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 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: 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: 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

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/

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 Proposals: 2012 Information Fluency Conference. Due October 14

The 2012 Information Fluency Conference planning committee invites you to submit proposals for the upcoming conference to be held at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. This year's theme is "Information Fluency and the Digital Divides." 

Proposals should address one or more of the various aspects of Information Fluency and the Digital Divides. Proposals will be peer-reviewed and may be published in a special edition of the Journal of Information Fluency. The conference program committee will accept 28 proposals for concurrent sessions or roundtable discussions and 15 posters for poster presentations. This Call for Proposals is being sent electronically only. We request that you share this information with colleagues who may be interested.

Submit your Proposal Online at www.ce.ucf.edu/if

Proposals must be submitted by October 14, 2011

The conference will feature keynote address, concurrent sessions, and posters with presentations on the various aspects of the theme, "Information Fluency and the Digital Divide." Learn about new and cutting edge theories in IF and see what your colleagues are doing on campuses around the world. Present your research and share your expertise.

Visit www.ce.ucf.edu/if, email us if@ucf.edu or call us at 407-882-0260 for more information. 

Call for Proposals: 2nd National Joint Conference of Librarians of Color. Due September 15

The 2nd National Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC)

"Gathering at the Waters: Celebrating Stories, Embracing Communities"

September 19-23, 2012 Kansas City, Missouri

 

Call for Proposals Opens on August 1st

Proposals needed for panels, workshops, and roundtables.

Program proposal deadline: September 15, 2011

 

For more information, go to: http://jclc-conference.org/program/presenter-faqs

 

Call for Proposals: ACRL Distance Learning Section ALA 2012 Conference Proposals on Embedded Librarianship. Due September 16

The Distance Learning Section (DLS) of the Association of College and
Research Libraries (ACRL) is accepting  conference presentation
proposals  on embedded librarianship  for the American Library
Association Annual Conference to be held in Anaheim, California in June2012. The DLS program will be Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 8:00 am.

The program is entitled “Embedded Librarian Best Practices: You can do
it, we can help,” and the committee is seeking librarians who have a
successful model for embedding in online classes. Presenters will be
required to provide a twenty-minute presentation detailing their modeland then be available for a Q & A period.

If you are interested in presenting, please send a 200 word description
of your model and a recent CV to Lora Baldwin at mcclell@iue.edu.
Proposals are due Friday, September 16, 2011, with a decision to be made
by late September.

Call for Proposals: Virginia Forum 2012. Due September 30

Virginia Forum: March 29-31, 2012 “Greater Virginias” The 2012 Virginia Forum will be held on the campus of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The Virginia Forum is interdisciplinary and welcomes proposals from scholars, teachers, and professionals in all fields. The theme, “Greater Virginias,” emphasizes Virginia’s relationship across political and geographical boundaries to broader ideas, patterns, and adjoining regions. The theme is comparative and invites scholars to submit papers about all aspects of Virginia life, geography, environment, history, and culture. We plan to offer sessions and workshops that draw from the full range of Virginia-focused research, including the humanities and sciences. We invite proposals from fields including all the arts and sciences: economics, politics, geography, law, literature, history, politics, archaeology and anthropology, environmental studies, museum and library studies, preservation, and others. Please submit a one-page paper proposal and a one-page curriculum vitae in a single email message to vaforum@jmu.edu by 30 September 2011. Please be sure to include your email address and other contact information. Proposals for complete panel sessions, workshops, etc. are encouraged, and should include a one-page description of the overall session, as well as a separate, one-page description for each individual presentation in the session and a one-page curriculum vitae for each panel member. Additional information is available online at www.virginiaforum.org. Direct further inquiries to: vaforum@jmu.edu. Proposal Deadline: September 30, 2011.

J. Chris Arndt James Madison University MSC 2105 (540) 568-3993 (540) 568-3330 Email: vaforum@jmu.edu. Visit the website at http://www.virginiaforum.org

Call for Proposals: LITA Programs for the 2012 Annual ALA meeting. Due August 5

The LITA Program Planning Committee is now accepting proposals for the 2012 Annual American Library Association Conference.  We're looking for full day pre-conferences, and half day and two hour conference presentations on use of, new ideas for, and technology trends in libraries. Think about the technology success or failure you're recently had, or the topic you think we haven't had covered and put together a proposal. 

When/Where is the Conference?

2012 Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA: June 21–26, 2012

What kind of topics are we looking for? 

Anything relating to libraries and technology! (That narrows it down, right?) A few ideas might include: Comparing two or three library tools (LibGuides vs Google Pages), (Un)Successful Implementation of a New Technology, From the Trenches of an ILS Migration, Technology for Marketing, Marketing Technology, Managing Technology, Project Management, How to Quickly Build a Web App that looks Decent, Managing People and Technology, Supporting Continuing Ed for Technology, Video Creation and Editing, Including/Leveraging Users, Tech Tools for Data Management, etc etc etc. 

When are proposals due? 

August 5, 2011

How I do submit? 

Fill out this form

When will I have an answer? 

The committee will be reviewing proposals in August, final decisions will be made in September

Do I have to be a member of ALA/LITA/an IG/a committee?

No! We welcome proposals from anyone who feels they have something to offer regarding library technology. Unfortunately, we are not able to provide financial support for speakers.  

Got another question? 

Please feel free to email (abigailgoben@gmail.com) and the group will figure it out.  

Call for Proposals: ELI 2012 Annual Meeting. Due September 7

ELI 2012 Annual Meeting—Call for Proposals

Taking the Pulse: Connecting, Assessing, and Innovating

February 13–15, 2012  Hilton Austin, Austin, Texas, and Online

We would like to personally invite you to join us at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012 Annual Meeting.

The 2012 gathering offers an exciting setting for interactive, hands-on learning and networking, whether you are joining online or face-to-face for presentations, discussions, seminars, and learning activities. We are seeking proposals that will address the thematic focus of the meeting, and, while not exclusive, represent these areas of keen interest across the teaching and learning community:

• Social media
• Mobile learning
• Learning analytics
• Digital and information literacy
• Methods for evaluating technology-based instructional innovations

Proposals that reflect these five focus areas and the ELI's values and mission will receive the highest priority.

This year, presenters have a choice of submitting proposals for face-to-face sessions, online sessions, or both. Also new this year, proposal reviewers will carefully evaluate proposed session learning objectives and active learning strategies to ensure an engaging learning experience for attendees. Learn more about the 2012 focus areas and submit a proposal today.

Don't miss your opportunity to play an active role in the meeting. Submit a presentation proposal online by September 7. 

Conference: 12th Interlending and Document Supply Conference. Due July 15

ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT FOR EARLY REGISTRATION TO THE 12th Interlending and Document Supply (ILDS) Conference. Rates increase after this Friday, July 15.

Come to the Windy City to hear how libraries across the globe are creatively sharing their resources to cope with shrinking library budgets, skyrocketing collection costs, and increasingly restrictive copyright laws. You'll hear about the latest developments in interlibrary loan: new technologies, recent cost studies, sharing digital resources, and strategies for improving transborder ILL. Our speakers will describe many cutting-edge projects, from cooperative collection development ventures to shared storage facilities to purchase-on-demand programs. Abstracts for all conference papers are available here.

What does registration cost?

    On or before July 15:

    ALA or IFLA members: $375

    Non-members: $425

    After July 15:

    ALA or IFLA members: $450

    Non-members: $500

What do you get for your money?

    Admission to all program sessions

    ILDS conference bag

    All-conference dinner on Monday evening at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art

    Lunch on Monday and Tuesday

    Morning and afternoon coffee breaks

An optional Chicago Skyline Boat Tour is scheduled for Tuesday evening, September 20, and costs $50 per person.

Chicago... home to the blues, deep dish pizza, the Magnificent Mile, and now the 12th ILDS Conference! Full program information, online registration, hotel information, and anything else you'd want to know about the meeting is at www.ilds2011.org

Call for Proposals: The Past, Present, and Future of the Book. Due September 30

Call for Papers and Workshops:
The Past, Present, and Future of the Book

The explosion of new digital book technologies – smart phones, tablets, print-to-order self-publishing sites, and so forth – has paradoxically energized more traditional studies of the book. The academic field tends to be divided into Book History (English and History), Book Arts (Art and English), Digital Books (Computer Science, Business, Sociology), and Cognition and Reading (Psychology, Education, Library Studies): each of these areas of interest is brimming with new scholarship as well as public interest.
In practice, the subfields overlap, and exciting things are happening at the intersections. To foreground these intersections and explore the pedagogical potential of Book Studies and Book Art, we invite paper and poster presentations, round-table discussions, and book-art workshops from scholars, artists, and librarians interested in the past, present, and future of the book. Proposals by collaborative student-faculty teams or by faculty from different disciplines are especially welcome.

Show some suggested presentation and round-table topics

Show some possibilities for workshops

All sessions will be 90 minutes in length; paper sessions in particular will include three twenty minute papers and a discussion period.
Abstracts are not to exceed 400 words. Paper and round-table proposals must specify special equipment needs. Workshop proposals must clearly identify facilities and materials needed; they must also include an estimate of supply costs per participant.
All proposals must be submitted through the website by September 30, 2011. A preliminary program will be announced in mid October, when registration will open. If you have any questions about appropriateness of materials and proposals, please contact us (mmouton@cornellcollege.edu).
Registration is free for ACM faculty, staff, and students. Lodging, meals, and materials for participants will be covered by a grant. Travel subsidies are available for ACM participants. For participants not affiliated with the ACM, the registration fee of $60 will cover meals and all materials.

Call for Proposals: 4th Annual Symposium on Scholarship and Practice. Due September 9

Call for Papers Bridging the Spectrum: The Fourth Annual Symposium on Scholarship and Practice Great Room, Pryzbyla Student Center Friday, January 27, 2012 Catholic University of America 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. http://slis.cua.edu/symposium/2012/ The Bridging the Spectrum Symposium offers a knowledge-sharing forum and meeting place for practitioners, students, and faculty in Library and Information Sciences and Services. Presentations on innovative practices and initiatives as well as research studies are encouraged. Presentations may originate from any type of library, archive, or information services activity, and may encompass any aspect of Library and Information Professional work. Our aim is to host a diverse set of presentations and to foster connections across the spectrum of the information professions. Presentation Formats: Proposed contributions may be for one of three formats: * Briefings: 15-minute descriptions of an innovative practice, initiative, or research activity. There will morning and afternoon briefing sessions. * Posters: exhibits describing a practice, project, or research activity. Posters will be viewable throughout the day, and there will be a dedicated poster session. * Panels: discussions of a single topic by a series of speakers, typically 30 minutes to 1 hour in length. Sample Themes: Suggested themes include, but are not limited to: * Future of information organization * Digital preservation * Innovative service modes * Empowering the end user * Managing library and information services * Marketing and advocacy for library services Important Dates: * Proposal Submissions Open: July 11, 2011 * Proposals Due: September 9, 2011 * Notification of Acceptances: November 11, 2011 * Final Program Abstracts Due: December 9, 2011 * Symposium: January 27, 2012 Proposals may be submitted at http://cuaslis.org/openconf/<https://mail.cua.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://cuaslis.org/openconf/>. Submission instructions and program details are available on the Symposium website at http://slis.cua.edu/symposium/2012/ . Questions may be directed to the Committee at cua-slis-symposium@cua.edu<mailto:cua-slis-symposium@cua.edu> .

Call for Proposals: 31st Charleston Conference. Due July 15

Submit your paper idea for the 31st Charleston Conference on Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition!

Sign up is now open at www.katina.info/conference/callforpapers.php<http://www.katina.info/conference/callforpapers.php>.  Please fill out the form on the website by 5 pm EST on July 15th, 2011.

We are looking for proposals for the following session types:

1) Lively Lunch Discussions: Thurs or Fri, 75 minutes, focused on discussion and audience participation;

2) Concurrent Sessions: Thurs or Fri, 45 minutes, standard presentation with 5-10 min for Q&A;

3) Innovation Sessions: Sat, 30 min, focus on new technology, innovative thinking, etc.

4) Poster Sessions: New for 2011!  Thurs or Fri, 30 minutes

5) Pecha Kucha Sessions: New for 2011!  Thurs or Fri, 6 minute 40 second PowerPoint presentation (20 slides, 20 seconds each), and another 9 minutes for discussion.
Pecha Kucha (Japanese<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language>: ペチャクチャ, IPA: [pet͡ɕa ku͍̥t͡ɕa]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_Japanese>[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha#cite_note-0>, chit-chat) is a presentation methodology in which 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each, usually seen in a multiple-speaker event for a total of 6 hours and 40 seconds. Pecha Kuchas originated in 2003 in Tokyo. This year the Charleston Conference would like to “try out” this new presentation system. We are proposing that presenters do a 6 minute and 40 second Pecha Kucha and allow another 9 minutes for discussion. If you like the idea, please make a proposal for the 2011 Charleston Conference. For more information on Pecha Kucha presentations, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha.

The 31st  Charleston Conference – Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition
www.katina.info/conference<http://www.katina.info/conference>
November 2 (Preconferences and Vendor Showcase)
November 3-5 (Main Conference), 2011
2011 Theme – Somethings Gotta Give!
Begun in 1980, the Charleston Conference has grown from 20 participants in 1980 to over 1,100 in 2010.
The Charleston Conference is “the best library conference in the world.”

Contact Leah Hinds with any questions at leah@katina.info<mailto:leah@katina.info>.  See you in November!

Conference: USAIN 2012. April 29-May 2

13th Biennial USAIN (United States Agricultural Information Network) Conference

April 29 - May 2 

University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN. 

 

Work is well underway to bring you another inspiring, diverse, entertaining, and affordable event next year, so please mark your calendar and plan to attend!

 

The official call for contributed papers and posters will be coming very soon.  This will be a great opportunity to share your research with agricultural information colleagues from around North America, and to find out first hand about the work of others.  Please start planning your proposal for USAIN 2012!

 

The 2012 Conference website is now available: http://z.umn.edu/usain

Conference planners will be adding much more information to the site as plans develop, so please check back frequently (and we'll announce updates to this list, too!.

 

See you in Minneapolis in 2012!

Conference: World Congress of Muslin Librarians and Information Scientists. November 16-17

The World Congress of Muslim Librarians and Information Scientists (WCOMLIS) is one of the congresses that gather information professionals consisting of librarians, information scientists, information managers, etc., from Islamic and non-Islamic countries all over the world. WCOMLIS emphasises on aspects such as bibliographic control, cataloging and classifying of Islamic information resources in various languages, and Arabic resources, subject heading system, development of databases, networking system, standard and benchmark, establishment of Islamic excellence center, as well as information exchanging and sharing. WCOMLIS acts as a medium that provides opportunity to the Islamic world to uplift and enhance the quantity and quality of Islamic information resources in line with changing times.

Secretariate WCOMLIS 2011 Dept. of Library & Information Science Kuliyyah of Information & Communication Technology International Islamic University Malaysia 53100 Jalan Gombak, Kuala Lumpur. Tel : (006) 03 6196 3596/ 03 6196 5671 Fax : (006) 03 6196 5179 Email: wcomlis2011@kict.iium.edu.my Visit the website at http://kict.iium.edu.my/wcomlis2011

Call for Proposals: Ohio Teaching & Learning Conference. Due July 29

SOCHE (Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education) will host the Ohio Teaching & Learning Conference in Dayton October 27 & 28.  The theme of the conference is High Impact Learning in a Time of Change, and it will feature George Kuh (founder of the National Survey for Student Engagement)  as the keynote speaker.

SOCHE is hosting the event in conjunction with the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of College and Universities, Northeast Ohio Council for Higher Education, and the Ohio Board of Regents.

The call for proposals is out, and the (priority) deadline is July 29.