• Electronic Resources & Libraries 2008 -- Call for Proposals-- If you have any class, internship, and/or work-related projects, and the topics of your projects are related to the conference themes, don't miss this opportunity. You could partner with you peers of professors or *

   

  Have fun,

   

  Feili Tu, Ph.D.

   

  Electronic Resources & Libraries 2008

  March 18-21, 2008

  Atlanta, GA

  Call for Proposals

   

  http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/2008

 

          Posted by Travis Ferrell on behalf of Feili Tu

 

 

 

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Navigating with youth: In these days of technology, how can

public libraries attract and keep their young clientele?

 

 

August 5-7, 2008, Montreal (Quebec, Canada)

Public Libraries, Children and Young Adult Libraries, and Management and Marketing

Sections-IFLA

In collaboration with Les Bibliothèques Publiques du Québec

 

 

Call for Papers

 

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)’s Public Libraries,

Children and Young Adult Libraries, and Management and Marketing Sections in collaboration

with Les Bibliothèques Publiques du Québec are currently organizing a satellite meeting in

Montreal, Quebec, Canada from August 5-7, 2008. This event will precede the 74th Annual IFLA

conference in Quebec city (August 10-14, 2008.)

 

Themes and Objectives

The general theme of the conference is to conduct a survey of children and young adult services

offered in public libraries around the world.

 

The objectives of the satellite meeting are :

• To bring together library personnel and other participants working with a young clientele

in order to facilitate the sharing and exchange of information and ideas.

• To benefit from the experience of innovators in the field of youth library services (see

the list of subjects below)

• To present speakers from around the world

 

Subject of Papers :

• The library’s impact and social role in the community : professional ethics, homework

help, library teen board, etc.

• How to effectively market youth services to their target audience

• Innovative practices in integrating cultural materials, literacy programs, school visits

• Technology : trends, on-site users, distance users, developing new services, impact on

reading

• Physical place : lay-out and desegregation of youth library services.

• Reading programs inside and outside library walls : innovative practices

 

Submission Guidelines

Interested parties are invited to submit a proposal before November 2nd, 2007.

The presentations will each last approximately 15 minutes and thirty proposals will be selected.

The proposals must be submitted in an electronic format and must contain :

• Title of paper

• Summary of paper (maximum 300 words- ½ page)

• The speaker’s name, address, telephone and fax numbers, professional affiliation, email

address and biographical note (40 words)

 

Language of submission

French and English are the two official languages of the satellite meeting. Proposals may be

submitted in either language.

 

Send submissions to :

Patricia Lemieux, responsable du comité scientifique (patricia.lemieux@banq.qc.ca)

Chef de service, Espace Jeunes

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec

475, boulevard de Maisonneuve Est

Montréal (Québec)

CANADA

 

Evaluation

The call for papers will be evaluated by the members of the selection committee and by a

member of each IFLA section involved in the satellite meeting.

The committee may revise the time alotted to the submitted presentations in accordance with

their relevance and complimentarity.

 

Important Dates

November 2nd 2007 : Deadline for submissions

December 2007 : Notification of acceptance/rejection

February 2008 : Final program and registration information released

May 2008 : Deadline for submission of text

Registration fees for the satellite meeting will be waived for the speakers. However, they will have to assume their own travel and room and board expenses.

 

Venue

The conference will be held at McGill University with the support of the

School of Information Studies.

 

 

Susann Allnutt

Administrative Assistant

School of Information Studies

McGill University

Tel.:  514-398-6387

FAX: 514-398-7193

susann.allnutt@mcgill.ca

www.mcgill.ca/sis

 

 

Opportunity for SLIS Students to be published in Current Studies in Librarianship (CSiL)

Library and information science students . . .

. . . would you like to be published?

 

. . . would you like to join the knowledge creation cycle?

. . . would you like to enrich your resume?

If the answer to any of the above questions is “yes,” you should consider submitting a manuscript to Current Studies in Librarianship (CSiL). The mission of CSiL is to publish readable, timely, and scholarly articles by library and information science (LIS) students. The editors welcome both original papers as well as papers prepared as part of the requirements for seminars and other LIS classes.

The primary mission of CSiL is the publication of student scholarship, which includes manuscripts authored entirely by students as well as those authored jointly by students and librarians and other information professionals (e.g., LIS faculty, librarians, computer scientists, etc.). Articles may report on original research, the utilization of known information in new ways, or other forms of recognized scholarship. All submissions should be double-spaced throughout and should conform to the current edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically, via e-mail or on disk as Microsoft Word or rich text format documents, and in hard copy. The deadline for submissions for volume 29 is 30 November 2007. Manuscripts received after that date will be considered for subsequent publication.

CSiL is a peer reviewed journal that has been published since 1977. It is indexed in both Library Literature & Information Science and Library & Information Science Abstracts.

Submissions should be directed to:

Current Studies in Librarianship Department of Library Science

Clarion University of Pennsylvania

840 Wood Street

Clarion, Pa. 16214-1232

e-mail: cur_studies@clarion.edu

voice: (814) 393-2271

fax: (814) 393-2150