Happy Holidays from PD@VTL!

Professional Development @ Virginia Tech Libraries will be taking a much-needed holiday vacation from 12/23-1/2. We'll be back on 1/3 with more CFP's, calls for participation, and more professional development fun.  Until then, have a safe, happy, and relaxing holiday!

Weekly Roundup: 12/20-12/22

• Call for Proposals:  Religion & Popular Culture in America.  Due January 10
• Call for Proposals:  Library History Round Table Research Forum.  Due January 15
• Call for Proposals:  Midwest Junto for the History of Science.  Due February 22
• Call for Proposals:  Research and Discussion Journal
• Call for Proposals:  Mosaic (journal).  Due May 10
• Call for Proposals:  2011 ALA Annual Conference Poster Session.  Due January 7
• Call for Proposals:  The Future of Education.  Due February 14
• Call for Proposal:  4th International Symposium of CORPUS:  Diets and Food Patterns.  Due March 15
• Call for Proposals:  Digital Displays:  Women Imagining Blogsopheres... Due December 30
• Call for Proposals:  Chapters for Preserving Local Writers, Genealogy, Photographs, Newspapers, and Related Materials.  Due January 30
• Call for Proposals:  MobiWIS-2011 Conference.  Due January 1

Call for Proposals: Research and Discussion Journal.

The primary focus of the R&D Journal is to enable full disciplinary pluralism by publishing articles in sociology, humanities, economics, law, public administration, management, political science, communication and other related fields. Therefore R&D Journal introduces new themes in the field of social sciences and welcomes theoretical as well as quantitative and qualitative empirical and applicative contributions from well established researchers as well as young prospective authors.
The R&D Journal strives for innovative approaches that are aimed at exploring complex issues in various fields of social sciences and humanities.

The R&D Journal also publishes thematic issues, dealing with specific themes from different points of viewing or disciplines. By doing this, the RSC Journal makes a valid contribution towards interdisciplinary understanding of social phenomena and presents different approaches towards solving them.

The R&D journal is published in printed and electronic form three times per year.

In order to ensure the academic standard of all published articles, the latter, before being officially accepted for publication, are anonymously reviewed by an independent reviewer from the respective field.

More available at website:  http://www.fuds.si/en/dejavnosti/zaloznistvo/?v=raziskave-in-razprave

Weekly Roundup: 12/13-12/17

• Call for Proposals:  Indiana Libraries--Information Literacy Instruction for Science & Health Care Students.  Due May 1
• Call for Proposals:  The Acquisitions Institute.  Due December 30
• Call for Proposals:  IFLA Information Literacy Section.  Due January 25
• Call for Proposals:  IFLA Science & Technology Libraries Section.  Due February 1
• Call for Proposals:  Speak at the College & University Libraries Business Section at 2011 SLA.  Due December 17
• Call for Proposals:  International Conference on Information Society 2011.  Due January 31
• Call for Proposal:  New Column for Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship.  Due January 28
• Call for Proposals:  Food Studies:  An Interdisciplinary Conference.  Due January 4

• Call for Nominations:  2011 SAA Waldo Gifford Leland Award.  Due February 28

• Call for Applicants:  ACRL 2011 Video Contest.  Due January 21
• Call for Applicants:  2011 Marion E. Sparks Award for Professional Development (ALA).  Due February 15

• Call for Participation:  Reviewers for Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship
• Call for Participation:  Book and Film Reviewers for Indigenous Peoples' Issues and Resources

Call for Participation: Book and Film Reviewers for Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources

Call for Book and Film Reviewers

Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources (IPIR), a leading international publication on indigenous peoples is seeking book and film reviewers. Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources is a worldwide network of organizations, academics, activists, indigenous groups, and others representing indigenous and tribal peoples.

IPIR invites book review submissions from scholars, researchers, practitioners and professionals. A complete list of available books and films for review can be found here: http://indigenouspeoplesissues.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=466

To review one of the available titles, please send an email to the Editor at pnj@indigenouspeoplesissues.com

Call for Participation: Reviewers for Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship

Call for reviewers--Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship
I am the book reviews editor for the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship.  We routinely review books related to e-resources and libraries  -- using databases, guides to e-resources for librarians, and other books of interest to librarians. We are interested in gaining some new reviewers for our incoming books. As an incentive you get to keep the book you review. If you have an interest in participating please contact me.

Karl Bridges (karl.bridges@uvm.edu) 
Information and Instruction Services
Bailey/Howe Library
University of Vermont

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This journal aims to inform librarians and other information professionals about current research, evolving work-related processes and procedures, and the latest news on topics related to electronic resources and the digital environment?s impact on collecting, acquiring and making accessible library materials.

Library professionals today require an integrated approach to understanding and managing electronic resources in libraries. They need a place to find scholarly, peer-reviewed literature, opinion pieces, latest news and e-resources related updates. Since topics related to electronic resources span many areas of the profession, there is a proliferation of articles and conferences with electronic resources topics ? often too many and too scattered for any one individual to read or attend. This journal will highlight pivotal, interesting and thought-provoking articles and conference presentations to keep professionals and staff of all levels on top of the latest ideas and changes in the field. The journal will also have relevant book reviews to enable reader to target their professional readings.

The Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship is intended for library administrators, librarians, and other information professionals who work with managing electronic resources in libraries. It is also intended to bridge the gap between theory and practice for LIS educators and students, and is a starting point for information professionals from various backgrounds concerned with issues surrounding the changes in collections, acquisitions and services in libraries in the digital age.

Weekly Roundup: 12/6-10

• Call for Proposals:  Kentucky Library Association Conference.  Due February 18
• Call for Proposals:  Education & Behavioral Sciences Section Poster Session and Discussion Forum at ALA Annual. Due January 6
• Call for Proposals:  9th Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries & Information Services.  Due February 28
• Call for Proposals:  Global Journal of Management and Business Research.  Due January 15
• Call for Proposals:  Chapters for Marketing Methods for Libraries.  Due January 30
• Call for Proposals:  3rd Annual PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference.  Due March 15

• Call for Participation:  NMRT Resume Reviewers

• Free Webinar:  Spotlight on Cloud Computing.  December 10

• Call for Applicants: Marshall Cavendish Award.  Due April 22

Call for Participation: NMRT Resume Reviewers

Ready to give back? Be a mentor without breaking a sweat!

We are seeking librarians with experience in human resources, the
hiring process or search committees to review resumes & cover letters
via email. This service is sponsored by NMRT to assist job seekers new
to the profession.

How does it work?
Job seekers (reviewees) send their resumes to the Résumé Review
Service (RRS) email account with some information about the type of
library that they are interested in and their area of specialization.
The co-chairs of the Résumé Review Service, monitor this email account
and match the reviewee with a reviewer from our list.

If you are matched with an applicant, the following will occur:

1. One of co-chairs will contact you and will ask if you are able to
complete a review within 2 weeks.

2. Please respond to the email as soon as you can, either accepting or
declining the review.

3. If you are unable to review, just reply and let us know. We will
contact another reviewer. We realize that everyone is busy and that
some times are better than others.

4. If you accept, then we will send you the resume and/or cover
letter, along with a bit of information about the reviewee.

5. Please take a look at the review tips here:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/nmrt/oversightgroups/comm/resreview/emailguidelines.cfm
. Sometimes the reviewee will ask for specific advice on a part of
her/his resume. If so, please comment on that in addition to your
overall review.

6. When you are finished with the review, send the review to the
reviewee and copy the RRS email (nmrtrrs@yahoo.com). If you would like
to remain anonymous, you may send the review to RRS to be forwarded.
(if so, please note in your email that RRS needs to forward the review
to the reviewee)

7. At any point during the process, please contact us if you have
questions. We check the RRS e-mail every day.

8. Lastly, thanks again. Your time can make a huge difference to new
librarians searching for their first job. The RRS committee and NMRT
thank you too. Without you, we could not provide this important
service.

For further information or to volunteer, please contact the NMRT
Resume Review Service Committee Chair by email at:
nmrtrrs@yahoo.com

Thank You!

Sara Holder
Member, NMRT Resume Review Committee

Weekly Roundup: 11/29-12/3

• Conference:  LILAC 2011.  Register by December 31
• Conference:  Scholarly Communication in the Digital Age.  Register by January 14

• Call for Proposals:  International Journal of ePortfolio
• Call for Proposals:  Chapters for Global Perspectives on School Libraries.  Due December 1
• Call for Proposals:  Workshop on Libraries and Human Rights.  Due December 15
• Call for Proposals:  1st Annual Conference on Information & Religion.  Due December 31
• Call for Proposals:  3rd Global Conference:  Videogame Cultures.  Due January 14
• Call for Proposals:  West Coast Symposium in the History of Medicine. Due January 15
• Call for Proposals:  2011 American Literature Association.  Due January 15
• Call for Proposals:  IFLA New Professionals Interest Group.  Due February 1
• Call for Proposals:  Chapters for Sci/Tech Information Literacy Book.  Due December 31
• Call for Proposals:  New Pathways to Knowledge:  Combining Arts and Social Science Research.  Due February 1

• Call for Nominations:  ALA 2011 Equality Award.  Due December 17
• Call for Nominations:  Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship.  Due December 17

• Call for Participation:  LLAMA Mentoring Program. Due December 3

Call for Proposals: International Journal of ePortfolio.

The International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP) is a double-blind, peer-reviewed, open access journal that begins accepting manuscripts on January 21, 2011.  The first call for papers, along with full journal details, can be found at

            http://www.theijep.com

The mission of the International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP) is to encourage the study of practices and pedagogies associated with ePortfolio in educational settings.  The journal’s focus includes the explanation, interpretation, application, and dissemination of researchers’, practitioners’, and developers’ experiences relevant to ePortfolio.  It also serves to provide a multi-faceted, single source of information for those engaging in projects and practices associated with ePortfolio.  A refereed (blind) peer-reviewed journal, IJeP embraces inquiry into ePortfolio in educational settings holistically; therefore, manuscripts considering the following areas of investigation are welcomed:

• instruction and principles of learning that utilize and inform practical, effective ePortfolio methodologies;
• evaluation and assessment methodologies and practices supported by ePortfolio;
• case studies and best practices regarding applications of ePortfolio for learning, assessment, and professional development supported by scholarship of teaching and learning practices and research methodologies;
• theoretically rich accounts of the principles grounding ePortfolio work and its relationship to larger social and cultural phenomena; and
• innovative development and applications of technologies that enable new ePortfolio practices.

Those interested in joining the review board for IJeP are encouraged to visit

            http://www.theijep.com/review-board.html

Please feel free to share this announcement with interested colleagues and on appropriate listservs.

Weekly Roundup: 11/22-24

• Call for Proposals:  Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace, and Science Fiction.  Due January 14
• Call for Proposals:  Art of the Book.  Due January 15
• Call for Proposals:  Humanities & Technology Review.  Due March 31
• Call for Proposals:  Gender, Sexuality, Information:  A Reader.  Due September 1 (2011)

• Conference:  RosEvaluation Conference 2011.  April 18-19

• Call for Nominations:  Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Reference & Adult Library Services.  Due December 15

• Free Webinar:  Letting the model build itself:  LMS and PLE Design in Higher Education.  December 2
• Free Webinar:  Technology's Role in the College Completion Agenda. December 3

Call for Proposals: Gender, Sexuality, Information: A Reader. Due September 1

Call for Papers

Gender, Sexuality, Information: A Reader

While information needs and behavior have become a central research concern in library and information studies, the particularities of gender and sexuality have yet to be centered in the field. Bringing queer and feminist theories into conversation with current LIS research, Gender, Sexuality, Information: A Reader addresses this gap, gathering existing research along with new scholarship on the intersection of gender and sexuality and information use. Contributors address a range of concerns, including paradigms of information needs and behavior research, methodological challenges, and current approaches to assessing and meeting LGBTQ and women's information needs. Responding to emergent critiques of positivism and behaviorism in LIS scholarship, this collection also seeks to trouble what we think we mean when we talk about gender and sex, as well as "information" and "behavior," as settled, stable constructs.

Critical and Interdisciplinary Focus

Current work in disciplines as diverse as legal theory, literary criticism, design, anthropology, and technology studies exercise a profound impact on LIS research. At the same time, the somewhat nebulous sub-disciplines within our field, such as information seeking behavior, information structures, archival studies, museology, information retrieval, and information policy, have been connected by researchers in new and innovative ways. LIS scholarship has also sought in recent years to challenge traditional approaches and suggest new directions for research into the purposes, practices, phenomenon, and organization of information. This reader serves as a comprehensive multidisciplinary anthology where different epistemologies and methodologies meet. It offers a timely and reasoned contribution to feminist and queer LIS research and promotes perspectives that can serve the cause of social justice.

Possible topics

Manuscripts can cover a range of topics, both professional and theoretical. The editors strongly encourage submissions concerning the intersection of gender and sexuality with race, ethnicity, religion, and socio-economics. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following: cataloging and classification, assessing user needs, information behavior, alternative social science methods, records management, preservation, documentation, oral history, collection development, curatorship, digital libraries and archives, Internet studies, human-computer interaction, sexual health, sex positive perspectives, activist or oppositional new media, informatics, queer or feminist zines, web design and digital aesthetics, computer coding, digital humanities, censorship and intellectual freedom, information technology policy, children and young adult services, international and comparative LIS issues, grant writing, administration and management, and history of the book and publishing.

Submission Guidelines

The editors encourage practitioners, activists, and both established and emerging scholars to submit manuscripts by September 1, 2011. Manuscripts should rage from 5,000-8,000 words and use the Chicago Manual of Style (Chicago University Press, 2010). Manuscripts should be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) to gsireader.submissions@gmail.com.

About the editors

Rebecca Dean and Patrick Keilty are PhD candidates in information studies with a concentration in women's studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Contact

UCLA Department of Information Studies
GSE&IS Building, Box 951520
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520
Phone: (310) 825-8799
Dean's email: becdean[at]gmail[dot]com
Keilty's email: pkeilty[at]gmail[dot]com

Weekly Roundup: 11/15-19

• Free Webinar:  Virtual Cities/Digital Histories.  December 3-5

• Call for Proposals:  Librarians as Mentors.  Due December 30
• Call for Proposals (Papers):  Computer Mediated Communication:  Issues and Approaches in Education.  Due December 1
• Call for Proposals:  Global Conference on Technology, Innovation, Media & Education.  Due November 30
• Call for Proposals:  Handheld Librarian 4 Conference.  Due December 1
• Call for Proposals:  Social Sciences Conference.  Due December 2
• Call for Proposals:  ASIST 2011.  Due May 31
• Call for Proposals:  5th International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication, and Management.  Due December 17
• Call for Proposals:  Medical Humanities:  Health and Disease in Culture Area.  Due December 15
• Call for Proposals:  Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Digital History Lab & Poster Session.  Due December 15
• Call for Proposals:  Literature & Politics Sessions.  Due December 15
• Call for Proposals:  The Printed Image within a Culture of Print.  Due January 10
• Call for Proposals:  Media Art History Rewire 2011.  Due January 31
• Call for Proposals:  ACRL E-Learning Program.  Due December 17
• Call for Proposals:  Social Software and the Evolution of User Expertise.  Due December 31
• Call for Proposals:  Appalachian Foodways for the Southern Humanities Council's Conference.  Due November 24
• Call for Proposals:  Ontologies-driven Web Mining:  Concepts and Techniques.  Due December 5
• Call for Proposals:  12th Interlending and Document Supply Conference.  Due January 31
• Call for Proposals:  5th Global Conference on Visual Literacies.  Due January 14
• Call for Proposals:  Recent Advances in Technology, Engineering, Management, and Science.  Due December 7
• Call for Proposals:  6th Annual Pennsylvania Hospital History of Women's Health Conference.  Due December 10
• Call for Proposals:  Southeast Regional Conference for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.  Due December 1

• Call for Nominations:  The Zora Neale Hurston Award.  Due December 15
• Call for Nominations:  CLS ProQuest Innovation in College Librarianship Award.  Due December 3

• Call for Applicants:  Internet Reference Services Quarterly Reviewers.  Due December 6
• Call for Applicants:  Editorial Advisors--Evidence Based Library and Information Practice.  Due December 3
• Call for Applicants:  IGI Excellence in Academic Librarianship Award (Stipend).  Due December 10
• Call for Applicants:  NEH Summer Seminars & Institutes.  Due March 3

Call for Proposals: ASIST 2011. Due May 31 and July 1

New Orleans, LA.  October 7-12

22nd  Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Bridging the Gulf: Communication and Information in Society, Technology, and Work.

Call URL:  http://www.asis.org/asist2011/am11cfp.html

Important Dates

1) Papers , Panels, Workshops & Tutorials  Deadline for submissions:   May 31st 

2) Posters, Demos & Videos:  Deadline for submissions:    July 1st 

ASIST 2011 builds on the success of the 2010 conference structure and will consist of six tracks, each with its own program and reviewing committee to ensure that the conference meets your high expectations for standards and quality. A team of respected reviewers, experts in their fields, will assist with a rigorous peer-review process.  

Track 1  Information Behaviour

Track 2  Knowledge Organization

Track 3  Interactive Information & Design

Track 4  Information and Knowledge Management.

Track 5  Information Use       

Track 6  Economic, Social, and Political Issues

Types of Submission:  The Conference welcomes the following types of submissions:

1) Papers

2) Panels

3) Interactive Showcase   Posters, Demos ,  Videos

4) Workshops and Tutorials

For more information, please contact:  Conference Co-Chairs: Abby Goodrum (agoodrum@ryerson.ca) and  Suzie Alllard (sallard@utk.edu)

Weekly Roundup: 11/8-12

• Call for Proposals:  2011 Library Research Roundtable Forums at ALA Annual.  Due December 17
• Call for Proposals:  International Journal of Biometrics and Bioinformatics.  Due November 30
• Call for Proposals:  Interdisciplinary Relationship between Science and Art.  Due December 30
• Call for Proposals:  American Periodicals and Transnationalism.  Due January 12
• Call for Proposals:  Library Technology Conference 2011.  Due December 13
• Call for Proposals:  The Book in Art & Science.  Due November 30
• Call for Proposals:  Ecocity World Summit.  Due January 31
• Call for Proposals:  Evidence Based Library & Information Practice Conference.  Due December 3
• Call for Proposals:  Health in History.  Due December 1
• Call for Proposals:  Critical Junctures. Due January 14
• Call for Proposals:  Internet Reference Services Quarterly.  Reviewed by December 9
• Call for Proposals:  Endnotes:  The Journal of the New Members Round Table.  Due November 30

• Free Webinar:  Spotlight on Cloud Computing.  November 10
• Free Webinar:  Technology & University Libraries.  January 20

• Call for Participation:  Reference Publishing Advisory Committee (part of RUSA)

• Call for Nominations:  Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian of the Year Award.  Due December 3

Call for Participation: Reference Publishing Advisory Committee (part of RUSA)

Reference Publishing Advisory Committee, part of RUSA Collection Development and Evaluation Section, is looking for addition committee members for this year. This is the only committee within ALA charged to foster interactions among reference librarians, collection development librarians/reference collection bibliographer/selector, and reference publishing industry staff.

For this upcoming Mid-Winter Meeting, we plan to hold a discussion forum focusing on cataloging and discovery issues related to e-reference publishing. At annual, the committee will be offering a program looking at future trends and issues related to reference publishing. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions or would like more information about this committee. We hope to hold  moderated discussions on other reference publishing topics online if there are more members for this committee. If you are willing to act as facilitator or moderators or contribute in other ways but not able to serve on the committee this year, please contact me directly.

Virtual committee appointment is available. For questions related to committee appointment, please contact Wayne Bivens-Tatum. His  email address is rbivens [at] Princeton [dot] edu. There is no additional charge to add CODES to your membership if you are current RUSA member.

To volunteer for this committee, please login to ALA website, choose Volunteer Forms under the Committee tabhttp://www.ala.org/template.cfm?template=/cfapps/committee/volunteerform/volunteerform.cfm. Choose RUSA in the drop down box on the next screen. On the third screen, please make sure you choose RUSA_CODES in the drop down box towards the bottom of the screen so that you can choose RUSA CODES Reference Publishing Advisory on the next screen.

Weekly roundup: 11/1-5

• Call for Proposals:  WILU 2011--"Learning Under Living Skies."  Due December 17
• Call for Proposals:  Polymath:  An Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Journal
• Call for Proposals:  The Life of New Materials.  Due April 1
• Call for Proposals:  LOEX 2011.  Due November 19
• Call for Proposals:  20th Annual NC Serials Conference.  Due December 15
• Call for Proposals:  Memory:  Silence, Screen and Spectacle.  Due November 22
• Call for Proposals:  Click on Knowledge Conference.  Due December 1

• Call for Authors:  Academic librarians involved with reference and instruction 

• Free Webinar:  The Campus Computing Project:  Two Decades of Data, Information, and Insight about IT Planning and Policy Issues.  November 5 
• Free Webinar:  Improve the Quality of your Webinars.  November 8
• Free Webinar:  Tech Talk with Michael Sauers.  November 17
• Free Webinar:  Top Tech Trends for the Nontechnical.  November 30

• Call for Nominations:  ALA-APA 2011-12 Committees.  Due November 19
• Call for Nominations:  LJ Paraprofessional of the Year Award. Due January 10

• Call for Applicants:  Bogle Pratt International Travel Fund.  Due January 1

Call for Proposals: Polymath: An Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Journal

Polymath is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to interdisciplinarity, published in quarterly installments in an electronic format at no charge to its readers. The journal celebrates the oft-neglected connections between humanities (Language, Literature, History, Philosophy, Speech and Communication), social sciences (History, Sociology, Political Science, Psychology, Social Work), physical sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics), and the arts (Dance, Theatre, Music, Visual Arts) where the disciplines can unite, collaborate, and engage with each other towards shared research-oriented and educational goals. Pursuant to its mission, Polymath considers papers on subjects from all academic fields, though preference is given to papers with topics of an interdisciplinary nature or focused on the integration of teaching and research. More information available:

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=180130

Call for Proposals: Academic librarians involved with reference and instruction

I am writing a book on the relationship between reference and instruction services in academic libraries. I am looking for academic librarians who would like to write a chapter describing their reference and instruction programs. Specifically, I am looking for librarians involved in team teaching with non-librarians, embedded librarians, and librarians who teach a freshman orientation. If you are interested, please contact me at rcordell@iusb.edu 

Weekly Roundup: 10/25-29

• Free Webinar:  Ethics of Innovation.  November 17

•  Conference:  EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference.  January 12-14

• Call for Proposals:  Endnotes.  Due November 30
• Call for Proposals:  ACS Annual Meeting.  Due October 30
• Call for Proposals:  ALA Midwinter MARS Discussion Forum.  Due November 19
• Call for Proposals:  ALA Annual RUSA RSS Research Forum.  Due December 31
• Call for Proposals:  2012 ALA Annual ACRL Conference Program.  Due May 2
• Call for Proposals:  Library Hi Tech.  Due February 15
• Call for Proposals:  7th International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society.  Due November 9
• Call for Proposals:  Conscripted Subjects.  Due November 8
• Call for Proposals:  Rural & Agricultural Studies Section of the Western Social Science Association.  Due December 1
• Call for Proposals:  International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society.  Due ASAP
• Call for Proposals:  IADIS Mobile Learning 2011 International Conference.  Due October 29
• Call for Proposals:  Southern Cultures
• Call for Proposals:  Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought.  Due January 30
• Call for Proposals:  Transformations.  Due November 30
• Call for Proposals:  International Symposium on Engineering Education and Educational Technologies. Due November 16
• Call for Proposals:  IFLA General Conference & Council 2011.  Due December 1 
• Call for Proposals:  Journal of Research on Libraries & Young Adults 
• Call for Proposals:  2011 ACRL Instruction Section at ALA Annual 2011 
• Call for Proposals:  Southeast Regional Educause Conference.  Due December 15

• Call for Applicants:  Endnotes Book and Web Reviewers.  Due November 15
• Call for Applicants:  Conservation Letters Senior Editor.  Due November 5 
• Call for Applicants:  Subject Editors for Resources for College Libraries.  Due ASAP

• Call for Authors:  ABC-CLIO Ethnic & Racial Minorities in the U.S. Military Encyclopedia.  Due ASAP

Call for Proposals: Journal of Research on Libraries & Young Adults

The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults is an online
open access peer reviewed journal (http://www.yalsa.ala.org/jrlya)
launching November 2010.  The purpose of Journal of Research on
Libraries and Young Adults is to enhance the development of theory,
research, and practices to support young adult library services.
Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults promotes and
publishes high quality original research concerning the informational
and developmental needs of young adults; the management,
implementation, and evaluation of library services for young adults;
and other critical issues relevant to librarians who work with young
adults. The journal also includes literary and cultural analysis of
classic and contemporary writing for young adults.

Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults invites manuscripts
based on original qualitative or quantitative research, an innovative
conceptual framework, or a substantial literature review that opens
new areas of inquiry and investigation.  Case studies and works of
literary analysis are also welcome. The journal recognizes the
contributions other disciplines make to expanding and enriching
theory, research and practice in young adult library services and
encourages submissions from researchers and practitioners in all
fields.

The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults uses the Chicago
Manual of style endnotes.  For complete author guidelines including
examples citations, please visit the author guidelines website at,http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/yalsapubs/research/authorguidelines.cfm.
 While submissions average 4,000 to 7,000 words, manuscripts of all
lengths will be considered.  Full color images, photos, and other
media are all accepted.

Submissions
Please contact editor Jessica Moyer at yalsaresearch@gmail.com orjessicaemilymoyer@gmail.com to discuss submissions and/or author
guidelines.  All completed manuscripts should be submitted as email
attachments to Jessica Moyer at yalsaresearch@gmail.com orjessicaemilymoyer@gmail.com as email attachments.  Please attach each
figure or graphic as a separate file.

The first issue of the Journal of Research on Libraries and Young
Adults will be available online at http://www.yalsa.ala.org/jrlya/
Monday November 1, 2010 and will feature the papers that will be
presented at the 2010 YALSA Symposium on Young Adult Literature.
Manuscripts are currently being accepted for the Winter 2011 and
Spring 2011 issues.

 

Call for Proposals: Southern Cultures

Southern Cultures, the award-winning and peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, is seeking submissions about Southern Women, Southern Women’s History, Gender Roles in the South, and related topics. We pay our contributors and have a growing audience throughout the South, the U.S., and the world. We’ve published essays and interviews with Civil Rights pioneers and suffragists, famous authors and farmers, tobacco queens and country music stars, and much more. Our submission guidelines and more information are available at our website. Interested scholars also can now view our material from the last ten years at a new special section of our website devoted to Southern Women and Gender at: http://www.southerncultures.org/content/read/read_by_subject/women_and_gender/

Call for Proposals: International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. Due ASAP

The International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society welcomes original articles on issues arising at the intersection of nations, states, civil societies, and global institutions and processes. 


The editors are particularly interested in article manuscripts dealing with changing patterns in world economic and political institutions; analysis of ethnic groups, social classes, religions, personal networks, and special interests; changes in mass culture, propaganda, and technologies of communication and their social effects; and the impact of social transformations on the changing order of public and private life. The journal is interdisciplinary in orientation and international in scope, and is not tethered to particular theoretical or research traditions. The journal presents material of varying length, from research notes to article-length monographs.

To submit please follow the directions found here: http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/journal/10767

Call for Applicants: Subject Editors for Resources for College Libraries. Due ASAP.

Resources for College Libraries seeks dynamic and discerning bibliographers to
serve as subject editors for the following areas:
* African American Studies
* African History, Languages, and Literatures
* Environmental Studies
* European History
* Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Languages and Literatures

Resources for College Libraries (RCL) is a bibliography of selected works
spanning the college curriculum and comprising a recommended core collection
for all academic libraries. Available both in print and online at RCLweb
(http://rclweb.net), RCL covers 61 curriculum-specific subjects and identifies
approximately 70,000 titles most necessary for teaching undergraduates,
including electronic resources essential for academic study. Subject editors
are responsible for selecting and maintaining the most critical resources
related to the undergraduate curriculum.

RCL subject editors oversee the continuous revision of a subject area, with
particular responsibilities including:
*   Regularly adding new titles to the subject area
*   Maintaining and developing the subject taxonomy
*   Reviewing and removing unessential titles from the subject area
*   Managing, if necessary, bibliographers to aid in selection
*   Remaining aware of current trends in teaching, research, and academic
resources related to the subject area

RCL is revised regularly and has a variety of uses: it is consulted by colleges
and faculty adapting to new curricula, by student researchers, by librarians
for collection development purposes, and by accrediting agencies. As successor
to Books for College Libraries, RCL is a collaborative project between the
Association of College and Research Libraries’ Choice magazine editorial
staff, knowledgeable subject editors recruited from teaching faculty and
academic librarians, and R.R. Bowker.

RCL subject editors must balance in-depth subject knowledge with the mission of
establishing a core collection for the liberal arts and sciences college
library. To join RCL’s editorial roster, interested applicants should submit
a CV/résumé, along with a brief description of qualifications related to
managing a core collection in the discipline. If you are interested in this
professional service opportunity or would like more information, please contact
me at adoherty@ala-choice.org.