerce strategies
  • Big Data Analytics in strategic decision making

3.    Management of electronic commerce

  • Combining Big Data Analytics with eCommerce processes
  • Embedding Big Data Analytics in eCommerce practices
  • Application of Big Data Analytics methods and tools in eCommerce
  • Technological challenges of applying Big Data Analytics in eCommerce
  • Big Data fusion from different sources

4.    Legal issues in applying Big Data Analytics

  • Privacy issues in Big Data Analytics
  • Applying Privacy by Design in eCommerce
  • Big Data Analytics and IPR

5.    Research on Big Data Analytics in electronic commerce

  • Big Data Analytics research challenges
  • Research approaches to Big Data Analytics in eCommerce
  • Big Data Analytics based methods for eCommerce research

Notes for Intending Authors

We are seeking original, innovative, and scientifically rigorous papers presenting practical experiences, methodological challenges, or impacts of Big Data Analytics from the viewpoint of electronic commerce. Especially empirical research, case studies or theory based qualitative and quantitative studies, are welcome.

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Author guidelines can be found at http://www.jtaer.com/author_guidelines.doc. All submissions will be refereed by at least three reviewers. Submissions should be directed by email to jtaer.big.data@utalca.cl

For more information, please visit the following web site: http://www.jtaer.com

Important dates

  • Full paper submission: March 30, 2015
  • Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2015
  • Revised submission: July 20, 2015
  • Final acceptance notification: August 24, 2015
  • Camera ready version of paper: September 21, 2015
  • Publication: January – May, 2016

Guest Editors

Dr. Jouni Markkula
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Information Processing Science
University of Oulu
Finland

Dr. Marikka Heikkilä
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Collaborative Research
Turku School of Economics, University of Turku
Finland

Prof. J. Christopher Westland
Department of Information & Decision Sciences
University of Illinois
USA

Prof. Zhangxi Lin
The Rawls College of Business Administration
Texas Tech University
USA

Prof. Jukka Heikkilä
Dept. of Management and Entrepreneurship
Turku School of Economics, University of Turku
Finland

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The Internet of Things in Business

Posted on January 6, 2015 | Leave a comment
Call for Papers
Special Issue of the American Journal of Business
The Internet of Things in Business
 
**Special Issue Focus**
Not many would question the impact of the Internet on business, communication, information, and society as a whole. This disruptive innovation has birthed innovative cyberjuggernauts such as Amazon, Facebook, and Google as well as worrisome denizens such as Anonymous, LulzSec, and too many others to mention. Now the interconnected entity is expanding to more than computing devices creating an intertwined mesh of everyday devices from bluetooth smart watches to cars autonomously transporting us between computer-controlled office environments from our managed networked homes.
The Internet of Things (IoT) provides more powerful B2B and B2C opportunities than ever before. As IoT networks grow, we must re-envision all aspects of business. Consider how powerful targeted advertising could be when we know what consumers have in their refrigerator and pantry. Customized electronic billboards will no longer be limited to banner ad driven cookie information on Web pages; instead advertisers can create a custom profile of you on the spot given your geolocational data. Supply chain experts can manage and analyze connected assembly lines, factories, and warehouses to ensure delivery of a product they know you intend to purchase because your smart home has requested it. That is indeed a powerful long tail.
Will the potential connectivity between smart cars and ride share apps such as Uber bring about new entrepreneurial opportunities? If your connected devices know your daily schedule will they automatically summon a ride at appropriate times? Will your iWatch equipped with health monitoring apps warn you and your physician when a potential health condition surfaces? The potential for new ideas and business models are only constrained by the imagination.
How can businesses utilize the massive amounts of rich information, increased interactivity, and device connectedness? No longer will managers use asset tags or RFID. Instead devices will constantly report their own location. As more consumers become more connected in all aspects of their professional and personal lives businesses must consider how to best tailor interactions. A car dealer may already know how often someone from her local zip code searches for a new car via the Web, but what if the dealer knows that this potential customer has driven by her lot and looked at three specific models over the past month via her Google glasses? Will the dealer send a message the next time the potential customer drives by? Is that too invasive or what people want?
As every single device–from a pacemaker to a power plant–collects and stores massive amounts of data every microsecond, the rich information complexity brings privacy and security challenges to the fore as well. People worry about drones flying around us in Orwellian fashion, but what about toilets recommending insurance rate adjustment? How can businesses facilitate trust relationships to harness interconnected interactions?
This special issue will solicit papers from all areas of business in order to provide a multifaceted approach to how our diverse disciplines might approach the organizational shifts that occur within the IoT paradigm. Multi-disciplinary papers will be especially welcome.
**Potential Topics (Partial List)**
–Business Trust Relationships
–Digital Asset Management
–Entrepreneurial IoT Opportunities
–Intelligent Traffic Management
–Interconnected communication and networking
–Internet Enabled Assembly and Logistics
–Micro-transactions
–Near Field Communications for Payment
–Omnipresent Data Collection
–Security and Privacy issues at home and in the workplace
–Side channel data leakage
–Smart Health Systems Management
–Targeted Marketing
**Special Issue Timeline**
January 9 2015: (Optional) Inquiries and Abstracts Due
March 6 2015: Submissions Due
May 8 2015: Acceptance Notification
June 26 2015: Revisions Due
August 14 2015: Scheduled Publication
**Preliminary Questions and Inquiries**
Preliminary inquiries and abstracts are most welcome. Please send a PDF to the Guest Editor, Dr. Alan Rea, for feedback.
Alan Rea
Western Michigan University

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Femspec indexers

Posted on January 6, 2015 | Leave a comment
Femspec has been in existence for fifteen years. We have a librarian working with us now.  She suggested we put out an issue of vol 16 that indexes the first fifteen years, and that since this is in electronic data bases, this will increase our readership. If you are interested in working on the index contact  femspec@aol.com

 

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Open Access and the Future of Academic Libraries

Posted on January 6, 2015 | Leave a comment

Beginning in early 2015, Rowman & Littlefield will begin publishing a series of volumes on the future of academic libraries.  Nine volumes in the series are currently in the works with Dr. Brad Eden, Dean of Library Services at Valparaiso University, serving as the series editor.

 

A tenth volume is now being planned, which will focus on open access and how the movement toward open access is impacting and will continue to impact library services.  The editor of this volume will be Kevin Smith of the Duke University Libraries.

 

Proposals for essays to be included in this volume are now welcome.  Proposals regarding any topics related to open access and the future of research libraries are welcome; the following is a non-exclusive list of areas that papers could address:

 

                Library services and open data

                Libraries as publishers

                ETDs and the anxiety of openness

                The impact of open access on journal publication

                Metrics for measuring the impact of OA

                Disciplinary approaches to open access

                MOOCs and OERs

    Openness and library literature

    The mechanics and politics of library-published OA journals

 

A title and proposal of no longer than 300 words should be sent to Kevin Smith at kevin.l.smith@duke.edu by February 1, 2015; final manuscripts of accepted papers will be due by October 1, 2015. 

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9th National Conference of African American Librarians

Posted on January 6, 2015 | Leave a comment
*Call for Poster Session Proposals*

St. Louis, Missouri
August 4-8, 2015
Please submit a poster proposal for the 9th NCAAL Conference, “Meet at the Gateway: Reimagining Communities, Technologies, and Libraries.”

The poster session committee is particularly interested in proposals related to:
Advocacy/Marketing
Assessment
Emerging Technologies
Health Information
Information and Financial Literacy
Makerspaces

Proposals can be submitted online at: http://bit.ly/1w6h5tb.
Graduate students and early-career librarians are encouraged to apply!

Deadline for entries is April 1, 2015 at 5 pm CST.

For more information contact the poster session committee chair: deborah.lilton@vanderbilt.edu

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Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) special issue on diversity in library technology

Posted on January 6, 2015 | Leave a comment
 
The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.

We are now accepting proposals for publication in our 28th issue, a special issue on diversity in library technology. Discussions on the Code4Lib listserv and keynotes by Valerie Aurora and Sumana Harihareswara at Code4Lib 2014 show that diversity is a topic of ongoing importance to the Code4Lib community. A recent editorial in the Code4Lib Journal by Ron Peterson originally sparked discussion of the idea for a special issue among the journal’s editorial committee; the demographic breakdown of both the author community and the committee itself laid bare the fact that diversity is a major challenge even in communities that are highly supportive. With this in mind, the C4LJ editorial committee hopes that this special issue will further the conversation around this important topic, while also encouraging a greater diversity amongst the Journal’s contributors for this and future issues.

C4LJ encourages creativity and flexibility, and the editors welcome submissions across a broad variety of topics that support the mission of the journal. For this issue, we would like to consider perspectives and topics that may not have been considered in-depth in the past, in the spirit of being open to diverse uses, interpretations, and needs of technology. In the context of structural inequalities and group/individual experiences (e.g. based on country, gender, race, ethnicity, class, disability, age, sexual orientation, etc.) people perceive, experience, and create technologies in different ways. It will strengthen our libraries if we enjoy and engage with these differences.

Possible topics could include, but are not limited to:

– Attracting and retaining diverse technology teams
– Implementing a code of conduct and/or assessing its efficacy
– Designing for accessibility
– Partnerships to foster inclusivity in the field
– Library tech programming for underserved populations
– Inclusive project management and communication
– Surfacing diverse items in digital libraries
– Digital projects and programs involving outreach to diverse communities
– International perspectives on library technology and access
– Intersections of social justice and library technology
– Theoretical consideration of digitally sharing information (e.g. big data, crowd work, surveillance, privacy) for different groups
– Critical examination of technology trends, and how they are perceived or adopted, by different groups

C4LJ strives to promote professional communication by minimizing the barriers to publication. While articles should be of a high quality, they need not follow any formal structure. Writers should aim for the middle ground between blog posts and articles in traditional refereed journals. Where appropriate, we encourage authors to submit code samples, algorithms, and pseudo-code. For more information, visit C4LJ’s Article Guidelines or browse articles from the first 26 issues published on our website: http://journal.code4lib.org.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to share your ideas and experiences. To be included in the 28th issue, which is scheduled for publication in April 2015, please submit articles, abstracts, or proposals athttp://journal.code4lib.org/submit-proposal or to journal@code4lib.org by January 12, 2015. When submitting, please include the title or subject of the proposal in the subject line of the email message and the acceptance of the Journal’s US CC-By 3.0 license in the body of the message. The editorial committee will review all proposals and notify those accepted by January 19, 2015. Please note that submissions are subject to rejection or postponement at any point in the publication process as determined by the Code4Lib Journal’s editorial committee.

Send in a submission. Your peers would like to hear what you are doing.

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