Tell your Story

Hello Colleagues,

Does your library publish books? Journals? Blogs?
Does your library offer support to writers and others to self-publish?
Does your library create multimedia or digital content?
We want you to tell your story.

Abstract:

Public and Academic libraries have long been the curators of information and are now adding content creation to their services.  Each type of library has unique users and content creators, and the process for creating and distributing the content has numerous new electronic publishing and print on demand services.  Libraries are seeking advice on how to choose, implement, and support these new endeavors.

The forthcoming open access publication Library Publishing Toolkit will share a broad range of publishing strategies and projects from both academic and public libraries for libraries of various types to to get started or improve efficiency with publishing services.  It will provide snapshots of libraries’ publishing and digital content creation projects, identify successful strategies and workflows, and provide general guides to available resources and platforms.

Editorial Board:        Allison Brown, SUNY Geneseo Library Publishing Services Researcher
Cyril Oberlander, SUNY Geneseo Library Director

Kate Pitcher, SUNY Geneseo Head of Technical Services and Collection Development

Patricia Uttaro, Monroe County Library System Director
Publisher: IDS Project Press in collaboration with Rochester Regional Library Council, the Rochester Public Library, and Milne Library at SUNY Geneseo

Expected Publication Date: June 30 2013

Guidelines:

We seek papers that detail a library publishing service or library publishing project’s progression from early planning and strategy stages to implementation, techniques, and project completion.

Desired topics include but are not limited to:

• Examples or case      studies of specific publishing and digital content creation projects
• Publishing      service models
• Strategies and      workflows for publishing, self-publishing, electronic publishing and      digital content creation
• Experiences with      publishing tools and platforms
• Design of space      dedicated to end-user publishing activities

Submit a 300-500 word abstract or proposal to browna@geneseo.edu. Proposals should include:
Title
Author
Institution
Email Address
300-500 word abstract introducing your library and the publishing project you wish to write about.
Deadline for proposals is February 15th, and writers can expect to receive notification by February 22nd.

Selected papers of 2-5 pages due by April 22nd.

Timeline:

Proposals due: February 15th, 2013
Author notification: February 22nd, 2013
Papers due: April 22nd, 2013
Final Edits due: June 1st, 2013
Publication: June 30, 2013

 

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CCLI 2013 Call for Posters

CCLI
2013: “Information Literacy in the Real World”

Friday, April 5, 2013

San Jose State University Library

Poster Session Call for Proposals

What does information literacy look like beyond the classroom? Critical
thinking empowers students to make sound decisions about employment, health,
and social justice issues. How do you demonstrate the long term value of
information literacy beyond helping students academically? CCLI invites you to
share your teaching strategies and technological tools for helping students
apply information literacy and critical thinking to their daily lives.

Submission Information:  Proposals should include a title and a
description of how your poster relates to the theme.  Proposals must be
submitted online at http://cclibinstruction.org/.  The deadline
for submissions is Friday, February 15, 2013.  The primary contact on the
proposal will be notified if the proposal has been accepted by Friday, March 1,
2013.  All poster session presenters must register and pay for the
conference.  Presenters will be required to provide a PDF of their posters
for inclusion in the conference proceedings.
Session Length:  Presenters will share their ideas as attendees circulate
during a half-hour time block in the poster session area.  The posters
will be on display unattended for the duration of the conference.

Requirements:  Printed poster to display. Presenters will have the option
of mounting poster on the wall, or using an easel provided by the conference
committee. If you plan to use an easel, please bring a rigid poster with
backing (foam core, for example).

If you have any additional questions, please contact:

Margot Hanson, mhanson@ggu.edu

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Instruction Section Virtual Orientation online

Want to learn more about joining an Instruction Section committee? Have questions about the volunteer process? Interested in getting involved in the section and wondering how to get started?

If you missed the IS Membership Virtual Orientation led by IS Vice-Chair Christy Stevens on January 17, it is now available online at https://meeting.psu.edu/p7mcz6lfbpe/

If you attended the Virtual Orientation and are interested in the web sites Christy referenced during her presentation, her PowerPoint is now available to download from the ACRL IS Membership Committee site at ALA Connect(connect.ala.org).

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Infolit iSchool Journal Club in Second Life

What: Journal club: join a one-hour informal discussion of an article on information literacy

When: 23 January 2013 : Journal Club, 12 noon SL time (which is the same as US Pacific time, and 8pm UK time, see

http://tinyurl.com/9wtjb43 for times elsewhere)

 

Where: Infolit iSchool, in the virtual world, Second Life, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/106/208/30/

You need a Second Life avatar and the SL browser installed, to participate.

 

Marshall Dozier, Edinburgh University (Pancha Enzyme in SL) will lead a discussion of Detmering R, Johnson AM. “Research Papers Have Always Seemed Very

Daunting”: Information Literacy Narratives and the Student Research Experience. Libraries and the Academy 12.1 (2012): 5-22.

Available from:

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/v012/12.1.detmering.html

 

All welcome, just turn up!

A Centre for Information Literacy Research event

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ACRL Current Topics discussion at ALA Midwinter

Please join us in Seattle for the Current Topics Discussion hosted by the ACRL Instruction Section
Graduate, Transfer & Non-Traditional Students: Surprises, Skills, Support

Saturday, January 26, 2013 – 4:30pm to 5:30pm

Westin Seattle Hotel,  Pike Room

Graduate, transfer and non-traditional students enter higher education with a variety of life experiences and educational backgrounds. These students may return to higher education after many years pursuing other activities and are often balancing outside obligations such as family and careers, as well as encountering a new information universe and technologies. Join instruction librarian Rhonda Huisman for a lively discussion of librarians’ experiences teaching these unique groups of students.

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Bloggers needed for MLA 2013

Are you attending One Health? Do you like to write? Do you want to share what you learn at the conference with other attendees and those at home?  Apply to be an official blog correspondent!  With free wi-fi in the convention center, conference blogging has never been easier.  Correspondent categories and a link to the (short) application are at the Blog Correspondents page (http://npc.mlanet.org/mla13/?page_id=19).  Applications due February 15.

Questions?  Contact Kate Flewelling, Blog Coordinator at flewkate@pitt.edu.
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Curation Practices for the Digital Object Life- DigCCurr

DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle

 

May 12-17, 2013 & January 6-7, 2014 (One price for two sessions) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Visit http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/institute2013.html for more information.

 

REGISTRATION LINK: https://apps.research.unc.edu/events/index.cfm?event=events.eventDetails&event_key=EA75600789AECD0C6DA596F2DE05CF954728F89B.

 

The Institute consists of one five-day session in May 2013 and a two-day follow-up session in January 2014. Each day of the summer session will include lectures, discussion and hands-on “lab” components. A course pack and a private, online discussion space will be provided to supplement learning and application of the material. An opening reception dinner on Sunday, Continental breakfast, break time snacks and coffee, and a dinner on Tuesday will also be included.

 

This institute is designed to foster skills, knowledge and community-building among professionals responsible for the curation of digital materials.

 

Registration:

 

* Regular registration : $1,150

* Late registration (after April 15, 2012): $1,300

 

If you are a grant recipient working on a digital project, we recommend that you check with your program officer to request approval to use available grant funds to attend the institute.

 

Institute Instructors Include:

 

* From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Dr. Cal Lee, Dr. Helen Tibbo, and Dr. Kam Woods.

* Dr. Nancy McGovern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

* Dr. Carolyn Hank, McGill University.

* Lorraine Richards, Drexel University.

 

Institute Components: (may be subject to some revisions and reorganization)

 

* Overview of digital curation definition, scope and main functions

* Where you see yourself in the digital curation landscape

* Digital curation program development

* Engendering Trust: Processes, Procedures and Forms of Evidence

* LAB – DRAMBORA in action

 

* Strategies for engaging data communities

* Characterizing, analyzing and evaluating the producer information environment

* Submission and transfer scenarios – push and pull (illustrative examples)

* Defining submission agreements and policies

* Strategies for writing policies that can be expressed as rules and rules that can automatically executed

* LAB – Making requirements machine-actionable

 

* Importance of infrastructure independence

* Overview of digital preservation challenges and opportunities

* Managing in response to technological change

* Detaching Bits from their Physical Media: Considerations, Tools and Methods

* LAB – Curation of Unidentified Files

 

* Returning to First Principles: Core Professional Principles to Drive Digital Curation

* Characterization of digital objects

* LAB – Assessing File Format Robustness

* Access and use considerations

* Access and user interface examples

* How and why to conduct research on digital collection needs

* LAB – Analyzing server logs and developing strategies based on what you find

 

* Overview and characterization of existing tools

* LAB – Evaluating set of software options to support a given digital curation workflow

* Formulating your six-month action plan – task for each individual, with instructors available to provide guidance

* Summary of action plans

* Clarifying roles and expectations for the next six months

January 6-7, 2014

Participants in the May event will return to Chapel Hill in Jan. 2014 to discuss their experiences in implementing what they have learned in their own work environments.  Participants will compare experiences, lessons learned and strategies for continuing progress. Accommodations for January will be the responsibility of the attendee.

For more information, contact Dr. Helen Tibbo (tibbo @ email.unc.edu) for Institute questions or Kaitlyn Murphy (kaitlynm @ email.unc.edu) for payment or registration questions.

The Digital Professional Institute was initiated as part of the DigCCurr II project, supported by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (Grant Award #RE-05-08-0060-08) and is partially supported by the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Immersion- Call for ALA Annual Posters

Call for Poster Sessions:  Bringing the Immersion Program Back Home

 

Saturday June 29, 2013

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

ALA Annual Conference in Chicago

 

Want to share how attending Immersion influenced your teaching practice or information literacy program? Consider submitting a proposal for a poster session for the “Bringing the Immersion Program Back Home” program at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.  The purpose of the poster sessions will be to provide an informal forum for the exchange of ideas, research, and practice related to the Immersion experience. Poster presenters will have 30 minutes to present following the 60 minute panel session.

Application Procedure

Poster sessions will be refereed by the Immersion Program Committee. We encourage alumni from all tracks and cohorts to participate.

 

Poster session topics might include but are not limited to:

• How you applied your Immersion experience to transform your teaching and information literacy programs;
• How you sustained momentum and enthusiasm when you got back from the Immersion program;
• Significant learning experiences you gained from the program;
• An example of an innovative class session you created and taught as a result of attending Immersion;
• Demonstrating the impact of your Immersion participation on student learning outcomes (as measured by successful assessment strategies);
• Leadership roles you have cultivated in your library and campus community as a result of participation in the Immersion Program.

Poster session proposals should include:

• Name(s) of presenter(s) with contact information [please, no more than two presenters per poster]
• Poster title
• At least three learning outcome(s) for viewers
• Location(s) and year(s) and track(s) of Immersion Program attended
• Summary of poster content, including how you plan to interact with viewers (150-250 words)

Criteria for refereed poster session acceptance include:

• Originality, significance, and relevance of the topic;
• Well-formulated ideas that demonstrate individual development, creativity, and innovation in information literacy;
• Contribution to information literacy research, theory, practice or policy;
• Opportunities for audience engagement;
• Strength of learning outcomes presented in proposal.

Send proposals as an attached Word or PDF document to sjhoover@syr.edu

The deadline for submission is March 1, 2013. Peer review of submissions will be completed and notifications of acceptance will be sent on or before March 31, 2013.

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Changing Lives, Changing the World

Changing Lives, Changing the World: Information Literacy and Critical Pedagogy

Instructor: Maria T. Accardi
Dates: Feb. 1-28, 2013
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Price: $175

http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/008-critical-pedagogy.php

Instruction librarians interested in enriching their pedagogical practices in progressive, political, and innovative ways will be interested in this workshop on critical pedagogy and library instruction. Critical pedagogy is a theory and framework that envisions education as a site for social change. The ultimate goal of critical pedagogy is for students to achieve critical consciousness about societal oppression and then become equipped to change the world. Critical pedagogy has, in recent years, been brought into conversation with information literacy and library instruction theory and practice. Instruction librarians have been exploring how progressive pedagogical practices not only serve to teach students information literacy skills, but also to equip learners with an understanding of racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and other forms of oppression, and how they, as learners, can change the dominant culture that perpetuates these forms of oppression. This workshop continues and participates in this conversation by providing participants with an overview of critical pedagogy, contextualizing it in library instruction, and empowering participants how to enact it in their own educational settings.

Participants will engage with the workshop via assigned readings, homework, and online discussion. Homework assignments will include developing lesson plans and assessment tools designed in the critical pedagogical framework.

At the end of the workshop, students will be able to:

• Define critical pedagogy in  order to identify implications for library instruction theory and practice
• Identify ways in which critical pedagogy might be employed in the library setting in order to enrich instructional practices
• Design critical pedagogical learning activities and assessment tools in order to deploy them in the library instruction classroom
• Describe the importance and significance of liberatory, progressive, and critical approaches to education in order to serve as an agent of change in the library instruction classroom.

Required text (provided free to participants): Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods (ISBN: 978-1-936117-01-7)

Maria T. Accardi is Assistant Librarian and Coordinator of Instruction at the Library at Indiana University Southeast. Maria holds a BA in English from Northern Kentucky University, an MA in English from the University of Louisville, and an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh. She served as a co-editor of and contributor to Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods (Library Juice Press, 2010), and is the author of the forthcoming Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction (Library Juice Press, 2013).

Library Juice Academy
PO Box 25322
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Tel. 218-260-6115
inquiries@libraryjuiceacademy.com
http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/

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IMCW 2013 Call for Papers

Dr. Clifford Lynch is the keynote speaker of the IMCW2013, Limerick Ireland Sept 4^thto 6^th 2013. The Second Call for Papers has now been published here http://imcw2013.bilgiyonetimi.net/   on the Symposium website.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), will be the keynote speaker of the 4th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World (http://imcw2013.bilgiyonetimi.net/) to be held in Limerick, Ireland, from September 4 to 6, 2013.  Dr. Lynch’s keynote address will be centred on the main theme of the symposium, “Beyond the Cloud: Information…Innovation…Collaboration…”  He will address the opportunities and challenges introduced by the cloud computing, discuss its implications on information management and contemplate on how to design and develop innovative and collaborative information services beyond the cloud.

Bio

Dr. Clifford Lynch has been the Director   of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), a 200-member organization   concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to   enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity that is jointly sponsored   by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, since July 1997. Prior   to joining CNI, Dr. Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California   Office of the President, the last ten as Director of Library   Automation.  Dr. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the   University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley’s   School of Information. He is a past president of the American Society for   Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the   Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the National Information Standards   Organization (NISO). Dr. Lynch served on the National Digital Strategy   Advisory Board of the Library of Congress, Microsoft’s Technical Computing   Science Advisory Board, the board of the New Media Consortium, and the Task   Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access; he was a member of the   National Research Council (NRC) committees that published The Digital   Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age and Broadband:   Bringing Home the Bits, and served on   the NRC’s committee on digital archiving and the National Archives and   Records Administration (NARA). In 2011, he was appointed co-chair of the National   Academies’ Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI). His work has been recognized by the American Library   Association’s Lippincott Award, the EDUCAUSE Leadership Award in Public   Policy and Practice, and the American Society for Engineering Education’s   Homer Bernhardt Award. Dr. Lynch has several articles on various topics   such as information technologies and higher education, cyberinfrastructure,   digital rights management and copyright.

Publications

http://www.cni.org/about-cni/staff/clifford-a-lynch/publications/

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