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CFP: ELUNA 2026 Practical Applications and General Product/Tool Demonstrations Track (April 29 – May 1, 2026 – Los Angeles, California) – Ex Libris

ELUNA Call for Proposals–Practical Applications and General Product/Tool Demonstrations Track

The ELUNA 2026 Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee is excited to open the Call for Proposals for sessions in Practical Applications and General Product/Tool Demonstrations! We invite you to submit your 45-minute breakout session ideas for the 2026 Annual Meeting by January 15, 2026.

Our conference theme is “Libraries Always Changing.” Libraries and archives are some of the best organizations to address this. All of you adapt to continue to create and improve connections by integrating various technologies allowing your patrons to access and interact with information and other resources in new formats via different tools. You pioneer new programs to fulfill community needs as your visions help you champion your patrons. We look forward to seeing your unique spin on this topic.

The Practical applications & general product/tool demonstrations track encourages proposals for all topics, and here are just a few to think about!

  • Workflows and projects in and across acquisitions, cataloging/metadata management, circulation, resource sharing, etc.
  • Cross-departmental collaborative projects
  • “Cool tools” that integrate with, or help with, Alma workflows
  • Metadata management
  • Data cleanup
  • Managing or using COUNTER statistics 
  • Cross-training/ changing jobs and applying skills from one module to another
  • Documenting institutional knowledge, recording workflows, preparing for retirements and other changes 
  • Changes in the ILL landscape

Submit your session proposal(s) by the January 15, 2026 deadline!  Once again, we are using the Dryfta platform to collect your proposal submissions.

  • Visit our Ex Libris Knowledge Days and ELUNA Conference 2026 event page
  • Log in with your credentials used last year (or create a new account if you didn’t create an account previously by choosing Attendee Registration – Create Account)
  • Click your name menu > My Submissions
  • Click “New Submissions” on the My Submissions page
  • On the Submission form, click once on the Event Name in the Submission Type field to show the Annual Meeting proposal fields – even if Annual Meeting is already displaying
  • Enter your proposal information (you can save and complete the presentation proposal later if needed)

Want to review the proposal form fields for the Annual Meeting without logging into Dryfta? Or would you like some guidance filling them in? Visit the ELUNA Proposal Tips page for more information.

You’ll see more reminder messages from us throughout the 2026 Annual Meeting lifecycle. And even if you are not interested in presenting at the Annual Meeting this year, we hope you plan to join us for one or more ELUNA 2026 Conference events at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles, California.

  • ELUNA Developers Day+: April 27 – 28, 2026
  • ELUNA Analytics Afternoon: April 28, 2026
  • ELUNA Annual Meeting:  April 29 – May 1, 2026

Looking for hands-on training for Ex Libris products? Ex Libris will offer Knowledge Days as a pre-conference event on April 27 – 28, 2026.

If you have any questions about the ELUNA 2026 Annual Meeting or the other ELUNA 2026 Conference events, send them to ELUNA’s LibAnswers Queue for the ELUNA 2026 Planning Team to answer.

We are happy to answer questions about the Practical Applications & General Product/Tool Demonstrations sessions (our emails hyperlinked below).  Hope to see you in Los Angeles! 

Rebecca Hyams, Meghan Lenahan, and Keelan Weber

Co-chairs, Practical Applications & General Product/Tool Demonstrations Track

2026 Oral History Association Annual Meeting: Call for Proposals

2026 Oral History Association Annual Meeting: Call for Proposals

October 14-17, 2026 | Portland, OR

Landscapes of Memory

Our memories are shaped by the landscapes we inhabit—both real and imagined. These landscapes are shifting in the face of environmental change, political instability, and an ongoing sense of crisis. Ancient connections with the natural world are being severed, and people are displaced not only from this innate connection to the earth but also from familiar ways of living and relating to one another. As oral historians, we witness narrators’ struggles to imagine new identities within this changing ecology.

For the 2026 Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, we invite contributions from around the world —from those working in academia, advocacy, education, and community-based practice—that speak to how people shape and are shaped by the landscapes they inhabit, traverse, defend, or are forced to leave behind. We welcome proposals that explore relationships to land, memory, and movement across shifting environmental, political, and cultural boundaries.

The Pacific Northwest offers a vivid backdrop for these conversations. Portland is where many Indian tribes collaborate on river and salmon habitat restoration. It is where Governor Tom McCall pioneered environmental laws that became a national model, and where artists, writers, and community organizers have long given voice to place, displacement, and environmental justice. The region’s convergence of urban innovation, protected wilderness, and layered histories invites wide-ranging discussions about how oral histories illuminate ecological crises, stewardship, and resilience.

Possible areas of focus include, but are not limited to:

  • Ecological knowledge, Indigenous storytelling, and traditional/local epistemologies
  • Displacement, migration, activism, and environmental change
  • Borderlands and their stories—whether shaped by international borders, colonial legacies, or climate crises—and the questions they raise about identity, belonging, and resilience
  • Foodways, coastal livelihoods, sacred geographies, and senses of place grounded in memory
  • How digital tools, social media, and emerging technologies shape or amplify environmental narratives and collective memory
  • How oral history bridges local and global contexts in documenting environmental change
  • How people remember and make meaning of the places they have lost—or reclaimed
  • What it means to belong to a place today
  • Interdisciplinary approaches—from Memory Studies, Environmental History, and related fields

We encourage proposals from academics, independent scholars, activists, museum curators, tribal historians, teachers, students, archivists, documentary filmmakers, artists, creative writers, ethnographers, and other practitioners whose work relates to these themes. The Program Committee welcomes broad and creative interpretations of the conference theme and encourages innovative formats, such as workshops, interactive sessions, performances, digital media presentations, and collaborative community reports.

To submit a proposal, please click here.

To view the submission guidelines, please click here.

Contact Email

oha@oralhistory.org

URL: https://oralhistory.org/2026-call-for-proposals/

CFP: “Political Activism and material culture: definitions, practices, periodisations. A dialogue between researchers, archivists and museum curators”, ACTIVATE – MSCA Horizon Europe Project, University of Padua, 4-5 May 2026

This workshop is part of the project “ACTIVATE: The activist, the archivist and the researcher. Novel collaborative strategies of transnational research, archiving and exhibiting social and political dissent in Europe (19th-21st centuries)”. ACTIVATE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2023 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101182859.

The project was launched in January 2025 and explores in a 4-year initiative practices of collecting, archiving, and promoting documents, objects, and data, contributing to a renewed European history of social and political dissent from the early 19th century to the present day.

Further information about the project is available at https://activate-horizon.eu/

“Political Activism and material culture: definitions, practices, periodisations. A dialogue between researchers, archivists and museum curators”
Call for Paper | ACTIVATE WP3 Workshop #1
May 4-5 2026 | University of Padua and online
This workshop aims at bringing together academic, archival, museum partners with specific expertise on the relationship between politics and material culture. In recent decades, historiography has undergone a ‘material turn’ that has led to a less asymmetrical focus on the relationship between human and non-human, in particular objects and artefacts. This has produced new perspectives on the construction of social identities, the experiences of consumption and the trajectories of everyday life. At the same time, less attention has been paid to the “material history of politics” focusing on objects as key elements of political mobilisation. From the late 18th century revolutions to the recent Gen Z protests in Nepal, Philippines or Madagascar, the process of politicisation has been expressed through ‘disobedient’ objects, capable of evoking, striking and provoking in a politically significant way. Physical objects can play all sorts of roles in collective action, as we have seen in many recent movements, where material participation has been particularly widespread and important. The main objective of this workshop is to look at the history of militant culture by focusing on a scarcely developed aspect: the link between political experience and material culture. It aims to do so by promoting close cooperation between researchers and those involved in collecting, cataloguing and exhibiting such documentary material.

Workshop topics:
1) Definition of political/militant objects
How to define political objects from the perspective of historians, archivist and museums? What makes an object political, and specifically militant? What objects has political activism imagined and used in its long history, stretching from the age of revolutions to the present day? This question is particularly interesting in relation to objects that do not appear political at first glance. Are objects like Annemarie Renger’s dancing shoes or Margaret Thatcher’s handbags political objects? Bras and false eyelashes are certainly not political objects, but they became so in the feminist struggles of the 1970s. The issue is closely linked to the uses and practices that these objects generate from time to time and to the different forms of material participation that they entail, even in everyday life. It allows us to reflect on different chronologies and phases of political activism, focusing on four themes: revolutionary movements; feminisms; environmental struggles; international solidarity. A definition of political objects should go beyond time periods and materiality and also address the political dimension of everyday objects.

2) History and methods of collecting militant objects
Since the late 18th century, revolutions and protests, as well as party and grassroots mobilisations, have shown that social and political activism often leads to the preservation of material objects bearing witness to the engagement of individuals, groups, and associations. Archives, like historiography, have so far focused more on written holdings than 3-D objects and are now facing a new challenge. Museums, especially historical ones, are certainly more accustomed to collecting objects, especially those with recognized historical-artistic value. Yet political and militant objects often lack such value. How were collections formed that related to activism? Where, by whom, and for what purposes were they kept? When were they turned into heritage? What country-specific differences exist with regard to the history of collecting militant objects?

3) Cataloguing and preparing metadata
Objects need to be catalogued for making them accessible to research. Therefore, questions about cataloguing and enriching metadata a central: How can a political object be described – WHAT is an object, HOW is it catalogued, and HOW does it fit into archive/library and museums structures? How do museums and archives identify and record political objects in their collections? What parameters are used to define political objects, and how is this reflected in the metadata? Which (national) standards such as ministerial requirements for metadata standards for object cataloging are used at the respective institutions that are applied during cataloging and what perspectives and problems arise due to the different nature of the description: use of data fields and how do they correspond to standards known from the archival sector, are there interfaces?

4) Preserving, reproducing, and enhancing material sources
How should different materials be handled? Paper is generally patient when stored properly, but how should fragile materials such as textiles, which are not made to last forever, be handled? Different materials place different demands on packaging, climatic conditions, and storage. Archives and museums face the challenge of preserving these materials in the long term. Dealing with objects that are irrevocably subject to decay is also a challenge that particularly affects AV materials and forces many institutions to act. Digitization is not a solution to this problem, but a resource that gives objects a second life and new uses, providing novel means of access, consultation, interpretation, and valorization. To date, militant objects have rarely been central to heritage valorization projects: thus, beyond their and museums present their collections and narrate their history.

We encourage researchers, archivists, and museum curators to submit papers addressing these topics either from a theoretical and methodological perspective or by presenting specific case studies or experiences.

Please submit your proposal, with a maximum of 3,000 characters including spaces, along with a brief CV, by 28 January 2026 to this email: activatewp3@gmail.com

Organizing Committee:
Carlotta Sorba (University of Padua)
Anja Kruke (Friedrich Ebert Foundation)
Laura Valentini (Friedrich Ebert Foundation)
Alessio Petrizzo (University of Padua)

Contact Email

activatewp3@gmail.com

URL: https://activate-horizon.eu/

CFP: Thinking Through Printing symposium

Thinking Through Printing
A Symposium on Book Arts Studios and
Book History Scholarship
University of Toronto  |  June 4 – 6, 2026
www.ThinkingThroughPrinting2026.ca

Dates: June 4 – 6, 2026
Location: University of Toronto (in-person only)
Proposal due date: January 19th, 2026, 11:59 pm EST
Submit proposals to: Submission Form

For scholars of the history of books, reading, authorship, design, and publishing, first-hand experiences with the technologies and practices of the book arts have moved from the margins to the centre of their discipline. Experiential bibliography has flourished within academic programs in book history and adjacent fields, which are increasingly populated by aspiring printer-bibliographers, faculty and students alike. To that end, book arts studios are becoming vital spaces for book history education and research.

Essential for the long-term success of these initiatives is a coherent and focused conversation on the rationales, educational goals, and research potentials of print studios and other spaces for experiential bibliography. As a follow-up to the 2025 Building Book Labs symposium at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, this event will gather present and future leaders working at the intersection of book history, research creation, and digital scholarship to reflect on achievements, share strategies, explore challenges, and plan future projects that combine book history scholarship and experiential learning in the book arts.

The Thinking Through Printing symposium will offer participants two full days of experiential workshops, roundtables, and exhibitions (June 5-6), plus a public keynote talk by Ryan Cordell (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; June 4), founding director of the Skeuomorph Press & Book Lab.

What are the research questions in book history that can only be answered via work in a print studio? How does experiential bibliography open up areas of inquiry for students and advanced researchers alike? In an age of unsettling technological change, what role do older printing technologies and practices have in helping society understand the power of words, images, and material artifacts? How might we understand the past differently by making bookish artifacts of our own within communities of practitioner-scholars? How can research creation projects that emerge from these book arts studios be better supported and recognized in academic contexts?

Our symposium will address these high-level questions through a multi-modal approach that reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the book arts and book history, combining roundtable discussions, experiential workshops, student-led poster sessions, rare book library tours, a keynote lecture and roundtable (both open to the public), and other activities.

We invite brief statements of interest (max. 300 words) which address: 1) your interest and experience in the field; and 2) a proposal for a specific topic, question, or experiential workshop that you would like to address or have addressed by the symposium. For those interested in facilitating a 90-minute workshop, please provide a short description of the activity, its goals, and tools, supplies, and other resources needed for the workshop. Workshops could be hands-on, discussion-based, or both.

Topics for workshops, roundtables, and subsequent discussions will be chosen by the program committee with the goal of representing a broad range of approaches and outputs in experiential bibliography.

Examples of workshop and roundtable topics include:

  • Interdisciplinary research methods combining book arts, book history, and digital humanities;
  • Book arts studios as sites for pedagogical research;
  • Advocacy for and implementation of experiential, studio-based research creation in the humanities;
  • Connections between contemporary and historical practices in printing;
  • Material and practical challenges in the implementation of experiential activities;
  • Productive connections (and tensions) between digital and analog technologies, practices, and ways of thinking about material texts; what can digital scholarship learn from the book arts (and vice versa)?
  • Working and teaching with artifacts that have culturally specific histories (e.g. Indigenous type, as potential objects for repatriation), whose provenance is complex and raises ethical questions about their use

Please fill out this Submission Form to apply. The deadline for proposals is Monday, January 19, 2026 at 11:59 pm EST.

Any questions about the event or the application process may be sent to thinkingthroughprinting@utoronto.ca.

CFP: Bibliographical Society of Canada Conference, June 2026

The Many Hands of Book History
Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada / Société bibliographique du Canada
8-9 June 2026, University of Toronto

The Bibliographical Society of Canada invites proposals for its annual conference on the theme, The Many Hands of Book History. Drawing on Robert Darnton’s foundational article “What is the History of Books”(1985), this conference turns toward the expanded, evolving, and interdependent networks that shape book history. Darnton’s Communications Circuit model traced the movement of books through multiple hands and bibliographers today continue to stretch, challenge, and reimagine that circuit. This year’s theme considers books not simply as paper, ink, and binding, but as profoundly collaborative objects shaped at every stage by labour, creativity, culture, ownership, and interpretation.

We invite participants to explore the diverse social, material, and cultural processes through which books—broadly conceived—have been created, preserved, circulated, and transformed. We encourage papers that explore interactions between any hands involved with the book, including creators, artists, printers, illustrators, binders, publishers, booksellers, readers, collectors, archivists, scholars, and communities. We also welcome contributions that provoke new methodological, material, and theoretical questions—especially from disciplines and practitioners who may not always identify themselves as “book people.”

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Materiality and Meaning: How formats, illustration, binding, decoration, wear, repair, and digital remediation shape the interpretation, circulation, and preservation of textual objects.
  • Books as Collaborative and Communal Objects: The ways in which book creation fosters shared identities, reflects or silences human experience, and emerges from the labour and creativity of diverse communities.
  • Research Centered on Marginalized Voices: Studies of book culture by, for, and/or from 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, BIPOC communities, persons with disabilities, women, and/or religious or cultural groups.
  • Analogue and Digital Materialities: From parchment, paper, ink, and leather to bits, bytes, algorithms, and born-digital forms; questions of reprinting, digitization, open access, and remediation.
  • Tools, Methods, and Approaches: Bibliography, critical theory, scientific analysis, digital humanities, artificial intelligence, data-driven research, and other interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary methods.
  • Pedagogy and Practice: Teaching with books and cultural heritage materials; hands-on learning; community-engaged scholarship; and the impact of archival and material encounters on students, communities, and other learners.
  • The Diverse Forms and Functions of “The Book” Across Time and Place: Manuscripts, archives, zines, artists’ books, digital platforms, print ephemera, community publications, and experimental or hybrid forms.

This conference emphasizes welcoming participation across fields and career stages, including students, early-career researchers, conservators, librarians, book artists, digital humanists, bibliographers, and scholars working within or alongside book history and bibliography. Proposals may engage with material, visual, scientific, technological, or community-based approaches; with Canadian or international contexts; and with intersectional, cross-cultural, and transnational perspectives.

Proposals:

Proposals for twenty-minute conference presentations, entire panels (three presentations), or hour-long workshops may be submitted in English or French. Proposals, which must be submitted via the online form, must include the following elements:

  • Title of presentation/panel/workshop
  • Abstract indicating argument, context, and methods (max. 250 words)
  • Bio (50-100 words) including full name, professional designation (e.g., graduate student, faculty, librarian, researcher etc.), and institutional affiliation or place

In order to accommodate financial and accessibility issues, this conference will be presented in a limited hybrid capacity. Please specify whether your proposal is for an in-person or online presentation when submitting. Priority will be given to in-person presentations, and online presentations must be recorded and submitted prior to the conference.

Applicants to the Emerging Scholar Prize must also include:

  • Cover letter (1 p.) explaining the applicant’s suitability for the prize
  • CV (max. 3 pp.)
  • Proof of student status or of graduation within the past two years (copy of diploma, student identification, or official or unofficial transcript)

Deadline: 30 January 2026

For more information: https://event.fourwaves.com/bsc/pages 

CFP: Text, Space, Memory: Italians Rewriting the Global and U.S. Souths

CfP for the panel ‘Text, Space, Memory: Italians Rewriting the Global and U.S. Souths’ at the Biennial Conference of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature ‘Building Spaces of Freedom’ (March 28-31, 2026 – Fisk University, Nashville, TN)

This panel investigates how Italian transnational communities, across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, have produced, negotiated and monumentalized cultural identity through literary texts, material practices and spatial imaginaries. Bringing together approaches from Italian studies, ethnic studies, literary analysis, spatial theory and material culture, the panel considers how Italian migrants in the Global and U.S. Souths used both texts and objects to articulate belonging, negotiate racial hierarchies and inscribe themselves into local landscapes.

We invite papers that explore how identity is shaped, contested, and remembered through:

1. Literature, Journalism, and Migrant Voices

  • narrative and poetic representations of Italian migration and settlement;
  • ethnic print cultures (e.g., community newspapers, serialized fiction, civic writing, public rhetoric);
  • writers, editors, grassroots intellectuals and cultural mediators who shaped local identities

2. Spatiality, Modernity and the Italian Imagination

  • spatial representations of modernity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature or visual culture;
  • literary constructions of southern geographies (Mediterranean, Latin American and U.S. Souths);
  • the role of space in negotiating whiteness, marginality, or social mobility.

3. Material Culture, Craft, and Memorial Practices

  • Italian American memorialization practices (monuments, plaques, markers, commemorative objects);
  • Italian craft, artistic labor, and material expertise in the creation of southern monuments:
  • intersections between artisanal traditions, racial identity, and cultural memory.

4. Archives, Public History and Digital Humanities

  • community archives, material or textual;
  • digital approaches to migrant storytelling, spatial mapping or narrative circulation;
  • public-facing practices that connect literature, objects and community memory.

We welcome contributions from literary studies, Italian studies, ethnic studies, art history, spatial humanities, history and digital humanities. Papers addressing understudied archives, multilingual sources, or intersectional methodologies are especially encouraged.

Please submit a 250–300 word abstract and a brief bio (50–75 words) to the panel organizers, Matteo Brera (University of Padova / Seton Hall University) and Alessia Martini (Sewanee – The University of the South) at matteo.brera@unipd.it and almartin@sewanee.edu by December 12, 2025.

Contact Information

Dr Matteo Brera
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Research Fellow
Università degli Studi di Padova / Seton Hall University
✉️ matteo.brera@unipd.it | matteo.brera@shu.edu
📞 +1 (934) 500-3088
🌐 http://www.msca-dashow.com

Contact Email

matteo.brera@unipd.it

URL

https://www.msca-dashow.com/news/sssl2026

CFP: International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) Annual Meeting

Dear all,
I am pleased to share with you the call for papers for the upcoming ICOHTEC Annual Meeting, which will be held at the Democritus University of Thrace in Greece from 8–11 October 2026, in collaboration with the Laboratory of Technologies, Research & Applications in Education/ School of Humanities and the Ethnological Museum of Thrace in Alexandroupolis, Greece.

The theme of this conference, “Engaging the History of Technology”, invites critical reflections on how history of technology can engage with evolving methodologies, theories and pedagogies, and other branches of historical study to demonstrate that understanding technologies’ pasts are essential to navigating contemporary challenges. The conference, therefore, seeks contributions across spatial and epistemic boundaries: from the everyday and local to the geopolitical and planetary; from archival practice to classroom teaching and public engagement; and from discipline-specific research methods to interdisciplinary collaborations.

Contributors may engage with one or more of the following themes, or even suggest new ways of thinking about: 
1. The History of Technology between the Local, the Regional, and the Global:
• Circulation of technologies, expertise, and knowledge across borders
• Adaptation and appropriation of technologies in different cultural contexts
• Tensions between globalisation and localisation in technological change
• Regional networks and their role in shaping technological trajectories
• Colonial, postcolonial and decolonial dimensions of technology
• Networks of maintenance and repair

2. History of Technology, Historiography and Education:
• Methodological innovations in researching the history of technology
• Interdisciplinary approaches and their challenges
• Teaching the history of technology in universities and schools
• Public engagement and the communication of technological history
• The relevance of technology history to contemporary policy debates
• Digital humanities and new forms of historical scholarship

3. Intersections between the History of Technology and Other Fields of Historical Study:
• Technology and social history: class, labour, gender, and everyday life
• Technology and cultural history: representation, identity, and meaning
• Technology and environmental history: sustainability, resource use, and ecological change
• Technology and economic history: innovation, industrialisation, and development
• Technology and political history: governance, regulation, and power
• Technology and the history of medicine: cultural values, therapeutic practice, and material conceptions about the human body

4. Special Focus: Museums, Material and Intangible Cultural Heritage, and Public Engagement: 
Given our collaboration with the Ethnological Museum of Thrace, we particularly welcome proposals that engage with material and intangible culture, museum practices, and public history. We are interested in innovative session formats that:
• Explore tensions and synergies between academic and museum approaches to technological history
• Demonstrate object-based learning methodologies
• Address the challenges of communicating technological history to diverse publics
• Examine the role of museums in preserving and interpreting technological heritage
• Study visitor engagements with intangible heritage, particularly those of marginalised and silenced ethno-cultural communities
• Critically examine the funding relationships between private technological and industrial interests, and museum

We welcome proposals in the following formats:
Paper presentations
Individual and author teams’ presentations. Please, submit an abstract of up to 350 words.

Panel Sessions
Thematically coherent sessions of 3-4 papers. Panel organisers should submit a panel abstract (up to 400 words) describing the theme and its significance; after approval the conference committee and the panel organisers will issue a specific call for proposals (individual or author teams’ paper abstracts up to 350 words each).

Roundtables
Discussion-based sessions with 4-6 participants addressing a specific question or debate. Organisers should submit a description of the topic and format (up to 350 words); names and brief bios of participants (up to 100 words each); key questions to be addressed.

Graduate Student and Early Career Opportunities
ICOHTEC is committed to supporting emerging scholars. We particularly welcome submissions from graduate students and early career researchers. The conference will feature:
• Visual Lightning Talk Competitions for graduate students
• Mentorship opportunities pairing students with established scholars
• Book development workshops

Submissions of abstracts through the conference website
Opening: 15 December 2025
Deadline: 31 January 2026

Official conference website: https://icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr
Email address: icohtec2026@gmail.com

Please find attached the detailed CfP and feel free to circulate it with your networks.

Thank you very much.

Contact Information

Organising Committee, ICOHTEC 2026

Contact Email

icohtec2026@gmail.com

URL

https://icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr/

CFP: Ozarks Studies Association Meeting

The Ozarks Studies Association (OSA) invites presentations, papers, and posters for its fifth annual meeting in Springfield, Missouri on April 3, 2026. Presentations from across the disciplines on broad array of issues related to any aspect of Ozarks life throughout Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas are invited. 

We invite proposals 

  • of complete panels (with or without a chair) or individual papers
  • by scholars, archivists, museum staff, independent scholars, and graduate students
  • in the fields of anthropology, archelogy, biology, environmental studies, engineering, geography, geology, history, literature, museum design, pedagogy, preservation, urban studies, zoology, etc.

To be considered, submit

  • an abstract 
  • a two-page CV
  • label it as paper or poster

To Dr. Jared Phillips at jmp006@uark.edu. 

All materials must be received by January 16th, 2026. Notifications will be made by February 6th, 2026. 

If you would be willing to chair a panel, submit a two-page CV Dr. Jared Phillips by March 6th, 2026.

All inquiries should be sent to Dr. Jared Phillips at jmp006@uark.edu. 

Contact Information

Jared Phillips

President, Ozarks Studies Association

Department of History

University of Arkansas

Contact Email

jmp006@uark.edu

URL

https://www.ozarks-studies-assoc.com/about-6

Call for Abstract Submissions: The 18th Annual Bridging the Spectrum Symposium on Scholarship and Practice

About the Symposium

Bridging the Spectrum: A Symposium on Scholarship and Practice in Library and Information Science offers a knowledge-sharing forum and meeting place for practitioners, students, and faculty in Library and Information Sciences and Services. Presentations are selected to showcase innovative practices, projects, and research activities in a variety of library, archives, or information services activities. Because students, faculty, and practitioners all share their work, the Symposium encompasses many different aspects and points of view on library and information professional work. The program’s goal is to foster unexpected connections across the spectrum of the information professions. 

Proposal Submission

Proceedings (including abstracts and select full-text or full-image presentations and posters) from Bridging the Spectrum symposia are published  in the open-access institutional repository powered by JSTOR. This reflects the symposium’s ongoing commitment to advancing scholarship,  practice, and conversation in the information professions.

We are now accepting abstract submissions for 2026 symposium presentations (250-300 words). The Symposium will include three types of presentations: individual papers, posters, and panels.

  • Individual papers are 15-minute presentations of an innovative practice, project, or research activity.
  • Posters are visual representations of a practice, a project, or research findings.
  • Panels are one-hour group discussions by several speakers centered on a specific topic, followed by Q&A or interactive engagements.
  • Participants may propose their own format, including workshops, un-conference sessions, and so on. 

Proposals can be submitted on any topic relevant to library and information science and archival practice or research. Below are some examples (but not an exhaustive list!):

  • Community engagement and outreach, including marketing and advocacy for library and information services.
  • Services for children and/or young adults in libraries.
  • LIS and international migration.
  • Reading practices across the lifespan.
  • Information services against misinformation and propaganda.
  • New developments in information organization (linked data, semantic web, etc.).
  • Preservation and management of born-digital and digitized resources.
  • Management and analysis of data and information.
  • Library networks and international collaboration.
  • Technology trends and their impact on information services.

Please submit your proposals at the Symposium submission portal.
Before you access the submission portal, please be prepared to enter the following information:

  • Your name and affiliation
  • Your email 
  • Your abstract of the required length (250-300 words)
  • Technical requirements that will facilitate your presentation
  • Accessibility requests if you have any

Important Dates

  • Submission of the Abstract: December 15, 2025
  • Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2026
  • Submission of presentation slides and posters for archiving on JSTOR (optional): February 27, 2026

Sponsorship and Partnership

Accommodations

Please include any accommodation requests when you register, or contact the Symposium committee at CUA-slis-symposium@CUA.edu or 202-319-5085. In all situations, a good faith effort (up until the time of the event) will be made to provide accommodations. 

Symposium Committee

Maria Mazzenga (chair), Keren Dali, Shane MacDonald, Heather Wiggins
Committee shared email address: cua-slis-symposium@cua.edu 

CFP: RBMS 2026 “Advocacy: Finding Your Voice”

RBMS 2026 is coming up June 23-26, 2026, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and online. Special collections and archives are evolving fast—new technologies, new audiences, new challenges. How do we make our voices heard, tell our stories, and secure the support we need? This year’s conference explores advocacy at every career stage, from speaking up as a newcomer to driving change as a leader. Join us to find inspiration, share strategies, and leave ready to amplify your impact.

The RBMS Conference Program Planning Committee enthusiastically invites you to contribute to an exploration of “Advocacy: Finding Your Voice.” Special collections and archives are transforming. Digitization, collaboration, expanded instruction, community engagement, and new approaches to stewardship are reshaping how we work and who we reach. In this moment of change, advocacy is more important than ever.

The committee invites proposals that explore advocacy in all its dimensions. How do you raise awareness, build support, or create change? What strategies help you amplify your voice—or the voices of others? How do you engage your communities, connect with donors, or make your case to decision-makers? Proposals that share successes, challenges, and lessons learned are also welcome. Together, we’ll explore how advocacy empowers us to move beyond sustaining our work to strengthening and reimagining it.

Join us in inspiring colleagues at every level to find their voice—and make it heard. The proposal deadline is December 12, 2025, and complete details are available on the conference website.