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Cdn Assoc for Info Science 2011: CFP

Annual Conference Theme: Information in a Local and Global Context

from the website: The theme of the CAIS/ACSI 2012 conference relates to how information is searched, retrieved, used, made sense of, and understood in a local and global context. The cultural, political, sociological, technological, and historial contexts are central in understanding how people interact with information. The conference will provide information scientists and practitioners with a forum for the presentation and debate of innovative research on all aspects of the evolving field of information science. The conference committee strongly encourages submissions from both practitioners and academics.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Social information diffusion
• The unique needs of local libraries
• Information in a global world
• The Internet as a source of local and global information
• Language as a connecting force in global communication
• Social networking technologies (e.g. Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter)
• Mapping and visualization of information, social spaces, and networks

Call for proposals. We welcome proposals for CAIS/ACSI 2012. Proposals may be submitted in English or French. Practitioners and doctoral candidates are especially invited to submit proposals for the conference. Guidelines will be posted to www.cais-acsi.ca.

See the call at the CAIS/ACSI website

CFP: Children in Theory for Postscript: deadline extended

Deadline extended from Nov 1 to Dec 1, 2011.

From the original call: To the degree that it is a social construction, childhood, as an idea, carries with it any number of assumptions and associations. Conversely, as a objective developmental period, childhood is interpreted in wildly different way within different contexts. Postscript: A Journal of Graduate Criticism and Theory invites articles for consideration for our Spring 2012 issue, a special edition on the theme “Children in Theory”. This issue will examine childhood from a multitude of perspectives. We welcome submissions from any humanities discipline on any aspect of children and childhood.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• literature or art for children
• representations of children
• care and discipline of children
• the education or instruction of children
• violence toward children
• the perspectives of children themselves
• the displacement of children
• childhood and class
• childhood and gender
• childhood and race

Postscript: A Journal of Graduate Criticism and Theory is an interdisciplinary journal published biannually through the Department of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland. For more see a copy of the call at the CRYTC site.

 

CFP: OCULA Student Award

The purpose of this award is "To promote OCULA to LIS students and provide an opportunity to participate in the OLA Super Conference." Deadline is November 15 -- see the website for more information on format and evaluation criteria:

http://www.accessola.org/OLA_Prod/OLAWEB/About/Awards/OCULA_Student_Award.aspx

LITA | Writing Award Guidelines

"The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), is pleased to offer an award for the best unpublished manuscript submitted by a student or students enrolled in an ALA-accredited graduate program.  Sponsored by LITA and Ex Libris, the award consists of $1,000, publication in LITA’s refereed journal, Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL), and a certificate.  The deadline for submission of the manuscript is February 28, 2012."

For more information on this prize for student penned manuscripts on any aspect of libraries and information technology, see the guidelines at: http://www.lita.org/ala/mgrps/divs/lita/involve/committees/exlibris/guidelines.cfm

CFP: Journalism and Books

Call for Papers: The Intersection of Journalism and Books May 29, 2012 A Special Joint Session Sponsored by The CHA Media and Communication History Committee, The Bibliographical Society of Canada and The Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture The Media and Communication History Committee of the Canadian Historical Association, the Bibliographical Society of Canada and the Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture seek paper proposals for a special joint session to be held at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in spring 2012. The theme of this special joint session is “The Intersection of Journalism and Books.” Journalism is usually associated with regular, periodical publication or broadcast, while books are typically published individually, the timing of their appearance linked to the broad seasonal schedules of their publishers’ spring and fall lists. Yet there is an ongoing interplay between journalism and book publication that pre-dates the rise of the mass-audience newspaper in the late-nineteenth century and endures to the present day. In this special joint session, we would like to explore from an historical perspective “The Intersection of Journalism and Books.” As a starting point, we pose two basic questions: first, in what ways and for what reasons have journalists turned to book publication as a significant means of journalistic expression?; and, second, how and why have book publishers looked at journalists as valuable authors to place on their lists? Papers for this session might examine particular journalists whose careers encompass book publishing or book publishers whose lists are notable for the number of journalist-authored titles. Are there particular “journalistic genres” of book publication that merit attention, such as collections of previously-published newspaper columns, memoirs, or interviews originally produced for broadcast? Are there specific books that have effectively functioned as works of journalism (either non-fiction, such as Isabel LeBourdais’ work about Steven Truscott, or fiction, such as Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle) or more generally had a journalistic impact? Would a closer examination of the history of book publication call into question the definition of what we consider “journalism”? Is a journalist’s movement into book publishing from other forms of journalistic expression (eg. print periodicals, broadcasting, internet) simply a normal trajectory largely driven by an ambition to address a topic at greater length than other media allow, or is there a hierarchy of value among various forms of journalistic expression that attracts journalists to the medium of the book? These are just some of the questions that might be posed in relation to the theme of this special joint session. We invite proposals for papers that reflect on particular occurrences of “The Intersection of Journalism and Books” from any part of the world, and in any period of the past. Please submit a 250-word proposal, a one-page curriculum vitae, your contact information, and a description of AV needs to:  proposals@bsc-sbc.ca (for members of the BSC or CASBC) or vipond@alcor.concordia.ca (for CHA members). Deadline for Proposals:  Sept. 25, 2011

CFP: Multicultural Review: Libraries as a public good

Call for Manuscripts for Special issue of Multicultural Review
Libraries as a public good in 21st century multicultural societies: Policy and the politics of literacy, libraries and librarianship

Guest Editors: Curtis Brewer, Anne McMahan Grant (Clemson University)

When it comes to recent national budget discussions, funding for library services has come up short.  For example, a 9% cut has been proposed for the FY2012 budget to the Institute for Museum and Library Services, an organization that provides assistance to the nations libraries. (President, 2011) And, on a local level, according to a recent Library Journal poll, 72% of responding libraries said that their budgets had been cut during FY2010 with one library staff person making the pointed observation that "Public libraries are not sacred cows any more, and librarians need to accept this and make their libraries viable to protect them against future challenges" (Kelley, 2011 p. 28).   With these newly limited budgets, libraries are moving toward changing their image from the library as  a storehouse for books to the library as a "learning commons" or an "information gateway" designed to help patrons not only find information, but to help them determine good information from bad (Casserly, 2002). A strong argument could be made that the development and support for libraries as a public good are central to an ever-changing multi-cultural information society with the provision of library services playing a central role. The simple fact is that libraries are no longer merely storehouses of information.  Outreach services have expanded as more libraries have internet accessible chat services that provide a personal librarian for anyone who can access a web page.  This is especially true in academic libraries as one study found that 84% of libraries surveyed offered instant messaging services via their web page (Tripathi, 2010).  Hospitals have librarians who assist medical staff in finding crucial research for their patients (Abels, 2002). Schools and universities have librarians to train students to filter the vast amounts of information that they will encounter in their daily lives as well as to provide them access to research materials (The State of America's Libraries, 2011).  And communities have libraries that give them access to the internet, provide safe places for patrons to learn, and gives them free access to materials that could lead to public discussions that may reshape our understanding of ourselves and others (How Libraries Stack Up, 2010). Given the possibly robust dividends a public investment in libraries, librarians and literacy programs could provide, it is important to interrogate how the political and policy context are currently shaping these possibilities.
The study of politics, policy and multiculturalism makes us acutely aware of how the framing of problem definitions, research and policies shapes public understanding of an issue (Fraser 1989; Hajer and Waagner 2003). Therefore, in this special issue we seek to pay close attention to how dominant values, institutionalized power, privilege, and the policy process itself interact to frame and reframe literacy, libraries and librarians as political issues in multicultural societies in the early twenty-first century.  We seek articles that will help make sense of this changing policy environment for all practitioners concerned with libraries or literacy.

In this special issue of the Multicultural Review we ask for manuscripts that might address the following questions:

1.    What is the state of the politics of libraries in these times of retrenchment? What knowledge might help practitioners navigate the changing policy contexts?

2.    How do the dominant values within our society create avenues for change or act as barriers in the development of policies that address libraries, librarians and literacy?

3.    What are the experiences of patrons and those working in libraries across multiple contexts in this time of retrenchment?

4.    How are librarians and supporters of public libraries currently influencing the creation of policy?

5.    How do the dominant political discourses constitute the library as a public institution and how is this related to inequality?

6.    What role do libraries and literacy programs play in the creation of space for a more democratic, deliberative and inclusive forms of political participation?
We assume each manuscript should clearly articulate a conceptual framework grounded in, and informed by theory and relevant research. We want to emphasize the importance of maintaining a focus on the politics of your substantive topic/area in your work, including political theories that interact with multicultural theory when relevant.  We would also like to emphasize the breadth of the readership of MCR and encourage authors explicitly show the relevancy of their argument to the work in the field.
Possible themes may include:

*         The role of interest group development in the change of literacy policy

*         A critical analysis of the racialization of libraries and librarianship advocacy and their relationships to the growing digital divide.

*         The ways in which political theories around social movements and fearless speech can shape the potential for the reframing of political discourses.

*         The use of radical democratic theory to inform the advocacy discussions surrounding literacy and libraries.

*         The use of feminist theory to analyze the development of politics of library and/or literacy policy.

*         An institutional analysis of the interactions between accountability policy, library policy and literacy policy in a multicultural society.

*         An economic/structural analysis of the distribution of funding for libraries and literacy programs

*         An historical account of the development and evolution of the federal involvement in the public library in order to shed light on our current policy debates for all those who are currently working as practitioners.


For this special issue of the Multicultrual Review we invite papers that interrogate and challenge the assumptions within the themes described above. Submissions may be either qualitative, quantitative or interpretive/conceptual manuscripts that address the questions and areas outlined above will be considered. Manuscripts should meet the 6th edition of APA Publication Manual and a maximum of 8000 words in length. The deadline for submission is September 15, 2011. Please direct questions or abstracts to the guest editors Curtis Brewer (brewer4@clemson.edu ) and Anne McMahan Grant (anne1@clemson.edu)

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Abels, Eileen G., Keith W. Cogdill, and Lisl Zach. The contributions of library and information services to hospitals and academic health sciences centers: a preliminary taxonomy, J Med Libr Assoc. 2002 July; 90(3): 276-284.

Casserly, Mary. Developing a Concept of Collection for the Digital Age. portal: Libraries and the Academy, Volume 2, Number 4, October 2002, pp. 577-587.

Fraser, N. (1989). Unruly practices: Power, discourse and gender in contemporary
social theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Hajer, M. A., & Wagenaar, H. (Eds.). (2003). Deliberative policy analysis: Understanding governance in the network society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

How Libraries Stack Up: 2010, OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) Report.

Kelley, M. Bottoming out: Severe cuts today put big question marks on the future. Library Journal (1976) v. 136 no. 1 (January 2011) p. 28-31.

President Obama's Budget Strips FY2012 Funding. American Libraries v. 42 no. 3/4 (March/April 2011) p. 8.

The State of America's Libraries 2011 - A report by the American Library Association, April, 2011.

Tripathi, Manorama and Sunil Kumar. Use of Web 2.0 tools in academic libraries: A reconnaissance of the international landscape. The International Information & Library Review Volume 42, Issue 3, September 2010, p.195-207

J of Research on Libraries and Young Adults: CFP

The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults is available online at http://www.yalsa.ala.org/jrlya. Manuscripts are currently being accepted for the Summer 2011 issue. Please submit your manuscript by May 16, 2011.

The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults, the official research journal of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), is an online open-access, peer-reviewed journal.  The purpose of Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults is to enhance the development of theory, research, and practices to support young adult library services. Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults presents high quality original research concerning the informational and developmental needs of young adults; the management, implementation, and evaluation of library services for young adults; and other critical issues relevant to librarians who work with young adults. The journal also includes literary and cultural analyses of classic and contemporary writing for young adults.

Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults invites manuscripts based on original qualitative, quantitative, synthetic, or mixed method research; an innovative conceptual framework; or a substantial literature review that opens new areas of inquiry and investigation.  Case studies and works of literary analysis are also welcome. The journal’s editorial board recognizes the contributions that other disciplines make to expanding and enriching theory, research, and practice in young adult library services and encourages submissions from researchers, students, and practitioners in all fields.

The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults uses the Chicago Manual of Style endnotes.  For complete author guidelines including examples of citations, please visit the author guidelines.  While submissions average 4,000 to 7,000 words, manuscripts of all lengths will be considered.  Full color images, photos, and other media are all accepted.

Submissions

Please contact Editor Sandra Hughes-Hassell at yalsaresearch@gmail.com to discuss submissions and author guidelines.  All completed manuscripts should be submitted as email attachments to yalsaresearch@gmail.com.  Please attach each figure or graphic as a separate file.

CFP: Gender, Sexuality, Information: A Reader

An exciting call for papers for an edited collection by Library Juice Press, and editors Rebecca Dean and Patrick Keilty. See the full call

 

CFP: CAIS/ACSI 2011: Deadline changed back to Jan 15

Canadian Association for Information Science/Association canadienne des sciences de l’information 39th Annual Conference.  University of New Brunswick/St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick.  June 2 – 4th, 2011

Exploring interactions of people, places and information

In parallel with the Congress theme of Coasts and Continents: Exploring Peoples and Places, CAIS 2011 will focus on research exploring the interactions of people and places with information.  The conference committee encourages submissions from both practitioners and academics.  The conference will provide information scientists and practitioners with a forum for the presentation of innovative research on all aspects of the evolving field of information science.

Submissions will address two general themes:
•       The physical, virtual, social, intellectual, organizational, and documentary spaces and places in which informing is enacted and documents are created and used.
•       The people who inhabit these places and spaces and the work they do.

Call for proposals.
We welcome proposals for CAIS/ACSI 2011. Proposals may be submitted in English or French. Practitioners and doctoral candidates are especially invited to submit proposals for the conference. Guidelines are temporarily posted to http://publish.uwo.ca/~pmckenzi/CAIS2011_guidelines_instructions.pdf and this call is available at http://publish.uwo.ca/~pmckenzi/Call for papers - CAIS 2011.pdf.  Both, along with the French-language call for submissions, will ultimately live at www.cais-acsi.ca.  Appel en français à venir.

Types of submissions.

Papers: 20-minute oral presentations of completed or well-developed projects on topics suitable for publication in scholarly and professional journals. Proposals that report on completed or ongoing research will be given preference. Diverse perspectives (theoretical and applied) and methodologies are welcomed.  Proposals should be in the form of a short paper (approximately 1000-1500 words excluding references), reporting on research projects, theoretical developments or innovative practical applications are invited.

Panels:  Panels presenting topics for discussion such as successful practitioner/academic collaborations, research challenges, emerging trends, and contrasting viewpoints from experts in complementary professional areas are welcome.  Proposals should be in the form of extended abstracts (approximately 1000-1500 words excluding references), providing an overview of the issues, projects, or viewpoints to be discussed by the panel. Submissions must also include title, sponsor(s), and names and affiliations of all participants (max. 3 including moderator, speakers, reactors, etc.).

Posters: Visual presentations of completed or well-developed projects on topics suitable for publication in scholarly and professional journals. Proposals that report on completed or ongoing research will be given preference. Diverse perspectives (theoretical and applied) and methodologies are welcomed.  Proposals should be in the form of a short abstract (approximately than 750 words excluding references), reporting on research projects, theoretical developments or innovative practical applications are invited.

Research round table: In recognition to the number of people embarking on new research projects, including faculty, graduate students, and practitioners with scholarly research requirements, we will offer a “roundtable” session to workshop emerging research ideas, works in progress, and drafts that are in development for publication in peer-reviewed venues.  Please submit a short proposal (approximately 750 words excluding references), describing the area of research, reporting on progress to date, and indicating the kind of feedback desired.  Authors whose proposals are not accepted for research paper or poster presentations may be invited to present their work at a round table session.

Student- and Practitioner-to-CAIS/ACSI Awards
Papers submitted by graduate students and by practitioners will be considered for these awards. The awards include a monetary prize as well as publication of the full manuscript in the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science / La revue canadienne des sciences de l’information et de bibliothéconomie. Students and practitioners should submit the full paper by April 16th to be considered for this award. Details of the award, including previous winners, can be found at the CAIS/ASCI website.

Please note: Deadline for all proposals has been changed back to January 15th, 2010.

Proposals including the name(s) of the author(s), mailing and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, should be sent electronically (.docx, .doc, .wpd, or .rtf format) to conf2011@cais-acsi.ca.

Conference proposals will be refereed by the Programme Committee. Authors will be notified of the Committee’s decision no later than February 28th, 2011.  All presenters must register for the conference. Abstracts and short papers will be published on the CAIS Website once registration has taken place. Final versions must be submitted no later than April 15th, 2011.

Participants are also encouraged to submit full papers to the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science / La revue canadienne des sciences de l’information et de bibliothéconomie.

We are excited about holding the conference in Fredericton (since the organizers are all native New Brunswickers!) and plan to provide many opportunities to meet and mingle with other attendees and experience the rich culture and physical beauty of New Brunswick’s capital city.

For further information, please contact one of the CAIS/ACSI 2011 Conference Co-chairs.

Pam McKenzie
pmckenzi@uwo.ca
Faculty of Information and Media Studies
University of Western Ontario
North Campus Building
London, Ontario
N6A 5B7
Tel: 1-519-661-2111
ext. 88514

Catherine Johnson
cjohn24@uwo.ca
Faculty of Information and Media Studies
University of Western Ontario
North Campus Building
London, Ontario
N6A 5B7
Tel: 1-519-661-2111
ext. 81479

Sarah Stevenson
Sarah.stevenson@dal.ca
Killam Library
Reference & Research Services
Dalhousie University
1459 Oxford St.
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Tel: 902-494-3611

CFP: The Intersection of Broadcasting and Print

Call for Papers:
The Intersection of Broadcasting and Print
May 31, 2011
 
A Special Joint Session at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Sponsored by The Canadian Historical Association’s Media and Communications History Committee, The Bibliographical Society of Canada and The Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture
 
The Media History Group of the Canadian Historical Association, the Bibliographical Society of Canada and the Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture seek paper proposals for a special joint session to be held at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in spring 2011.
 
The theme of this special joint session is “The Intersection of Broadcasting and Print.”

While broadcasting and print have been positioned at times as oppositional and competing forms of communication, those of us who study either field are apt to encounter instances of complementary or cooperative interplay between the two. Who among us has not encountered a book transformed into a made-for-TV movie or documentary? Or seen a popular television drama spun off into a series of novels? In English Canada, popular CBC radio shows such as Morningside and Writers and Company have inspired printed collections of material originally produced for radio transmission. In Quebec, Claude-Henri Grignon’s popular Un homme et son péché crossed over from print to radio to film, then television, then film again. From other angles, what is the relationship between newspaper and broadcast journalism?
What is the significance of the rise of media conglomerates, organizations that often encompass broadcasting and print (books, newspapers, magazines) under their umbrellas and advocate the value of “synergy.”

For this joint session, we invite proposals for papers that reflect on “The Intersection of
Broadcasting and Print” from any part of the world, and in any time period since the introduction of broadcasting. Papers might focus on a specific piece or genre of “content” made manifest in both realms, or examine the phenomenon at the level of policy and practice, whether in relation to a company/conglomerate or to the broadcasting and print industries as a whole. More generally, we seek papers that explore how broadcasting and print have understood and responded to each other, and have thereby defined themselves.
 
Please submit a 250-word proposal, a one-page curriculum vitae, and your contact information to: proposals@bsc-sbc.ca or vipond@alcor.concordia.ca
 
Deadline for Paper Proposals: Wednesday, September 22, 2010.