Category: Scholarship
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CFP: International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web (ICSD2009)
*****************************************************************************CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web (ICSD2009) September 8-11, 2009 – University of Trento, Trento (ITALY)***************************************************************************** Digital libraries, in the central view of the term, focus on storing and organizing digital objects and providing access to these objects through professional or user-generated metadata or content-based search (full text, image…
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Internet Librarian 2009 Call for Speakers
Internet Librarian 2009 (October 26-28 in Monterey CA) has just posted its call for speakers. The deadline is March 27.
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Getting Published: An Overview for Off-Campus Librarians
Michael Lorenzen points out that his presentation from last year's OffCampus Library Services Conference is now available within the Central Michigan University Digital Repository.
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Meredith Farkas named 2009 LITA/Library Hi Tech Award winner
This press release is dated Feb 18th, but I just saw on Walt's blog that Meredith has been awarded the 2009 LITA/Library Hi Tech Award. That's wonderful, congratulations Meredith!
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Posted: m-libraries 2009 Program
The Program(me) for the 2009 m-libraries conference is up. Not surprisingly, when you think about it, lots of international content (you know, from countries where they actually USE cell phones to do stuff).
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Call for Submissions: Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning
The Journal of Library and Information Service for Distance Learning, a peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge/The Haworth Press, welcomes the submission of manuscripts. The journal is devoted to the issues and concerns of librarians and information specialists involved with distance education and delivering library resources and services to this growing community of students. Topics can…
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U of Calgary DSpace – 73rd-ranked instutional repository in the world!
Hey this is pretty cool, our Institutional Repository, DSpace at the University of Calgary, is ranked #73 in the world (looking at the top 300 Repositories). Yay us!
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New Journal: International Journal of Library and Information Science
Not entirely sure we need another one, but the International Journal of Library and Information Science will launch in May 2009. Oh, well this is good – it’s an Open Access publication. Grr, they offer email alerts for TOC, but no RSS. Doesn’t look like any of their titles do.
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Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Learning Content
EDUCAUSE Live is offering a free one-hour presentation titled Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Learning Content. Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Mark Marino and Susan Metros, and the topic will be “Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Learning Content.” Educators have been searching for ways…