Weekly Roundup: 2/7-2/11

• Call for Proposals:  Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship.  Due February 15
• Call for Proposals:  IFLA "Education for Digital Curation."  Due February 28
• Call for Proposals:  Chapters for Web Search Engine Research.  Due March 15
• Call for Proposals:  Chapters for Learning by Doing:  Professional Development in Online Learning Environments.  Due February 28
• Call for Proposals:  Digithum.  Due March 10
• Call for Proposals:  Chapters for Emerging Issues in the Humanities and Social Sciences.  Due March 15
• Call for Proposals:  IBSU Scientific Journal. Due April 15
• Call for Proposals:  EDULEARN11.  Due March 31
• Call for Proposals:  4T Meeting.  Due February 15
• Call for Proposals:  International Social Science Review.  Due June 15
• Call for Proposals:  Reference Services Review.  Due April 1
• Call for Proposals:  Public Services Quarterly.  Due June 1
• Call for Proposals:  6th National Extension Education Congress on "Emerging Models of Technology Application for Agri-rural development."  Due August 25
• Call for Proposals:  ETD2011.  Due February 28
• Call for Proposals:  USETDA 2011.  Due February 28

• Conference:  LOEX 2011.  Register by February 11
• Conference:  ACRL 2011 Virtual Conference
• Conference:  EDUCAUSE Southwest Online. February 22-24

• Call for Participation:  Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World.  Due March 21
• Call for Participation:  Book Reviewers for Environment, Place, and Space
• Call for Participation:  ACRL Committees.  Due February 15

• Call for Nominations:  VLA Paraprofessional Forum Awards (3).  Due May 1

Call for Proposals: 6th National Extension Education Congress on “Emerging Models of Technology Application for Agri-rural Development." Due August 25

The 6th NEEC is the forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of in agriculture extension and allied subjects. The congress will bring together researchers, educationist and extension personals in the domain of interest from around the world. You are warmly welcome to submit your new research papers for NEEC 2011.

Major Themes and Sub-Themes
• Climate change : issues and challenges
• Emerging Extension methods, approaches - Experiences
• ICT intervention in agricultural development
• Gender perspectives in the context of agriculture development
• Changing the face of rural entrepreneurship 
• Agriculture policies for emerging and transition economies

Important Dates
Abstract Submission : Before August 25, 2011
Notification of Acceptance : On September 25, 2011
Authors' Registration : Before November 15, 2011

Congress Vanue
ICAR Research Complex for Goa Ela, Old Goa 

Email: neec2011goa@gmail.com Visit the website at http://www.seea.org.in/neec2011/neec2011-index.html

Call for Proposals: International Social Science Review. Due June 15

The International Social Science Review, the peer-reviewed journal of Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society in Social Sciences published semi-annually, invites the submission of manuscripts in history, political science, sociology, anthropology, economics, international relations, criminal justice, social work, psychology, social philosophy, history of education, and human/cultural geography. Articles must be based on original reserach, well-written, and should not exceed thirty pages in length (including endnotes, double-spaced, and written in Times New Roman 12 font). Endnotes and style must conform with Kate Turabian, A Manual of Style for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (7th ed.) and Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.), respectively. 


Deadline for submissions for publication in the Fall/Winter 2011 issue of the journal is June 15, 2011. Authors interested in publishing in the ISSR are askled to submit a 100-150 word abstract of their manuscript, three hard copies of the paper, contact information (phone number, mailing address, e-mail address), and an abbreviated c.v. to:

Dean Fafoutis
Editor, International Social Science Review
Department of History
Salisbury University
1101 Camden Avenue
Salisbury, MD 21801
dxfafoutis@salisbury.edu
(410) 546-6004

Conference: ACRL 2011 Virtual Conference

ACRL 2011 Virtual Conference Registration Now Open!

Registration is now open for the ACRL 2011 Virtual Conference, offered March 31 - April 1 during the ACRL 2011 conference in Philadelphia. The Virtual Conference provides an affordable opportunity to participate in conference activities online. For librarians with reduced support for professional development or travel, the Virtual Conference is a great way to leverage a small investment into large learning opportunities. Like its face-to-face counterpart, the ACRL 2011 Virtual Conference will run on a real-time schedule. The online conference features 12 live Webcasts, as well as asynchronous activities, allowing for convenient scheduling and flexibility. The Virtual Conference archive is available for one year and will include more than 130 slidecasts (PowerPoint slides or other presentations synced with audio of the speaker) from every contributed paper, Cyber Zed Shed presentation, invited paper and panel session presented at the face-to-face conference. The Virtual Conference kicks off on at 1 p.m. CST on March 8, 2011, with a preview Webcast featuring Marie Radford, associate professor in the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information. The preview Webcast is free and open to all, regardless of ACRL 2011 registration. ACRL 2011 Virtual Conference registration materials are now available on theACRL Website. Individual and group registration rates are available. Register your institution as a group and participate in professional development with your colleagues all year long. Contact Virtual Conference Co-Chairs Erin Dorney (erin.dorney@millersville.edu) and Scott Vine (scott.vine@fandm.edu) or Margot Conahan at ACRL - (312) 280-2522; mconahan@ala.org - with questions.

Call for Participation: Book Reviewers for Environment, Place, and Space

REQUEST FOR BOOK REVIEWERS Environment, Place, and Space is the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place (IASESP) with ISSNs: ISSN: 2066-5377 (paperback) and ISSN: 2068-9616 (electronic). It is primarily a forum for the presentation of research studies on topics of interest to a transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary readership committed to values contributing to our rootedness to the earth and attunement to the environment, space, and place. Interdisciplinary is taken to mean that each discipline is encouraged to share its own particular excellence with the other disciplines in an open exchange. Transdisciplinary is taken to mean that contributors are required to make the "geographical turn." Meant in the etymological sense of "earthinscription" or the spatiality of meaning, the geographical turn frames or makes thematic the spatial aspect of any and all earthly / worldly phenomena. All articles submitted to this journal are reviewed and cleared for publication by anonymous referees. Notes for Book Review Contributors Books for review (more books will become available soon): The following books are available for immediate review, please contact DeMond Miller millerd@rowan.edu (Rowan University, USA) for specific guidelines and to have the book mailed to you. We ask for a three to four week review period. As a token of the journal’s appreciation of the published review, reviewers are given the manuscript. (2011) Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory By: Edward W. Soja (2010) Religion: From Place To Placelessness By: Yi-Fu Tuan, Martha A. Strawn (Photographer) (2008) Sacred History And Sacred Geography By: David Martin

DeMond Miller Rowan University Department of Sociology Email: millerd@rowan.edu

Weekly Roundup: 1/31-2/5

• Call for Proposals:  Academic Exchange Quarterly:  Alternative Library Instruction.  Due August 31
• Call for Proposals:  14th Annual LITA National Forum.  Due February 18
• Call for Proposals:  Practical Academic Librarianship
• Call for Proposals:  Chapters for Collaboration and the Semantic Web.  Due March 1
• Call for Proposals:  American Goes Green:  An Encyclopedia... Due in April

Call for Proposals: Practical Academic Librarianship

Call for Papers for Practical Academic Librarianship: The International Journal of the SLA Academic Division

URL: https://journals.tdl.org/pal/index

Practical Academic Librarianship (PAL) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal for all academic librarians and information professionals serving academic departments or affiliated institutions including centers, institutes, specialized collections, and special units within or related toacademic units. Well-written manuscripts that are of interest to these communities will be considered, including: implementation of new initiatives and best practices; original and significant research findings with practical applications; analysis of issues and trends; descriptive narratives of successful and unsuccessful ventures; and examination of the role of libraries in meeting specialized client needs.

PAL publishes items as soon as they are ready by adding articles to the "current" volume's Table of Contents. The journal publishes two issues a year. The first issue runs January 1 - June 30 and the second issue runs July 1 - December 31.

The Journal publishes three categories of works:

• Peer reviewed research papers (original research): not more than 25 single-spaced pages

• Think pieces (intended to spur discussion, not blind peer-reviewed): 3-15 single-spaced pages

• Interactive online exhibits and demonstrations.

Authors need to register: https://journals.tdl.org/pal/user/register
 with the journal prior to submitting, or if already registered can simply log in at https://journals.tdl.org/index/login and begin the 5 step process.

Leslie J. Reynolds

Associate Professor
Interim Associate Dean for User Services Founding Editor, Practical Academic Librarianship: The International Journal of the SLA Academic Division

Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843
Leslie.reynolds@tamu.edu
979-458-0138