CFP: Music Reference Services Quarterly

Editors are inviting articles for Spring and Summer 2010 double issue of Music Reference Services Quarterly, the peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis. The articles should fall within the scope of music librarianship in any of the following categories:

* administration and management
* bibliographic instruction
* collection development
* digital audio delivery
* electronic resources
* facilities
* music librarianship education
* preservation of music materials
* reference services
* cataloging
* bibliographies involving printed music and audio-visual materials

The first draft deadline is April 15, 2010. Conference presentations and poster sessions that would be appropriate to expand as a journal article within the scope of Music Reference Services Quarterly are welcome.

No previously published, simultaneously submitted material will be considered. For additional information and a description of the review process, Music Reference Services Quarterly contributor guidelines may be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t792306936~tab=submit~mode=paper_submission_instructions
We look forward to hearing from you!

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CFP : ALA Annual at D.C. – What is Your Library Doing about Emerging Technologies?

Submission link: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDktR2k2OUpGcGl3b1FkY3RSYjc1RlE6MA
Submission deadline: April, 1, 2010

Do you directly work with emerging technologies at your library? Did you play a role in creating a librarian position for emerging technologies? Do you supervise a librarian who work with emerging technologies or have expertise in emerging technologies yourself? You don’t have to hold the job title of “Emerging Technologies Librarian” to participate. If you answer yes to any of these questions, then we want to hear from you.

Despite the popularity of the term, there is no clear definition or shared understanding about what “emerging technologies” mean to libraries and librarians. Almost all libraries strive to stay current with quickly changing technologies. But not all libraries have established a formal method and procedure of supporting, evaluating, implementing, and adopting emerging technologies.

ALA LITA Emerging Technologies Interests Group (ETIG) is seeking participants to a panel discussion – “What are your libraries doing about emerging technologies” at ALA Annual 2010 at Washington D.C. We are particularly interested in identifying librarians, library administrators, and technology experts who can contribute to the following (but not limited) topics:

* What do we mean when we say “emerging technologies”?
* What motivates libraries and administrators to create a new position for “emerging technologies”?
* What are the daily tasks performed or projects achieved by (emerging) technology librarians at your libraries?
* What are the challenges for emerging technologies for libraries? (From both a manager’s, a librarian’s, or a technologist’s perspective)
* How do you evaluate, implement and adopt emerging technologies?
* What should libraries be doing about emerging technologies?
* Other thoughts about libraries and emerging technologies

If you are interested, please submit your proposal by filling out this form: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDktR2k2OUpGcGl3b1FkY3RSYjc1RlE6MA

If you have any questions, please contact Bohyun Kim (bohyun.kim@fiu.edu), ETIG member, or Jacquelyn Erdman (ERDMANJ@ecu.edu), ETIG vice chair. / via nmrt-l

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MLS students – scholarship to attend conference

Daniel F. Kissane Memorial Scholarship

Financial assistance is available for a library school student to attend the annual SUNY Librarians Association (SUNYLA) conference at the College at Brockport, from June 16 – 18, 2010. The purpose of the Scholarship is to encourage involvement with SUNYLA and SUNY Libraries, as well as to provide professional growth opportunities to those entering the profession.

The Scholarship is a voucher covering:

· Travel (maximum $ 350) and lodging costs

· Registration fees

· Conference meals

You qualify if:
You are currently enrolled in a New York State ALA accredited MLS program or its equivalent.

To apply:
Please write an essay of no more than 1,000 words on the following topic:

It is more important than ever that libraries respond to the needs of the populations that we serve in order to remain a vital part of those communities. What kind of impacts can libraries have on our campus, local and national communities? Please relate something from your own personal experience (e.g., an event, an incident, an exposure to a different people, etc.) to one of those needs or impacts, using it to help make your point.

The essay will be judged on both content and the logical, literate development of your essay.
Deadline is April 23, 2010, and the recipient will be notified by May 7, 2010. Please e-mail as an attachment (.doc or .pdf) to lougenc@newpaltz.edu OR send your essay along with your contact information to:

Daniel F. Kissane Memorial Scholarship Committee,
Colleen Lougen
SUNY New Paltz
Sojourner Truth Library
300 Hawk Drive
New Paltz, NY 12561 / via collib-l

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Proposals for ALA Research Series

The Office for Research and Statistics is inviting book and article proposals
for the peer-reviewed ALA Research Series. The series expands the knowledge
base of library research by publishing quantitative or qualitative research and
analysis that addresses topics important to libraries. Research must be
completed and have been conducted in the past three years. All submissions must
be received electronically by close of business April 30.
http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2010/march2010/proposals_ors.cfm

Denise M. Davis
Director, ALA Office for Research & Statistics
50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611
dmdavis@ala.org | 312-280-4273 | fax 312-280-4392 / via nmrt-l

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Upcoming e-Learning webcasts from ACRL

Superpower your Browser: Open Source Research Tools – March 23, 2010
This webcast will examine the two powerful browser tools LibX and Zotero, as well as others. By using free, open source tools, libraries can offer assistance and resources with little cost and foster skills that patrons can use throughout life, regardless of location.
Presenter: Jason Puckett, Librarian for Communication and Instruction Librarian for User Education Technologies, Georgia State University Library

Visualizing Data – March 30, 2010
Data visualization is fast becoming a premier tool for understanding data across information industries. The field of library and information science is no exception. Why visualize? Data visualizations make complex data easier to understand and bring forward concepts that otherwise might not emerge.
Presenters: Lisa Kurt, Head, E-Resources and Serials, University of Nevada Reno; Will Kurt, Applications Development Librarian, University of Nevada Reno

Creating iGoogle Gadgets for your Library Users – April 6, 2010
Learn how to populate basic, pre-programmed, ready-to-use gadgets with your library’s content and take a look at an iGoogle page that contains a wide range of gadgetry including tabbed gateway searching of catalogs and databases, flash-animated library subject maps, a YouTube channel of library videos, Flickr slideshows of rare photographs from special collections, a search box for local electronic theses and dissertations, a gadget of highlights and links to blogs, and a gadget for communicating with reference librarians–all on one webpage.
Presenters: Jason Clark and Tim Donahue, Montana State University

Getting Started with the Mobile Web – April 15, 2010
More and more studies are showing that the trend towards usage of mobile devices has moved beyond early adopters into the mainstream. Are you interested in launching a mobile-optimized website for your library, but not quite sure where to begin? Constrained budgets don’t have to limit an institution’s ability to remain flexible and dynamic in the face of the constantly moving target of emerging technologies. Participants will benefit from this timely snapshot of what is rapidly becoming an essential venue for library access.
Presenters: Courtney Greene, Instruction & Online Learning Librarian, DePaul University; Missy Roser, Reference & Instruction Librarian, DePaul University; Beth Ruane, Outreach & Reference Services Librarian, DePaul University

Influencing without Authority – April 28, 2010
Regardless of what position you hold, much of your success in the library profession will depend on your ability to enlist the support of others. How can you influence people even when you don’t have (or don’t want to rely on) formal authority?
Presenter: Melanie Hawks, Learning and Development Coordinator, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah

All webcasts will be held at 11 a.m. Pacific, 12:00 p.m. Mountain, 1:00 p.m. Central, 2:00 p.m. Eastern, and are 90 minutes in length.  Complete details and registration materials are online at http://www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/elearning/index.cfm.  Questions should be directed to Margot Conahan at mconahan@ala.org, or call 312-280-2522.

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The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is a division of the American Library Association (ALA), representing more than 12,500 academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the only individual membership organization in North America that develops programs, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research environments. ACRL is on the Web at http://www.acrl.org/. / via collib-l

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Seeking Candidates for ACRL Instruction Section Newsletter Editor

The ACRL Instruction Section is seeking applications for the IS Newsletter Editor for the 2010-2012 term. The deadline for applying is March 15, 2010.

The IS Newsletter Editor serves a two-year term and is responsible for editing and publishing the Section’s biannual electronic newsletter. The IS Newsletter Editor serves under the general direction of the IS Executive Committee and maintains close communication with the IS Communication Committee chair. The IS Newsletter is the official publication of the Section, providing current information about the Section’s news, activities, publications and projects.  Previous issues of the newsletter can be found here: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/about/sections/is/projpubs/newsletter/index.cfm.

The IS Newsletter Editor is a member of the Communication Committee and is a non-voting, ex-officio member of the IS Advisory Council. As such, the IS Newsletter Editor is required to attend IS Advisory Council and Communication Committee meetings at the ALA Midwinter and Annual conferences.

Full position description can be found here:

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/about/sections/is/committees/newsletter.cfm

To apply, email your resume and cover letter addressing your qualifications to:

Russell Hall, Chair, Instruction Section Communication Committee (rhall@psu.edu)

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REFolution 2010–New Orleans!

Join us at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA for REFolution 2010!

“REFolution: Reference Service in a Constantly Changing World”

Tuesday-Wednesday, April 13-14, 2010

Tulane University

New Orleans, LA

Join your colleagues for this exciting LYRASIS event featuring:

* Keynote Address by Marie Radford of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
* Pre-Conference on Discovery solutions
* Presentations examining the issues shaping the future of reference services

This conference promises to be one of the most enlightening events you’ll attend next year…don’t miss it!

For schedule and registration information:
http://www.lyrasis.org/Classes-and-Events/REFolution/Schedule-and-Downloads.aspx / via libref-l

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Allen Smith Visiting Scholars Program

The Graduate School of Library & Information Science at Simmons
College, Massachusetts, is pleased to invite proposals for
participation in the Allen Smith Visiting Scholars Program, which
honors the memory of distinguished teacher and scholar Allen Smith.
Allen Smith Visiting Scholars are expected to be distinguished
practitioners, educators, or researchers renowned for their work in
reference, oral history, or the study of librarianship and information
service in the humanities. Opportunities include semester-long
visiting professorships, shorter-term lectureships, or presentation in
an annual lecture series.  The program provides support for
transportation, honorarium, and related expenses depending on the
nature of participation, and is open to scholars worldwide.

Applications should include a curriculum vitae, a proposed time frame
and agenda of activities, and a statement outlining the applicant’s
qualifications and the benefits the applicant would bring to the
Simmons community. There is no deadline, except that proposals for
semester-long visiting professorships should be submitted at least a
year in advance of the proposed semester.

For more information, please contact Professor Candy Schwartz,
candy.schwartz@simmons.edu.

To learn more about our esteemed colleague and friend Allen Smith, see
http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/news/news/2008.php#news874 and the wiki
“Allen Smith Quotations”,
http://gslis.simmons.edu/wikis/dwiggins/Allen_Smith_Quotations.

Thank you,

Candy
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Candy Schwartz, Professor
Simmons College / via libref-l

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Call for Bloggers: Information about Metadata Wants to be Shared

Call for Bloggers: Information about Metadata wants to be Shared

Do you have an interest in metadata and digital library projects?
Have you recently read a good article on the subject?
Have you developed a new project or workflow?
Have you attended a workshop or conference of interest to the community?
Would you like to connect and get your name out to other metadata librarians?

If so, become a contributor to the Metadata Blog: http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php.  The official blog of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) Metadata Interest Group has traditionally been used to advertise and report on events at ALA conferences.  We are expanding our focus to keep the metadata community informed throughout the year on related research, projects, and events.  Contributions can include summaries of articles or research, links to educational opportunities, calls for papers, descriptions of interesting projects, conference reports, requests for assistance, or anything else of potential interest to the community.  Posts may contain original content or link to existing content, as appropriate.

What are the requirements to become a contributor?
-Have knowledge, interest, or experience in metadata and/or digital library projects.
-Be willing to write at least one post for the Metadata Blog during 2010 (more are welcome!)
-LIS students and new librarians are encouraged to participate.

If you are interested, contact Kristin Martin, Blog Coordinator for the Metadata Blog at kmarti@uic.edu.  Please provide some brief information on your background and ideas for contributions.  Initial posts to the blog will be reviewed prior to posting.  After that, contributors will be able to post directly to the blog as new information comes up to be shared.

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CFP: Teaching With Technology

Teaching today, from K-12 through graduate school, is ubiquitously tied to digital technology. from K-12 through graduate school, today’s classroom is increasingly digital., and the call to make it more so grows. Institutional resources are increasingly directed toward classroom digital initiatives, libraries are merged with academic computing departments, and the instructional technologist has begun to occupy a central role on many campuses. New degree programs are popping up, and digital humanities is a newly, yet nebulously, defined discipline.  As economic crisis continues to hold the country in its grip for a second year (at least), teachers and students are subjected to additional pressure to make themselves “competitive” as workers in a narrowly defined marketplace that demands technological skills as an end rather than a means to education. Much has already been published about the use of technology in the classroom, including a 2002 cluster of articles in Radical Teacher.  It is unlikely that we will see any real decoupling of technology from teaching and learning in our future or lifetime, any more so than it is likely that we see it in any other aspect of our society. or culture at large.  Given the fact that ignoring or rejecting technology wholesale is not a viable or palatable option for most of us, we must therefore continue to actively think about use the its use, of it, insist on approaching it with a critical eye, and ask questions at every turn about whose interests are being served, who benefits from our implementation of technology, and why when we choose to engage with technology in teaching and learning.

Radical Teacher, the independent magazine for educational workers at all levels and in every kind of institution focusing on critical teaching practice, the political economy of education, and institutional struggles, solicits articles for an upcoming special issue devoted to teaching and technology. We welcome articles that focus centrally on critiques of teaching and technology, problematizations of technology, both in the classroom and at a macro, the institutional level, and articles that contribute to an increasing understanding of how to use technology for radical political change and resistance in a range of settings. We are especially interested in discussions of ways such work, when addressed in educational contexts, deepens students’ understanding of the social realities that affect their lives and shapes their willed ability to intervene in these realities. Focused on teaching and anchored in concrete examples, articles may concern an entire course, a unit within a course, or a project that takes place outside the traditional classroom. We especially invite submissions from contingent faculty, graduate students, librarians, and academic technologists who are often particularly marshaled in support of digital teaching initiatives. Possible topics might include:

• Classroom deployments of digital tools such as blogs and microblogs (e.g., Twitter), wikis, video, and other digital and new media technologies to enhance or encourage radical teaching.
• The implications of changing forms of digital labor in the academic environment, including demands to build technology skills, learn software packages, contribute intellectual material to university-owned and/or commercial databases, creating and populating online learning environments, etc.
• How to harness technologies for their empowering potential, including supporting and training students to be active users of technology.
• Commodification of intellectual material, including the modularization and “just in time” delivery of teaching material via commercial courseware on university-owned servers.
• The surveillance and control of teachers and students when learning takes place in digital environments.
• The ethical implications of the underlying political and ethical logics we teach when we use technology in our instruction and research.
• Limitations on material and other types of access; or when “One Laptop Per Child” is simply not enough.
• Demands on instructors to provide vocational training for careers to students; training them to use commercial software packages and delivering a labor force that skilled in technology, as opposed to having support, space and resources for the teaching of academic material.
• The lopsided funding of technology projects over all else in academic institutions over the past decade and a half, and the collusion of academic institutions with high-tech business on joint ventures and for-profit activities.
• The relationship between contingent labor and on-line teaching.
• The relationship between technology and assessment.
• Classroom and institutional use of open source and noncommercial softwares (e.g., Drupal) as alternatives to privatized and for-profit technologies.

Inquiries, proposals, and drafts should be sent to —-
Emily Drabinski, J. Elizabeth Clark and Sarah Roberts, editors, at emily.drabinski@liu.edu. Completed submissions are due September 15, 2010. Essays for Radical Teacher should be approximately 4,000 to 5,000 words and written in accessible prose. For more information, see “Submission Guidelines,” www.radicalteacher.org. Radical Teacher is published by the University of Illinois Press.

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Academic Librarians 2010 Conference: Faster than the Speed of Bytes: Technology, Cognition, and the Academic Librarian

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NASIG Poster Sessions – Call for Proposals

The NASIG Program Planning Committee (PPC) invites poster session proposals for the 25th NASIG conference in Palm Springs, California, June 3-6, 2010. The theme of the conference is “An Oasis in Shifting Sands: NASIG at 25″

Posters will be on display 9AM-5PM on Saturday, June 5th. Presenters must be available to discuss their topics during
the afternoon break on this day.

Poster sessions provide an opportunity to share innovative ideas and new applications of technology. Sessions may
present a report of a research study, an analysis of a practical problem-solving effort, or a description of an innovative program that may be of interest to the serials community. In keeping with NASIG tradition of non-commercialism, poster sessions focusing solely on a commercial product will not be accepted.

Deadline for submission: Proposals must be received by Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 5PM EST. Members of the PPC’s
Sub-committee on Poster Sessions will evaluate abstracts.
Presenters will be notified in April 2010.

Please submit proposals online:

Inquiries may be sent to the PPC co-chairs, Morag Boyd and
Anne Mitchell at:
prog-plan@nasig.org

Established in 1985, the North American Serials Interest Group, Inc. is an independent organization that promotes
communication and sharing of ideas among all members of the serials information chain – anyone working with or
concerned about serial publications.

For more information about NASIG, see:
http://www.nasig.org

Marilyn M. Carney
Publicist, NASIG, Inc.
mmcarney@waketech.edu / libref-l

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Call for Papers – Journal of Library Metadata

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LJ Webcast Alert! Beyond Subject Headings: Adding Appeal to the Art of Suggesting Books

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3-15 deadline: Beta Phi Mu scholarships and fellowships

REMINDER:  Monday, March 15, is the deadline for applications for scholarships and fellowships awarded annually by Beta Phi Mu, the international library & information science honor society.

Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships – $3000 Up to six fellowships may be awarded.

Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship – $2250

For a student beginning library or information studies.

Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship – $2250

For a student beginning library and information studies with the intention of pursuing a career in school library media service.

Frank B. Sessa Scholarship – $1500

For continuing professional education of a Beta Phi Mu Member.

Harold Lancour Scholarship – $1750

For foreign study by a librarian or LIS student.

For more information and application forms, please visit the Beta Phi Mu website:

www.beta-phi-mu.org

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