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Posted February 17, 2016
Education and Training & Library Theory and Research Sectionshttps://publish.illinois.edu/ifla-set-ltr-2016/call/Theme: “International Quality Assessment of LIS Education Programs” Date: 10 August, 2016; 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Venue The Conference Center at OCLC, 6600 Kilgour Pl, Dublin, OH 43017, USA http://conference-center.oclc.org/home.html – Close to Columbus, reachable by taxi Description of Theme The Section on Education and Training (SET)…
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Posted February 16, 2016
Extending Play 3: Temporalities of PlaySchool of Communication & Information, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJConference Dates: Sept. 30 & Oct. 1, 2016Proposals Due: April 3rd “History is indeed absent from the game, absent as something finished, as a storyline in the past tense. What replaces it is a history workshop, a model of history as…
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Posted February 16, 2016
DEADLINE: March 11, 2016 The overall topic for the Debates conference is the issue of negative behaviours in online social media and how these can be analysed and addressed by the research community. Keynote speakers are: Professor Annemaree Lloyd – Professor Swedish School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Boras, Sweden Professor Stephan Lewandowsky – Chair in Cognitive…
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Posted February 12, 2016
As a pioneer in education reform, Breakthrough is more than an organization. We are a nation-wide movement, tackling the achievement gap with a groundbreaking approach. We increase academic opportunity for highly motivated middleschool and high-school students on the path to college; provide outstanding pre-professional training for undergraduate teaching fellows; and offer leadership opportunities for professional educators, who serve…
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Posted February 12, 2016
University of Connecticut, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering May 31 – August 5, 2016 10-week summer program opportunity to work on cutting-edge research in computer systems security and trustable computing systems • Work on summer research projects guided by faculty mentors• Get involved with exciting research with an impact on national security• Interact…
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Posted February 12, 2016
Please encourage your students to apply for the 2016 Summer REU in Secure and Trustworthy Cybersecurity, and feel free to forward this e-mail to your students. Program: The Department of Computer Science and Engineering Department at Oakland University (Michigan) will conduct a 10-week summer research program for undergraduate students in 2016. The program is designed…
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Posted February 12, 2016
This is an especially exciting opportunity, especially, but not exclusively, for anyone interested in CS and business. Info session on Feb 17th (two, actually, at noon and 3 pm) What is Workday@College? Workday@College is a selective internship training program for Simmons College students looking to gain Workday technical skills. They receive proprietary Workday training…
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Posted February 12, 2016
Call for chapter abstracts for the forthcoming De Gruyter Saur book Organization, Representation, and Description through the Digital Age: Information in Libraries, Archives and Museums to be edited by Caroline Fuchs and Christine Angel. The editors invite a submission of 500-word abstracts proposing a chapter for this edited volume. Abstract due by April 3, 2015. Submission Dates and Timeline: April…
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Posted February 12, 2016
Please save the date for our upcoming DataONE Users Group (DUG) meeting to be held July 17th-18th, 2016 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. As in previous years, we will be co-locating with the ESIP Summer Meeting. There is no cost to register. *Meeting Theme and Objectives*The 2016 meeting theme, Expanding Data Networks, will focus on the new challenges…
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Posted February 12, 2016
Founded in 1807, the Boston Athenæum is one of the oldest and most distinguished independent libraries and cultural institutions in the United States. The mission of the Boston Athenæum is to serve its members, the broader community, and scholars throughout the world by preserving and augmenting its collections of books and art, by providing library…
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