(via David Lemmons, George Mason University) We are writing to ask you to participate in a research survey measuring academic librarians’ teaching self-efficacy beliefs. The purpose of this study is to test a scale for measuring teaching self-efficacy of librarians working in higher education. Any person working in an academic library with teaching responsibilities is…
Category: Calls and Requests
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Call for Host Organizations: “Privacy and Library Learning Analytics” Half-Day Workshop During 2022-2024 (Priority Deadline Mon., Aug. 15, 2022)
(via Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) We are pleased to announce this call for expressions of interest to host the “Privacy and Library Learning Analytics” workshop. The “Privacy and Library Learning Analytics” workshop is an offering of Prioritizing Privacy, a multi-faceted continuing education program to train United States academic library practitioners to…
Call for Proposals: ACRL Digital Scholarship Section Virtual Professional Development Series (First Deadline Mon., July 18)
(via Taylor Davis-Van Atta, University of Houston) The ACRL Digital Scholarship Section’s Professional Development Committee (PDC), in collaboration with both the Outreach Committee and the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, seeks proposals for its 2022 DSS virtual professional development series. The Committee accepts proposals on a rolling basis, with the following review dates this season:…
Call for Proposals Extended: New Mexico Library Association Conference (in Albuquerque Oct. 26-28, Wed.-Fri.)–New Deadline Fri., July 15
(via Erin Renee Wahl, New Mexico State University) It’s been decided to extend the New Mexico Library Association Conference proposals deadline to Friday, July 15. This year’s Conference will take place in Albuquerque from October 26 to 28 (Wednesday through Friday). The New Mexico Library Association Conference is a great state conference, and I have…
Call for Participation: Pre-Screening Survey for Study on the Phenomenon of Caring Relations Among Academic Librarians Engaged in Research/Reference Assistance
(via Laureen Cantwell, PhD student at University of Buffalo) Dear academic librarians, My name is Laureen Cantwell, and I am a PhD student in the Information Science program, within the Graduate School of Education, at the University at Buffalo. I am conducting a research study exploring the phenomenon of caring relations among academic librarians engaged…
Call for Participation: Survey on Archivists’ and Librarians’ Preferences for In-Person vs. Virtual Conferences (Deadline Wed., Aug. 31)
(via Dr. Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm, Associate Dean at Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Morris Library) Dr. Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm of Southern Illinois University Carbondale Morris Library is conducting a research survey of archivists and librarians to investigate preferences for in-person and/or virtual conference attendance before and during the past two years and looking ahead to the…
Call for Candidate Nominations: Spring 2023 Elections for ALA President-Elect and Councilor-at-Large (Deadline Fri., Sept. 30, 2022)
(via the American Library Association) The Nominating Committee for the 2023 ALA election is soliciting nominees to run on the 2023 spring ballot for the offices of ALA President-Elect and Councilor-at-Large. The Committee will select candidates to run for President-Elect and no fewer than 50 candidates for the 33 at-large Council seats to be filled in…
Call for Proposals: Association of Creative Technologies in Academic Libraries Conference (Online Nov. 9-10; in Raleigh, NC, Nov. 15-17)–Deadline Mon., Aug. 15
(via Emily Thompson, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) The Association of Creative Technologies in Academic Libraries (ACTAL) Conference planning committee seeks proposals for its first annual Conference. The ACTAL Conference seeks to bring together people that are working in creative technologies in academic libraries, broadly in the areas of media, making, and visualization, for community,…
Registration Open for 2022 Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference (Online Sept. 8-9, 14, and 16)–NNLM Region 6’s Bobbi Newman is Keynoter
(via Miriam Wnuk, Vanderbilt University) We are pleased to announce that the 21st Annual Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference will once again be held virtually. To help minimize zoom fatigue of attendees and committee members, the Conference will be spread out over two weeks. Thursday, Sept 8 Friday, Sept 9th (workshop day) Wednesday,…
Call for Lightning Talk and Poster Proposals: Institute for Research Design in Librarianship Online Research Conference (Nov. 10-11, Thurs.-Fri.)–Deadline Sun., July 31
(via Sanjeet Mann, University of Redlands) I’m delighted to share this announcement about the inaugural IRDL (Institute for Research Design in Librarianship) Online Research Conference, to be held online at no cost to attendees November 10-11 (Thursday-Friday), 2022. Please see our Conference website, and read on for more details about our call for submissions, which are…