LOEX Currents - October 2007

***2008 LOEX Conference*** will be held outside Chicago in Oak Brook, IL on May 1-3, 2008. There is a Call for Proposals with a deadline of Friday, November 16 - submit yours today!
- The conference registration fee has not been finalized, but it will be no more than last year ($290) and possibly a bit less.
- As in previous years, registration will be online-only. It is on Friday, February 8, 2008 at 1PM Eastern.

Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO): the 33rd annual conference will be held on October 25-26, 2007 in Columbus, Ohio. "Innovation Generation: Tools, Techniques, Transformations."

The Brick & Click Libraries Symposium: the 7th Annual conference will be held on November 2, 2007 at Northwest Missouri State University, in Maryville, Missouri.

Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award. Send in a nomination to recognize an outstanding member of the library profession who has made a significant national or international contribution to academic or research librarianship and library development. Deadline: December 7, 2007.

Instruction Section: Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award. Nominate an individual librarian who has made an especially significant contribution to the advancement of instruction in a college or research library environment. Deadline: December 7, 2007.

Instruction Section: Innovation Award. Nominate a project that demonstrates creative, innovative, or unique approaches to information literacy instruction or programming. Deadline: December 7, 2007.

Teaching Portfolios for Librarians, an online seminar, will be offered October 29-November 16, 2007. Registration is open. ACRL member: $135, ALA member: $175.

ACRL Council of Liaisons is currently accepting applications for member liaisons to targeted organizations, such as the American Anthropological Association and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Please send completed applications to frances.maloy@emory.edu and to emandel@ala.org. The deadline for applications is November 16, 2007.

ACRL invites applications for Immersion '08 Program which will be held at the University of California, San Diego, July 27-August 1, 2008. Immersion '08 will be four-and-one-half days of active learning and intensive interaction among academic librarians. December 3, 2007 is the deadline to apply.

Call for papers and book reviews: LOEX Quarterly
Reach out to the LOEX membership and share your instruction ideas and innovations. The focus is on substantive, but practical articles, so do not miss an opportunity to share with others your interesting programs, experiences, ideas or insights. Also, LOEX is currently accepting book reviews of non-library books whose discussion of trends, technologies, or ideas might be useful for library instructors to consider. Submissions are relatively short: between 700-1500 words. Email loex@emich.edu if you have any questions. Deadline for the Winter issue: January 15, 2008.

Public Services Quarterly is currently soliciting manuscripts to be considered for upcoming issues; it also has an opening for the editor of the Best of the Literature column. For information about submitting manuscripts, plesae see their website. If you are interested in applying, contact Wayne Bivens-Tatum, the current column editor, at rbivens@princeton.edu.

New this month:

AR (North Little Rock) - Pulaski Technical College - Outreach and Instruction Librarian - Apply by November 16, 2007.

CA (Berkeley) - University of California, Berkeley - E-Learning Librarian - Apply by November 5, 2007.

CA (Camarillo) - CSU Channel Islands - User Services Librarian - Review of applications will begin November 2, 2007.

CA (Merced) - University of California, Merced - User Communication and Instruction Librarian - Review of applications begins November 5, 2007; Open until filled.

CA (Merced) - University of California, Merced - Resource Access and Instruction Librarian - Review of applications begins November 5, 2007; Open until filled.

CA (Rivderside) - Riverside Community College District - Dean, Technology & Learning Resources - Open until filled.

CA (San Luis Obispo) - Cuesta College - Director of Library/Learning Resources & Distance Education - Apply by November 27, 2007.

CT (Danielson) - Quinebaug Valley Community College - Reference and Instruction Librarian - Apply by October 31, 2007.

GA (Atlanta) - Georgia Tech - First Year English Instruction Librarian - Open until filled.

IL (Grayslake) - College of Lake County - Instructor, Faculty Librarian/Reference and Instruction - Apply by December 7, 2007.

KS (Baldwin City) - Baker University - Instruction Librarian - Review of applications will begin October 29, 2007; Open until filled.

LA (Lake Charles) - McNeese State University - Information Resources Librarian - Open until filled.

LA (New Orleans) - Tulane University - Reference Services Librarian - Open until filled.

MN (Minneapolis) - University of Minnesota - Information Literacy Librarian - Open until filled.

MN (Northfield) - St. Olaf College - Reference and Instruction Librarian - Open until filled.

ND (Minot) - Minot State University - Reference and Information Literacy Librarian - Review of applications will start on November 12, 2007; Open until filled.

NH (Hanover) - Dartmouth College - Director of Education and Outreach - Review of applications will begin on December 3, 2007; Open until filled.

NV (Las Vegas) - University of Nevada, Las Vegas - Instructional Designer - Open until filled.

NY (Bronx) - Lehman College - Coordinator of Information Literacy - Apply by November 24, 2007.

OK (Lawton) - Cameron University - Information Literacy and Library Coordinator - Open until filled.

QUE (Montreal) - Concordia University - Information Literacy/Liaison Librarian - Apply by October 23, 2007.

TN (Murfreesboro) - Middle Tennessee State University - User Services Librarian - Information Literacy - Open until filled.

SC (Anderson) - Anderson County Library - Head of Reference and Information Services - Open until filled.

VA (Charlottesville) - University of Virginia - Head of Instruction and Outreach - Review of applications will begin on October 22, 2007; Open until filled.

Continuing:

CA (Los Angeles) - UCLA - Information Literacy Operations Librarian - Candidates applying by October 6, 2007 will be given first consideration.

CA (Orange) - Chapman University - Information Literacy & Assessment Librarian - Open until filled.

IA (Waverly) - Wartburg College - College Librarian and Director of Vogel Library - Screening will being October 26, 2007; Open until filled.

MA (Boston) - Boston University - Education and Information Services Librarian - Review of applications will begin on September 21, 2007; Open until filled.

MN (Northfield) - Carleton College - Reference and Instruction Librarian for the Social Sciences - Application review begins October 22, 2007; Open until filled.

NC (Chapel Hill) - University of North Carolina - Coordinator of E-Learning Services - Review of applications will begin on September 20, 2007.

NY (Fredonia) - State University of New York - Reference and Instruction Librarian - Review begins August 23, 2007; Open until filled.

UT (Ogden) - Weber State University - Instruction Librarian - Screening begins November 15, 2007; Open until filled.

UT (Salt Lake City) - Westminster College - Bibliographic Instruction/Reference Librarian - Open until filled.

VT (Castleton) - Castleton State College - Instruction/Reference Librarian - Open until filled.

Readings

Maria Pinto and A.-Vinciane Doucet (2007, September). An Academic Portal for Higher Education Information Literacy: The e-COMS Initiative. The Journal of Academic Librarianship , 33(5), 604-611.

John P. Campbell, Diana G. Oblinger, and Colleagues (2007). Top-Ten Teaching and Learning Issues, 2007. EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 30 (3), 15-22. .

Reuters (2007, October 12). Google, Random House move closer on book search. Reuters. Retrieved from http://www.reuters.com. on October 16, 2007.

Steve Johnson (2007, October 12). Why Yahoo, not Google, should drive your search. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved from http://www.chicagotribune.com on October 12, 2007.

Daniel Goleman (2007, October 7). E-Mail Is Easy to Write (and to Misread). The New York Times, pp. BU17(L).

Michael Agger (2007, October 11). Google's Evil Eye. Slate. Retrieved from http://www.slate.com on October 11, 2007.

Facts and Figures

"Wikipedia published its 2-millionth article in the English language version of the anyone-can-edit encyclopedia. On September 10, an article on "El Hormiguero," a popular Spanish TV show, was created by Wikipedia contributor Zzxc to become the 2 millionth article in the English Wikipedia. The English version of Wikipedia alone has signed up 3.4 million volunteer contributors."
Reuters, Retrieved from http://www.reuters.com on October 12, 2007.

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