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Posted December 16, 2016
Special Editor: Michael Zimmer<http://www.michaelzimmer.org/>, PhD (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Traditionally, the context of the library brings with it specific norms of information flow regarding patron activity, including a professional commitment to patron privacy. In the library setting, a patron?s intellectual activities are protected by decades of established norms and practices intended to preserve patron privacy and…
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Posted December 9, 2016
The IFLA Library Theory and Research Section (LTR), IFLA- Preservation and Conservation, IFLA- Information Technology, Warsaw University – Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies are pleased to invite submissions for the IFLA Satellite Conference to be held in Warsaw, Poland 16 and 17 August 2017. Topic: Data Curator’s Roles and Responsibilities: International and Interdisciplinary…
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Posted December 6, 2016
Designed to help persons with an interest in the fields of Chemistry and Information to pursue graduate study in Library, Information, or Computer Science, the Scholarship consists of a $1,500 honorarium. This scholarship is given yearly by the Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society. The applicant must have a bachelor’s degree with a…
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Posted December 6, 2016
The Justin Winsor Library History Essay Award is presented by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association annually to recognize the best essay written in English on library history. The award is named in honor of the distinguished nineteenth-century librarian, historian, and bibliographer who was also ALA’s first president. It consists of…
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Posted December 2, 2016
The Mortenson Center for International Library Programs and the American Library Association invite you to the Project Welcome: Libraries Serving Refugees and Asylum Seekers Summit on February 6, 2017 in Chicago. At the meeting we will learn from and with US and international librarians, international and national governmental agencies, and domestic resettlement and social services…
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Posted December 2, 2016
Registration is now open for The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill SILS summer seminars to London, Prague, and (new this year!) Dublin and Berlin. These two-week seminars are open to graduate level library and information science students, as well as professionals with an interest in international librarianship. For students, the option to take…
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Posted December 1, 2016
Call for Participation (NASKO 2017) Visualizing Knowledge Organization: Bringing Focus to Abstract Realities ISKO C/US invites submissions of abstracts for its Sixth North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO 2017) to be held June 15-16, 2017, in Champaign, IL, USA. Conference Venue: the iSchool at Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Deadline for Proposals: February…
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Posted November 25, 2016
February 4-5, 2017 Mark your calendars for WECode 2017! WECode is the largest student-run Women in Computer Science conference in the nation, held annually at Harvard University. Join us in cultivating the next generation of technical leaders, fostering community among collegiate engineers, and promoting female representation in technical fields. All genders are encouraged to…
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Posted November 19, 2016
View the full press release at: http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2016/11/submit-nomination-prestigious-kilgour-technology-research-award The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), and OCLC, Inc. invite nominations for the 2017 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology. The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2016. The Kilgour Research Award recognizes research relevant to…
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Posted November 17, 2016
Beta Phi Mu/LRRT Research Paper Award for 2017 This award is being jointly presented by the Beta Phi Mu International Honor Society (http://beta-phi-mu.org/) and the American Library Association’s Library Research Round Table (http://www.ala.org/lrrt/) to recognize excellent research in progress into problems related to the profession of librarianship. Any ALA member is eligible for this $500…
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