(via the Northern California Technical Processes Group) We are pleased to announce that the next Annual Meeting of the Northern California Technical Processes Group (NCTPG) will take place in San Francisco April or May 2018. Our 81st annual meeting will be organized under the theme “Choosing Your Battles.” For 2018, we will have two options…
Category: Calls and Requests
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Call for Papers: ALA Annual 2018–New Research in Collection Management and Development (Deadline Dec. 18)
(via Jennifer Bazeley, Miami University in Ohio) The Publications Committee of the Collection Management Section of ALCTS is sponsoring the program “New Research in Collection Management and Development” (previously known as the Annual Collection Management & Development Research Forum) at the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference held in New Orleans, LA from June 21-26,…
Second Call: Proposals for the 2018 Reference Research Forum (Deadline Dec. 22)
(via David Ward, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: 2018 REFERENCE RESEARCH FORUM The Research & Statistics Committee of the Reference Services Section of the Reference & User Services Association (RUSA) invites submission of reference service research project proposals for presentation at New Discoveries in Reference: The 24rd Annual Reference Research Forum at…
Early-Bird Registration Deadline for NCNMLG/MLGSCA 2018 Joint Meeting is December 1
(via Bethany Myers–University of California, Los Angeles) The early bird registration deadline for the NCNMLG/MLGSCA 2018 Joint Meeting is today! If you haven’t registered yet, now’s your last chance to get the best rate. The #1 reason to attend the Joint Meeting is: Connections! You’ll learn what your colleagues are doing by attending the papers,…
Save the Date: Data Science and Visualization Institute for Librarians (June 4-8, 2018)
(via Hilary Davis, North Carolina State University) Save the Date! The Data Science and Visualization Institute for Librarians will be held June 4 – 8th, 2018 at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library, North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Applications for the Institute will be accepted beginning on Dec 12, 2017. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/data-science-and-visualization-institute The…
Call for Nominations: Routledge Distance Learning Librarianship Conference Sponsorship Award (Deadline Dec. 1)
(via Cynthia Thomes-University of Maryland, University College) Do you know or could you be the next recipient of the Routledge Distance Learning Librarianship Conference Sponsorship Award? If so, the Distance Learning Section (DLS) of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) wants to hear from you! This prestigious award, sponsored by the Routledge, Taylor…
Call for Applications to Attend the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship 2018
(via Lorna Dawes, University of Nebraska – Lincoln) We are issuing a call for applications for the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL) 2018. 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…
Registration Now Open for STELLA 2018 Unconference on STEM Librarianship (May 18-19)
(via Anna Sackman–University of California, Berkeley) STELLA 2018 Where: University of California, Berkeley When: May 18-19, 2018 Registration is now open for the 2018 STELLA Unconference! Sign up at bit.ly/stella2018. The University of California, Berkeley, is excited to host the next STELLA Unconference, taking place on Friday May 18 – Saturday May 19, 2018. This…
Call for Proposals: 2nd Annual Conference About Libraries & Literacy (Deadline November 30)
(via Liz Humrickhouse, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse) C.A.L.L.: Conference About Libraries & Literacy Thursday, February 1, 2018 https://callconferenceblog.wordpress.com/ The C.A.L.L. 2018 Keynote is Dr. Michael Stephens. Michael Stephens is Associate Professor in the School of Information at San Jose State University. He was a Visiting Scholar in Australia, consulted for US Embassies in…
Call for Proposals: Library Instruction West 2018 Conference (Deadline November 30)
(via Laureen Cantwell, Colorado Mesa University & Western Colorado Community College) July 19-20, 2018 – Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado will host the 2018 Library Instruction West (LIW, formerly LOEX of the West) conference. We are very excited to be the site and the organizers of such a great, small conference focused on…