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CFP for College Library Information on Policy and Practice

From the ACRL Insider blog :

"...College Libraries Section (CLS) is pleased to announce the launch of CLIPP: College Library Information on Policy and Practice, a reconceptualization of ACRL’s CLIPNotes publication series. ... this next generation monographic series will provide richer context and more sophisticated analysis of current trends and issues....

The underlying premise of CLIPP is that libraries across the country are grappling with the same challenges and there is much to be gained by sharing information. ...

Each CLIPP volume will explore an important library issue through a comprehensive literature review, survey data, and best practices documents, which will provide actual solutions created by other colleges and small universities.

Call for Proposals

Any librarian at a college or small university can submit a publication proposal to the CLIPP committee. Any trend or subject of interest to college and small university libraries is a potential topic. Proposal ideas could include:

• The changing nature of collections (e-books, remote storage, weeding policies, etc.)
• Mobile access
• Grant writing
• Staff development
• The place of the library in campus organizational structures

For a full description of the submission and publication process, visit the CLIPP website.

CFP : Special Issue on Data Curation

From A Library Writers Blog :

"The Journal of Web Librarianship is pleased to announce an upcoming special issue on the topic of data curation, edited by Susan Sharpless Smith.

Data curation, “the active and on-going management of data through its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to scholarly and educational activities across the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities,” is an emerging field that brings new opportunities and challenges for libraries. The growing movement to effectively manage, archive, preserve, retrieve and reuse research data is one that compliments traditional library missions to preserve and access information. This special issue will explore issues surrounding this new arena. The issue’s scope includes but is not limited to:
•    Data curation theory and practice
•    Roles for research libraries and librarians
•    Data storage infrastructures
•    Digital forensics
•    Libraries as partners in data curation strategies
•    Data stewardship
•    Sustainability of long term data management programs
•    Ontologies for data integration
•    Realizing goals for reuse and combination of datasets
•    Education and skills required for data curators
•    Discovery and retrieval systems
•    Data repositories
•    Born digital video
•    Outreach strategies
•    Looking to the future

..."

CFP : Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture

CFP: Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association

CFP: Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association

The Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association annual conference will be held April 20 - April 23, 2011 in the Marriott Riverwalk and Rivercenter Hotels, San Antonio, Texas. Scholars from numerous disciplines will meet to share their Popular Culture research and interests.

The Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture area is soliciting papers dealing with any aspect of Popular Culture as it pertains to libraries, archives, museums, or research. This year we would particularly like to hear reports about Popular Culture in library education. Other possibilities include descriptions of research collections or exhibits, studies of popular images of libraries or librarians, analyses of social networking or web resources such as Wikipedia and YouTube, or reports on developments in technical services for collecting popular culture materials.

Papers from graduate students are welcome.

Prospective presenters should send a one-page abstract (electronic preferred) with full contact information by December 15, 2010, to:

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CFP: RUSA MARS Hot Topics

From the email:

RUSA MARS Hot Topics Discussion Group is seeking presentation proposals from energetic public and academic librarians to speak at ALA's midwinter conference in Denver on January 24, 2009 at 10:30 a.m.

The committee is putting together a panel of speakers to discuss their experiences using open source tools or code to deliver, promote, or enhance library services and/or collections. The title of the MARS Hot Topics session is "Can you open this for me? Using and Understanding Open Source Tools."

Presenters will be limited to 10-15 minutes and must provide some type of handout to the audience attendees.

If you are interested, please send your presentation proposal of 100 words or less to Michelle Jacobs, Chair of MARS Hot Topics at michellejacobs@library.ucla.edu by December 15, 2008. If possible please include links to your library's use of open source tools in the proposal. The committee will make the decision about which proposals have been accepted by December 20, 2008. Presenters accepted must be able to travel to Denver to present at the conference on January 24th. For further information, contact Michelle Jacobs (michellejacobs@library.ucla.edu) or Sarah Lehmann (sarah.lehmann@gmail.com).

CFP: Science and Technology Section for ALA Annual Conference

from the email (more details on the STS site):

STS Research Forum, ACRL Science and Technology Section (STS), ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL 2009

The ACRL Science and Technology Section's (STS) Research Committee invites submission of abstracts of research papers to be given at the STS Forum for Science & Technology Library Research on Sunday, July 12, 2009, from 4:00-5:30 pm at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL. The Research Forum provides an excellent opportunity to share recent research or research ideas addressing issues in science and technology librarianship in its broadest sense.

ACRL conference roundtable proposals deadline =

From the ACRL Insider -- I think the title of the post says it all...

Dispersed cultural collections Preservation, reconstruction and access

from the email:

The IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, the Preservation and Conservation Section, and the Library History Section jointly invite proposals for presentations at the Sections* programme in Milan, 23-27 August 2009.

Following the main theme of the conference "Libraries create futures: Building on cultural heritage", papers should focus on dispersed cultural collections and their preservation and conservation, reconstruction, and access to them, preferably in electronic form.

cfp: ACRL Science and Technology Section

from the email

Call for Poster Proposals: ACRL Science and Technology Section (ACRL-STS)
ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 2009

The ACRL STS Research Committee and STS Program Planning Committee invite proposals for posters to be exhibited during the STS program reception at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. Posters will be displayed from 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Monday, July 13, 2009, immediately following the STS Program, which starts at 8:30 a.m.  Be part of the program of the Science and Technology Section of ACRL, and submit your ideas by January 12, 2009. We encourage proposals for posters relating to the following program theme: Big Science, Little Science, E-Science: the science librarian's role in the conversation.

more information at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/about/sections/sts/stsconferences/posters09.cfm

Coutts-Nijhoff Award deadline = 5 December

This grant supports research pertaining to Western European studies, librarianship, or the book trade. For more information, please see the ACRL WESS Coutts-Nijhoff Award page, or ask me about it!

ACRL Instruction Section CFP for ALA 2009

The session is titled "Illuminating New Instruction Research: Applying Research to Practice."  Quoting from the ALA Insider blog:

The goals of this panel program are to spotlight recent instruction-related research and to show how research can be actively used to develop or improve instructional practices. Instead of simply reporting on research studies, expert panelists will apply the selected studies to an instructional scenario. The program will be interactive, with opportunities for the audience to provide feedback and ask questions

ACRL 2009 Cyber Zed Shed call for Proposals

From their Facebook announcement:

Proposals are now being accepted for Cyber Zed Shed presentations for ACRL 2009.The ACRL 14th National Conference Innovations Committee is looking for proposals that document technology-related innovations in every area of the library. Cyber Zed Shed presentations are 20 minutes in length, with fifteen minutes to present a demonstration, and five additional minutes for audience Q&A. Presentations should document technology-related innovations in academic and research libraries.

Proposals are due by December 12. Visit http://www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/seattle/program/cyberzedshed.cfm for complete details and a link to the online proposal form.

Student Writing and Development Award

From the LAMA blog:

The Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) is now accepting entries for the

2009 LLAMA/YBP Student Writing and Development Award. All students enrolled in a library and

information studies graduate program are eligible to submit essays on the theme “Take the

lead@yourlibrary.”  LAMA President Molly Raphael chose this as her presidential theme for 2009.

The winning article will be published in a future issue of Library Leadership & Management. The

author will also receive a travel grant of up to $1,000, funded by YBP, Inc., to be used to attend

the ALA Annual Conference, where he/she will be recognized at the LLAMA President’s Program

and the first meeting of the LLAMA Board of Directors.

The deadline for submissions is Mar. 1, 2009. For award guidelines and an application, go to

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/llama/lamaawards/default.cfm

cfp: Canadian Association for Information Science 2009 Annual Conference

from the email:

*Canadian Association for Information Science: Call for Papers*

The Canadian Association for Information Science invites abstract submissions for its 37th Annual Conference, to be held May 28-30, 2009 at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, as part of the 2009 Congress of the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

*Deadline for proposals is January 16, 2009*. Proposals, including the
name(s) of the author(s), mailing and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, should be sent electronically (Word or rich text format please) to conf2009@cais-acsi.ca.

The conference theme is "*Mapping the 21st Century Information Landscape:
Borders, Bridges and Byways*".

We are seeking submissions that address any aspects of the following
questions:

   - How are the traditional information institutions of the 20th century
   and the broader information landscapes within which they continue to operate
   responding to the real and perceived pressures of a 21st century information
   economy?
   - Has globalization and its effects on the information landscape produced
   a "sea-change" in our understanding of the role and function of information
   institutions, information services and information workers?
   - Does history help or hinder our ability to describe, analyze and
   interpret contemporary conditions? What are the historical continuities or
   discontinuities that shed light on current issues in library and information
   science?
   - Many argue that "the local" matters more and more. What are the
   boundaries and bridges between the local and the global in existing and
   emerging information landscapes?

ALA Carnegie-Whitney Grant

from email announcement:

http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/hqops/publishing/sundry/alapubawrds/carnegiewhitney.cfm

Deadline for submission of the proposal is November 3, 2008. The Carnegie-Whitney Grant provides an award that is based on a special fund first established by Andrew Carnegie in 1902, the income of which is to be applied to the preparation and publication of such reading lists, indexes and other bibliographical and library aids as will be especially useful in the circulating libraries of this country. The Carnegie Fund was subsequently enhanced by a merger with a fund established by James Lyman Whitney in 1910.

The Publishing Committee, a standing committee of the American Library Association, administers the grant.  The Carnegie-Whitney Grant provides grants of up to $5000 for the preparation and publication, either in print and/or electronically, of popular or scholarly reading lists, webliographies, indexes and other guides to library resources that will be useful to users of all types of libraries in the United States.

ACRL National conference: deadline for poster session proposals = 20 Oct

From the ACRLInsider:

Poster sessions are informal presentations which feature successful solutions to problems or highlight innovative projects.  Full text of the Call for Participation is available online at (Click “Program”). Proposals must be submitted by October 20 via the online proposal form.