October 2008 Archives

June 15-19, 2009
Austin, TX, USA
http://www.jcdl2009.org

Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGWEB, and IEEE-CS TCDL

Extended Call for Papers

The ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) is the  
major international research forum focused on digital libraries and  
associated technical, practical, and social issues. JCDL encompasses  
the many meanings of the term "digital libraries", including (but not  
limited to) new forms of information institutions; operational  
information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of  
selecting, collecting, organizing, distributing, and evaluating  
digital content; and theoretical models of information media,  
including document genres and electronic publishing. Digital libraries  
are distinguished from information retrieval systems because they  
include more types of media, provide additional functionality and  
services, and include other stages of the information life cycle, from  
creation through use. Digital libraries also can be viewed as a new  
form of information institution or as an extension of the services  
libraries currently provide.

Representatives from academe, government, industry, and others are  
invited to participate in this annual conference. The conference draws  
from a broad array of disciplines including computer science,  
information science, librarianship, archival science and practice,  
museum studies and practice, technology, medicine, social sciences,  
and humanities.

Topics of the sessions and workshops will cover such aspects of  
digital libraries as infrastructure; institutions; metadata; content;  
services; digital preservation; system design; implementation;  
interface design; human-computer interaction; evaluation of  
performance; evaluation of usability; collection development;  
intellectual property; privacy; electronic publishing; document  
genres; multimedia; social, institutional, and policy issues; user  
communities; and associated theoretical topics.

JCDL 2009 will be held in Austin, Texas on the campus of the  
University of Texas. The program is organized by an international  
committee of scholars and leaders in the Digital Libraries field.   
Four hundred attendees are expected for the five days of events  
including a day of cutting edge tutorials; 2 1/2 days of papers,  
panels, and keynotes; and 1 1/2 days of research workshops.

JCDL 2009 invites submissions of papers and proposals for posters,  
demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops that will make the conference  
an exciting and creative event to attend. As always, the conference  
welcomes contributions from all the fields that intersect to enable  
Digital Libraries. Topics include, but are not limited to:

* Interfaces to information for novices and experts
* Information visualization
* Retrieval and browsing
* Data mining/extraction
* Enterprise-scale Information Architectures
* Distributed information systems
* Studies of information behavior and needs; user modeling
* Insightful analyses of existing systems
* Novel library content and use environments
* Deployment of digital collections in education
* Digital Library curriculum development
* Systems and algorithms for preservation
                
Paper Submissions
=================
Paper authors may choose between two formats: Full papers and short  
papers. Both formats will be included in the proceedings and will be  
presented at the conference. Both formats will be rigorously peer  
reviewed. Complete papers are required--abstracts and incomplete  
papers will not be reviewed.

Full papers report on mature work, or efforts that have reached an  
important milestone. Short papers will highlight efforts that might be  
in an early stage, but are important for the community to be made  
aware of. Short papers can also present theories or systems that can  
be described concisely in the limited space.

Full papers must not exceed 10 pages. Short papers are limited to at  
most 4 pages. All papers must be original contributions. The material  
must therefore not have been previously published or be under review  
for publication elsewhere. All contributions must be written in  
English and must follow the conference's formatting guidelines.   
Papers are to be submitted at the conference's Web site.

All accepted papers will be published by ACM as conference proceedings  
and electronic versions will be included in both the ACM and IEEE  
Digital Libraries.

Poster and Demonstration Submissions
====================================
Posters permit presentation of late-breaking results in an informal,  
interactive manner. Poster proposals should consist of a title, 1-page  
extended abstract, and contact information for the authors.  Proposals  
must follow the conference's formatting guidelines and are to be  
submitted at the conference Web site. Accepted posters will be  
displayed at the conference and may include additional materials,  
space permitting. Abstracts of posters will appear in the proceedings.

Demonstrations showcase innovative digital libraries technology and  
applications, allowing you to share your work directly with your  
colleagues in a high-visibility setting. Demonstration proposals  
should consist of a title, 1-page extended abstract, and contact  
information for the authors. Proposals must follow the conference's  
formatting guidelines and are to be submitted at the conference Web  
site.  Abstracts of demonstrations will appear in the proceedings.

Panels and Invited Briefings
============================
Panels will complement the refereed portions of the program with  
lively discussions of controversial and cutting-edge issues that are  
not addressed by other program elements.  Invited briefings will  
explain a topic of interest to those building digital libraries--they  
can be thought of as being mini-tutorials.  We are not soliciting  
formal proposals for panels or invited briefings, but if you have an  
idea for one that you'd like to hear, please send email directly to  
the panels/briefings chair.

Tutorial Submissions
====================
Tutorials provide an opportunity to offer in-depth education on a  
topic or solution relevant to research or practice in digital  
libraries. They should address a single topic in detail over either a  
half-day or a full day. They are not intended to be venues for  
commercial product training. Experts who are interested in engaging  
members of the community who may not be familiar with a relevant set  
of technologies or concepts should plan their tutorials to cover the  
topic or solution to a level that attendees will have sufficient  
knowledge to follow and further pursue the material beyond the  
tutorial. Leaders of tutorial sessions will be expected to take an  
active role in publicizing and recruiting attendees for their sessions.

Tutorial proposals should include: a tutorial title; an abstract (1-2  
paragraphs, to be used in conference programs); a description or  
topical outline of tutorial (1-2 paragraphs, to be used for  
evaluation); duration (half- or full-day); expected number of  
participants; target audience, including level of experience  
(introductory, intermediate, advanced); learning objectives; a brief  
biographical sketch of the presenter(s); and contact information for  
the presenter(s).

Tutorial proposals are to be submitted in electronic form via the  
conference's Web site.

Workshop Submissions
====================
Workshops are intended to draw together communities of interest--both  
those in established communities and also those interested in  
discussion and exploration of a new or emerging issue.  They can range  
in format from formal, perhaps centering on presentation of refereed  
papers, to informal, perhaps centering on an extended roundtable  
discussions among the selected participants.

Submissions should include: a workshop title and short description; a  
statement of objectives for the workshop; a topical outline for the  
workshop; identification of the expected audience and expected number  
of attendees; a description of the planned format and duration (half- 
day, full-day, or one and a half day); information about how the  
attendees will be identified, notified of the workshop, and, if  
necessary, selected from among applicants; as well as contact and  
biographical information about the organizers. Finally, if a workshop  
has been held previously, information about the earlier sessions  
should be provided -- dates, locations, outcomes, attendance, etc.

Proposals for workshops will be accepted and evaluated on an on-going  
basis until the deadline.  This is in order to allow the workshop  
organizers as much time as possible to carry out their own program  
events on acceptance of the proposal.  Workshop proposals are to be  
submitted at the conference's Web site.

Doctoral Consortium
===================
The Doctoral Consortium is a workshop for Ph.D. students from all over  
the world who are in the early phases of their dissertation work  
(i.e., the consortium is not intended for those who are finished or  
nearly finished with their dissertation). The goal of the Doctoral  
Consortium is to help students with their thesis and research plans by  
providing feedback and general advice on using the research  
environment in a constructive and international atmosphere.

Students interested in participating in the Doctoral Consortium should  
submit an extended abstract describing their Digital Library research.  
Submissions relating to any aspect of Digital Library research,  
development, and evaluation are welcomed, including: technical  
advances, usage and impact studies, policy analyses, social and  
institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction and  
design advances, and innovative applications in the sciences,  
humanities, and education.

Consult the conference's Web site for more details and to make a  
submission.

Important notes for all Submissions
===================================
All contributions are to be submitted in electronic form via the JCDL  
2009 submission Web page, following ACM format guidelines and using  
the ACM template. Please submit all papers in PDF format.

During the submission process you will be asked to identify conflicts  
of interest with any of the program committee members. A conflict of  
interest exists, for example, when any of a submitted paper's authors  
and a committee member:
* hold employment at the same institution or company
* are candidates for employment at the same institution or company
* co-authored a book or paper in the last 48 months
* are co-principal investigators on a grant or research project
* are actively working on a project together
* are in a family or close personal relationship
* are in a graduate advisee/advisor relationship
* hold personal animosity

Important Dates
===============
All papers are due Friday, January 23, 2009 at 5 PM CST.
Poster and demonstration submissions are due Saturday, January 31,  
2009 at 5 PM CST.
Tutorial and workshop proposals are due Saturday, January 31, 2009 at  
5 PM CST.
Notification of acceptance to authors by March 10, 2009.
Doctoral consortium abstracts are due Monday, March 23, 2009.

Conference Organizers (program elements)
========================================
Conference Chairs
         Mary Lynn Rice-Lively, University of Texas (marylynn@ischool.utexas.edu 
)
         Fred Heath, University of Texas
Program Co-Chairs
         Richard Furuta, Texas A&M University (furuta@cs.tamu.edu)
         Luis Francisco-Revilla, University of Texas
         Gary Geisler, University of Texas
Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
         Michael Nelson, Old Dominion University
         Megan Winget, University of Texas
Panels and Briefings Chair
         Catherine C. Marshall, Microsoft (cathymar@microsoft.com)
Tutorials Chair
         Geneva Henry, Rice University
Workshops Chair
         Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
    J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 Call for Participation Deadline: December 19th <<

                            ED-MEDIA 2009--
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications

                     * Please forward to a colleague *

               http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm
_______________________________________________________________

                          ED-MEDIA 2009

World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications

       June 22-26, 2009  *  Honolulu, Hawaii

           (Sheraton Waikiki Beach Resort)

                  CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

          ** Submissions Due: Dec. 19, 2008 **
                               
              Hosted by the University of Hawaii

                                  Organized by
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
                           http://www.aace.org

                                Co-sponsored by:
      Education & Information Technology Digital Library
                        (htttp://www.EdITLib.org)
______________________________________________________________

** What are your colleagues saying about ED-MEDIA conferences? **
    http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/testimonials.htm

COLOR POSTER--ED-MEDIA 2009 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Available to Print & Distribute (PDF to print; 200kb)
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/ed09poster.pdf


                  >> CONTENTS & LINKS  (details below) <<

1. Call for Papers and Submission & Presenter Guidelines, Deadline Dec. 19th:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/submitguide.htm
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/PresenterLounge

2. Major Topics:  http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/topics.htm
3. Presentation Categories: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/categories.htm

4. Corporate Showcases & Demonstrations: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/corporate.htm
5. Proceedings & Paper Awards: http://www.aace.org/pubs
6. For Budgeting Purposes: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/rates.htm

7. Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Honolulu
8. Deadlines: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/deadlines.htm


INVITATION:
ED-MEDIA 2009--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia &
Telecommunications is an international conference, sponsored by the
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). This
annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion
and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications
on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and
telecommunications/distance education.

ED-MEDIA, the premiere international conference in the field, spans all
disciplines and levels of education and attracts more than 1,500 attendees
from over 60 countries. We invite you to attend ED-MEDIA and submit
proposals for presentations.

All presentation proposals are peer reviewed and selected by three reviewers on the
respected international Program Committee for inclusion in the
conference program, proceedings book, and CD-ROM proceedings.

For Call for Presentations, connect to:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm

All authors MUST follow the submission guidelines and complete the Web form at:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/submitguide.htm

For Presentation and AV Guidelines, see:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/PresenterLounge

PROGRAM ACTIVITIES:
* Keynote Speakers
* Invited Panels/Speakers
* Papers
* Panels
* Demonstrations/Posters
* Corporate Showcases & Demonstrations
* Tutorials/Workshops
* Roundtables


TOPICS:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/topics.htm

The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following
major topics as they relate to the educational and developmental aspects of
multimedia/hypermedia and telecommunications:

1. Infrastructure: (in the large)
    - Architectures for Educational Technology Systems
    - Design of Distance Learning Systems
    - Distributed Learning Environments
    - Methodologies for system design
    - Multimedia/Hypermedia Systems
    - WWW-based course-support systems

2. Tools & Content-oriented Applications:
    - Agents
    - Authoring tools
    - Evaluation of impact
    - Interactive Learning Environments
    - Groupware tools
    - Multimedia/Hypermedia Applications
    - Research perspectives
    - Virtual Reality
    - WWW-based course sites
    - WWW-based learning resources
    - WWW-based tools

3. New Roles of the Instructor & Learner:
    - Constructivist perspectives
    - Cooperative/collaborative learning
    - Implementation experiences
    - Improving Classroom Teaching
    - Instructor networking
    - Instructor training and support
    - Pedagogical Issues
    - Teaching/Learning Strategies

4. Human-computer Interaction (HCI/CHI):
    - Computer-Mediated Communication
    - Design principles
    - Usability/user studies
    - User interface design

5. Cases & Projects:
    - Country-Specific Developments
    - Exemplary projects
    - Institution-specific cases
    - Virtual universities

6. Special Strand:  ** Universal Web Accessibility  **


PRESENTATION CATEGORIES:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/categories.htm
The Technical Program includes a wide range of interesting and useful activities
designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information.


CORPORATE SHOWCASES & DEMONSTRATIONS:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/corporate.htm

Companies have the opportunity to demonstrate and discuss their educational
technology products and services in through Corporate Showcases and Demonstrations/Literature.


PROCEEDINGS & PAPER AWARDS:
http://www.aace.org/pubs
Accepted papers will be published by AACE in the Proceedings Book and on CD-ROM.
Proceedings in this series serve as major resources in the multimedia/
hypermedia/telecommunications community, reflecting the current state of
the art in the discipline. 

In addition, the Proceedings also are internationally distributed through and archived in the Education and Information Technology Digital Library, http://www.EdITLib.org Do You Subscribe?

Papers with high review scores will be invited for publication consideration by AACE's respected journals, especially for:
- Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (JEMH),
- International Journal on E-Learning (IJEJ), or
- Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR).

All presented papers will be considered for Best Paper Awards within several categories.
Award winning papers may be invited for publication in the AACE journals.


FOR BUDGETING PURPOSES:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/rates.htm

The conference registration fee for all presenters and participants will be
approximately $395 U.S. (AACE members), $450 U.S. (non-members).
Registration includes proceedings on CD, receptions, and all sessions
except tutorials.

All conference sessions will be held at the Sheraton Waikiki Resort ( http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/hotel.htm) located on the famous Waikiki Beach and in walking distance to the city's shopping district - with magnificent views of the Pacific Ocean.  Special discount hotel have been obtained for ED-MEDIA participants!


WAIKIKI BEACH, HONOLULU, HAWAII
http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Honolulu

Whether your idea of fun is soaking up the sun on a pristine, white sand beach or nightclubbing in Waikiki, hiking the trails or sampling some of the fantastic Hawaiian Regional Cuisine, we know that you're going to enjoy yourself on O'ahu.

Explore Hawaii online at:  http://www.gohawaii.com * http://www.visit-oahu.com


DEADLINES:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/deadlines.htm

Submissions Due:          December 19, 2008
Authors Notified:             February 23, 2009
Proceedings File Due:    May 1, 2009
Early Registration:          May 1, 2009
Hotel Reservations:        May 20, 2009
Conference:                   June 22-26, 2009

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To be added to the mailing list for this conference, link
to  http://www.aace.org/info.htm

If you have a question about ED-MEDIA, please send an e-mail to
AACE Conference Services, conf@aace.org

Contact:
AACE--Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
P.O. Box 1545
Chesapeake, Virginia 23327  USA
Phone: 757-366-5606 * Fax: 703-997-8760
E-mail: conf@aace.org  *  http://www.AACE.org

A conference hosted by the Digital Labour Group (DLG), Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, October 16-18, 2009, London, Ontario, Canada.

'Digital Labour: Workers, Authors, Citizens' addresses the implications of digital labour as they are emerging in practice, politics, policy, and theoretical enquiry. As workers, as authors, and as citizens, we are increasingly summoned and disciplined by new digital technologies that define the workplace and produce ever more complex regimes of surveillance and control. At the same time, new possibilities for agency and new spaces for collectivity are borne from these multiplying digital innovations. This conference aims to explore this social dialectic, with a specific focus on new forms of labour.

The changing conditions of digital capitalism often blur distinctions between workers, authors and citizens more often than they clarify them. Digital workers, for example, are often authors of content for the increasingly convergent and synergistic end markets of entertainment capitalism - but authors whose rights as such have been thoroughly alienated. Citizens are often compelled to construct their identities in such a way as to produce the flexible and entrepreneurial selves demanded by the heavily consumer-oriented 'experience and attention economies' of digitalized post-Fordism.

How might we come to understand the breakdown of distinctions between labour and creativity, work and authorship, value and productive excess in the new digital economy? What is labour in an era where participation in the cultural industries is the preferred conduit to autonomy and self-valorization? What struggles do entertainment workers, information workers, and workers in an increasingly digitalized manufacturing sector share in common? What might recent theorizing on the infinitely malleable 'post-Fordist image worker' tell us about the nature of affective ties to states and other political formations in the twenty-first century?

Policy makers, along with workers and union activists from the entertainment, information and manufacturing sectors will assist academic specialists in assessing these and other crucial questions.

Papers, reading no more than 20 minutes in length, that address any of the above matters, or cognate ones, are now being solicited. Please submit your brief abstract by February 1, 2009, to Jonathan Burston at jburston@uwo.ca. An editorial board will examine all submissions and issue acceptances no later than March 15, 2009.

Thank you for circulating this call to any researchers at your institution, or elsewhere, who may be interested.

The Digital Labour Conference Organizing Committee at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario:

Jonathan Burston, Edward Comor, James Compton, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Alison Hearn, Ajit Pyati, Sandra Smeltzer, Matt Stahl, Sam Trosow

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO A CELESTE WEST "FESTSCHRIFT" BOOK PROJECT

Co-editors Toni Samek and KR Roberto are seeking articles, stories, 
poems, photographs, letters, thought pieces and other individual and 
collective memories of Celeste West, lesbian, feminist librarian, 
publisher, and activist, for a festschrift to be published by Library 
Juice Press in 2009. Celeste passed away in San Francisco on January 
3, 2008 at the age of 65. She was a pioneering progressive librarian 
and one of the founders of the Bay Area Reference Center (BARC), 
Booklegger Press, Synergy [Magazine], and Booklegger Magazine. She was 
also co-editor of the now classic title Revolting Librarians. From 
1989 until 2006, Celeste worked as the library director at the San 
Francisco Zen Center. She was a radical library worker whose practice 
challenged established library traditions by encouraging librarians to 
speak up about the need for systematic change. West initiated 
questions and challenged assumptions (such as library neutrality) that 
continue to be central issues examined in critical librarianship 
today. However, while Celeste released a lot of work to the world as 
author and editor, not much was ever shared about her as subject.

Thus, we are seeking your contributions to a Celeste West festschrift 
book project.

For an historical snapshot of some of Celeste´s key contributions via 
Booklegger Press, please see: Toni Samek. 2006. "Unbossed and 
Unbought: Booklegger Press the First Women-Owned American Library 
Publisher" in Women In Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American 
Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Edited by James P. 
Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand. Foreword by Elizabeth Long. Madison, WI: 
The University of Wisconsin Press in collaboration with the Center for 
the History of Print Culture in Modern America at the University of 
Wisconsin-Madison. Pages 126-155. Available in print and as an online 
book.

For a more contemporary introduction to Celeste´s way of thinking, 
see: Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out by K.R. 
Roberto and Jessamyn West.

Please direct your ideas and queries to the FESTSCHRIFT Editorial 
Assistant and Project Manager Moyra Lang (moyra @ ualberta.ca). The 
final deadline for all contributions is December 10, 2008.

If you have not encountered the name Celeste West until now, please 
see here: http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=361 and here:
http://newpagesblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/in-memoriam-celeste-west.html

THANK YOU! Toni Samek, KR Roberto, and Moyra Lang.

Chinese Journal of Library and Information Science (CJLIS,ISSN
1674-3393/CN 11-5670/G2), being sponsored by the Chinese Academy of
Sciences (CAS) and published quarterly by the National Science Library
of CAS, is the first international English-language scholarly journal
in the field of library and information science (LIS) in China
Mainland. The goal of the journal is to provide an international
communication link between researchers, educators, administrators, and
information professionals, and to provide an open forum for Chinese and
international scholars and experts in library and information sciences
to exchange the results of their researches.Striving toward academic
excellence, innovation, and practicality, the Journal mainly includes
research papers both on the theoretical as well as on the practical
frontiers in all aspects of the field. More specifically, it includes
but not limited to informatics, library management, information
technology application, knowledge organization system,knowledge
management, archives, permanent preservation, LIS education, and so on.

Contributed papers are invited covering topics and themes such as those
which concern with national, regional or institutional construction of
digital libraries in China or other countries, specifically those
innovations in information services and technologies for digital
libraries and intellectual property, or those hot issues in the
developments of public and academic libraries, information science,
library education, cataloging, inter-library loan, subject reference,
and developments of library consortia.

Notes for Intending Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be
currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are
refereed through a peer review process. Guidelines for manuscript
submission can be requested at Editorial Office of CJLIS. CJLIS
publishes papers such as research papers, library practice & project
reports. For submission, you may send one copy in the form of an MS
Word or PDF file attached to an e-mail to:

Prof. Dr. ZHANG Xiaolin
Editor-in-Chief of CJLIS
CJLIS Editorial Office
National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beisihuan Xilu 33, Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, P.R. China
E-mail: chinalibraries@mail.las.ac.cn
Tel: (86)-010-82624454 or (86)-010-82626611 ext. 6628

Announcement
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Call for Papers/Abstracts and Invited Sessions Proposals for The 3rd International
Multi-Conference on Society , Cybernetics And Informatics: IMSCI 2009
(http://www.2009iiisconferences.org/IMSCI). It will take place in Orlando, Florida,
USA, on July 10th - 13th, 2009.

Papers/Abstracts Submissions and Invited Sessions Proposals: November 6th, 2008
Authors Notification: January 28th, 2009
Camera ready, full papers: February 18th, 2009
-------------------------------------------------------

Main Topics:

Information Society Technologies
Knowledge-Based Society
eLearning
eSkills. Computer-Literacy
eHealth
eGovernment
eCommunities
eInclusion, Digital Inclusion or inclusive Information Society. Global e-Inclusion
eAccessibility - Opening up the Information Society. Digital Divide
eBusiness
eCommerce
Globalization and Informatics/Cybernetics
Interdependencies between Society and Information and Communication Technologies
Social and Societal Roles of Information and Communications Technologies
Information Society Policy-Making
Socio-Political regulations of Informatics and Cyber-Technologies
Ethics and Informatics/Cybernetics

All Submitted papers/abstracts will go through three reviewing processes: (1)
double-blind (at least three reviewers), (2) non-blind, and (3) participative peer
reviews.

Awards will be granted to the best paper of those presented at each session. From
these session's best papers, the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the
conference will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal
of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.

For Invited Sessions Proposals, please go to the conference web site or directly to: http://www.2009iiisconferences.org/imsci/Organizer.asp


IMSCI 2009 Organizing Committee

For some people getting from idea to fleshed out article becomes a challenge. How do you organize your ideas? How can you get them into a form on paper that makes sense? Many of us were taught to outline is school but depending on how your brain works (I am definitely a visual person) that isn't always comfortable. Another way is to use concept mapping. Put the topic down on a piece of paper or in a computer program (one that I use that isn't really expensive and works well is Inspiration (http://www.inspiration.com/). Then start to put down all your thoughts about what you want to include in the paper in circles, boxes, etc. and link them by drawing lines from them to other topics. Eventually you will see all the interconnections and can move this to an outline or a more fleshed out paper. If you use a computer program it can convert it to an outline for you. You can play with this at Inspiration's beta test of Webspiration (http://www.mywebspiration.com/). For additional information do some searching on concept mapping and enjoy the process! 

 

 

 

 

Call For Papers:  Unruly Catholic Women Writers, Volume II.  The editors of The
Catholic Church and Unruly Women Writers: Critical Essays (Palgrave 2007) invite
submissions for a second anthology, this time of creative pieces-short stories,
poems, personal essays-on the topic of unruly Catholic women, following a spirit of
inquiry regarding the extent to which the Roman Catholic Church enables or restricts
female unruliness.  Also in keeping with the first volume, the editors wish to cover
varied geographic and ethnic points of view.  All submissions must be written in or
translated into English.  Please send submissions of no longer than 5000 words
(shorter pieces gladly accepted) by March 15, 2009 to all three editors:  Dr. Jeana
DelRosso, Department of English, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, 4701 N. Charles
Street, Baltimore, MD 21210; Dr. Leigh Eicke, Department of English, Lake Huron Hall,
Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI  49401; Dra. Ana Kothe, Department of
Humanities, PO Box 9264, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR 00681.  Please also
send an electronic copy as an MS Word document to anakothe@hotmail.com.  

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

 

We are soliciting chapter proposals for a book entitled Collaborative Information Literacy Assessments, to be published in 2009 by Neal-Schuman Publishers. This book will include chapters co-authored by librarian and faculty teams about successful information literacy assessment initiatives in a variety of disciplines.  As a follow-up to our first two books Information Literacy Collaborations That Work (2007) and Using Technology to Teach Information Literacy (2008), this new book will examine collaborative assessment strategies and case studies at the course and program level.

 

Assessment in higher education is a key concern for faculty, librarians, and administrators, as colleges, universities, and accrediting agencies mandate this process.  New courses and programs must consider assessment at the start of project planning, rather than after, and existing programs must be re-examined to incorporate an assessment component.  Now that information literacy has been integrated into the curriculum at many institutions, in some cases built into general education programs, assessment of information literacy curricula is a primary concern.   We are especially interested in learning about the faculty-librarian partnerships that led to the design of innovative assessment practices.  This book will provide a valuable resource for faculty and librarians who want to design or redesign their own information literacy assessment efforts by examining innovative best practices from a scholarly perspective.  It will also provide readers with an up-to-date resource that reports on the current state of information literacy and the impact it has had on student learning.

 

Chapters need to be co-authored by a librarian and a faculty member. Also, each completed chapter should include the following sections:

 

Introduction

Related Literature

Institutional Context

Disciplinary Perspective

Discussion of the Faculty Librarian Collaboration

Assessment Model

Examination of Assessment Results

Impact on Student Learning

Assessment of the Assessment

Conclusion

 

This book will be co-edited by Thomas P. Mackey, Ph.D., Associate Dean at the Center for Distance Learning at Empire State College, SUNY and Trudi E. Jacobson, M.L.S., Head of User Education Programs, University Libraries at the University at Albany, SUNY.

 

Please send proposals of 1-2 pages to Tom Mackey at Tom.Mackey@esc.edu no later than October 17, 2008.  Chapter selections will be made and authors notified by November 10, 2008. First drafts of the completed chapters (25-30 pages) will be due on January 30, 2009. Final drafts will be due by April 20, 2009. If you have any questions about proposal ideas or about the book please contact Tom Mackey via email.

 

 

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Metadata Best Practices:  Journal of Library Metadata

Overview: The general aim of this special issue of the Journal of Library Metadata is to assess and present the current practices and trends in the creation and implementation of metadata best practices (metadata guidelines, application profiles) for digital and institutional repositories. The guest co-editor(s) seeks to outline the major issues, challenges, applications and tools, and future perspectives/approaches vis-à-vis the metadata best practices, guidelines, and documentation practices for resource description of local libraries and institutions.  

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

- Documentation practices
- Creation and implementation of local best practices
- Best practices for metadata creation and quality control
- Metadata best practices for building cross-institutional repositories
- Best practices in relation to metadata standards and resource types
- Integration of best practices with metadata generation applications and tools
- Approaches/techniques for extracting and analyzing best practices
- Semantics of metadata best practices (e.g., terminology-metadata field names/labels, definitions, data input guides)
- Emergent metadata semantics (e.g., local additions and variants to metadata standards)
- Best practices for sharable and interoperable metadata
- Approaches/techniques for converting best practices into machine-processible formats; formalization of metadata best practices
- Data fields/structure, format and content/value of metadata best practices
- Data dictionary, metadata registry

Submission Procedure: Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before, Nov 30, 2008, a proposal (up to 1000 words) clearly explaining the objectives and concerns of his or her proposed article. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by Dec 31, 2008. Full manuscripts (10-50 typed pages, double-spaced) are expected to be submitted by March 30, 2009. All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.

Guest Editor: Dr. Jung-ran Park, Assistant Professor, College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University. Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to the guest editor at following addresses: jung-ran.park@ischool.drexel.edu

“The Journal of Library Metadata--retitled from the Journal of Internet Cataloging to reflect a wider focus--is the exclusive forum for the latest research, innovations, news, and expert views about all aspects of metadata applications in libraries and about the role of metadata in information retrieval. This focused journal comprehensively discusses practical, applicable information that libraries can effectively use in their own information discovery environments. Specialized knowledge, the latest technology, and top research are presented pertaining specifically to evolving metadata use in libraries.” More information about Journal of Library Metadata can be found online: http://www.haworthpress.com/store/product.asp?sid=0GXAHEQGNPVF8LATGRHFLSTE7JRTCMH9&sku=J517&detail=AbThJrn#AbThJrn


Dr. Jung-ran Park
Assistant Professor
The iSchool at Drexel
College of Information Science and Technology
Drexel University
Email: jung-ran.park@cis.drexel.edu
Phone: 215-895-1669
Fax: 215-895-2494
Homepage: http://www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/jpark/index.html

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 30, 2008

Interpersonal Relations and Social Patterns in Communication Technologies: Discourse Norms, Language Structures and Cultural Variables

A book edited by Dr. Jung-ran Park
College of Information Science and Technology
Drexel University

Introduction
Through an interdisciplinary perspective, this book will explore interpersonal discourse realized in computer-mediated communication (CMC). Interpersonal discourse concerns communication with another person in a dyadic, public or small-group context. Human interaction in a dyadic, public or group context through networked computers constitutes computer-mediated communication. The development of communication technologies enables dynamic social interaction through the CMC channel. Accordingly, there has been rapid growth in multiple genres of social interaction and online learning through the CMC channel.  There exists a need to explore the impact of interpersonal discourse in carrying effective online learning and information seeking. This book will address such an impact by applying conceptual fundamentals of interpersonal discourse and online language usage to CMC contexts.
 
Objective of the Book
The rapid growth of CMC genres demands new perspectives, frameworks and tools for research and practice. Also necessitated is an understanding of online social interaction and an analysis of online discourse. This book will aim to, through an interdisciplinary perspective, explore three fundamental components of CMC: language, social interaction and information technology. It will aim to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area. It also aims to address the impact of interpersonal discourse in the building of online communities and in the design of interaction systems and social technology.

Target Audience
The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals and researchers working in the field of information and communication in various disciplines, e.g. library, information and communication sciences, linguistics, computer science, information technology, education, and management. Moreover, this book will provide advanced undergraduates and graduate students in the above mentioned fields with an understanding of the online social interaction and applications of interpersonal discourse for effective online interaction across CMC channels.


Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Interpersonal relations in CMC­a conceptual framework
Social and affective aspects of communication in the CMC
Communication norms for social interaction through CMC (e.g., netiquette)
Online language usage and discourse structure
Face, self, identity in online communication
Verbal and non-verbal signals for interpersonal communication in CMC
Meaning seeking and negotiation in CMC
Applications of interpersonal discourse to CMC contexts
Building online communities and interpersonal communication skills
Group interaction and virtual teams
Interpersonal relations in online learning and education
Digital information service and interpersonal relations
Interaction system design, social technology, social interface
Online interaction across languages and cultures

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before October 30, 2008, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the objective and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by November 30, 2008 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters (6000+ words) are expected to be submitted by February 15, 2009. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference) and “Medical Information Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com .


Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:
Dr. Jung-ran Park
College of Information Science and Technology
DREXEL UNIVERSITY
Tel.: +1 215 895 1669  •  Fax: + 1 215 895 2494 
E-mail: jung-ran.park@ischool.drexel.edu

The Research and Statistics Committee of the Reference Services Section of RUSA invites the submission of research projects for presentation at the 15th Reference Research Forum at the 2009 American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago, IL.

 

The Reference Research Forum continues to be one of the most popular and valuable programs during the ALA Annual Conference, where attendees can learn about notable research projects conducted in the broad area of reference services such as user behavior, electronic services, reference effectiveness, and organizational structure and personnel. 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.

 

For examples of projects presented at past Forums, please see the Committee's website: http://tinyurl.com/rssresearchstats

 

The Committee employs a "blind" review process to select two projects for 25 minute presentations, followed by open discussion. Winning submissions must be presented in person at the Forum in Chicago.

 

Criteria for selection:

• Quality and creativity of the research design and methodologies;

• Significance of the study for improving the quality of reference service;

• Potential for research to fill a gap in reference knowledge or to build on previous studies;

• Research projects may be in-progress or completed;

• Previously published research or research accepted for publication will not be accepted

 

Proposals are due by Monday, January 5, 2009. Notification of acceptance will be made by Friday, March 20, 2009. The submission must not exceed two pages. Please include:

 

1. A cover sheet including your name(s), title(s), institutional affiliation(s), mailing address(es), fax number(s) and email address(es).

2. The second page should NOT show your name, any personal information, or the name of your institution. Instead, it must include:
a. Title of the project;

b. Explicit statement of the research problem;

c. Description of the research design and methodologies used;

d. Brief discussion of the unique contribution, potential impact, and significance of the research.

 

Please send submissions by email to:

 

Liane Luckman

Chair, RUSA RSS Research and Statistics Committee

312.745.3858 (phone)

liane.luckman@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

Research conference in the Second Life® world - Life, imagination, and work using metaverse platforms

September 24-26, 2009

http://www.slactions.org/

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The metaverse is emerging, through the increasing use of virtual world technologies that act as platforms for end-users to create, develop, and interact, expanding the realm of human cooperation, interaction, and creativity. The conference focus is scientific research on applications and developments of these metaverse platforms: Second Life, OpenSim, Open Croquet, Activeworlds, Open Source Metaverse, Project Wonderland, and others, providing a forum for the research community to present and discuss innovative approaches, techniques, processes, and research results.

SLACTIONS 09 is the first international conference held simultaneously in several countries on the topic of metaverses. SLACTIONS 09 aims at covering most areas currently enabled by metaverse platforms, from educational research to content production, from gender studies to media distribution, and from metaverse-based branding, advertising, and fundraising to emerging mash-ups and technology applications. SLACTIONS 09 is unique in its format too, as a one-of-a kind event conducted both in a metaverse platform (Second Life) and on-site in multiple countries in Europe and in North and South America. SLACTIONS will thus contribute to the current redefinition of the way we think about hybrid online and on-site scholarly collaborations.

Whereas metaverses are no longer a novel topic, they still pose challenges for the adaption of conventional instructional and business practices, research methodologies, and communication practices. We are looking forward to presenting a program of research results, case studies, panel discussions, and demonstrations that scholars, educators, and businesses can port to their own environments and apply in their research, teaching, and business strategy. We will accept papers from the full spectrum of intellectual disciplines and technological endeavours in which metaverse platforms are currently being used: from Education to Business, Sociology to Social Sciences, Media Production to Technology Development, Architecture and Urban Planning to the Arts.

Topics covered may include but are not limited to:

   * Accessibility in metaverse platforms
   * Advanced scientific visualization in metaverse platforms
   * Automatic content generation
   * Behavioral studies in the metaverse
   * Combination of metaverse platforms with external systems (e-learning, e-business, etc.)
   * Communicational paradigms in the metaverse
   * Content management
   * Creativity, design, and arts on the metaverse
   * E-business and e-commerce applications
   * Educational research, applications, and case studies
   * Embodiment in metaverses and Gender Studies
   * GIS/metaverse mash-ups
   * Integration between metaverse platforms
   * Nonprofit activities and fundraising
   * Quantitative and qualitative research methodologies
   * Social Sciences studies in or through metaverse platforms
   * Space representation, use, and management in metaverses
   * Using metaverse platforms for cooperation

Format

SLACTIONS 09 has the format of a hybrid online and on-site conference. All paper presentations and plenary sessions by guest speakers will be held on-line, and projected locally for participants attending physically. Workshops are conducted locally - or in mixed format accross several participating chapters - and chapters may held local topical round tables.

Submissions

Authors are invited to submit:
   * A full paper of eight to ten pages for oral presentation
   * A Flickr image or YouTube video, indexed with the tag "slactions 09" for poster presentations 'in-world' or presentation in SL using a creative format

All submissions are subject to a double blind review process and should be professionally proofread before submission. All manuscripts should be formatted according to the ASIS&T proceedings template. (Disclaimer: SLACTIONS 2009 is not associated with ASIS&T.) No manuscripts will be accepted that do not meet the required format.

All accepted papers will be published on-line and in an ISBN-registered CD-ROM/DVD-ROM of proceedings.
The Scientific Committee will invite authors of selected full papers to provide revised and expanded versions for publication in an ISBN-registered book.
The authors of the best papers will be invited to provide revised and expanded versions for publications in special editions of journals or as single contributions to theme-specific journals.
Check out www.slactions.org regularly for more information and developments on the book publisher, book series, and journal venues for best papers.

Official language of the conference:

The official language for the on-line space and all submissions is English only. However, at the physical site of local chapters you can also use the native language of that location.

Important dates

   * February 28th, 2009 - Deadline for paper submissions
   * March 31st, 2009 - Submission results provided to authors
   * June 30th, 2009 - Deadline for early registration
   * July 31st, 2009 - Deadline for print-ready versions of accepted papers
   * September 24-26th, 2009 - Conference

Local chapters

Belgium - Ghent University
Brazil/Rio Grande do Sul - Unisinos (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos)
Brazil/São Paulo - Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
Portugal/North - Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Universidade do Minho, Universidade de Aveiro, Universidade do Porto
USA/Texas - University of Texas-Austin
USA/West Coast - University of California-Berkeley

Note: If you believe your institution can hold a physical chapter in an as-yet unsupported region, please contact the organization at info@slactions.org.


Programme Committee

Adriana Bruno, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ana Boa-Ventura, University of Texas-Austin, USA
António Ramires Fernandes, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Augusto Abade, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Carlos Santos, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Dor Abrahamson, University of California-Berkeley, USA
Ederson Locatelli, Unisinos (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos), Brazil
Eliane Schlemmer, Unisinos (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos), Brazil
João Barroso, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
Leonel Morgado, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
Lucia Pesce, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil
Luís Pedro, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Lynn Alves, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil
Martin Leidl, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Martin Valcke, Ghent University, Belgium
Miltiadis Lytras, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Nelson Zagalo, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Niall Winters, London Knowledge Lab, UK
Paulo Frias, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Pedro Almeida, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Pedro Sequeira, Escola Superior de Desporto de Rio Maior, Portugal
Pilar Lacasa, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Sneha Veeragoudar Harrell, University of California-Berkeley, USA
Stefan Göbel, ZGDV, Germany
Teresa Bettencourt, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Tim Savage, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Organization
Ana Boa-Ventura, University of Texas-Austin, USA
Leonel Morgado - Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
Nelson Zagalo - Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Contacts
Organization: info@slactions.org

The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge is seeking proposals for presentations as part of the Institute's ninth year as the pre-eminent Western North America conference on acquisitions and collection development.   This three-day conference focuses on the methods and madness of building and managing library collections and information content and provides a small, informal and stimulating gathering in a convivial and glorious Northwestern setting. Institute planners are open to presentations on all aspects of library acquisitions and collection management.  For the 2009 Institute, we are keen to see submissions that address:

·       Operations management of acquisitions or collection development

·       Acquisitions functions in open source catalogs

·       Web 2.0 for acquisitions work

·       Role of consortia in collection development

·       How subject librarians use their time

·       Feral professionals: non-MLS professionals in libraries

·       Recruiting for technical services and collection development

·       Scholarly communication from the publisher perspective

·       Opening day collections: process and problems

·       Data curation:  new roles for subject and technical services specialists

·       E-books, streaming audio, streaming video: content, access, cataloging

·       External forces driving a library's collection management decisions

·       Collection assessment: library and vendor perspectives

·       Linking collections with learning outcomes

·       Return on investment studies

·       Acquisitions and collection development: the small library perspective

See The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge for more information at http://libweb.uoregon.edu/ec/aitl/.  The 2009 Timberline Acquisitions Institute will be held Saturday, May 16 through Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at the Timberline Lodge.  The Lodge is located approximately one hour east of Portland, Oregon on the slope of Mt. Hood.

The deadline for submitting proposals is December 30, 2008.  To submit a proposal, send an abstract of 200 words or less to:

Faye A. Chadwell

Associate University Librarian

  for Collections & Content Mgmt
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-4501

faye.chadwell@oregonstate.edu
phone: 541-737-8528    fax: 541-737-3453

Hello

 

I'm organising a conference on the theme of Health Information for children and young people next June in the UK.  The aim is to bring together library and information workers, health professionals, researchers etc with an interest in the effective and innovative provision of health information for children and young people to discuss how effectively this is done at present and how it might be improved.

 

If you are interested in giving a presentation at the conference, please read the instructions for submitting an abstract below (or go to http://enlaces.co.uk/default.aspx). 

 

If you would like to receive further information about the conference as it develops, please email enlaces@enlaces.co.uk

 

Sarah

 

Call for abstracts

 

 

You are invited to present an abstract for a presentation in any of the following formats:

Reflective paper (approx 30 minutes plus discussion)

A case study (approximately 20 minutes plus discussion): a short report of a research activity or a practical project

 A poster (a visual presentation of a case study or issue, with opportunities for informal discussion)

 

The following are some suggested themes, but please don't feel limited by these!

          The handling of health issues in fiction for children and young people

          Young people and information about sexuality/sexual health

          Online health information

          Access and confidentiality issues

          Censorship of health information

          Methods of health information provision in different communities/countries/cultures

          Informal sources of health information

 

Please complete and return the form below together with an abstract of up to 200 words to return by email to enlaces@enlaces.co.uk or by fax to 08717 145 900. The closing date for submission of abstracts is 30^th January 2009.

For more information, please contact enlaces@enlaces.co.uk

_________________________________________________________________

Title of presentation:

 

Reflective paper/Case study/Poster (please circle)

 

Name:

 

Job title:

 

Organisation:

 

Address:

 

Email:

 

Telephone:

 

Sarah McNicol
Conference convenor
 

14th Annual Instructional Technology Conference

Please join us March 29-31, 2009, for the 14th annual Instructional Technology Conference held on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Call for proposals can be found at: Please join us March 29-31, 2009, for the 14th 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 2009 Instructional Technology Conference will carry on the tradition of showcasing technological uses in learning environments.

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

2009 Possible Session Topics

Virtual Environments
Collaboration Tools
Web 2.0 / Learning 2.0
Collective Intelligence
Data Mash-Ups
Learning Spaces
New Media Literacy
Deadline for Proposals is October 24, 2008

Submission Instructions
Type of Sessions

Pre-Conference Workshop - workshops will be scheduled on Sunday, March 29, 2009 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, March 30, 2009, 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 24, 2008.

Name, affiliation, and complete contact information for each participant
Type of session:

Lecture/Presentation—presenter shares information about the session topic with participants.

Panel Discussion—moderator leads the participants through a discussion related to the session topic.

Hands-on Workshop—participants work interactively with hardware or software in a computer lab.
Pre-Conference Workshop—Participants work interactively with hardware or software prior to the beginning of the conference

Poster Session—An 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.

Send your proposal:

Email your proposal
Deadline for proposals is October 24, 2008
Acceptance decisions made by November 21, 2008
Early Bird conference registration fee: $125

Pre-conference Workshop fee: $50