Weekly Roundup: 8/22-8/26

Publication CFPs

• Call for Proposals:  Chapters for The Library 2025.  Due November 1
• Call for Proposals:  Chapters for Information Literacy and Social Justice:  Radical Professional Praxis.  Due September 15

Conference CFPs

• Call for Proposals:  20th Annual Virginia Library Association Paraprofessional Conference.  Due October 3

Call for Proposals: 20th Annual Virginia Library Association Paraprofessional Conference. Due October 3

The 20th Annual Virginia Library Association Paraprofessional Conference, “Communication 2012 – Paraprofessionals have come a long way, 1992-2012″ will be held on May 20-22, 2012 at the Holiday Inn Koger Center in Richmond. Now is the time to submit YOUR Concurrent Session Proposal Form (Deadline for submissions is October 3, 2011). http://www.vla.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/vlapf_session_proposal12_form.pdf If you have any questions about the conference, please contact Co- Chairs Deloris Thomas (djthom@wm.edu) and/or Susan Carroll (carrollsk@longwood.edu).

Call for Proposals: Chapters for Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis. Due September 15

Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis (An Edited
Collection)

Editors:
Shana Higgins and Lua Gregory are instruction and reference librarians at
University of Redlands.

Outline:
In her award winning essay “Information Literacy and Reflective Pedagogical
Praxis,” Heidi L.M. Jacobs draws out the inherent democratizing and social
justice elements of information literacy as defined in the “Alexandria
Proclamation On Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning.”    She suggests
that because of these underlying social justice elements, information literacy
“is not only educational but also inherently political, cultural, and
social” (258).  We propose to extend the discussion of information literacy
and its social justice aspects that James Elmborg, Cushla Kapitzke, Maria T.
Accardi, Emily Drabinski, and Alana Kumbier, and Maura Smale have begun.  If we
consider the democratizing values implicit in librarianship’s professional
ethics (such as intellectual freedom, social responsibility, diversity,
democracy and privacy, among others) in relation to the sociopolitical context
of information literacy, we will begin to make intentional connections between
professional advocacy and curriculum and pedagogy.  We hope this book will
encourage a renewal of professional discourse about libraries in their social
context, through a re-activation of the “neutrality debate,” as well as
through an investigation of what it means for a global citizen to be
information literate in late capitalism.

Objective of book:
This edited collection, to be published by Library Juice Press in Fall 2012,
poses the following questions: What are the limits of standards and outcomes,
such as ACRL’s "Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher
Education," in fitting information literacy instruction to the complex contexts
of information in the real world?  Would the teaching of social justice and the
democratizing values of the library profession strengthen critical information
literacy in the classroom?  And how do we balance the need to teach search
skills and critical information literacy in our instructional efforts?

Target audience:
The target audience for this book includes instruction librarians, library
instruction program coordinators, faculty and instructors interested in
information literacy, and all librarians interested in the political, economic,
social, and cultural contexts of the production, dissemination, suppression,
and consumption of information.

Possible topics:
We encourage proposals on the intersections of information literacy instruction
with the democratizing values of the library profession.

•         Possible topics may include information literacy aspects of media
coverage of war and embedded journalism, renewal of the Patriot Act,
market-based censorship, for-profit libraries (Library Systems & Services), EPA
library closures and access to environmental information, immigrants and
library access, Wikileaks and government censorship, corporate censorship,
anti-communism and anti-socialism in the media, classification of government
documents, international and comparative studies on censorship, First Amendment
protection to whistleblowers and the press, British Petroleum and oil spill
research, global warming censorship, and library database mergers.

•         Examples of information literacy sessions focusing on the above
topics and/or framed by democratizing and social justice values of the library
profession. Examples can also be aimed at specific disciplines.

•         Discussions of theories/theorists (e.g. Noam Chomsky, Edward S.
Herman, C. Wright Mills, Paulo Friere, Peter McClaren, etc.) and their
usefulness in illuminating sociopolitical contexts of information within the
classroom.

•         Discussions on the “neutrality debate” in light of the
sociopolitical and cultural context of information.

Submission Guidelines:
Please submit abstracts and proposals of up to 500 words to
ilandsocialjustice@gmail.com by September 15, 2011.  Notifications will be sent
by November 1 and manuscripts from 1,500-7,000 words will be due by March 1,
2012.

Call for Proposals: Chapters for The Library 2025. Due November 1

Call for Chapter Proposals: The Library 2025

Are you an innovative librarian with administrative ambitions? Or are you already a dynamic new library dean or director? We want to hear your vision of the future of libraries: where you think things are -- or better yet, should be -- going. New and aspiring library leaders with a long view are invited to contribute to this upcoming edited volume of visionary essays from ALA Editions, The Library 2025,  that will help to guide the profession into the future.

--Book Abstract--

In an information environment where the only constant is change, many wonder where libraries are headed, if not into oblivion. This edited collection brings together the brightest new minds in the profession to share their fresh vision of the future of libraries. These promising current and future library administrators will have a significant impact in shaping this future. Drawing from their personal experiences, they bring their barrier-breaking perspectives to the task of reinventing the library. Through their essays, they answer the question: What should libraries look like in the future, what barriers exist, and how can we overcome them to realize the library of the future? 

--Submissions--

Library 2025 will gather together essays focusing on envisioned futures for all types of libraries.  We seek chapter proposals from new library leaders – both those who occupy positions of authority and those who would like to lead a library later in their career. Chapters that focus on one aspect of libraries are welcomed, as are chapters that take a broad perspective.  Chapter topics may include, but are not limited to:

  * Leadership & Management (i.e., leadership theories, new staffing models)
  * Services (i.e., next-generation reference services, liaison roles)
  * Library as Place (i.e., information/learning commons, shared spaces)
  * Collections & Access (i.e., new formats, purchasing models, resource sharing)
  * Instruction & Literacy (i.e., Information, Functional, Transliteracy, Media, Visual)
  * Outreach (i.e., marketing, non-legislative Advocacy)
  * External Relations (i.e., collaborating with non-library organizations, community partnerships, donor cultivation)
  * The Profession (i.e., LIS education, state/regional/national associations, DIY movements, professional expectations)
  * The Political & Economic Environment (i.e., intellectual freedom, Legislative advocacy, our financial future)
  * Publishing and Scholarly Communications (i.e., future of publishing, digital repositories, open access)

Inspired by the guiding questions of Evans and O’Connor’s The Future By Us: Young Leaders Imagine Australia Beyond 2020, each chapter should address:

  * A notable experience that shaped the author’s perspective on the future of libraries;
  * The current challenge(s) and/or future opportunity(ies) in the world of libraries related to the topic of the chapter;
  * An idea and/or strategy to effect change;
  * The potential hurdles, costs, and competing interests involved in this strategy, and how they can be negotiated; and
  * The author’s vision of an ideal future library.

--Propose a Chapter--

The proposal deadline is November 1, 2011. To propose a chapter, submit a one-page chapter abstract with a brief CV or resume and writing sample (in Word format) tolibrary2025book@gmail.com. Authors will be notified of acceptance on or before December 16, 2011, and will be expected to submit completed chapters by May 1, 2012. 

--Editors--

Inquiries can be made to either of the editors:

Eric Frierson, ericfr@stedwards.edu. Library Digital Services Manager, St. Edward’s University and Ph.D. student in Managerial Leadership in the Information Professions at Simmons College.

Kim Leeder, kimleeder@cwidaho.cc. Director of Library Services, College of Western Idaho, 2008 ALA Emerging Leader, Library Journal 2011 Mover & Shaker.

Weekly Roundup: 8/15-8/19

Publication CFPs

• Call for Full Papers:  Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning.  Due October 1
• Call for Proposals:  Chapters for Workplace Culture in Academic Libraries.  Due September 1

Conerence CFPs

• Call for Proposals:  Computers in Libraries 2012.  Due September 9
• Call for Proposals:  CDL-NASIG 27th Annual Conference.  Due September 16

Conferences

• Conference:  HASTAC 2011 Digital Scholarly Communications.  December 1-3

Call for Applicants

• Call for Applicants:  Public Services Quarterly Opportunities

Call for Applicants: Public Services Quarterly Opportunities

Public Services Quarterly opportunities

Public Services Quarterly is recruiting for several volunteer positions.

*** Column Editor for “Best of the Literature” – this person will write columns and/or recruit others and edit columns that provide an annotated bibliography of 5-8 recent publications on a topic of interest to public services librarians.

*** Column Editor for “Internet Resources” - this person will write and/or recruit others and edit columns that review web resources that would be useful to public services librarians. 

*** Members of the Editorial Board – we need two to four people to serve as peer reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the journal. 

If you are interested in any of these opportunities, please send me a note expressing interest and providing information about your experience or qualifications.

See http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/WPSQ for more details about the journal.  If you don’t have access to the journal and would like to see samples of the columns, just let me know.

Thanks for considering, and please get in touch if you have any questions.

Beth Blakesley

Incoming Editor, Public Services Quarterly

beth.blakesley@wsu.edu

Call for Proposals: CDL-NASIG 27th Annual Conference. Due September 16

The 2012 Program Planning Committee (PPC) invites proposals

for conference sessions. Publishers, vendors, librarians,

and others in the field of electronic resources and serials

are encouraged to submit proposals relating to scholarly

communication, publishing, and resource acquisition,

management, and discovery. Proposals based on emerging

trends, case studies, and descriptive and experimental

research findings are encouraged.

The PPC is looking for topics within, though not limited to,

the following learning tracks:

Access and Discovery

Acquisitions and Licensing

Archiving and Preservation

Cataloging and Metadata

Collection Development

eResources, eSerials, eBooks and  eManagement

Mobile Technology

Open Access and Digital Repositories

Publishing and Scholarly communication

Standards

To propose a program or idea, please use the online form

<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NASIG2012>.  This Call for

Proposals will close on September 16, 2011.

Please note the following:

* Formerly, NASIG conferences included sessions with the

designations of Strategy” and “Tactic.” These

designations will not be used at the 2012 conference, and

all sessions that formerly held these designations will be

one hour long.

* The Program Planning Committee welcomes proposals that are

still in the formative stages, and may work with potential

presenters to focus their proposals further.

* Proposals should name any particular products or services

that are integral to the content of the presentation.

However, as a matter of NASIG policy, programs should not be

used as a venue to promote or attack any product, service,

or institution.

* Time management issues generally limit each session to two

to three speakers for conference sessions. Panels of four

(4) or more speakers must be discussed in advance with the

Program Planning Committee (prog-plan@nasig.org)

* NASIG has a reimbursement policy

<http://www.nasig.org/conference_compensation.cfm> for

conference speakers whose organizations do not cover

expenses.

Inquiries may be sent to the PPC Chair (Michael Hanson) and

Vice Chair (Karen Davidson) at: prog-plan@nasig.org

We look forward to a great conference in Nashville!

Michael Hanson and Karen Davidson

NASIG PPC Chair and Vice Chair

Established in 1985, the North American Serials Interest

Group, Inc. is an independent organization that promotes

communication and sharing of ideas among all members of the

serials information chain – anyone working with or

concerned about serial publications.  For more information

about NASIG, please visit http://www.nasig.org/.