CFP - Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian

Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian is now accepting manuscript submissions
for volume 32(4). The submission deadline is June 3, 2013.

B&SS Librarian is a peer-reviewed, quarterly journal focusing on all aspects of
behavioral and social sciences information with emphasis on librarians,
libraries and users of social science information in libraries and information
centers including the following subject areas:
Anthropology
Business
Communication Studies
Criminal Justice
Education
Ethnic Studies
Political Science
Psychology
Social Work
Sociology
Women's Studies

And including the following areas of focus:
Assessment
Publishing trends
Technology
User behavior
Public service
Indexing and abstracting
Collection Development and evaluation
Library Administration/management
Reference and library instruction
Descriptive/critical analysis of information resources

Please consider Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian as the journal for your
publication.

The journal's website includes Instructions to Authors at:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=0163-9269&linktype=44

Please send all submissions and questions to the editor at:
L-ROMERO@illinois.edu

FREE webinars - Sustainable Preservation Practices for Managing Storage Environments—Series II

Webinar Info

IPI’s NEH-funded Sustainable Preservation Practices for Managing Storage Environments—Series II includes nine webinars which will provide information on a variety of topics from recent preservation research to tips for dealing with broad environmental challenges such as summer heat and humidity and winter dryness. These webinars are offered free-of-charge.
Webinars have been developed with a structured curriculum so that each presentation can stand alone as a reference on a particular topic. Our goal is to provide useful tools and information that will allow participants to make informed decisions and to initiate successful environmental management practices at their own institutions. We strongly encourage teams of collection care, facilities management, and administrative staff to participate.
Webinars will be presented on Wednesdays from 2:00 to 3:30 EDT between January and September 2013. Feel free to sign up for as many webinars as you like. Unless noted otherwise, webinars will be presented by IPI staff.
Topics and dates are listed, and you can click here to register.

News

The NEH-funded Sustainable Preservation Practices—Series II workshops are over but there is still time to sign up for the webinar series. The webinars are FREE – click on the “Webinar Info” tab for a description of each webinar and then register for as many as you’d like. There are nine webinars, each presented on a Wednesday between January and September 2013 from 2:00 to 3:30 EDT.
The guidebook developed for the Sustainable Preservation Practices—Series II is available for purchase through IPI’s online store. The survey of workshop participants asked if the information in the guidebook would be beneficial to them and at each venue 100% of respondents said yes. Many listed the guidebook as one of the most valuable aspects of the workshop. Responses included:

• “The Guidebook is very well organized and has a level of detail that is helpful and appropriate, both to supplement this workshop and to stand alone.”
• “The careful, balanced, analytic work is what we need to transform our data gathering into useful information and action.”
• “The Guidebook constitutes a guideline for the decisions we have to make to improve our conditions.”

For more information and to order the guidebook, click here.

Internship: Bronx Zoo

Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx Zoo) Archives Internship
(two openings; nominal stipend available)

The Project:  As part of a grant-funded project, the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives is developing a website to display digitized copies of early-twentieth-century scrapbooks.  Created by the Bronx Zoo's first director, William T. Hornaday, these scrapbooks concern early wildlife conservation laws and activities.

The Internship:  Reporting directly to the WCS Librarian & Archivist, the Archives Interns will be responsible for creating original descriptive metadata records for the digitized scrapbooks.

Qualifications:  Enrollment in (or recent completion of) a Master's degree program in Library Science, with a focus on Archives, from an ALA-accredited institution.  Proven experience with Microsoft Excel.  Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently.  Effective oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

Internships at the WCS Archives are a learning experience, but students who have experience with Dublin Core and with Omeka software are encouraged to apply.  An interest in early scrapbooks and/or the history of wildlife conservation is also useful.

Schedule: 12 weeks (scheduled between June 3-August 30, 2013), 10 hours a week, for a total of 120 hours.  Work must be scheduled within 9:00-5:00, Monday-Friday.

To apply, send a resume and cover letter to mthompson@wcs.orgmthompson@wcs.org
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The Archives serves as WCS's memory, with collections spanning its rich history as a leader in global wildlife conservation and as the manager of the world's largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo. Through projects like this one, the Archives seeks to provide innovative ways to serve and engage both scholars and the general public.  For more information on the Archives, see www.wcs.org/library<http://www.wcs.org/library>

Free E-Government Webinar for Public Librarians

As governments continue to move services online, many public libraries need assistance providing the public with the government services that they need. To assist libraries in providing e-government services to patrons, the American Library Association will host the no-cost webinar “Libraries & E-government” on April 12, 2013, from 2:00–3:30p.m. EST.
Register now
As part of the webinar, participants will learn:

• How to use LibEGov (www.libegov.org), an easy-to-use web tool that helps libraries serve the e-government needs of their communities.
• Online resources available from government agencies and non-governmental organizations that deal with issues, such as immigration and taxation.
• How to use the virtual Ask A Librarian feature through Government Information Online service.

The website is the result of an Institute of Museum and Library Services funded national leadership grant and was developed by the Information Policy & Access Center at the University of Maryland and the American Library Association through, and is intended to foster collaboration between libraries and government agencies, as well as offer guidance on the provision of e-government services and roles to assist libraries as they continue to serve as critical community providers of e-government to a range of populations.
Speakers will include University of Maryland John Carlo Bertot; University of Maryland doctoral student Ursula Gorham-Oscilowsk; University of Maryland Graduate Research Associate Natalie Greene; and American Library Association Office of Government Relations Assistant Director Jessica McGilvray.
Register now

CFP - Information Research

Information Research plans a thematic issue on e-book research and practice for the June 2014 issue (Volume 19 No. 3).  Contributions on all aspects of e-books will be welcome including:

e-books in libraries - public, academic, school and special

e-books in higher education

the academic library as an e-book publisher

e-book composition and publication platforms

e-book standards

DRM and e-books

the impact of e-books on publishing

etc., etc., etc.

In addition to research papers (which are double-blind, peer reviewed), we shall be happy to publish case studies of e-book collection development, management and use in our "Working papers" category.

Word limits for papers:  research papers 7000-8000 words; working papers 3000-5000 words

Final submission date 28 February, 2014

For any queries on submissions contact: wilsontd@gmail.com

For news on the Swedish e-books research project, visit http://projectebooks.wordpress.com

Workshops - Care and Identification of Photographs

Care and Identification of Photographs (from daguerreotypes to digital)

Remaining 2013 Workshop Dates:

April 2-5, 2013: New York, NY (Metropolitan New York Library Council)
June 3-6, 2013: Louisville, KY (University of Louisville Ekstrom Library)
October 15-18, 2013: Los Angeles, CA (Huntington Library)
November 4-8, 2013: San Francisco, CA (California Rare Book School)**
December 3-6, 2013: New Orleans, LA (The Historic New Orleans Collection)


**Workshop at CalRBS will be a unique 5-day format

FOR FURTHER DETAILS AND ONLINE REGISTRATION:
http://gawainweaver.com/workshops/