Dolores' List of CFPs

Visualization Aesthetics, Criticism, and Design

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:19:42 -0500

Call for Papers

HTML Version of this Call: http://bit.ly/4AxDay

SUBMISSION DUE DATE: July 1, 2010

SPECIAL ISSUE on Visualization Aesthetics, Criticism, and Design

Int'l Journal of Creative Interfaces & Computer Graphics (IJCICG)

Journal homepage: http://www.igi-global.com/IJCICG

Guest Editor: A. Ursyn, University of Northern Colorado

INTRODUCTION:

The International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer

Graphics (IJCICG) is currently accepting submissions: research

papers (between 5,500 to 8,000 words in length), position

papers, state-of-art surveys, book reviews of new publications

pertaining to the journal's theme (1,500-2,500-word), and event

reports that describe and discuss recent conferences or workshops

for a special issue on Visualization Aesthetics, Criticism,

and Design. Preference is placed on submissions that incorporate

scholarly work or specific themes within the area of Visualization

Aesthetics, Criticism, and Design.

OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE:

The objective of the issue is to focus on and draw attention to

- two fields which are currently active and growing: Visualization

Aesthetics and Criticism (how information aesthetics influence

technical implementations and their usability) and Design

Visualization. The theme for the special issue will be focused on

the use of metaphors (conceptual, natural, visual, and auditory

metaphors) both in visualization and digital art.

A Library Slice of Life

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:53:20 -0500

The Lehigh Valley Chapter of the Pennsylvania Library Association invites proposals for posters to be displayed at the Chapter's annual conference, which will be held on Thursday, May 20, 2010 at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA.

The theme of this year's conference is A Library Slice of Life. Share a slice of your library's life with a poster highlighting those programs and best practices that make your library special.

Poster proposals should be submitted as Word documents and e-mailed to LVPALA@gmail.com by Wednesday, December 16, 2009.

2010 Library Research Round Table Forums at ALA Annual Conference, Washington, DC

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:24 -0500

Call for Presentation Proposals

2010 Library Research Round Table Forums at
ALA Annual Conference,
Washington, DC

The Library Research Round Table (LRRT) will sponsor two Research
Forums at the 2010 American Library Association Annual Conference in
Washington, DC (June 24-29). The LRRT Forums are a set of programs at
the ALA Annual Conference featuring presentations of LIS research, in
progress or completed, followed by discussion. Two LRRT Research
Forums are scheduled for 2010, one on general LIS research and one on a
more specific topic that will emerge as we evaluate the submissions.
The two forums are:

Research to Understand Users: Issues and Approaches
This session will feature three library-related research papers
investigating users and their use of libraries and information. An
LRRT committee will select the winning papers based on quality of study
design, significance of the research topic, and potential for
significant contribution to librarianship.

Four-Star Research
This session will feature three library-related research papers
describing studies of libraries and librarianship. An LRRT committee
will select the winning papers based on quality and creativity of study
design, significance of the research topic, and potential for
significant contribution to librarianship.

This is an opportunity to present and discuss your research project
conducted in the broad area of library and information science or in a
more specialized area of the field. LRRT welcomes papers emphasizing
the problems, theories, methodologies, or significance of research
findings for LIS. Topics can include, but are not limited to, user
studies and user behavior, electronic services, service effectiveness,
organizational structure and personnel, library value determination,
and evaluation of library and information services. Both completed
research and research in progress will be considered. All researchers,
including practitioners from all types of libraries, library school
faculty and students, and other interested individuals are encouraged
to submit proposals. LRRT Members and nonmembers of LRRT are invited
and welcomed to submit proposals.

The Committee will use a blind review process to select a maximum of
six projects, three for each of the two forums. The selected
researchers will be required to present their papers in person at the
forums and to register for the conference. Criteria for selection are:

1.      Significance of the study to library and information science
research;
2.      Quality and creativity of the methodology;
3.      Potential to fill a research gap or to build on previous LIS studies;
4.      Adherence to submission requirements (see below).

Please submit a two-page proposal by Tuesday, December 15, 2009. Late
submissions will not be considered, and submissions must be limited to
two pages in length. On the first page, please list your name(s),
title(s), institutional affiliation(s), and contact information
(telephone number, mailing address, and email address). The second
page should NOT show your name or any other identifying information.
Instead, it must include: 1) The title of your project, and 2) A
500-word or less abstract. The abstract must include a problem
statement, problem significance, project objectives, methodology, and
conclusions (or tentative conclusions for work in progress), and an
indication of whether the research is in-progress or completed.
Previously published research or research accepted for publication by
December 15, 2009, will not be considered.

Notification of acceptance will be made by Monday, February 22, 2010.
Please send submissions (via email or snail mail) to:

Linda L. Lillard, Ph.D.
Library Research Round Table Chair-Elect
Associate Professor
205 Carlson Library
Department of Library Science
Clarion University
Clarion, PA 16214
Phone: 814-393-2383
Email: llillard@clarion.edu

Larry Nash White, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Library Science

Mail Stop 172

1005 10th Street

102 Umstead Building

East Carolina University

Greenville, North Carolina 27858

P: 252-328-2315 Fax:252-328-4368

whitel@ecu.edu

http://lsit.coe.ecu.edu/white/default.htm

The Second International Conference on 'Networked Digital Technologies' (NDT2010)

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:45:17 -0500

Prague, Czech Republic, July 7-9, 2010

http://www.dirf.org/ndt2010

Location: Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Date: July. 7-9, 2010.

Topics:

Information and Data Management

Data and Network Mining

Intelligent Agent-Based Systems, Cognitive and Reactive Distributed AI

Systems

Internet Modeling

User Interfaces, Visualization and Modeling

XML-Based Languages

Security and Access Control

Trust Models for Social Networks

Information Content Security

Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management

Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design

New Architectures for Web-Based Social Networks

Semantic Web, Ontologies (Creation, Merging, Linking and Reconciliation)

Web Services Security

Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance

Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems

Data management in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks

Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks

Indexing and Query Processing for Moving Objects

User Interfaces and Usability Issues form Mobile Applications

Mobile Social Networks

Peer-to-Peer Social Networks

Sensor Networks and Social Sensing

Social Search

Social Networking Inspired Collaborative Computing

Information Propagation on Social Networks

Resource and Knowledge Discovery Using Social Networks

Measurement Studies of Actual Social Networks

Simulation Models for Social Networks

Cloud computing

Grid computing

Green Computing

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission Date: April 1, 2010

Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2010

Camera Ready submission: May 10, 2010

Registration: May 15, 2010

Conference date: July 7-9, 2010

SUBMISSION:

Submission instructions are listed at

http://www.dirf.org/ndt2010/submission.asp

Library Research Seminar (LRS-V)

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:39:50 -0500

INTEGRATING PRACTICE AND RESEARCH

LIBRARY RESEARCH SEMINAR V

October 13-16, 2010

College Park, Maryland

Call for Juried Proposals

The fifth Library Research Seminar (LRS-V) will bring together a diverse community of scholars from academia and practitioners from libraries and archives who are interested in research that informs policy-making, decision-making, and best practices. Participants will share research projects and explore ways to develop future research agendas, refine research methods, and facilitate successful completion of research projects.

The LRS-V Program Committee invites proposals for various types of contributions (types are described below) on topics related to libraries and archives including but not limited to:

o Services in challenging economic times

o Marketing and advocacy

o Leadership and workforce development

o Information and reference services

o International perspectives

o Contributions to and preservation of cultural heritage

o Gender, ethnicity, age, and disability status

o Copyright, privacy, and other legal, ethical, and policy issues

o Technical services

o User studies

o Web 2.0, social networking, and new media

o Information literacy

o Digital libraries and archives.

Possible types of contributions:

o Papers: Research studies that will be presented at the conference and included in proceedings

o Panels: A group of experts discussing related topics, themes or issues in library research

o Workshops: Tutorial sessions that will be educational in nature

o Roundtable discussions: Informal discussion amongst participants focused on a particular topic or theme

o Posters: Graphic presentations on research studies, methods, advances, or preliminary work

o Other "wildcard" program formats--you tell us what you would like to do!

Doctoral and Masters' students are especially encouraged to submit proposals.

Send submissions to lrs-v@umd.edu in either MS Word or PDF format. Proposals must be no more than 1000 words in length and additionally must include: title; author/organizer name, affiliation, and contact information; names and contact information for any other participants. lrs-v@umd.edu may also be used for inquiries and questions.

Important dates:

Proposal submissions: February 15, 2010

Notification: April 15, 2010

Conference dates: October 13-16, 2010

Venue: University of Maryland, College Park (http://ischool.umd.edu)

LRS-V co-chairs: Diane L. Barlow and Trudi Bellardo Hahn, University of Maryland

Sponsored by: Library Research Roundtable of the American Library Association and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Discovery Systems: Solutions a User Could Love?"

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:17:36 -0500

The MARS Local Systems & Services committee is calling for panelists for its 2010 ALA Midwinter meeting in Boston on Sunday, January 17, 2010, 1:30-3:00. The discussion forum topic is "Discovery Systems: Solutions a User Could Love?"

We will highlight the experiences of libraries that have implemented "next generation discovery tools" that attempt to provide access to disparate library collections from a single search box. Examples include Summon, Primo, WorldCat Local, and Encore; the system should be in production, and should have the ability to include resources beyond the catalog. We are interested in knowing why you made your choice, your implementation experience, what was gained, what surprises and challenges you may have encountered, and how your users have responded to the change.

Each panelist should plan to speak for no more than 15-20 minutes and participate in a general Q&A at the end of the session.

Please e-mail proposals to: Matt Lee (Reference Librarian, Minitex, Minneapolis, MN) at leems001@umn.edu

Proposals should include a title (including name of discovery system) and brief summary of the talk, as well as the names, positions and e-mail addresses of the presenters. Deadline for proposals: December 1, 2009.

Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellowship at Indiana University

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:14:11 -0500

Call for 2010-11 Mellon Sawyer Fellowship - Rupture and Flow: The

Circulation of Technoscientific Facts and Objects

Receipt deadline: March 1, 2010

The Sawyer Seminar and the Institute of Advanced Study at Indiana

University will award one Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral

Fellowships for a one-year appointment beginning July 1, 2010. The

Fellow will receive a stipend of $40,000 per year, as well as health

insurance and an allowance for relocation. This Sawyer Seminar is

based in science and technology studies and focuses specifically on

how facts and technologies circulate among diverse communities of

producers and consumers, acquiring or losing credibility and utility

as they move. We will explore questions including: How has the

treatment of failure and errors changed the practice of science across

disciplines and over time? How and why do cultural, social and

material forces interrupt or thwart the circulation of

technoscientific knowledge and objects, and with what consequences for

what kinds of communities? How do social, cultural, political, and

legal barriers influence technological change historically and

geographically? How is the increasing use of lay-produced science

shifting what is acknowledged and implemented in scientific practice

and policy? Applicants for this postdoctoral fellowship must have

research projects that speak to the concerns raised by the circulation

of technoscientific knowledge and objects, and the possibilities and

consequences of interrupting, reorienting, or preventing this

circulation. Besides pursuing his or her own research, the fellowship

recipient will play an active role in the intellectual life of the

Sawyer Seminar by helping to organize an ongoing seminar series and

four workshops. There will be no teaching responsibilities.

Selection Process

Each proposal will be evaluated by the conveners of the Sawyer

Seminar, an interdisciplinary group of IU faculty. The primary

evaluation criteria will be intellectual fit with the core ideas of

the Seminar, and the promise of the proposed research project,

including prospects for publication and significant advances in

tangible research. We strongly recommend applicants read the full

proposal, available at http://sawyer.indiana.edu before beginning

their application. Applicants will be notified of fellowship decisions

in May 2010.

Requirements

Applicants should have completed the Ph.D. in STS, Sociology,

Informatics, Geography, History, English, Anthropology, Philosophy,

Comparative Literature, or other related fields no earlier than June

30, 2005 and no later than August 1, 2010. We require proof that the

fellow has received a Ph.D. degree before taking up residence.

Applicants are welcome to send paper copies by mail or delivery to -

Ivona Hedin, Institute for Advanced Study,

Poplars 335, 400 E. 7th Street , Indiana University

Bloomington, IN 47405

The application should include:

* 1000-word research project proposal and one-page bibliography,

in language appropriate for a multi- disciplinary panel. Please double- space and use 12-point type.

* 250-word statement of the project's potential contribution to

Indiana University's Sawyer seminar

* Curriculum vitae

* Three letters of recommendation

Fellowship recipients cannot currently hold a tenure-track position.

Indiana University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity

employer. Scholars who are members of traditionally under-represented

groups are encouraged to apply. There is no citizenship requirement or

restriction for this fellowship. Non-U.S. nationals are welcome to

apply. Employment eligibility verifications requested upon hire.

Information literacy beyond the academy: towards policy formulation

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:16:59 -0500

LIBRARY TRENDS

International Journal of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue

Information literacy beyond the academy: towards policy formulation

Edited by

Dr. John Crawford,

Glasgow Caledonian University

Information literacy has not been chosen as a subject for an issue of Library trends since 1991 vol. 39 (3) Winter 1991: Toward Information Literacy -- Innovative Perspectives for the 1990s � http://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/2142/5379/browse?type=dateissued

The issue was heavily focused on the Higher education sector. Since then research, development and practitioner activity has moved on and activity and research and development work around information literacy also takes place in career choice and management, employability training, skills development, workplace decision making, adult literacies training and community learning and development, public libraries, school and further education, lifelong learning and health and media literacies. Information literacy has matured sufficiently to have become a national and international policy issue as evidenced by President Obama's proclamation http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/2009literacy_prc_rel.pdf � and such international statements as the Prague Declaration of 2003. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=19636&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

The planned issue which will contain 8-10 papers will celebrate this broadening of the agenda by calling for papers on the above subject areas and also those focusing on national and international policy making. Papers submitted must reflect on the wider policy implications of their content and suggest how findings can be more widely applied. Individual case studies and exemplars of good practice without a wider context will not be appropriate. While papers on the HE sector will be welcomed they must focus on information literacy training and activity in a wider or cross sectoral context such as employability training or working with other education sectors such as schools or colleges or the workplace and other non-educational environments. Papers are invited from all information sectors and academia.

Proposals of no more than 300 words to be sent by 15 January 2010 to:

John Crawford at jcr@gcal.ac.uk � or polbae2003@yahoo.co.uk

In framing proposals intending authors may wish to be view author guidelines on the journal website at http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/guidelines.html

Decisions will be communicated to contributors no later than 26 February 2010.

Deliver date of manuscripts: 30 November 2010 . Each article will be in the range 3,000-10,000 words. All copyright permissions must be obtained by the author. Proof of permission must be sent at the same time that the manuscript is submitted. Articles will be published in Volume 60:1 Summer/August 2011.

Community-Built Database: Research and Development

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:12:47 -0500

Edited by Eric Pardede (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)

To be published by Springer

in Information Science and Knowledge Management Series (http://www.springer.com/series/6159)

Book Aims and Summary

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Communities have built collections of information in collaborative manners in the forms of encyclopaedias for centuries. More recently, Wikipedia has demonstrated how collaborative efforts can be a powerful feature to build a massive data storage. It is known that Wikipedia has become a key part of many corporations' knowledge management systems for decision making. Wikipedia is only one example brought about by Web 2.0 with the goal of creating communities of users.

While Web 2.0 has many benefits, there are many more opportunities to be unleashed. Imagine if one could use information gathered by many people for critical decision making. There is great potential for creating and sharing more structured data through the web. To make it more regulated and more realistic, the data will be limited to the community scale rather than the global scale, for example, a community of academic research group. Each community can create a large database, in which each member can contribute information freely and can use the information with higher levels of confidence.

The general motivation for the project is to enable various communities to develop such databases. In more specific, this publication has the following aims:

* To provide a comprehensive list of issues and challenges for research in community-built database.

* To disseminate the latest developments on community-built databases in various domains that can be used as a successful template to other community-built database development project.

* To provide visionary ideas for future community-built database research and application.

* To provide solid references on current research topics in community-built database, that can be useful for literature survey research.

Invitation for Proposals

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We invite proposals from academic, researchers and industry practitioners in the area of collaborative information systems, databases, social web and other domains. The proposal should contain the tentative title, authors details, and brief description on the chapter.

Tentative Sections

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The book will consist of these folowing sections. Each of the sections can include between 4 to 6 chapters.

Section I : Community-Built Databases: Standard and Technologies

Section II : Community-Built Databases: Storage and Modelling

Section III : Social Aspect of Community-Built Databases

Section IV : Community-Built Databases Applications

Section V : The Future of Community-Built Databases

Important Dates

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Proposal Deadline : 21 November 2009

Notification of Proposal Outcome : 05 December 2009

Final Chapter Deadline : 15 March 2010

Camera Ready Deadline : 15 August 2010

Editorial Board

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Hamideh Afsarmanesh (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Barbara Carminati (University of Insubria, Italy)

Gillian Dobbie (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Lyndon Kennedy (Yahoo, USA)

Ee-Peng Lim (Singapore Management University, Singapore)

Irena Mlynkova (Chales University, Czech Republic)

Mirella Moura Moro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Wenny Rahayu (La Trobe University, Australia)

Maytham Safar (Kuwait University, Kuwait)

Lorna Uden (Staffordshire University, UK)

Contact

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For further info, please contact the editor:

Eric Pardede

Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering

La Trobe University

Melbourne VIC 3083

AUSTRALIA

Email: E.Pardede@latrobe.edu.au

2nd International Workshop on Benchmarking of Database Management Systems and Data-Oriented Web Technologies

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:04:36 -0500

(BenchmarX'10) - April 4, 2010 - Tsukuba, Japan

http://ulita.ms.mff.cuni.cz/ws/benchmarx10/

to be held in conjunction with DASFAA 2010

http://dasfaa2010.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/

The successful first year of the workshop (BenchmarX'09) was devoted to benchmarking

of XML and Semantic Web applications. However, since the amount of related approaches

is wide and, at the same time, new technologies occur while the obsolete ones vanish,

the general strategy of BenchmarX is to extend and modify the target areas and topics

to follow the modern trends. XML still is one of the most common data formats, however,

there are applications that are not based on it or use it only marginally. On the other

hand, Semantic Web is only part of a bigger research area of web technologies oriented

on data. Hence, this year we want to go beyond the borders of pure XML and Semantic Web.

BenchmarX'10 is aimed at benchmarking (and related issues) of all stages of data

processing in the context of up-to-date database management systems and data-oriented

web technologies in general. Typical (but not the only) representatives of such

applications and technologies can be web services and semantic web services, Web 2.0

applications, social networks etc. Similarly, new data types, such as data streams,

sensor data or imprecise/uncertain data, triggered proposal and implementation of new

strategies for their storage, processing and management that need to benchmarked, tested

and compared specifically.

Even though data management and data-oriented applications are involved in topics of

many conferences around the world, the community dealing with benchmarking of such

applications and related issues is still scattered. The aim of BenchmarX is to bring

it together and provide a platform for common discussion of all the related topics.

We invite submission from both research and industrial communities dealing with different

theoretical and applied aspects of benchmarking of database management systems and

data-oriented web applications. Areas of interests include, but are not limited to:

- Benchmarking:

* Benchmark projects and suites

* Benchmarking metrics, criteria and methodologies

* Analysis and/or comparison of performance of selected applications

* Experiences and lessons learned

* Exploitation of benchmarking results

- Gathering of testing data:

* Data synthesis

* Inference of schemas, integrity constraints etc.

* Data/operation repositories

- Real-world requirements:

* Analysis of real-world data, operations etc.

* Evolution of real-world data

* Synthetic vs. real data

* Specific requirements of real-world applications

Important Dates

* Abstract and paper submission: December 1, 2009

* Author notification: February 2, 2010

* On-site paper deadline: February 16, 2010

* Camera-ready paper submission: April 26, 2010

* Author registration: To be specified...

* Workshop: April 4, 2010

* Main conference: April 1 - 4, 2010

Organizers

* Jiri Dokulil, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

* Irena Mlynkova, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

* Martin Necasky, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Program Committee Chairs

* Martin Necasky, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

* Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia

Program Committee

* Radim Baca, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

* Geert Jan Bex, Hasselt University, Belgium

* Martine Collard, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France

* Sven Hartmann, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany

* Agnes Koschmider, Institute AIFB, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany

* Kazuhiro Inaba, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

* Michal Kratky, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

* Sebastian Link, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

* Sebastian Maneth, University of New South Wales, Australia

* Alexander Paar, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany

* Incheon Paik, The University of Aizu, Japan

* Sherif Sakr, University of New South Wales, Australia

* Dmitry Shaporenkov, University of Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Proceedings

Authors should submit papers reporting original works that are currently not

under review or published elsewhere. The paper should be submitted in PDF

format, with maximum length twelve (12) pages, following Springer-Verlag's

LNCS manuscript submission guidelines, available at

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

The review process will be two-round. During the first round each paper

will be reviewed by 2-3 PC members for its technical merit, novelty and

relevance to the workshop. On the basis of the reviews the PC chairs will

prepare the list of accepted, borderline and rejected papers. During the

second round the PC members will be asked to comment the list as well as

all reviews. On the basis of this discussion the PC chairs will make the

final decision.

All papers accepted by BenchmarX'10 will be published in a combined volume

of Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series published by Springer in the

form of conference post-proceedings. At the workshop site, informal on-site

proceedings will be handed out as well.

Women and Early America

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:03:57 -0500

Call for Submissions for a Special Issue of Legacy

Women and Early America

Guest Editor: Tamara Harvey

In many ways, the study of women and the early Americas has never been more robust. Work on women throughout the Americas, including European, African, and native women, both free and enslaved, has profited from decades of ground-breaking scholarly attention not only to those whose names appeared on the title pages of books, but to women whose texts were hidden in the works of others, stagnating in untapped manuscript archives, or awaiting interpretive methodologies that could address oral and material texts. And yet in the metaphors of maps and routes that frequently dominate the emerging fields of Atlantic, transnational, and hemispheric studies, women can seem to be pushed to the margins, left to lounge in the cartouches of mappae mundi or to stand duty as figureheads on the bows of ships. That is to say, while their presence is acknowledged, the way that presence might require these studies to be revised, rethought, and retheorized remains to be fully engaged.

In their introduction to Women, Religion, and the Atlantic World (1600-1800), Daniella Kostroun and Lisa Vollendorf suggest that attention to women and gender may fruitfully "expand[ ] the rubric of the Atlantic community into a more global community" (6). "Expanding the rubrics" of transatlantic and hemispheric studies, of feminism and the study of American women writers, of attentions to slavery, racism, and uneven cross-cultural exchanges is the aim of this special issue of Legacy focusing on women and early America. Of particular interest are articles that explore how we conceive of the connections and dissonances among various approaches to early American women and other fields, including transatlantic, hemispheric, and economic studies, recent discussions of women and the archives, and approaches to American women writers and feminism more broadly conceived, while expanding and bringing nuance to our understanding of early American women in ways that attend to a range of differences and power disparities. In short, how does attention to women and gender revise and sharpen the shifting paradigms shaping our understanding of the Americas before 1820?

Topics might include discussions of women and gender with respect to the following, any of which may be explored with respect to Native Indian, African, and European women, both free and enslaved:

* Colonization and empire

* Economic paradigms and activities

* Religion

* Commercial and preservation relationships to nature and land

* Politics and practices of the archives

* Interdisciplinary and comparative studies

* Formulations of feminism

* Approaches to encounter, syncretism, and other ways of conceiving transcultural dynamics

* Sexuality

* Travel, immigration, and diaspora

* Oral and non-textual discursive practices

* Considerations of ethics and social justice

Deadline: Completed papers, formatted using MLA style, should be submitted by June 21, 2010. Submissions should focus substantially on periods before 1820 and may be no longer than 10,000 words, including documentation. Send inquires and submissions to Tamara Harvey, Dept. of English, George Mason University, 4400 University Dr., MS 3E4, Fairfax, VA 22030 or <mailto:tharvey2@gmu.edu>tharvey2@gmu.edu.

Tomboys and Tomboyism

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:02:19 -0500

Call for Papers: Tomboys and Tomboyism*

Special Issue of /Journal of Lesbian Studies/

Michelle Ann Abate, Guest Editor

The/ Journal of Lesbian Studies/, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Taylor & Francis, invites essay submissions for a special issue on the subject of tomboys and tomboyism, guest-edited by Michelle Ann Abate.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

· tomboyism and female health, athletics and eugenics

· tomboyism and transgenderism, transsexuality and Gender Identity Disorder

· tomboys and social class, geographic region, chronological age, and racial, ethnic and cultural identity

· "taming" tomboys

· shifting public and parental perceptions about tomboyism

· tomboyism as a literary, social, material, historical and cultural phenomenon

· Americanism and tomboyism

· tomboys in non-Anglo-American cultures

· the future or fate of tomboyism amidst emerging twenty-first century notions of genderqueer

Essays should be no more than 15 double-spaced pages in length.

Please send submissions for this special issue electronically as Microsoft Word attachments to Michelle Ann Abate at mabate@hollins.edu <mailto:mabate@hollins.edu>. To facilitate anonymous review, essays should contain no identifying information. Instead, the author's name, email and postal address should appear in the message that accompanies the submission.

Submissions should conform to the Modern Language Association bibliographic style. See the /MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers/, 7^th ed., for procedures regarding in-text citations and Works Cited.

For more detailed information about submission guidelines--including copyright ownership and preparation of tables, figures and images--please see the homepage for the /Journal of Lesbian Studies/ at https://www.haworthpress.com/

Deadline: March 1st , 2010

Code4Lib Journal

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:30:01 -0500

C4LJ encourages creativity and flexibility, and the editors welcome submissions across a broad variety of topics that support the mission of the journal. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* Practical applications of library technology (both actual and hypothetical)

* Technology projects (failed, successful, or proposed), including how they were done and challenges faced

* Case studies

* Best practices

* Reviews

* Comparisons of third party software or libraries

* Analyses of library metadata for use with technology

* Project management and communication within the library environment

* Assessment and user studies

C4LJ strives to promote professional communication by minimizing the barriers to publication. While articles should be of a high quality, they need not follow any formal structure. Writers should aim for the middle ground between blog posts and articles in traditional refereed journals. Where appropriate, we encourage authors to submit code samples, algorithms, and pseudo-code. For more information, visit C4LJ's Article Guidelines or browse articles from the first 7 issues published on our website: http://journal.code4lib.org.

Remember, for consideration for the 9th issue, please send proposals, abstracts, or draft articles to c4lj-articles@googlegroups.com no later than Friday, December 11, 2009.

Send in a submission. Your peers would like to hear what you are doing.

Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee

Library Leadership & Management (LL&M) Associate Editor

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:21:02 -0500

The Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) seeks an experienced writer or editor to assist in the production and eventually take over as editor of LLAMA's quarterly journal, Library Leadership & Management (LL&M). Presently the journal is operating with a co-editorship model that is working quite well, and may be a model for a new approach to producing content for LL&M. Applications for a shared editorship role are encouraged.

With the Winter 2010 issue, LL&M is transitioning from a print and electronic model to a web-only publication. We anticipate that the next several years will offer opportunities for the journal to grow in new directions, employ more graphics, and the future possibility for media and interactivity. The associate editor will be responsible for working closely with the editor in developing and producing each issue and will establish relationships with the Publications Editorial Advisory Board, LLAMA Executive Board, and LLAMA Section and Committee chairs. This will include producing and editing content, identifying appropriate topics for publication, and assisting authors in developing manuscripts. More detailed responsibilities are in a public document on ALA Connect, titled LL&M Associate Editor Expectations http://connect.ala.org/node/84638. Submissions to the journal are invited, accepted, reviewed, and chosen by the editor assisted by the associate editor.

After a two-year term as associate editor, the incumbent will take over duties as editor for two years (2013 - 2014). The associate editor serves as an ex-officio member of the LLAMA Board of Directors and the Publications Editorial Advisory Board. The first issue for which the newly appointed associate editor will share responsibility will be volume 26, no. 1.

Applicants must be LLAMA members and have experience within ALA. They are expected to have knowledge of LLAMA and its goals, have an interest in and knowledge of leadership issues relevant to libraries, and a familiarity with management and leadership literature in general. Applicants must have written and published in a print or electronic environment and/or have demonstrated editorial experience. Applicants should have familiarity with technological resources, such as blogs, social websites, and content management systems, as well as knowledge of emerging technologies in publishing. An understanding of working within the context of a complex organization and balancing competing priorities will be an asset for the successful candidate.

The successful candidate must make a four-year commitment to attend ALA Midwinter and Annual Conference meetings, with emphasis on attending LLAMA section and committee meetings. A stipend up to $1,500 annually will be provided to cover documented travel and/or editorial expenses. Conference registration costs will be covered as well.

Applicants should submit a resume and cover letter summarizing their editorial philosophy, two to four samples of written work or editorial activities, and three letters of reference addressing their qualifications. In case of co-editorship applications, a single cover letter with individual resumes, writing samples, and letters of reference should be sent, with one individual identified as the primary contact. Materials should be sent in electronic form to: Kerry Ward, LLAMA Executive Director at kward@ala.org. The deadline for application is May 1, 2010. Finalists will be interviewed at the 2010 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

DOCAM '10

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:55:30 -0500

The Document Academy invites:

PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS

Preconference activities Friday, March 19, 2010

Conference Saturday & Sunday, March 20 - 21, 2010

Conference to be held at the

University of North Texas

College of Information

Denton, Texas USA

DOCAM '10 is the eighth annual meeting of the Document Academy, an

international network of scholars, artists and professionals in various

fields interested in the exploration of the document as a useful

approach, concept and tool in Sciences, Arts, Business, and Society.

The aim of The Document Academy is to create an interdisciplinary space

for experimental and critical research on documents in a wide sense,

drawing on traditions and experiences around the world. It originated as

a co-sponsored effort by The Program of Documentation Studies,

University of Tromso, Norway and the School of Information, University

of California, Berkeley.

The University of North Texas College of Information will be hosting the 2010 meeting.

The conference will begin with a gathering Friday evening, March 19, and continue with its mix of formal and informal presentations and discussions from 9 a.m. Saturday, March 20, to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 21. In an effort to preserve the open-ended discussion atmosphere of previous DOCAMs, we will again have only plenary sessions. A poster session will allow for additional exchange of ideas.

Call for proposals:

Scholars, developers, artists and practitioners working with document

research and development are invited to submit proposals for full and

short papers for plenary sessions and posters by December 13, 2009.

Papers for plenary sessions will address:

- DOCUMENT THEORY (general issues)

- DOCUMENT ANALYSIS (case-studies and methodological issues)

- DOCUMENT RESEARCH (theory, methods, case-studies

Paper length should be appropriate to the corresponding coverage.

Authors or groups presenting papers will be allotted 30 minutes, including discussion. This condensed schedule should allow for more presentations and exchange of ideas.

Poster session will address:

- DOCUMENT THEORY (general issues)

- DOCUMENT ANALYSIS (case-studies and methodological issues)

- DOCUMENT RESEARCH (theory, methods, case-studies)

Size: 20 in. x 30 in. or 30 in. x 40 in.

Posters will be on display throughout the conference, and open discussion is encouraged.

Conference language is English. Conference organizers can provide an LCD projector; other equipment is the responsibility of the presenter.

File format: RTF, MS Word, or PDF

All proposals should include:

· Description: a short (500 words) verbal description of the work to be presented,

· Explanation of how the work will be presented (verbal presentation, PowerPoint, video, performance, demonstration) and equipment needs,

Names of all contributors,
Addresses, including email contacts, and
Up to 5 keywords

Proposals should be submitted electronically to Dr. Brian C. O'Connor in the College of Information at the University of North Texas -brian.oconnor@unt.edu. Please include "DOCAM 2010" in the subject line of all correspondence, including proposal submission.

Submission deadline for proposals: December 13, 2009

Receipt will be confirmed within one week. Decisions will be announced

no later than January 15, 2010.

Final deadline for accepted papers: March 1, 2010.

For more information contact the co-chairs of DOCAM '10:

Brian C. O'Connor, Ph.D.

Visual Thinking Laboratory

College of Information

University of North Texas

Denton, TX 76203

940.206.1172

brian.oconnor@unt.edu

Roswitha Skare, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Documentation Studies

University of Tromsø

NO-9037 Tromsø, Norge

Tel: +47- 776 46318

roswitha.skare@hum.uit.no

Richard Anderson, Ph.D.
Visual Thinking Laboratory
University of North Texas
Denton, TX 76203
rich.anderson@unt.edu

Melody McCotter, M.S.I.S.
Visual Thinking Laboratory
University of North Texas
Denton, TX 76203
melody.mccotter@unt.edu