The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is soliciting applications for the A. R. Zipf Fellowship in Information Management for 2010. The fellowship is awarded annually to a student currently enrolled in the early stages of graduate school who shows exceptional promise for leadership and technical achievement in information management. The amount of the award is $10,000, and applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States. For applications and additional information, please go to www.clir.org/fellowships/zipf/zipf.html
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Call for Papers
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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.
RECOMMENDED TOPICS:
Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are
not limited to) the following:
* Visual explanations, and data visualization
* Meaning visualization
* Artist's approach to meaning visualization, conveying insights
about complex concepts
* Challenge and aesthetic quality in visualization art
digital art as metaphor
* Aesthetic elements and primitives in visualizations
* Approaches to visualization: iconic messages, use of symbols,
metaphors, cognitive, abstract thinking and problem finding
* Art and visualization of spatial, tonal, and temporal domains,
application of interactive art
* Selecting optimal visualization tools for non-linear, visually
storytelling, interactive, virtual, intelligent presentations,
gaming, and other solutions
* Novel visual, interaction-rich metaphors used for visualization
or practical data mining
* Societal impact and evaluation of novel visualization and data
mining solutions
* Information aesthetics, visualization aesthetics
* Effects of visualization aesthetics on efficiency and usability
of information visualization
* Aesthetics of infographics
* Visualizations for learning and teaching
* Aesthetic computing
* Visual computing
* Information technology (IT) in visualization, visualization for
instruction with IT
* Criticism, perception in the field, classification
* History of data-, information-, knowledge-visualization, and
data mining
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this
Special Issue on Visualization Aesthetics, Criticism, and Design on
or before July 1, 2010. All submissions must be original and may
not be under review by another publication.
INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S
GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS AT:
All submitted papers will be reviewed in double-blind fashion.
Papers must follow the APA style for reference citations
http://www.apastyle.org/apa-style-help.aspx and Microsoft
Word is the preferred format.
The submission deadline is July 1, 2010. However, long abstracts
or proposals may be emailed to the Guest Editor who will offer
feedback as to whether the proposed manuscript would be appropriate
for the issue. Approval of an abstract or proposal does not
constitute acceptance as all submitted papers will be put through
the double-blind peer review process.
All submissions should be directed to the attention of:
Anna Ursyn
Guest Editor
Int'l Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IJCICG)
email: ursyn@unco.edu
ABOUT The International Journal of Creative Interfaces and
Computer Graphics (IJCICG):
The International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics
(IJCICG) provides coverage of the most innovative and cutting-edge
computer graphics and interfaces. IJCICG focuses on the latest visual
technologies that raise the bar for novelty, aesthetic beauty,
sophistication, and utility. This scholarly resource encompasses
the pragmatic and research aspects surrounding the design and creation
of effective, novel, visual interfaces in support of creativity and
productivity. This journal presents research that shows new ways of
representing and interacting with information on desktops, mobile
devices, and public and virtual spaces.
This Journal is Available in the Comprehensive InfoSci-Journals
Database. International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer
Graphics (IJCICG) This journal is an official publication of the
Information Resources Management Association
Editor-in-Chief: Ben Falchuk, Ph.D.
Published: Semi-Annually (both in Print and Electronic form)
PUBLISHER:
The International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics
(IJCICG) is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.),
publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea
Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference", "Business
Science Reference", and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints.
For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit
Prague, Czech Republic, July 7-9, 2010
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
INTEGRATING PRACTICE AND RESEARCH
LIBRARY RESEARCH SEMINAR V
October 13-16, 2010
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:
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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:
LRS-V co-chairs: Diane L. Barlow and
Sponsored by: Library Research Roundtable of the American Library Association and the
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
-----------------------
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
(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.
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
