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ACRL E-Learning Webcast

Posted on January 25, 2016 | Leave a comment
Engaging the Digital Humanities: Collaborating throughout the Research Lifecycle
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Central time
Proposal Deadline: Friday, February 12, 2016
Dear Colleagues,
The ACRL Digital Humanities Interest Group and the ACRL Digital Curation Interest Group invite presentation proposals that speak to the theme of “Engaging the Digital Humanities: Collaborating throughout the Research Lifecycle.” The selected presentations will be featured during our ACRL E-Learning Webcast on March 23.
Librarians are playing ever more integral roles in the Digital Humanities research lifecycle. Librarians contribute concretely to the conception, development, dissemination, preservation, and curation of digital humanities research. These activities often require collaborations between librarians working in a diverse range of roles including but not limited to subject liaisons, digital humanities and digital scholarship librarians, metadata librarians, and digital curation librarians.
We invite presentation proposals based on first-hand experiences dealing with a wide array of data formats, tools, methods, and digital platforms utilized in Digital Humanities research, and placed in the context of the latest research literature.  By focusing discussion on practical challenges and solutions, it is our hope that your presentations will provide the library community with strategies that can be cross-purposed to a wide range of institutional contexts.
When crafting your proposal, please consider focusing on one or more of these learning outcomes:
  1.  Participants will learn how to identify the stages of a Digital Humanities research project in order to better collaborate with researchers.
  2.  Participants will learn about the use of data in Digital Humanities research in order to identify data curation needs.
  3.  Participants will learn how to identify the skills they need to engage in Digital Humanities research.
  4.  Participants will learn how to identify Digital Humanities research collaborators in the library.
Proposals should be no longer than 400 words, and can be submitted here:
Proposal submission form:  http://bit.ly/dhlifecycle
Proposals are due on February 12, 2016.
Notice of acceptance will be sent by February 17, 2016.
If you have questions, please contact Thomas Padilla at tpadilla@mail.lib.msu.edu.
Thomas Padilla, Digital Scholarship Librarian, Michigan State University
Harriett Green, English and Digital Humanities Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Suzanna Conrad, Head of Digital Services & Technology, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Brianna Marshall, Digital Curation Coordinator, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

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OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives

Posted on November 5, 2015 | Leave a comment
OCLC Systems & Services:  International Digital Library Perspectives_ (OSS:IDLP) will be publishing a special issue on cloud and open-source implementations of integrated library systems (ILSs).  The editor is looking for articles on all aspects of this topic.  Articles can be of any length, and figures and screen shots are encouraged. OSS:IDLP is a peer-reviewed journal.

If you are interested in contributing, please send the editor your name, a short proposal of the topic, and a tentative title for the article.  Deadline for proposals is November 15, 2015.  Articles would be due to the editor by February 1, 2016.  Any questions and proposal should be directed to the editor, not to this listserv.  Thank you.

Bradford Lee Eden, Ph.D.
Editor, _OCLC Systems & Services:  International Digital Library Perspectives_
Dean of Library Services
Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, Indiana  46383
brad.eden@valpo.edu
219-464-5099

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“E-Resource Round Up” column for Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship (JERL)

Posted on November 5, 2015 | Leave a comment

This is a last call for contributions to the “E-Resource Round Up” column for volume 28, issue 1 of the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship (JERL). Submissions can be related to any aspect of electronic resources and their use in libraries, including conference reports, professional discussion groups, meetings, and practices in using electronic resources in-house. This would be an ideal opportunity for you to report on topics that may benefit others in our profession.

 

The editors would like to receive contributions to the column by Tuesday, November 24, 2015. Contributions should not be published elsewhere.

 

If you have a submission or questions, please contact the column editors:

 

Bob Wolverton

Mississippi State University Libraries

(662) 325-0548

bwolverton@library.msstate.edu

 

Karen Davidson

Mississippi State University Libraries

(662) 325-3018             

kdavidson@library.msstate.edu

 

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Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee Members

Posted on April 14, 2015 | Leave a comment
The Code4Lib Journal (http://journal.code4lib.org/) is looking for volunteers to join its editorial committee. Editorial committee members work collaboratively to produce the quarterly Code4Lib Journal. Editors are expected to:
* Read, discuss, and vote on incoming proposals.
* Volunteer to be the assigned editor or second reader for specific proposals.
** Assigned editors work with the author(s) to make sure the article is as strong as possible, that the copy is clean, and deadlines are met. They also enter the article into WordPress, making sure the formatting is okay, all images and tables look good, etc.
** Second readers act as a second set of eyes for the assigned editor.
* Read and comment on any other article that interests you.
* Volunteer for administrative tasks and projects as they crop up.
* Take a turn as Coordinating Editor for an Issue. The Coordinating Editor shepherds the issue through its life cycle.
We seek an individual who is self-motivated, organized and able to meet deadlines; is familiar with ideas and trends in the field; and has an interest in the mechanics of writing. There is a sometimes significant time commitment involved; expect to set aside ten or more hours a month.
It sounds like a lot of work, but it’s also a lot of fun (if editing is your idea of fun).
Intrigued? Please send a letter of interest by Friday, May 1, 2015 to journal@code4lib.org. Your letter should address these two basic questions:
1) What is your vision for the Code4Lib Journal? Why are you interested in it?
2) How can you contribute to the Code4Lib Journal, i.e. what do you have to offer?
We encourage people who have previously applied and who are still interested to re-apply. We have had to turn down a lot of highly-qualified people in the past due to the large number of applications.
If you have any questions, contact us by email at journal@code4lib.org or ask any member of the editorial committee (listed at http://journal.code4lib.org/editorial-committee). We plan to make decisions about additional editors by mid May.

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2015 SirsiDynix Northeast Regional Users Group (SNRG)

Posted on March 25, 2015 | Leave a comment
Penn State University Libraries is hosting the 2015 SirsiDynix Northeast Regional Users Group (SNRG) on June 8-9 in Pattee and Paterno Libraries.

The Planning Committee is now accepting conference session proposals.  Please consider sharing your experience in working efficiently with SirsiDynix products.  Suggested topics include acquisitions, Bluecloud Analytics, cataloging, circulation, course reserves, Directors Station, Enterprise, Interlibrary Loan, materials booking, public services, reference, serials, systems/API, technical services, and general topics related to SirsiDynix.  We’re also looking for volunteers to moderate sharing sessions.  If you’re interested in moderating a session, please complete the submission form and key in Sharing Session for (topic of choice) in the Title field.

Submit your proposals at https://surveys.libraries.psu.edu/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=7631664

The deadline for submission is April 10. You will be notified of proposal acceptance by April 24, 2015.

Please contact ul-Snrg15Proposals@lists.psu.edu with questions about your proposal or if you have any suggestions for a panel topic or a presentation.

SNRG 2015 conference information is available at https://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/snrg2015.html

Registration will be opening soon.

SNRG 2015 Conference Planning Committee
Dace Freivalds
Linda Klimczyk
Katherine Strenko
Barbara Coopey
Chris Holobar

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CaVraCon

Posted on March 25, 2015 | Leave a comment

Proposals for CaVraCon sessions, workshops, case studies and other program formats are being accepted through March 31, 2015.

 

CaVraCon is a joint conference organized by the Northern and Southern California chapters of the Visual Resources Association (VRA) to be held June 18 & 19 at UC Santa Barbara. https://sites.google.com/site/cavracon2015/

 

Although not limited, possible presentation topics could include:

 

Metadata/Cataloging

Analog/Digital Collections

Teaching with Images: New Developments

Preservation

Digitization

Professional Issues

Copyright Issues

Digital Imaging Tools

Digital Humanities

Visual Literacy

 

Please submit your completed CaVraCon 2015 Proposal Form via email to Teodora Bozhilova at teddieb@ucr.edu by March 31, 2015.

 

Proposals will be reviewed and presenters will be notified of their selection no later than April 15, 2015

 

Feel free to contact Jason Hosford (jbhosford@berkeley.edu) or Greg Reser (greser@ucsd.edu) with any questions!

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Women & Gender Studies Section ACRL 8th annual Research Poster Sessions

Posted on February 4, 2015 | Leave a comment

The Women & Gender Studies Section will hold its 8th annual Research Poster Session during our General Membership Meeting at the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco on Saturday, June 27, 2015, from 4:30-5:30 p.m. The forum seeks to provide an opportunity to present newly completed research or work in progress. Both beginning and established researchers are welcome to apply. Participants may receive collaborative feedback and recommendations for future publishing and/or new initiatives.

The potential scope of the topics includes, but is not limited to, teaching methods, instruction, information technology, collection development, interdisciplinarity, and collaboration with academic faculty.* For research ideas, see the updated Research Agenda for Women and Gender Studies Librarianship. 

The committee is especially interested in receiving submissions which highlight the ways in which librarians work with faculty and/or establish faculty partnerships. However, as stated above, submissions are NOT limited to this particular theme

Applicants chosen to present their work at the poster session are expected to supply presentation materials, including poster boards. Tables for presentation materials will be provided.  Attendees at the forum will find an arena for discussion and networking with their colleagues interested in related issues and trends in the profession.

The committee will use a blind peer review process. 

Selection criteria:

1. Significance of the topic. Priority will be given to Women and Gender Studies Section members and/or women and gender studies topics

2. Originality of the project

Proposal submission instructions:

1. Proposals should include:  

–          Title of the proposal

–          Proposal narrative (no more than 2 pages, double spaced) 

–          Name of applicant(s) 

–          Affiliation (s) 

–          Applicant Email address(es), Phone number(s)  

–          Are you a member of the Women & Gender Studies     Section? 

If you would like to become a member, go to: http://www.libr.org/wgss/join.html

2. NOTE: Submission deadline: March 31, 2014

3. Proposals should be emailed to: Diane Fulkerson, Chair, WGSS  (dfulkerson@sar.usf.edu ) or Stacy Russo, Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect at ( russo_stacy@sac.edu)

4. The chair will notify the applicants by April 30, 2014

If you are aware of other groups who would be interested in knowing about this call, please forward this message as appropriate. Thanks!

Diane Fulkerson
Chair WGSS

 

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SUNYLA 2015: The Art of Librarianship

Posted on January 20, 2015 | Leave a comment

Purchase College, SUNY

Purchase, NY

June 3-5, 2015

 

Call for Proposals

Deadline for workshops and presentation proposals: February 27, 2015

Anyone who is engaged in librarianship, or who works and collaborates with librarians, knows that it’s not just a profession — it’s an art. Successful librarianship combines professional knowledge, skills, and experience with creativity, curiosity, passion, imagination, and vision. Each library, and each librarian, blends these elements in unique and different ways. Join us for the 2015 SUNYLA Conference at Purchase College in Purchase, NY, from June 3-5, when we will come together to express our creativity, present our ideas and projects, share methods and experiences, stimulate our imagination and curiosity and, most importantly, to celebrate the art that is librarianship.

We welcome your creative and enlightening interpretations of “The Art of Librarianship” for pre-conference workshops and conference presentations for the following program tracks:

·         Reference and Instruction

·         Cataloging and Technical Services

·         Archives and Special Collections

·         Systems and Technology

·         Collection Development

·         Public Services and Interlibrary Loan

·         Professional Development

·         Management and Leadership

If you are not sure which track your presentation would fit into, submit your proposal anyway and we will determine which track would best suit your idea.

Please submit proposals here: Call for Proposals.  If you are submitting proposals for multiple workshops or presentations, please fill out a separate form for each.

Deadline for workshops and presentation proposals: February 27, 2015

Pre-conference Workshops

               When?  Wednesday, June 3rd

               Length of Time?  90 minutes or 2 hours

               Questions?  Contact:  Laura Evans, evans@binghamton.edu

Conference Presentations

               When? Thursday, June 4th and Friday, June 5th

               Length of Time?  45 minutes

               Questions?  Contact:  Fantasia Thorne-Ortiz, f.a.thorne-ortiz@sunyocc.edu

For information on expense reimbursement, please refer to the Guidelines for the SUNYLA Annual Conference Expenses.

-> Mark your calendars and plan to meet up at the 2015 SUNYLA Conference <-

We look forward to seeing you all at SUNYLA 2015!

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19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

Posted on January 15, 2015 | Leave a comment
Call for Contributions

Pozna=C5=84, Poland, September 14-18, 2015
http://tpdl2015.info/

 

The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries =
(TPDL) constitutes a leading scientific forum on digital libraries that =
brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in =
the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2015 will be organized by Pozna=C5=84=
Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC)
and it will be held in Pozna=C5=84, Poland on September 14-18, 2015.

* Aims and scope * Valuable and rapidly increasing volumes of data are created or transformed into digital form by all fields of scientific,
educational, cultural, governmental and industry activities. For this
purpose the digital libraries community has developed long-term and
interdisciplinary research agendas, providing significant results, such
as development of Digital Libraries, solving practical problems,
accommodating research data and satisfying the needs of specific user
communities.

The advent of the technologies that enhance the exchange of information with rich semantics is of particular interest in the community. Information providers inter-link their metadata with user contributed data and offer new services outlooking to the development of a web of  data and addressing the interoperability and long-term preservation challenges.

TPDL 2015 under the general theme “Connecting Digital Collections”,
invites submissions for scientific and research work in the following =
categories: Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters and Demonstrations, =
Workshops and Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity in a triple peer review process. The TPDL 2015 proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs).

Industry submissions are especially welcome, and a dedicated conference track is planned for them if many quality submissions are received.

* Topics *
General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the =
following topics,=20

*Connecting digital libraries:*
– exploring semantic web and linked data
– data mining and extraction of structure from networked information
– multilingual information retrieval
– metadata aggregation models
– interoperability and information integration
– ontologies and knowledge organization systems, networked information
– applications of digital libraries

*Practice of digital libraries:*
– quality assurance in digital libraries
– scalability and high availability of digital libraries
– infrastructures supporting content processing
– user studies for and evaluation of digital library systems and =
applications
– large scale digital preservation infrastructures for cultural =
heritage
– digital curation
– multimedia information management and retrieval
– user interfaces and user experience

*Digital libraries in science*:
– digital humanities
– scholarly primitives
– research data and virtual organizations
– visualisation in digital libraries
– digital libraries as source of big data for humanities

*Users, communities, personal data*
– social networking, web 2.0 and collaborative interfaces in digital =
libraries
– social-technical perspectives of digital information
– user mobility and context awareness in information access
– personal information management and personal digital libraries
– long term preservation in personal digital libraries
– community-driven digital libraries

*Special track*: Digital Libraries in the industry

* Important Dates *
– Full and Short papers, Posters and Demonstrations: March 20, 2015
– Panels, Workshops, Tutorials: February 28, 2015
– Notification of acceptance for Papers, Posters, and Demonstrations: =
May 22, 2015
– Notification of acceptance for Panels, Workshops and Tutorials: April =
13, 2015
– Camera Ready Versions: June 12, 2015
– Doctoral Consortium Papers Submission Deadline: June 1, 2015
– Doctoral Consortium Acceptance Notification: June 22, 2015
– End of Early Registration: July 15, 2015
– Conference Dates: September 14-18, 2015

* Formatting Instructions *
Full papers (12 pages), short-papers (6 pages), posters and =
demonstrations (4 pages) must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. The TPDL 2015 proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs). Therefore all submissions
should conform to the formatting instructions described in the “For Authors” webpage (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=3D0-164-6-793341-0). For Doctoral Consortium, papers are expected to have a maximum of 8-10 pages, including references. Papers is recommended to be formatted according to Springer LNCS guidelines. In case your paper includes images or screenshots please ensure that you set image compression at 600dpi when you produce your PDF file.

* Submission *
All papers, short-papers, posters and demonstrations must be submitted in electronic format (PDF) via the conference’s EasyChair submission page (TBA). According to the Registration Regulation for TPDL 2015, inclusion of papers in the Proceedings is conditional upon registration of at least one author per paper.

* Organization *
General Chairs:
Cezary Mazurek, PSNC, Poland
Marcin Werla, PSNC, Poland

Program Chair:
Sarantos Kapidakis, Ionian University, Greece

Organizing Chair:
Damian Niemir, PSNC, Poland

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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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