Book Publisher: American Library Association

Editor: Carol Smallwood, MLS

Writing and Publishing: The Librarian’s Handbook, American Library Association, 2010http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2646

The Frugal Librarian: Thriving in Tough Economic Times, American Library Association, 2011
http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3090

Chapters sought from U.S. and Canadian librarians who’ve worked with visual and performing artists to bring the arts into libraries to keep them vibrant community cultural centers. Innovative public, school, librarians who have encouraged painters, photographers, musicians, writers, and other creative talent of various ages.

No previously published, simultaneously submitted material; 3,000-4,000 words written by one or up to three co-authors. Concise, how-to chapters, using bullets, headings.

Compensation: a complimentary book, discount on additional copies.

Possible topics: community programs and outreach, working with students, security and legal concerns, using the media, open houses, readings and book launches, displays, collaborations with community groups, workshops, grants.

To avoid duplication, please e-mail 2-3 topics described separately in 2-3 sentences by April 24, 2011 with a brief bio. Kindly place, ARTS/Your Name, on the subject line to: smallwood@tm.net

The NEA newsletter is currently seeking articles about your activities and accomplishments for the July 2011 issue of the NEA newsletter. The newsletter relies entirely on entries from members, so please share your news with the archives community!

Past entries have included announcements about newly processed collections, new acquisitions, renovations and expansions, grants received, project updates, exhibit openings, student activities, photographs from collections, and internship opportunities. However, anything of interest to the archives community is welcome!

You can also add an item to our calendar of upcoming events (events, workshops, meetings, conferences, symposia, etc). Please limit your news item to around 150 words, or your calendar entry to around 25 words, and be sure to include your repository name, location, and a phone number or email address at the end of the piece.

The NEA will appreciate the time and thought you put into your writing!!

Send submissions by 05/16/2011 to:

Michael Dello Iacono
Records Manager
Suffolk University
Moakley Archive and Institute
120 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108
617.305.6255
www.suffolk.edu/archive

Applications and accompanying material must be postmarked by February 4th, 2011.

Guidelines and application form are available on the ARLIS/NA website: http://www.arlisna.org/about/awards/wwbap_guidelines.html
Previous award winners can be found here: http://www.arlisna.org/about/awards/researchawards_history.html#wwpub

Questions? Please contact the Research Award Committee Co-Chairs
Amy Ballmer, CUNY Graduate Center, aballmer@gc.cuny.edu
Melanie Emerson, Art Institute of Chicago, memerson@artic.edu

This is a really great resource, and many thanks to Joel Atkinson, Rachel Beckwith, Sherman Clarke, Ross Day, Jennifer Faist, Joy Garnett, Jennifer L. Hehman, Jacqueline L. Rogers, Amy Watson and editors Jennifer L. Hehman and Kraig Binkowski.

I’d love to see this list in del.icio.us, too. There’s actually a lot of overlap with links already in the ArLiSNAP del.icio.us account. Maybe we could come up with a tag to denote sites that are on the Recommended Blogs list? Or maybe we could work with the editors so that they could create a second version of their list in del.icio.us? It just seems to me that such a great resource should be shared far beyond the ARLIS/NA circle…

Just something for all of us students/young professionals to mull over…

“NextSpace (The OCLC Newsletter) asked nine experts to explore and comment on the trends and behaviors of users of the social Web.” Read Gerry McKiernan’s summary: OCLC NextSpace: Libraries and Social Networking

Here is the original OCLC article: http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/007/1.htm

Pearls of wisdom from Deborah Lee’s “On the Tenure Track: Strategies for Success”

• Get documentation about your institution’s tenure process
• Talk to people who have recently gone through tenure in your library
• Get a mentor
• Make a plan and visualize your successful portfolio
• Keep supporting documentation throughout your career

Overview of Sandra Kroupa’s role in the University of Washington’s Book Arts Collection -

• “My job is primarily to be the conduit between the artist and viewer. The artist can’t talk to the person directly, but they can talk to them through me as I provide the book.”

I will be guest editing a special issue of the VRA Bulletin in Spring 2008 on “Digital Collaborations.” I am intentionally making this an open call for abstracts for paper proposals to get as wide a range of articles on as many different topics as possible, both within the arts and humanities disciplines and beyond.

The broad question that I am asking is:

How are digital image collections now working or being implemented across the larger environment, either within one institution or between institutions?

I am interested in substantive articles from the collage/university, library, private/commercial sector, and museum communities.

Papers may address digital collaborations within cross-campus, multi-campus, single and multi-institution, commercial image consortia, library consortia, environments.

Topics that may be addressed are image database development, metadata issues, institution-wide image delivery, user issues, user and staff training programs, funding and staffing issues, personal collection access and delivery, commercial collections, image/text/audio/video collections, etc.

Please submit a one-page abstract of your paper proposal to me via e-mail by August 1, 2007 (taormina@duke.edu). Final articles should be between 2,500-4,000 words, not counting illustrations. Final papers will be due by December 31, 2007.

Thank you,

John J. Taormina
Director, Visual Resources Center
Dept. of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Duke University
Box 90764
112 East Duke Building
Durham NC 27708-0764

This is just one of several quotes used to introduce chapters and set the tone in G. Kim Dority’s recent book, Rethinking Information Work: A Career Guide for Librarians and Other Information Professionals (Libraries Unlimited, 2006).

If you’ve been spending some time this spring thinking about your career—or if you’ve already decided it’s time for a career shift—Rethinking Information Work is a book you’ll want to spend some quality time with. Even if you think you’ve landed the perfect job, this book is worth your time.

More…

full bibliographic record:

Author:	Dority, G. Kim, 1950
Title:	Rethinking information work : a career guide for librarians and other information professionals / G. Kim Dority.
Imprint:	Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2006.
Description:	x, 222 p. ; 26 cm.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:	1. Rethinking information work — 2. Self-knowledge – your career starting point — 3. The traditional path — 4. The nontraditional path — 5. The independent path — 6. Creating your professional portfolio — 7. Growing your career — 8. Thriving on change — 9. Creating your career map — 10. Taking charge of your career.
Subject(s):	Library science — Vocational guidance — United States. Information science — Vocational guidance — United States. Career development.
ISBN:	159158180X (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781591581802

Library Student Journal is once again accepting student papers for review
and publication in our next issue. Please visit
http://informatics.buffalo.edu/org/lsj/getinvolved.php for more information
about having your work published.

LSJ was founded at the University of Buffalo in New York state but seeks
international readers and authors. We’ve also expanded our services to the
LIS community with recent additions of a discussion board and blog. We’re
pleased to offer students such an accessible forum for discussion as well
as the opportunity to be published alongside peers. Educators are
encouraged to share this opportunity with students.
Thank you

- Shannon Smith -
Library Student Journal staff

http://www.librarystudentjournal.com

ArLiSNAP readers seem like a natural choice for this project – if multiple people are interested they could always form a committee to draft a proposal for the publications committee. In the past it looks like this document was a joint effort between two or three people, so it might be best to have a committee chair for strategy as well as at least one other member to help implement the survey.

Design Research at Virginia Tech by Heather Ball

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture