Call for Proposals – New Voices in the Profession Session at 2015 ARLIS/NA Conference

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Proposals for the New Voices in the Profession session at the 2015 ARLIS-NA conference in Fort Worth, Texas (March 19-23) are now being accepted!

New Voices in the Profession showcases exceptional academic work by students and new professionals (under 5 years post MLS). Paper topics should relate strongly to Art and/or Visual Resources Librarianship, but also digital library projects, archives, library instruction, reference and the changing nature of libraries, among other topics. Paper topics that relate to the conference theme “New Frontiers on the Old Frontier” will be given special consideration.
To see papers presented in past sessions, please view Conference Proceedings from previous years on the ARLIS website (http://www.arlisna.org/news/conferences). Papers will be selected by representatives from ArLiSNAP, the ARLIS/NA Professional Development Committee and the Fort Worth Conference Program co-chairs.

If interested, please submit the following to Maggie Portis at mportis@pratt.edu by January 30, 2015:

  • Presentation title
  • Presentation abstract (250 words)
  • Your name, institutional affiliation, and email address
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Call for Papers – New Voices Panel at ARLIS/NA Conference

Posted: December 13, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: 2012 ARLIS/NA Conference, ARLIS/NA, Opportunities: Calls for Papers, Student Research | Tags: , , , , | Comments Off on Call for Papers – New Voices Panel at ARLIS/NA Conference

Call for Papers – New Voices Panel at ARLIS/NA Conference

Paper proposals for the New Voices in the Profession session at the 2012 ARLIS-NA conference in Toronto are now being accepted!

New Voices showcases exceptional academic work by students and new professionals (under 5 years post MLS.) Paper topics should relate strongly to Art and/or Visual Resources Librarianship, but also digital library projects, archives, library instruction, reference and the changing nature of libraries, among other topics.

To see papers presented in past sessions, you can look at the Conference Proceedings from previous years on the ARLIS website (http://www.arlisna.org/news/conferences/conf_index.html). Papers will be selected by representatives from ArLiSNAP and the ARLIS/NA Professional Development Committee.

If interested, please send a paper topic and detailed abstract to mportis (at) nysid.edu by January 12th. Please feel free to re-post.

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Maggie Portis
Assistant Director of the Library
New York School of Interior Design

T: 212-452-4196
mportis@nysid.edu

Call for Papers: 7th International Digital Curation Conference

Posted: April 18, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Digital Libraries, Opportunities: Calls for Papers, [ Opportunities ] | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Call for Papers: 7th International Digital Curation Conference

7th International Digital Curation Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS Title: “Public? Private? Personal? navigating the open data landscape”
5 – 7 December 2011
Bristol, UK

IDCC11 will be presented by the Digital Curation Centre, UK in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). The Programme Committee invites submissions of papers that reflect current concerns in digital curation and specific concerns arising from our conference theme:

  • Lessons learned from the inter-disciplinary use of open data: examples of enablers, barriers and success stories
  • Curation of mixed data collections, with open and sensitive or private content
  • Gathering evidence for benefits of data sharing
  • Building capacity for the effective management, sharing and reuse of open data
  • Scale issues in the management of sensitive data
  • Tensions between maintaining quality and openness
  • Linked data, open data, closed data and provenance
  • Technical and organisational solutions for data security
  • Developing new metrics for open data
  • Ethical issues and personal data
  • Legislation and open data

Full details of the Call for Papers can be found at:

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11/call-papers

Submissions will be accepted from 9 May 2011.