call for book chapters

Call for Chapters - Advances in Librarianship

Dr Anne Woodsworth has recently been appointed Editor of the book series Advances in Librarianship. The series has a long-standing reputation for in-depth reviews of major issues facing librarians and information professionals.

The first volume to be published under Dr Woodsworth’s editorship is Volume 32. Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for consideration by 31 May 2010 for publication in December 2010. Author guidelines can be found at:
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/books/series.htm?id=0065-2830

Prospective contributors with queries concerning potential suitability of topics, editor expectations, or additional requirements are invited to contact Dr Woodsworth directly by e-mail - awoodsworth@emeraldinsight.com

Kind regards,

Mary Miskin
Assistant Commissioning Editor
Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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mmiskin@emeraldinsight.com
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Call for papers - LIR Annual Seminar

This year’s annual LIR seminar will take place on Thursday, March 25^th at Liberty Hall, Dublin. The title of the seminar is 'Access all areas: Mobile technology and freesources in libraries'.

The seminar will analyse the benefits of mobile technologies in a library context, as well as showcasing developments and experiments in the area. In addition, the seminar will consider how the current climate has allowed libraries to assess ways of minimising the impact of reduced budgets and encouraged libraries to evaluate ‘freesources’ as well as examining the changing relationship with publishers.

Speakers confirmed for the day include Nicky Whitsed (Director of Library Services, Open University), and Fiona McGoldrick and Rita Pinhasi (IRIS).

This is an excellent opportunity to showcase innovative and interesting developments in your organisation. We would like to invite proposals for snapshots, to give attendees a chance to see how your organisation is embracing the concept of mobile technologies and/or changes in e-resource provision. Snapshots presentations will be between 12 – 18 minutes. Examples of welcome topics include:

Mobile technologies
- Practical experiences to date with mobile technologies (especially backed up by any available evidence/usage stats)
- Submissions on the topic of access control (IP address, Athens, Shibboleth)
- Exploiting mobile technologies to enhance service delivery
- Interactive multimedia to support learning & teaching
- How the advent of mobile technology is changing perceptions of us as information professionals

'Freesources'
- Clusters of useful freesources: by subject, crossdisciplinary, or reference
- Decisions in collection management on reducing costs (while protecting access to meaningful content)
- Strategies for reducing the impact of e-resource cancellations
- Free resources for research … quality, referencing, acceptable standards for academic work

The themes are broad, and we will consider other proposals not mentioned above.

Proposals for snapshot presentations should be forwarded to Ronán Kennedy (ronan.kennedy@nuigalway.ie) by Friday, February 26^th 2010.

Call for proposals

New Professionals Conference - Call for proposals

Calling all New Library & Information Professionals. Have you joined the profession, either through work or study, in the last 5 years? If yes, why not submit a proposal for the 2nd New Professionals Conference?
Proposal abstracts (no longer than 300 words) must be submitted by 5pm on Friday 26th February 2010

http://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/special-interest-groups/careerdevelopment/what-we-do/newprofessionals/Pages/new-professionals-conference-call-for-papers.aspx

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CFP: 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, 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 February 19, 2010. Inquiries and questions are welcome.

Instructions for authors are available at http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=journal&issn=1533-290X or can be emailed to you directly.

Award - Information Literacy

Details of five hundred euro information literacy award at

http://www.lilacconference.com/dw/awards/il_irish_award.html

call for conference papers

The call for speakers for Internet Librarian International (hosted each December in London) is now open. See http://www.internet-librarian.com/2010/

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Call for papers: Special issue: Cataloging Grey Literature (Cataloging & Classification Quarterly)


This special issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly will provide an international perspective of cataloging practices and challenges of different types of documents (theses, reports, conferences…) in print and digital format, in different parts of the world and different kinds of scientific information centres and libraries, with special attention to standards and normative initiatives.

The special issue will address the following topics:
Part 1: Standards and rules
A history of cataloguing rules related to print and digital GL
Standards and descriptive initiatives for scientific reports

Metadata for electronic theses and dissertations
Part 2: Experiences and techniques
Cataloging GL in a national library
Cataloging GL in a research organisation settings
Cataloging GL in international settings
Cataloging GL in humanities and social sciences

Part 3: Perspectives
GL metadata in the context of current research information systems
GL metadata quality in institutional repositories
Tagging GL: cataloging in the Web 2.0 environment
Cataloging GL and datasets in emerging e-science infrastructure

The papers should be between 15-20 double spaced pages (average 11 pt. type) and be compliant with the CCQ Instructions for Authors (cf. http://www.informaworld.com/0163-9374) with bibliographical endnotes following the Chicago Manual of Style.
Manuscripts should be submitted by email (attached text file) before June 30, 2010, to the two guest editors of the special issue, and will undergo a peer review procedure. The special issue is expected to be published in 2011.
Paola De Castro is head of the publishing unit of the Italian National Institute of Health. paola.decastro@iss.it
Joachim Schöpfel is head of the department of information sciences at the Charles de Gaulle University of Lille 3 (France). joachim.schopfel@univ-lille3.fr