Catholic Library Association 2013

2014 CLA Annual Convention

Catholic Library Association invites the submission of quality proposals for presentation at the 2014 Annual Conference, April 22-24, 2014, in Pittsburgh, PA. CLA meets in conjunction with National Catholic Educational Association during Easter Week each year.

Those attending CLA are librarians serving patrons of all ages primarily in K-12, academic, theological, parish and public libraries. In addition to general topics for these groups, additional sessions focus on archives, information literacy, technical services and preservation of American Catholic materials. Teachers and administrators registered with NCEA may also attend any CLA session. The 2014 convention theme is Leadership, Direction, Service.
Include a description of the topic or title of the program, name of presenter(s) with complete contact information, brief description of the proposed program, audience level and references for prior presentations, if available. Proposals should be submitted before July 15, 2013, by email or regular mail to:

Catholic Library Association
ATTN: Convention Coordinator
205 W. Monroe St., Suite 314
Chicago, IL 60606-5061
Phone: 312-739-1776
Toll Free: 855-739-1776
Email: cla2@cathla.org
Website: http://www.cathla.org

CAMP-4-DATA 2013

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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CAMP-4-DATA WORKSHOP
(Cyber-infrastructure & Metadata Protocols)

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Full-day Workshop: 6 September 2013 @ DC-2013 in Lisbon, Portugal

Web announcement: http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/camp-4-data-cfp.

(A joint Dublin Core-Science and Metadata Community (DC-SAM) () / Research Data Alliance (RDA) () Metadata Interest Group workshop)

Metadata is vital to the discovery and management of scientific data. The Dublin Core-Science and Metadata Community (DC-SAM), Research Data Alliance (RDA), and related communities advocate for access to, and shared knowledge about, metadata standards that support data life-cycle management. CAMP-4-DATA participants will explore infrastructure design, applications, and policies that can advance the support of open, collective and sustainable access to metadata standards used for managing scientific data.

PARTICIPATION
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Participation is open to 1.) workshop presenters, and 2.) general participants/viewers interested in attending the CAMP-4-DATA. Workshop registration is required.

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES
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CAMP-4-DATA seeks contributions in three categories:
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1.) Short Papers (1 to 3 pages). A short paper cogently addressing CAMP-4-DATA goals. Papers may define current challenges, propose a solution, or report on research underway to advance efforts toward developing a collective and sustainable metadata directory.

2.) Abstracts about metadata tools and technologies (200 words, maximum). An abstract summarize a metadata application or technology that can address the CAMP-4-DATA goals. Metadata tools and technologies will be demonstrated during the workshop exhibition period.

3.) Position Statements (250 word/1 page–maximum). A statement defining a specific infrastructure challenge or policy need that can be discussed during the CAMP-4-DATA breakout session. Policy statement authors will be expected to facilitate a discussion on their stated issue and report discussion results during the workshop synthesis session.

DEADLINES & IMPORTANT DATES
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* Submission Deadline: Friday, 28 June 2013
* Author Notification: Friday, 12 July 2013
* Final Copy: Friday, 9 August 2013

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Short Papers, Abstracts, and Position Statements will be peer reviewed by the Workshop Advisory Committee. At least one author from each accepted submission must be registered for the CAMP-4-Data Workshop on Friday, 6 September 2013 and in attendance for the duration of the Workshop.

Prepare your submission using the document template available . Detailed formatting information is available at .

Email the submission file to .

Please include in your submission email the following submission metadata for each contributing author: (a) full name, (b) institution of professional affiliation, (c) preferred email address; and (d) home country. This author information will be made publicly available for all accepted submissions.

PUBLICATION
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Accepted Short Papers, Abstracts, and Position Statements will be published and made permanently and freely available on the conference website for DC-2013 at .

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Sincerely, CAMP-4-DATA DC-SAM and RDA Representatives,

Jane Greenberg, Alex Ball, Keith Jeffery, Rebecca Koskela, & Jian Qin

http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/camp-4-data-cfp

Full conference: International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, DC-2013, Lisbon, Portugal : http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2013

Call for Papers: 2013 MAC MLA Annual Meeting

The MAC Contributed Papers and Posters committees invite you to submit your proposals for the 2013 MAC MLA Annual Meetingin Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from October 13 through 15, 2013 at the Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel . Papers and posters may range from innovative program descriptions to reports on collaborative outreach activities to behind the scenes technical innovation. This is your chance to share with your colleagues the results of interesting work or research you are doing.

For both paper and poster abstracts, please submit a blinded abstract (one that does not contain any identifying information) as well as your regular abstract.

For contributed paper proposals, submit a 300 word structured* abstract to describe your paper. Include your name, position title, address, phone number, and email address. Both the regular and blinded abstract should be sent to Ellen Detlefsen, Chair of the Contributed Papers committee, at mac2013papers@gmail.com

For poster proposals, submit a 300 word structured* abstract to describe your poster. Include your name, position title, address, phone number, and email address. Both the regular and the blinded abstracts should be sent to Melissa Ratajeski, Chair of the Posters committee, at mac2013posters@gmail.com

*The submission deadline is May 31, 2013*

The primary author of each paper or poster will be notified of the committee’s decision in early July. Additional information (i.e. time, location, set-up instructions, etc.) will be sent with the acceptance notification. Those presenting papers or posters must register for the meeting.

The MAC Research and Assessment Committee will recognize 3 papers and 3 posters at the Annual Meeting as work that demonstrates high-quality research. All submitters are required to either select a type of research or to designate that their presentation is not to be considered as research. Only those who select a type of research will be considered for the Research Awards judging process. For help in selecting the type of research, please see the “Inventory of Research Methods for Librarianship and Informatics ,”
published in the January 2004 issue of the *Journal of the Medical Library Association*. Research papers and posters are scored using similar criteriato
those used by the MLA Research Committee at MLA Annual Meetings.
Points
are awarded for study design, validity, reliability, presentation, and implications of the research.

*New this year!* The 2013 MAC annual meeting will also feature a People’s Choice award for the poster session. After viewing the posters, attendees will be able to vote for their favorite. The author(s) of the poster garnering the greatest number of attendee votes will be honored with a certificate and a bookstore gift card.

*Use of a structured abstract is encouraged. For more information on writing a structured abstract, please see MLA’s Research Section’s “The Structured Abstract: An Essential Tool for Researchers

Super Searcher: Enhancing Your Online Search Super Powers

Super Searcher: Enhancing Your Online Search Super Powers

The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Library will host Super Searcher: Enhancing Your Online Search Super Powers on Thursday, May 30, 2013, from 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM.

This workshop will be held in the General Education Building, Room B107.

This 4-hour workshop emphasizes advanced search features of web search engines and online searching. Participants will develop search strategies that will increase the precision and scope of their online searching ability. For more detailed information about this workshop, please click the link below.

http://nnlm.gov/training/supersearcher/

This workshop is free to all but registration is required. We need to know if you plan to attend in order to have a copy of the program materialsprepared for you. Please use the online registration form to register for Super Searcher: Enhancing Your Online Search Super Powers.

For additional information, please contact Brenda Green at uthscisd@uthsc.edu or visit this http://goo.gl/OedX8.

Zotero Training Workshops

Zotero Training Workshops:

June 13-14, 2013

Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA

June 20-21, 2013

Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses, Washington, DC

July 11-12, 2013

Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

July 25-16, 2013

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Online Registration: Zotero trainers offer two-day workshops at locations across the U.S. At a cost of $350 per attendee, workshops offer the opportunity to:

* Introduce new users and update advanced ones
* Provide an overview over best practices and advanced features such as plugins as well as style and translator development
* Equip librarians and IT staff to implement, train, and support users
The workshops combine short presentations with interactive, “hands-on” components, as well as the opportunity for participants to exchange their own experiences with Zotero. Participants will gain valuable insights in the nuts and bolts of Zotero, how to better support and promote Zotero, and how Zotero can serve the different needs of members of the academic community.
The workshop leaders will adjust the contents and the focus of workshop sessions to participants’ interests. A sample agenda for a Workshop can be found here. Generally, workshops will include the following topics:

* Using Zotero: Overview of basic and advanced functionality, plugins, tips and tricks
* Introducing and Promoting Zotero: Why and how adapting Zotero will benefit your institution? Getting the most out of Zotero for different user groups.
* Supporting Zotero: Creating local documentation – experiences and best practices. Troubleshooting Zotero. Getting the most out of support at zotero.org
During these intensive (and fun!) two day events, participants acquire an in-depth understanding of Zotero’s capabilities, how to extend those capabilities, and how Zotero can best meet their users’ needs. Participants also learn and share best-practices for teaching and supporting Zotero at their institution and approaches for developing institution-specific documentation.
The workshops are targeted at librarians and anyone else who supports or wants to support Zotero at their institution or department. While basic familiarity with Zotero is recommended, there are no technical prerequisites for participating.
The workshops will be conducted by Sebastian Karcher, one of Zotero’s most active community developers, who has a wealth of experience using, supporting, and developing Zotero. Contact him with any questions about the workshop at karcher [at] u.northwestern.edu Aleta Embrey, CLA Manager, Library, Archives and Copyright Center Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)
2000 L Street NW Ste 740
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202-261-2424
Fax: 202-454-9633
E-mail: aembrey@awhonn.org
Website: http://www.awhonn.org

Science of Safety in Healthcare

Dear Colleagues:
Here is a valuable online training course you don’t want to miss: The Science of Safety in Healthcare offered by the Johns Hopkins University via “Coursera.org.”

Date: June 3–July 1, 2013.
This free online course will review basic principles of the science and culture of safety in healthcare. Taught by Dr. Peter Provost, “champion of patient safety” and a practicing critical care physicians and Cheryl Dennison Himmelfarb, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University.
The goals for this course are:
To provide definitions and context of patient safety concepts and terms using a systems approachExplore foundation-level content in the science of safety, patient safety culture, teamwork, patient-centered care, and leading changeIntroduce students to strategies for identifying and mitigating risks through the use of human factors science and quality improvement methodsLearn about the importance of using data to guide their change efforts, and about the use of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) The content of this course has been adapted from the intensive five-day Patient Safety Certificate Program offered by the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality as well as the Helene Fuld Fellows Program undergraduate course content from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.

Register

https://www.coursera.org/course/healthcaresafety

Call for Papers and Posters Southern Chapter MLA 2013

Call for Papers and Posters

2013 Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association (SC/MLA) Annual Meeting

October 17 – 20, 2013

The SC/MLA Papers and Posters Coordinators invite you to submit your proposals for the 2013 SC/MLA Annual Meeting in Ridgeland, Mississippi, from October 17 through 20, 2013, at the Ebassy Suites. The theme of the conference is “The Art of Information: Design. Deliver. Display.” Papers and posters may range from descriptions of how you deliver services to descriptions on how you design programs and services and/or how you display results. This is your chance to share with your colleagues the results of interesting work or research you are doing.

For both paper and poster abstracts, please submit a blinded abstract (one that does not contain any identifying information) as well as your regular abstract.

For contributed paper proposals, submit a 300 word structured abstract to describe your paper; clickherefor suggested formats for structured abstracts. Include your name, position title, address, phone number, email address, and type of research (if applicable; see below). Please note if you would like to be considered for a poster presentation if the paper proposal is rejected. Both the regular and blinded abstract should be sent to Lisa Travis, Papers Coordinator, at scmla2013papers@gmail.com, including subject lines that note whether the submission is blinded.

For poster proposals, submit a 300 word structured abstract to describe your poster; click herefor suggested formats for structured abstracts. Include your name, position title, address, phone number, email address, and type of research (if applicable; see below). Both the regular and the blinded abstracts should be sent to Mollie Titus, Posters Coordinator, at scmla2013posters@gmail.com, including subject lines that note whether the submission is blinded.

The submission deadline is May 31, 2013.

The primary author of each paper or poster will be notified of the decision in early July. Additional information (i.e. time, location, set-up instructions, etc.) will be sent with the acceptance notification. Those presenting papers or posters must register for the meeting.

The SC/MLA Research Committee will recognize 3 papers and 3 posters at the Annual Meeting as work that demonstrates high-quality research. All submitters are required to either select a type of research or to designate that the presentation is not to be considered as research. Only those who select a type of research will be considered for the research awards judging process. For help in selecting the type of research, please see the “Inventory of Research Methods for Librarianship and Informatics,” published in the January 2004 issue of the Journal of the Medical Library Association. Research papers and posters are scored criteria available here. Points are awarded for study design, validity, reliability, implications, and presentation of the research.

Mollie and I would be glad to answer any questions you may have.

Mollie W. Titus,MLIS
SC/MLA Posters Coordinator
mtitus2@selfregional.org

Lisa D. Travis, MS, EdS, AHIP (D)
SC/MLA Papers Coordinator

http://library.lmunet.edu/medlib