Call for Proposals: LITA 2008

Do you have a new or innovative way of providing services to your users? The LITA 2008 National Forum is a great way of sharing your knowledge with others.

Due Date for proposals: December 15, 2007

The 2008 National Forum Committee seeks proposals for high quality concurrent sessions and poster sessions for the 11th annual LITA National Forum to be held at the Hilton Netherland Plaza hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio from October 16-19, 2008

Theme: Technology and Community: Building the Techno Community Library

The Forum Committee is interested in presentations that highlight specific technology implementations; just over-the-horizon technologies that aren't quite ready for implementation; or information technology research. We are interested in all types of libraries: public, government, school, academic, special, and corporate. Proposals on any aspect of library and information technology are welcome.

Some possible ideas for proposals might include:

1. Social Computing: social tools, collaborative software, etc.
2. User created content: Book reviews, tagging, etc.
3. Mobile connectivity: iPhones, iPods, handhelds
4. Virtual worlds
5. Multiplayer Gaming in Education and Libraries
6. Open Source Software: creative uses of OSS, technology on a budget.
7. Federated and Meta-Searching: design and management, integrated access to resources, search engines
8. Digital Libraries/ Institutional Repositories: developments in resource linking, preservation, maintenance, web services
9. Authentication and Authorization: Digital Rights Management (DRM), authentication, privacy, services for remote patrons
10. Web design: information architecture, activity-centered design, user-centered design, usability testing
11. Technology Management: project management, geek management, budgeting, knowledge sharing applications
12. Internet Law: privacy, copyright, filtering
13. RFID in libraries

Presentations must have a technological focus and pertain to libraries and/or be of interest to librarians. Concurrent sessions are approximately 75 minutes in length. Forum 2008 will also accept a limited number of poster session proposals. Presenters are required to submit handouts one month in advance for the Forum notebook, and handouts will be made available on the Web site after the event.

Your proposals are welcome and much appreciated! To submit a proposal, send the following information via email (in ASCII, PDF, or RTF format):

• Title
• Abstract and brief outline
• Level indicator (basic, intermediate, or advanced)
• Brief biographical information. Include experience as a presenter and expertise in the topic
• Full contact information
• Is this proposal for a concurrent session?
• Is this proposal for a poster session?
• If this proposal is for a concurrent session, might it be considered for a poster session?
• How did you hear about the 2007 Forum call for proposals?

The 2008 Forum Planning Committee will review proposals at the ALA Midwinter Conference in January 2008. You will be contacted about the status of your proposal by the end of February 2008.

Submit proposals (in ASCII, PDF, or RTF) by December 15, 2007 to:
Mary Taylor
mtaylor@ala.org
Executive Director
Library and Information Technology Association

IFLA Call for Proposals

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS Libraries without borders: Navigating towards global understanding

10-14 August 2008, Québec, Canada

CALL FOR PAPERS

Information Literacy and Academic and Research Libraries Sections

The Information Literacy (IL) and the Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Sections of IFLA will be holding a joint open program at the IFLA General Conference in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, August 10-14, 2008. IL educators or practitioners are invited to submit proposals for papers related to the theme:

Return on Investment: Learners' Outcomes in Information Literacy. Do they really learn?

From high school to university current trends indicate a small but growing number of studies about learning outcomes for IL. Effective assessment of student learning outcomes is a critical component to improving information literacy programs.

In this call for papers, we are interested in a wide range of techniques that provide objective measures for assessing students' information competencies. We are looking for speakers who can relate experiences from a practitioner's perspective, as well as presentations of research on assessment of IL programs. The focus can be on diagnoses concerning incoming students, evaluating students' progress towards achieving IL skills or exit assessments. Here are some questions to consider:

How are they used to evaluate the IL courses quality and their cost-effectiveness?

What indicators should be identified to measure competency or fluency?

What comparison can be made between different contexts, levels or disciplines?

Do assessment tools vary according to program needs?

What is the impact on pedagogical methods?

PAPER REQUIREMENTS:

The proposal should include a title, an abstract of 200-400 words and a one-page biographical sketch for each author, with current employment information and title, containing a selected list of previous presentations and publications. Submissions will be rated on how well they fit with the program theme. Both the abstract and the full paper should be submitted as a MS Word file by e-mail, in English, no later than 30 January 2008 to:

Agnes Colnot

Service commun de documentation - CS 64302 Université Rennes 2 - Haute Bretagne

F-35043 RENNES Cedex

Email : agnes.colnot@wanadoo.fr

Submissions will be acknowledged by return email. Successful applicants will be informed of the outcome of the review panel by 1 March 2008. Papers (3-21 pages) are required to meet IFLA guidelines posted at: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/callinfo-en.htm . Presentations at the conference will be limited to approximately 20-30 minutes and will be a summary of the original paper and may use PowerPoint. An electronic version of this call will be posted at http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/call-papers-en.htm

The full paper is due no later than 1 May 2008 and must be an original submission not published elsewhere. Papers may be written and presented in any of the IFLA working languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish) however, simultaneous translation is not guaranteed.

Please note that all fees, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation, etc., are the responsibility of the authors of accepted papers. For additional information, please contact Agnes Colnot.

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