The complete and updated list of vacancies in subject and language sections is maintained at:

http://www.guidetoreference.org/DynamicContent.aspx?ctype=13

To join the team, please see the position description and application form at:

http://www.guidetoreference.org/DynamicContent.aspx?ctype=8

(Please excuse duplication; message cross-posted to several lists.)

Denise Bennett, incoming General Editor for Guide to Reference
University of Florida, Marston Science Library
dbennett@ufl.edu
352-273-2864

Please excuse any cross-postings.

Program Directors and Deans, Please pass this information along to all interested parties.

ALISE 2010: Call for Applications for the ALISE / University of Washington Information School Youth Services Graduate Student Travel Award

Deadline: July 15, 2009 @ 11:59 p.m. to jcnaidoo@slis.ua.edu (Youth SIG Co-chair Jamie Campbell Naidoo) Notification to Award Recipients: October 1, 2009

The ALISE Youth SIG seeks graduate student applications for the ALISE / University of Washington Information School Youth Services Graduate Student Travel Award which supports costs associated with travel to and participation in the 2010 ALISE Annual Conference in Boston, MA.

This award is open to students currently enrolled (at the time of the ALISE conference) in an LIS graduate program (including both doctoral and master’s studies) with a concentration in youth services, broadly defined to include materials and library/information services for children and young adults in both everyday life and school settings. Applicants must be members of the Youth Services SIG and must be actively participating in the 2010 ALISE conference (e.g., presenting a poster or a paper, serving as a member of a panel, interviewing for a faculty position). An individual may only receive the Award once. Additional information about the Award is available at http://www.alise.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=70366.

Interested graduate students should submit an application which includes: (1) a letter (no more than one page, single-spaced) describing the individual’s interest and work in the youth services area; (2) evidence of participation in the coming conference (This can be a written statement of your intent to submit a poster/paper/panel application); and (3) a current CV. Applications will be adjudicated by a panel made up of three members of the Youth Services SIG selected and coordinated by the current year’s SIG chair(s).

Applications for the 2010 ALISE / University Of Washington Information School Youth Services Graduate Student Travel Award should be submitted electronically (as attached PDF or Word file) no later than 11:59 p.m. on July 15, 2009 to Youth SIG Co-Chair Jamie Campbell Naidoo, University of Alabama (jcnaidoo@slis.ua.edu).

Want to submit a speaking proposal? Go to https://secure.infotoday.com/cilspeakers/SpeakerSubmissions.asp. The deadline for submissions is September 15.

CALL FOR PUBLICATIONS

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SCIENCE

SPECIAL ISSUE: IMAGE INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL: CHALLENGES AND NEW PERSPECTIVES

Submission Deadline: September 1st, 2009

Guest Editor

Elaine Ménard

School of Information Studies

McGill University

Montreal, Canada

Theme

The guest editor of this special issue of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science invites original research from all disciplines reporting on various aspects of digital image perception, understanding, indexing, and retrieval. This includes, but is not limited to:

* Image indexing strategies within an information retrieval context

* Social computing, image tagging and folksonomies

* Methods, models, and theories applicable to image research

* Image users and uses

* Cognitive aspects of image perception and understanding

* Cross-Language Image Retrieval

* Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR)

Applications described in the papers can be academic prototypes or commercial software.

Manuscripts will undergo the normal double-blind review process for submissions to CJILS.

The journal

The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, established in 1976, is the official journal of the Canadian Association for Information Science. Its objective is to promote the advancement of information science in Canada.

Language

Submissions are accepted in either English or French.

Inquiries and Submission

Please send your manuscript (Word or RTF) to:

Elaine Ménard

School of Information Studies

McGill University

3459 McTavish Street Room MS72

Montreal (Quebec) Canada H3A 1Y1

E-mail: elaine.menard@mcgill.ca <mailto:elaine.menard@mcgill.ca>

Instructions for authors are available on-line on the journal website: (http://www.cais-acsi.ca/journal/guidelines.htm <https://exchange.mcgill.ca/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.cais-acsi.ca/journal/guidelines.htm> ).

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APPEL À ARTICLES

REVUE CANADIENNE DES SCIENCES DE L’INFORMATION ET DE BIBLIOTHECONOMIE

NUMERO THEMATIQUE: INDEXATION ET REPERAGE D’IMAGES : DEFIS ET NOUVELLES PERSPECTIVES

Date limite de soumission : 1er septembre 2009

Rédactrice invitée

Elaine Ménard

School of Information Studies

McGill University

Montréal, Canada

Thème

La rédactrice invitée de ce numéro thématique de la Revue canadienne des sciences de l’information et de bibliothéconomie invite les chercheurs provenant de différentes disciplines à soumettre les résultats de travaux de recherche originaux traitant tout aspect se rapportant à la perception, l’Interprétation, l’indexation et le repérage de l’image numérique. Ce thème inclut, sans pour autant s’y limiter, les aspects suivants :

* Stratégie pour l’indexation de l’image à l’intérieur du processus de recherche d’information

* Indexation collaborative, tagging et folksonomies pour l’image

* Méthodes, modèles, théories en lien avec le repérage d’image

* Utilisations et utilisateurs d’images

* Aspects cognitifs de la perception et la compréhension de l’image

* Recherche d’images en contexte multilingue

* Repérage d’images basé sur le contenu

Les applications décrites dans les publications peuvent être de nature académique ou destinée à des utilisations commerciales.

Les propositions reçues feront l’objet d’une évaluation anonyme par des pairs selon les modalités normales d’évaluation de la Revue canadienne des sciences de l’information et de bibliothéconomie.

La revue

La Revue canadienne des sciences de l’information et de bibliothéconomie, établie en 1976, est la revue officielle de l’Association canadienne des sciences de l’information. Elle a pour objectif de contribuer à l’avancement des sciences de l’information et de bibliothéconomie au Canada.

Langue

Les soumissions sont acceptées en français et en anglais.

Soumission

Veuillez envoyer votre manuscrit en version électronique (Word ou RTF) à :

Elaine Ménard

School of Information Studies

McGill University

3459 McTavish Street Room MS72

Montréal (Québec) Canada H3A 1Y1

E-mail : elaine.menard@mcgill.ca <mailto:elaine.menard@mcgill.ca>

Les instructions pour les auteurs sont disponibles en ligne sur le site de la revue (http://www.cais-acsi.ca/journal/guidelines_fr.htm <https://exchange.mcgill.ca/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.cais-acsi.ca/journal/guidelines_fr.htm> ).

ALISE 2010: Call for Applications for the ALISE / University of Washington Information School Youth Services Graduate Student Travel Award

Deadline: July 15, 2009 @ 11:59 p.m.

Notification to Award Recipients: October 1, 2009

The ALISE Youth SIG seeks graduate student applications for the ALISE / University of Washington Information School Youth Services Graduate Student Travel Award which supports costs associated with travel to and participation in the 2010 ALISE Annual Conference in Boston, MA.

This award is open to students currently enrolled (at the time of the ALISE conference) in an LIS graduate program (including both doctoral and master’s studies) with a concentration in youth services, broadly defined to include materials and library/information services for children and young adults in both everyday life and school settings. Applicants must be members of the Youth Services SIG and must be actively participating in the 2010 ALISE conference (e.g., presenting a poster or a paper, serving as a member of a panel, interviewing for a faculty position). An individual may only receive the Award once. Additional information about the Award is available at http://www.alise.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=70366.

Interested graduate students should submit an application which includes: (1) a letter (no more than one page, single-spaced) describing the individual’s interest and work in the youth services area; (2) evidence of participation (or submission to participate) in the coming conference (e.g.., poster/paper/panel acceptance/application); and (3) a current CV. Applications will be adjudicated by a panel made up of three members of the Youth Services SIG selected and coordinated by the current year’s SIG chair(s).

Applications for the 2010 ALISE / University Of Washington Information School Youth Services Graduate Student Travel Award should be submitted electronically (as attached PDF or Word file) no later than 11:59 p.m. on July 15, 2009 to Jamie Campbell Naidoo, University of Alabama (jcnaidoo@slis.ua.edu).

Please excuse any cross-postings you may receive.

AERA’s deadline for paper submissions has moved up this year to July 15th! We don’t want you to miss the deadline. To help you with your submission, the 2010 AERA theme is “Understanding Complex Ecologies in a Changing World.” The Research, Education, Information & School Libraries (REISL) Special Interest Group’s corollary theme is “School Libraries and Media Centers in a Complex Information Environment.” REISL is open to many topics under this broad description to be presented at the 2010 AERA Annual Meeting in Denver, April 30 – May 4.

We look forward to your submission to REISL. Your submission should be a Word document of 6 pages in length, double-spaced (less than 2,000 words) turned in by Wednesday, July 15, 2009. The following elements must be addressed in the narrative paper even if your results, conclusions, or findings are not complete or final at the time of the submission:

· Objectives or purposes

· Perspective(s) or theoretical framework

· Methods, techniques, or modes of inquiry

· Data sources, evidence, objects or materials

· Results and/or substantiated conclusions or warrants for arguments/points of view

· Scientific or scholarly significance of the study or work

Please take some time this week or next to offer a your paper submission for the REISL SIG. We would greatly appreciate your support and your interest, not to mention the work that you do!

Thank you. We look forward to seeing you. Please log on at http://aera.net/ Holly Weimar REISL Communications Officer Research in Education, Information and School Libraries A Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association

“We understand the challenges facing academic and research librarians in the area of professional development in the current economy,” said ACRL President Erika Linke. “The Frequent Learner Program is ACRL’s way of ensuring continued access to quality online learning while helping with the bottom line.”

Enrollment in the Frequent Learner Program is automatic for all individuals and groups registering for ACRL e-Learning courses and Webcasts starting Sept. 1. No additional signup is required. Complimentary e-Learning must be redeemed within 18 months of the first course or Webcast. Frequent Learner Program rewards are only redeemable for ACRL e-Learning opportunities and have no cash value. ACRL e-Learning courses and Webcasts attended prior to Sept. 1, 2009, are not eligible for the Frequent Learner Program.

Complete rules and redemption details are available on the ACRL e-Learning site at http://www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/elearning/index.cfm. Contact Jon Stahler at jstahler@ala.org or (312) 280-2511 with questions about the Frequent Learner Program and ACRL e-Learning opportunities.

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The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is a division of the American Library Association (ALA), representing nearly 13,000 academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the only individual membership organization in North America that develops programs, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research environments. ACRL is on the Web at http://www.acrl.org/.