Check out the ILAGO site (www.ilago.wordpress.com) for details and a link to the registration form. In addition to the sessions listed on the ILAGO site, we will also be joined by Terri Kuechle, middle-school librarian from the Beaverton School District. Terri has done extensive work building Beaverton’s sophisticated information literacy model and infrastructure and we are thrilled that she will be sharing her work at the Summit.

Please contact me with questions or to discuss the Summit.

Looking forward to a great event and hope to see you there!

~Michele

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Michele Burke

ILAGO Past Chair, OLA-Library Instruction Round Table Incoming Chair

Reference Librarian

Chemeketa Community College, Salem Campus

503.365.4711

forwarded by the ACRL-OR Communications Coordinator

When: Wednesday, April 25^th, 2012

Time: 5:00-7:00 PM

Join us for light hors d’oeuvres and a no host bar.  Take this opportunity to mingle and converse with colleagues.  All conference attendees are welcome!

Session I 11:00-12:30 pm – “Show Me the Money! Grantwriting Perspectives for Librarians”

Presenters: Karen Estlund (Head, Digital Library Services, UO) and John Russell (Librarian for History, African Studies and Medieval Studies, UO)

Description: Join University of Oregon librarians Karen Estlund (Head, Digital Library Services) and John Russell (Librarian for History, African Studies, and Medieval Studies and Oregon’s LSTA Grant Review Committee) as they discuss why obtaining grants for doing research or other special projects in library environments can be beneficial to your organization as well as an overview of the process of grant-writing, challenges, and do’s and don’ts.

Session II 2:00-3:00 pm – “Can We Really Do it All? The Challenges We Face as Librarians Who Teach”

Presenters: Anne-Marie Deitering (Franklin McEdward Professor for Undergraduate Learning Initiatives, OSU) and Kate Gronemyer (Instruction Librarian, OSU-Cascades)

Description: In 2009 and 2010 OSU librarians gathered dozens of stories from librarians who teach. In this presentation we will hear some of these stories, discuss what they mean for our practice, and see if there is wisdom to be gained from people who might not call themselves teachers.

Session III 4:00-5:30 pm – “From Data Chaos to Data Curation: New Roles for Academic Librarians”

Presenters: Carla Pealer (Data curation librarian – OHSU), Thomas Johnson (Digital Applications Librarian, OSU), Brian Westra (Lorry I. Lokey Science Data Services Librarian, UO)

Description: Data curation is a relatively new area for academic librarians, and can seem complex and confusing. But isn’t that what we do best: bring order to chaos? Data curation rests on well-established practices of our profession: collection development, the reference interview, and cataloging/metadata. This session will provide an overview of this increasingly important topic, offer practical advice, and a give you a chance to flex your own data curation muscles. Data librarians at U of O, OSU, and OHSU will share their experiences and visions for their libraries.

FRIDAY APRIL 27TH

Session IV  8:30-10:00 am – “Libraries and the Semantic Web”

Presenters: Carlo Torniai, Ph.D (Ontologist and Research Scientist, OHSU)

Description: What do all those acronyms (RDF, OWL, SWRL) and terms (Linked Open Data, triples, ontology) mean anyway? And why should we care? The Semantic Web already is affecting how we discover and share resources, and will continue to shape how we manage and access content and knowledge. Join Carlo Torniai on a madcap journey as he wrastles with the wild, world wide web and shows us how the Semantic Web is changing how we provide our users the resources they need. There will be plenty of time for questions and answers in this informal seminar-style session.

Session V  11:00 am – 12:30 pm – “Oh, the Choices We’ll Make! Reading in the Digital World”

Presenters: Uta Hussong, Christian (Instruction Librarian, OSU)  and Jane Nichols (Collection Development librarian, OSU)

Description: Preliminary findings from a current study of e-reader adoption among OSU librarians show that reading has changed, but not in expected ways. We will situate our presentation in the broader issues and questions about changing reading practices and literacies and how they influence adoption of reading devices. We will encourage audience feedback about their own e-reading habits as we consider whether technology shapes reading or if reading drives our choice of technology.

Session VI  2:00-4:00 pm – “Libraries and Humanism: A Book Discussion”

Presenters: Kimberly Willson-St. Clair (Reference & Instruction Librarian, PSU) and Emily Ford (Interim Urban & Public Affairs Librarian, PSU)

Description: All conference attendees are invited to read and engage in a discussion of Andre Cossette’s book Humanism and Libraries: An Essay on the Philosophy of Librarianship (79 pages). “The value of libraries only becomes a reality for each human being in that self-determination that has no other name than liberty….” will spark provocative ideas. Topic list for discussion will be distributed at the session. Bring your book!

• AAAS, Pacific Division 93rd Annual Conference
  Boise, ID, June 24-27, 2012

  Call For Papers: Library Science and Archives Symposium
  General and Interdisciplinary Section(Conference info: http://associations.sou.edu/aaaspd/2012BOISE/index.html)

  Final deadline for submission: April 18, 2012.Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis, so early submission is highly encouraged!

  The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Pacific Division is hosting a Library Science and Archives Symposium under their General and Interdisciplinary Section.

  For this symposium, we are interested in any and all topics related to:
  

  • Instruction and reference services
  • Open Access publishing and scholarly communications
  • Digitization projects, electronic records programs, and institutional repositories
  • Author’s rights and copyright
  • Innovative technologies or techniques applied to libraries or archives

  We will consider proposals for individual contributed papers, panels organized around a theme, and poster sessions. Oral contributed papers are typically scheduled for 20 minutes, with 15 minutes for speaking and 5 minutes for questions. However, exceptions can be made. Please contact the symposium coordinators for special arrangements.

  Student papers, panels, or poster sessions are welcomed and highly encouraged.

  Format your submission as follows:

  In a Word or .rtf file, please include this information:

• Line 1: Submitter’s name
  
• Line 2: Submitter’s telephone number and e-mail address
  
• Line 3: Presenter’s name (if different from above) or “SAME” (if same as above)
  
• Line 4: Presenter’s telephone number and e-mail address (if different from above)
  
• Line 5: Society, section or program to which you are submitting your presentation for review
  
• Line 6: Type of presentation (ORAL or POSTER)
  
• Line 7: Is the presenter a student? (STUDENT or NOT A STUDENT)
  
• Line 8: Special equipment needs (other than standard computer equipment and PowerPoint)
  
• Line 9: Paper Title Italicized and in Title Case, AUTHOR’S NAME(S) IN ALL CAPS AND BOLD (Full address(es), including institution, mailing address, city, state and zip code, and e-mail address(es)). Refer to the example for additional information.
  
• Line 10: Text of abstract. Limit: 250 wordsEmail your submission to ALL of the following:

  The Pacific Division office– rchristi@sou.edu
  The General and Interdisciplinary Section chair– robert.chianese@csun.edu
  The Library Science and Archives Symposium chairs– crystal.goldman@sjsu.edu , michal.walden@ishs.idaho.gov

  For more information on the call for abstracts for contributed papers or poster sessions, please visit:

  http://associations.sou.edu/aaaspd/2012BOISE/Forms/CallForAbstracts2012.pdf

  If you have any questions, please contact one or both of the symposium coordinators. Please feel free to forward, cross-post, or link to this call for submissions.We look forward to your proposals!

  Crystal Goldman
  Scholarly Communications Librarian
  King Library
  San Jose State University
  One Washington Square
  San Jose, CA 95192-0028
  crystal.goldman@sjsu.edu

  Michal Walden
  Archivist
  Idaho State Archives
  Division of the Idaho State Historical Society
  2205 Old Penitentiary Road
  Boise, ID 83712-8250
  michal.walden@ishs.idaho.gov

Session I 11:00-12:30 pm – “Show Me the Money! Grantwriting Perspectives for Librarians”

Presenters: Karen Estlund (Head, Digital Library Services, UO) and John Russell (Librarian for History, African Studies and Medieval Studies, UO)

Description: Join University of Oregon librarians Karen Estlund (Head, Digital Library Services) and John Russell (Librarian for History, African Studies, and Medieval Studies and Oregon’s LSTA Grant Review Committee) as they discuss why obtaining grants for doing research or other special projects in library environments can be beneficial to your organization as well as an overview of the process of grant-writing, challenges, and do’s and don’ts.

Session II 2:00-3:00 pm – “Can We Really Do it All? The Challenges We Face as Librarians Who Teach”

Presenters: Anne-Marie Deitering (Franklin McEdward Professor for Undergraduate Learning Initiatives, OSU) and Kate Gronemyer (Instruction Librarian, OSU-Cascades)

Description: In 2009 and 2010 OSU librarians gathered dozens of stories from librarians who teach. In this presentation we will hear some of these stories, discuss what they mean for our practice, and see if there is wisdom to be gained from people who might not call themselves teachers.

Session III, 4:00-5:30 pm – “From Data Chaos to Data Curation: New Roles for Academic Librarians”

Presenters: Carla Pealer (Data curation librarian – OHSU), Thomas Johnson (Digital Applications Librarian, OSU), Brian Westra (Lorry I. Lokey Science Data Services Librarian, UO)

Description: Data curation is a relatively new area for academic librarians, and can seem complex and confusing. But isn’t that what we do best: bring order to chaos? Data curation rests on well-established practices of our profession: collection development, the reference interview, and cataloging/metadata. This session will provide an overview of this increasingly important topic, offer practical advice, and a give you a chance to flex your own data curation muscles. Data librarians at U of O, OSU, and OHSU will share their experiences and visions for their libraries.

FRIDAY APRIL 27TH

Session IV  8:30-10:00 am – “Libraries and the Semantic Web”

Presenters: Carlo Torniai, Ph.D (Ontologist and Research Scientist, OHSU)

Description: What do all those acronyms (RDF, OWL, SWRL) and terms (Linked Open Data, triples, ontology) mean anyway? And why should we care? The Semantic Web already is affecting how we discover and share resources, and will continue to shape how we manage and access content and knowledge. Join Carlo Torniai on a madcap journey as he wrastles with the wild, world wide web and shows us how the Semantic Web is changing how we provide our users the resources they need. There will be plenty of time for questions and answers in this informal seminar-style session.

Session V  11:00 am – 12:30 pm – “Oh, the Choices We’ll Make! Reading in the Digital World”

Presenters: Uta Hussong, Christian (Instruction Librarian, OSU)  and Jane Nichols (Collection Development librarian, OSU)

Description: Preliminary findings from a current study of e-reader adoption among OSU librarians show that reading has changed, but not in expected ways. We will situate our presentation in the broader issues and questions about changing reading practices and literacies and how they influence adoption of reading devices. We will encourage audience feedback about their own e-reading habits as we consider whether technology shapes reading or if reading drives our choice of technology.

Session VI  2:00-4:00 pm – “Libraries and Humanism: A Book Discussion”

Presenters: Kimberly Willson-St. Clair (Reference & Instruction Librarian, PSU) and Emily Ford (Interim Urban & Public Affairs Librarian, PSU)

Description: All conference attendees are invited to read and engage in a discussion of Andre Cossette’s book Humanism and Libraries: An Essay on the Philosophy of Librarianship (79 pages). “The value of libraries only becomes a reality for each human being in that self-determination that has no other name than liberty….” will spark provocative ideas. Topic list for discussion will be distributed at the session. Bring your book!

• Analyze your population(s) to determine the best mode(s) of instructional delivery
• Determine the pros and cons of technologies for instruction and training
• Develop a sustainable strategy for the creation, maintenance and integration of online learning materials

Head of Instructional Services at Portland State University and a lecturer at San Jose State University’s School of Library and Information Science, Meredith Farkas is also the author of the book, Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication and Community Online. In addition, she writes the monthly column “Technology in Practice” for American Libraries. Meredith was honored in 2008 and 2011 with the WISE Excellence in Online Education Award and in 2009 with the LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology.

Where: Oregon Library Association Annual Conference (Bend, Oregon)

When: April 25, 2012  1:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Cost: $40

Register on-line via the OLA website 

Oregon Information Literacy Summit

The Oregon Information Literacy Summit gathers together academic professionals who teach information literacy to undergraduates, from Dual Credit high school teachers to two- and four-year college instructors, particularly librarians and faculty teaching in writing-intensive disciplines.

With talks, panels, and presentations, the IL Summit offers Oregon educators a unique face-to-face opportunity to participate in an ongoing discussion about the importance of and techniques for embedded information literacy instruction within every discipline.

As the date approaches, registration details and a Call for Proposals will be circulated and posted to the Oregon IL Summit page of the ILAGO blog: http://ilago.wordpress.com/oregon-il-summit/

The ODNP resource, offers users access to more than 180,000 pages of content from 31 Oregon newspapers dating from 1846 to 1922.  Samples of historical research by public users include such varied topics as the 1905 World’s Fair in Portland, Hawaiians in Oregon, bicycling, tattoos, salmon, and even peanut butter can be found on the ODNP blog.

ACRL-Oregon commends this team for their initiative in pursuing grant money to assist in funding the project and their commitment to making searchable historic content more widely accessible.

ODNP is funded through a combination of grants from the Library Services & Technology Act (LSTA), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Oregon Cultural Trust, and the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association.

Karen Estlund, Associate Professor and Head of Digital Library Services at the University of Oregon, will accept the award on behalf of the team at the ACRL Oregon & Washington Joint Fall Conference 2011.

The project database is available now in beta form (http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/)

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The annual ACRL-Oregon Award for Excellence recognizes an individual or group who achieves excellence in the field by significantly improving Oregon academic libraries or librarianship.

Think you know someone that deserves recognition? Send in a submission next year for the 2012 award!

Preview the Conference Schedule - http://acrlwa.org/2011-schedule

Browse the presentation descriptions - http://acrlwa.org/Resources/Documents/ACRL%20WA%202011%20Presentations.pdf

Proposals for Lightning Talks will be accepted through Oct. 3 - https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/elcoe/141301

See you at Pack Forest!
Erica

ACRL WA President
elcoe@uw.edu

“Live long and prosper: Sustainable solutions for today’s academic libraries”

2011 Joint Conference of the Washington & Oregon

Association of College and Research Libraries

Scholarship Applications are now open! Applying is easy and includes a short essay (500 words or less) on your interest in attending the conference and in academic librarianship.

ACRL-OR awards two scholarships to the ACRL Washington and Oregon Joint Fall Conference annually. The scholarship covers the registration fee for the conference, which includes room and board.

N.b. the deadline is Friday October 7, 2011 (11:55pm)

Questions? Please contact Anne-Marie Deitering, ACRL Oregon President