July 2007 Archives

13th Annual Instructional Technology Conference
"Immersed In Learning "

For more information go to: http://www.mtsu.edu/itconf/index.shtml

For twelve years, the Instructional Technology Conference has provided thousands of higher educational professionals from across the country a place to share experiences and expertise in educational technology. The conference features nationally recognized speakers, high-quality presentations, and hands-on workshops as well as a convenient location, affordable cost, and friendly conference staff.

The 2008 Instructional Technology Conference at MTSU will carry on the tradition by showcasing technological users in learning environments. Come and discover how technology can effectively immerse students in the learning process.

Please join us April 6-8, 2008, for the 13th annual Instructional Technology Conference held on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

The Instructional Technology Conference continues to provide thousands of higher education professionals from across the country a place to share experiences and expertise in educational technology.

The 2008 Instructional Technology Conference will carry on the tradition of showcasing technological used in learning environments.

Send us your proposal for a pre-conference workshop, presentation, panel discussion, hands-on workshop, or poster session.

2008 Possible Session Topics
Technolgy and Learning Spaces
eLearning And Collaboration
Technology Tools for Immersing Students in Their Learning
Educational Value of Instructional Technology
Social Implications of eLearning
Incorporating eLearning for Students of All Ages

Deadline for Proposals is October 26, 2007

Type of Sessions
Pre-Conference Workshop - workshops will be scheduled on Sunday, April 6, 2008, from 1 - 4 p.m. Participants will work interactively with hardware and software.
Lecture/Presentation - presenter will share information about the session topic with participants.
Panel Discussion - moderator will lead the participants through a discussion related to the session topic.
Interactive Workshop - participants will receive hands-on experience with software and hands-on in a computer lab.
Poster Session - Posters will be displayed at the Double Tree Hotel on Monday, April 7, 2008, from 6:00- 7 p.m. (prior to banquet).

Submission Instructions

The following information must be included and formatted in the order below. Email your proposal as an ASCII text file, PDF or (RTF) Rich Text Format attachment to itconf@mtsu.edu no later than October 26, 2007.
Name, affiliation, and complete contact information for each participant
Type of session:
Lecture/Presentation­presenter shares information about the session topic with participants.
Panel Discussion­moderator leads the participants through a discussion related to the session topic.
Hands-on Workshop­participants work interactively with hardware or software in a computer lab.
Pre-Conference Workshop­Participants work interactively with hardware or software prior to the beginning of the conference
Poster Session­An abstract of 75 words or less will be sufficient. Posters will be displayed at the DoubleTree (formerly Garden Plaza) Hotel on Monday, April 7, 2008, from 6:00 - 7 p.m. (prior to banquet).
Title of proposed session
Abstract (approx. 75 words, for publication in conference materials)
Description (250-500 words)
Audience (faculty, presidents, provosts, deans, librarians, instructional technology specialists, lab directors, general)
Audience level (beginning, intermediate, advanced, all)
On-site equipment requirements
Length: All presentations, panel discussions, and poster sessions will be allotted one hour; all interactive workshops will be allotted two hours; pre-conference workshops will be allotted three hours.

› › › Instructions for converting your Word Document to ASCII text

Send your proposal:
Email your proposal
Deadline for proposals is October 26, 2007
Acceptance decisions made by November 30, 2007

Early Bird conference registration fee: $125

Pre-conference Workshop fee: $50

ISKO 2008 — Montréal. Call for Papers

10th biennial ISKO Conference
Culture and Identity in Knowledge Organization

Official Call is OPEN

The 10th biennial International Conference of the International
Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) is organised and hosted by
the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information,
Université de Montréal.

Previous ISKO conferences took place in Darmstadt (1990), Madras
(1992), Copenhagen (1994), Washington (1996), Lille (1998), Toronto
(2000), Granada (2002), London (2004) and Vienna (2006).

Time and Place of ISKO 2008: Tuesday 5 to Friday 8 of August 2008, at
the Université de Montréal (Québec, Canada).

Website: http://www.ebsi.umontreal.ca/isko2008/

Contact: isko2008@gmail.com

Conference Theme: Culture and Identity in Knowledge Organization.
The proposed research topics for this edition include:
­ Epistemological Foundations in KO
­ Models and Methods
­ Systems and Tools ­ Ethics
­ KO for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
­ Non-Textual Materials
­ KO in Multilingual Environments
­ Users and Social Context
­ Discourse Communities and KO
­ KO for Information Management and Retrieval
­ Evaluation

Types of Contributions Accepted to ISKO 2008
Research papers, posters, and workshop proposals are accepted for
this conference.

The authors should clearly outline the central objective or
hypothesis of the research, and present preliminary or intermediary
results. If authors intend to present their most recent findings (not
yet available at the submission date) at the conference, they should
clearly indicate their potential significance. Research-in-progress
papers may also be submitted but may not be retained if underdeveloped.

Research Papers
Professionals and researchers are invited to submit abstracts with a
maximum of 1500 words for full and research-in-progress papers by
November 9th, 2007. Full papers that are not accepted might be
retained as posters.

Posters
Professionals and researchers are invited to submit abstracts with a
maximum of 500 words for posters by November 9th, 2007.

Workshop Proposals
Submission for workshops are also invited.

Review of Contributions
The international programme committee will review the abstracts, and
authors will be notified of decisions by December 14th 2007. The
deadlines for submission of papers for the printed conference
proceedings are below. All abstracts should be submitted through
email (isko2008@gmail.com) by November 9th 2007. Late submission will
not be eligible for consideration.

Guidelines for Submission of Abstract
First page should include the following information (copy&paste in
your document):
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tenth International ISKO Conference
Montréal, August 5­8, 2008

Author name(s): {fill in}
Affiliation(s): {fill in}
Full contact information: {fill in}
Title: {fill in}
Conference topic: {fill in}
Type of submission: {Paper / Poster / Workshop}
Number of words: {fill in}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The abstract should follow on the second page (no name should appear
on this page).

Format: Word or RTF.

Conference Chair
Dr. Clément Arsenault, Associate Professor,
École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information.
Université de Montréal, Canada. E-mail: clement.arsenault@umontreal.ca

Programme Chair
Dr. Joseph T. Tennis, Assistant Professor,
The Information School of the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
E-mail: jtennis@u.washington.edu

Poster Session Chair
Dr. Michèle Hudon, Associate Professor,
École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information.
Université de Montréal, Canada. E-mail: michele.hudon@umontreal.ca

Programme Committee
To be announced soon (please check the website).

Authors will be requested to submit their final accepted
contributions using the ISKO 2008 formatting guidelines.

Valid Document Formats: Microsoft Word (.doc) and Rich Text Format
(.rtf).

Submission for Accepted Papers and Posters
­ Papers — max. 7 pages (~3500 word). Papers will be published in
the printed proceedings.
­ Posters — max. 2 pages (~1000 words). Posters will be published
on the website.
­ To prepare your camera ready manuscript you must use and conform
to the ISKO 2008 paper template or to the ISKO 2008 poster template.
The templates and guidelines will be posted on the website at a later
date.
­ Failure to conform to templates will lead to paper rejection from
Proceedings and Conference.
­ The working language of the conference is English.

Important Dates
­ Abstract submission, deadline: November 9th 2007.
­ Notification of acceptance of paper submissions: December 14th 2007.
­ Notification of acceptance of posters: January 18th 2008.
­ Camera ready papers due in MS Word/RTF format: 1st March 2008.

Contact: isko2008@gmail.com

As you may have heard, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences is now edited by myself and Mary Niles Maack, also of UCLA. The forthcoming Third Edition is scheduled to come out sometime in late 2008 or early 2009.

We have completely re-conceptualized the encyclopedia, expanding it to cover all the major information disciplines, including LIS, archives, records management, museum studies, bibliography, informatics, knowledge management, information systems, document and genre studies, and social studies of information. I will be giving a paper on it at the CoLIS 6 (Conceptions of LIS) conference in Sweden in August, providing both the theoretical and practical rationale for this approach.

We hope that the real-world result, though, will be the furtherance of mutual understanding and collective power among the information fields. We believe that both theory and professional practice should benefit from this unified approach.

We anticipate having something over 600 article-length entries in the encyclopedia, which should be considerably larger than the four-volume set was for the Second Edition. Most of the articles have been assigned by now, but life being full of the usual vicissitudes, there are a few planned entries remaining that we do not yet have authors for. Some of these articles are quite central to the field. In some cases we just didn't happen to find someone to invite (we don't know everybody's specialties and interests!), and in other cases authors had to withdraw for one reason or another.

Sooooooo, for the entries below, we are inviting you to volunteer to write one or more articles, and/or to suggest people who you think would do a good job writing the article. We are interested in faculty, practitioners, and students with at least one year of grad school as possible authors. Don't be shy! Junior faculty should also know that articles are refereed, so, unlike some encyclopedia contributions, this one should count for your tenure.

Listed below are needed topics. Depending on the results of current invitations outstanding, we may announce more possibilities in a couple of weeks. PLEASE RESPOND BY JULY 31.

Thanks, Marcia
NEEDED ARTICLES:
Library public services
Film and broadcast archives
Social science data archives
Serials collection and management
Special librarianship
Special libraries
Reprography in libraries and archives
Library portals and gateways
Library architecture and interior design
Oral history in libraries
Custody and chain of custody
Disruptive information technologies
Information theory
Bioinformatics
Artificial intelligence
Information technology consulting firms (e.g., Accenture)
Philosophy and psychology of collecting
Cybernetics
Network management
Optical scanning and text recognition
Records compliance and risk management [records management]
Records organization and access [records management]
Records preservation [records management]
Expert locators and recommender systems
Information storage technologies
Version control

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Marcia J. Bates, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Editor (with Mary Niles Maack), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences
Department of Information Studies
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520 USA
Tel: 310-206-9353
Fax: 310-206-4460
Web: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/

Library & Archival Security is the only journal that stresses legal and organizational security issues and incidents in libraries, archives, and other information centers. Peer-reviewed and refereed, the journal is devoted to providing information on all aspects of security in libraries, archives, and other information centers, including physical security; data and communications security; relevant legislation; disaster preparedness and recovery; and studies of related social, legal, and ethical issues.

Intended for scholars and practitioners in the fields of library and archival science concerned with the security and availability of traditional and digital collections. Library & Archival Security contains articles of theoretical and practical importance.

Topics include:

• theft detection and prevention
• related inventory methods
• security systems and equipment
• incidents involving public behavior and safety in libraries
• challenges posed by digital collections and wide area networking
• the security, integrity, and confidentiality of electronic records, networks,
and communications, library Internet sites, and local library automation systems
• the legal and ethical implications of library record keeping

As a rule, Library & Archival Security includes the following sections:

• a section which includes opinionated editorial, notes about important issues, etc.,
from practitioners and theoreticians in the field and occasionally from users of libraries and archives
• at least two feature articles per issue
• a section containing substantive book, media, and security product reviews and/or
lists of new and forthcoming titles of interest.

Library & Archival Security also contains research reports and case studies. The editorial advisory board and review panel include practitioners and theoreticians in the fields of library and archival science, as well as professionals in the areas of security and disaster preparedness and recovery.

Library & Archival Security is currently accepting manuscripts for consideration of publication. Manuscripts should be 5—20 typed pages, double spaced (including references and abstract). The references and format should follow the The Chicago Manual of Style (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts electronically to the editor. The journal is published biannually (2 issues per volume), in both print and electronic format.

For more information on how to prepare articles for publication, visit the journal’s Web site at:
http://LAS.HaworthPress.com and click on “Instructions for Authors” in the “Journal Information” column. You may also contact the editor at:

Christopher Brown-Syed, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Library and Information Studies
534 Baldy Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-1020
Email: cbrownsyed@cogeco.ca

Library & Archival Security also contains research reports and case studies. The editorial advisory board and review panel include practitioners and theoreticians in the fields of library and archival science, as well as professionals in the areas of security and disaster preparedness and recovery.

Library & Archival Security is currently accepting manuscripts for consideration
of publication. Manuscripts should be 5—20 typed pages, double spaced (including references and abstract). The references and format should follow the The Chicago Manual of Style
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press). Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts
electronically to the editor. The journal is published biannually (2 issues per volume), in both
print and electronic format.

For more information on how to prepare articles for publication, visit the journal’s Web site at:
http://LAS.HaworthPress.com and click on “Instructions for Authors” in the
“Journal Information” column. You may also contact the editor at:

Christopher Brown-Syed, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Library and Information Studies
534 Baldy Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-1020
Email: cbrownsyed@cogeco.ca

The Journal of Library Metadata (JLM) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles on all aspects of metadata applications in libraries. The journal is published quarterly by The Haworth Press, Inc.

Previously titled the Journal of Internet Cataloging, after a change in title and editorship, JLM will now focus on metadata, an exciting, timely subject of importance to all libraries. The journal will publish three categories of articles: standard, peer-reviewed articles; shorter, scholarly, non-peer reviewed articles; and short viewpoint articles.

These articles will cover all aspects of metadata applications in libraries, including:

Application profiles

Best practices

Controlled vocabularies

Crosswalking of metadata and interoperability

Digital libraries and metadata

Display of search results

Federated repositories

Federated searching

Folksonomies

Individual metadata schemes

Institutional repository metadata

Metadata content standards

Metadata harvesting

Ontologies

Preservation metadata

Resource Description Framework

Resource discovery and metadata

Search engines and metadata

SKOS

Stochastic vs. deterministic searching

Tagging and tag clouds

Topic maps

Visual image and moving image metadata

Categories of Articles

Please consider writing and submitting an article that falls into one of the following three categories:

Peer-reviewed articles (original research, scholarly manuscripts), which should be 10-50 typed pages, double-spaced.
Short, scholarly, non-peer-reviewed articles, often practical in nature (for example, describing a particular library metadata implementation). These should range from 500-2,000 words, with limited citations to other resources.
Upbeat Viewpoint articles giving the author’s opinion on a timely topic related to library metadata applications. These should range from 500-2,000 words and may or may not contain citations. Focus should be on improvements or solutions instead of negative aspects of an existing system, standard, or service.

For more information please visit the Journal of Library Metadata web site at: http://jlm.haworthpress.com.

Please direct all inquiries and article proposals to:

Jeffrey Beall

Editor, Journal of Library Metadata

Auraria Library

University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center

1100 Lawrence St.

Denver, CO 80204 USA

jeffrey.beall@cudenver.edu

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite contributions for a new volume in the
Elsevier series Advances in Library Administration and
Organization: “Culture, Context and History in the
Post-Soviet World of Information Institutions,
Resources and Practices.”

This volume is inspired by the cross-national and
comparative research of Richard Quandt, Christine
Borgman, Andrew Lass, Nadia Caidi, all of which raise
fundamental questions about the role culture, context
and history have played in the post-Soviet
reproduction and transformation of information
institutions, resources and practices across the
former Soviet bloc.

We are particularly interested in original
contributions that address one or more of the
following issues:

The definitions, understandings and roles played by
local concepts of “culture” and ”cooperation” in the
construction of cross-national information agendas in
the post-Soviet space;

The character of the relationship between local
concepts of “public” and “private” and the roles this
specific relationship has played in the reproduction,
transformation and/or invention of institutions
dedicated to the management and provision of
information;

Transformations in the social uses of libraries, ICTs,
and public/private collections in the post-Soviet
space;

Transformations in the understanding, goals and
significance of “reading” over the past ten to fifteen
years.

We welcome contributions from any discipline. We are
particularly interested in receiving original
contributions from scholars outside of the US.

Although we will consider shorter or longer papers,
submissions should be 10,000 to 12,500 word, formatted
in APA style and submitted via email. As for
deadlines for submissions, please contact
Graves(details below).

If you prefer to correspond or submit manuscripts by
mail, please address all correspondence to:

William Graves III, PhD
English and Cultural Studies Department
Bryant University
1150 Douglas Pike
Smithfield, Rhode Island 02917
USA

For inquiries regarding the journal “Advances in
Library Administration and Organization,” please
contact James M Nyce at jnyce@bsu.edu or at the
following address:

James M. Nyce, PhD
Department of Anthropology
Ball State University
2000 W. University Ave.
Muncie, IN 47306
USA

THE SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (U.S.)

New York City, New York (New York University) May 22-24, 2008

The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) invites participation in its Sixth
Annual Meeting from all areas and on all topics of relevance to Cultural
Studies, including but not limited to literature, history, sociology,
geography, anthropology, communications, popular culture, cultural theory,
queer studies, critical race studies, feminist studies, postcolonial
studies, media and film studies, material culture studies, performance and
visual arts studies.

The conference this year will feature plenary sessions on New York and
Culture, Gender and Sexuality, Law and Minorities. Plenarists include,

Arlene Davila, New York University, author of Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans,
Latinos and the Neoliberal City, and Latinos, Inc., The Marketing and Making
of a People

Rosemary Coombe, Law, Communications and Cultural Studies, York University,
author of The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties, and "Legal Claims to
Culture in and Against the Market"

Janet Jacobsen, Columbia, author of Working Alliances and the Politics of
Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics, and Love the Sin: Sexual
Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance

Jasbir Puar, Women's and Gender Studies and Geography, Rutgers University,
author of "On Torture: Abu Ghraib," and "Queer Times, Queer Assemblages."

Neil Smith, CUNY Graduate Center, author of American Empire: Roosevelt's
Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization, and The Endgame of
Globalization.

The conference will continue to host last year's highly successful "salon"
panels by major cultural studies journals. Thus far, the following journals
plan on hosting a journal salon:

Theory & Event
South Atlantic Quarterly
Boundary 2
Callaloo (special issue on Katrina and New Orleans)
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
Positions: East Asia Cultural Critique
Rethinking Marxism
Women & Performance
Radical History Review
Signs (special issue on race/gendered logics of war and terror)
Public Culture
Critical Inquiry
Social Text

All participants in the Sixth Annual meeting must pay registration fees by
April 15, 2008, to be listed and participate in the program. See the
registration page of the CSA conference website for details about fees at
http://www.csaus.pitt.edu .
If you have any questions about procedures for submission or other
concerns, please e-mail us at: csaus@pitt.edu. We welcome proposals in the
following four categories:

1. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Proposals for individual papers are due November 10, 2007.

Successful papers will reach several constituencies of the organization and
will connect analysis to social, political, economic, or ethical questions.

They should be submitted online below on the conference website:
>. Successful
submission will be acknowledged. If you do not receive an acknowledgment
within 24 hours, please resubmit. The acknowledgment will say that your
proposal has been "successfully submitted," which does NOT mean your
proposal has been accepted.

All paper proposals require:

a. The name, email address, department and institutional affiliation of the
author, entered on the website.
b. A 500-word abstract for the 20-minute paper entered on the website.
c. Any needed audio-visual equipment must be noted following the abstract in
that space on the site.

2. PRE-CONSTITUTED PAPER SESSIONS, ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS, OR WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Proposals for pre-constituted sessions are due November 10, 2007.

Roundtables are sessions in which panelists offer brief remarks, but the
bulk of the session is devoted to discussion among the panelists and
audience members. Workshops are similarly devoted primarily to discussion,
but they focus on practical problems in such areas as teaching, research, or
activism. No paper titles may be included for roundtables or workshops.

Pre-constituted sessions should NOT be submitted on the website, but should
be sent to with the words ''Session Proposal'' in the
subject line. All proposals will be acknowledged, but please allow at least
two business days before inquiring.

All session proposals require:

a. The name, email address, phone number, and department and institutional
affiliation of the proposer.
b. The names, email addresses, and department and institutional affiliations
of each participant.
c. A 500-word overview of the session, including identifying the type of
session (panel, roundtable, workshop) proposed. For paper sessions, also
include 500-word abstracts of each of the papers. Paper sessions should have
three or four papers.
d. A request for any needed audio-visual equipment. All AV equipment must be
requested with the proposal.

3. DIVISION SESSIONS

A list of divisions is available at >. Calls for papers and procedures for
submission to divisions may be posted on that site. Proposals for divisions
should NOT be submitted here or to csaus@pitt.

4. SEMINAR PROPOSALS
Proposals for seminars are due November 10, 2007.

Seminars are small-group (maximum 15 individuals) discussion sessions for
which participants prepare in advance of the conference. In previous years,
preparation has involved shared readings, pre-circulated ''position papers''
by seminar leaders and/or participants, and other forms of pre-conference
collaboration. We particularly invite proposals for seminars designed to
advance emerging lines of inquiry and research/teaching initiatives within
Cultural Studies broadly construed. We also invite seminars designed to
generate future collaborations among conference attendees. Once a limited
number of seminar topics and leaders are chosen, the seminars will be
announced through the CSA's various public e-mail lists on November 1.
Participants will contact the seminar leader(s) directly who will then
inform the Program Committee who will participate in the seminar after
November 20.

All seminar proposals require:
a. A 500-word overview of the topic designed to attract participants and
clear instructions about how the seminar will work, including details about
what advanced preparation will be required of seminar participants.
b. The name, email address, phone number, mailing address, and departmental
and institutional affiliation of the leader(s) proposing the seminar.
c. A brief bio or one page CV of the leader(s) proposing the seminar.
d. A request for any needed audio-visual equipment. All AV equipment must be
requested with the proposal. Since seminars typically involve discussion of
previously circulated papers, such requests must be explained.
Seminar proposals should be sent to:

Bruce Burgett, Professor and Interim Director, Interdisciplinary Arts and
Sciences, University of Washington Bothell

Those interested in participating in (rather than leading) a seminar should
consult the list of seminars and the instructions for signing up for them,
available at <http://www.csaus.pitt.edu< after November 20, 2007. Deadline
to sign up will be December 15, 2007.

The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) will provide a forum to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.

Submissions are currently being accepted for the first issue of this promising new journal. Please submit articles, abstracts, or proposals for articles to c4lj-articles@googlegroups.com (a private list read only by C4LJ editors) by Friday, August 31, 2007. Publication of the first issue is planned for late December 2007.

Possible topics for articles include, but are not limited to:

* Practical applications of library technology. Both actual and
hypothetical applications invited.
* Technology projects (failed, successful, proposed, or
in-progress), how they were done, and challenges faced
* Case studies
* Best practices
* Reviews
* Comparisons of third party software or libraries
* Analyses of library metadata for use with technology
* Project management and communication within the library environment
* Assessment and user studies

Above all, C4LJ encourages creativity and flexibility, and the editors welcome submissions across a broad variety of topics. Anything that supports the mission of C4LJ is welcome.

The goal of the journal is to promote professional communication by minimizing the barriers to publication. While articles in the journal should be of a high quality, they need not follow any formal structure or guidelines. Writers should aim for the middle ground between, on the one hand, blog or mailing-list posts, and, on the other hand, articles in traditional journals. We want publishing in the journal to be easy and painless, helping the community to share timely, relevant information that is currently shared all too rarely.

Articles need not include comprehensive literature reviews and bibliographies, although pointing the reader to useful work that has gone before can certainly be helpful. Authors are encouraged to include code samples, algorithms, and pseudo-code where appropriate.

The Journal will be electronic only, and at least initially, edited rather than refereed.

Please contact us with proposals or queries, as well as draft articles, at c4lj-articles@googlegroups.com (a private list read only by C4LJ editors) no later than Friday, August 31, 2007. Earlier contact is appreciated.

For more information, you can find information on our mission, processes and structures, and guidelines for authors at: http://journal.code4lib.org/

We look forward to hearing from interested people,

Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee

Carol Bean
Jonathan Brinley
Edward Corrado
Tom Keays
Emily Lynema
Eric Lease Morgan
Ron Peterson
Jonathan Rochkind
Jodi Schneider
Dan Scott
Ken Varnum

How can I move from presentation to publication?

By using your presentation as an outline you can fill in the words of the presentation to give you a good start on an article. You will still need to do a literature search and add more substantial information but you have a start.

What is plagiarism and why do I need to cite references?

A simple definition of plagiarism is taking someone else’s ideas and using them as your own or, at the very least, not giving someone else credit for something they created. Most papers and many presentations discuss ideas or directly quote work from another author. These ideas belong to that person. You must give them credit for their work even if you are not quoting them directly. You do this by citing references (in the text or in footnotes) and adding a list of those references to the end of your work. You can use whatever citation style you choose or the publisher requires.

I only like to use journal articles in my paper because I don’t have enough time to read a whole book. Do I have to use books in my research?

Whether or not you should use books in your research depends on your topic but keep in mind that you don’t always have to read the whole book in order to get the information you need. For example, many edited books contain chapters on a variety of topics, some of which have nothing to do with what you are writing about. It is a good idea to read the preface and/or introduction and any chapters that apply to your topic but don’t feel compelled to read sections that don’t apply to you what you are researching.

My article just got rejected by a publisher, what to I do now?

Revise it based on any comments you received from reviewers and resubmit it to that journal or elsewhere. Many of us don’t get our articles accepted in the first place we send it. It is a good idea to think of back-up journals when you are considering where to send it out for the first review. If you did that you already have a list of other places to submit it. If you get a rejection back asking for a “rewrite and resubmit” then look at the comments and do what they ask. If you have questions about what the reviewers are saying contact the editor for more information.

If your article is rejected completely, take a few days to mourn (yes, this is your “child” that you put tons of time, energy and ideas into so you may feel a need to vent). Then sit down with the reviewer comments and consider them seriously. Sometimes you will decide that you did not submit it to the proper journal or that the reviewers totally misunderstood your research but most of the time the advice they give will make your paper stronger. Make any changes you feel are appropriate and send the article out to a new journal as soon as you can. It is very easy, especially for new authors, to not want to deal with the rejection, but revise your work and get it back out there!

NASIG 23rd Annual Conference "Taking the Sting Out of Serials"
June 5-8, 2008
Tapatio Cliffs Hilton Resort, Phoenix, Arizona
The 2008 Program Planning Committee (PPC) invites proposals and/or program ideas for pre-conference, vision, strategy, and tactics sessions. The Program Planners are specifically interested in hearing from publishers, vendors, librarians, and others about issues relating to scholarly communication, licensing, and publishing.
Please keep in mind the following:
• The Program Planning Committee will review all submitted proposals for their content, timeliness, and relevance to the conference theme and reserves the right to combine, blend, or refocus proposals to maximize their relevance and to avoid duplication.
• The Program Planning Committee will treat all submissions as suggestions and guideposts.
• Time management issues and reimbursement guidelines generally limit each session to two speakers.
• Proposals may be suggested as one type of session and/or format and ultimately be accepted as any one of the other types of sessions or formats; this decision is the purview of the Program Planning Committee.
• Vision and Strategy speakers are required to produce a written paper for the conference proceedings. Because NASIG publishes its conference proceedings, content needs to be unique for copyright purposes.
• ALL presentations must be original and not previously presented at other conferences.
The conference will be held at Tapatio Cliffs Hilton Resort, nestled in between Phoenix and Scottsdale in the midst of the Sonora Desert: http://www.pointehilton.com/indextc.cfm.
NASIG has a reimbursement policy for conference speakers whose organizations do not cover expenses. For more information about this policy, please see: http://www.nasig.org/conferences/reimbursement_policy.htm.
Sessions Types:
• Pre-conferences are in-depth programs that focus on practical aspects of the work and skills we perform on a daily basis. In general, these programs are several hours in duration, have limited attendance, and may include hands-on training.
• Vision sessions are offered at no-conflict times to allow all conference attendees to participate. These programs generally deal with the larger universe of ideas and issues that may influence the serials world.
• Strategy sessions generally deal with all or, at least, several segments of the serials world including, but not limited to publishers, vendors, service providers, and librarians. These sessions are 90 minutes; please allow 10 minutes for questions from the audience.
• Tactics Sessions are designed to address day-to-day issues and generally deal with one or two practical aspects of the serials world. These sessions are 60 minutes; please allow 10 minutes for questions from the audience.
To suggest a proposal or an idea, please fill out the submission form available at: http://www.nasig.org/public/forms/idea.htm.
The deadline for this call for proposals and ideas is August 20, 2007.
For more information about the North American Serials Interest Group, please see: http://www.nasig.org.
Inquiries may be sent to the PPC co-chairs, Sarah Wessel and Erika Ripley at: prog-plan@nasig.org.

Journal of College Reading and Learning, a forum for theory, research, and policy related to college literacy and learning.

Contact: Emily Payne, Texas State University at San Marcos, for more informaton go to http://www.crla.net/journal.htm

Call for presentations
Submission deadline August 27, 2007

Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, Pa presents the 13th Annual Technology and Learning Conference for faculty and administrators on Friday, October 5, 2007, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., at its Central campus, just north of Philadelphia.

Join colleagues to share experiences and expertise in technology and learning! If you are excited about the potential for enhancing teaching and learning through technology, attend this conference to share your insight and learn from others!

The conference will provide a forum for professional development as well as opportunities to:

learn about new and exciting technologies
exchange ideas and best practices for incorporating technology and learning
extend communication between educational institutions and the community

For more information go to: http://www.mc3.edu/techconf/
Questions? Contact techday@mc3.edu

Perspectives: The New York Journal of Adult Learning.

The editors of Perspectives: The New York Journal of Adult Learning invite submissions from adult educators, program directors, graduate students and faculty that address the needs and interests of those involved in educating adults in the specific areas of adult literacy, adult education, community education, continuing education, workforce training and development, and higher education around the world. The ultimate goal is to improve understanding and practice of adult education through careful consideration and reflection of timely research and issues. This peer-reviewed journal is intended to be a source of education articles from around the world that are practical, substantial, and scholarly. Articles may be submitted for consideration in the following areas: refereed articles, book reviews, issues and trends, invited research summaries and best practice. This journal will be published twice a year.

Contact: Kathleen P. King, Fordham University, 113 West 60th Street, Room 1102, New York, N.Y. 10023; perspectives@fordham.edu, http://www.fordham.edu/gse/aded/perspectives

Publishes papers on ethics in conjunction with the academy, graphic images, scholarly communication, or biometrics. Journal of Information Ethics. Contact: Robert Hauptman, Journal of Information Ethics, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minn. 56301; hauptman@stcloudstate.edu

The Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational
Synergy (http://www.vision2lead.com/html/esynergy.html) will examine
structure, organization, technology tools and leadership practices that
characterize successful collaboration in and across the fields of education,
public and social sectors. See the call for chapters
(http://www.vision2lead.com/Call.pdf) or contact us at
synergy@vision2lead.com. We are reviewing proposals as they are submitted.

The first call for chapters formally closed April 30, 2007. We have been
extremely pleased with both the quantity and quality of the submissions.
Please see the list of invited authors and chapter topics:
http://www.vision2lead.com/html/esynergy2.html.

At this time we are requesting additional proposals targeting specified
areas in order to ensure a comprehensive and balanced view of collaboration
in education, business, social sector organizations and government. We are
particularly interested in contributions that consider electronic
collaboration within a governmental or social sector organization, including
non-profit or Non-Governmental Organizations. Topics could include
collaborative efforts of teams or cross-functional groups, or collaborative
efforts between international/national organizations and their local
affiliates. We are also interested in interdisciplinary collaboration within
educational institutions or instructional practices within the classroom.

If your proposal falls outside of the listed categories but within the scope
of the original call for chapters and you wish to submit for consideration,
we still welcome your proposal as a competitive entry in categories with a
significant number of submissions.

Editors Janet Salmons, Ph.D. and Lynn Wilson, Ph.D. will draw on their
respective scholarly and practical experience with inter-organizational and
intra-organizational collaborations in the fields covered in the handbook.
Information Science Reference, (an imprint of IGI Publishing), has
tentatively scheduled publication of print and electronic editions of the
book in 2008.

Communications in Information Literacy
http://www.comminfolit.org/

Submission deadline for inclusion in Fall 2007 issue: August 1, 2007. (Authors are encouraged to submit papers at any time,
however, as submissions are accepted throughout the year.)

CIL is a new, independent, professional, refereed electronic journal dedicated to advancing knowledge, theory, and research in the area of information literacy. The journal is committed to the principles of information literacy as set forth by the Association of College and Research Libraries. Additionally, CIL is committed to the principles of open access for academic research.

The editors of CIL continually accept manuscripts for review. CIL seeks manuscripts on subject matter of interest to professionals in the area of higher education who are committed to advancing information literacy. Manuscripts may be theoretical, research-based, or of a practical nature. Some suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:

-Definitions and standards for IL
-Pedagogies and learning theories
-Assessment
-Developing an IL strategy within your institution
-Designing an IL program
-Lesson planning
-Classroom instruction
-Online instruction
-Instructional competencies

It is recommended that prospective authors query the CIL editors before submitting their works, but it is not necessary. Prospective authors may query the Editors-in-Chief at:
editors@comminfolit.org

CIL is published twice annually, with Spring and Fall issues, and with some articles being published in advance of the journal as they complete the review process. This ensures timely publication of all new material.

Thank you for your interest in Communications in Information Literacy!

Stewart Brower and Chris Hollister, Editors-in-Chief

Christopher Hollister
Information Literacy Librarian
Oscar A. Silverman Undergraduate Library
112 Capen Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260
Phone: (716) 645-2944, ext. 267
Fax: (716) 645-3067
E-Mail: cvh2@buffalo.edu

ECIR-30th European Conference on Information Retrieval
Glasgow, Scotland, 30th March - 3rd April 2008

For more information go to: http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/index.html

The BCS-IRSG annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is the major European forum for the presentation of new research results in the broad field of Information Retrieval. The conference encourages the submission of high quality research papers reporting original, previously unpublished results.

Call for Research Papers:

We are seeking the submission of high-quality and original research papers that have not been previously published and are not under review for another conference or journal. Submissions will be reviewed by experts on the basis of the originality of the work, the validity of the results, chosen methodology, writing quality and the overall contribution to the field of Information Retrieval. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Theory and Models for Information Retrieval.
Efficiency and Performance of IR. Platforms, Architectures. Applications of IR.
Evaluation and Test collections.
Indexing. Query representation, Query reformulation, Structure-based representation, XML, Metadata. Summarization. Natural language processing for IR.
Tracking, Filtering, Topic detection, Collaborative filtering, Agents, Routing and Email spam.
Categorization and clustering.
User studies and interfaces. Interactive IR. Task-based IR.
Web IR, Distributed IR, Digital libraries. Intranet, Desktop, Enterprise and Blog Search. Adversarial IR.
Question answering and information extraction. Text Data Mining and Machine Learning for IR.
Multimedia IR.
Cross-language and multilingual Information Retrieval.

All accepted papers will be published in Springer-Verlag's LNCS series and distributed to all delegates at the Conference. The proceedings will appear as a special commerative edition of LNCS to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the ECIR conference series. It is also planned that some selected outstanding papers from the conference will be invited to contribute to an edited volume of papers marking this significant milestone.

Call for Posters:

Poster submissions addressing any of the areas identified in the conference topics above are also invited. Poster authors are encouraged to demonstrate work in progress and late-breaking research results. Poster papers will also be included in the proceedings.

Call for Workshops/Tutorials:

Submissions are solicited for workshops and tutorials on all topics of Information Retrieval and its applications. Especially encouraged are workshops that facilitate interaction and collaboration among participants, while opening new directions for future research, as well as tutorials that inform the Information Retrieval community on recent advancements in related fields, or on novel application areas related to Information Retrieval.

CALL FOR PAPERS

ACADEMIC EXCHANGE EXTRA (AEE)
http://asstudents.unco.edu/students/AE-Extra/index.html

A MONTHLY PEER-REVIEWED ON-LINE FORUM

Submissions are invited from educators, graduates, and post-graduates of all levels and areas of study for Academic Exchange Extra (AEE) (Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Haller ­ English Instructor at Kent State University). Qualified submissions from undergraduates may also be considered. AEE presents ideas, research methods and pedagogical theories leading to effective instruction and learning regardless of level, subject or context. We also seek cogent essays, poetry and fiction.
Articles to 7,000 words on theory, practice and administration of education across the full range of humanities and social science-based approaches are welcomed. Possible theoretical frameworks include: critical pedagogy, postcolonial theory, new historicism, postmodernism, feminist theory, as well as other critical frameworks, cultural studies and perspectives. The use of a theoretical lens is encouraged but not required; please see options for other submission types below.

We are also interested in social and cultural issues as they intersect with education. We prefer to include an array of diverse material each month, though thematic issues may be considered.
Essays up to 5,000 words are encouraged. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following suggestions:

• multi-modal teaching
• distance learning
• collaboration
• teaching abroad
• e-communities and socialization
• community college retention and transfer
• service learning
• remedial education
• affirmative action
• marginalized or minority viewpoints and experiences
• tenure and post-tenure review
• urban education and issues of student inequality
• issues faced in special education
• postmodernism and education
• canonical revision/non-revision
• analyses/reviews of recent pedagogical publications
• response to any topic(s) included in the “Grist for the Mill” section of each issue

We also seek poetry to 60 lines, in traditional or free verse forms.

Fiction to 7,000 words is also encouraged.

Subject matter for poetry and fiction is unlimited; however, we will not publish inflammatory or libelous works, or works deemed otherwise inappropriate for this journal.

HOW TO SUBMIT AND DEADLINE

Please place the words “AEE Submission” in the subject line of your email.
Submissions not containing this or a similar phrase may be routed through a secondary filter, in which case your submission may be unintentionally overlooked. Due to the high volume of submissions received by AEE each month, please allow approximately six to eight weeks for a publication decision based on an initial review of your submission.

Publication date is intended to be within the first week of each month.

Submissions should follow MLA or APA guidelines. Send your submission as a Word Document (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf) attachment.

All submissions must include a 4-5 sentence summary as well as a current brief bio that identifies your contact information (e-mail and telephone), school/departmental affiliation(s), position(s) (e.g., student level, instructor, professor and/or administrator), and areas of academic interest. For bio examples, please refer to the current issue’s contributor’s page.

Please note that AEE does not retain copyright of published material.
Additionally, articles, works of fiction, and poetry are not blind reviewed and will only be considered for such a review when specifically requested by the author.

NOTE: AEE does not retain copyright of submissions

Send submissions via email to:
Elizabeth Haller, Kent State University, USA (e-mail: editoraee@hotmail.com)

Storytelling, Self, Society Journal: Call for Papers Due: September 2008

Storytelling, Self, Society (SSS) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarship on a wide variety of topics related to storytelling as interpersonal, performance, or public discourse. Papers may represent disciplines including but not limited to storytelling, folklore, cultural studies, communication, English, education, library science, health care, business, peace studies, psychology, sociology, anthropology, pop culture, theatre and performance studies. Short stories, poetry and works of literary criticism will not be considered for publication. However, a variety of items, including print publications, recordings and performances, may be considered for review. Contact Karen Dietz, reviews editor, at dietz.karen@gmail.com to indicate interest and for additional information. Completed manuscripts are requested. All manuscripts must be submitted in electronic format, using Microsoft Word, and must conform to the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (2003, sixth edition or later, Modern Language Association of America). Each submission should include an abstract of no more than 120 words on a separate page, preceding the manuscript. For consideration in the Fall, 2008, issue, please e-mail a completed manuscript by January 7, 2008, to: Caren S. Neile, managing editor, at cneile@fau.edu. Prior to submission, we invite submitters to visit our web site: http://courses.unt.edu/efiga/SSS/SSS_Journal.htm.

Elizabeth Figa, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty Senator Group II
University of North Texas / School of Library and Information Sciences
SLIS Toll-free phone: 877-275-7547 / Office Phone 940-565-2187
Associate Editor, Storytelling, Self, Society Journal
Contact information: http://courses.unt.edu/efiga/Figa/

Invitation:

Please consider to contribute and distribute to the appropriate groups
the following

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

The Second International Conference on the Digital Society

ICDS 2008

February 10-15, 2008 - St. Luce, Martinique

Site: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/ICDS08.html

Submission: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/SubmitICDS08.html

Important deadlines:

Submission deadline: September 5, 2007

Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2007

Registration/camera ready: November 5, 2007

ICDS 2008 Tracks (details in the CfP on site)

* Disruptive and enabling technologies
* Internet
* eCommerce
* Consumer-oriented devices and services
* Intelligent computation
* Networking and telecommunications
* Economics of security and protection
* System advanced paradigms
* Management and control
* Digital analysis and processing
* Mobile devices and biotechnologies
* Software robustness for digital society
* Consumer-oriented digital economics
* Government services in the context of digital society
* ICT support for collaboration
* Information and knowledge management (eknow)
* Telemedicine and eHealth (telemed)

_The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances_ is looking for regular columnists who can speak to the issues and background of the journal indicated below. I am especially interested in senior management in public, private, academic, and special libraries writing columns that address issues related to budgeting, management, human resources, development, and outsourcing (among others) in libraries. Columns are needed on a quarterly basis. Please contact the editor directly if you are interested in contributing. Thank you.

Dr. Brad Eden
Editor, _The Bottom Line_
Associate University Librarian for Technical Services and Scholarly Communication
University of California, Santa Barbara
eden@library.ucsb.edu

The deadline for a Special Issue of the /Journal of
Web Librarianship/ dedicated to Library Websites:
Evaluation and Usability Studies has been EXTENDED to
August 1, 2007. This issue will be edited by
Professor Amanda Spink and Dr. Helen Partridge; all
queries and submissions should be sent to them (see
below).

Details: As more library services are delivered via
library Websites, evaluating and measuring Website
effectiveness, usability and success is critical for
all libraries. Such studies are crucial for improving
library Websites, enabling user-centered design and
improving the quality, value and impact of library
online services.

This special issue of The Journal of Web Librarianship
seeks papers reporting empirical studies evaluating
library Websites in any type of library environment.
The methodologies used are not limited and may include
quantitative or qualitative techniques, case studies,
longitudinal studies, experiments, focus groups,
surveys, questionnaires, interviews, or other research
designs. Papers may include the evaluation and testing
of new user-centered measures.

Submission of Manuscripts
All submissions must be in English, should represent
original work done by the authors, and must NOT have
been published, accepted for publication, or be
presently under consideration for publication
elsewhere. Manuscripts should be prepared according to
The Journal of Web Librarianship for Authors:
http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/jwl/

Reviews of the submitted manuscripts will proceed in
accordance with The Journal of Web Librarianship
editorial policy. Submissions should be by electronic
transmission ONLY (using a Word file attachment) and
must be sent to the guest editors.

Please direct any questions about the special issue
and your submissions to the Special Issue Guest
Editors:

Professor Amanda Spink
Faculty of Information Technology
Queensland University of Technology
Gardens Point Campus, GPO Box 2434
Brisbane QLD 4000 Australia
Email: ah.spink@qut.edu.au

Dr. Helen Partridge
Faculty of Information Technology
Queensland University of Technology
Gardens Point Campus, GPO Box 2434
Brisbane QLD 4000 Australia
Email: h.partridge@qut.edu.au

Important Dates

August 1, 2007 Deadline for submission - EXTENDED
September 1, 2007 Preliminary notices to authors
October 1, 2007 Notices to accepted review comments
January 1, 2008 Final acceptance following revisions

February 10, 2008
Hershey Motor Lodge and Convention Center
Hershey, PA

Submissions due August 17, 2007

For more information go to: http://www.mciu.org/prepetec/www/prepetec.asp

You are invited to submit a proposal to conduct a preconference workshop or seminar for the 2008 Pennsylvania Educational Technology Exposition & Conference (PETE & C). Individuals representing all academic disciplines and levels and all phases of technology and education are welcome to submit proposals. Preconference sessions can be in a seminar format, or hands-on training workshops and will be conducted on Sunday, February 10, 2008. Sessions can be either three or six hours in length.

Scope
The following general topics are examples of interest areas:

Computer use at all academic levels, K-12 and higher education, and in all academic disciplines.
Curricular planning in disciplines where technology is the focus of instruction.
Computer education and opportunities for special audiences.
Computer-managed instruction and computer based testing. Computer education for teachers.
Administrative applications of technology at building and/or district level.
Computer education outside the typical school environment.
Technology partnership programs with education and business, industry, or government.
Emerging technologies for educational utilization.
Information on Participation
Each 3-hour workshop that is accepted will receive one stipend of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); each 6-hour workshop a five hundred ($500) stipend, if at least ten registrations are received for that particular workshop. The decision to cancel any workshop due to low registration numbers is at the sole discretion of the PETE & C Preconference Committee. All conference workshop presenters are expected to complete a conference registration form, regardless of whether or not they plan to attend the general conference.

Proposals will be considered and accepted at the discretion of the preconference committee.

February 11-12, 2008
Hershey Lodge and Convention Center
Hershey PA

Submissions due Sept. 30, 2007

For more information go to
http://www.mciu.org/mciu23/petec.htm

You are invited to submit a proposal to conduct a conference presentation for the 2008 Pennsylvania Educational Technology Exposition & Conference. Individuals representing all academic disciplines and all phases of technology and education are welcome to submit proposals sixty-minute presentations.

SCOPE: The following strands are examples of interest areas:

Adaptive Technology/Special Populations/Accessibility
Emerging Technologies
Infrastructure/Security/Management
Instructional Strategies/Best Practices
Learning Environments/Distance Learning/Course Management
Library Media Centers
Mobile/Wireless Learning Technologies
Performing/Creative Arts
Policy/Planning/Funding
Professional Development/Teacher Preparation
Standards/NCLB
Technology and Ethics
Technology Directions/Trends: Issues, Innovations, and Research
Technology Leadership