Today's Topics:
1. FW: ALCTS Publishing: LRTS (Elaine Franco)
2. FW: Call for Proposals - IFLA Classification & Indexing
Section's satellite meeting in Columbus (Elaine Franco)
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Message: 1
Forwarded to CLA TSIG list by Elaine Franco, member, CLA TSIG Steering
Committee.
Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) ALCTS's peer-reviewed
quarterly online journal takes a critical approach to questions and
challenges facing technical services professionals and reviews professional
publications.
LRTS is the official journal of the Association for Library Collections and
Technical Services. Regarded as one of the top technical services journals1,
LRTS publishes research and ?Notes on Operations? papers that have undergone
double-blind peer-review. The LRTS Editorial Board is composed of a panel of
experts who represent the various ALCTS sections, which include these
subject areas and topics:
- Acquisitions, including licensing and economic aspects of acquisitions
- Cataloging and metadata, including MARC and non-MARC metadata, RDA,
authority control, subject analysis, classification
- Continuing resources, including cataloging and management
- Collection development
- Preservation, including digitization
- Scholarly communications
- Training and education of technical services librarians and personnel,
including continuing education
Have you given a presentation? Consider taking it one step farther by
developing it into a research paper; LRTS editors and staff can guide you
through this transition. Have you implemented an innovative process or
resolved a thorny problem that other libraries are facing? It may be a good
candidate for a ?Notes on Operations? paper. New to publishing? Get started
by writing a book review for LRTS!
Prospective authors interested in writing a piece for LRTS should:
- Visit the LRTS website at https://journals.ala.org/lrts to read past
issues
- Read the resources for LRTS authors linked at
http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/lrts and the Proposal Guidelines for
ALCTS Publications (http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/info/proposal-guide)
and suggested topics list, and
- Contact the LRTS Editor at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.
We look forward to hearing from you!
1Judith M. Nixon, ?Core Journals in Library and Information Science:
Developing a Methodology for Ranking LIS Journals,? College & Research
Libraries 75, no. 1: 66-90.
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services a division of the
American Library Association www.ala.org/alcts<http://www.ala.org/alcts>
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Message: 2
Forwarded to CLA TSIG list by Elaine Franco, member, CLA TSIG Steering
Committee.
Call for Paper Proposals
IFLA Classification & Indexing Section Satellite Meeting 2016
Subject Access: Unlimited Opportunities
August 11 (afternoon) - August 12 (full day)
Location: State Library of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio
https://sites.google.com/a/kent.edu/ifla2016-classification-indexing/project
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Join colleagues from around the world in the exchange of new ideas for
providing subject access. This one and one-half day Satellite Conference
will explore new services, new roles, and new partners that support subject
searching. Investigate implementations, use, and reuse of traditional
methods, such as classification, controlled vocabularies, and mapping; newer
methods; and the connections between them. Discuss how we can take
advantage of new opportunities and how we can meet the challenges.
Examples of possible topics are:
* Traditional and new methods of providing subject access: connections,
competition, or co-existence?
* Semantic Web technologies and tools for subject access
* Use of library subject metadata by other communities
* Cooperation of libraries with other partners in creation and reuse of
subject metadata and knowledge organisation systems (KOS) to support
discovery. Possible examples include museums, archives, publishers, and
providers of index-based discovery services.
* User needs and subject access behaviour
* Users as creators of subject metadata through, such as crowdsourcing,
folksonomies, social tagging, etc.
To submit a proposal, please provide the following in English:
* Name(s) and affiliation(s) of author(s)/presenter(s)
* Proposed title of the paper
* Detailed abstract (500-1500 words)
* Brief biographical information of all author(s)/presenter(s)
* Contact information, including email, of all author(s)/presenter(s)
The deadline for proposals is 15 February 2016. Email proposals in .docx or
.pdf format to Sandy Roe, Program Chair,
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.
All proposals will be reviewed by members of the IFLA Classification &
Indexing Section Satellite Conference Program Committee. Selection will be
based on proposal content and fit to the conference theme. Proposal authors
will be notified via email on March 15, 2016.
The deadline for final papers is 30 May 2016. Papers should be original work
written in English, not published elsewhere, and should be no longer than 15
double-spaced pages using a standard 12-point font. Authors will be
required to present their papers at the IFLA C&I Satellite Conference.
Presentations should last about 15-20 minutes and time will be allotted
afterwards for questions and discussion. Presentations should be engaging,
interactive, and designed to elicit thoughtful discussion from the audience.
Use of PowerPoint or other visual program is encouraged for the benefit of
the entire audience. The official language of the Satellite Conference is
English.
Important Dates:
15 February 2016
Deadline for submission of paper proposals
15 March 2016
Notification to authors by email
30 May 2016
Deadline for submission of final papers (No papers can be accepted after
this date!)
5 August 2016
Deadline for sending presentation slides
11-12 August 2016
Satellite Conference in Columbus, OH, USA
13 August 2016
IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) begins in Columbus, OH,
USA
Please note:
At least one of the paper's authors must be present to deliver a summary of
the paper during the program of the Satellite Meeting.
All papers that are presented at the WLIC 2016 will be made available online
via the IFLA Library<http://library.ifla.org/> under the Creative Commons
Attribution International 4.0
license<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>.
Authors of accepted papers must complete the IFLA Authors' Permission
Form<http://forms.ifla.org/node/add/wlic-authors-permission-form>.
All expenses for attending the satellite meeting (travel, accommodation,
etc.) are the responsibility of the authors/presenters. No financial
support can be provided by IFLA.
Registration and other information will be made available on the Satellite
conference's
website<https://sites.google.com/a/kent.edu/ifla2016-classification-indexing
/>.
Sandy Roe
Editor, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly Head, Cataloging & Metadata
Services Milner Library, Illinois State University Normal, IL 61790-8900
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