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Weekly Roundup: 9/5-9/9

Publication CFPs

• Call for Full Papers:  Reference Reviews

Conference CFPs

• Call for Proposals:  USAIN 2012.  Due November 30

Call for Proposals: USAIN 2012. Due November 30

The United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) Contributed Papers and Posters Committee is now soliciting proposals for contributed papers, posters, and panel discussions for the 13th Biennial USAIN Conference, Minneapolis, MN on April 29-May 2, 2012.

The theme of the conference is, “Soil, Water, Food and Energy: Agriculture in an Era of Global Climate Change.” Please consider submitting a proposal, tied to this theme, in one of the following tracks:

● Technology Track - Technologies at Lightning Speed

● Just in Time, Just in Case: Collection Development, Management, and Preservation

● Collaborative Research and Learning Environments for Physical and Digital Spaces

● Managing and Supporting Data and Publications: Innovative Curation

● Curriculum and Instruction for Twenty-first Century Learning

● Extended Education and Outreach to Nontraditional and Community Customers

For detailed descriptions of the program tracks, please visit http://plant.lib.umn.edu/USAIN2012/program.php.

There will also be a poster session, suitable for sharing preliminary research or short project reports.

To submit a proposal, please use the form: http://abstracts.cce.umn.edu/conferences/submit.aspx?conference=109&type=abstract. The proposal should be a maximum of 350 words, in .DOC format, and will be submitted in the “Upload Attachment” section.

Paper and panel submissions should indicate the program track of choice.  Poster submissions should be so indicated. Proposal deadline is November 30, 2011.  Notification of proposal acceptance will occur in January 2012. 

Criteria for proposal review are: relevance to the conference theme; contribution to the knowledge of the field; and appropriateness to presentation format. While preference is given to USAIN members, non-members are welcome to submit a proposal. Upon proposal acceptance, the author/presenter must register for the USAIN 2012 conference.

Presenters will be invited to submit their papers for post-conference publication in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Information (JAFI). Information about the journal, as well as instructions for authors, can be found at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1049-6505.

For more information about proposal submissions, please contact committee chair Elizabeth Berman (elizabeth.berman@uvm.edu; 802-656-8130).

Call for Full Papers: Reference Reviews

Reference Reviews (an Emerald journal) is seeking articles for publication in
2012. These articles should focus on reference sources (as opposed to reference
processes), and examples include, but are not limited to:

1.      An overview or annotated bibliography of a particular type of reference
source (eg, bibliographies) or resources within a particular subject field
2.      A comparative review of two or more sources in a particular subject
area
3.      A viewpoint article about a range of resources or type of resource
4.      Any other type of article which has as its focus a discussion of
reference sources

Articles which are international in scope are particularly desirable. The word
count is 1000 minimum, 1500 average, but can be significantly longer.

If you're interested in writing one of these articles for publication in 2012,
have questions about a possible topic, or would like further information,
please contact me at blatham@jsu.edu.

More information about the journal can be found here:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=rr

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/. 

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

HASTAC 2011 Digital Scholarly Communications focuses on issues of changes in language and thinking in the internet-bred generation, issues around innovation in the Ph.D. and graduate education more generally, issues of equality, inequality, access (globally and nationally), circulation, and representation, all of the broadest and most incisive issues of scholarly communication (moral, social, legal, conceptual, and international in scope). The event will be held on December 1-3 in the North Quadrangle at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Institute for the Humanities University of Michigan 202 South Thayer Street, Suite 1111 Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608 Phone:(734) 936 3518 Fax:(734) 763 5507 Email: hastac2011.info@umich.edu Visit the website at http://hastac2011.org/

Call for Proposals: Chapters for Workplace Culture in Academic Libraries. Due September 1

This is a call for proposals for chapters for an upcoming book titled “Workplace Culture in Academic Libraries: The Early Twenty-First Century.” This book will be edited by Kelly Blessinger and Paul Hrycaj of Louisiana State University and published by Chandos Press.

This book will focus on various aspects of workplace culture in academic libraries from the practitioners’ viewpoint, as opposed to that of the theoretician. Basic questions the book will be concerned with: What conditions contribute to an excellent academic library work environment? What helps to make a particular academic library a great place to work? Articles should focus on actual programs while placing the discussion in a scholarly context. Each article should minimally have an introduction, literature review, and conclusion. More research-based articles should also include a problem statement, methodology, and results. It will be preferable for authors to be current academic librarians, though articles from those who are not current practitioners will be acceptable as long as they are based on previous experience as a practitioner.


The editors have already approved chapter proposals from several  invited authors, but we still have areas where proposals are needed.  These areas are:

1.       Staff morale: Interpersonal relations and attitudes: Staff organizations, social committees and other ways academic libraries can improve morale.

2.       Mentoring/coaching: Creating pathways: Programs in place to match less-experienced librarians with more experienced librarians to provide personal assistance in their professional development.

3.       Communication and information sharing: Wikis, intranets, retreats, and just plain talking:  Different methods used to encourage communication pathways between staff members to increase awareness, retain knowledge, and prevent duplication of effort.

1.       Staff motivation/incentives: Methods managers can use to motivate their staff (including practical examples) and innovative ways to provide incentives to staff in the absence of raises.

2.       Adventures in shared management: Models from other universities: Innovations in less hierarchical and most holistic styles of management, how to empower workers by increasing their involvement in management and thereby their ownership of outcomes.

To submit a proposal, please submit the following by September 1, 2011 to Kelly Blessinger at kblessi@lsu.edu:

1) A one to two paragraph summary of your idea for a chapter

2) A current curriculum vitae

3) Citations to current works or a writing sample


Any additional questions can be directed to either editor:

Kelly Blessinger
kblessi@lsu.edu
225-578-8538

Paul Hrycaj
phryca1@lsu.edu

225-578-2629

Call for Proposals: Computers in Libraries 2012. Due September 9

CIL 2012 - Call for Speakers is Open

Computers in Libraries 2012

March 21 - March 23, 2012
Hilton Washington, Washington DC

Bring Your Imagination!

Now is your chance to speak at CIL 2012.

Information Today, Inc. is pleased to announce the 27th annual Computers in Libraries – the most comprehensive North American conference and exhibition concentrating on all aspects of library technology. Our theme this year is Creating Innovative Libraries.

If you would like to participate in Computers in Libraries 2012 as a speaker or workshop leader, please submit a proposal as soon as possible (September 9, 2011 at the very latest).

Creating Innovative Libraries is what librarians, systems and information professionals, and teams of other partners and experts do with computers, the internet and cutting edge technology. At Computers in Libraries 2012, the focus is on practices and techniques, technology, and the imagination and creativity that makes innovative libraries. The conference offers a multifaceted program designed to meet the needs of librarians, information managers, systems professionals, webmasters and web managers, content evaluators, intranet strategists, portal creators, and information specialists. So bring your imagination and creative ideas to Computers in Libraries 2012 and help change the landscape of innovating libraries.

Submit Your Proposal!

We look forward to hearing from you!
Jane Dysart
Program Chair
Dysart & Jones Associates

Call for Full Papers: Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning. Due October 1

Call for Submissions: Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning

The Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning, a peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge, welcomes the submission of manuscripts.

The journal is devoted to the issues and concerns of librarians and information specialists involved with distance education and delivering library resources and services to this growing community of students. 

Topics can include but are not limited to:

• Faculty/librarian cooperation and collaboration
• Information literacy
• Instructional service techniques
• Information delivery
• Reference services
• Document delivery
• Developing collections

If you are interested in submitting an article, this journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the “Guide for ScholarOne Authors” at http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/submission/ScholarOne.asp before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are providedat http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=journal&issn=1533-290X or can be emailed to you directly.WLIS receives all manuscript submissions electronically via their ScholarOne Manuscripts website located at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/WLIS. ScholarOne Manuscripts allows for rapid submission of original and revised manuscripts, as well as facilitating the review process and internal communication between authors, editors and reviewers via a web-based platform. ScholarOne Manuscripts technical support can be accessed via http://scholarone.com/services/support/.

Inquiries and questions are welcome and can be sent directly to the editor, Jodi Poe, at jpoe@jsu.edu.

Please note: We accept manuscript submissions through the year. The deadline to have your article appear in our next issue, if accepted, is October 1, 2011. Accepted and approved manuscripts received after this date have no guarantee of being included in the next published issue.

Weekly Roundup: 8/8-8/12

Publication CFPs

• Call for Proposals:  Chapters for Continuing Education for Librarians.  Due August 31
• Call for Full Papers:  Library Leadership & Management "New Perspectives on Leadership" Column

Conference CFPs

• Conference:  THATCamp Cyprus.  September 3-4

Calls for Nominations

• Call for Nominations:  ALA NMRT 2012 Board
• Call for Nominations:  Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian of the Year Award.  Due December 2
• Call for Nominations:  2012 Carnegie Corporation of New York/NYT I Love My Librarian Award.  Due September 12

Conference: THATCamp Cyprus. September 3-4

The first THATCamp Cyprus will be held over the weekend of 3-4 September 2011 in Limassol, Cyprus, at the Cyprus University of Technology.

THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) is an open meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposed on the spot. It is an unconference which means that there are no presentations and all participants work together to form the program.

THATCamp Cyprus is committed to explore the full breadth of how Technology and the Humanities intersect and integrate, while at the same time it wishes to take advantage of its Cyprus-specificity to suggest solutions to local questions. Hosted by the Visual Sociology and Museum Studies Lab (Cyprus University of Technology, Dept. of Multimedia and Graphic Arts) THATCamp Cyprus is also interested in how new technologies and platforms are changing fundamental things about social research, museums, archives, academia and education in more general terms.

Who should attend?
Anyone interested in studying, supporting, teaching, researching, creating or otherwise shaping digital humanities, humanistic social sciences, information sciences, new media, and any other allied fields. You can be an academic, a librarian, an archivist, a developer, a writer, a student (grad or undergrad), a curator, a designer, an educator, a public historian, an archaeologist, an independent scholar, or any combination thereof (as most of us are), or even a non-humanist. You can be an expert or a newbie; as long as you have something to talk about and things you want to learn regarding the intersection and integration of the humanities and technology, this is the place to be.

The sessions may range from software demos to training sessions to discussions of research findings to half-baked rants, but please no full-blown papers. Come to THATCamp with something in mind, and a desire to share it. This could be the place to bring up a project for rapid development, to articulate a theoretical concern or get feedback on an idea, and participants are also encouraged to propose coding and co-writing sessions where the emphasis is on doing, not talking.

http://cyprus2011.thatcamp.org/

Call for Full Papers: Library Leadership & Management "New Perspectives on Leadership" Column

Library Leadership & Management (LL&M), LLAMA's journal, is seeking
contributors from the New Members Round Table for its new column, "New
Perspectives on Leadership."

Per co-editor Pixey Anne Mosley: "With this column we hope to offer a
venue for a variety of thoughts and ideas that break away from what we
normally think of as the tenets of management or leadership.  This can
include demonstrating creative leadership when one is not in the
“management” ranks or a realization that challenges traditional
thinking on what is leadership.  It can be someone new to leadership
or a leader with lots of experience who encounters something of an
epiphany on trying something new and different.  The writing style is
expected to be less scholarly and more casual, relating a personal
experience or an observation."

If you're interested in submitting an article, you can submit one
online: http://journals.tdl.org/llm/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

Call for Nominations: 2011 Carnegie Corporation of New York/NYT I Love My Librarian Award. Due September 12

Nominations are open for the 2011 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New
York Times I Love My Librarian Award.

The award invites library users nationwide to recognize the
accomplishments of librarians in public, school, college, community
college and university libraries for their efforts to improve the lives
of people in their community.  Nominations are being accepted online at
atyourlibrary.org/ilovemylibrarian through Sept. 12.

Up to 10 librarians will be selected.  Each will receive a $5,000 cash
award, a plaque and will be honored at an awards ceremony and reception
in New York, hosted by The New York Times, in December.

Over the past three years, 30 librarians from across the country have
won the I Love My Librarian Award.  Last year, more than 2,000 library
users nationwide nominated a librarian.  Previous winners have been
lauded for starting community gardens, helping students with severe
disabilities read classic works of literature, for helping
non-traditional students learn new technology to get better jobs and
more.  For more information on previous winners, visit
atyourlibrary.org/ilovemylibrarian.

Each nominee must be a librarian with a master's degree from a program
accredited by the ALA in library and information studies or a master's
degree with a specialty in school library media from an educational unit
accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher
Education.  Nominees must be currently working in the United States in a
public library, a library at an accredited two- or four-year college or
university or at an accredited K-12 school.

The Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian
Award is administered by the Campaign for America's Libraries, ALA's
public awareness campaign that promotes the value of libraries and
librarians. The Campaign is made possible by ALA's Library Champions,
corporations and foundations.

Call for Nominations: Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian of the Year Award. Due December 2

The ACRL Instruction Section is now accepting nominations for the Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian of the Year Award.  For more details please see below or the award Website:  http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/awards/miriamdudley.cfm

This award recognizes an individual librarian who has made an especially significant contribution to the advancement of instruction in a college or research library environment. The award honors Miriam Dudley, whose pioneering efforts in the field of bibliographic instruction led to the formation of the ACRL Instruction Section (formerly ACRL Bibliographic Instruction Section).

Award

No cash award at this time. The Instruction Section is currently seeking a new sponsor for this award.  The award is presented at the ALA Annual Conference.

Criteria

Nominees should have achieved distinction in one or more of the following areas:

• Planning and implementation of an academic instruction program in a library environment that has served as a model for other programs nationally or regionally
• Production of a body of research and publication that has a demonstrable impact on the concepts and methods of teaching and information-seeking strategies in a college or research institution
• Sustained participation in organizations, at the regional or national level, devoted to the promotion and enhancement of academic instruction in a library environment
• Promotion, development, and integration of education for instruction in ALA accredited library schools or professional continuing education programs that have served as models for other courses and programs 

Call for Proposals: Chapters for Continuing Education for Librarians. Due August 31

Call for Chapters: Continuing Education for Librarians: Workshops, Conferences, College, and Other Ways
Book Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc.

Co-editor: Carol Smallwood, The Frugal Librarian: Thriving in Tough Economic Times; andLibrary Management Tips That Work, both 2011 ALA Editions

Co-editor: Vera Gubnitskaia, Orange County Library System, Orlando, Florida; contributor toLibrarians as Community Partners: An Outreach Handbook (ALA Editions, 2010)

Co-editor: Kerol Harrod, Denton Public Library, Denton, Texas; 2011 Texas Library Association Public Relations Branding Iron Award

Chapters sought for an anthology by U.S. practicing academic, public, school, special librarians, LIS faculty, sharing practical how-to chapters on ways to continue education (librarianship and other fields) for advancement, keeping current, and personal satisfaction.

Possible topics: workshops, conferences, deciding on colleges, online classes, scholarships, graduate assistants, research and publication, stress management, financial aspects, teaching, balancing classes/family/work, networking, travel abroad.

Concise, how-to chapters using bullets, headings, based on experience to help colleagues. No previously published or simultaneously submitted material. One author or authored by two/one complimentary copy per chapter as compensation; 3,000-3,500 words.

Please e-mail 2-3 topics each described in 2-3 sentences by August 31, 2011 with brief biography sketch(s). Please place EDUCATION/Last Name on the subject line to: kerolharrod@gmail.com

Call for Nominations: ALA NMRT 2012 Board

The NMRT Nominating Committee seeks candidates to run for the following positions:


Vice-President/President-Elect (3 years, 2012-2015)
Secretary (1 year, 2012-2013)
Assistant Treasurer (1 year, 2012-2013. Followed by 2 years as Treasurer, 2013-2015.)
Networking Director (2 years, 2012-2014)
Outreach Director (2 years, 2012-2014)


All interested candidates or nominations should be submitted by October 1, 2011 to: NMRTNominations@gmail.com.


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Weekly Roundup: 8/1-8/5

Publication CFPs

• Call for Full Papers:  Academic Exchange Quarterly Special Issue.  Due February 29
• Call for Full Papers:  Research & Discussion Journal
• Call for Proposals:  Chapters for Information Literacy and Social Justice.  Due September 15

Conference CFPs

• Call for Proposals:  2nd National Joint Conference of Librarians of Color.  Due September 15
• Call for Proposals:  2012 Information Fluency Conference. Due October 14

Calls for Participation

• Call for Participation:  ACRL/IS Mentoring Program.  Apply by August 8

Calls for Contributions

• Call for Contributions:  Comics Through Time

Call for Applicants

• Call for Applicants:  AAAS Annual Meeting Free Registration for Librarians

Conferences

• Conference:  VLA 2011

Call for Applicants: AAAS Annual Meeting Free Librarian Registration

The American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting
will be held February 16-20, 2012, in Vancouver, B.C.
http://www.aaas.org/meetings/

I encourage you to plan now to participate! For the third year in a
row, AAAS will fully fund the registration fee for 30 librarians.  To
request free registration please reply to alison.ricker@oberlin.edu.
Awards will be given on a "first come, first awarded" basis; if there
are more than 30 requests, preference will be given to first-time
attendees at an AAAS meeting.

The theme, “Flattening the World: Building the Global Knowledge
Society,” is directly related to our work as information
professionals, helping to address "complex, interconnected challenges
of the 21st century" in the development of "global solutions through
international, multidisciplinary efforts."

Please contact me if you are interested in developing a conference
session focused on strengthening collaboration among librarians,
scientists, science writers and administrators, with the goal of
increasing scientific literacy and basing policy decisions on unbiased
scientific knowledge.

Feel free to send this invitation to other science librarians.  I look
forward to hearing from you!

Alison S. Ricker, ALA Liaison to the AAAS Section on Information,
Computing, and Communication, 2011-2014

Science Librarian, Oberlin College
Science Center Library, 119 Woodland St.
Oberlin OH 44074

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

Working title: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 Seale 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 [i.e. Standard 1.2 The information literate student identifies a variety of types and formats of potential sources for information. ], 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.

Timeline:September 15, 2011 Proposal Submission Deadline
November 1, 2011 Notification of proposal acceptance
March 1, 2012 Full Chapter Submission Deadline
May 15, 2012 Review Results Returned
July 15, 2012 Revised Chapter Submission Deadline
September 30, 2012 Final Manuscript Completed

Conference: VLA 2011

The VLA Annual Conference will be held Oct. 27-28 at the Portsmouth Renaissance Hotel in Portsmouth, VA. Please join us for “Nature is a Languge, Can You Read? Literacy and Sustainability in Virginia’s Libraries.”

Click here for the 2011 Annual Conference Preliminary Program. This .pdf document includes Preconferences, Schedules, Session Descriptions, Maps, and information about the Portsmouth Renaissance Hotel and Conference Center. Don’t miss your chance to win $100 toward your conference expenses from the VLA Professional Endowment Committee (page 5) and/or a free conference registration (page 10).

Make your Hotel Reservations by September 26 to receive the group rate! The VLA discount code will appear on the hotel website when you use this link.

Register online using the 2011 Conference Registration Form. Send via email or print and fax it to VLA at (757) 447-3478. Members of VLA, VLACRL and/or the Virginia Association of Law Libraries qualify for the VLA member registration rate. New this year: a discounted Student registration rate! Join us today by completing the Membership Form.

Call for Full Papers: Research & 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.

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

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.

Call for Contributions: Comics Through Time

Contributors are needed for an upcoming 4-volume historical encyclopedia of comics, to be entitled COMICS THROUGH TIME and to be published by Greenwood Press. Most entries have already been assigned to contributors, but numerous entries remain unassigned. A full list of the entries, including word lengths and due dates, can be found at https://spreadsheets1.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnTUvZkxh2zZdGdyQWtFWThSd1hnX2tNaW4tLTlkMkE&hl=en_US#gid=0. 


Entries that do not include an author name have yet to be assigned.

A fuller description of this project can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ewtr_YFt--VAtqnjEtvkdoQZNA2xRdfu-b27n2AbDDs/edit?hl=en_US.

Please contact the editor, M. Keith Booker, if you are interested in contributing entries to this project. Include a c.v. or other summary of your qualifications with your inquiry. All of those who contribute five or more entries will receive a free copy of the encyclopedia, likely to sell for hundreds of dollars. All contributors will receive free access to the electronic version of the encyclopedia.

Call for Participation: ACRL/IS Mentoring Program. Apply by August 8

Do you want to lead? Do you want to share your professional library experience, and build a relationship with a new colleague? Feel the need for some professional mentoring? Then consider becoming a mentor or mentee for the ACRL/IS Mentoring Program for 2011-2012!

The purpose of the ACRL Instruction Section Mentoring Program is to contribute to the professional development of academic librarians who teach information literacy by pairing librarians experienced in teaching with librarians new to instruction or to the Instruction Section. Currently, we are especially seeking mentors to pair with the numerous librarians who have applied to our program as mentees. In order to create mentor/mentee pairs before the beginning of the Fall Semester, we ask that you fill out our online application by August 8. 

Both mentor and mentee applications are accepted year-round, and pairings are made in the summer and midwinter. Mentor applicants, please use this form, and mentees, please use this form.

The program creates a forum for learning opportunities, networking, and the exchange of ideas between paired mentors and mentees. Conference attendance is not required. In fact, much of the mentoring takes place outside of scheduled conferences. You can advance your expertise and help the profession into the future by joining the ACRL/IS Mentoring Program. Please apply!

If you have questions about the ACRL Instruction Section Mentoring Program, please contact the Committee Chair Joe Goetz at goetzje@gmail.com, or visit the IS Mentoring Program site for more information.

Complete URLs:
Mentor application form: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&pli=1&formkey=dGRJWUdCUGliTXJZLWFlRDNNSjFSNEE6MA#gid=0

Mentee application form:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dGZtVy1jWVE5d0R1V09WZXQ3NldPWWc6MA#gid=0

IS Mentoring Program site:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/about/sections/is/projpubs/mentoring/index.cfm