Call for Proposals: Sightings, University of Chicago Divinity School. Due ASAP

Sightings is looking for contributors

Sightings is an online publication of the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Sightings articles provide critical analysis of current issues and events at the intersections of religion and art, business, education, the media or politics. Articles run between 550 and 700 words, and their aim is to “spread light, not heat.”

Sightings has about 7,300 e-mail subscribers, and columns are frequently reprinted (for example, on the History News Network, Religion Dispatches, Reuters, and other websites and blogs), and are often used in classrooms and pulpits.

Previous columns give a good indication of the topical range and tone for acceptable essays. 

Previous issues of Sightings are archived here: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/martycenter/publications/sightings/

Sightings does not publish book or movie reviews, fictional pieces or poetry.

Submissions should be e-mailed to the editor with a short bio.

Call for Participation: ABC-CLIO Climate Change Encyclopedia. Due ASAP

ABC-CLIO is pleased to announce the preparation of a major new reference set, Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of Science and History, under the general editorship of Brian Black (of Penn State University’s Altoona College). This four-volume set will include essays approaching climate change from multiple perspectives, including scientific background, historical context, and public policy. Clicking on the URL (http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/g/x/gxw20/ABC_CLIO.htm) will take you to a list of topics for the HISTORY portion of the encyclopedia. The articles include brief biographies of scientists and scientific institutions, the development of climate theories, the collection of climate data, and important political and cultural events. Authors will be paid a modest honorarium. If you are interested in contributing one or more of these articles, then please contact Gary Weisel at gxw20@psu.edu. Feel free to suggest a topic that you believe we need to cover.

Call for Proposals: RUSA Online Professional Development Courses/Webinars. Due ASAP

The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) invites interested instructors and presenters to submit proposals for online professional development courses and webinars to be offered starting in early 2011.

RUSA currently offers several online courses in the areas of reference and readers advisory, and is looking to expand its available course topics, and also include webinars among its offerings. Topics of particular interest include skills for assisting patrons with job searches, collection development and introductory reference and user services skills. There is also significant interest in offering online learning opportunities that go more in-depth with business reference skills as a follow-up to the consistently sold out Business Reference 101 course currently offered by RUSA.

Additional topics for online learning proposals might include but are not limited to company and industry research; international business; small businesses; entrepreneurship; consumer demographics; fundamentals of reference; providing reference in virtual libraries; providing reference in the one-person library; reference services in church and synagogue libraries; customer service fundamentals for reference staff; reference service fundamentals for embedded librarians; marketing the library and reference services; government documents fundamentals for reference librarians; legal reference for non-law librarians.

More information about how to submit proposals is available at the RUSA blog:

http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2010/10/15/2010callforprofdevelproposals-1/

Weekly Roundup: 10/11-15

• Conference:  UVA's 3rd Annual Research 2.0 Conference.  February 9

• Call for Nominations: PRIMO.  Due October 31
• Call for Nominations:  Instruction Publication of the Year.  Due December 3
• Call for Nominations:  Instruction Section Innovation Award.  Due December 3

•  Free Webinar:  The Story of an Open Source Library.  October 21
•  Free Webinar:  Frontline Advocacy.  October 29

• Call for Proposals:  The Entrepreneurial Librarian.  Due November 19
• Call for Proposals:  Joint Conference of the Popular Culture & American Culture/SWPCA.  Biographies Area.  Due December 15
• Call for Proposals:  ACRL 2011 Virtual Conference.  Due November 1
• Call for Proposals:  NASKO 2011.  Due January 31
• Call for Proposals:  Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians 2011 Conference.  Due November 15
• Call for Proposals:  EVA London 2011.  Due January 15
• Call for Proposals:  Interdisciplinary Studies, PCA/ACA Conference 2011.  Due December 15
• Call for Proposals:  Journal of International Organizational Studies.  Due November 1
• Call for Proposals:  SCIL Works 2011. Due October 29
• Call for Proposals:  Libraries & The Cultural Record.  Due November 1

Weekly Roundup: 10/4-10/8

•  Free Webinar:  WorldCat Resource Sharing Best Practices.  October 6
•  Free Webinar:  Teaching Well Online.  October 8
•  Free Webinar:  Technology Planning for Libraries.  October 12
•  Free Webinar:  Tech Talk with Michael Sauers:  Live from the Internet Librarian!  October 27
•  Free Webinar:  The New Medline Plus.  October 27

• VT Speaker Series:  Pink Ribbon Blues.  October 12

• Conference:  Educational Technology Leadership Conference.  Register by November 16
• Conference:  (De)constructing the Archive in a Digital Age.  November 24 
• Conference:  Transdisciplinary Approaches to Violence Prevention.  Register ASAP

• Call for Proposals:  EDUCAUSE & Internet2 Security Professionals Conference.  Due November 15
• Call for Proposals:  Collecting, Collectors, Collectibles, and Collections.  Due December 15 
• Call for Proposals:  The 3 T's:  Exploring New Frontiers in Teaching, Technology, and Transliteracy.  Due October 29
• Call for Proposals:  Annual Conference on the First Year Experience.  Due October 11
• Call for Proposals:  E-Science, Data Management, and Us:  Research Libraries and Librarians.  Due October 18
• Call for Proposals:  Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian.  Due November 30
• Call for Proposals:  Pecha Kucha with Our Stuff:  Teaching with Rare Books, Archives, and Special Collections.  Due October 30
• Call for Proposals:  NERCOMP 2011.  Due October 22
• Call for Proposals:  Instruction Section Current Issues Discussion Group at ALA Annual.  Due November 1 
• Call for Proposals:  Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve.  Due October 11 and November 21
• Call for Proposals:  The Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians. Due October 15
• Call for Proposals:  ACRL STS Posters during ALA Annual 2011.  Due December 20 
• Call for Proposals:  ACRL STS Research Forum at ALA Annual 2011.  Due December 20

• Call for Applicants:  3M/NMRT Professional Development Grant.  Due December 15

• Call for Nominations:  Margaret E. Monroe Library Adult Services Award.  Due December 15

• Call for Participation:  ALA Diversity Research Grants Advisory Committee 
• Call for Participation:  ALA Committee Volunteer Form now Available.  Due November 5

Call for Participation: ALA Diversity Research Grants Advisory Committee

The ALA Council Committee on Diversity is currently seeking ALA members to volunteer to serve on its Diversity Research Grants Advisory Committee.  This Subcommittee is charged with overseeing the ALA Office for Diversity’s Diversity Research Grants Program (http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/diversity/divresearchgrants/diversityresearch.cfm) and the selection of the annual Achievement in Library Diversity Research Honoree.

Terms are one year and will extend from now through the conclusion of the 2011 ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA.

The full charge of the Diversity Research Grants Advisory Committee is: 

To oversee, coordinate, and support the Diversity Research Grants program; to recommend potential award jurors to the ALA Office for Diversity for the Diversity Research Grants award process; to oversee the application, selection and notification process; to serve as a resource for awardees; and to make recommendations on and support fundraising and marketing initiatives related to the Diversity Research Grants program http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/committees/ala/ala-divdrg.cfm

Interested volunteers should e-mail diversity@ala.org.  

Weekly Roundup: 9/27-10/1

• Free Webinar:  Effective Cyber Defense for Higher Education and the Nation.  Archived
• Free Webinar:  Conversations on Curricular Resource Strategy on the Road Ahead.  October 7 
• Free Webinar:  Cloud Computing:  Why You Should Care.  October 14
• Free Webinar:   Give Them What They Want?  Patron Driven Acquisitions for eBooks.  October 5
• Free Webinar:  Beyond MARC Records:  Patron Discovery of eBooks.  October 5

• Call for Proposals:  ALA Annual 2011 Poster Sessions.  Due January 1
• Call for Proposals:  ACRL 2011 Cyber Zed Shed, Posters, and Round Table Discussions.  Due November 1
• Call for Proposals:  Information & Religion. Due December 31 
• Call for Proposals:  "Short Courses" at Wayne St. University.  Due ASAP 
• Call for Proposals:  Virginia Libraries.  Due October 1 
• Call for Proposals:  2011 LITA National Forum.  Due Feburary 18, 2011
• Call for Proposals:  Library History Newsletter.  Due November 1 
• Call for Proposals:  2011 Information Fluency Conference.  Due December 9 

• Call for Applicants:  ACRL Immersion 2011.  Due December 1
• Call for Applicants:  ALCTS Seeks Paper Series Editor.  Due October 15 
• Call for Applicants:  2011 Shirley Olofson Award.  Due December 14 
• Call for Applicants:  ACRL 2011 Scholarships.  Due November 9