Friday, May 6, 2011

CFP - VuStuff II: Scholarship, technology, and openness

VuStuff II: Scholarship, technology, and openness - Call for Papers

The call for papers has just been announced:

Call for Papers

VuStuff is an annual conference on the intersection between scholarship and technology, held at Villanova University's Falvey Memorial Library. This year's conference, VuStuff II, will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011. The theme for this year is "openness."

VuStuff seeks presentations on scholarly communication, archives, technology, digital humanities, digital libraries, new media, open access, or any aspect relating to the above. Presentations will be 20 minutes, followed by a brief Q&A.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words, with a cover sheet listing your name, title and institution. Submissions may be emailed to vustuff@villanova.edu.

The deadline for submissions is Sept. 1, 2011.

Submissions will automatically be entered to win the annual VuStuff Award. The VuStuff Award, aka the "Vuie," is meant to recognize the generation of significant work embodying the ideals of intersecting academic scholarship and digital technology.

For more information, please visit www.vustuff.org.