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Three libraries win award for innovative open government services

By Kerry Smith May 17th, 2013 Professional News No Comments »
From: Jean Fairbairn [jean.fairbairn@eifl.net]
Sent: Tuesday, 14 May 2013 4:00 PM
To: ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr
Subject: [IFLA-L] Three libraries win award for innovative open government services

EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (EIFL-PLIP) has announced names of winners of their fourth Innovation Award – for library services that contribute to open government and e-government services.

Congratulations to three public libraries:

· Šiauliai County ‘Povilas Visinkis’ Public Library in Lithuania for their e-government training programme which is creating dialogue between citizens and officials.

· Public Law Library ‘B. P. Hasdeu’ Municipal Library in Moldova for their new online legal database which provides free public access to decisions of the Chisinau Municipal Council.

· Central Library ‘M. L. Kropyvnytskyi ‘ and the Mykolaiv Centralized Library System for Adults in Ukraine, for their Citizen Service Centres which are empowering citizens to interact with local government.

Each winner receives a prize of US$1,500. The three winners will also receive a certificate and a trophy during the Next Library 2013 conference in Aarhus, Denmark, in June.

The EIFL-PLIP Innovation Awards recognize innovative services that use ICT to improve lives and livelihoods. The awards are open to all public and community libraries in developing and transition countries.

Thanks from EIFL-PLIP to the winners and to all the other libraries that applied for this award. Thanks also to IFLA, IFLA members and other organizations and individuals who regularly help EIFL-PLIP publicize grant and award calls.


–
Jean Fairbairn
EIFL-PLIP Communications
Skype: jean.fairbairn1

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First Call for Papers for Library Trends 63(3) Issue on Social Justice in Library and Information Science and Services

By Kerry Smith May 17th, 2013 Journal News Professional News No Comments »
From: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum [JESSE@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] on behalf of Mehra, Bharat [bmehra@UTK.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, 15 May 2013 5:33 AM
To: JESSE@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject: First Call for Papers for Library Trends 63(3) Issue on Social Justice in Library and Information Science and Services

First Call for Papers for Library Trends 63(3) Issue on Social Justice in Library and Information Science and Services.
GUEST EDITOR:  Dr. Bharat Mehra would like to invite you to submit a manuscript proposal by June 30, 2013, under the extended timetable below.
CALL The Winter/February 2015 issue of Library Trends (63:3) will include papers in the continuing study of themes related to social justice in library and information science (LIS) and services. For a broad scholarly review of social justice in library and information studies, consult Mehra, Rioux, and Albright’s (2009) piece in the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences(3rd edition) (edited by M. J. Bates and M. N. Maack), 2009, pp. 4820-4836. This call specifies original scholarship and central to all proposals must be the social justice inquiry of core, peripheral, and other principles of librarianship and information studies, as broadly as that domain may be interpreted. Authors should strive to meet a 20-30 page limit (5,000-10,000 words).
PROPOSALS Submit proposals of no more than 300 words by June 30, 2013. Decisions will be communicated to contributors by July 31, 2013.

TOPICS The Library Trends issue will consider the following topics [though not limited to]:

- Library Science/Services and Social Justice;

- Information Science/Services and Social Justice;

- Concepts/Theories in LIS/Services and Social Justice;

- Methods/Approaches in LIS/Services and Social Justice;

- Interdisciplinary Constructs in LIS/Services and Social Justice;

- Information and Communication Technologies and Social Justice;

- Other Related Topics.

Social justice in LIS/services involves achieving action-oriented socially relevant outcomes via information-related work. Such efforts are planned, conceptualized, and implemented in the LIS service professions to further community-wide progressive changes via partnering with, and, on behalf of people on society’s margins. This special issue presents articles that examine theories, methods, strategies, and case studies in social justice research, teaching, and service design while keeping their focus on social impact and community involvement in LIS/service practice, education, policy development, and program implementation, amongst other areas. The frame of study is inclusive of (though not limited to) academic, public, school, and special libraries, museums, archives, and other information-related settings in an international context of analysis.

TIMETABLE
June 30, 2013: Deadline proposal submissions.
December 1, 2013: Deadline papers submissions.
February 1, 2014: Deadline reviews papers.
June 1, 2014: Deadline revised papers.
February 2015: Publication of the special issue
GUIDELINES:  Author guidelines are established at http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/AuthorInstructions.pdf [cut and paste URL in web browser]
All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of Dr. Bharat Mehra [E-mail: bmehra@utk.edu].

Bharat Mehra, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Information Sciences
University of Tennessee
# 454 Communications Building,

1345 Circle Park Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-0341

Telephone: (865) 974 5917 (O)
E-mail: bmehra@utk.edu
Homepage: http://www.sis.utk.edu/users/bharat-mehra;

https://web.utk.edu/~bmehra/ (cut and paste the URL in your web browser).

May/June 2013 issue of D-Lib Magazine

By Kerry Smith May 17th, 2013 Journal News No Comments »

From: dlib-subscribers-admin@dlib.org [dlib-subscribers-admin@dlib.org] on behalf of Bonnie Wilson [bwilson@cnri.reston.va.us]
Sent: Thursday, 16 May 2013 7:48 PM
To: DLib-subscribers
Subject: [Dlib-subscribers] The May/June 2013 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available.

Greetings:

This issue contains four articles and two conference reports The ‘In Brief’ column presents five short pieces and excerpts from recent press releases. In addition you will find news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in the ‘Clips and Pointers’ column. This month, D-Lib features the Cornell University Law Library’s Trial Pamphlets Collection.
The articles include:
NDSA Storage Report: Reflections on National Digital Stewardship Alliance Member Approaches to Preservation Storage Technologies By Micah Altman, MIT Libraries; Jefferson Bailey, Metropolitan New York Library Council; Karen Cariani, WGBH Media Library and Archives; Michelle Gallinger, Jane Mandelbaum, and Trevor Owens, Library of Congress
Choosing a Sustainable Web Archiving Method: A Comparison of Capture Quality By Gabriella Gray and Scott Martin, UCLA Library
A Model for Providing Web 2.0 Services to Cultural Heritage Institutions: The IMLS DCC Flickr Feasibility Study By Jacob Jett, Megan Senseney and Carole L. Palmer, University of Illinois
Unlocking Open Educational Resources (OERs) Interaction Data By David Massart and Elena Shulman, ZettaDataNet, LLC
The reports are:
“Curate Thyself” and the DigCCurr Experts’ Meeting: Communication, Collaboration, and Strategy in Digital Curation Education
By Alex H. Poole, University of South Carolina at Chapel Hill
Developing Cyberinfrastructure for Earth Science: an Opportunity for Collaboration By Sarah Ramdeen, University of North Carolina
D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations:

The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/

State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

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(If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the May/June 2013 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. Each mirror site has its own schedule for replicating D-Lib Magazine and, while most sites are quite responsive, on occasion there could be a delay of as much as 24 hours between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.)

Bonnie Wilson, D-Lib Magazine

Special Issue – Library and Information Research

By Kerry Smith May 12th, 2013 Journal News No Comments »
From: Information and/or Library Studies in the UK [LIS-BAILER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of Dr Judy Preston [jbp] [jbp@ABER.AC.UK]
Sent: Saturday, 11 May 2013 1:22 AM
To: LIS-BAILER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Special Issue – Library and Information Research

Library and Information Research has published a special issue about information literacy and lifelong learning at http://www.lirgjournal.org.uk/

We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to view articles and items of interest.

We welcome submissions of research articles, reports and book reviews from both practitioners and academic researchers; and of course we are always interested to receive your feedback on the journal.

Angharad Roberts,

University of Sheffield Information School angharad.roberts@sheffield.ac.uk

Library and Information Research, Vol 37, No 114 (2013): Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning Table of Contents  http://www.lirgjournal.org.uk/lir/ojs/index.php/lir/issue/view/65/

Editorial: Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning (1-6), John Crawford.

Reports:

The learning continuum: economical best practices for implementing and achieving a community’s information literacy goals (7-16), Shiva Darbandi, Carolyn Waite, Rose Medlock

Welsh Information Literacy Project (17-22), Andrew Eynon

Dundee College’s Literacy Information Skills Project (23-28),  Abigail Gourlay Mawhirt

IT learning sessions at Leeds Library and Information Service (29-36), Jason Tutin

Research Articles:

BILI: Building Information Literacy in Ireland (37-54), Amy Connolly, Lorraine Curran, Áine Lynch, Sile O’Shea

Refereed Research Articles:

Information literacy in adult returners to Higher Education: student experiences in a university pre-entry course in a UK university (55-73), Tony Anderson, Bill Johnston, Alexandra McDonald.

What information competencies matter in today’s workplace? (74-104), Alison J. Head, Michele Van Hoeck, Jordan Eschler, Sean Fullerton.

iKnow: Information skills in the 21st Century workplace (105-122), Katharine Reedy, Elizabeth Mallett, Natasha Soma

Book Reviews:

BAWDEN, D. and ROBINSON, L. Introduction to Information Sciences. 2012. (123-124) Biddy Casselden

CHOWDHURY, G.G. & CHOWDHURY, S. Information users and usability in the digital age. 2011. (125) Jane Mansfield

CULLINGFORD, A. The special collections handbook. 2011. (126-127) Edward Weech

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Library and Information Research

http://www.cilipjournals.org.uk/lir

Dr Judith Broady-Preston, BA(Hons) MA PhD MCLIP FHEA

Reader in Information Management

Editor, Library Review

Adran Astudiaethau Gwybodaeth/Department of Information Studies

Campws Llanbadarn/Llanbadarn Campus, Aberystwyth Ceredigion SY23 3AS

T: +44 (0)1970 622185 (direct) 622188/622159 (secretary) F: + 44 (0)1970 622190 E: jbp@aber.ac.uk

2013 Call for Jason Farradane Nominations

By Kerry Smith May 10th, 2013 Professional News No Comments »
From: Information and/or Library Studies in the UK [LIS-BAILER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of Chris Armstrong [lisqual@CIX.CO.UK]
Sent: Friday, 10 May 2013 5:17 PM
To: LIS-BAILER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [UKeiG] 2013 Call for Jason Farradane Nominations

UKeiG is now seeking the 2013 nominations for its second prestigious award.  The Jason Farradane Award is made to an individual or a group of people in recognition of outstanding work in the information profession.

The Award is given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the information profession, by meeting one or more of the following criteria:

* raising the profile of the information profession within an organisation or field of endeavour in a way which has become an exemplar to others;

* raising the awareness of the value of information in the workplace;

* demonstrating excellence in education and teaching in information science;

* a major contribution to the theory and practice of information science or information management.

Key characteristics that the judging panel will look for in nominations are innovation, initiative, originality and practicality. None of the criteria should be read as implying activity over an extended period. The Award is open to individuals or groups from anywhere in the world.

Nominations should take the form of a short description (no more than 3 sides of A4) of the work in question, together with full contact details of both the nominee and the nominator. Do not forget to include any documentation, references or URLs which may support the nomination. Nominations should reach the judges by Friday September 13th 2013.

Further information on the award’s web pages: http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards/jason-farradane.

Nominations for the 2013 Award are now invited, and should be sent with full supporting documentation to:

Chris Armstrong
Penbryn
Bronant
Aberystwyth
SY23 4TJ

Tel & Fax: 01974 251302
E-mail: lisqual@cix.co.uk

The closing date for nominations is Friday September 13th 2013.

IFLA builds its new repository with EPrints Services

By Kerry Smith May 10th, 2013 Book News Journal News Professional News No Comments »
From: Joanne Yeomans [Joanne.Yeomans@ifla.org]
Sent: Wednesday, 8 May 2013 10:32 PM
To: ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr
Subject: [IFLA-L] IFLA builds its new repository with EPrints Services
Dear IFLA Colleagues,

IFLA has signed a contract with ECS Partners Limited (http://www.eprints.org/) for the building and hosting of its new repository using EPrints Services. The repository will be publicly launched during 2013 with contents including all 2013 World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) papers, existing IFLA standards, and a selection of advocacy documents. In time, freely-available full-text resources and links to restricted content for all IFLA resources will be uploaded and the contents will be developed and increased, in particular with new resources for each subsequent WLIC.

The selection of EPrints Services follows a study carried by a working group of the IFLA Governing Board, led by Genevieve Clavel-Merrin, under the aegis of the IFLA Key Initiative 1 (Digital Content): http://www.ifla.org/strategic-plan/key-initiatives/digital-content/repository.

A number of options were investigated and demonstrated, with EPrints Services being found to offer the closest match to IFLA’s defined needs. The recommendation was approved by IFLA’s Governing Board in December 2012.

With the signing of the contracts, IFLA HQ staff are working with EPrints Services staff to build the repository and upload the initial contents. It is hoped that public access can be announced before the 2013 WLIC in Singapore with full functionality ready by the end of the year. In future years, it is hoped that distributed uploading will be possible and that the professional units will help to develop the content with the addition of their resources.

News about the development of the repository will be posted on the IFLA website: http://www.ifla.org/repository-news, and a web page will be created where information about the repository is collected and links are made available for the Standing Committees of IFLA Professional Units, and all those interested in following its development.

You can also read today’s “Professionally Speaking” blog-post by Genevieve Clavel-Merrin, the IFLA Governing Board’s Repository Working Group Chair, on what this means for the authors and session coordinators at this year’s WLIC: http://blogs.ifla.org/profspeak/2013/05/08/eprints-selected-for-the-ifla-repository/

I look forward to being able to update you with further news as the work develops.

Best regards, Joanne

Joanne Yeomans

Professional Support Officer

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

IFLA Headquarters – PO Box 95312 – 2509 CH The Hague – The Netherlands

Tel. +31 70 314 0884
Email. joanne.yeomans@ifla.org

Skype: joanne.yeomans

Website for IFLA Officers: http://www.ifla.org/en/officers-corner

Public review announced for digital preservation standards

By Kerry Smith May 10th, 2013 Professional News No Comments »
From: Dr. Ramesh C Gaur [rcgaur@mail.jnu.ac.in]
Sent: Thursday, 9 May 2013 3:27 PM
To: ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr; diglib@infoserv.inist.fr
Subject: [IFLA-L] Fw: Public review announced for digital preservation standards
Best Practices & Guidelines for Production of Preservable e-Records

The Best practices and Guidelines in this document are applicable for those e-records that need to be retained for long durations (e.g. 10 years, 25 years, 50 years and beyond) and the e-records that need to be preserved permanently. The core concepts of ‘preservability’ are based on the requirements specified in IT ACT, ISO/TR 15489-1 and 2 Information Documentation – Records Management and ISO 14721 Open Archival Information Systems (OAIS) Reference Model

The draft digital preservation standards are now published by e-gov standards division for public review on its website.

Please check the announcements section on top right corner at the URL below -

http://egovstandards.gov.in/

The last date for giving of feedback is May 31, 2013. Pl. feel free to circulate it to all concerned.
Regards
Ramesh
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Dr. Ramesh C Gaur
PGDCA, MLISc,Ph.D. Fulbright Scholar (Virginia Tech, USA)
University Librarian
Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU)
New Meharuli Road, New Delhi – 110067
Tele +91-11-26742605, 26704551
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First Monday May 2013

By Kerry Smith May 10th, 2013 Journal News No Comments »

From: Readership of First Monday [FIRSTMONDAY@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU] on behalf of Valauskas, Edward J. [ejv@UIC.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, 7 May 2013 3:52 AM
To: FIRSTMONDAY@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU
Subject: First Monday May 2013

Readers:

First Monday has just published the May 2013 (volume 18, number 5) issue at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current.

The following papers are included in this month’s issue:
Mapping the global Twitter heartbeat: The geography of Twitter by Kalev H. Leetaru, Shaowen Wang, Guofeng Cao, Anand Padmanabhan, and Eric Shook
Navigating an imagined Middle-earth: Finding and analyzing text-based and film-based mental images of Middle-earth through TheOneRing.net online fan community by Jennifer M. Grek Martin, Anatoliy Gruzd, and Vivian Howard
Envisioning the Internet: Implementing ‘disruptive innovation’ in media organizations by Tamar Ashuri
Estimating online audiences: Understanding the limitations of competitive intelligence services by David Kamerer
Measuring monographs: A quantitative method to assess scientific impact and societal relevance by Ronald Snijder
The pedagogical foundations of massive open online courses by David George Glance, Martin Forsey, and Myles Riley
German politicians and their Twitter networks in the Bundestag election 2009 by Thomas Plotkowiak and Katarina-Stanoevska-Slabeva
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With the contents of the May 2013 issue, First Monday has published, since May 1996, 1,270 papers in 204 issues, written by 1,703 different authors. Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,
Edward J Valauskas, Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday.

New IFLA Publication: Open Access and Digital Libraries: Social Science Libraries in Action / Acceso Abierto y Bibliotecas Digitales: Bibliotecas de Ciencias Sociales en Acción

By Kerry Smith May 5th, 2013 Book News No Comments »
From: Louis Takács [louis.takacs@ifla.org] on behalf of IFLA Webmaster [webmaster@ifla.org]
Sent: Friday, 3 May 2013 7:19 PM
To: ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr
Subject: [IFLA-L] New IFLA Publication: Open Access and Digital Libraries: Social Science Libraries in Action / Acceso Abierto y Bibliotecas Digitales: Bibliotecas de Ciencias Sociales en Acción

web version: http://www.ifla.org/publications/ifla-publications-series-158

New IFLA Publication!

Just off the press as Nr 158 in the IFLA Publications Series…

The social sciences have made fundamental contributions to the understanding of the economic, political and social life of nations in the past century. Social science libraries now have an important role to play in the context of the information society as significant sources of academic and social knowledge. This work provides information on the development and use of digital resources in the social sciences emphasizing best practices; an articulation of some of the problems presented to providing these resources; and a view to the use of these resources to support sustainable development.

Las ciencias sociales han hecho contribuciones fundamentales para la comprensión de la vida económica, política y social de las naciones durante el siglo pasado. Las bibliotecas de ciencias sociales actualmente tienen un papel importante que desplegar en el contexto de la sociedad de la información como fuentes sustanciales de conocimiento social y académico. El presente trabajo proporciona información acerca del desarrollo y uso de los recursos digitales en las ciencias sociales con énfasis en las mejores prácticas; una referencia de algunas de las dificultades existentes para proporcionar estos recursos; y una mirada al uso de estos recursos en función del desarrollo sostenible.

Open Access and Digital Libraries: Social Science Libraries in Action / Acceso Abierto y Bibliotecas Digitales: Bibliotecas de Ciencias Sociales en Acción
Edited by: Lynne M. Rudasill & Maria E. Dorta-Duque
Berlin/Munich: De Gruyter Saur, 2013
ISBN 978-3-11-028102-6
(IFLA Publications; Nr 158)
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Current Cites, April 2013

By Kerry Smith May 3rd, 2013 Journal News No Comments »
From: Public-Access Computer Systems Publications [PACS-P@LISTSERV.UH.EDU] on behalf of Roy Tennant [roytennant@GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, 1 May 2013 4:34 AM
To: PACS-P@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Subject: [CurrentCites] Current Cites, April 2013
Edited by [2]Roy Tennant
Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Leo Robert Klein, [5]Roy
Tennant