Call for Applications: Institute for Research Design in Librarianship

This is geared towards librarians, but the completed projects list two archives-related projects.

The deadline for applications to IRDL 2017 has been extended TWO WEEKS. Applications are now due on January 27, 2017.

We are issuing a call for applications for the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL) 2017. We are seeking novice librarian researchers who are employed by academic libraries or research libraries outside an academic setting in the United States to participate in the Institute. We define “novice” broadly; if you feel that you would benefit from being guided throughout the entire research design process, we encourage your application. Librarians of all levels of professional experience are welcome to apply.

The year-long experience begins with a workshop held on the campus of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, from June 4-10, 2017, with arrival on campus on Saturday, June 3, and departure on Sunday, June 11.

The William H. Hannon Library has received a second three-year grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to offer this continuing education opportunity (this grant, IRDL-2, is from 2016-2019). Each year 20 librarians will receive, at no cost to them, instruction in research design and a full year of peer/mentor support to complete a research project at their home institutions; the learning experience, travel to and from Los Angeles, CA, accommodations, and food will be supplied to Scholars free of charge.

We seek librarians with a passion for research and a desire to improve their research skills. IRDL is designed to bring together all that the literature tells us about the necessary conditions for librarians to conduct valid and reliable research in an institutional setting. The cohort will be chosen from a selective submission process, with an emphasis on enthusiasm for research and diversity from a variety of perspectives, including ethnicity and type and size of library.

Selection criteria:

  • Commitment to the year-long process of participating in the IRDL research community and conducting the proposed study within the 2017-2018 academic year;
  • Significance of the research problem to the operational success of libraries or to the profession of librarianship;
  • Thoughtfulness, thoroughness, and clarity of the research proposal;
  • Enthusiasm for research and a desire to learn.

We will be accepting applications from December 1, 2016 to January 13, 2017. Scholars accepted to the Institute will be notified in early March 2017. Application information may be found at http://irdlonline.org/call-for-proposals/institute-overview/.

Please contact Project Directors with any questions about the Institute or the application process:
Marie Kennedy, Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian, Loyola Marymount University (marie.kennedy@lmu.edu)
Kristine Brancolini, Dean of the Library, Loyola Marymount University (brancoli@lmu.edu)

Chris Marino, Reference + Outreach Archivist
Environmental Design Archives
University of California
230 Wurster Hall mc 1820
Berkeley, CA 94720-1820
510.642.5124

Call for Participants/Presentations: SAA Research Forum

excerpt from Archival Outlook:

If you’re engaged in research, seeking to identify research-based solutions for your institution, willing to participate in the research cycle by serving as a beta site for research trials, or simply interested in what’s happening in research and innovation, then join us for the 11th annual SAA Research Forum: “Foundations and Innovations”!

Researchers, practitioners, educators, students, and the curious across all sectors of archives and records management are invited to participate. Use the Forum to discuss, debate, plan, organize, evaluate, or motivate research projects and initiatives. The event seeks to facilitate collaboration and help inform researchers about what questions and problems need to be tackled.

Read more: http://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?i=376049&p=18.

The Research Forum will be Tuesday, July 25, 9 am-5 pm, Oregon Convention Center.

Call for Nominations: 2017 SAA Waldo Gifford Leland Award

reposted from RAO Section listserv:

Please help us to recognize the best in our profession!

Have you read a great new book about archives? Seen an exceptional new finding aid? Encountered a new documentary publication that is head and shoulders above the rest? Has a new web publication really stood out to you?

If you have, please consider nominating it for the Society of American Archivists Waldo Gifford Leland Award. Nomination forms, a list of previous winners, and more information are at http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-leland. The deadline for nominations is February 28, 2017.

The annual Leland Award – a cash prize and certificate – recognizes “writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory, and practice.” (Please note that periodicals are not eligible.)

Established in 1959, this award honors American archival pioneer Waldo Gifford Leland (1879-1966), president of the Society of American Archivists in the 1940s and one of the driving forces behind the founding of the National Archives.

CFP: Archival Education and Research Institute

The ninth annual Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI) will be held at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada from July 10-14, 2017. Previous institutes were held at UCLA (2009, 2012), the University of Michigan Ann Arbor (2010), Simmons College (2011), the University of Texas Austin (2013), the University of Pittsburgh (2014), the University of Maryland, College Park (2015), and Kent State University (2016).

These week-long Institutes, held every summer, are designed to strengthen education and research and support academic cohort-building and mentoring. Institutes are open to all academic faculty and students working in archival studies, both nationally and internationally, as well as others engaged in archival education, research and scholarship, broadly conceived.

AERI SEEKS TO ADVANCE THE FIELD OF ARCHIVAL STUDIES BY:
  1. Creating a dynamic community of researchers, teachers, and students to help mentor doctoral students and faculty in areas such as thesis preparation, grant writing, publishing, and career development.
  2. Advancing curriculum development in archival studies.
  3. Furthering current research development through paper presentations, posters, and workshop activities.
  4. Fostering interest in future collaborations both nationally and internationally.

The specific theme of AERI 2017 is Windows, Frames, Landscapes. We invite proposals for presentations, posters, and workshops that fit within AERI’s goals and, if possible, that engage, either singly or in combination, with the metaphors of windows (e.g. openings, opportunities, spaces), frames (e.g. disciplinary, conceptual, methodological, socio-political, technological), and landscapes (real and imagined).

TIMELINE FOR PARTICIPANTS IN THE INSTITUTE:

The deadline for applications is February 28, 2017.

Applicants will be notified by March 15 of their acceptance into the institute and will then be required to submit registration information and payment.

Full-week registration will be open between March 1 and April 25.

Call for Chapters: Librarianship and Genealogy: Trends, Issues, Case Studies

Librarianship and Genealogy: Trends, Issues, Case Studies

Book Publisher: McFarland

Carol Smallwood, co-editor. Library’s Role in Supporting Financial Literacy for Patrons (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016); public library administrator, special, school librarian.

Vera Gubnitskaia, co-editor. Reference Librarian, Valencia College, Winter Park, Florida; co-editor, Library Outreach to Writers and Poets (forthcoming, McFarland).

One or two chapters sought from U.S. practicing academic, public, school, special librarians, LIS faculty, sharing practical know-how about what works for patrons with genealogy: proven, creative, case studies, how-to chapters based on experience to help colleagues with acquisitions, storage, digitization, innovative workshops, community outreach, grants, user instruction, latest resources.

One, two, or three authors per chapter; each chapter by the same author(s). Compensation: one complimentary copy per 3,000-4,000 word chapter accepted no matter how many co-authors or if one or two chapters: author discount on more.

Please e-mail titles of proposed chapters each described in a few sentences by February 28, 2017, brief bio on each author; place GENEALOLGY, YOUR LAST NAME on subject line: smallwood.carol@gmail.com

Working with Library Juice Press: An Orientation (Free Webinar)

Working with Library Juice Press: An Orientation

Presenter: Alison M. Lewis, Chief Acquisitions Editor for Library Juice Press

This free webinar will provide an overview of the processes involved in having a book published with Library Juice Press. Topics covered will include types of books we publish, submitting a proposal, working with your editor, creating a quality manuscript, and an overview and timeline of the publishing process. The intended audience is anyone curious about our publishing process, particularly those who are potentially interested in submitting a book proposal to us. Authors and editors who currently have a book contract with us may also wish to attend. The presentation will last approximately 45 minutes, with 10-15 minutes for questions afterwards.

February 1st, 12 noon EST. One hour duration.

No prior registration is necessary. Just go here at the meeting time:
https://libraryjuice.adobeconnect.com/working-with-ljp/

Rory Litwin
Library Juice Press
http://libraryjuicepress.com/

New Issue: Journal of Documentation

Volume 73, Issue 1

Articles

Re-conceiving time in reference and information services work: a qualitative secondary analysis
Jenny Bossaller, Christopher Sean Burns, Amy VanScoy

A knowledge management framework for effective integration of national archives resources in China
Xiaomi An, Wenlin Bai, Hepu Deng, Shuyang Sun, Wenrui Zhong, Yu Dong

Researching fractured (information) landscapes: Implications for library and information science researchers undertaking research with refugees and forced migration studies
Annemaree Lloyd

Cult of the “I”: Organizational symbolism and curricula in three Scandinavian iSchools with comparisons to three American
Koraljka Golub, Joacim Hansson, Lars Selden

Warrant as a means to study classification system design
Julia Bullard

The conceptual ecology of digital humanities
Alex H. Poole

An analytical approach to building a core ontology for food
Devika P. Madalli, Usashi Chatterjee, Biswanath Dutta

In-between strengthened accessibility and economic demands: Analysing self-service libraries from a user perspective
Lisa Engström, Johanna Rivano Eckerdal

GAFA speaks: metaphors in the promotion of cloud technology
Maria Lindh, Jan Michael Nolin

Reviews and Commentaries

About and on Behalf of Scriptum Est by Vesa Suominen
Steven Laporte

New/Recent Publications and Scholarship

The Care of Prints and Drawings, Second Edition. By Margaret Holben Ellis. Rowman & Littlefield.

Latinos in Libraries, Museums, and Archives, Cultural Competence in Action! An Asset-Based Approach. By Patricia Montiel-Overall; Annabelle Villaescusa Nunez; Veronica Reyes-Escudero.  Rowman & Littlefield.

The Dictionary of the Book: A Glossary for Book Collectors, Booksellers, Librarians, and Others. By Sidney E. Berger. Rowman & Littlefield.

Out of the Box: Meddling With Medieval Manuscripts. M Hicks, S Mielczarski. The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research.

Book History Scholarship: Creation, Transmission of Knowledge and Archives. By Ojeda, Danné; Lommen, Mathieu. Visible Language

Digital archives, cultural identity and diversity, meaning economy. Peter Stockinger. Council of Europe Conference.

Rethinking the Archives: History Lectures for the Health Sciences. By Sandra Bandy and Renee Sharrock. Augusta University Libraries.

Availability of Russian archives and illusion of the source study updating: What Russian and foreign researches dealing with the documents should know. A. Litvin. Kazan Federal University Digital Repository.

Querying Queer African Archives: Methods and Movements. By Thérèse Migraine-George, Ashley Currier. Women’s Studies Quarterly.

Qualitative psychology and the archive: Introduction to the special section. By Cristian Tileagă and Jovan Byford. Qualitative Psychology.

Bridging the Gap: Selected Works and TopScholar Galleries. By Sue Lynn McDaniel and Todd J. Seguin. Kentucky Convergence Conference.

CFP: Archival Issues

Archival Issues, one of the premier publications of archival literature is accepting submissions. The Editorial Board of the Midwest Archives Conference strives to publish articles that will interest and educate a broad range of information professionals. Acceptable topics for articles cover the full range of archival activity.

Although Archival Issues publishes contributions from well-established professionals, the Editorial Board particularly encourages submissions from archivists who have not published previously. Editorial Board reviews of articles are conducted in a blind review process, and authors are usually informed of publication decisions within six weeks.

Please send submissions and questions to Alexandra Orchard, alexandra@wayne.edu.

 

Call for Nominations: 2017 LPC Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Library Publishing

2017 LPC Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Library Publishing

As participation in library publishing grows, the development of a strong evidence base to inform best practices and demonstrate impact is essential. To encourage research and theoretical work about library publishing services (for a definition of “library publishing”, see the LPC website), the Library Publishing Coalition announces the Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Library Publishing, which recognizes the best publication from the preceding calendar year. The LPC Research Committee will evaluate submissions and select a recipient for the award, which will be announced at the annual Library Publishing Forum. The 2016 Award went to Ann Okerson and Alex Holzman for “The Once and Future Publishing Library.” (2015. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, pub 166)

The award recipient will receive a cash award of $250 and a certificate, as well as an opportunity to present their work at the 2017 Library Publishing Forum. (One complimentary registration for the 2017 Forum and a travel stipend of $500 will also be provided).

The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2017.

Submission Guidelines

  1. Nominations may be made either by the author(s) or by any employee of a LPC member institution. Nominated author(s) do not need to be affiliated with a LPC member institution.
    1. Note: If a Research Committee member is nominated, they will recuse themselves from Committee discussions/voting on this award.
  2. Any textual publication type—article, monograph, conference paper/proceeding, white paper/report, thesis/dissertation—is eligible (subject to #4 below).
  3. Submissions must present original research or theoretical work, and be published open access in English during the preceding calendar year (2016).
  4. Submissions must have undergone appropriate peer review (e.g. for articles, a journal peer review process; for dissertations, review/acceptance by a committee). Nominations must briefly describe the review process used for the submission.
  5. Submissions must address a topic or question directly related to library publishing services. For the purposes of the award, “research” will be considered to include both generalizable research and non-generalizable program/project evaluation. “Theory” will be considered to include both the presentation of a novel theory and the application of existing theory (e.g. a program/process/practice description that is presented within a theoretical framework).
  6. Submissions with multiple authors are eligible; however, only one cash prize and one Forum registration/travel stipend will be awarded.

Submission Process

  1. Nominations should be submitted through the LPC website: http://librarypublishing.org/research/research-award17
  2. Nomination letters must include:
    1. Nominator name and contact information.
    2. Author (or lead author’s) name and contact information.
    3. Full citation information for the nominated work, including the URL where the open access version of the work is available.
    4. A brief (1–2 sentences) description of the peer review process used for the submission.
    5. A brief (no more than one paragraph) nomination statement that addresses the evaluation guidelines below.
    6. For multiple authors: If awarded, specify how the award benefits are to be divided.

Award

The award recipient will receive:

  1. A cash prize of $250.
  2. One complimentary registration for the 2017 Forum.
  3. $500 travel stipend.
    1. Note: For submissions with multiple authors, the authors may elect to split these benefits among themselves (e.g. one author takes the registration, another takes the travel stipend, and another takes the cash prize; all authors split the travel stipend and/or cash prize among themselves, etc.)
  4. A 45-minute presentation session at the 2017 Forum to share the work described in the winning publication.

Evaluation Guidelines

Nominated publications will be evaluated, and an award recipient selected, by the LPC Research Committee based on the following criteria:

  • For theoretical works, the relevance and/or meaningful application to library publishing services of the conceptual framework(s) introduced;
  • For research (or evaluation) works, the appropriateness of the methodology and its execution;
  • The organization of the paper and clarity of the writing;
  • The significance of the findings/conclusion, for example (but not limited to):
    • The immediate utility of the work for library publishing programs
    • The strength of findings that demonstrate value or impact of library publishing services
    • The likelihood that the work will change or influence practice

Allegra Swift | Scholarly Communication & Publishing Coordinator 
800 North Dartmouth Ave. | Claremont, CA 91711
909.607.0893 | allegra_swift@cuc.claremont.edu| libraries.claremont.edu