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New Issue: SLIS Connecting

Volume 5, Issue 2 (2016) Fall/Winter 2016

Columns

SLIS Director’s Update
USM School of Library and Information Science

Spotlights: Faculty, Alum, and Course
Stacy Creel

From the GAs: Congratulations, Publications, Presentations
USM School of Library and Information Science

Student Associations: News and Events
USM School of Library and Information Science

50th Annual Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival
Karen Rowell

Core Values: Intellectual Freedom and Privacy in Public Libraries
Stephanie A. Evans

Articles

‘The willing women are standing waiting now’: British Women, the Second World War, and the Women’s Library at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Erin Doerner

An Historical Analysis of the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival
Leah Rials

A Survey and Content Analysis of Army Manuals Held by the National World War II Museum Archives
Amanda Fallis

Call for Essays: We Can Do I.T. : Women in Library Information Technology

Sometimes there is a blurry line between libraries and archives. I purposely avoid too many library-focused calls and publications, but I also believe that there is more opportunity to share archives stories within the library world. As archives become more technology-focused, this is a unique chance to share such experiences.

Call for Essays: We Can Do I.T. : Women in Library Information Technology

Working Title: We Can Do I.T. : Women in Library Information Technology
Editors: Jenny Brandon, Sharon Ladenson, Kelly Sattler
Submission Deadline: March 27, 2017
Publisher: Library Juice Press

Description of book:
What roles are women playing in information technology (I.T.) in libraries? What are rewards that women experience, as well as challenges they face in library I.T.? What are future visions for women in library I.T.?

This edited collection will provide a voice for people to share insights into the culture, challenges, and rewards of being a woman working in library I.T.  We are soliciting personal narratives from anyone who works in a library about what it is like to be a woman, or working with women, in library I.T. We also seek essays on visions for the future of women within library I.T. and how such visions could be achieved. This collection should be useful not only for those pursuing a career in library I.T., but also for library managers seeking to facilitate a more inclusive environment for the future. Through publishing a collection of personal narratives, we also seek to bring experiences of women in library I.T. from the margins to the center.
For the purposes of this collection, we consider library I.T. to include responsibilities in computer networks, hardware, and software support; computer programming (e.g. coding in python, php, java…); web development (e.g. admins, coders, front/back end developers,…); and/or the management of such areas.

Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:

*   How you started in library I.T.
*   Stories related to being a woman in library I.T.
*   Experiences of acceptance or resistance within the library I.T. community
*   Tips and advice for other women seeking a career in library I.T.
*   Changes in your career path because of entering library I.T.
*   Changes you’d like to see happen within the library I.T. culture
*   Advice for library management on how to improve library I.T. culture
*   A vision for the future about/for women in library I.T.

Timeline:
Submission deadline: March 27, 2017
Notification/Feedback regarding submission: May 12, 2017
Editing and revision: June – July 2017
Final manuscript due to publisher: September 2017

Submissions:
This volume will contain commentary, stories, and essays (from 140 characters to 1,500 words).
If your submission is tentatively accepted, we may request modifications.
Material cannot be previously published.
To submit your essay, please fill out this Google form: https://goo.gl/forms/6oE82aFe7atFlP6j1

For questions, email womenlibit@googlegroups.com

About the Editors:
Jenny Brandon earned a BA in interdisciplinary humanities at Michigan State University, and an MLIS from Wayne State University.  She is a self-taught web designer/front end developer, and is currently employed in Web Services at Michigan State University.  She is also a reference librarian.

Sharon Ladenson is Gender and Communication Studies Librarian at Michigan State University.  Her writing on feminist pedagogy and critical information literacy is included in works such as Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods (from Library Juice Press) and the Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook (from the Association of College and Research Libraries). She is an active member of the Women and Gender Studies Section (WGSS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries, and has presented with WGSS colleagues at the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference.

Kelly Sattler has a degree in computer engineering and spent 12 years in corporate I.T. before earning her MLIS degree from University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign. Currently, she is the Head of Web Services at Michigan State University Libraries. She is an active member in LITA.

CFP: Libraries and Nonprofits: Collaboration for the Public Good

This call focuses more on libraries and does not mention archives, but I believe many of you out there have applicable experiences. The recent Archival Outlook article “Radical Partnerships” is an example. Let’s get those archival partnerships out there!

CFP: Libraries and Nonprofits: Collaboration for the Public Good

About the Book

Libraries and Nonprofits: Collaboration for the Public Good (Library Juice Press) will consider the range of partnerships entered into by all types of libraries and nonprofits and will provide resources and best practices for nurturing these collaborations. We are seeking domestic and international case studies which highlight successful (or problematic) collaborations between libraries and nonprofit organizations for inclusion in the book. Case studies may address the following themes relating to nonprofit organizations and library collaborations including (but not limited to):

* civic engagement
* public health
* social safety nets/social work
* arts and culture
* education/literacy
* environment/sustainability/food justice
* LGBTQIA
* anti-racism
* disability rights
* legal aid/human rights
* housing/planning

Examples range from collaborations with financial literacy organizations to provide free or low-cost tax preparation; legal aid organizations to provide civic education and human rights workshops; literacy organizations to provide storytime programs, ESL or tutoring services; or museums to provide exhibitions, pop-up galleries, or STEAM programming.

How to Participate

Authors are invited to submit a case study proposal as an email attachment in Word or PDF to librariesandnonprofits@gmail.com on or before Monday, February 20, 2017. The case study proposal should be 300-500 words (Chicago Style) clearly explaining the intent and details of the proposed case study as it relates to the topics listed above. Proposed case studies should be based on unpublished work, unique to this publication and not submitted or intended to be simultaneously submitted elsewhere.

Authors will be notified by Monday, March 27, 2017 about the status of their proposals and sent case study guidelines. Completed case studies are expected to be between 2,000-4,000 words, although shorter or longer case studies are negotiable. Full case studies are expected to be submitted by Monday, June 26, 2017.

Proposals should include

* Author name(s), institutional or organizational affiliation, job title/role
* Brief author(s) bio
* Proposed case study title
* A summary of the proposed case study (300-500 words)

About the authors

Tatiana Bryant, Special Collections Librarian, University of Oregon Libraries

Jonathan O. Cain, Librarian for Data Initiatives and Public Policy, Planning and Management, University of Oregon Libraries

Call for Peer Reviewers: JCAS

The Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies (JCAS) seeks peer reviewers for its 2017 special issue: “Governance of Digital Memories in the Era of Big Data.” This special issue will discuss ethical issues regarding institutional memories’ governance in a digital context, which links to the ethics of remembering and forgetting. As we consider our developing digital culture, memory is becoming a distributed endeavor. The issue is addressed not only to “traditional” memory keepers, but also to the emerging community of social actors willing to join the debate about the importance of collective construction of memories. If you would like to participate as a peer reviewer for this special issue, or serve as a peer reviewer for JCAS on an ongoing basis, please email the journal at email.jcas@gmail.com. Sign up by March 31. For more information, visit elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas.

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Marketing Associate
Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies
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New Issue: Journal of Western Archives

Journal of Western Archives, Volume 8, Issue 1

Case Studies

Out of the Vault: Developing a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to Enhance Public Programming for University Archives and Special Collections
Rose Sliger Krause, James Rosenzweig, and Paul Victor Jr.

21st Century Community Outreach and Collection Development: ASU Chicano/a Research Collection
Nancy L. Godoy-Powell and Elizabeth G. Dunham

Book Reviews

Review of Appraisal and Acquisition Strategies
Jean Deken

Review of Digital Preservation Essentials
Tawnya Mosier Keller

Call for Nominations: Theodore Calvin Pease Award for Outstanding Student Research Paper

The competition now is open for the 2017 SAA Theodore Calvin Pease Award for outstanding student research paper.  Additional information is below.

The Pease Subcommittee consists of Gregory S. Hunter (Chair) (americanarchivist@archivists.org), Stephanie Bennett (bennetse@wfu.edu), and Lauren Goodley (lgoodley@txstate.edu). We would be happy to answer any questions you may have.

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Theodore Calvin Pease Award
http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-pease

Purpose and Criteria for Selection:
Created in 1987 and modified in 2007 and 2012, this award recognizes superior writing achievements by students of archival studies. Entries are judged on innovation, scholarship, pertinence, and clarity of writing. Papers examining major trends and issues in the archives profession are preferred.

Eligibility:
Eligible entries are written by students enrolled in archival studies classes at either the master’s or doctoral level. A faculty member or instructor associated with the archival studies program must submit the entry to verify that the student paper was written within the context of an archival studies program and completed during the preceding calendar year. A faculty member or instructor in an archival studies program may submit one entry per award cycle. There is no cap on the number of papers than can be submitted by a school or program, provided no individual faculty member submits more than one paper.

Entries should be unpublished manuscripts of 5,000-8,000 words, must include an abstract, and should conform to the stylistic guidelines described in the editorial policy<http://www2.archivists.org/american-archivist/editorialpolicy>; of The American Archivist. Submit only the title with the paper. The name of the author, the program, or the faculty member or instructor must not appear on the manuscript.

Sponsor and Funding:

The Society of American Archivists Foundation, in honor of Theodore Calvin Pease, the first editor of The American Archivist.

Prize:
A certificate and cash prize of $100. The winning manuscript, after going through the editorial process with the editor of The American Archivist, will be published in The American Archivist.

First Awarded: 1988

Selection Committee:
Papers will be judged in a blind review by the Pease Subcommittee of the SAA Awards Committee.  The subcommittee consists of the current editor of The American Archivist, the vice chair of the Committee on Education, and a member of the Society of American Archivists with experience in archival research and literature appointed annually by the president-elect to serve a one-year term. The current editor of The American Archivist serves as the chair of the subcommittee and shall present the award. The current editor ofThe American Archivist also edits the manuscript and leads the student through the editorial process in preparation for publication.

Submission Deadline and Nomination Form:
All nominations shall be submitted to SAA by February 28 of each year. CLICK HERE to download the RTF application form.

Free copies of The American Archivist

Interested in free copies of past issues of The American Archivist for you or your SAA student chapter? Contact Abigail Christian at achristian@archivists.org with a mailing address and number of students within your chapter—we’ll send a surprise assortment of issues published in the last decade, courtesy of SAA. Peruse timeless articles, discover new ones, and enjoy having a good resource in hand.

ABIGAIL CHRISTIAN
Editorial & Production Coordinator
Society of American Archivists
17 N. State Street Suite 1425
Chicago, Illinois 60602
achristian@archivists.org

Recent Issue: Journal of Western Archives

Volume 7, Issue 1, 2016

Articles

The How and Why of Mentoring
Alison H. Stankrauff, Tom Sommer, and Michelle Ganz

Say Yes to Digital Surrogates: Strengthening the Archival Record in the Postcustodial Era
Cyndi Shein and Emily Lapworth

Case Studies

The Gregory Peck papers: It’s Not Just Hollywood
Clare Denk

Strengthening Archival Digitization Efforts with an Interdepartmental Approach: A Case Study
Jessica Hayden, Jane D. Monson, and Emory J. Trask

The Business of Time Travel: A Case Study Examining the Processing of the Connie Willis Papers at the University of Northern Colorado
Emory J. Trask and Katherine Shull

Reviews

Review of Preserving Our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age
Christina Thomas

Review of Becoming a Trusted Digital Repository, Module 8 of Trends in Archives Practice
Kevin C. Miller

Review of Encoded Archival Description Tag Library – Version EAD3
Jodi Allison-Bunnell

Review of Rights in the Digital Era
Tammy Lau

Review of Archives in Libraries: What Librarians and Archivists Need to Know to Work Together
Amber D’Ambrosio

Call for Proposals: Concordia University Library’s 15th Annual Research Forum

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Proposals are now being accepted for Concordia University Library’s 15th Annual Research Forum, in the beautiful city of Montreal.  This year’s Research Forum will be held on Friday, April 28th, 2017, at the Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre.

The Research Forum provides an opportunity for librarians, archivists, graduate students, teaching faculty, and information professionals to describe and promote their completed or in-progress research, practical case studies or projects. The Forum also provides a venue for researchers to seek suggestions for enhancing their research interests, to identify potential new partners for projects, to test the effectiveness of their undertakings, and to promote research in academic libraries.

This year’s keynote speaker is Miguel Figueroa. Mr. Figueroa works at the Center for the Future of Libraries, an initiative from the American Library Association. He has previously held positions at the American Theological Library Association; ALA’s Office for Diversity and Office for Literacy and Outreach Services; NYU’s Ehrman Medical Library; and Neal-Schuman Publishers. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona’s Knowledge River Program, an initiative that examines library issues from Hispanic and Native American perspectives.

Call for Proposals

Proposals are invited for presentations and / or posters on research or a case study in any area of Library and Information Science including literacy instruction, social media, library history, citation analysis methods, scholarly publishing, services to users with disabilities, new library technologies, resource sharing, research data management, reference service models and innovations, library space and design.

Presentations and posters may be in English or French.

At least one of the presenters of the poster and/or presentation should be the primary researcher involved with the original project.

Presentations should be between 15 and 20 minutes, followed by a question period.

Posters may also be submitted. These will be on view for the entire day. Poster presenters will have an opportunity to describe their posters during the day.

Submission deadline: Monday, February 6, 2017, 9 a.m.

For more information, please visit: http://library.concordia.ca/about/staff/forum

To submit a proposal, please click here.

For more information about the Concordia University Library’s 15th Annual Research Forum please contact Krista Alexander, Chair of the Librarians’ Research Forum Committee at Krista.Alexander@concordia.ca .

Warm regards,

The Librarians’ Research Forum Committee
Krista Alexander (Chair)
Guylaine Beaudry
Kathleen Botter
Melissa Rivosecchi

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Vous êtes invités à soumettre une proposition de communication ou d’affiche pour le 15e Forum annuel de recherche en bibliothéconomie et sciences de l’information de la Bibliothèque de l’Université Concordia, à Montréal. Le Forum de recherche de cette année aura lieu le vendredi 28 avril 2017, au Centre des congrès des Jésuites de Loyola.

Le Forum de recherche donne l’occasion aux bibliothécaires, aux archivistes, aux étudiants des cycles supérieurs, aux professeurs des cégeps et des universités ainsi qu’aux praticiens des milieux documentaires de présenter leur projet de recherche ou un retour d’expérience, qu’ils soient en cours ou complétés. Le Forum est également un lieu pour les chercheurs qui souhaitent recevoir des suggestions et des commentaires sur leur projet de recherche, rencontrer de nouveaux partenaires, tester l’intérêt de leur approche ou promouvoir la recherche dans les bibliothèques universitaires.

Le conférencier principal est Miguel Figueroa.  Monsieur Figueroa travaille au Center for the Future of Libraries, une initiative de la  American Library Association (ALA).  Auparavant, il a travaillé à la American Theological Library Association, au Bureau pour la diversité et au Bureau pour la litéracie et le rayonnement de l’ALA, à la bibliothèque médicale Ehrman de l’Université de New York et chez les éditeurs Neal-Schuman.  Il est diplômé du programmeKnowledge River de l’Université d’Arizona, une initiative qui d’intéresse aux questions bibliothéconomiques du point de vue des Premières Nations et du peuple hispanique.

Appel à propositions

Vous êtes invités à proposer des communications et des affiches sur des sujets de recherche ou des retours d’expérience de les domaines de la bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, y compris le développement des compétences informationnelles, les médias sociaux, l’histoire des bibliothèques, la bibliométrie, l’édition savante, les services aux utilisateurs handicapés, les technologies de la bibliothèque, le partage des ressources, la gestion des données de recherche, les modèles de services de référence et les innovations en matière de conception d’espaces de bibliothèque.

Les communications et les affiches peuvent être présentées en anglais ou en français.

Au moins un des auteurs d’une communication ou d’une affiche doit être impliqué dans la recherche présentée.

Chaque communication doit durer entre 15 et 20 minutes et est suivie d’une période de questions.

Vous êtes également invités à proposer des affiches. Celles-ci seront accessibles tout au long de la journée, et les auteurs des affiches auront la possibilité de les présenter.

La date limite pour les soumissions est le lundi 6 février 2017, 9h.

Pour plus d’informations : http://library.concordia.ca/about/staff/forum/francais.php

Pour soumettre, cliquez ici.

Pour plus d’informations sur 15e Forum annuel de recherche de la Bibliothèque de l’Université Concordia, veuillez communiquer avec Krista Alexander, présidente du comité organisateur du Forum de recherche (Krista.Alexander@concordia.ca).

Cordialement,

Le comité de recherche du Forum des bibliothécaires
Krista Alexander (Responsable du comité)
Guylaine Beaudry
Kathleen Botter
Melissa Rivosecchi

NEH and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announce Fellowships for Digital Publication

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is proud to join the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in announcing the recipients of the first round of NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication. The new special opportunity within NEH’s fellowship program is intended to stimulate the emerging field of digital publication.

Read the full press release.

Some of the projects have an archival foundation or components. See the full list of awarded projects.