Recently in Diversity Category

CALL FOR PAPERS -- LIBRARY TRENDS

This month Library Trends will publish a special issue entitled "Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science." Due to the increasing interest in succession planning, recruitment, and retention in this time of demographic change, the editors of Library Trends are pleased to announce plans for a second special issue to further explore the topic. This special issue will be guest edited by Drs. Joanne Gard Marshall and Susan Rathbun-Grubb (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute on Aging and UNC School of Information and Library Science) and Dr. Deborah Barreau, UNC School of Information and Library Science.

For this issue of Library Trends, we are looking for papers that explore workforce issues and concerns and/or report the results of research in these areas:

* Recruitment, career-tracking, retention, and retirement of information professionals

* Increasing diversity in information organizations and LIS programs; retention and career development of ethnic minorities

* The unique workforce issues particular to specific types of information settings: academic, public, special, and school libraries, archives and museums, information services and technology companies, etc.

* The ways in which LIS educators or professional associations are assessing current and future workforce needs and  responding through program change and development and continuing education offerings

* Collaborations between LIS educators and practitioners in planning for and responding to information workforce needs.

* Responses of library and information agency administrators to the need for succession planning and the continuance of leadership in their organizations

* Description and evaluation of strategies for organizational retention and intra-organizational career development

IMPORTANT DATES

  * Abstract for proposed submission: December 4, 2009

  * Submission Deadline: March 1, 2010

  * Review Decisions: April 1, 2010 (all submissions will be peer-reviewed)

  * Final Versions Due: April 15, 2010

  * Publication: Late 2010

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

All abstracts for proposed submissions should be emailed directly to Susan Rathbun-Grubb at susanrg@email.unc.edu by December 4, 2009.

For formatting instructions, please see the Library Trends Author Guidelines available here:

http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/guidelines.html

If you have any questions about the special issue, please contact Joanne Gard Marshall at marshall@ils.unc.edu or Susan Rathbun-Grubb at susanrg@email.unc.edu or Deborah Barreau at barreau@ils.unc.edu.

For more information about Library Trends, please see:

http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/

Birmingham, Alabama

Sheraton Conference Center

August 4-8, 2010

Call for Program/Workshop Proposals

For more info go to http://www.bcala.org/NCAAL_7/ncaal7.htm

The Black Caucus of the American Library Association extends an invitation to all information professionals to join us in presenting educational and thought-provoking programs and workshops at the 7 th National Conference of African American Librarians in the �Magic City� of Birmingham.

The Conference serves as a national meeting for professionals in all areas of the information industry and provides opportunities to discuss varying issues, formulate new visions, celebrate achievements and share best practices, as we address issues relevant to libraries.

• Innovative and Emerging Technology
• Service to Demographically Changing Communities
• Technology and Information Literacy
• Effective Leadership in Politically Challenging Environments
• Managing in Economically Challenging Times
• Preparing for Directorship
• Succession Planning
• Salaries and Pay Equity
• Recruiting Librarians
• Library Leadership and Community Collaboration
• The Essential Role of Library Friends, Trustees, and Foundations

Call for Proposals

The 2010 National Diversity in Libraries Conference, NDLC2010: From Groundwork to Action, will take place from July 14-16, 2010 in Princeton, NJ.  The National Diversity in Libraries Conference (NDLC) is a biennial event that serves as a regional meeting for library staff members to discuss diversity issues, especially issues common to the host region's culture.

The 2010 NDLC Planning Committee invites you to submit a proposal for presentation at the conference. Proposal submission details are listed below.

Suggested Topics/Tracks

Conference presentations are sought in all areas of diversity, including but not limited to, the following:

• Workplace: administration and management; recruitment and retention; leadership; continuing education; mentoring; organizational culture; office environment; budgeting; motivation; staff skill development; cross-training; usability.

• User services: reference; collections; programming; health education; assessment; instructional design; marketing; collaborations; community spaces/learning spaces; outreach; the Library as a Place; customer service; consumerization; usability.

• Technology: emerging technologies; technology services; social networking; teaching and learning; innovations; online learning; core competencies; Library 2.0; YouTube; digitization; open source; visual media; web-based collaborative software; learning 2.0, second life; widgets/applications/mashups; virtual libraries/scan on demand.

Presentation Formats

Presentations may take one of the following formats:

• Individual presentation
• Poster session
• Panel session

Submission Guidelines

Proposals which include all of the following will be considered:

• Name and contact information for principal contact (if more than one person will be presenting);
• Complete contact information for all speakers: include name, title, employer or affiliation, email address, telephone/fax numbers;
• Title of proposed program;
• Program theme;
• Program format;
• A brief (100 words or less) description of the program for conference program purposes;
• A detailed description (up to 500 words) for proposal submission review;
• At least three learning outcomes;
• Audiovisual/equipment requirements (if any); and
• Biographical statement of the presenter(s) (up to 50 words per presenter).

Proposal submission deadline: October 2, 2009.

Notifications will be made by early December, 2009.

Selection Criteria

All proposals will be peer reviewed.  Successful proposals will:

• Identify critical diversity issues that will be treated in the program;
• Demonstrate how the audience will be engaged in program;
• Have a high degree of relevance to the projected conference attendees;
• Contain program content that can be re-purposed for continued discussion after the conference;
• Be unique and innovative or raise issues that have not yet been widely examined; and
• Have its foundation in recognized diversity research and/or statistics or presents new research and/or statistics

How to Submit Proposals

Submit proposals by email (Word document or PDF attachment) to ndlc2010 (at) Princeton (dot) EDU; Please also direct questions about the conference to this address (you will be required to confirm that you are sending a message to this email address).
Proposal submission deadline: October 2, 2009.

Visit https://qed.princeton.edu/main/NDLC2010 for additional information.

Call for Proposals

The 2010 National Diversity in Libraries Conference, NDLC2010: From Groundwork to Action, will take place from July 14-16, 2010 in Princeton, NJ.

The National Diversity in Libraries Conference (NDLC) is a biennial event that serves as a regional meeting for library staff members to discuss diversity issues, especially issues common to the host region's culture.

The 2010 NDLC Planning Committee invites you to submit a proposal for presentation at the conference. Proposal submission details are listed below.

Suggested Topics/Tracks

Conference presentations are sought in all areas of diversity, including but not limited to, the following:

• Workplace: administration and management; recruitment and retention; leadership; continuing education; mentoring; organizational culture; office environment; budgeting; motivation; staff skill development; cross-training; usability.

• User services: reference; collections; programming; health education; assessment; instructional design; marketing; collaborations; community spaces/learning spaces; outreach; the Library as a Place; customer service; consumerization; usability.

• Technology: emerging technologies; technology services; social networking; teaching and learning; innovations; online learning; core competencies; Library 2.0; YouTube; digitization; open source; visual media; web-based collaborative software; learning 2.0, second life; widgets/applications/mashups; virtual libraries/scan on demand.

Presentation Formats

Presentations may take one of the following formats:

• Individual presentation
• Poster session
• Panel session

Submission Guidelines

Proposals which include all of the following will be considered:

• Name and contact information for principal contact (if more than one person will be presenting);
• Complete contact information for all speakers: include name, title, employer or affiliation, email address, telephone/fax numbers;
• Title of proposed program;
• Program theme;
• Program format;
• A brief (100 words or less) description of the program for conference program purposes;
• A detailed description (up to 500 words) for proposal submission review;
• At least three learning outcomes;
• Audiovisual/equipment requirements (if any); and
• Biographical statement of the presenter(s) (up to 50 words per presenter).

Proposal submission deadline: October 2, 2009.

Notifications will be made by early December, 2009.

Selection Criteria

The successful proposals will:

• Identify critical diversity issues that will be treated in the program;
• Demonstrate how the audience will be engaged in program;
• Have a high degree of relevance to the projected conference attendees;
• Contain program content that can be re-purposed for continued discussion after the conference;
• Be unique and innovative or raise issues that have not yet been widely examined; and
• Have its foundation in recognized diversity research and/or statistics or presents new research and/or statistics

How to Submit Proposals

Submit proposals by email (Word document or PDF attachment) to ndlc2010 (at) Princeton (dot) EDU; Please also direct questions about the conference to this address (you will be required to confirm that you are sending a message to this email address).
Proposal submission deadline: October 2, 2009.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Out Behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians (a working title), edited by Tracy Nectoux and published by Library Juice Press as part of the series Gender and Sexuality in Librarianship.

Seeking submissions for an anthology of personal accounts by librarians and library workers relating experiences of being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, or queer at work.  This volume seeks to represent a broad spectrum of orientations and gender identities, highlighting a range of experiences of being and/or coming out at work.  Also welcome are critical and historical perspectives on the challenges of navigating gender and sexuality in the library workplace.

 
Objective of Book

 
Librarians and library workers are in a singular position to discuss the difficulty--even today, even in libraries--of choosing to be out at work. Our situations are unique.  We are educators, leaders, and often advocates of some of our most vulnerable citizens: LGBTQ youth. We face two enormous, yet conflicting consequences when we decide to come out: the risk of jeopardizing our own professional security while simultaneously presenting ourselves as allies to LGBTQ patrons.  The discussions in this volume will be an uncommon and valuable addition to the literature of gender and sexuality in the workplace, a topic that has been little examined in library literature.

Suggested Topics:

• Personal narratives of coming and being out in the library workplace
• Personal, historical, and critical approaches to hostile environments and/or colleagues
• Accounts of supportive environments and/or colleagues
• Narratives of workplace discrimination struggles
• Narratives of coming out in rural and urban contexts
• The challenges of coming and being out in historical perspective
• When and why library workers stay closeted
• Other critical, historical, and personal perspectives related to being out in the library

 
Target Audience:

 
LGBTQ librarians, library workers, and library school students, as well as library administrators who might find such a volume helpful in creating an inclusive, diverse, and safe workplace for both employees and patrons who are sexual minorities.

 
Submission Guidelines:

 
We welcome and encourage submissions from a broad spectrum of librarians and library workers and seek to be inclusive of all ages, library types (public, academic, or private libraries), geographies (rural, urban, international), and sexual orientations and gender identities (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual, gender-queer, questioning, etc.).  A range of submissions are welcome, including essays, poetry, and visual art.

Anonymous submissions will be accepted from librarians and library workers who are not out.

Deadline for summaries: May 31, 2009

Submit a brief summary (3 paragraphs maximum) and a short author's statement or URLs where appropriate.  Electronic submissions only to tnectoux@illinois.edu.

 
Deadline for manuscripts: December 31, 2009

One electronic copy.  Black-and-white artwork may be submitted in hard copy; author responsible for securing image copyright permissions.  Text may range from 100 to 5,000 words.

 
Contact:

Tracy Nectoux

Cataloger, Illinois Newspaper Project

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

tnectoux@illinois.edu

217-244-2498

Cell: 217-766-7984

Call for Proposals - National Diversity in Libraries Conference

The 2010 National Diversity in Libraries Conference, "NDLC2010: From Groundwork to Action," will take place from July 14-16, 2010 in Princeton, NJ. 

The National Diversity in Libraries Conference (NDLC) is a biennial event that serves as a regional meeting for library staff members to discuss diversity issues, especially issues common to the host region's culture.

The 2010 NDLC Planning Committee invites you to submit a proposal for presentation at the conference.  Proposal submission details are listed below.

SUGGESTED TOPICS/TRACKS:

Conference presentations are sought in all areas of diversity, including but not limited to, the following:

Workplace: administration and management; recruitment and retention; leadership; continuing education; mentoring; organizational culture; office environment; budgeting; motivation; staff skill development; cross-training; usability

User services

reference; collections; programming; assessment; instructional design; marketing; collaborations; community spaces/learning spaces; outreach; the Library as a Place; customer service; consumerization; usability

Technology

emerging technologies; technology services; social networking; teaching and learning; innovations; online learning; core competencies; Library 2.0; YouTube; digitization; open source; visual media; web-based collaborative software; learning 2.0, second life; widgets/applications/mashups; virtual libraries/scan on demand

PRESENTATION FORMATS:

•           Individual presentation

•           Poster session

•           Panel session

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: 

Proposals which include all of the following will be considered:

•           Name and contact information for principal contact (if more than one person will be presenting);

•           Complete contact information for all speakers: include name, title, employer or affiliation, email address, telephone/fax numbers;

•           Title of proposed program;

•           Program theme;

•           Program format;

•           A brief (100 words or less) description of the program for conference program purposes;

•           A detailed description (up to 500 words) for proposal submission review;

•           At least three learning outcomes;

•           Audiovisual/equipment requirements (if any); and

•           Biographical statement of the presenter(s) (up to 50 words per presenter).

Proposal submission deadline: October 2, 2009.

Notifications will be made by early December, 2009.

SELECTION CRITERIA:

The successful proposals will:

•           Identify critical diversity issues that will be treated in the program;

•           Demonstrate how the audience will be engaged in program;

•           Have a high degree of relevance to the projected conference attendees;

•           Contain program content that can be re-purposed for continued discussion after the conference;

•           Be unique and innovative or raise issues that have not yet been widely examined; and

•           Have its foundation in recognized diversity research and/or statistics or presents new research and/or statistics

Submit proposals by email (Word document or PDF attachment) to ndlc2010@Princeton.EDU; please also direct questions about the conference to this address (you will be required to confirm that you are sending a message to this email address).  Proposal submission deadline: October 2, 2009.

The NDLC 2010 Planning Committee members are:

Valerie Bell (Ocean County (NJ) Library)

Trevor A. Dawes (Princeton University)

Lila Fredenburg (Rutgers University)

Steve Garwood (Princeton University)

Susan A Hajdas-Sikorski (Princeton University)

Allan Kleiman (South Plainfield (NJ) Public Library)

Colleen Major (Columbia University)

Jerome Offord, Jr (OCLC)

Linda Oppenheim (Princeton University)

Mark Puente (ARL)

Liza Scherff-Nesarikar (Princeton University)