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Submit a proposal for the ACRL/LAMA Joint Spring Virtual Institute

Don't miss the opportunity to play an active part in the 2008 ACRL/LAMA Joint Virtual Institute, "Leading from the Middle: Managing in All Directions." Submit a proposal now for an interactive webcast or online poster session. Submissions will be accepted through December 10, 2007.

The ACRL/LAMA Joint Virtual Institute, to be offered April 29-30, 2008, will offer a forum for the exploration of issues and challenges facing middle managers and leaders. The institute will take place in an online conference community, which will provide an environment in which groups of participants, both small and large, can gather electronically to learn, collaborate, and network. The institute will offer both synchronous and asynchronous sessions and program sessions will be archived after the institute for viewing on-demand. Proposals are invited for session formats including:

--Interactive Webcast (Synchronous)
An interactive Webcast allows you to give a presentation in real-time, while also showing visuals, such as PowerPoint slides and desktop applications. Participants can also interact by talking with live audio or typing in questions and comments.

--Online Poster Session (Asynchronous)
The online poster session is a PowerPoint presentation that includes your voice recorded along with each slide. The poster session is posted in the online conference community area, where participants may review it at any time during the conference.

Submissions will be accepted through December 10, 2007. Full text of the Call for Proposals is available online at http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/springvirtualinstitute.cfm. Questions about the Call for Proposals or the Joint Spring Virtual Institute should be directed to msutton@ala.org, 312-280-2522.

ACRL is a division of the American Library Association (ALA), representing more than 13,000 academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the only individual membership organization in North America that develops programs, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research environments.

The mission of the Library Administration and Management Association (www.ala.org/lama) is to encourage and nurture current and future library leaders, and to develop and promote outstanding leadership and management practices. LAMA is a division of the American Library Association and has a membership of more than 5,000.

CONFERENCE ­ LAW, POVERTY AND ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
Valparaiso University School of Law
April 3-4, 2008

The acceleration of economic globalization over the past few decades engendered
initial excitement about the possibilities it could generate, but this excitement has
been replaced by more cautionary sentiments, as increasingly economic inequalities and poverty have become one of globalization's defining features. The ravages of poverty and economic inequality are most pronounced in less affluent countries, particularly those in Africa, but also are present in the Americas, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Even affluent northern countries like the United States have not been able to entirely avoid some of the adverse consequences of globalization, including the widespread loss of jobs, diminishing of labor rights, depressed wages, and pervasive privatization of governmental functions, leading to a concentration of economic power in the private sector and greater resulting disparities of resources.

Poverty and persistent economic inequalities have differing consequences but often overlapping impacts on a broad range of constituencies such as children, racial and ethnic minorities, indigenous communities, immigrants, refugees, women, and the elderly.

Valparaiso University School of Law will host a conference on April 3 and 4, 2008 to investigate these issues in a local and global context. The conference hopes to raise the fundamental question about what the law and legal institutions can do to alleviate poverty and economic inequality. The conference will explore contemporary constitutional strategies, such as the incorporation of economic, social and cultural rights in constitutions (as evidenced by the South African experience), among other formal legal strategies, in relation to grassroots anti-poverty campaigns, such as the poor people’s economic and human rights campaign in the United States and the homeless and landless people’s federation in Asia and elsewhere. This investigation will also examine the limitation of legal strategies in the face of entrenched economic and social structural impediments to equality.

Valparaiso is 40 miles south of Chicago, with easy access to Chicago O’Hare and Midway airports.

The accommodation costs and meals of presenters will be covered, and there is some funds available for travel. Please indicate in your abstract whether your institution will pay your travel costs, or whether you will require funding.

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send a one-paragraph abstract by November 1, to:
Professor Penelope (Penny) Andrews
Visiting Professor of Law
Valparaiso University School of Law
656 S. Greenwich Street
Valparaiso IN 46383
Ph: 219-465-7972
e-mail: penelope.andrews@valpo.edu.

Call for Papers

9th International Digital Government Research Conference (dg.o 2008)
“Partnerships for Public Innovation”
Hilton Bonaventure Hotel
Montreal, Canada — May 18-21, 2008
Home Page: http://www.dgo2008.org
General Inquiries: dgo2008@easychair.org

The 9th annual dg.o international conference is a forum for presentation and discussion of interdisciplinary digital government research and practice and its applications in diverse domains. The conference is presented by the Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA), with major support from the US National Science Foundation.

The conference theme “Partnerships for Public Innovation” focuses on information-intensive innovations in the public sector that involve linkages among government, universities, NGOs, and businesses. This theme emphasizes the importance of sharing practical issues, policy perspectives, research insights, and expert advice, in order to reach higher levels of performance in diverse public enterprises. Each year the conference combines:

- Presentations of effective partnerships among government professionals, university researchers, relevant businesses, and NGOs, as well as grassroots citizen groups, to advance the practice of digital government.

- Research on digital government as an interdisciplinary domain that lies at the intersections of computing research, social and behavioral science research, and the problems and missions of government.

Interested participants are invited to submit management or policy papers, research papers, or student research papers, as well as proposals for panels; industry, government, and research prototype demonstrations; posters, Birds-of-a-Feather discussions, and pre-conference tutorials and workshops. The Conference Committee particularly encourages submissions on interdisciplinary and crosscutting topics addressing broad government challenges. Topics include, but are not limited, to the following:

- Digital Government Application Domains: such as courts, crisis management, education, emergency response; international initiatives and cooperation, health and human services, law enforcement and criminal justice; legislative systems, natural resources management, grants administration, government statistics, regulation and rulemaking; security; tax administration; transportation systems, and urban planning.

- IT-enabled Government Management and Operations: such as digital government organization and management strategies, decision-making processes; information technology adoption and diffusion; program planning; IT and service architectures, cross-boundary information sharing and integration, long-term preservation and archiving of government information, information assurance, service integration, as well as technology transition and transfer.

- Information Values and Policies: such as accessibility, digital democracy and governance, digital divide, openness, privacy, public participation in democratic processes, security, transparency, trust, and universal access to information and services.

- Information Technology and Tools to Support Government: such as collaboration tools; cyberinfrastructure for digital government domains; digital libraries and knowledge management; geographic information systems; grid computing; human-computer interaction; information integration; interoperable data, networks and architectures; large scale data and information acquisition and management; mobile government; national and international infrastructures for information and communication, multiple modalities and multimedia; service-oriented architectures; semantic web; social networking, software engineering for large-scale government projects.

IMPORTANT DATES
- November 1, 2007 – Conference submission website becomes available. The submission site is located at: http://www.easychair.org/dgo2008/.
- December 1, 2007 – Submission deadline for all papers and panel sessions, as well as pre-conference tutorials and workshops.
- February 1, 2008 – Acceptance notifications for all papers and panel sessions, as well as pre-conference tutorials and workshops.
- February 15, 2008 - Submission deadline for Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions, posters, and system demonstrations.
- March 1, 2008 – Acceptance notification for posters, system demonstrations, and BOF sessions.
- March 15, 2008 – All camera ready versions are due.

SUBMISSIONS TYPES AND FORMATS (details are below)
- Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
- Management, Case Study, or Policy Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
- Student Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
- Panels (maximum of 5 pages)
- Posters (maximum of 2 pages)
- System Demonstrations (maximum of 2 pages)
- Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (maximum of 2 pages)
- Pre-conference Tutorials (maximum of 2 pages)
- Pre-conference Workshops (maximum of 2 pages)

Submissions must not exceed the maximum number of pages specified for each type of submission. Please use no page numbers. Paper titles should be incorporated onto the first page of text, rather than on a separate cover page. Papers will be reviewed through a double blind review process. Therefore, author names and contact information must be omitted from all submissions. Authors must identify the topic(s) being addressed by the paper to assist the program committee in the review process.

Research papers (maximum 10 pages)
These submissions report innovative digital government research results in the form of a formal scholarly paper. Papers on any digital government topic and all research methodologies are welcome. Relevance to digital government problems, goals, or policies must be explicit. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors' names and contact information.

Management, case study, or policy papers (maximum 10 pages)
These submissions describe and evaluate practical digital government projects or initiatives, discuss major policy themes, or present and evaluate management approaches to digital government initiatives and programs. Papers in this section will also be double blind reviewed, with special focus on relevance to practice, transferability, and lessons learned. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors' names and contact information.

Student research papers (maximum 10 pages)
Digital government research papers authored solely by students should be submitted to this track. Student papers will also receive a double blind review organized and administered by the student program committee. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors' names and contact information.

Panels (maximum 5 pages)
Proposals should include the theme and goals of the panel, a summary of the digital government issues or questions that the panel will address, statements about the value of the discussion to conference attendees and how well suited the topic is to a panel discussion. In addition, the proposal should include information about the expertise of the moderator and panelists in the selected issues. Please include names, institutional affiliations, addresses, email, and phone contact numbers of the contact person, moderator, and presenter(s).

Posters (maximum of 2 pages)
The poster session, held in conjunction with the system demonstrations, allows presenters to discuss research in progress, application projects, or government policies and program initiatives in one-to-one conversations with other participants at the conference. The 2-page summaries should outline the nature of the research, policy, or project and describe why the work will be of interest to dg.o attendees. Submissions should be in camera-ready format -following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should include authors' names and contact information according to that format. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings, and authors are expected to present their work at the poster/demo session at the conference. Posters prepared for the conference should measure approximately 36" x 48." Each poster station is provided a table and an easel. Selected poster submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions.

System Demonstrations (maximum 2 pages)
System demonstrations are held concurrently with the poster session to the accompaniment of good food and professional fellowship. The 2-page summaries should outline the nature of the system and describe why the demonstration is likely to be of interest to dg.o attendees. Demonstrations of interest include systems under development or in active use in research or practice domains. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should include authors' names and contact information according to that format. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings, and authors are expected to present their work at the poster/demo session at the conference. Each station is provided a table, an easel, and Internet access. Monitors will be available for rent. Selected demo submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions.

Birds-of-a-Feather Discussion Sessions (maximum 2 pages)
Birds-of-a-Feather discussions provide an opportunity for participants to connect around selected topics. Proposals should identify the conveners, the intended participants, and key discussion questions. These conversations generally take place during lunch on one of the conference days.

Pre-conference Tutorials (maximum 5 pages)
The dg.o tutorials are half- or full-day presentations offering deeper insight into the scientific and government domains, research topics or methods, technologies or field experience of veteran digital government researchers and practitioners. Each conference registration includes one full-day or two half-day tutorials or workshops.

Pre-conference Research or Management Workshops (maximum 5 pages)
We invite workshop proposals on any digital government research or management topic. Individuals proposing workshops will assume the responsibility of identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and for conducting workshop activities. Each conference registration includes one full-day or two half-day tutorials or workshops.

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
All accepted management or policy papers, research papers, student papers, panels, posters, and system demonstrations will be published in the printed proceedings and included in the ACM digital library. Selected papers may be invited for a journal special issue. Outstanding achievement awards will be presented in the categories research papers, management and policy papers, posters, and systems demonstrations. In addition, to reflect the theme of the conference, we plan to select an outstanding cross-boundary partnership. Selection criteria include the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of the work, its contribution to and balance between theory (rigor) and practice (relevance), the importance and reach of the topic, and the quality of the writing for communicating to a broad audience.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Conference Co-Chairs
Monique Charbonneau, CEFRIO, Quebec
Lester Diamond, US Social Security Administration
Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh

Program Co-Chairs
Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York
J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico

System Demonstration and Poster Session Co-Chairs
Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Peter Bruck, Research Studios Austria
Irak Lopez Davila, INFOTEC, Mexico

Student Chair
Jaime Arguello, Carnegie Mellon University

Tutorial and Workshop Chairs
Jyoti Choudrie, University of Hertfordshire
Laura Steinberg, Southern Methodist University

Communications Chair
Javed Mostafa, University of Indiana

Local Arrangement Chairs
Paul-Andre Robitaille, CEFRIO
Priscilla Rasmussen, ARCS

Sponsorship Chair
Theresa Pardo, University of Albany

Finance Chair
Yigal Arens, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

DGO Society Liaison
Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

Government Liaison
Lawrence Brandt, National Science Foundation

Program Committee
Josune Arcelus, INFOTEC, Mexico
Nabil Adam, Rutgers University
Peggy Agouris, George Mason University
José Luis Ambite, University of Southern California
Kim V. Andersen, Copenhagen Business School
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, University of Tampere, Finland
Yigal Arens, USC/ISI
Jaime Arguello, Carnegie Mellon University
Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University
Chaitanya Baru, UC San Diego
Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen
Wolf-Gideon Bleek, University of Hamburg
Alan Borning, University of Washington
Laura Bright, Thetus Corporation
Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech
Shawn Bowers, UC Davis Genome Center
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University
Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona
Leslie Cheung, USC
Jyoti Choudrie, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Terry Cooper, University of Southern California
Anthony M. Cresswell, University at Albany-SUNY
Judith Bayard Cushing, The Evergreen State College
Sharon Dawes, University at Albany-SUNY
Jose Fortes, University of Florida
Jagdish S. Gangolly, State University of New York at Albany
Ake Grönlund, Umeå University, Sweden
Francisco Ramon Hernandez Tella, Universidad Autónoma del Estado, Mexico
Chris Hinnant, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Tom Horan, Claremont Graduate University
Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI
Norman J. Jacknis, Westchester County, NY
Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Bernhard Katzy, Center for Technology and Innovation Management
Jay Kesan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert Krimmer, Competence Center for Electronic Voting and Participation
Travis Kriplean, University of Washington
Gloria Lau, Stanford University
Man-Sze Li, IC Focus Ltd
Irak Lopez-Davila, INFOTEC, Mexico
Luis Luna-Reyes, Universidad de las Americas, Mexico
Ann Macintosh, The University of Leeds, UK
Bob Maslyn, GSA Office of the Chief Acquisition Officer
Javed Mostafa, University of Indiana
Juliet Musso, University of Southern California
Theresa Pardo, University at Albany
Doncho Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University
Rimantas Petrauskas, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Barbara Russo, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Toluca, Mexico
Alexander Schellong, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington
Ari Schwartz, Center for Democracy and Technology
Basit Shafiq, Rutgers University
Rajiv Shah, University of Chicago
Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh
Laura Steinberg, Southern Methodist University
Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen
Yao-Hua Tan Hua, Vrije University Amsterdam
Efthimios Tambouris, CERTH/ITI and University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
Giri Kumar Tayi, SUNY at Albany
Janice Warner, Georgian Court University.
Nancy Wiegand, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Maria Wimmer, University of Koblenz, Germany
Alexander Xenakis, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
Hui Xiong, Rutgers University

________________________________________________________
Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
Associate Professor
Director, Sara Fine Institute
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~fineinst/
School of Information Sciences
Director, Qualitative Data Analysis Program
University Center for Social and Urban Research
http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/
University of Pittsburgh
121 University Place, Suite 600
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412.624.3776 (v) 412.624.4810 (f)
http://shulman.ucsur.pitt.edu
Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics
http://www.jitp.net

Call for Papers

25 Years of Care Ethics: Resisting Hegemonies in Moral Theory

The publication of Carol Gilligan's In A Different Voice in 1982 and Nel Noddings' Caring in 1984 marked the beginning of a significant feminist challenge to liberal ethics. In the ensuing quarter century, volumes were written about this revolutionary approach to morality that emphasizes relationships, context, and emotion over traditional rules of adjudication. To mark this anniversary, we are proposing an interdisciplinary session of papers that address the history, impact, status, and potential of feminist care ethics for the 2008 National Women's Studies Conference in Cincinnati, OH, June 19-22, 2008. Papers for this session should be 10-12 minutes long. Proposals are welcome from any discipline. Any topic addressing care ethics is also welcome although papers that discuss the history, impact, status, or future of care ethics are encouraged. Please send paper proposals to Maurice Hamington before October 21 at hamington@earthlink.net
This session is sponsored by Maurice Hamington, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Metropolitan State College of Denver and Dorothy C. Miller, Clnical Associate Professor, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western University.

Maurice Hamington hamington@earthlink.net

Call for Proposals
LOEX of the West 2008 Las Vegas, NV
Hit the jackpot: successful experimentation and innovation in instruction

Dates: 6/4/08 - 6/6/08

This intimate conference will feature programming highlighting the work of risk taking, game playing, fun-loving librarians and educators. Sessions in a variety of formats, including the experimental, will be creative and interactive and will showcase genuinely innovative approaches to helping students develop core information gathering and management skills. Sparkling, dynamic Las Vegas will be the backdrop to this exciting conference hosted at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas just a few miles from the neon lights of Las Vegas Boulevard better known as The Strip.

The deadline for submitting proposals is November 30, 2007 at 5:00 PM PST.

Complete and submit proposals at http://www.library.unlv.edu/conferences/loexw/proposals.html

Proposals will be reviewed during December and January and submitters will be notified of the results by January 30, 2008. Presenters are subject to registration and housing fees and are not reimbursed for travel, photocopying or other expenses related to their program.

Selected papers from the LOEX of the West 2008 conference may be published in Reference Services Review.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Visit the 2008 LOEX of the West Web page at http://www.library.unlv.edu/conferences/loexw/

QUESTIONS:
Proposals: Priscilla Finley Priscilla.finley@unlv.edu
General LOTW08 information: Diane VanderPol diane.vanderpol@unlv.edu

Call for Papers
New Reference Research:
14th Reference Research Forum, 2008

The Research and Statistics Committee of the Reference Services Section of RUSA
is sponsoring its Fourteenth Reference Research Forum, "New Reference
Research," at the 2008 American Library Association Annual Conference, Anaheim,
CA.

This is an opportunity to present and discuss your research project conducted
in the broad area of reference services such as user behavior, electronic
services, reference effectiveness, and organizational structure and personnel.
Both completed research and research in progress will be considered. All
researchers, including reference practitioners from all types of libraries,
library school faculty and students, and other interested individuals, are
encouraged to submit a proposal.

The Committee employs a "blind" review process to select a maximum of three (3)
projects for 25 minute presentations, followed by open discussion. The
selected researchers are required to present their papers in person at the
forum. Criteria for selection are:

• Significance of the study for improving the quality of reference
service;
• Quality and creativity of the research design and methodologies;
• Potential for research to fill a gap in reference knowledge or to build
on previous studies;
• Previously published research or research accepted for publication will
not be accepted.

Please submit a one-page proposal by Monday, January 7, 2008. Notification of
acceptance will be made by Friday, March 21, 2008. The submission must consist
of no more than two pages. On the first page, please list your name(s), title
(s), institutional affiliation(s), and address(es) (including your mailing
address, fax number and email address).

The second page should NOT show your name or any personal information. Instead,
it must include:

• Title of the project;
• Explicit statement of the research problem;
• Description of the research design and methodologies used;
• Brief discussion of the unique contribution, potential impact, and
significance of the research.

Please send submissions preferably by email to:

Anne C. Moore, Ph.D.
Associate Director for User Services
W.E.B. Du Bois Library
University of Massachusetts Amherst
154 Hicks Way
Amherst, MA 01003-9275
Voice: (413)-545-0148
FAX: (413)-545-6494

Call for papers for a special issue of MP: A Feminist Online Journal

http://www.academinist.org/mp/

Back Talk: The Language of Defiance, Denial, Distortion, and Development
Scheduled Publication Date: January 15, 2007

Imus's use of the power of the language to reduce successful young women to objects of racial epithet got him fired. In a South Philadelphia neighborhood, a cheesesteak restaurant owner becomes the subject of a national debate about whether the language of immigrants is valid and whether it should retain power in the United States, even the simple power to order a sandwich. Meanwhile, America as a whole asks the question on the world stage of whether the power of words is permitted to "enemy combatants", and even to Congress as they attempt to end the war in Iraq. President Bush uses the power of words in the form of signing statements, accompanying each veto of congressional legislation that he sends out. Internationally, the people of war-torn lands such as Darfur struggle to find a voice to ask for aid and the women of many countries cry out for protection against institutionalized rape. Speaking out has been an important concept in feminism from the beginning. Who owns language? Who can use its power? And how is that power used in a modern, technological, global world? How can it be harnessed for good? In this issue of MP Journal, we seek papers that explore language and its power and how that relates to national and international issues.

Submissions

We accept submissions from all types of writers. In order to be considered, all submissions should:

be scholarly/academic in nature;
use MLA format;
be sent as an attachment (*.doc, *.txt, *.rtf -- no *.pdf, please!);
include a CV or writing resume and a 50 word bio;
abide by the copyright and image use information listed on our website.
Send submission to: lynda_hinkle@yahoo.com by November 4, 2007.

Empire: Migrations, Diasporas, Networks

Continuing a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation about empire, California State University Stanislaus will host a third conference on Empire in March 2008, this time exploring Migrations, Diasporas, and Networks.

Date:
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 13-15 March 2008.

Plenary Speakers:

Mikhail Alexseev-- Mikhail A. Alexseev is an Associate Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. A former Kremlin correspondent of the News from Ukraine weekly, Alexseev was the first Soviet citizen to receive a Reuters’ Fellowship at the University of Oxford and the NATO Democratic Institutions Fellowship in 1990. He is the author of Without Warning: Threat Assessment, Intelligence, and Global Struggle (1997) and the editor of Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled (1999). His articles have appeared in numerous journals, newspapers, and magazines, including Political Science Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, Political Communication, The New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, and The Seattle Times.

Katynka Martinez-- Recent USC Annenberg Fellow, now Assistant Professor of Raza Studies at San Francisco State University. She has published in numerous anthologies including "The Deterritorialized Telenovela in a Neo-network Era: Finding an online home for MyNetwork Soaps" in Millennial TV: Media Convergence, Viral Networking, and a Wired Audience; "Digital Media and New Technology" and "Quinceañera" in Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia; "Monolingualism, Biculturalism, and Cable TV: HBO Latino and the Promise of the Multiplex" in Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting. Her work has also appeared in Latino Studies, Communication Review, and in The Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Popular Culture in the United States.

Scope:

We seek papers, panels, workshops, and artistic works that examine the connections/disconnections between enactments and perceptions of empire with migrations, diasporas and/or networks. We hope that participants will address the issues of empire from antiquity to postmodernity, on every continent and from many cultures. We also hope to look at a variety of empires such as national, media, corporate, and technological. To situate these topics in as broad a context as possible, we seek presentations by scholars working in such disciplines as Anthropology, Architecture & Art History, Humanities and Social Sciences, Computing, Economics, Education, Ethnic & Gender Studies, Film Studies, Geography, History, Literature, New Media, Philosophy, Politics & Public Policy, and the Natural and Physical Sciences.

Please use the link to the upper left to submit a single paper. We also welcome panel proposals which should a title, and include abstracts for all papers; these maybe emailed directly to Kim De Vries. If you wish to solicit proposals for a panel through our website, please contact Kim at the email address given on the left; we are happy to add sub-calls to our pages. We also welcome submission of creative work; for information on submitting sample images, video, etc, again please contact Kim De Vries.

Themes
Suggested topics might include, but are by no means limited to, the following:
Diasporas and Migrations: geographic, cultural, ideological, rhetorical, technological or other.
Sustainability & the Political Ecology of diasporic communities, migrations, and networks.
Reverse Colonization of place, of media, of technologies.
Imperial Borders & Language: Dominance, Discrimination, & Assimilation.
Images of Empire in Popular Culture.
Teaching/Subverting Imperial Ideology: Empire, Education, & Resistant Pedagogy.
Borders and "Borders" -- Theorizing Cultural Connection, Separation, and Entanglement.
>From Hollywood and Microsoft to DIY Videos and the Open Source Movement: Media Empires, Rebellions, and Collaborations.
Home: Migration, Place, & Identity.
Constructing/Constricting Identities.
Imperialism & Visual and Musical Culture.
Theories of Empire: the Political, Historical, Erotic, & Aesthetic.
The Imperial In-Between in Drama, Fiction, Film, & Poetry.
Networks of Resistance: Feminist, Ecological, Ethnic, Technological, etc.
Dialectism & Resistance: Black English, Chicanismo, & Linguistic Minorities.
Technological Migrations: Empire, Film, TV, and the Web.
Gender & Migration, Diaspora, and/or Networks.
Cosmopolitanism: World Culture vs. Local Identity.
Imperialism, Philanthropy, & Aid.

For more information and proposal submissions, visit http://web.csustan.edu/CHSS/Empire/

Betsy Eudey, PhD
Director/Assistant Professor, Gender Studies
Department of Ethnic and Gender Studies
California State University Stanislaus
801 W Monte Vista Ave
Turlock, CA 95382
BEudey@csustan.edu
209.664.6673

Academic Library Outreach: Beyond the Campus Walls

Edited by Nancy Courtney, Ohio State University Libraries

Call for chapter proposals: Deadline November 15, 2007

Scope and content

Traditionally, academic library outreach has meant reaching out to the campus community, providing services to faculty and students. Many universities and colleges, however, now have a new or renewed emphasis on outreach beyond the campus, seeking to ensure their institutions’ relevance to the community at large. How can and do academic libraries participate in this type of outreach? What types of collaborations or partnerships are academic libraries forming with schools, public libraries, or community groups? How do academic librarians partner with faculty or campus departments on their community projects? What role does service-learning play?

Target audience

Academic librarians and library administrators interested in discovering new ways to interact with the community and to further the outreach mission of their institutions.

The editor

The editor has previously edited two books published by Libraries Unlimited: Technology for the Rest of Us: A Primer on Computer Technologies for the Low-

Tech Librarian (2005) and Library 2.0 and Beyond: Innovative Technologies and Tomorrow’s User (2007).

Submission procedure

Prospective authors are invited to submit a one-page summary of a proposed chapter on or before November 15, 2007 as a Word document attachment to Courtney.24@osu.edu . Do not send completed chapters. Authors will be notified about the status of their proposals as soon as possible. Once the book is under contract, authors will be contacted regarding manuscript deadlines, format, and stylistic guidelines. It is expected that authors would have 8-12 weeks to complete their manuscripts.

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Nancy Courtney

Coordinator of Outreach & Learning

The Ohio State University Libraries

102 Riffe Bldg.

496 W. 12th Ave.

Columbus, OH 43210-1214

614-688-8771

614-688-3123 (fax)

courtney.24@osu.edu

http://library.osu.edu/sites/outreach/

CALL FOR ARTICLES

The Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship at Clarion University
of Pennsylvania is seeking scholarly articles for its two professional
publications:

1) Rural Libraries, focusing on current trends and issues affecting
small and rural libraries

2) Bookmobile and Outreach Services, concentrating on current trends
and issues in library outreach.

Each journal is published twice annually, once in the spring and once
in the fall. Articles may take the form of scholarly papers or essays
and may reflect librarianship from any part of the world. Submissions
must conform to guidelines in the Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association 5th Edition and should be 10-25 pages in
length. Please review earlier issues of each journal available at
http://jupiter.clarion.edu/~csrl/services.htm or through WilsonWeb’s
Library Literature and Information Science Full Text database to
familiarize yourself with the preferred style for each journal and to
review previous article topics.

Submissions in MS Word 2003 format may be:

1) mailed to the address below in hard copy with electronic version on
floppy disc or CD, or

2) e-mailed as an attachment to csrl@clarion.edu.

Include the following information with your submission:

1) Name
2) Title/Position
3) Institution
4) Address
5) Phone Number
6) E-mail Address
7) The Name of the Journal to Which You Are Submitting
8) An abstract of no more than 120 words
9) A biographical sketch of the author(s) of no more than 100 words each

Notification of receipt of your submission will be sent via e-mail.

The deadline for spring issue submissions is: January 11, 2008

Thank you and we look forward to reviewing your work.

Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship
Department of Library Science
Clarion University of Pennsylvania
840 Wood Street
Clarion, PA 16214
814-393-2014
csrl@clarion.edu

Please send all correspondence ATTN: Editorial Staff

Dr. William Buchanan
Professor
Department of Library Science
Clarion University of Pennsylvania
840 Wood Street
Clarion, PA 16214
814.393.2447 (office)
814.393.2150 (fax)

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICN 2008, The Seventh International Conference on Networking

April 13-18, 2008 - Cancun, Mexico

Site: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/ICN08.html

Submit a paper: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/SubmitICN08.html

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in IEEE
Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes.

Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for specialized
journals.

Important deadlines:

Submission deadline : November 5, 2007

Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2007

Registration/camera ready: January 20, 2008

ICN 2008 Topics (details in the CfP on site):

1. Communication theory
2. Communications switching and routing
3. Communications modeling
4. Communications security
5. Computer communications
6. Distributed communications
7. Signal processing in communications
8. Multimedia and multicast communications
9. Wireless communications (satellite, WLL, 4G, Ad Hoc, sensor networks)
10. Next generation networks [NGN] principles
11. Storage area networks [SAN]
12. Access and home networks
13. High-speed networks
14. Optical networks
15. Peer-to-peer and overlay networking
16. Mobile networking and systems
17. MPLS-VPN, IPSec-VPN networks
18. GRID networks
19. Broadband networks
20. Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA]
21. Reliability, availability, serviceability [RAS]
22. Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring
23. Voice over IP services
24. Performance evaluation, tools, simulation
25. Network, control and service architectures
26. Network signaling, pricing and billing
27. Network middleware
28. Telecommunication networks architectures
29. On-demand networks, utility computing architectures
30. Applications and case studies
31. NGN protocol design and evaluation
32. NGN Standard Activities [ITU, TMF, 3GPP, IETF, etc.]
33. NGN Device Instrumentation
34. Network Management, scheduling and policy
35. NGN policy-based control
36. Networks policy-based management
37. Management of autonomic networks and systems

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Chairs:
Jun Bi, Tsinghua University, China
Tibor Gyires, Illinois State University, USA
Iwona Pozniak-Koszalka, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR LHRT RESEARCH FORUM

“The History of American Libraries and Librarianship in the West.”

The Library History Round Table (LHRT) will sponsor a Research Forum at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, California (June 26 - July 2, 2008). The Forum will consider new or continuing research to be presented at the annual conference in the following research area: the history of American libraries and librarianship in the West. The West will be defined as the “trans-Mississippi west” and the papers may be inclusive of all library development, including public, academic, private or membership libraries. Of particular interest will be studies on library development in frontier areas and the evolution of libraries and librarianship in the “new West.” The time frame considered will be the 19th and 20th century.

Researchers from all backgrounds, including faculty, practitioners, graduate students, and independent researchers, are invited to submit. LHRT members and non-members are welcome to submit; however, those selected will be required to be present and register for the conference at their own expense.

Please submit a two-page proposal by January 5, 2008. Late submissions will not be considered. On the first page, please list your name(s), title(s), institutional affiliation(s), and contact information (telephone number, mailing address, and email address). The second page should not show your name or any other identifying information. Instead, it must include the following: 1) the title of your paper, and 2) a synopsis or abstract of not more than 500 words. It is desirable that the abstract include a problem or thesis, including a statement of significance, objectives, methodology, and conclusions (or tentative conclusions for work in progress). Please indicate whether the research is in-progress or completed.

Please send submissions either by email or land mail to:

Kenneth Potts

LHRT Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect

C/o University Library

California State University, Stanislaus

One University Circle

Turlock, CA 95382

Email: kpotts@csustan.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICONS 2008, The Third International Conference on Systems

April 13-18, 2008 - Cancun, Mexico

Site: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/ICONS08.html

Submit a paper: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/SubmitICONS08.html

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in IEEE
Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes.

Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for specialized
journals.

Important deadlines:

Submission deadline : November 5, 2007

Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2007

Registration/camera ready: January 20, 2008

ICONS 2008 Topics (details in the CfP on site):

* Systems’ theory and practice
* System engineering
* Systems’ instrumentation
* Embedded systems and systems-on-the-chip
* Target-oriented systems
* Specialized systems
* Validation systems
* Security and protection systems
* Mobile communications and learning
* Advanced systems
* Application-oriented systems
* Safety in industrial systems
* Micro and nano structures and systems
* Embedded systems
* Industrial applications

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Technical Program Commitee Chairs:
Andrew Adamatzky, University of Western England, UK
Josef Boercsoek, University of Kassel / HIMA GmbH+CoKG, Germany
Tayeb Giuma, University of North Florida, USA
Annamaria Varkonyi-Koczy, Budapest University of Technology and
Economics, Hungary

Special Area Chairs:
Mario Cannataro, University of Catanzaro, Italy [Special Systems]
Vittoria Gianuzzi, DISI Universita' di Genova, Italy [Special Systems]
Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland, University of Science and Technology -
Trondheim, Norway [MCL]
Juha Röning, University of Oulu, Finland [SAFESYS]
Michael H. Schwarz, University of Kassel, Germany [SAFESYS]

The Graduate Student Caucus is seeking submissions from
faculty and graduate students for a sponsored panel, workshop, or roundtable geared
toward graduate students at the 2008 NWSA Annual Meeting, dealing with issues
of professional development, academic environments, and/or faculty-student relations. Possible topics could include (but are not
limited to)

What do I do with a Women’s Studies or Gender Studies graduate degree?How
NWSA works (geared specifically toward students)Applying,
Surviving, and Thriving in Graduate
SchoolNavigating
the Academy for Students of ColorNavigating
the Academic Job MarketInterviewing
in the Academic Job MarketCreating
a Curriculum VitaFinding
a Faculty MentorChoosing
Graduate SchoolsIntergenerational
conflict among academic feministsResearch
funding opportunitiesInternships,
study abroad, and international exchanges in Women’s Studies

Submissions and inquiries should be sent via email to
Adriane Brown (brown.2997@osu.edu) by October
29. Complete panels, workshops, and
roundtables are preferred.

Call for Papers

"Libraries from Human Rights Perspective"
International Conference
Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies (RCHRS)
Ramallah (Palestine)
31 March - 2 April 2008

Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies (RCHRS) in
cooperation with IFLA will arrange an international
conference on Libraries from Human Rights Perspective in
Ramallah 31 March - 2 April 2008. The Center invites
interested writers and researchers to submit abstracts for
their papers in either English or Arabic in the following
topics:

Libraries and Human Rights:
- Relationship between libraries and human rights
- Violations in human rights in library environment
- Libraries and rights of less advantaged groups
- Women and children rights related to library work
- Minorities and libraries from human rights perspective
- Disabled
- Cultural rights and libraries

Libraries and freedom of expression, freedom of access to
information, academic freedom and libraries/ academic
libraries:
- Freedom of expression/ role of libraries in forming people's opinions
- Freedom of access to information
- Introduction to IFLA/ FAIFE
- Academic freedom
- Right to information
- Governance and libraries
- E-publishing and right to information
- Freedom of expression in digital age
- Case studies

Libraries and diversity, libraries and tolerance/ acceptance
of the other:
- Diversity and libraries (collections, librarians and
thoughts)
- Tolerance in library environment (religious, cultural,
political and ideology-based tolerance)
- Acceptance of the other in library environment
- Model libraries for all
- Case studies from other countries
- Case studies in violations and intolerance in library
environment

Abstracts are due by 30/11/2007. The Center will notify
researchers whose papers have been accepted by 10/1/2008;
full papers are due by 1/3/2008. The center will cover
participation expenses of researchers whose papers are
accepted with a symbolic cash award, in addition to
publishing all papers in Arabic and English in the
conference proceedings book.

Contact:
Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies
P.O Box 2425 Ramallah, Palestine
Ramallah
Palestine
Tel: +970 2 2423001
Fax: +970 2 2413002
Email: dweikat@rchrs.org
Web: http://www.rchrs.ps/aboutC.html

Toni Samek, PhD
Associate Professor & Graduate Coordinator
School of Library & Information Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
-- Information Ethics Fellow, 2006-07, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Mailing Address: SLIS, 3-15 Rutherford South, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA T6G 2J4
Phone: (780) 492-0179
Fax: (780) 492-2430
E-mail: toni.samek@ualberta.ca
Web: http://www.ualberta.ca/~asamek/toni.htm

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

This is a gentle reminder that the extended and final paper submission
deadline for the on-line International E-Conference on Computer,
Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering
(http://www.cisse2007online.org) is in three days (October 22, 2007). The
Conference organizing committee has decided to extend the paper submission
deadline due to numerous deadline extension requests from potential CISSE
2007 authors. CISSE 2007 has received more than 400 paper submissions so
far from over 70 countries and we are looking forward to your quality paper
contributions.

Please note that this is a hard deadline, so that the technical committees
can perform their paper reviewing duties in a timely manner.

You are invited to submit full papers electronically through the website of
the conference at http://www.cisse2007online.org

Accepted papers must be presented in the virtual conference by one of the
authors. To submit your paper, visit http://www.cisse2007online.org. The
full conference call for papers including all the details about the on-line
submission and virtual presentation of the papers is enclosed in this
e-mail.

Paper submission Deadline: October 22nd, 2007
Notification of Acceptance: November 2nd, 2007
Final Manuscript and Registration: November 23rd, 2007

Please do not reply to this message. If you need to contact us please
email
us at info@cisse2007online.org

Looking forward to your participation in CISSE 2007.

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Technically Co-Sponsored by:

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CISSE 2007 provides a virtual forum for presentation and discussion of the
state-of the-art research on computers, information and systems sciences
and engineering. CISSE 2007 is the third conference of the CISSE series of
e-conferences. CISSE is the World's first Engineering/Computing and Systems
Research E-Conference. CISSE 2005 was the first high-caliber Research
Conference in the world to be completely conducted online in real-time via
the internet. CISSE 2005 received 255 research paper submissions and the
final program included 140 accepted papers, from more than 45 countries.
CISSE 2006 received 691 research paper submissions and the final program
included 390 accepted papers, from more than 70 countries.

The virtual conference will be conducted through the Internet using
web-conferencing tools, made available by the conference. Authors will be
presenting their PowerPoint, audio or video presentations using
web-conferencing tools without the need for travel. Conference sessions
will be broadcast to all the conference participants, where session
participants can interact with the presenter during the presentation and
(or) during the Q&A slot that follows the presentation. This international
conference will be held entirely on-line. The accepted and presented papers
will be made available and sent to the authors after the conference both on
a DVD (including all papers, powerpoint presentations and audio
presentations) and as a book publication. Springer, the official publisher
for CISSE, published the 2005 proceedings in 2 books and the CISSE 2006
proceedings in four books.

Conference participants - authors, presenters and attendees - only need an
internet connection and sound available on their computers in order to be
able to contribute and participate in this international ground-breaking
conference. The on-line structure of this high-quality event will allow
academic professionals and industry participants to contribute their work
and attend world-class technical presentations based on rigorously refereed
submissions, live, without the need for investing significant travel funds
or time out of the office.

The concept and format of CISSE is very exciting and ground-breaking. The
PowerPoint presentations, final paper manuscripts and time schedule for
live presentations over the web had been available for weeks prior to the
start of the conference for all registrants, so that the participants can
choose the presentations they want to attend and think about questions that
they might want to ask. The live audio presentations were also recorded and
are part of the permanent CISSE on-line archive - accessible to all
registrants- which also includes all the papers, PowerPoint and audio
presentations.

Potential non-author conference attendees who cannot make the on-line
conference dates are encouraged to register, as the entire joint
conferences will be archived for future viewing. The CISSE conference
audio room provides superb audio even over low speed internet connections,
the ability to display PowerPoint presentations, and cross-platform
compatibility (the conferencing software runs on Windows, Mac, and any
other operating system that supports Java). In addition, the conferencing
system allowed for an unlimited number of articipants, which in turn
granted us the opportunity to allow all CISSE participants to attend all
presentations, as opposed to limiting the number of available seats for
each session.

Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in
Microsoft Word format through the website of the conference at
http://www.cisse2007online.org

Accepted papers must be presented in the virtual conference by one of the
authors. To submit your paper, visit http://www.cisse2007online.org

CISSE 2007 is composed of the following four conferences:

International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software
Engineering (SCSS 07)

Topics: Grid Computing, Internet-based Computing Models, Resource
Discovery, Programming Models and tools, e-Science and Virtual
Instrumentation, Biometric Authentication, Computers for People of Special
Needs, Human Computer Interaction, Information and Knowledge Engineering,
Algorithms, Parallel and Distributed processing, Modeling and Simulation,
Services and Applications, Embedded Systems and Applications, Databases,
Programming Languages, Signal Processing Theory and Methods, Signal
Processing for Communication, Signal Processing Architectures and
Implementation, Information Processing, Geographical Information Systems,
Object Based Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Computing,Real
Time Systems, Multiprocessing, File Systems and I/O, Kernel and OS
Structures.

International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe 07)

Topics: Optical Networks and Switching, Computer Networks, Network
architectures and Equipment, Access Technologies, Telecommunication
Technology, Coding and Modulation technique, Modeling and Simulation,
Spread Spectrum and CDMA Systems, OFDM technology, Space-time Coding, Ultra
Wideband Communications, Medium Access Control, Spread Spectrum, Wireless
LAN: IEEE 802.11, HIPERLAN, Bluetooth, Cellular Wireless Networks, Cordless
Systems and Wireless Local Loop, Mobile Network Layer, Mobile Transport
Layer, Support for Mobility, Conventional Encryption and Message
Confidentiality, Block Ciphers Design Principles, Block Ciphers Modes of
Operation, Public-Key Cryptography and Message Authentication,
Authentication Application, Stenography, Electronic Mail Security, Web
Security, IP Security, Firewalls, Computer Forensics.

International Conference on Engineering Education, Instructional
Technology, Assessment, and E-learning (EIAE 07)

Topics: Instructional Design, Accreditation, Curriculum Design, Educational
Tools, 2-2-2 Platforms, Teaching Capstone Design, Teaching Design at the
Lower Levels, Design and Development of e-Learning tools, Assessment
Methods in Engineering, Development and Implementation of E-learning tools,
Ethics in Education, Economical and Social Impacts of E-learning.

International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology & Automation
(IETA 07)

Topics: Advanced and Distributed Control Systems, Intelligent Control
Systems (NN, FL, GA, etc.), Expert Systems, Man Machine Interaction, Data
Fusion, Factory Automation, Robotics, Motion Control, Machine Vision, MEMS
Sensors and Actuators, Sensors Fusion, Power Electronics, High Frequency
Converters, Motors and Drives, Power Converters, Power Devices and
Components, Electric Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation, Process
Automation, Factory Communication, Manufacturing Information System
Advances in Manufacturing Systems, Industrial Applications of Multi Media,
Intelligent Systems Instrumentation, Industrial Instrumentation, Modeling
and Simulation, Signal Processing, Image and Data Processing, VR and
Parallel systems.

Paper Submission

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Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in
Microsoft Word format through the website of the conference at
http://www.cisse2007online.org

Accepted papers must be presented in the virtual conference by one of the
authors. To submit your paper, visit http://www.cisse2007online.org

Paper submission Deadline: October 22nd, 2007
Notification of Acceptance: November 2nd, 2007
Final Manuscript and Registration: November 23rd, 2007

August 5-7, 2008, Montreal (Quebec, Canada)

Public Libraries, Children and Young Adult Libraries, and Management and Marketing

Sections-IFLA

In collaboration with Les Bibliothèques Publiques du Québec

Call for Papers

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)’s Public Libraries,

Children and Young Adult Libraries, and Management and Marketing Sections in collaboration

with Les Bibliothèques Publiques du Québec are currently organizing a satellite meeting in

Montreal, Quebec, Canada from August 5-7, 2008. This event will precede the 74th Annual IFLA

conference in Quebec city (August 10-14, 2008.)

Themes and Objectives

The general theme of the conference is to conduct a survey of children and young adult services

offered in public libraries around the world.

The objectives of the satellite meeting are :

• To bring together library personnel and other participants working with a young clientele

in order to facilitate the sharing and exchange of information and ideas.

• To benefit from the experience of innovators in the field of youth library services (see

the list of subjects below)

• To present speakers from around the world

Subject of Papers :

• The library’s impact and social role in the community : professional ethics, homework

help, library teen board, etc.

• How to effectively market youth services to their target audience

• Innovative practices in integrating cultural materials, literacy programs, school visits

• Technology : trends, on-site users, distance users, developing new services, impact on

reading

• Physical place : lay-out and desegregation of youth library services.

• Reading programs inside and outside library walls : innovative practices

Submission Guidelines

Interested parties are invited to submit a proposal before November 2nd, 2007.

The presentations will each last approximately 15 minutes and thirty proposals will be selected.

The proposals must be submitted in an electronic format and must contain :

• Title of paper

• Summary of paper (maximum 300 words- ½ page)

• The speaker’s name, address, telephone and fax numbers, professional affiliation, email

address and biographical note (40 words)

Language of submission

French and English are the two official languages of the satellite meeting. Proposals may be

submitted in either language.

Send submissions to :

Patricia Lemieux, responsable du comité scientifique (patricia.lemieux@banq.qc.ca)

Chef de service, Espace Jeunes

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec

475, boulevard de Maisonneuve Est

Montréal (Québec)

CANADA

Evaluation

The call for papers will be evaluated by the members of the selection committee and by a

member of each IFLA section involved in the satellite meeting.

The committee may revise the time alotted to the submitted presentations in accordance with

their relevance and complimentarity.

Important Dates

November 2nd 2007 : Deadline for submissions

December 2007 : Notification of acceptance/rejection

February 2008 : Final program and registration information released

May 2008 : Deadline for submission of text

Registration fees for the satellite meeting will be waived for the speakers. However, they will have to assume their own travel and room and board expenses.

Venue

The conference will be held at McGill University with the support of the

School of Information Studies.

March 18-21, 2008
Atlanta, GA
Call for Proposals

http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/2008/schedConf/cfp

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ER&L Conference Program Planning Committee encourages you to submit a proposal for the Electronic Resources & Libraries 2008 Conference to be held March 19-21, 2008, with pre-conference sessions on March 18. The conference location will be the Global Learning Center in Atlanta, GA.

View Track Descriptions: http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/2008/schedConf/trackPolicies

Proposal Deadline: Proposals will be evaluated as they are received, and priority may be given to those who submit early. The Proposal Deadline is November 1, 2007.

Proposal Evaluation: The committee will evaluate each proposal on the basis of subject matter (including, but not limited to, the issues listed in the topic descriptions), clarity, and timeliness. Proposals should be for original work that has not been published. We may request that some presenters combine sessions with complementary subject matter.

Compensation: Presenters receive 25% off the cost of registration.

More info: ER&L provides a forum for information professionals to explore ideas, trends, and technologies related to electronic resources and digital services. The idea of this event is to bring together stakeholders inside and outside of the library to look at the impact the digital environment has on library collections, access to resources, and our organizations. We invite various perspectives and approaches to managing, promoting and accessing electronic resources. We hope to foster collaborative, cross-departmental, cross-community approaches to the issues e-resources have brought to our environment.

Questions: Please direct questions about the Call for Proposals to Bonnie Tijerina (bonnie.tijerina@gmail.com) or Elizabeth Winter (elizabeth.winter@library.gatech.edu). Please direct questions related to preconferences to Xan Arch (xanadu@stanford.edu).

ER&L '08 conference details are online at:
http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/2008

Barbara Blummer
Library Manager
Center for Computing Sciences
bablumm@super.org
301-805-7539

CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Submission Deadline: November 15, 2007
Handbook on Strategic Information Technology and Portfolio Management
Edited by Albert Tan* and Petros Theodorou**

*Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore
**Athens University of Economics & Business, Department of Economics

Introduction
The strategic perspective of Information Systems and the importance of planning have been recognized since Anthony’s 1965 work on the hierarchical application portfolio model. The matrix approach developed by BCG’s product portfolio was extended in IT portfolio management and similar approaches were developed by McFarlan’s Strategic Grid, Sullivan, Munro & Huff, Ives & Learmonth, Galliers and others. Portfolio management aims at the selection of IT applications which increase value while minimizing the relevant risks. This approach must be holistic and take into account the overall strategy of the firm. Strategic alignment is an important ingredient for a successful portfolio. Strategies and financial aspects regarding return of invested capital on IT will be examined. Special interest must be given in financial information systems. While much has been written about strategic information systems planning (SISP), the integration of strategic planning with portfolio management has not been examined. This combined approach to planning could be more effective for both researchers and practitioners to optimize their resources and investments. This collection of papers aims to define the strategic options and the implications of the evolving IT portfolio in order to provide a tool for IS/IT strategic planning. Theoretical discussion, practical models and case studies (in banking sector, energy sector etc…) are welcomed.

The Overall Objective of the Book
A need emerged for an edited collection of articles in the fields of information technology strategy, information technology architecture, financial information systems, portfolio management, etc. The aim of this book is to bridge the knowledge between information technology planning (ITP), enterprise architecture and IT portfolio management taking into account the financial impact. The objectives of the proposed book are to provide techniques and tools appropriate for building application portfolio and develop strategies which increase financial performance. Case studies and relevant applications for each industry are welcomed. Papers will determine key steps in creating, optimizing and managing IT investment portfolio. Techniques and tools will be developed to categorize, prioritize, evaluate IT applications portfolio and align this portfolio with business strategy in order to increase financial performance. Determine portfolio’s returns, risks and strategies in order to create, assess and plan the investments that increase financial performance taking into account strategic alignment. Provide a logical linkage between ITP, enterprise architecture, portfolio management and financial performance. Examine how ITP models have evolved since their inception. Evaluate how ITP has been used in private and public sectors, industry as well as small and medium companies. Discuss some of the issues faced during ITP and how they can be overcome.

The Target Audience
It is intended for use by IT professionals, CIOs and researchers involved in IT planning, portfolio management and implementation for very large IT systems. Moreover, the book will provide insights and support executives concerned with the management of information technology for different industries and environments.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Strategic ITP for public, private sectors and other key industries
Strategic ITP for small and medium sized companies
A review of different ITP models
Strategic Financial Information Systems
ITP under uncertain business environment
Strategic tools for strategic ITP
Motivation and barriers in ITP
Alignment between ITP with corporate strategies
Alignment between ITP and with business processes
Linkage between information technology portfolio management and ITP
Optimizing Information technology Portfolio
Information Technology Governance and Portfolio Management
Linkage between Enterprise Architecture and ITP
Challenges in implementing information technology plan
Structuring information technology organization to support information technology planning

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before November 15, 2007, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by December 15, 2007 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by February 15, 2008. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global, www.igi-global.com, publisher of the IGI Publishing (formerly Idea Group Publishing), Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing, Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference), and Medical Information Science Reference imprints.

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:
Dr. Petros Theodorou
Athens University of Economics & Business
Department of Economics
Tel.: +306972222737
E-mail: theodorou@aueb.gr

CALL FOR PAPERS

Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Conference, March 29, 2008
Penn State University, Abington College
Abington, PA (near Philadelphia)

"Privilege & Prejudice"

Featuring keynote address by
Peggy McIntosh
Author of "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack"

In the 20 years since McIntosh's essay first appeared, how far have we come? How do race, gender, class, and other aspects of identity still shape experience? We welcome papers, workshops, and panels from all disciplines on any aspect of this theme.

Deadline: November 12, 2007
Send abstracts to kweekes@psu.edu with subject "MAWSA proposal."

Or send hardcopy submissions to:
Dr. Karen Weekes
Associate Prof, English & Women's Studies
Penn State University, Abington College
1600 Woodland Rd.
Abington, PA 19001

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MAWSA 2008 Student Essay Contest

The Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Association is pleased to announce the seventh annual Student Prize for Scholarly Excellence in Women's Studies.

Two awards, underwritten by the Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Association and the Susquehanna University Honors Program, are given annually to one undergraduate and one graduate student who submit the best previously unpublished essays on any aspect of women's studies scholarship. Writers of the winning essays will each receive a $50 cash award and be recognized at the 2008 MAWSA conference at Penn State University, Abington College.

Submissions must be received by November 12, 2007.

Applicants should indicate graduate or undergraduate status and submit three
(3) copies of the essay in MLA or Chicago style.

Other criteria include the following:

* Papers should be no more than 20 pages (including notes).

* Papers should be in English.

* Papers may be submitted by e-mail to hill@susqu.edu

* Papers may also be submitted via postal mail to:

Dr. Simona Hill
c/o Mrs. Wendy Davis, Honors Program Secretary
Susquehanna University
514 University Avenue
Selinsgrove, PA 17870

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS ­ WILU 2008 ( Le texte français suit)

Kelowna, BC, Canada
May 14 ­ 16, 2008

WILU is one of the preeminent conferences on instruction and information
literacy. The 2008 Conference will be at the University of British Columbia
Okanagan campus, and in keeping with the Okanagan¹s growing reputation for its wine and wineries, the conference theme is Information Literacy Uncorked: Innovate, Celebrate,
Participate. We hope to have presentations that focus on three themes we
have identified for the conference: conceptual foundations/theory,
practice, and innovation.

One of our innovations this year is the ­ŒLightning Strike¹ a 10 minute
session where you can present, in a more focused format, your concept or
practice.

The deadline for proposals is November 30, 2007, and can be submitted via
the website at http://www.library.ubc.ca/wilu2008/

For the submission form and further information about the conference,
including suggested topics and presentation formats please go to:

http://www.library.ubc.ca/wilu2008/

Appel pour présentations WILU 2008
Kelowna, Colombie-Britannique, Canada
14-16 mai 2008
La conférence WILU mise sur la litéracie de l¹informatique et de
l¹instruction. La conférence de 2008 se déroulera au campus de la University
of British Columbia Okanagan. Le thème, Information Literacy Uncorked :
Innovate, Celebrate, Participate, reflète la grande renommée vinicole de
cette région du Canada. Les présentations doivent porter sur les thèmes
suivants : bases fondamentales conceptuelles, théorie, pratique et
innovation. Une de nos innovations c¹est de présenter THE LIGHTENING STRIKE
une session de 10 minutes qui porte sur un concept ou une pratique que vous
voulez partager avec vos pairs.
La date limite pour les propositions : le 30 novembre 2007
Les candidats doivent soumettre leur proposition sur le formulaire
électronique disponible à l¹adresse suivante:
http://www.library.ubc.ca/wilu2008/ avant le 30 novembre 2007.
Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez vous dirigez au site suivant

http://www.library.ubc.ca/wilu2008/
--
Marjorie Mitchell, WILU 37 Chair
Learning Services Librarian
UBC Okanagan
3333 University Way
Kelowna, BC V4V 1V7
Tel: 250-807-9147
Fax: 250-807-8057
E-mail: marjorie.mitchell@ubc.ca

CFP (edited volume):
Library Data: Empowering Practice and Persuasion

Librarians increasingly have access to vast amounts of data, but more
important than the data itself is how it is handled,
interpreted, and used. This is your opportunity to contribute to the
critical discussion concerning the theory, uses, and best
practices concerning numerical evidence in libraries today.

As its working title suggests, this collection proceeds from the basic
observation that library data serves two primary
functions: informing decision-making and providing support for
communication beyond library walls. Some data analysis projects may
support both activities, but most (appropriately) primarily address just
one or the other. Therefore, the finished work will include papers that
focus on data-driven practice or data-strengthened persuasion, as well
as studies that may speak to both.

Some topics to address might include:

*how existing data sets may be used to make a case for funding,
resource, or other changes
*how "non-library" data (community demographics, economics, etc.) may
relate to library trends
*interesting or non-traditional sources of data and how they may be used
in library decision-making
*assessing the integrity of electronic data (web site "hits,"
vendor-supplied versus internal data, etc.)
*librarians for planning, assessment, data analysis, etc.: a new
specialization within the profession?
*critiques of commercially available tools for data analysis
*comparing apples and oranges: data on different scales
*a crash course in statistics for non-statistician librarians
*how you have made a potentially "ho-hum" data presentation data
engaging and persuasive

You may find inspiration in:

*Summary and presentation documents from the recent ACRL Education &
Behavioral Sciences Section's 2007 conference panel, "Empowering Data,"
available at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/aboutacrl/acrlsections/EBSS/ebssconferencein
fo/empoweringdata.htm

*Publicly available (and understudied) reports and data from the U.S.
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) web
site:
http://www.nclis.gov/survey.htm

*Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statistics,available at:
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/arl/

Please send inquiries or brief proposals (of approx. 150 words) to:
darby_orcutt@ncsu.edu (Darby Orcutt, North Carolina State University
Libraries)

Deadline for proposals: November 19, 2007
Deadline for completed chapters: March 31, 2008

Call for Papers

Caregiving and Carework: Theory and Practice

Deadline: November 1, 2007

The editorial board is seeking submissions for Vol. 10.1 of the Journal
of the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) to be published in
Spring/Summer 2008. The journal will explore the topic of Caregiving and
Carework from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. Topics can
include (but are not limited to):

*Caregiving as work *Care and Social Power *Care and Economics:
Valuing paid and unpaid carework *Carework: Research objectives and
findings *Carework and Social Policy:Analysis, activism and advocacy
*Caring for Children:Social norms, cultural ideals, feminist discourse,
scientific inquiry and expert advice *Framing Carework: Defining the
process and practice of care *Mothering and the Politics of Care: Family
values, feminism & ethics of care *The Globalization of Care *The Right
to Care *Legal questions and solutions *The Work of the Body:
Experiences of intimacy and embodiment in caregiving *Writing about
care and carework - popular and dissenting discourses *Sharing Care:
Progress and resistance to fully-shared parenting for gay, lesbian and
heterosexual couples

We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, artists,
caregivers, careworkers, mothers and others who work or research in this
area. We also welcome creative reflections such as poetry, short
stories, and artwork on the subject.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Articles should be 15 pages (3750 words). All
should be in APA style, WordPerfect or Word and IBM compatible.
Please see our style guide:
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/styleguide.html for complete details.

SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY November 1, 2007

** TO SUBMIT WORK ONE MUST BE A MEMBER OF ARM **

Please direct your submissions to:
Association for Research on Mothering
726 Atkinson, York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Phone: 416-736-2100 X60366
Email: arm@yorku.ca

--

Dr. Andrea O'Reilly,
Associate Professor,
School of Women's Studies,
Director: Association for Research on Mothering,
Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, Demeter Press,
York University,
Toronto, Ont.,
M3J 1P3
416 736 2100;60366
aoreilly@yorku.ca
www.yorku.ca/arm

Call for Proposals

Library Assessment Conference
Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment

August 4*6, 2008
Seattle, Washington

All proposals due by February 1, 2008/

October 2, 2007, Washington DC*The Association of Research Libraries
(ARL), the University of Virginia Library, the University of Washington
Libraries, and the Conference Planning Committee are pleased to issue
this call for proposals for the second Library Assessment Conference:
Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, to be held in
Seattle, Washington, August 4*6, 2008. The conference goal is to support
and nurture the library assessment community through a mix of invited
speakers, contributed papers and posters, workshops, and engaging
discussion.

Audience

The conference is designed for library and information professionals and
researchers with responsibility for or an interest in the broad field of
library assessment with an emphasis on (but not limited to) North
American academic libraries.

Conference Topics

Conference presentations are sought in /all areas of library
assessment/, including the following:

Digital libraries Return on investment (ROI)
Information resources & collections Services
Learning & teaching Space planning & utilization
Management information Usability
Methods & tools Usage & e-metrics
Organizational issues User needs
Performance measurement & measures Value & impact

The Conference Planning Committee is especially interested in
contributions that show how assessment results have been used to improve
library services and add value to the user community.

Presentation Formats

Proposals are invited for presentations in a variety of formats,
including papers, posters, and panel discussions. Presentation time for
papers should be no more than 25 minutes. Panels will be given 50
minutes or less, including time for questions from the audience. Poster
sessions are particularly welcome from attendees and specific time will
be set aside for attendees to discuss posters with the presenters. The
language of the conference is English (bilingual French/English or
Spanish/English posters will also be accepted). Accepted proposals will
be published in the conference proceedings, and all PowerPoint
presentations will be posted on the conference Web site.

Proposal Submission Guidelines and Evaluation Procedures

1. All proposals will be submitted via the conference Web site
http://www.libraryassessment.org/.
2. Proposals will include a title, author(s), format, and abstract
(maximum 500 words) describing the proposal.
3. Authors will provide a separate biographical statement (50 words).
4. The Conference Planning Committee will evaluate all proposals
based on:
* their relevance to effective, sustainable, and practical
library assessment;
* the significance of their contribution to the body of work
associated with library assessment; and
* clarity of expression.
5. Proposals must be submitted by February 1, 2008.
6. Those submitting proposals will be notified of their status by
March 15, 2008.
7. Presenters will be guaranteed a registration place and will be
expected to pay registration fees.

Conference Planning Committee

Conference Co-Chairs

Steve Hiller, University of Washington
Martha Kyrillidou, Association of Research Libraries
Jim Self, University of Virginia

2008 Conference Planning Committee

Colleen Cook, Texas A&M University
Francine DeFranco, University of Connecticut
Margaret Martin Gardiner, University of Western Ontario
Debra Gilchrist, Pierce College
Irene Hoffman, OCLC
Kristina Justh, Association of Research Libraries
Megan Oakleaf, Syracuse University
Joan Stein, Carnegie Mellon University
Stephen Town, York University
Stephanie Wright, University of Washington

Additional Information

The conference Web site http://www.libraryassessment.org/ will provide
complete information about the conference, including plenary and keynote
speakers, workshops, registration, and accommodations.

For further information, please contact:
Kristina Justh
Statistics and Measurement Program
Association of Research Libraries
E-mail: laconf@arl.org
(202) 296-2296 office
(202) 872-0884 fax

I'm the editor of Computers in Libraries magazine, and I'm looking for some willing writers.

The theme of our Feb 08 issue is "Technology for Check-In and Checkout (self-check systems, hand-held scanners, sorting conveyors)." I need to get more article queries (offers by librarians to write about their own experiences) for this issue.

I'm looking for articles that will tell your own lib's story about how you implemented self-check-related technologies. what led to the decision to buy this tech? which system did you choose & why? how did the installation go? what results / changes have you seen since implementation?

I need to get more article offers in ASAP. interested people need to send them via our Online Query Form ( http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/query.asp ). but first they should read the How to Write for CIL document ( http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/contrib.shtml ). that will explain everything about what I seek in an article and about the publishing process.

I entertain queries from any type of library in any part of the world. and you don't have to be a published author already. I just want stories from everyday tech librarians. (if there is such a thing) so don't be shy!

remember, I need to have the queries in (via the form) as soon as possible; by the end of this month at the latest. but the article itself would not be due until Dec 3. once I evaluate all queries and choose which articles to publish, I'll contact everyone and work with them thro the publishing process.

I need authors all year long; this Feb issue is just my most immediate need. so check out CIL's 2008 theme list and jump on your chance to see your name in print next year!

Thanks Everyone,
~Kathy Dempsey
CIL Editor in Chief
Information Today, Inc.

Call for Papers
American Literature Association 19th Annual Conference

Dates: May 22-25, 2008

Location: Hyatt Regency San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94111

Deadline for Proposals: January 30, 2008

Proposals from individuals and program information from author societies should be sent to Professor Maria Karafilis via email (mkarafi@calstatela.edu)
by January 30, 2008 according to the instructions at www.americanliterature.org

Lesbian Lives XV: Friday 15 - Saturday 16 Feb 2008
Writing Lesbian Culture: Theories and Praxis’

A 2-Day, International, Interdisciplinary Conference to be held at the
Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre (WERRC), School of
Social Justice, University College Dublin, Ireland

Keynote Speakers

KATE BORNSTEIN is an author, playwright and performance artist.
Adrienne Rich. Kate's published works include the books Gender Outlaw:
On Men, Women and the Rest of Us; My Gender Workbook; and the cyber-
romance-action novel, Nearly Roadkill with co-author Caitlin Sullivan.
Kate's plays and performance pieces include Strangers in Paradox,
Hidden: A Gender, The Opposite Sex Is Neither, Virtually Yours, and
y2kate: gender virus 2000.

BARBARA CARRELLAS is an author, sex educator, and theatre artist. Her
most recent books are Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First
Century and Luxurious Loving: Tantric Inspirations for Passion and
Pleasure. Barbara's pioneering Urban Tantra® workshops were named best
in New York City by TimeOut / New York magazine. She frequently
collaborates with her partner, Kate Bornstein, with whom she performs
and tours their sex positive, gender-bending lecture/performance piece
Too Tall Blondes Do Sex, Death & Gender.

Call for Papers

Proposals are welcomed on (though are by no means limited to) the
following:

Lesbian Cultures, Literature, biographies, histories, sexualities,
gender performances, lesbian activisms, alliances and ruptures, radical
feminisms, identities, ethnicities, historical literature, Motherhood,
Worldwide Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements, Community and Social
Activisms, Histories of Sexualities, Queer Readings of Literature And
Histories,

E-mail proposals to lesbian.lives@ucd.ie or post them to:

Lesbian Lives XV: ‘Writing Lesbian Culture: Theories and Praxis’
Women's Education Research and Resource Centre (WERRC),
School of Social Justice,
Hannah Sheehy Skeffington Building,
University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.

For further information see our website at www.ucd.ie/werrc or
telephone +353 1 7168572

The closing date for the submission of proposals is Friday Dec. 14th
2007

Dr. Mary McAuliffe
Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre(WERRC)
School of Social Justice,
Hannah Sheehy-Skeffington Building,
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
Ireland
Tel: +353 1 7168572
Fax: +353-1-7161195
Web: www.ucd.ie/werrc

ACRL/Instruction Section (IS)
Current Issue Discussion Groups
Call for proposals for ALA Annual Conference, June 2008

Description

Current Issue Discussion Groups provide a way for IS members to
introduce instruction-related topics of current
importance, to promote discussion and encourage further exploration.

What to Include in the Proposal

The following five elements need to be addressed and clearly stated in
the proposal:
-A clear description of the discussion topic's issue/s
-Rationale for convening a discussion on the topic's issue/s
- Importance of the topic's issue/s for academic instruction
librarians
- At least three sample discussion questions that may be used to
facilitate group discussion
- Proposed strategies and structure that will maintain group
discussion

The potential scope of issues includes, but is not limited to:
Teaching methods; Instruction and Information technology; Assessment;
Management of instruction programs;
Outreach and collaboration; Research in academic information literacy.
The topic should be focused enough to be
covered reasonably well within the allotted time. (For example
"Everything about WIKIs" would be too broad,
while "Using WIKIs in Library Instruction at Academic Institutions"
might be just the right scope).

Expectations for Current Issue Discussion Group Conveners

For the selected proposals, the proposal author(s) will serve as
convener(s) and commit to:
- becoming up-to-date and familiar with the discussion topic;
- exploring possible discussion formats and selecting the appropriate
format that allows for maximum discussion
within the parameters and scope of the topic;
-drafting an initial two-page to three-page, double spaced "Current
Issue Digest" summarizing findings about the issue to be posted to ILI-L at least one week (by June 20, 2008) before the conference and handed out at the
discussion;
-identifying a few key readings, related organizations and/or
programs to include in the "Current Issue Digest;"
-facilitating the "Current Topics Discussion" at the ALA Annual
Conference (in Anaheim, California: June 26-
July 2, 2008);
-revising and submitting a final "Current Issue Digest" to be posted
on the IS web site within one month (by
August 2, 2008) of the discussion;
-distributing the final Current Issue Digest to the ILI Listserv
after the ALA Annual Conference;
-maintaining communication with an assigned liaison from the
Discussion Group Steering Committee
throughout the planning, program, and follow-up processes.

Who May Apply

Applications are welcome from any IS members.

How to Apply

Complete and submit the proposal form to the IS Current Issue
Discussion Group Steering Committee co-chair by
November 15, 2007. The proposal form will appear very shortly on the
Committee's webpage,
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/is/iscommittees/webpages/discussiongroup/index.cfm

Send the completed form to Gail Gradowski
(ggradowski@scu.edu).

Contact committee co-chair Gail Gradowski (ggradowski@scu.edu) with
questions.

Process

Selection will be based on the perceived importance and impact of the
proposed topic. Additional selection criteria
used in the selection process includes evaluating proposed topics for:
timeliness, relevancy, currency, practicality
(that the topic lends itself to a discussion), innovation, evidence of
applicant's knowledge, and clear focus.
Proposals must be submitted by November 15, 2007 for ALA Annual in
Anaheim, California. By December 15,
2007, proposal writers will be notified as to whether or not their
proposal was accepted and will be assigned one of
the two discussion time slots. Conveners are responsible for their own
conference registration and travel expenses.

LILAC 2008: 17th-19th March 2008, Liverpool John Moores University

The call for papers is now open for LILAC (Librarians' Information
Literacy Annual Conference) 2008. If you would like to submit a proposal
please visit:
http://www.lilacconference.com/dw/2008/Call_for_papers.html

We are seeking proposals for the following types of sessions:
* Short Papers (30 minutes)
* Long Papers (45 minutes)
* Demonstrations / workshop sessions (1 hour)
* Symposiums (1 hour)
* Poster Presentations

The conference themes include:
* Supporting researchers
* Diversity and social justice
* Practical approaches to information literacy
* The net generation
* Ethical information
* Staff development and Information literacy
* Marketing Information literacy

If you wish to submit a proposal then please read the notes for
presenters available on the website. The deadline for proposals is
Friday 14th December 2007. All presenters will be required to register
as delegates at the conference and qualify for a discounted rate. If you
have any queries please don't hesitate to contact me. We look forward to
hearing from you!

Best wishes
Jane
LILAC Organising Committee

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Dr Jane Secker
Learning Technology Librarian
Centre for Learning Technology, LSE
Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Tel: 020 7955 6530
http://www.clt.lse.ac.uk/

CALL FOR PAPERS

Mission of IJWSR:

Web services are among the most important emerging technologies in
the e-business, computer software and communication industries to enable Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Web services technologies will redefine the communication protocols that companies and organizations do
business and exchange information in the twenty-first century. They
will enhance business efficiency by enabling dynamic provisioning of
resources from a pool of distributed resources. Due to the importance
of the field, there is a significant amount of ongoing research in
the areas. In a parallel effort, standardization organizations are
actively developing standards for Web services. Web services and SOA are
creating what will become one of the most significant industries of
the new century. The International Journal of Web Services Research
is designed to be a valuable resource providing leading technologies,
development, ideas, and trends to an international readership of
researchers and engineers in the field of Web Services. The first issue of JWSR was published in late 2003. IJWSR has been indexed by SCI Expanded, EI, and other prestigious indexing systems.

Coverage of IJWSR:

Business Grid
Business process integration and management using Web Services
Case Studies for Web Services
Communication applications using Web Services
Composite Web Service creation and enabling infrastructures
Dynamic invocation mechanisms for Web Services
E-Commerce applications using Web Services
Frameworks for building Web Service applications
Grid based Web Services applications (e.g. OGSA)
Interactive TV applications using Web Services
Mathematic foundations for service oriented computing
Multimedia applications using Web Services
Quality of service for Web Services
Resource management for Web Services
Semantic services computing
SOAP enhancements
Solution Management for Web Services
UDDI enhancements
Web Services architecture
Web Services discovery
Web Services modeling
Web Services performance
Web Services security

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission
guidelines at http://www.igi-global.com/ijwsr. All submissions should be submitted and reviewed in IJWSR's online system (http://www.servicescomputing.org/jwsr).

All inquiries should be sent to:
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang at
zhanglj AT us.ibm.com

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

LIBERATING TRADITIONS: ESSAYS IN FEMINIST COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY

Edited by: Ashby Butnor and Jen McWeeny

Abstract Deadline (500 words): March 1, 2008

Completed Paper Deadline: July 1, 2008

Preliminary selection based on abstracts. Final selection based on
completed papers (20-25 pgs. total).

E-mail submissions and inquiries to both ashby.butnor@gmail.com and
jmcweeny@jcu.edu.

FEMINIST COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY is the practice of integrating feminist and
non-Western philosophical traditions in an innovative way, while still being
mindful of the unique particularity of each, in order to envision and enact
a more liberatory world. East-West comparative philosophy and feminist
philosophy already share much in terms of methodology: a hermeneutic of
openness and respect for difference, a crossing of philosophical boundaries
and traditions, a rejection of the dichotomy of theory and practice, and the
pursuit of new ways of looking at the world. In this volume, we seek to
show how bringing diverse philosophical traditions into dialogue with each
other can provide fresh insights on questions of specific interest to
feminists and global theorists generally.

Comparative themes may include, but are by no means limited to:

Theories of Embodiment, Gender, or Personhood

The Hermeneutics of Cross-Cultural/Cross-World Dialogue

Philosophical Practice & Marginalization

The Phenomenology of Liberatory and/or Spiritual Practice

Philosophical Responses to Globalization, Imperialism, and
De-Colonization

Intersectional Selves: Culture, Race, Tradition, Sexuality, etc.

Embodied Epistemologies

Conceptions of Moral Agents & Actions

Theories of Emotion

Persons, Communities, and the State

Liberatory Aesthetics

Comparative Metaphysics

Pathways to Liberation

We seek any philosophical papers that engage the intersection of feminist
and non-Western philosophies. Although the collection will primarily
consist of comparative essays involving Asian traditions, such as Indian
philosophy, Chinese philosophy, or Japanese philosophy, we also invite
submissions that address North/South comparative philosophy, including
African, Latin American, and indigenous philosophies.

Abstract Deadline (500 words): March 1, 2008

Completed Paper Deadline: July 1, 2008

Preliminary selection based on abstracts. Final selection based on
completed papers (20-25 pgs. total).

E-mail submissions and inquiries to both ashby.butnor@gmail.com and
jmcweeny@jcu.edu.

/TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism/ is now accepting submissions for issue #7, an open issue: deadline January 15, 2008.* */TRIVIA,/ a free twice-yearly online literary journal, publishes literary essays, experimental prose, poetry, translations, and reviews. We encourage writers to take risks with language and form so as to give their ideas the most original and vital expression possible. /TRIVIA/'s larger purpose is to foster a body of rigorous, creative and independent feminist thought. See our submission guidelines for details : http://www.triviavoices.net

/TRIVIA : //Voices of Feminism/ is an online relaunch of /TRIVIA: A Journal of Ideas/, an award-winning international feminist literary magazine published from 1982 to 1995. The online journal is a team effort by veteran feminist editors Lise Weil, founding editor of /Trivia: A Journal of Ideas/, and Harriet Ellenberger, founding editor of /Sinister Wisdom/, the world's longest running lesbian journal, in collaboration with feminist geek web developer Susan Kullmann.

The current issue of /TRIVIA, / « The Art of the Possible, » can be seen online at http://www.triviavoices.net. Come with us as contributors practice the art of the possible by leaping across time and space, refusing false choices, and expanding the limits of the real.

· Susan Hawthorne-- The Aerial Lesbian Body: The Politics of Physical Expression

· Elliott Femynye batTzedek-- Wanting a Gun

· Mary Saracino -- Red Poppies Among the Ruins

· Hye Sook Hwang-- Returning Home with Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia

· Ellen Taylor -- Noah's Wife

· Marguerite Rigoglioso-- Reclaiming the Spooky: Matilda Joslyn Gage and Mary Daly as Radical Pioneers of the Esoteric

· Elizabeth Alexander-- Grand Right & Left

Fellowships Now Available

The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science is recruiting a select group of doctoral students interested in pursuing the study of information in society, including policy, economic, and historical dimensions. Your interests may lie in any part of the emerging field of information studies, such as practices of information organization, library history, the political economy of information, or community information systems; your academic background may be in library and information science, history, law, communications or other fields—as long as you share our commitment to engaging deeply with the processes that structure information in society. Fellowship recipients should be seeking to prepare for careers as faculty members in schools of library and information science.
Apply by January 1, 2008 to begin study in Fall 2008

Contact: Professor and Associate Dean Linda C. Smith:
(217) 333-7742 |
Email: lcsmith@uiuc.edu

Visit the website at http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/phd/

Call for Internet resource/Web site Reviewers: Public Services Quarterly

Public Services Quarterly (PSQ), a peer-reviewed journal from Haworth Press, is looking for Internet resource/web sites and reviewers. The Internet Column of PSQ provides reviews of Internet resources that are designed to help librarians develop and enhance their skills and professional competencies, be more effective in their positions, and provide better service to their patrons.

The Internet column will highlight Internet resources librarians use as professional tools with regard to any of the following: reference and research services, user education, information literacy, access services, online searching techniques, and marketing/outreach.

For the upcoming issue of PSQ, v.4(2), the Internet Column is seeking reviewers and site recommendations for online calendars, to-do lists, meeting organizers, room schedulers, and other such free web applications.

Reviewers should have experience in public services work in an academic library. Good writing skills, attention to detail, and ability to keep to deadlines are essential.

For more information on Public Services Quarterly, please see the journal's home page at http://www.haworthpressinc.com/web/PSQ/

If interested in recommending a site and/or becoming an Internet Resource reviewer, please reply to
Nicole A. Cooke, Internet Column Editor, at psqinternet@gmail.com.
Please provide your name, title, affiliation, a brief statement of your review interests for PSQ (no CVs or resumes needed), and details on previous writing/reviewing experience, if any.

If you have questions, feel free to contact me.

Best wishes,
Nicole

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N i c o l e A. C o o k e, M L S, M. E d.
Public Services Quarterly Internet Column Editor
Librarian / Assistant Professor
Montclair State University - Sprague Library
cooken@mail.montclair.edu

The 25th Annual International
Social Philosophy Conference
Sponsored by the
North American Society for Social Philosophy
July 17-19, 2008
at the University of Portland (Oregon)
Special attention will be devoted to the theme
Gender, Inequality, and Social Justice
but proposals in all areas of social philosophy are welcome
The Program Committee will be chaired by:
Professor Jordy Rocheleau
of Austin Peay State University and
Professor Richard Buck
of Mount Saint Mary's University
A 300-500 word abstract should be sent to the program chairs.
Individuals who wish to be considered for the award for best graduate student paper should submit their entire paper and abstract. Electronic Submissions welcomed and encouraged.

Jordy Rocheleau
Department of Philosophy
Austin Peay State University
Box 4486
Clarksville, TN 37044
tel. 931-221-7925
rocheleauj@apsu.edu
Richard Buck
Department of Philosophy
Mount Saint Mary's University
16300 Old Emmitsburg Rd
Emmitsburg, MD 21727
tel. 301-447-5368
buck@msmary.edu
The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2008
or, for those living outside the
United States and Canada, January 15, 2008
_________________________________________________________________

On behalf of the organization committee I kindly remind you about the
important dates of the international conference Information Seeking in
Context 2008. The conference will be held in Vilnius on September
17-20, 2008. A doctoral workshop will be held in conjunction with the
conference on September 16, 2008.

Conference paper submission deadline: February 1, 2008.

Doctoral workshop paper submission deadline: March 1, 2008.

For more information please visit the web site of the conference:
http://www.kf.vu.lt/isic2008/

Contact person for the conference
Dr. Erika Janiuniene
E.mail: isic2008@kf.vu.lt
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Ms. magazine is looking for groundbreaking, quantitative feminist research
for coverage in the "How We're Doing" section of our Winter 2008 issue.

Ideally, we're looking for studies that will be published mid-January to
March 2008, the shelf-life of the Winter 08 issue, but will consider studies
released in Fall 2007. Because we have limited space, we're particularly
interested in study results that can be expressed in simple graphs. We will
be sure to credit the authors and journal, if applicable.

Any suggestions (in the form of published articles or early drafts of
soon-to-be-published articles) would be much appreciated! You can send them
to jstites@msmagazine.com.

The Ohio State University’s Department of Women’s Studies’

Graduate Student Research Conference:
“The ‘F’ Words of Feminist Scholarship”
futures, feminisms, fat, functionality, freak, fresh, family, fetish, fixity, fore, f*cking, fleshy, foul, field, fear, finish, foundations, failure, fertility, figures, fundamentals, fragment, findings, fold, flow, fathers, follow, fire, friendship, fight, female, fascism, feminine, fanaticism fundraising, fun, fierce, focus, finitude…

Dates: April 4 and 5, 2008
Confirmed Keynote: Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Call for Papers: The phrase, the ‘F’ word, elicits feelings of anxiety and excitement. As a euphemism for what should not be said, the ‘F’ word characterizes what is taboo or prohibited. Feminist scholarship has a strong history of challenging the ‘F’ words of disciplinary scholarship- those topics ignored, erased, and/or contested in canonical knowledges. Certainly, as feminist scholarship develops, new ‘F’ words are being created and contested. We view this conference as an opportunity to think carefully about feminist scholarship’s ‘F’ words and how an exploration of these topics and the scholarship produced about them (or the absence of such scholarship) might lead to more intimate understandings of feminist research in the academy. To this end, we invite papers, art installations, creative performances, panels, poster presentations, and workshops.
We especially encourage graduate students whose research topics and/or methodological approaches embody a contested location in the emerging canon of feminist scholarship.

Possible topics may include:
How do different disciplines create and/or control ‘F words’?
In what ways are ‘F words’ negotiated across disciplines?
What are the potential benefits and/or risks of studying ‘F words’?
How do ‘F words’ influence the future of feminist scholarship?
What is feminist about feminist scholarship?
Additional topics are very welcome!

Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent by December 1, 2007. Please send abstracts to Kelly Ball (ball.1824@osu.edu).
Include your name, university affiliation, email, and presentation title. Submissions will be reviewed anonymously.
Accepted proposals will be announced via email February 1, 2008.

While we cannot provide travel funds, we will make every effort to provide housing for graduate students participating in the conference.

This conference is organized by the graduate students of the Women’s Studies Department at The Ohio State University and is made possible with the help of generous funding from the department.

Conference Organizers:
Alina Bennett, bennett.520@osu.edu
Kelly Ball, ball.1824@osu.edu

CFP: ELPUB2008 (Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0)

Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0
12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing
25 to 27 June 2008, Toronto, Canada

Submission Deadline: January 20, 2008
http://www.elpub.net
CFP URL: http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~elpub2008/call.html

Scholarly communications, in particular scholarly publications, are undergoing tremendous changes. Researchers, universities, funding bodies, research libraries and publishers are responding in different ways, from active experimentation, adaptation, to strong resistance. The ELPUB2008 conference will focus on key issues on the future of scholarly communications resulting from the intersection of semantic web technologies, the development of cyberinfrastructure for humanities and the sciences, and new dissemination channels and business models. We welcome a wide variety of papers from members of these communities whose research and experiments are transforming the nature of scholarly communications. Topics include but are not restricted to:

* New Publishing models, tools, services and roles
* New scholarly constructs and discourse methods
* Innovative business models for scholarly publishing
* Multilingual and multimodal interfaces
* Services and technology for specific user communities, media, and content
* Content search, analysis and retrieval
* Interoperability, scalability and middleware infrastructure to facilitate awareness and discovery
* Personalisation technologies (e.g. social tagging, folksonomies, RSS, microformats)
* Metadata creation, usage and interoperability
* Semantic web issues
* Data mining, text harvesting, and dynamic formatting
* User generated content and its relation to publisher's content
* Usage and citation impact
* Security, privacy and copyright issues
* Digital preservation, content authentication
* Recommendations, guidelines, interoperability standards

Author Guidelines
Contributions are invited for the following categories:
- Single papers (abstract minimum of 1,000 and maximum of 1500 words)
- Tutorial (abstract minimum of 500 and maximum of 1500 words)
- Workshop (abstract max of 1000 words)
- Poster (abstract max of 500 words)
- Demonstration (abstract max of 500 words)

Abstracts must be submitted following the instructions on the conference website

Key Dates:
January 20th 2008: Deadline for submission of abstracts (in all categories):

February 28, 2008: Authors will be notified of the acceptance of submitted
papers and workshop proposals.

April 11th, 2008: Final papers must be received. See website for
detailed author instructions.

Posters (A1-format) and demonstration materials should be brought
by their authors at the conference time. Only abstracts of these
contributions will be published in the conference proceedings.
Information on requirements for Workshops and tutorials proposals
will soon be posted on the website.

All submissions are subjected to peer review (double-blind) and
accepted by the international ELPUB Programme Committee. Accepted
full papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Printed proceedings are distributed during the conference.
Electronic versions of the contributions will be archived at:
http://elpub.scix.net

ABOUT ELPUB

The ELPUB 2008 conference will keep the tradition of the previous
international conferences on electronic publishing, held in the
United Kingdom (in 1997 and 2001), Hungary (1998), Sweden (1999),
Russia (2000), the Czech Republic (2002), Portugal (2003), Brazil
(2004), Belgium (2005), Bulgaria (2006) and Austria (2007), which
is to bring together researchers, lecturers, librarians,
developers, business executives, entrepreneurs, managers, users
and all those interested in issues regarding electronic
publishing in a wide variety of contexts. These include the
human, cultural, economic, social, technological, legal,
commercial, and other relevant aspects that such an exciting
theme encompasses.

Three distinguishing features of this conference are: broad scope
of topics which creates a unique atmosphere of active exchange
and learning about various aspects of scholarly communications
and electronic publishing; combination of general and technical
issues; and a condensed procedure of submission, revision and
publication of proceedings which guarantees presentations of most
recent work.

ELPUB 2008 offers a variety of activities, such as workshops,
tutorials, panel debates, poster presentation and demonstrations.
A variety of social events and sight-seeing tours will be
available to participants (at additional costs). Please see the
conference web site for details.

Conference Location: Toronto, Canada. Toronto is one of the most
vibrant cities in North-America. It has a large multicultural
population, is the largest city in Canada and the 5th-largest
city in North America. There are many world class galleries and
museums across the city and you will find authentic cuisines from
around the world at reasonable prices.

Conference Host: Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI),
University of Toronto. KMDI is a graduate research and teaching
institute at the University of Toronto, and an intellectual
incubator fostering cross-disciplinary initiatives across the
university. The work of the institute spans both the scientific
study of the ways in which media shapes and is shaped by human
activity, and the practical work of founding an interdisciplinary
nexus for design and evaluation of both media and media
technologies. KMDI has acknowledged leadership, substantial
research programs and broad participation in three major areas:
collaboration and collaboration technologies, the phenomenon of
openness and new forms of knowledge production and dissemination,
and public policy and citizen engagement.

General Chair: Leslie Chan, University of Toronto Scarborough
chan@utsc.utoronto.ca

Programme Chair: Susanna Mornati, CILEA - Inter-Academic
Consortium for ICT, Italy: mornati@cilea.it

Technology of Data: Collection, Communication, Access and Preservation (IASSIST)
Palo Alto, California - May 27-30, 2008
Deadline: December 17, 2007

The 34th International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) annual conference will be held at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA, May 27-30, 2008. This year's conference, Technology of Data: Collection, Communication, Access and Preservation, examines the role of technology and tools in various aspects of the data life cycle.

The theme of this conference addresses how technology can affect aspects of data stewardship throughout the data lifecycle. The methods and media by which data are collected, shared, analyzed and saved are ever-changing, from punch cards and legal pads to online-surveys and tag clouds. There has been an explosion of data sources and topics; vast changes in compilation and dissemination methods; increasing awareness about access and associated licensing and privacy issues; and growing concern about the safeguarding and protection of valuable data resources for future use. The 2008 conference is an opportunity to discuss the role of technology – past, present, and future – in all of these arenas. We seek submissions of papers, poster/demonstration sessions, and panel sessions on the following topics:

-Issues and techniques for preserving "old" data as well as information "born digital"
-Methods, technology and questions surrounding data dissemination, including best practices and innovations
-Archival and preservation challenges presented by new processes
-Metadata
-Innovation in the use of data for teaching and research
-The legal issues surrounding new technologies
-Changes in resource discovery methods
-Data services in virtual spaces
-Providing services to users with different degrees of technical "savvy"
-Tools and spaces for research collaboration

Papers on other topics related to the conference theme will also be considered. The deadline for paper, session, and poster/demonstration proposals is December 17, 2007. The Conference Program Committee will send notification of the acceptance of proposals by February 8, 2008.

Individual presentation proposals and session proposals are welcome. Proposals for complete sessions, typically a panel of three to four presentations within a 90-minute session, should provide information on the focus of the session, the organizer or moderator, and possible participants. The session organizer will be responsible for securing session participants. Organizers as well as panel participants are also welcome to submit additional paper proposals but please note that the Conference Program Committee may need to limit the number of presentations per person.

Proposals for papers, sessions, and posters/demonstrations should include the proposed title and an abstract no longer than 200 words. Longer abstracts will be returned to be shortened before being considered. Please note that all presenters are required to register and pay the registration fee for the conference. Registration for individual days will be available.

Proposals can be submitted via email to: iassist08@gmail.com

A conference website with an on-line submission form will be available shortly. A separate call for workshop proposals is also forthcoming.

For more information about IASSIST, visit the website at http://www.iassistdata.org/ .

WE LEARN 5th Annual (Net)Working Gathering & Conference on Women &
Literacy
Building Alliances / Construyendo Alianzas

March 7- 8, 2008
Fordham Univ. at Lincoln Center
in New York City, NY

Co-Sponsored with WE LEARN by Fordham University Graduate School of
Education

Women continue to be separated by culture, language, literacy,
geography; our differences are profound. The daily lives of women in
adult basic/literacy education remain especially complex due to
inequities based on race, class, gender, and other diversities. This
year’s conference will explore the differences that divide women and
look to ways of building alliances across those differences.

WE LEARN seeks presentation proposals from students (at all levels),
teachers, researchers, and community activists addressing related
theme issues & topics.

DEADLINE for Application: Nov. 30, 2007
Please apply using the Internet form.
http://www.litwomen.org/conferences/2008/props08.html

Sponsorship, advertiser, and exhibitor information also available:
http://www.litwomen.org/conferences/2008/sponsors.pdf

Thanks.

Mev Miller, Ed.D., Director

WE LEARN
Women Expanding: Literacy Education Action Resource Network
www.litwomen.org/welearn.html

182 Riverside Ave.
Cranston, RI 02910
401-383-4374
welearn@litwomen.org

As the number of academic studies utilizing qualitative research methods on internet data has increased, so have the questions and issues surrounding how one does research in/on online sites. Experienced researchers and novices grapple with multiple issues as they adapt, modify, and develop various research methods to online venues including chatrooms, instant messaging, blogs, social utilities, webpages, games, and 3-D virtual worlds such as Second Life. How does one identify sites for one's study? What sampling procedures work
best? What software is to be used in internet research? What are the benefits
and weaknesses of using particular methods? What issues arise when adapting a particular qualitative method for use in/on an online site?

We call for abstracts and papers that address these issues for a panel or series of panels, at The Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2008) - Ethics, Evidence and Social Justice (http://www.icqi.org/) that will take place at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from May 14-17, 2008. In particular, we are interested in presentations that look at qualitative methods and the difficulties researchers encounter as they do or have done internet research. Our focus is not on results; rather we are looking for colleagues interested in sharing knowledge and discussing challenges of
the "nuts and bolts" of internet research.

The list of qualitative methods to consider includes but is not
limited to:
-- Discourse analysis
-- Ethnography
-- Interviews and surveys
-- Narratives and biographies

Interested parties should email 1000 character (approximately 150 words) abstracts for each paper or presentation by November 15, 2007 to the organizers.

Please include the following information for each author with your
submission: Author's Name, Department, University, Address including City, State/Province, ZIP/Post Code, Country (if not US, please specify
if you need a visa for travel), Telephone/Fax, E-mail.

Lois Ann Scheidt and Inna Kouper (Organizers)
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University
lscheidt at indiana dot edu
inkouper at indiana dot edu

Deadline date January 31, 2008 for applications.

Joan Stein, Chair, Ingenta Award Jury 2007-2008

Library Research Round Table, Past-Chair 2007-2008

Ingenta Research Award

Purpose

The Ingenta Research Award is given annually by the Library Research Round Table of the American Library Association to support research projects about acquisition, use, and preservation of digital information.

Example areas of research include:

* The analysis of online journal usage data to develop conclusions and predictive models which may be used by libraries and publishers in determining future behavior

* An investigation of the issues surrounding institutional archiving, particularly costs, preservation and securing the participation of faculty

* A study of information seeking behavior of readers and/or authors

* The development of future models for verifying the relative usefulness of publications

Other topics related to digital publications will also be considered.

Eligibility

Applications are welcome from practicing librarians, faculty and students at schools of library and information science, and independent scholars.

Criteria

The Ingenta Award Jury will evaluate applications on the basis of the following

criteria:

1. Appropriateness of the proposed project to understanding of seeking and use of digital information.

2. Significance of the problem.

3. Design of the study.

4. Qualifications of the investigator(s).

5. Realism of the timetable.

Amount

The grant consists of up to $6,000 for research and up to $1,000 for travel to a national or international conference to present the results of the research. Expenditures must directly support research; the award does not cover indirect costs or overhead. Half of the research amount will be paid within one month of the selection of the awardee; the remaining half will be provided approximately six months later upon the receipt of a satisfactory progress report as determined by the Ingenta Award Jury Chair and the ALA staff liaison to the Ingenta Award Jury.

How to apply

Send:

1. Proposal of no more than 6 double-spaced pages that provides

1. overall statement of the project

2. relation of the project to previous research

3. research questions

4. method/plan of investigation

5. timetable for the work

6. significance of the project

7. plan to disseminate the results

2. Budget (1 page)

3. Curriculum vitae (2 pages)

Deadline

All submissions must reach the ALA address on or before Thursday, January 31, 2008.

You will receive confirmation via e-mail within two days.

Before Thursday, January 31, 2008, email the Proposal, budget and curriculum vitae

to:

Letitia Earvin

American Library Association

50 East Huron Street

Chicago, IL 60611

Phone: (800) 545-2433, ext. 1-4274

Fax: (312)280-4392

E-mail: learvin@ala.org

If email attachments are not possible, applicants must send nine (9) printed copies to the address above and they must be received by Thursday, January 31, 2008.

Obligations

Authors retain the right to present and publish their findings where they choose. Ingenta reserves the right to post an abstract about the project on their website.

If you are interested in applying for this award, please consult:

http://www.ala.org/ala/ors/orsawards/ingentaresearchaward/ingentaresaward.htm

and read the following for more information:

* Schedule and Procedures

* 6-Month Report

* Final Report

Listing of previous Ingenta Research Award Recipients

How will the academic library change in order to remain a core contributor to the missions of the 21st century college or university, and what skills do academic library professionals need to master in order to remain vital members of the evolving campus community? How will we define the expertise that libraries and library professionals bring to the broader issues associated with research, teaching, learning, and service? How will the academic library remain an active partner with classroom faculty, IT professionals, and others on campuses where both the information environment and the expectations for higher education are in flux?

Whether you are a subject specialist who has been asked to become an expert in assessment, a bibliographer whose focus has shifted from collection building to scholarly communications, a reference librarian who has become a key contributor to instructional design efforts, or a library professional whose skills in areas like copyright management, user studies, facilities management, or digital publishing are essential to emergent library initiatives, this is your opportunity to contribute to a discussion both about how the academic library is changing, and about how the range of responsibilities for librarians and other library professionals are evolving.

This collection will focus on two ideas: 1) the 2007 statement by the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) that one of the “Top 10 Assumptions for the Future of Academic Libraries” is that “the skill set for librarians will continue to evolve in response to the needs and expectations of the . . . [populations] that they serve”; and, 2) the suggestion made by James Neal (2006) that the academic library will become a venue for ongoing collaboration between professional librarians and other library professionals.

Whether focused on new definitions for library positions (e.g., Instructional Design Librarian, Assessment Coordinator, Scholarly Communications Coordinator), on new organizational structures within libraries (e.g., Undergraduate Initiatives, Digital Publishing Office, Copyright Advisory Office), on new expectations for core competencies for academic librarians (e.g., teaching effectiveness, technology skills), or on the ways in which libraries and library professionals must evolve in response to the changing nature of the academic environment and the learned professions, contributions to this collection should address the overarching question: What are the skills that librarians must have, and the roles that libraries must play, in order to remain relevant on the 21st century campus?

The editors are especially interested in proposals that fall under the following broad categories:

• Changing roles for academic libraries on campus;

• Redefining traditional roles and responsibilities in reference, systems, technical services, or instruction librarianship;

• Identifying new positions and responsibilities becoming common among libraries;

• Establishing new organizational structures designed to support new roles for library professionals or libraries;

• Recruiting and mentoring new professions and new professionals into the library; and,

• Case studies in organizational development or re-alignment of professional responsibilities.

The collection will be edited by Scott Walter (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Vicki Coleman (Arizona State University), and Karen Williams (University of Minnesota) and will be published by the Association of College & Research Libraries.

Please send inquiries or proposals (300-500 words) to Scott Walter swalter@uiuc.edu by January 2, 2008. Notification of proposal acceptance will be made no later than January 31, 2008, and completed chapters will be due by June 30, 2008.

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