MLA Applied Technologies & Trends 2013 Call for Proposals

MLA Applied Technologies & Trends 2013 Call for Proposals

The MLA Applied Technologies & Trends 2013 Work Group is now accepting proposals for the:

Applied Technologies & Trends Workshop
May 10, 2013
Davenport University, Grand Rapids, MI

The theme for this workshop is: Let’s Talk Tech: A Forum for Librarians to Learn, Play and Connect.

Proposals should cover: New and current library technologies, or introduce innovative ways libraries can use technology to be more effective and efficient in their current work environment.

Please submit your program proposal by January 15, 2013.
You will be informed of the status of your program submission by February 8, 2013.

For more information please visit the MLA Applied Technologies & Trends  website: www.mla.lib.mi.us/events/workshops/tech

Contact Emily Hayes ehayes6@davenport.edu for additional information.

Apply to host LOEX of the West 2016

Apply to host LOEX of the West 2016

Arising from an interest to provide a library user education conference in the West, the first LOEX of the West conference was held at Willamette University in June 1994, with the theme "Cultivating the Electronic Landscape: Teaching and Learning in a Climate of Constant Change." The success of this conference led to another in June 1996 at University of Washington, Seattle, with the theme "Collaboration and Instructional Design in a Virtual Environment." The conference has continued since then every 2 years.

LOEX of the West is not officially associated with the LOEX Clearinghouse for Library Instruction at the Eastern Michigan University Library. However, the LOEX of the West conferences have followed the LOEX conference model of a limited number of attendees, promoting an atmosphere for library professionals to learn and share experiences and ideas with others. 

LOEX of the West 2014 will be hosted by Portland State University Library. 

The LOEX of the West 2012 & 2014 Conference Planning Committees are seeking applications from institutions or organizations interested in hosting the 12th LOEX of the West Conference (LOTW) in 2016.

Institutions wishing to host LOTW 2016 should fill out the form on the 2012 LOTW Website.

Submit your application by: mid-January 2013
Decision will be made by:  beginning of February 2013

All applicants will be notified by:  end of February 2013

Important information and tips to applicants:

·         Support from your institution/organization is important (this includes available facilities and staff support).

·         The conference is a very grass roots organization (not formally affiliated with the LOEX Clearinghouse for Library Instruction at Eastern Michigan University) – it is run by the conference hosts with no formal structure, dues, or governance.  The money to run the conference comes from registration fees.

·         Registration fees should be kept reasonable.  The LOTW 2012 registration fees were $240 and $75 for the preconference (for LOTW 2012, this included all meals during the conference).

·         LOTW attendance ranges between 175-250 people.

·         Think about a potential planning committee (who on your library's staff will be involved?) and your team’s experience/ability to host a large event.

·         Housing: it is essential to have hotels/residences nearby.

·         Transportation: access to your location (nearby airports, public transit to get around your city/town, etc.) is a key factor.

·         The possibility for activities or excursions for attendees outside of sessions is a plus.

·         Any additional money left over from the conference usually goes to the next conference team.

·         For a little more history on LOTW and to see the conference themes from previous years (with links to their conference websites where available), click here.

The LOTW 2016 Selection Committee will be more than happy to help with any questions you may have about hosting. Please contact either of the following people with questions:

Contact from the 2012 LOTW team:  Raida Gatten (Woodbury University, Burbank, CA)  – raida.gatten@woodbury.edu

Contact from the 2014 LOTW team:  Joan Petit (Portland State University, Portland, OR) - jpetit@pdx.edu

Academic Libraries 2013 (Michigan Library Association) is now accepting proposals

Academic Libraries 2013 (Michigan Library Association) is now accepting proposals.

URL: 
Conference Brochure:
http://www.mla.lib.mi.us/sites/default/files/MLA_AL_BROCHURE.pdf

Information on MLA site:
http://www.mla.lib.mi.us/events/academic


The Michigan Library Association invites proposals to present at Academic Libraries 2013, the association’s annual two-day event highlighting trends and issues relating to academic libraries, to be held May 16-17, 2013 in Traverse City at the Park Place Hotel. This event will
showcase state and national cutting-edge trends, identify Michigan’s unique issues, and connect academic library staff to their peers and colleagues. The Academic Libraries 2013 Work Group seeks proposals for presentations that will address topics representing the widerange of professional responsibilities found in academic libraries. We encourage broad participation from librarians, staff and administrators from all types of academic libraries (including but not limited to public universities, private colleges, and community colleges).

Please submit your program proposal by December 3, 2012 and poster proposal by February 15, 2013. Proposals received after those dates cannot be included in MLA’s Academic Libraries 2013. Presentation proposal contacts will be informed of the status of program submissions by February 8, 2013, and poster proposal contacts informed by March 8, 2013.
Academic Libraries Conference
May 16-17, 2013
Park Place Hotel in Downtown Traverse City

Contact Mies Martin, miesmart@mtu.edu, or Anne Wooden, annewooden@delta.edu, for additional information.

Small and Rural Libraries -- Call for speakers for the second Big Talk From Small Libraries Online Conference

Small and Rural Libraries -- Call for speakers for the second Big Talk From Small Libraries Online Conference

Big Talk Call for Speakers

Do you have a program or service in your small library that other librarians might like to hear about? Have you implemented a new (or old) technology, hosted an event, partnered with others in your community, or just done something really cool? The Big Talk From Small Libraries online conference can give you the opportunity to share what you’ve done and learn what your colleagues in other small libraries are doing.

Big Talk From Small Libraries got such a great response last year that we’re doing it again. This free one-day online conference is aimed at librarians from small libraries; the smaller the better.

For Big Talk From Small Libraries 2013, we’re looking for seven 50-minute presentations and five 10-minute “lightning round” presentations.

Big Talk From Small Libraries 2013 will be held on Thursday, February 28, 2013 between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. (CT) via the GoToWebinar online meeting service. Speakers will be able to present their programs from their own desktops. The schedule will accommodate speakers’ time-zones.

If you are interested in presenting, please submit your proposal by Friday, January 11, 2013. Speakers from libraries serving fewer than 10,000 people will be preferred, but presentations from libraries with larger service populations will be considered.

http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/bigtalk/call-for-speakers/

Listen up small and rural libraries! Here is an opportunity to share your successes to other small libraries outside of Michigan.  The Nebraska Library Commission (state library in NE) is once again hosting a day-long online conference aimed at libraries serving populations under 10,000.  The day is composed of 50-minute and 10-minute webinar sessions from small libraries doing big things. 

The event is called “Big Talk from Small Libraries” and you can find information about the upcoming event on February 28 as well as view last year’s content here http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/bigtalk/

If you would like to submit a proposal to present during Big Talk take a look at their Call for Speakers page http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/bigtalk/call-for-speakers/

Below is a little more information about the program.  Participation is open to library staff across the country.

So, if you are a small (under 10,000) library that’s offering some great programs, or using new technologies effectively, or is advocating or marketing really well go ahead and submit a proposal.

Shannon

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Shannon D. White

Continuing Education Coordinator

Library of Michigan

702 West Kalamazoo, P.O. Box 30007, Lansing, MI 48909-7507

P: 517.373.9489 F: 517-373-5700

WhiteS29@michigan.gov

http://michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan

CFP: Beyond the Bun: Librarian Valuing through Perception and Presentation

CFP: Beyond the Bun: Librarian Valuing through Perception and Presentation

Librarian Wardrobe is putting together a book on librarian style, stereotypes, and image, and we want you to contribute your research.

Perceptions of librarians is the current zeitgeist in the library community. Hipster librarians have become a common human interest piece in the news, sexy librarians are pervasive, and reactions are mixed. The topic of librarian stereotypes and the portrayal of librarians in the media cycles through the professional discourse, yet there is little scholarly examination of the material effect of these portrayals. Likewise, although we assume users do have certain perceptions of librarians, we don’t always know what really comprises those ideas and how they impact library use, interaction with librarians, and ability and willingness to engage with information literacy.

The mostly user-submitted blog, Librarian Wardrobe, has been documenting what librarians wear to work since 2010, and through this challenges stereotypes to show librarians as not always fitting into what the public might assume an information professional looks like. The blog’s popularity generated enthusiasm for a standing-room-only Librarian Wardrobe Conversation Starter on perceptions of librarians at ALA Annual 2012. Based on that great success, a webinar was later offered through ALA TechSource, for which over 300 people registered to participate. This is clearly a hot topic. Nicole Pagowsky, the creator of Librarian Wardrobe (and editor of this collection), has been invited to give presentations and serve on conference panels on topics related to the blog. She continues the conversation within Librarian Wardrobe as well through interviews and other mediated posts. Miriam Rigby (editor) served as moderator for the Librarian Wardrobe conversation starter and has a background in cultural anthropology. Though the blog is a good visual medium for exploring perceptions, stereotypes, and current style, we would like to go beyond images and interviews to more in-depth research to cover these topics.

See the full call for papers with suggested topics here: http://librarianwardrobe.com/CFP

Submission procedure

Please submit abstracts and proposals of up to 500 words and a short author’s statement to libwardrobebook@gmail.com by February 1, 2013, with notification by April. Final manuscripts of between 1500 and 5000 words will be due August 1, 2013.

Note: this initial stage just requires a 500 word or less description, so just planning out your article now is fine.

Nicole Pagowsky, Instructional Services Librarian, University of Arizona, pagowskyn@u.library.arizona.edu
Miriam Rigby, Social Sciences Librarian, University of Oregon, rigby@uoregon.edu

OVGTSL: Call for Proposals (Meeting Challenges, Leading Change: Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians 2013 Conference)

OVGTSL:  Call for Proposals (Meeting Challenges, Leading Change:  Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians 2013 Conference)

Meeting Challenges, Leading Change:  Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians 2013 Conference
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY
May 15-17, 2013

https://sites.google.com/site/ovgtslconference2013/

Description:  Many and great are the challenges faced by technical services librarians:  increasing costs of library resources, shrinking budgets, implementation of new cataloging rules, changes in technology, staff training, preserving materials, and digitization.  Yet technical services librarian meet these challenges head-on, leading their libraries in creating innovative services for the information needs of library users.  You are cordially invited to come and share with other how you are meeting challenges and leading change at your library.

Proposal Information:  The Conference Program Committee invites forward thinking submissions in all areas related to technical services librarianship:  acquisitions, cataloging, serials, electronic resources, and preservation in academic, public, and special libraries.  Participants are strongly encouraged to think about the challenges we face, how we are meeting those challenges, and how we are leaders of change within technical services and in our libraries as a whole.  Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

*         Leadership in technical services
*         Collaboration within and outside the library
*         Emerging roles for technical services/technical services librarians
*         New staffing models in technical services
*         Metadata:  creation, reuse, and interoperability
*         Integration of metadata with traditional cataloging workflow
*         Authority control
*         The catalog:  what is its future?
*         Meeting the challenges of RDA implementation
*         Special formats cataloging
*         Increasing costs and shrinking budgets:  meeting financial challenges
*         Patron-driven acquisitions and services
*         Vendor relations with technical services
*         Managing the collections:  de-selection and inventory
*         Linked data publishing and applications
*         Local documentation practices
*         Managing government documents:  access and de-selection issues
*         Cloud-based solutions in technical services
*         Digital library projects
*         Digital object curation and preservation
*         Network level data management
*         Role of technical services in open access and scholarly communication
*         Open source tools and platforms in technical services

Participants are invited to submit proposals that address emerging trends, report on recent research, or demonstrate new services, projects, and tools.  Time slots for all sessions are 50 minutes in length; this time includes the presentation itself and questions from the audience.  Submissions will also be accepted for lightning rounds and round tables.

Submit the following information to margaret.foote@eku.edu by Friday, December 14, 2012:

*         Title of presentation
*         Abstract (no longer than 250 words)
*         Names, affiliations, and contact information of all presenters
*         Primary contact for presenters
*         Format (presentation, lightning round, round tables)
*         Equipment and other special needs

Presenters will be notified of proposal acceptance by February 1, 2013.

For more information contact Margaret Foote, vice-chair, Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians.

About OVGSTL
The Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians (OVGSTL) was founded in 1924 and draws its members from the states of Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio.  The annual conference rotates among these three states on a regular basis.  Membership is open to anyone interested in library technical services.

Call for proposals: MARC Formats Transition Interest Group (ALA Midwinter)

Call for proposals: MARC Formats Transition Interest Group (ALA Midwinter)

The LITA/ALCTS Marc Formats Transition Interest Group invites proposals for presentations for its session at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on Saturday, January 26th from 3pm to 4pm.

The theme of the session will be “Transforming MARC: Repurposing, Reusing and Reimagining Data from MARC Records Outside of the Traditional ILS”. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* Harvesting bibliographic data from MARC records for use in discovery tools of all types
* Transforming MARC data to other metadata schemes (Dublin Core, EAD, VRA, etc…)
* Using Google Refine (or other tools) to combine data from MARC records with data from linked data sources

Presentations can be 15 or 25 minutes in length. Proposals should be e-mailed to Sarah Weeks (weekss@stolaf.edu) by Friday, November 23rd, 2012. Please include a title, summary, amount of time needed for the presentation, and the names, titles and contact information for the presenter(s).

Call for Submissions: Information: Interactions and Impact (i³)

Call for Submissions: Information: Interactions and Impact (i³)
Deadline: Friday 18th January 2013

i³ focuses on the quality and effectiveness of the interaction between people and information and how this interaction can bring about change. The conference will look beyond the issues of use and accessibility of technology to questions about the way people interact with the information and knowledge content of
today's systems and services, and how this might ultimately affect the impact of that information on individuals, organisations and communities.

We invite the submission of high quality papers that report original research or critically discuss underlying methodological issues associated with the main themes of the conference. Papers may reflect ongoing or completed research studies and should not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. We would particularly welcome papers which address two or more of the following conference themes:

•       the quality and effectiveness of user/information interactions (e.g. information literacy);
•       patterns of information behaviour in different contexts;
•       impact of information or information services on people, organisations, communities and society (e.g. social, learning, cultural and economic outcomes of engagement with information); and
•       more effective decision making.

Submissions are invited for:
•       Full papers (40 minutes duration: 35 minutes, 5 minutes for questions);
•       Short papers (15 minutes duration: questions at end of session);and
•       Round table discussions (60-80 minutes duration).

Authors who are accepted to give full papers at i³ are also invited to submit a full paper for consideration by the editorial board of Information Research (http://informationr.net/ir/index.html).  For those papers accepted by
Information Research, support for the process of HTML conversion will be provided by the i³ conference team.

Contributors should submit abstracts of 1000 words for Full papers, and 300-500 words for Short Papers and Round Table Discussions. These should be submitted electronically by downloading the online submissions form, located on the Call for Papers section of the website (http://www.i3conference.org.uk). This should
then be emailed (as an attachment) to i3submissions@rgu.ac.uk. The conference language will be English.

Submissions will be anonymously reviewed by two members of an international programme committee specialising in one or more of the conference research streams. Notification of acceptance will be emailed to authors and will also include the comments of the reviewers.

Full details of the requirements can be found in the Call for Papers section of the website. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 18th January 2013.

For any further information please see http://www.i3conference.org.uk, or
contact the conference team at i3information@rgu.ac.uk.

Professor Dorothy Williams, i³ Conference Director

Public Services Quarterly, marketing column contributor and/or editor

Public Services Quarterly, marketing column contributor and/or editor

URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/wpsq20

PSQ is published four times per year by Taylor & Francis, and features a strong set of columns each issue, including professional reading reviews, a special libraries column, internet resources reviews, and others.

One of the columns is focused on marketing in libraries.  The column has featured essays about a variety of creative and innovative marketing strategies used to highlight collections or promote services in all types of libraries.   The column editor is stepping down, so I'm recruiting contributors and/or a new editor for Volume 9 (2013) and beyond.  We do have an item lined up for issue #1; the first deadline for a new editor or contributor will be March 1, 2013.

If you would be interested in contributing a column or taking on the column editor duties, please send me an email with some info about your experience and qualifications.

Beth Blakesley, Editor, PSQ
elizabeth.blakesley@gmail.com

Call for Participation: LITA Heads of Library Technology (HoLT) IG meeting (ALA Mid-Winter)

Call for Participation: LITA Heads of Library Technology (HoLT) IG meeting (ALA Mid-Winter)

Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 1 - 2:30pm

Location: TBA

The LITA Heads of Library Technology Interest Group (HoLT) seek 4-5 short presentations (10-15

minutes) on issues relating to Leadership and Library Technology for the upcoming 2013 ALA Mid-Winter conference.  All topics will be considered, but some ideas to get your thought process started may include, mobile development, issues related to setting up unmediated services, technology lending programs, staff technology initiatives, setting up an OS community, balancing budget constraints with desire for innovation,

digital repository and data management services, etc.

Physical attendance at ALA Mid-Winter Annual in Seattle is required for the presentation and/or attendance at this meeting.

Deadline is December 12, 2012.

Please submit proposals to either Meg or Evviva

Meg Brown-Sica

Margaret.Brown-Sica@ucdenver.edu 

Evviva Weinraub Lajoie

evviva.weinraub@oregonstate.edu

Call for Speakers for the 2013 Big Talk From Small Libraries online conference

Call for Speakers for the 2013 Big Talk From Small Libraries online conference

Do you have a program or service in your small library that other librarians might like to hear about? Have you implemented a new (or old) technology, hosted an event, partnered with others in your community, or just done something really cool? The Big Talk From Small Libraries online conference can give you the opportunity to share what you’ve done and learn what your colleagues in other small libraries are doing. 

Big Talk From Small Libraries got such a great response last year that we’re doing it again. This free one-day online conference is aimed at librarians from small libraries; the smaller the better.

For Big Talk From Small Libraries 2013, we’re looking for seven 50-minute presentations and five 10-minute “lightning round” presentations.

Big Talk From Small Libraries 2013 will be held on Thursday, February 28, 2013 between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. (CT) via the GoToWebinar online meeting service. Speakers will be able to present their programs from their own desktops. The schedule will accommodate speakers’ time-zones.

If you are interested in presenting, please submit your proposal via the online form at http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/bigtalk/call-for-speakers/ by Friday, January 11, 2013. Speakers from libraries serving fewer than 10,000 people will be preferred, but presentations from libraries with larger service populations will be considered.

More details about this conference can be found @ http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/bigtalk

This conference is organized and hosted by the Nebraska Library Commission (http://nlc.nebraska.gov/) and is co-sponsored by the Association for Rural & Small Libraries (http://arsl.info/).

Questions?  

Contact:

Michael Sauers
Technology Innovation Librarian
Nebraska Library Commission
michael.sauers@nebraska.gov

Call for Proposals (ALA Midwinter - MARC Formats Transition Interest Group)

Call for Proposals (ALA Midwinter - MARC Formats Transition Interest Group)

The LITA/ALCTS Marc Formats Transition Interest Group invites proposals for presentations for its session at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on Saturday, January 26th from 3pm to 4pm.

The theme of the session will be “Transforming MARC: Repurposing, Reusing and Reimagining Data from MARC  Records Outside of the Traditional ILS”. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* Harvesting bibliographic data from MARC records for use in discovery tools of all types
* Transforming MARC data to other metadata schemes (Dublic Core, EAD, VRA, etc…)
* Using Google Refine (or other tools) to combine data from MARC records with data from linked data sources

Presentations can be 15 or 25 minutes in length. Proposals should be e-mailed to Sarah Weeks (weekss@stolaf.edu) by Friday, November 23rd, 2012. Please include a title, summary, amount of time needed for the presentation, and the names, titles and contact information for the presenter(s).

Call for Book Chapters: Collecting the Contemporary (Book to be published by MuseumsEtc in 2013)

Call for Book Chapters: Collecting the Contemporary (Book to be published by MuseumsEtc in 2013)

URL: http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0062/7112/files/CFP_CollectingTheContemporary.pdf?5

COLLECTING THE CONTEMPORARY    
Edited by Owain Rhys and Zelda Baveystock
We invite international submissions to be included in this forthcoming book, to be published by MuseumsEtc in 2013.
The book will be edited by Owain Rhys, Curator of Contemporary Life at St Fagans: National History Museum, Wales and Zelda Bavexstock, Lecturer in Arts Management and Museum Studies at Manchester University.



Why and how should social history museums engage with contemporary collecting? To fill gaps in the collection? To record modern urban life? To engage with minority communities? To link past and present? There are many possible responses... And many museums collect contemporary objects, stories, images and sounds - consciously or unconsciously. But reasoned policies and procedures are very often lacking. And - given the uniquely detailed record of contemporary life recorded by ubiquitous media - how best are museums to record and present contemporary life in their collections?

An overview of contemporary collecting in a social historical context is well overdue. Original source material, ideas, developments and research has never before been brought together in a single volume. This book will bring together practitioners from around the world to provide a contemporary and convenient reader which aims to lay the foundations for future initiatives.

We welcome submissions - of between 3000 and 5000 words – on the practice, theory and history of contemporary collecting in social history museums, based on - but not confined to - the following issues and themes. We are particularly interested in new and pioneering initiatives and innovative thinking in this field. 

Practice

• Projects (including community outreach, externally funded collection programmes, projects with specific goals)
• Exhibitions (including popular culture, contemporary political issues, under-represented groups
• Networks – including SAMDOK and other initiatives
• Fieldwork and contemporary collecting
• Adopting a scientific approach to contemporary collecting 
• Audio-visual recording
• The influence of the internet, how to collect, and associated museological issues
• Contemporary collecting and contemporary issues
• Access, storage and conservation issues

Theory

• What to collect?
• How to collect?
• Who should collect?
• Community involvement - advantages and disadvantages
• Contemporary collecting - key priority or passing fad?
• Definitions of contemporary collecting
• Should contemporary collecting be object or people based?
• Alternatives to the accepted norms
• The case for nationally or regionally co-ordinated policies
• The impact of social and digital media for the future of contemporary collecting

History

• Origins and development of contemporary collecting
• Differences between institutions and countries (e.g. Sweden’s ethnological approach v. Britain’s social history approach)

The editors
Owain Rhys has recently published Contemporary Collecting: Theory and Practice with MuseumsEtc. This book gathered together disparate strands of contemporary collecting theory and history, and provided an insight into current practices at St Fagans: National History Museum. Owain is interested in formalising definitions and procedures, and in strengthening the bonds between those museums involved in contemporary collecting. Zelda Baveystock has a longstanding interest in contemporary collecting. As the first Keeper of Contemporary Collecting at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, she established a subject specialist network of urban history museums actively involved in the field in 2004. She has lectured and taught on the subject in the UK, and in Sweden.



Submissions
If you are interested in being considered as a contributor, please send an abstract (up to 250 words) and a short biography to both the editors and the publishers at the following addresses: owain.rhys@museumwales.ac.uk, zelda.baveystock@manchester.ac.uk and books@museumsetc.com by 10 December 2012. Enquiries should also be sent to these addresses. Contributors will receive a complimentary copy of the publication and a discount on more.

The book will be published in print and digital editions by MuseumsEtc in 2013.
Deadlines
ABSTRACTS: 10 DECEMBER 2012
CONTRIBUTORS NOTIFIED: 11 JANUARY 2013
COMPLETED PAPERS: 2 APRIL 2013

Call for Chapters: Pre-School through Teen Library Outreach

Call for Chapters: Pre-School through Teen Library Outreach

Book Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc.

Co-editor: Kerol Harrod, Denton Public Library, Denton, Texas; Marketing Your Library: Tips and Tools That Work, McFarland & Company, 2012

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

Chapters sought for an anthology by U.S. practicing academic, public, school, special librarians, LIS faculty, sharing practical how-to chapters on: creative outreach activities that work and are fun for staff, children, parents, and teachers. With budget and staff cuts, changes in technology, and security concerns in an increasingly diverse society, librarians more than ever need successful, inexpensive outreach to young patrons-their future library supporters.
Knowing what programs work saves time, effort, and resources for librarians.

Creative methods are needed to use in various types of libraries. Concise, how-to chapters 3,000-3,500 words using bullets, headings, based on experience. No previously published or simultaneously submitted material. One or two authors; one complimentary copy per chapter as compensation, discounts on additional copies.

Please paste proposed titles of 2-3 topics each briefly described by December 30, 2012 with biography sketch(s); place YOUTH/Last Name on the subject line to Carol: smallwood@tm.net

Call for Chapters: How to STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education in Libraries

Call for Chapters: How to STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education in Libraries

Book Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Vera Gubnitskaia, Orange County Library System librarian, Orlando, Florida; co-editor: Continuing Education for Librarians: Workshops, Conferences, College, and Other Ways (McFarland, forthcoming); co-editor Marketing Your Library: Tips and Tools That Work, (McFarland & Company, 2012)

Carol Smallwood, educator, librarian; co-editor Preserving Local Writers, Genealogy, Photographs, Newspapers and Related Materials,  (Scarecrow Press 2012); editor Pre- & Post-Retirement Tips for Librarians, (ALA Editions, 2013); co-editor How to Thrive as a Solo Librarian, (Scarecrow Press, 2012)
During the past few years, groups like the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and Center for Education, have been placing great emphasis on the significance of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education. The curricula has been revised in many institutions and school districts across the country. Chapters sought for an anthology by practicing academic, public, school, special librarians, LIS faculty in the United States, Canada, and others sharing practical how-to chapters on: grant writing, community partnerships, outreach, research, and programming activities. Creative methods are sought that apply to various types of libraries (K-College) and job positions.

Concise, how-to chapters words based on experience to help colleagues. Your nuts and bolts article should total 3000-3500 words. No previously published or simultaneously submitted material. One or two authors per chapter; complimentary copy as compensation, discount on more.

Please e-mail titles of  2-3 topics, each briefly described separately by December 30, 2012 with short biography sketch(s);  place STEM/Last Name on the subject line to: smallwood@tm.net

Call for Papers for the Technology Column of the Journal of Hospital Librarianship

Call for Papers for the Technology Column of the Journal of Hospital Librarianship

Hello, medical librarians. Have you been simply dying to write an article for one of the leading journals in our field? Of course, you have! Have I got a deal for you (you knew that was coming, didn’t you?)! As one of the editors of the technology column of the Journal of Hospital Librarianship, I am issuing a call for papers for an upcoming issue.

Here is the scoop. I need to get the article to the journal’s chief editor by April 1, 2013. That may seem like a long way off, but it never hurts to plan ahead. And this is a great opportunity for one of you that would like to write up something innovative you have done in your library and share the nitty-gritty with your colleagues.

There is no payment for the articles, but having an article on your CV is always a good thing as is demonstrating your expertise in technology-related developments in the field of health librarianship.

Columns should be 8-10 pages in length, 12 point type, double spaced.

Original articles, only please. Submission of a manuscript to this Journal represents a certification on the part of the author(s) that this is an original work and that neither this manuscript nor a version of it has been published elsewhere.

Please submit article proposals to Hope Leman at hleman[atsign]samhealth[dot]org.

I am defining“technology” pretty liberally given that so much of what health sciences librarians do is digital/electronic. Therefore, please don’t hesitate to pitch ideas. And you don’t even have to be a hospital librarian (though the subject matter of the proposed article should be of interest to that audience).

It is good experience to write for a journal and I can safely that I am an absolutely delightful person to work with.  (But I would, wouldn't I?)

Please do consider writing an article.  Good career move and a service to your future readers.

Hope Leman, MLIS
Research Information Technologist
Center for Health Research and Quality
Samaritan Health Services
815 NW 9th Street
Corvallis, OR 97330
(541) 768-5712
hleman@samhealth.org
http://www.researchraven.com/
http://www.scangrants.com/

Original Announcement:http://www.consortiumlibrary.org/blogs/pnc/2012/11/01/call-for-papers-for-the-technology-column-of-the-journal-of-hospital-librarianship-2/