Call for Proposals: EDUCAUSE 2012 Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference. Due July 27

Share Your Stories and Experiences: Submit a Proposal Now

WANTED: 2012 Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference Presenters

Although summer has only just begun for most of us, you have the unique opportunity to contribute to the program for next year's Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference. Themed "Reimagining IT in a Changing Landscape," the 2012 Mid-Atlantic event is now accepting speaker presentation proposals focused on any of the following topics:

• Leadership and Management
• Mobile and Cloud Technologies
• Supporting Enterprise Services and Users
• Teaching, Learning, and Research

Submit a proposal by July 27 to present January 11-13, 2012, in Baltimore.

Together with peers in your region, we'll look at how IT must partner with faculty, staff, and students to create innovative solutions to the challenges of today and tomorrow. If you have experience in any of the key topic areas above, we invite you to share your story with the greater community. Let's work and learn together as we share, create, and discover approaches for anticipating and responding to the changing world and higher education landscape.

Help our community reimagine, reinvent, and innovate in a climate of constant change and challenge.
To submit a proposal go to http://www.educause.edu/MARC12/program

The resources below have all been scheduled and developed to help you create a successful proposal:

• Call for Proposals Orientation Session (Adobe Connect Room)
  Friday, July 1, from 2:00-3:00 p.m. eastern time Log in as: "Guest"
  
  No registration is necessary, and audio from the presentation will be provided online through the conference room. There will be ample time to post questions and comments in the chat space.

NOTE: Prior to the session, please run the Adobe Connect Connection Test on the computer you plan to use to ensure your configuration is compatible with the web conferencing system.

• Proposal Preparation Checklist
• Detailed Tracks and Key Topic Descriptions for This Event

Before you begin work on your next proposal, check out these helpful tips on improving your next conference proposal and listen to our podcast, "Writing a Successful Proposal for a Conference Presentation," which presents insights from three academic professionals on what they look for in a submission and their advice on approaching the writing process.

Help us reimagine the future by sharing your experience dealing with our constantly changing landscape!

Call for Full Papers: Journal of the Medical Library Association: Instruction in Health Sciences Libraries. Due February 15, 2012

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of the Medical Library Association on Instruction in Health Sciences Libraries

As the number of information resources increases, instructing users in the best way to find health-related information is becoming an even more essential role for health sciences librarians. At the same time, the challenges to delivering instruction in an era of search engines and mobile devices have been steadily growing. Recognizing both the importance of instruction and the challenges we face in teaching our users, MLA’s incoming president, Gerald Perry, has announced his intention to create an MLA Academy of Teaching Excellence. In support of this initiative, and to help create an evidence-based approach to improving instruction, the Journal of the Medical Library Association is planning to devote our October 2012 issue to papers that focus on providing instruction to users of biomedical information.

This issue, to be published in October 2012, will include invited papers summarizing the current state of the field. We also encourage submissions from those with innovative approaches willing to share those innovations with their peers. To be considered for this issue, papers must be submitted by February 15, 2012.

We particularly welcome submission of:

a. Brief Communications that describe an innovative instructional offering or teaching technique in a health sciences library, or to a group of biomedical library users. Papers should describe the innovation, including a brief literature review as well as information on the background of the instructors and the nature of the target user group, where appropriate. Data that allows the reader to judge the success of the innovation, such as pre and post tests and/or faculty evaluations, must be included with the submission. Examples of papers in this category include manuscripts describing a new technique to teach Medline, a new online course, a new technique for engaging students, or an experiment in providing instruction via mobile devices. Brief Communications are 1800 words or less.

b. Case studies that report on innovations related to developing and maintaining instructional programs in health sciences libraries. Papers submitted in this category should describe an innovation that affected multiple classes or instructional offerings. The manuscript should describe the problem the initiative was designed to solve, options considered and discarded, the setting in which it took place, the resources required to execute it (personnel, technology, etc.), the key characteristics of the program, and what would be required to sustain it for the long-term. Examples for this category include initiatives designed to integrate instruction into the curriculum or to train librarians in the use of instructional technologies, methodologies to provide instruction to user groups with particular challenges (e.g. reaching nurses with busy schedules), techniques for keeping classes up to date, etc. Data that allows the reader to judge the success of the initiative, such as user surveys, trends in class enrollments, or changes in the numbers or types of classes offered, must be included with the submission. Case studies are 3500 words or less.

c. Full-length research papers investigating a research question related to instruction in health sciences libraries. Research papers should use a standard quantitative or qualitative research design; quantitative studies should employ a sampling methodology that allows extrapolation to the larger population. Examples in this category would be papers comparing results of two different teaching techniques or comparing online and in person instruction, or studying the long term effects of providing training to medical students. There is a 5000-word limit for full-length papers.

To appear in this issue, scheduled for October 2012, papers should be received no later than February 15, 2012.

If you would like to discuss an idea for a paper, please contact Susan Starr, Editor, JMLA, at jmlaeditorbox@gmail.com. Further details on procedures for JMLA submissions can be found on our "Information for Authors" page, http://www.mlanet.org/publications/jmla/jmlainfo.html.

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Publication CFPs

• Call for Proposals:  Emerald's Social Information Research. Due August 15 
• Call for Proposals:  Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
• Call for Full Papers:  Making Educational Oral Histories in the 21st Century.  Due August 15
• Call for Full Papers:  International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics

Conference CFPs

• Call for Proposals:  4th Annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy. Due October 2
• Call for Proposals:  Literacy and Society, Culture, Media, & Education.  Due September 30

Call for Applicants:

• Call for Applicants:  Allen Smith Visiting Scholars Program

Call for Participation:

• Call for Participation:  Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship.  Due August 5

Call for Full Papers: International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics

The Editors-in-Chief of the International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics (IJKDB) would like to invite you to consider submitting a manuscript for inclusion in this scholarly journal. The following describes the mission, coverage, and guidelines for submission to IJKDB.

Mission

The mission of the International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics (IJKDB) is to increase awareness of interesting and challenging biomedical problems and to inspire new knowledge discovery solutions, which can be translated into further biological and clinical studies. IJKDB is aimed at researchers in the areas of bioinformatics, knowledge discovery, machine learning, and data structure, as well as practitioners in the life sciences industry. In addition to original research papers in bioinformatics, this journal emphasizes software and tools that exploit the knowledge discovery techniques to address biological problems and databases that contain useful biomedical data generated in wet and dry labs. IJKDB encompasses discovery notes that report newly found biological discoveries using computational techniques and includes reviews and tutorials on relevant computational and experimental techniques for translational research and knowledge discovery in life sciences.

Coverage

Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:

Bioimage analysis
Bioinformatics databases
Biological data and text mining algorithms
Biological data collection and cleansing
Biological data integration
Biological data management
Biological knowledge discovery
Biological knowledge visualization
Biological networks (protein interaction, metabolic, transcription factor, signaling, etc.)
Biological tools/applications
Biostatistics
Clinical research informatics
Computational evolutionary biology
Data mining and its applications in bioinformatics
Disease bioinformatics
Drug discovery
Gene expression analysis
Gene regulation
Genome annotation
Integration of biological and clinical data
Molecular evolution and phylogeny
Ontology
Probability theory
Protein/RNA structure prediction
Sequence analysis
Statistics and its applications
Structural proteomics
Systems biology
Translational bioinformatics

Submission

Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. Interested authors must consult the journal’s guidelines for manuscript submissions at http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guide.asp prior to submission. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically.

Please submit all papers using the online system at http://datam.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/ijkdb/.

All inquiries should be directed to the attention of:

Xiao-Li Li and See-Kiong Ng
Editors-in-Chief
International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics
Email: xlli@i2r.a-star.edu.sg and skng@i2r.a-star.edu.sg

Call for Participation: Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship. Due August 5

Headed to ALA or another professional conference this summer? Please consider sending reports on programs dealing with electronic resources in libraries to the "E-Resource Round Up" column for volume 23, number 4 of the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship (JERL).

The "E-Resource Round Up" column is dedicated to helping JERL readers better understand topics related to the ever-changing world of electronic resources and their roles in libraries. It covers developments in the areas of new and emerging technologies and systems related to electronic resources and the digital environment; reports from professional discussion groups, meetings, presentations, and conferences; news and trends related to electronic resource librarianship; tips and suggestions on various aspects of working with electronic resources; opinion pieces; vendor activities; and upcoming events of potential interest to JERL readers.

Your contribution to the column does not have to be lengthy, and could be on any of the topics listed above. This could be an ideal opportunity for you to report on sessions you attended that may benefit others in our profession.

The editors would like to receive contributions to the column by Friday, August 5, 2011.

If you have a submission or questions, please contact the column editors:

Bob Wolverton
Mississippi State University Libraries
(662) 325-4618
bwolverton@library.msstate.edu

Karen Davidson
Mississippi State University Libraries
(662) 325-3018
kdavidson@library.msstate.edu

Call for Proposals: Literacy and Society, Culture, Media, & Education. Due September 30

Abstracts are invited for presentation in the international conference "Literacy and Society, Culture, Media, & Education" held at Ghent University 9-11 February 2012 http://www.literacyconference2012.ugent.be . The conference is conceived to offer a forum of discussion about digitality in/of society, culture (incl. literature and the other arts), and education. In an age of digitality and mass media, perceptions and practices of culture, cultural production and consumption, and thus also education and pedagogy -- from elementary to higher education from epistemological questions, classroom practices, and application (including technology), as well as institutional structures -- are undergoing rapid changes and debate. The impact of digitality thus results in the necessity of and demand for new perspectives on literacy(ies). Participants in the conference explore theories, practices, and applications for the study of the interrelations of digitality and contemporary society, culture, and pedagogy. Papers are presented in the thematic sections of 1) Media and Society, 2) Media and Culture, and 3) Media and Education. Abstracts of 300 words with a 150-word bioprofile are invited by 30 September 2011 to Geert Vandermeersche at geert.vandermeersche@ugent.be . Presentations are 20 minutes in length followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Selected papers from the conference are planned to be published in the peer-reviewed and AHCI indexed humanities and social sciences quarterly CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb (ISSN 1481-4374). Limited funding is available to graduate student participants.

Geert Vandermeersche Faculty of Psychology and Education Ghent University Henri Dunantlaan 2 B-9000 Gent, Belgium Email: geert.vandermeersche@ugent.be Visit the website at http://www.literacyconference2012.ugent.be

Call for Full Papers: Making Educational Oral Histories in the 21st Century. Due August 15

The Oral History Forum d’histoire orale is seeking submissions to a special issue addressing Oral History and Education, entitled "Making Educational Oral Histories in the 21st Century." The issue is guest-edited by the Educational Research Unit, Making Histories/Faire histoire: Narrative and Collective Memory in Education/Récits et mémoires collectives en éducation in the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa. The Oral History Forum d’histoire orale is the online journal of the Canadian Oral History Association (http://journal.canoha.ca), which serves as the online meeting place for scholars, community activists, librarians, archivists, and others who use oral history to explore the past. Through this open-access collection we hope to generate discussion on this important theme and provide a valuable resource for people interested in the study of Oral History and Education, whether in the classroom or in their own research. Submissions to "Making Educational Oral Histories in the 21st Century" might concern, but are not limited to, the following topics: * case studies where Oral History strategies are used with students at various levels of the educational enterprise; * challenges of Oral History for scholars and educators; * advantages of using Oral History for students of History at all levels; * recommended software for generating Oral History within educational contexts; * combining conventional educational history with Oral History sources; * institutional responsibilities and ethical dilemmas in utilizing Oral History with students. "Making Educational Oral Histories in the 21st Century" is seeking contributions that engage with these issues as they relate to Oral History and Education, broadly defined. University researchers, community organizers, educators, oral historians, public historians, and others who are working in this field are invited to submit theoretical and methodological papers, as well as empirically-based essays, reviews (books, new media, exhibitions, films, theatrical productions), and discussions for "Making Educational Oral Histories in the 21st Century." We strongly encourage contributors to think outside the traditional box of the printed academic journal and thus their submissions may also include photographs, artwork, annotated transcripts, audio and/or video clips, field notes and any other additional research materials that may enrich our understanding of Oral History and Education. Deadline for Submission: 15 August 2011. Length of Submission: 5,000 to 10,000 words, excluding notes Abstract: 250 words, including the name, email address, affiliated institution, and a short cv.

Sharon Anne Cook and Nicholas Ng-a-Fook Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa Email: makingoralhistory@gmail.com Visit the website at http://www.oralhistoryforum.ca