Call for Proposals: NERCOMP 2019 Annual Conference
Posted September 20, 2018
Libraries and Scholarship in the 21st Century
As libraries seek to redefine themselves in the 21st century, branching out into content creation, makerspace management, and new partnerships around teaching, learning, and scholarship, the opportunities–and questions–for how libraries will lead in the information age can seem overwhelming. What collaborative partnerships, decisions, and technologies should librarians take advantage of in scholarship and research? What strategic innovations can libraries share to help establish a new model of relevancy in colleges and universities? And given the continual pressure to justify budget requests and resource allocations, how can we define and establish new organizational structures and services? This track encourages the sharing of provocative ideas, ongoing projects and plans, and early-stage successes that can help our community begin to answer these provocative questions.
Examples include:
- Reconceiving library spaces and services: new purposes, new partners
- Emerging workflows and best practices in digitization and digital preservation
- Issues surrounding 21st-century scholarly communication: copyright, open access
- Supporting faculty in digital scholarship, digital humanities, and research
- Assessment in the library: demonstrating the library’s contributions
- Innovations in delivery of content: e-books, ILL, patron-initiated purchasing
- Instruction and outreach: in information literacy programming and engagement
- Getting to know our users: ethnographic research, usability studies
- When cultures collide: changing perceptions of libraries’ roles and missions
- Integrating discovery tools and library management systems
- Lessons learned working with archives, repositories, and publishing platforms
- Campus and community outreach and partnerships
The deadline for submissions is Monday, October 8.