From ceaker at utk.edu Fri Nov 10 09:52:35 2017 From: ceaker at utk.edu (Eaker, Chris) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:52:35 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] REMINDER! CFP still open! Proposals are due November 30, 2017. Message-ID: REMINDER! CFP still open! Proposals are due November 30, 2017. Registration is now open! Early bird registration is only $35 for great discussions of scholarly communications and research in libraries. Register here: https://www.lib.utk.edu/emplibs2018/registration/ Do you support faculty researchers or graduate student researchers? Or, do you do your own research? Then we have a conference for you! Please join us for the 4th Empirical Librarians conference, EmpLibs18. EmpLibs18 is a mini-conference on librarians and research, and will be held on February 16, 2018, at the University of Tennessee Conference Center in Knoxville, TN. The keynote speaker will be the incomparable Carol Tenopir. A pre-conference is available on getting started in publishing as a librarian. Concurrent sessions will be offered on scholarly communications and on doing research in libraries. Past feedback on this conference has said how much attendees enjoyed the chance to network with other librarians interested in research and researcher support, and how useful the sessions were on improving the role of libraries in scholarship. Come join us! We are also still seeking presentation proposals from librarians, library professionals, and LIS students on our two conference topic tracks: (1) supporting original research, through faculty and graduate outreach, scholarly communications, etc.; and (2) doing research in libraries. All proposals are subject to double-blind peer review. We are particularly interested in hearing practical ideas for researcher support and concrete discussions of methods for librarian research. Our experience is that the more we learn about doing research the better we are at supporting research, and vice versa. For that reason this conference brings together librarians who are researchers with librarians who support researchers, in order to share all manner of knowledge about research! This would be a great forum for presenters to revisit an already-presented project but focus on the "how to" of techniques you used instead of the findings. Please submit proposals for concurrent sessions, panels, and/or lightning talks at https://www.lib.utk.edu/emplibs2018/cfp/ by November 30, 2017. Empirical Librarians is a small conference focused on librarians doing research and librarians supporting researchers. EmpLibs18 will be a one-day conference with a half-day preconference. The conference will be held at the University of Tennessee Conference Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Friday, February 16th, 2018, from 9:00am to 4:30pm. An optional writers' preconference will be included for interested librarians on Thursday afternoon from 1-5pm. Empirical Librarians is co-sponsored by the UT University Libraries and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) library. For questions or more information, please contact Nina Exner at ninae at ncat.edu before November 22. Thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From csmit141 at kent.edu Wed Nov 22 17:51:03 2017 From: csmit141 at kent.edu (Smith, Catherine) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 22:51:03 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Job: Goodyear Professor in Knowledge Management, The School of Information, Kent, Ohio, U.S. Message-ID: The Kent State University (KSU) School of Information (the iSchool) seeks a senior level colleague for appointment as distinguished Goodyear Professor in Knowledge Management. The appointment is endowed by support from the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. The position reports to the director of the iSchool, which is part of the larger College of Communication and Information (CCI). The iSchool offers master's degrees in health informatics, knowledge management, library and information science, and user experience design, as well as courses in data science in CCI's School of Digital Sciences. iSchool programs are offered primarily online and attract students from across the U.S. and internationally. The ideal candidate will bring a sustained track record of scholarship, collaboration, and funding in the knowledge management area of information science. The position may focus on research and/or program development. Priorities include grant writing; research collaboration within KSU and with industry; student-focused industry partnerships; program initiatives with allied units across the university; attracting top students; and enrichment of the CCI interdisciplinary PhD program in communication and information. Qualifications for the position include: an earned Ph.D. in a discipline relevant to the information sciences; a sustained track record of substantial grant and/or contract funding for research and/or program development; and a teaching and research record commensurate with an appointment as full Professor with tenure. Highly exceptional candidates with equivalent experience but without the terminal degree or senior rank may also be considered. Salary is competitive and benefits are excellent. School faculty are expected to engage in research, teaching, and service. The position is located in Kent Ohio with a starting date in August 2018. Review of applications will begin December 15, 2017 and will run through January 15, 2018. Applications will be accepted starting December 1, 2017 at https://jobs.kent.edu/. Inquires about the position should be sent to: Catherine Smith and Yin Zhang, Co-chairs, Search Committee School of Information Kent State University P.O. Box 5190 Kent, Ohio 44242-0001 Phone: (330) 672-2116 Fax: (330) 672-7965 Email: csmit141 at kent.edu or yzhang4 at kent.edu Kent State University supports equal opportunity, affirmative action and diversity in education and employment. We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. More information about the KSU iSchool is available at: https://www.kent.edu/iSchool Dr. Catherine L. Smith Assistant Professor Kent State University School of Informaton PO Box 5190 Kent, OH 44236 330-672-2116 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ceaker at utk.edu Tue Nov 28 12:30:00 2017 From: ceaker at utk.edu (Eaker, Chris) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:30:00 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] REMINDER: Empirical Librarians proposals due November 30! Message-ID: REMINDER! CFP still open! Proposals are due November 30, 2017. Registration is now open! Early bird registration is only $35 for great discussions of scholarly communications and research in libraries. Register here: https://www.lib.utk.edu/emplibs2018/registration/ Do you support faculty researchers or graduate student researchers? Or, do you do your own research? Then we have a conference for you! Please join us for the 4th Empirical Librarians conference, EmpLibs18. EmpLibs18 is a mini-conference on librarians and research, and will be held on February 16, 2018, at the University of Tennessee Conference Center in Knoxville, TN. The keynote speaker will be the incomparable Carol Tenopir. A pre-conference is available on getting started in publishing as a librarian. Concurrent sessions will be offered on scholarly communications and on doing research in libraries. Past feedback on this conference has said how much attendees enjoyed the chance to network with other librarians interested in research and researcher support, and how useful the sessions were on improving the role of libraries in scholarship. Come join us! We are also still seeking presentation proposals from librarians, library professionals, and LIS students on our two conference topic tracks: (1) supporting original research, through faculty and graduate outreach, scholarly communications, etc.; and (2) doing research in libraries. All proposals are subject to double-blind peer review. We are particularly interested in hearing practical ideas for researcher support and concrete discussions of methods for librarian research. Our experience is that the more we learn about doing research the better we are at supporting research, and vice versa. For that reason this conference brings together librarians who are researchers with librarians who support researchers, in order to share all manner of knowledge about research! This would be a great forum for presenters to revisit an already-presented project but focus on the "how to" of techniques you used instead of the findings. Please submit proposals for concurrent sessions, panels, and/or lightning talks at https://www.lib.utk.edu/emplibs2018/cfp/ by November 30, 2017. Empirical Librarians is a small conference focused on librarians doing research and librarians supporting researchers. EmpLibs18 will be a one-day conference with a half-day preconference. The conference will be held at the University of Tennessee Conference Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Friday, February 16th, 2018, from 9:00am to 4:30pm. An optional writers' preconference will be included for interested librarians on Thursday afternoon from 1-5pm. Empirical Librarians is co-sponsored by the UT University Libraries and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) library. For questions or more information, please contact Chris Eaker at ceaker at utk.edu. Thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anthi at isast.org Wed Nov 29 11:47:41 2017 From: anthi at isast.org (Anthi) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:47:41 +0200 Subject: [Sigdl-l] FW: 10th QQML INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Message-ID: <03a701d36931$c6cb90e0$5462b2a0$@isast.org> Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues, It is our pleasure to invite you in Chania, Crete, Greece ((22-25 May 2018) for the 10th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2018, http://qqml.org) which is organized under the umbrella of ISAST (International Society for the Advancement of Science and Technology). A lot of QQML friends asked us to organize the Anniversary of the 10 years of QQML Conference in Chania and we accepted the challenge. The conference invites Special and Contributed Sessions, Oral Papers, Best Practices, Workshops and Posters. Details about the types of distribution please visit: http://qqml.org/description-of-the-contribution/ Target Group The target group and the audience are library professionals in a more general sense: professors, researchers, students, administrators, stakeholders, technologists, museum scientists, archivists, decision makers and managers, information scientists, librarians, records managers, web developers, IT specialists, taxonomists, statisticians, marketing managers, philologist, subject and reference librarians et al. Main topics The emphasis is given to the Future of the Library and Information Science The conference will consider, but not be limited to, the following indicative themes: 1. The effect of Humanities on the LIS, 2. The Effect of Library on Learning and Research 3. The effect of LIS on personalities. 4. The effect of LIS on Society 5. The effect of the ICTS on LIS, 6. Application of innovative ideas in the library 7. Best Practices in the library 8. Communication of R&D projects 9. Development of Information and Knowledge Services 10. Human resources and competencies for the 21st century 11. Library and Information Science and Research 12. LIS Education, Research and Training 13. Preparing Library for Tomorrow 14. Going Digital 15. Going Open 16. Information and Knowledge Management 17. Information Behavior and Use 18. Information Literacy 19. Intercultural Information Ethics 20. Knowledge networking and consortia 21. Library design 22. Library management and marketing, 23. Scholarly communication 24. Methods and techniques 25. Metrics Research (Altmetrics, Bibliometrics, Cybermetrics, Scientometrics, Webometrics) 26. Qualitative and Quantitative methods in libraries, museums, archives and information centres 27. Tools for Organizational Performance Measurement Special Sessions - Workshops You may send proposals for Special Saessions (4-6 papers) or Workshops (more than 1-3 sessions) including the title and a brief description at: secretar at isast.org or from the electronic submission at the web page: http://qqml.org/call-of-proposals/ You may also send Abstracts/Papers to be included in the proposed sessions, to new sessions or as contributed papers at the web page: http://qqml.org/call-of-proposals/ Contributions may be realized through one of the following ways a. structured abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and presentation; b. full papers (not exceeding 9,000 words); c. posters (not exceeding 2,500 words); In all the above cases at least one of the authors ought to be registered in the conference: http://qqml.org/registration/. Abstracts and full papers should be submitted electronically within the timetable provided in the web page: http://qqml.org/call-of-proposals/ The abstracts and full papers should be in compliance to the author guidelines that are located in the above link. All abstracts will be published in the Conference Book of Abstracts and in the website of the Conference. The papers of the conference will be published in the QQML e- journal after the permission of the author(s). The QQML e- journal moved to http://www.qqml-journal.net Doctoral and Postgraduate Sessions Professors and Supervisors are recommended to encourage the contribution of Postgraduate theses and dissertations of their students. In the Doctoral and Postgraduate Sessions the contributors resent their research, the topic, the objectives, the methodology and the ongoing work. Post Graduate Student sessions for research are especially organized. Please direct any questions regarding the QQML 2018 Conference and Student Research Presentations to: the secretariat of the conference at: secretar at isast.org QQML 2018 Important Dates Abstract submissions: December 20, 2017 Notification of acceptance two weeks after submission. Deadline Paper Submission: 1st of May 2018 Deadline Presentation Submission: 1st of May 2018 Early bird Registration: up to 30th of March 2018 Submit a Proposal or a session to secretar at isast.org Submissions of abstracts to special or contributed sessions could be sent directly to the conference secretariat at secretar at isast.org. Please refer to the Session Number, as they are referred at the conference website to help the secretariat to classify the submissions. For more information and Abstract/Paper submission and Special Session Proposals please visit the conference website at: http://qqml.org/ or contact the secretary of the conference at : secretar at isast.org Paper contributors have the opportunity to be published in the QQML e- Journal, which continues to retain the right of first choice, however in addition they have the chance to be published in other scientific journals. QQML e- Journal is included in EBSCOhost Looking forward to welcoming you in Chania, Crete, With our best regards, On behalf of the Conference Committee Anthi Katsirikou, PhD Conference Co-Chair University of Piraeus Library Director Head, European Documentation Center Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information Professionals anthi at asmda.com __________________________ If you don't like to receive messages regarding the QQML2018 Conference, please click here: Unsubscribe See you in Chania, Crete, Kind regards, Anthi Katsirikou (Ms) Librarian, PhD, MSc QQML Conference co-chair Adjunct Professor, Hellenic Open University Director, University of Piraeus Library Coordinator of European Documentation Centers in Greece Member of the Board of the Association of Greek Librarians and Information Professionals IFLA Member ALA/ ACRL Member http://www.qqml.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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These effects are often inscribed by white-straight-cisgendered librarians? and technologists? perspectives and values, and influence digital collection building and repository system development and maintenance. The intent of this #critlib #dlfaig chat will be to underscore and outline the snowball effect of early stage human-centered design processes influenced and perpetuated by systemic inequalities. We welcome your voice in this upcoming engaging conversation about ethical user personas for digital collections. Details, including the intended questions for the chat and suggested resources for discussion, can be found at: http://critlib.org/user-personas-for-digital-collections/ Chat soon! DLF AIG Santi Thompson, Head of Digital Research Services University Libraries University of Houston A Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university 713-743-9685 sathompson3 at uh.edu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0337-6439 ________________________________ to manage your DLF-ANNOUNCE subscription, visit diglib.org/announce -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: