LOEX Currents - December 2007

***2008 LOEX Conference*** will be held outside Chicago in Oak Brook, IL on May 1-3, 2008.
- There is still time for Poster Session Proposals for library students (January 25, 2008), along with applications for the Minority Scholarship (January 18, 2008).
- The conference registration fee will be $280 for LOEX members.
- As in previous years, registration will be online-only. It is on Friday, February 8, 2008 at 1PM Eastern.

American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting will be held on January 11-16, 2008 in Philadelphia, PA. Registration is available at the onsite rate. Also, Project SAILS will hold a one-hour information and training session on Saturday, January 12.
- Consider attending the pre-conference ACRL workshop, "Injecting Fun into Library Orientation: How to Engage and Capture Your Students through Interactive Presentations" on Friday, January 11 from 1:00-4:00 p.m.

SCIL Works 2008 will be held Friday, January 25, 2008 at the Claremont Colleges. Registration closes January 15, 2008. The conference theme is Putting Theory Into Practice: the 'Why' Behind Instructional Strategies.

WILU 2008 will be held on May 14-16, 2008 at the UBC Okanagan campus in Kelowna, British Columbia. The conference theme is Information Literacy Uncorked: Innovate, Celebrate, Participate.

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 Spring issue: March 24, 2008.

In 2006, the Augustana Campus, University of Alberta, documented and celebrated their multi-faceted information literacy program in a 30-minute documentary, It Changed the Way I Do Research -- Period: Augustana Talks Information Literacy in which librarians, students, teaching faculty and administration speak to information literacy within the college/university experience. The documentary is now available. The full DVD, individual DVD chapters and a ten-minute version are available on the site.

New this month:

AR (Conway) - University of Central Arkansas - Instructional Services Librarian - Review of applications will begin on February 1, 2008.

CA (Irvine) - University of California, Irvine - Research Librarian for Education and Outreach - Applications received by December 3, 2007 will receive first consideration; Open until filled.

CA (Irvine) - University of California, Irvine - Research Librarian for Visual Arts - Applications received by February 4, 2008 will receive first consideration; Open until filled.

CA (Santa Barbara) - Fielding Graduate University - Reference and Instructional Services Librarian - Application deadline is January 15, 2008.

CA (Visalia) - College of the Sequoias - Information Competency Librarian - Submit an application is March 28, 2008.

CT (New Haven) - Yale University Medical Library- Instructional Design Librarian - Open until filled.

Egypt (Cairo) - American University in Cairo - Instruction/Reference Librarian - Open until filled.

GA (Lawrenceville) - Georgia Gwinnett College - Reference & Instruction Faculty Librarian - Review of applications will begin on January 28, 2008; Open until filled.

KS (Pittsburg) - Pittsburg State University - Reference/Instruction Librarian - Apply by January 30, 2008.

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

MI (Rochester) - Oakland University - Information Literacy and Reference Librarian - Review of applications will begin on February 15, 2008; Open until filled.

NC (Davidson) - Davidson College - Information Literacy Librarian - Review of applications will begin on February 1, 2008.

NY (Alfred) - Alfred University - Instructional Librarian - Application review begins January 22, 2008; Open until filled.

NY (Dobbs Ferry) - Mercy College - Dean, Libraries, Instructional Technology and Online Learning - Open until filled.

PA (Clarion) - Clarion University - Information Literacy/Reference Librarian - Priority given to applications received by January 25, 2008.

PA (East Stroudsburg) - East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania - Instructional Technologies Librarian - Full consideration given to applications received by February 1, 2008.

PA (Lehman) - Penn State Wilkes-Barre - Reference Librarian - Application deadline is January 4, 2008.

TX (Dallas) - El Centro College - Librarian II - Open until December 21, 2007.

VA (Charlottesville) - University of Virginia - Architecture and Instruction Librarian - Review of applications will begin on January 28, 2008; Open until filled.

VA (Richmond) - Virginia Commonwealth University - Coordinator of Instructional Services - Review of applications will begin January 30, 2008; Open until filled.

WI (Milwaukee) - Marquette University - E-Learning Librarian - For full consideration, submit application online by January 31, 2008.

Continuing:

ID (Moscow) - University of Idaho - Head of Public Services - Screening begins on January 18, 2008; 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.

MI (Ann Arbor) - University of Michigan - Instructional Technology Librarian - Review of applications will begin on January 1, 2008; Open until filled.

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

NV (Las Vegas) - University of Nevada, Las Vegas - Instruction Librarian - Open until filled.

NY (Brooklyn) - New York City College of Technology - Coordinator of Information Literacy & Library Instruction - Open until filled.

OH (Cedarville) - Cedarville University - Instructional Services Librarian - Open until filled.

PA (Slippery Rock) - Slippery Rock University - Education & Instructional Materials Center Librarian - Review of applications will begin by January 21, 2008; Open until filled.

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

TX (Houston) - University of Houston-Clear Lake - Assistant Librarian - Open until filled.

VA (Arlington) - Marymount University - Associate Dean and Librarian - Open until filled.

WA (Bothell) - University of Washington Bothell & Cascadia Community College - Reference & Instruction/Arts & Humanities Librarian - Apply by January 11, 2008.

WI (Eau Claire) - University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire - Reference and Instruction Librarian - Apply by January 11, 2008.

Readings

Stephanie J. Graves (2007, December). Homeless instruction librarian: Surviving instruction during a library renovation. C&RL News, 68 (11), 690-692, 712.

Elizabeth Stephenson, Patti Schifter Caravello (2007). Incorporating data literacy into undergraduate information literacy programs in the social sciences. Reference Services Review, 35 (4), 525-540.

Miguel Heft (2007, December 15). Wikipedia Competitor Being Tested by Google. New York Times. Retrieved from http//:www.nytimes.com on December 16, 2007.

Stephanie Rosenbloom (2007, December 17). On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data. New York Times. Retrieved from http//:www.nytimes.com on December 17, 2007.

Jacob Leibenluft (2007, December 7). Why Yahoo! Answers is a librarian's worst nightmare. Slate. Retrieved from http//:www.slate.com on December 10, 2007.

Facts and Figures

"User demand for the Internet could outpace network capacity by 2010. This is due in large part to voice and bandwidth-intensive applications, including streaming and interactive video, peer-to-peer file transfer and music downloads & file sharing. The anticipated overload would lead to brownouts, stalling applications and download times and reverting users back to speeds similar to dial-up modems."
TelephonyOnline, Retrieved from http://telephonyonline.com on November 30, 2007.

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