Open Access - Call for papers

Call below just came out:

Cathal

The New Review of Academic Librarianship, a peer-reviewed journal from Taylor & Francis, will be publishing a special, open access issue in October 2010 on the dissemination of scholarly communication and the roles for university libraries. The issue, sponsored by JISC, will be guest edited by Dr Hazel Woodward, University Librarian of Cranfield University, working with the Editor Dr Graham Walton of Loughborough University (both UK). New technologies and ideologies are challenging the roles and future for many stakeholders in scholarly communication. This themed issue intends to capture the ideas, views and developments to help inform how scholarly communication moves forward in the future.
Expressions of interest are welcome from library practitioners and researchers and proposed articles should be evidence-based, scholarly articles on specific aspects of scholarly communication within a library context. Areas of interest include open access publishing, institutional repositories, university publishing houses, Web 2.0 tools and developing the scholar as an author.
If you are interested in submitting an article, please send a title and an abstract of approximately 250 words directly to the guest editor, Dr Hazel Woodward, hazel.woodward@cranfield.ac.uk by the 18th December 2009. Successful authors will be contacted by 15th January 2010 with a manuscript deadline of 19th March. Inquiries and questions are welcome. JISC is a UK national organisation responsible for inspiring “colleges and universities in the innovative use of digital technologies”. Instructions for authors are available at www.informaworld.com or can be emailed to you directly.

call for chapters

CALL FOR CHAPTERS - Teaching Information Literacy online

We are soliciting chapter proposals for a book entitled Teaching Information Literacy Online, to be published in 2010 by Neal-Schuman Publishers. This book will include chapters co-authored by librarian and faculty teams about successful information literacy initiatives in online learning environments. We are especially interested in information literacy collaborations in fully online modes through distance and open learning as well as blended or hybrid endeavors. We encourage faculty-librarian author teams from multiple disciplines, at the undergraduate and graduate level, in North America and internationally. Our previous books include: Information Literacy Collaborations That Work (2007), Using Technology to Teach Information Literacy (2008), and Collaborative Information Literacy Assessments: Strategies for Evaluating Teaching and Learning (2009).

This new book, Teaching Information Literacy Online, will present innovative models for information literacy instruction in online modes, such as distance or distributed learning, open learning, as well as blended or hybrid. As these different formats continue to expand in scope and influence, it is the ideal time to examine faculty and librarian partnerships for developing information literacy instruction online. We have seen the rapid expansion of online programs at community colleges, four-year institutions, universities with graduate and doctoral degree programs, through non-traditional adult education programs, and via international distance learning initiatives. The central focus of this book will be on collaboration among librarians and faculty to effectively deliver quality information literacy instruction online. This will potentially include information literacy partnerships for disciplinary and interdisciplinary courses and programs, international degree programs, open learning initiatives, open educational resources, online assessment practices, and adult education programs. This book will present national and international library collaborations that have had a significant impact on information literacy instruction efforts and student learning.

Chapters need to be co-authored by a librarian and a faculty member. Also, each completed chapter should include the following sections:

Introduction
Related Literature
Institutional Context
Disciplinary or Interdisciplinary Perspective
Discussion of Faculty Librarian Collaboration (including challenges)
Program Planning (online format, technology, set-up costs, student access issues, etc.)
Online Learning Model
Impact on Student Learning
Assessment of Online Learning
Conclusion

This book will be co-edited by Thomas P. Mackey, Ph.D., Associate Dean at the Center for Distance Learning at SUNY Empire State College and Trudi E. Jacobson, M.L.S., Head of User Education Programs, University Libraries at the University at Albany, SUNY.

Please send proposals of 1-2 pages to Tom Mackey at Tom.Mackey@esc.edu no later than November 20, 2009. Chapter selections will be made and authors notified by December 10, 2009. First drafts of the completed chapters (25-30 pages) will be due on March 1, 2010. Final drafts will be due by May 28, 2010. If you have any questions about proposal ideas or about the book please contact Tom Mackey via email.

Call for book chapters

Acess to Knowledge (A2K) Call for Chapters
This is a call for chapters for the book: Access to Knowledge (A2K), a volume of case studies and academic papers to be published by K.G. Saur / IFLA. The main focus of the book is the Ellen Tise Presidential theme "Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge", to provide insights into current and prospective access to knowledge being deployed in libraries services or researched on - technology, processes and compliance with users needs. The chapters will be aggregated in five Sections:

- User-oriented A2K actions
- A2K Advocacy
- Partnership in A2K
- Libraries as space and place in A2K
- Libraries and Lifelong Learning
- Other theme approaches in A2K

The book aims to provide relevant theoretical frameworks, latest empirical research findings, and practitioners' best practices in the area.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before December 31, 2009, a two to three page manuscript proposal (500 - 750 words) clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. The abstract should follow the Emerald format for structured abstracts; see http://info.emeraldinsight.com/authors/guides/abstracts.htm for details. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by February 28, 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by June 30, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed by at least three reviewers on a blind review basis.

Please e-mail all inquiries and proposal submissions to A2K@ifla.org. Ellen Tise Editorial Committee:
Jesús Lau (México) jlau@uv.mx
Anna Maria Tammaro (Italy) annamaria.tammaro@unipr.it
Theo Bothma (South Africa) theo.bothma@up.ac.za

call for case studies - digital repositories

Call for Case Studies: Building Digital Repositories with Limited Resources

I am writing a book, Building Digital Repositories with Limited Resources, which is scheduled to be published by Chandos Publications in 2010. I am planning to include a section of case studies and best practices to give readers ideas they can easily and inexpensively adopt. If you have developed a tool, technique, method, project, or program that you would like to have considered to be included in the book, please fill out this questionnaire: http://bit.ly/bdrlr-survey01
I am particularly interested in examples from institutions outside of the United States and case studies that would be applicable to academic libraries.
Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to): integrating web2.0 technologies into digital libraries; strategies for outreach and assessment; cost-effective digital preservation strategies; tools to automate metadata production; metadata production and repository workflow tools; and scalable methods for working with faculty to deposit their publications in open access repositories.

For further information about the book, please visit its page on the Woodhead Publishing web site: http://bit.ly/chandos-clobridge.

If you have any questions, please contact me at abby_clobridge@hks.harvard.edu.

Thank you.

Abby Clobridge
Associate Director, Research & Knowledge Services
Harvard Kennedy School Library
Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 496-1772
abby_clobridge@hks.harvard.edu

call for papers

Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning

The Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning, a peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge/The Haworth Press, welcomes the submission of manuscripts. The journal is devoted to the issues and concerns of librarians and information specialists involved with distance education and delivering library resources and services to this growing community of students.

Topics can include but are not limited to:
• Faculty/librarian cooperation and collaboration
• Information literacy
• Instructional service techniques
• Information delivery
• Reference services
• Document delivery
• Developing collections
If you are interested in submitting an article, send the manuscript directly to the Editor, Jodi Poe at jpoe@jsu.edu by November 1, 2009. Inquiries and questions are welcome.

Call for papers

LILAC 2010 (The Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference) will be hosted by Shannon Consortium Library Network Support Services (LIT, ITTralee, Mary Immaculate College, UL) and will take place at the Strand Hotel Limerick city, 29th-31st of March 2010.


The call for papers for LILAC 2010 is now open. The themes of next year's conference are: Measuring Impact; Developing the IL practitioner; IL and research; Making connections: cross-sectoral initiatives; Innovative practice. The deadline for proposals is 1st November 2009. More details at http://www.lilacconference.com/dw/conference/call_for_papers.html
Venue is Limerick, Ireland.




Further information about Library Network Support Services (LNSS) is available here: http://www.lit.ie/lnss/

New Irish peer-reviewed electronic only journal

Dear Colleagues -


We are delighted to announce the formal launch of the inaugural
issue of the All Ireland Journal of Higher Education (AISHE-J),
which happened "live on-stage" yesterday at the AISHE
International Conference 2009. The full issue contents may be
viewed here:


http://ojs.aishe.org/index.php/aishe-j/issue/view/1


We would encourage you to share this announcement with
colleagues. The second issue is already in preparation, and the
editorial board continues to solicit new submissions of original
research articles, short reviews, and letters for publication in
future issues. Full details here:


http://ojs.aishe.org/index.php/aishe-j/about/editorialPolicies


Many thanks to all involved in achieving this important milestone
for the development of AISHE.


Best regards, on behalf of the AISHE-J Editorial Board,


- Barry.