Libraries as a Gateway to Research: ANKOSLink2018 International Conference call for posters

Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS) has announced that the ANKOSLink2018 International Conference will be held in Antalya, Turkey on 17-20 April 2018 at the Maritim Pine Beach Resort Congress Center.

The call for posters for the ANKOSLink2018 International Conference is now open!

Deadline for poster submission: 1 March 2018
Notification of Acceptance:  12 March 2018
Deadline for Registration for Presenters: 20 March 2018

 More information about the call for posters can be found at http://www.ankoslink.org.tr/2018/en/content/poster.

Additional information about the conference can be found at http://www.ankoslink.org.tr/2018/en

September issue of International Leads now available

The latest issue of International Leads has just been published.
The September issue includes the following stories:

• The German delegation to ALA Annual (in both German and English)
• Highlights of IFLA’s work on the IFLA Global Vision and the 2017 Development and Access to Information Report
• Lessons learned from a survey of Sister Libraries by the IRRT-sponsored ALA Emerging Leaders group
• Refugee Library Project
• Report on a workshop about Arabic-script manuscripts in Africa
• Profiles of the 2017 ALA IRO/IRRT award winners
• Recaps of the IFLA WLIC 2017 meeting in Poland and the AfLIA / African Library Summit in Cameroon

Read the September 2017 International Leads today!

Call for Proposals for Presentation at the 2018 ALA Annual IRRT Pre-Conference

Librarians and libraries play an important role in serving and advocating for immigrant and refugee populations. The American Library Association (ALA) International Relations Round Table (IRRT) invites you to submit presentation proposals for their 2018 pre-conference workshop in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Friday, June 22, 2018 from 8am-1pm.

Possible proposal topics include:

·         Practical and real-life examples of services for immigrants and/or refugees

·         Targeted outreach to immigrants and/or refugees

·         Examples of successfully implemented programs

·         Working with targeted populations both in the USA and/or internationally

·         Advice about implementing services or programs

·         How to best reach out to immigrants and/or refugees

·         How to develop programs featuring social, economic, health, literacy, and/or technology

·         How to secure support for these programs

We are flexible about presentation length, however, presentations should engage the audience. Presentations that will utilize hands-on activities are encouraged.  

To submit a proposal, send an email to co-chairs Charissa Powell (powell.charissa@gmail.com) and Elizabeth Soergel (elizsoergel@gmail.com) by end-of-business on October 20, 2017  Please include your name, institutional affiliation, working title, and 300 word maximum description of your presentation.

Minitalks on Libraries, Literatures and Literacies in English and Spanish

The Information School of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs have collaborated to present a series of mini-talks to the international library community that include presentations in English and Spanish. The format is 15 minutes presentation + 15 minutes discussion for a total of 30 learning minutes.

Minitalks are open to all who wish to participate. More information about the talks and the schedule can be found at https://publish.illinois.edu/minitalks/ 
Attend the minitalks at go.illinois.edu/minitalks-room. 

Comments and ideas are welcome to either Kate Williams (katewill@illinois.edu) or Jean Kanengoni (jeansk2@illinois.edu). The September schedule is as follows:

Tuesday, August 29 in English - Elizabeth MacLeod, Manager of Satellite Digitization Services, Internet Archive, Wilmington, NC "The Community Webs project at the Internet Archive."
Archived at http://media.ischool.illinois.edu/dl/events/lllfa17/aug29_17.mp4
 
Thursday, September 7, in English - Clara M. Chu, Director and Mortenson Distinguished Professor, Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Libraries for Peace: An Initiative to Build Peaceful and Sustainable Communities."  

Tuesday, September 12, 5:30-6 pm (CT, UTC-06:00), in English - Don Krummel, Professor Emeritus, iSchool "The Anatomy of Bibliography."

Thursday, September 21, 8-8:30 am (CT, UTC-06:00), en Español TBA

Tuesday, September 26, 5:30-6 pm (CT, UTC-06:00), in English - Karen Fisher, University of Washington, on information and technology services to refugees based on her work in Syria.

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El iSchool de Illinois y el Centro Mortenson para Programas de Bibliotecas Internacionales están entusiasmados por colaborar en presentar una serie de minitalks (presentaciones breves) a la comunidad internacional de bibliotecarios tanto como oradores o como oyentes, que incluirán presentaciones en inglés y español. El formato es de 15 minutos de presentación + 15 minutos de discusión = 30 minutos de aprendizaje.

Los Minitalks están abiertos a todo/as. Para obtener más información y la programación actualizada, consulte: https://publish.illinois.edu/minitalks/ Para asistir, conecte a go.illinois.edu/minitalks-room. Nota: Es mejor acceder con Internet de alta velocidad y auriculares (auriculares y micrófono), utilizando el navegador Chrome, pero se pueden utilizar otros si Flash Player está instalado en el ordenador.

Todos comentarios e ideas son bienvenidos a Kate Williams <katewill@illinois.edu> o a Jean Kanengoni <jeansk2@illinois.edu>.

Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program

Applications are open for library professionals to participate in the 2018 Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program.

The Fellowship Program is an intensive four-week program based at OCLC headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, USA, that provides education and professional development opportunities for early career librarians from countries with developing economies. It is jointly sponsored by IFLA and OCLC. The 2018 program will run from 17 March to 13 April 2018.

Up to five individuals are selected each year. The program gives Fellows opportunities to meet with leading information practitioners and explore topics including information technologies, library operations and management, and global cooperative librarianship.

Eligibility is limited to those from a qualifying country who have a degree in library or information science obtained within the past five years and have at least three but no more than eight years of library or information science experience. 

Details about the program, guidelines and applications are now available on the OCLC website. Deadline for applications is 6 October 2017.

[ELEARN] CFP: IEEE TETC, Special Issue on Scholarly Big Data, Deadline: December 1, 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing Special Issue on Scholarly Big Data 

IEEE Transaction on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC) seeks original manuscripts for a Special Issue/Section on Scholarly Big Data scheduled to appear in the fourth issue of 2018.

Recent years have witnessed the rapid growth of scholarly information due to advancements in information and communication technologies. Scholarly big data is the vast quantity of research output, which can be acquired from digital libraries, such as journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, books, patents, experimental data, etc. It also encompasses various scholarly related data, such as author demography, academic social networks, and academic activity. The abundance of scholarly data sources enables researchers to study the academic society from a big data perspective. The dynamic and diverse nature of scholarly big data requires different data management techniques and advanced data analysis methods. Today’s researchers realize that new scholarly-big-data specific platform/management/techniques/ are needed. Therefore, a set of emerging topics such as scholarly big data acquisition, storage, management and processing are important issues for the research community. Manuscripts submitted to TETC should be computing focused.

This special issue focuses on covering the most recent research results in scholarly big data management and computing. The issue welcomes both theoretical and applied research (e.g. platforms and applications). It will encourage the effort to share data, advocate gold-standard evaluation among shared data, and promote the exploration of new directions. Topics of interest include (but not limited to): 

* New approaches to search and crawling of scholarly big data from various data sources

* Methods for storing, indexing, and query processing for scholarly big data

* Practices for scholarly big data management and sharing

* Heterogeneous scholarly big data source integration, especially for novel datasets (e.g. online social media)

* Scholarly big data analysis, mining, and visualization

* Design of next generation scholarly big data platforms and systems

* Algorithms for measuring the scientific impact of articles, authors, institutions, etc.

* Scientific information network analysis

* Recommendation tools and techniques

* Scientific community detection and clustering

* Graph and text mining in scholarly big data

* Privacy and security issues

* Services and applications

Reference:

Feng Xia, Wei Wang, Teshome Megersa Bekele, Huan Liu. Big Scholarly Data: A Survey, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2017, pp: 18 - 35. DOI: 10.1109/TBDATA.2016.2641460

Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to the IEEE submission guidelines. You can access them at the IEEE Computer Society web site, www.computer.org. These should be carefully read before manuscript submission. Please submit your manuscript to Manuscript Central at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tetc-cs

Please note the following important dates.

Submission Deadline: Dec. 1, 2017

Reviews Completed: Mar. 1, 2018

Major Revisions Due (if Needed): April 1, 2018

Reviews of Revisions Completed (if Needed): May 1, 2018

Minor Revisions Due (if Needed): June 1, 2018

Notification of Final Acceptance: August 1, 2018

Publication Materials for Final Manuscripts Due: Sept 1, 2018

Publication date: Last Issue of 2018 (December Issue)

Guest Editors

Feng Xia

Dalian University of Technology, China

f.xia@ieee.org

Huan Liu

Arizona State University, USA

huanliu@asu.edu

C. Lee Giles

Pennsylvania State University, USA

giles@ist.psu.edu

Kuansan Wang

Microsoft Research, USA

Kuansan.Wang@microsoft.com

**** Call For Presentations **** Innovating with Metadata: An Amigos Online Conference

**** Call For Presentations ****

Innovating with Metadata: An Amigos Online Conference

When: Thursday, November 9, 2017, 10:00am- 4:00pm Central Time

Where: Amigos Online Classroom 

Website: https://www.amigos.org/node/4657

Today’s metadata is not yesterday’s cataloging.  Libraries are doing amazing things with all kinds of metadata from many sources.  How is your library innovating with metadata? We would like to hear from you!  Possible topics include:

• New metadata standards and application profiles
• Transforming and exchanging metadata within and between organizations
• Automated ways of generating discovery, preservation and technical metadata
• New systems; innovative uses of institutional repositories, image management systems, discovery layers 
• Creative uses of linked data and RDF
• Transitioning from MARC to BIBFRAME
• Innovating with metadata on a shoe-string budget

Each session will be 45 minutes in length.  If you're interested in presenting, but have never done it online, don't worry -- we will teach you what you need to know!  We welcome submissions from staff in academic, public and special libraries who work with metadata. 

To submit your presentation idea(s), send us your proposal tohttps://www.amigos.org/node/4657 by August 31st. If you are interested in attending, save the date!  We will be posting registration information in Early October. 

Christine Peterson

Continuing Education Librarian, Technology

Coordinator, AskAcademic Virtual Reference Service

Amigos Library Services

800-843-8482 x2891

http://www.amigos.org/

Help unite the global library field in a vision for the future

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is encouraging library staff around the world to share their opinions on a proposed Global Vision for how a connected library field can meet the challenges of the future. 

At workshops held across the globe, key players from the library field have prioritized actions that libraries may take in response to societal changes. Six questions – each with ten possible choices – were selected from the outcomes of these workshops. 

From 21 August until 30 September, library staff can cast their vote on these core questions to help IFLA produce a global library roadmap for the future. Visit this link during the voting period and share your input.