First Call for Papers for Library Trends 63(3) Issue on Social Justice in Library and Information Science and Services

GUEST EDITOR
Dr. Bharat Mehra would like to invite you to submit a manuscript proposal by June 30, 2013, under the extended timetable below.

CALL
The Winter/February 2015 issue of Library Trends (63:3) will include papers in the continuing study of themes related to social justice in library and information science (LIS) and services. For a broad scholarly review of social justice in library and information studies, consult Mehra, Rioux, and Albright's (2009) piece in the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences(3^rd edition) (edited by M. J. Bates and M. N. Maack), 2009, pp. 4820-4836. This call specifies original scholarship and central to all proposals must be the social justice inquiry of core, peripheral, and other principles of librarianship and information studies, as broadly as that domain may be interpreted.  Authors should strive to meet a 20-30 page limit (5,000-10,000 words).

PROPOSALS
Submit proposals of no more than 300 words by June 30, 2013. Decisions will be communicated to contributors by July 31, 2013.

 

TOPICS
The Library Trends issue will consider the following topics [though not limited to]:

- Library Science/Services and Social Justice;

- Information Science/Services and Social Justice;

- Concepts/Theories in LIS/Services and Social Justice;

- Methods/Approaches in LIS/Services and Social Justice;

- Interdisciplinary Constructs in LIS/Services and Social Justice;

- Information and Communication Technologies and Social Justice;

- Other Related Topics.

 

Social justice in LIS/services involves achieving action-oriented socially relevant outcomes via information-related work. Such efforts are planned, conceptualized, and implemented in the LIS service professions to further community-wide progressive changes via partnering with, and, on behalf of people on society's margins. This special issue presents articles that examine theories, methods, strategies, and case studies in social justice research, teaching, and service design while keeping their focus on social impact and community involvement in LIS/service practice, education, policy development, and program implementation, amongst other areas. The frame of study is inclusive of (though not limited to) academic, public, school, and special libraries, museums, archives, and other information-related settings in an international context of analysis.

TIMETABLE
June 30, 2013: Deadline proposal submissions.
December 1, 2013: Deadline papers submissions.
February 1, 2014: Deadline reviews papers.
June 1, 2014: Deadline revised papers.
February 2015: Publication of the special issue

GUIDELINES

Author guidelines are established at http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/AuthorInstructions.pdf [cut and paste URL in web browser]

All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of Dr. Bharat Mehra [E-mail: bmehra@utk.edu].

 

 

September 19, 2013

Holiday Inn Harrisburg/Hershey, Grantville, PA

Call for Presentations

The Pennsylvania State Data Center (PaSDC) is seeking presenters for the 2013 Pennsylvania Data Users Conference.  The annual Data Users Conference serves as Pennsylvania's most comprehensive single-day forum for research and developments in demographic data.   

 

The PaSDC Data User Conference seeks to educate its audience on the demographic and socioeconomic research and policy affecting Pennsylvania. Past presentations have focused on research themes (i.e. Marcellus shale, prison populations, labor force, and rural Pennsylvania); community development (i.e. case studies and community planning); innovations in technology (i.e. American FactFinder and GIS technology), and other data related topics.  

 

Sessions at the Conference are non-commercial and vendor neutral.  Under no circumstance should a session be a direct promotion of an organization's product, service or monetary self-interest. The emphasis should be on the application of the demographic/socioeconomic data, technology, and other data-related topics.   

 

Submission Details - Team, individual or panel proposals, which include the proposed topic and a brief description or outline, should be e-mailed to either Jennifer Shultz (jjb131@psu.edu) or John R. Maurer (jrm55@psu.edu) by Friday, June 7, 2013.  The proposals will then be reviewed by the conference planning committee and selections will be made based upon desired topics, content and educational value.  All selected presentations will be published in conference publications and on the conference Web site.  The PaSDC will notify all selected speakers by Friday, July 12, 2013.

Presentation Rules:

Presentation proposals will be reviewed by the conference planning committee and selections will be made based upon desired topics, flow of content, educational value and understanding of the content.  All selected content will be published in Conference publications and online.

 

Agenda Schedule - The conference organizers will set the day and time for each presentation, in order to optimize the sequencing and flow of content and tracks.  Sessions will end by 4:00 pm on Conference Day.

Speaker Benefits:

The PaSDC does not pay fees or travel expenses to its speakers.  All speakers will receive a complimentary Conference registration including meals. Speakers will be featured in the Conference publication and on the Conference web site. The above benefits speaker(s); not support staff or colleagues who may accompany the speaker(s).

 

 

The PaSDC reserves the right to decline a submission for presentation

 at the 2013 Pennsylvania Data Users Conference.

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The Pennsylvania State Data Center (PaSDC) is the commonwealth's official source for population and economic statistics and is housed at Penn State Harrisburg within the Institute of State and Regional Affairs. The PaSDC also serves as Pennsylvania's liaison to the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of the Census and as representative to the Federal State Cooperative Program for Population Estimates and Federal State Cooperative Program for Population Projections.

 

The PaSDC provides data products and services to business, academia, governments, non-profits and private citizens. Our products and services include: consultation of data availability and use, custom programming and reports, statistical mapping, research projects, technical training and workshops.

 

This listserv contains clients, affiliates, interested parties and media contacts of the PaSDC. The goal of this listserv is to keep you current with events occurring at the U.S. Census Bureau and the PaSDC in an electronic format. If you wish to receive any information disseminated through this listserv in another medium, please contact us.

 

The PaSDC will distribute monthly updates, research briefs and other items of interest via this listserv. If you wish to be removed from this list, please email us at: PaSDC@psu.edu or by phone at 717.948.6336.

 

The PaSDC hopes that you find these releases informative and useful. The PaSDC welcomes all comments and questions in regard to the information it disseminates. For more information about the Pennsylvania State Data Center and population and economic statistics about the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, please visit our Web site at: PaSDC.hbg.psu.edu.

 

John R. Maurer

State Capital Office Coordinator

Pennsylvania State Data Center

Penn State Harrisburg

777 Harrisburg Pike

Middletown, PA 17057

CFP

Deadline for Proposals: June 10, 2013 

The Northeast Popular Culture Association's Visual Culture and Digital
Media interest group is soliciting proposals for presentation at the
annual fall conference scheduled for the weekend of October 25-26, 2013
on the campus of St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. We
welcome any proposals that fall into the area of visual culture and
digital media in popular culture. 

Individuals interested in submitting a proposal for presentation should
fill out the paper proposal form located at
http://nepca.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/nepca-paper-proposal-form.pdf.
NEPCA welcomes both individual papers and complete panels. We also
encourage works in progress and informal presentations. The only
restrictions of presentations are that the proposal be rooted in
research (though we do not automatically exclude original poetry,
composed works of fiction or performances-but such works must be
connected to greater theoretical and research frameworks), that the
proposal not be overtly commercial and that the proposed presentation
appeal to a broad audience. We encourage undergraduate students,
graduate students, faculty and independent scholars to submit proposals
for presentation.  

Please submit your proposals to Dr. Andi McClanahan, Visual Culture and
Digital Media Area Chair at amcclanahan@esu.edu (Please copy the Program
Chairs on your proposal:  rniemi@smvt.edu and Jennifer.Tebbe@msphs.edu).
For more information on NEPCA and the annual fall conference, visit
http://nepca.wordpress.com/. 

 

An interdisciplinary conference to be held October 25th-27th, 2013 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, co-sponsored by Cornell University (Africana Studies) and Syracuse University (Women's and Gender Studies)



Conference website: http://cornellmagazinesconference.wordpress.com/

In June of 2012, scholars and magazine professionals from all over the world, and from a wide array of disciplines met at the "Women in Magazine's" conference at Kingston University in London. "Gender, Race, and Representation in Magazines and New Media" seeks to continue the discussions of the "Women in Magazines" conference and extend them to a closer consideration of race in magazines, as well as the impact of new media and technology on magazines and raced and gendered representations. This conference hopes to broaden the scope of what is traditionally considered a magazine from the bound paper journal, to virtual magazines published digitally.

Magazines have long played a key role in the everyday lives of people of all classes, races, and genders and are a fertile space for the expression of social and political philosophies. The forms such publications have taken are staggeringly diverse--mass market publications, Xeroxed fanzines, cheap weeklies for the working class, so-called "smart set," guides for the home economist, specialized trade publications, political mouthpieces and popular tabloids--magazines have served an astonishing array of audiences and purposes. In short, magazines are a particularly rich and potent sight for research as they so often serve as important outlets for identity formation, defining what it means to be a part of a certain community, class, or even generation through both image and text.

Now, with the increased availability of magazines to scholars through digitization initiatives, as well as the explosion of blogs, tumbler sites, and online magazines that at times enhance print versions of magazines, and at other times replace them entirely, the time is ripe for examining the role, meaning and place of magazines as sites to be mined for representations of gender and race.

 We seek papers covering any geographical region or time period and any kind of magazine/new media platform (blog, Tumblr, Pinterest, digital magazines) on topics including, but not limited to:

•         Methods and Methodology--Various approaches to using magazines as source material

•         Design and magazines, magazines and visual culture

•         Themes and conversations within magazines and new media (e.g. class, aspirations,   celebrity culture, relationships, entertainment and gossip, politics and citizenship, beauty and fashion, the home, work and career)

•         Representations of disease, health and wellness:

•         The magazine industry (e.g. editors, journalists, designers, photographers, illustrators)

•         Historical perspectives on changing technology

•         The ways that new media is changing magazine studies

•         The ways that different business models affect the politics and representation in magazines and new media?





Submission Guidelines:

At this time we are requesting abstracts that are no longer than 400 words; due by May 1, 2013 and should be submitted electronically as an attachment to cornellmagazinesconference@gmail.com<mailto:cornellmagazinesconference@gmail.com>.

Call for Proposals

July 4 -7, 2013
Middleton, Wisconsin


The National Women's Music Festival is seeking workshop proposals for the 2013 festival on topics of interest to an intergenerational gathering of women and supporters of women in the arts. We are seeking additional workshops, particularly on sexuality, relationships, gender, writing, activism, and women's herstory.



Proposals are due May 15, 2013 , and may be submitted online at: http://tinyurl.com/nwmf2013workshops .



More information about the festival is available at http://wiaonline.org/ . A number of scholarships for will be available to both graduate and undergraduate students: http://tinyurl.com/2013nwmfscholarship .

 In "Queer and Now," published in 1993, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick gestured to what queer can refer to: "the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning, when the constituent elements of anyone's gender, of anyone's sexuality aren't made (or can't be made) to signify monolithically."


 Twenty years later, our special "Queer and Now" issue seeks to keep alive the possibilities and tensions of queer by inviting submissions that explore the state of "queer and now" and/or the possibilities of queer and/or the contradictions and contestations around queer and/or queer intersections with literacy, writing studies, pedagogical practices, rhetoric, social/cultural/historical contexts, politics, and ideology.


 We are especially interested in formally queer, experimental, multi-genre, and multimedia submissions. Written submissions should be between 2500 and 8500 words in length.


 The Writing Instructor is an anonymous, peer-reviewed online journal that fosters born-digital publication. Submissions should follow MLA citation conventions and be prepared in HTML format with embedded audio/visual assets.


August 31, 2013: First Drafts Due
October 31, 2013: Acceptances, Revisions, Rejections announced
January 31, 2014: Revised Drafts Due

 Queries and submissions should be sent to Aneil Rallin at arallin@soka.edu, Rob Koch at rtkoch@una.edu, and Trixie Smith at smit1254@msu.edu.


Dr. Trixie G. Smith
Director, The Writing Center
Michigan State University
300 Bessey Hall
434 Farm Lane
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: 517-432-3610
Fax: 517-432-3828
Email: smit1254@msu.edu
Web: http://writing.msu.edu
 
Co-Editor, X Series for Professional
Development, Fountainhead Press
http://www.fountainheadpress.com

Call for Papers
Seattle University, June 27-28, 2013

The National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education (NAWCHE) will hold its biennial Making Connections conference at Seattle University this coming June.

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Sharlene Hesse-Biber, PhD, founded NAWCHE in 1992 at Boston College, where she is Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Women's Studies & Gender Studies Program.  Sr. Cathy Beckley, SNJM, MA, is a Catholic Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary in Seattle. With degrees in divinity and social work, she currently works as a spiritual director and retreat director.

Conference Themes:  All are invited to our "Welcome Table" in June to renew, revitalize, envision, and engage in interfaith and collaborative dialogues.  Papers and presentations might address, but are not limited to:

The past and future of interfaith dialogues in our offices, our classrooms, and on our campuses;

NAWCHE as an incubator of campus interfaith mission: for faculty, staff, administrators, and students in Catholic higher education and our off-campus allies;

Tracking faith in our classrooms: dialogues, readings, linked courses, pedagogy;

Service-Learning and faith connections;

Interdisciplinary approaches to interfaith education;

Secular humanism in relation to faith traditions, or not;

Promoting mission: what does faith have to do with it?;

Fundraising for Catholic schools: defining community, honoring mission;

Building library and resource collections in the "small c" catholic tradition;

Global perceptions of women educating at Catholic schools and universities;

Women in dialogue across disciplines and job classifications;

Women religious as social justice community partners educating us and our students;

Passing as faithful while working it out: when the table doesn't feel welcome.

Please send paper and panel proposals by March 31, 2013 to nawche@seattleu.edu

Also, please check our NAWCHE website for periodic updates and additional information about the conference: http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/nawche.

NAWCHE Conference Organizers: Mary-Antoinette Smith, Ph.D., Executive Director, NAWCHE, Conference Chair, Director, Women and Gender Studies, Seattle University; Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies and Modern Languages, Seattle University; Victoria Kill, Ph.D., Adjunct Faculty, English, Seattle University; Kristen Morgan, Marketing & Communications Assistant, College of Arts & Sciences, Seattle University; Elena Arntz, Women and Gender Studies Program Assistant, Seattle University; Alexandra Peck, Women and Gender Studies Work Study Apprentice, Seattle Universit

The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, part of the Rubenstein Library at Duke University, announces the availability of Mary Lily Research Grants for research travel to use our collections:
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham/grants/index.html

The Sallie Bingham Center documents the public and private lives of women through a wide variety of published and unpublished sources. Collections of personal papers, family papers, and organizational records complement print sources such as books and periodicals. Particular strengths of the Sallie Bingham Center are feminism in the U.S., women's prescriptive literature from the 19th & 20th centuries, girls' literature, zines, artist's books by women, gender & sexuality, and the history & culture of women in the South.

Mary Lily Research grants are available to any faculty member, graduate or undergraduate student, or independent scholar with a research project requiring the use of women's history materials held by the Sallie Bingham Center. Grant money may be used for travel and living expenses while pursuing research at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Applicants must live outside of a 100-mile radius from Durham, NC. The maximum award per applicant is $1,000.

The deadline for application is March 29, 2013 by 5:00 PM EST. Recipients will be announced in April 2013. Grants must be used between May 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014.

For more information and to download a copy of the application form, please visit:
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham/grants/index.html


Laura Micham, Merle Hoffman Director
Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Box 90185, Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0185

Phone: 919-660-5828
Fax: 919-660-5934
Email: laura.m@duke.edu<mailto:laura.m@duke.edu>
Web:  http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham/<http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham/>

We are renovating! Starting on January 7, 2013, please visit us in our reading room on the 3rd floor of Perkins Library (PDF map<http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/about/rubenstein-3rd-map-web.pdf>). Our collections will be moving through February 17, 2013. During this time, please contact us to request materials at least four days in advance of any research visit. For information on other service changes, hours, and additional details necessary for planning your research visit on or after January 7, 2013, please visit our "Information for Researchers & Visitors" website<http://blogs.library.duke.edu/renovation/for-researchers-and-visitors/>.

October 18-19, 2013
University of Turku, Finland

Keynote Speakers      

Dr. Mike Hill (University at Albany-SUNY)
Dr. Philomena Essed (Antioch University)

The study of Whiteness emerged in the United States as a field of inquiry into the historical, social, and cultural aspects of Whiteness as a source of identity formation and socio-historical power relations. During the past three decades, the notion of Whiteness has been studied from a number of inter/disciplinary, theoretical, and geographic perspectives. As the study of Whiteness has traveled across geographic locations and scholarly contexts, it has become a subject of heated debates regarding its epistemological conceptualization, theoretical delineation, and methodological applicability.

"Traveling Whiteness" calls attention to the various geographic, socio-historical, and cultural contexts within which the study of Whiteness emerges. In particular, we are seeking to explore the following questions: Where does the study of Whiteness appear? How does the notion of Whiteness transform in its multiple locations? How does it shape our understanding of race/racism? What epistemological, theoretical, and methodological challenges does traveling bring with it? How does Whiteness transform within specific inter/national, socio-historical, and political contexts? What possibilities and prospects does traveling entail?

Possible topics for paper presentations, complete panels, and thematic workshops may include:

•       Social Constructions of Whiteness
•       Identity Formation and Whiteness
•       Race, (Anti-)Racism, and Whiteness
•       Ideologies and Discourses of Whiteness
•       Class, Social Inequalities and Whiteness
•       Gender, Sexuality, and Whiteness
•       Spaces/Places of Whiteness
•       Representational Whiteness
•       Legislation and Whiteness
•       Sporting Whiteness

Please email abstracts of 250 words for either 20-minute paper presentations or complete panels or thematic workshops, together with a max. 150-word bio, including name, institutional affiliation and position, phone number and postal and email addresses, to travelingwhiteness@gmail.com.

Abstract Deadline: June 15, 2013. Participants will receive notifications of acceptance by July 15, 2013.

For further information, please visit the conference website at: www.utu.fi/traveling-whiteness/

For general inquiries, please contact the Conference Coordinator Aleksi Huhta, email: aleksi.huhta@utu.fi.

The Organizing Committee at the University of Turku:

Dr. Benita Heiskanen (Turku Institute for Advanced Studies and Cultural History)
Ph.D. Candidate Aleksi Huhta (General History)
Dr. Suvi Keskinen (Sociology)
Dr. Lotta Kähkönen (Gender Studies)
Dr. Johanna Leinonen (Turku Institute for Advanced Studies and General History)