An Author among us!
Congratulations Lauren Pressley. Lauren wrote a book, “So You Want To Be A Librarian”
http://laurenpressley.com/library/?p=922
BTW, she will be signing copies at ALA booth 1637, Exhibits Hall,
McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago at 10am, Sunday, July 12, 2009.
FYI, a new article just came out in The Library Quarterly (v.79, no.3 July 2009) by Kate McDowell entitled “Surveying the Field: The Research Model of Women in Librarianship, 1882-1898.” It concerns the historic development by women of a qualitative and systematic research model developed for the study of youth services in libraries. For those with online access to U. of Chicago Press journals, the link is available here.
WSS Members Jane Nichols (Oregon State University) and Rebecca Tolley-Stokes (East Tennessee State University) both had articles published in the May 2009 issue of C&RL News. Check out their research here:
Library a la Carte: Research and course guides made to order, by Jane Nichols
Try on a new pair of sensible shoes: What libraries can learn from Zappos about customer service and organizational culture, by Rebecca Tolley-Stokes
Gaming, Film, and Ephemera: Women’s Studies and Academic Collections
Monday, July 13, 2009
8:00-8:30: WSS Awards Presentation
8:30-12:00: WSS Program
Location: McCormick Place West W-192b
The panel will address mixed archival collections at the Schlesinger Library, the UIUC Gaming collection, and experiences conducting research on African American women and film. This program will address collection management and research strategies related to popular culture collections in academic libraries. Many collections directly relate to the history of women, gender, and culture, but they involve complex issues of access and preservation. Speakers will consider questions of how academic institutions collect and maintain these materials, as well as the experience of how researchers access and use them in scholarship.
Learn more at: http://libr.org/wss/conferences/2009program.html
Are your library’s databases accessible to people with disabilities? Do they comply with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act or the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines? How about your other licensed resources, such as ejournals, ebooks, and metasearch engines? Catalogs, chat software, wikis and other web 2.0 applications? There is a wiki page on ASCLA’s new wiki to help librarians find and share the answers to these questions. From this page http://ascla.ala.org/toolkit/index.php?title=Main_Page , go to the link at the bottom of the page for Accessibility to Library Databases and Other Online Library Resources for People with Disabilities
There is also a section of the page for librarians to share practical experiences and advice about evaluating resources for accessibility. This is geared toward librarians who are not experts about accessibility. I hope you will consider contributing to the wiki. More information about accessibility of many types of resources is needed. If it is easier for you to email information you’d like to contribute, rather than to post directly to the wiki, you are welcome to email amullike@syr.edu
Thanks for your consideration!
-Adina
Adina Mulliken
Reference Librarian, Social Work, CFS, MFT, Aging
Library Disability Services
Interim for East Asia & CSD
Bird Library
Syracuse University
222 Waverly Ave.
Syracuse, NY 13210
Phone: 315-443-9519
Michelle M. Martínez, Assistant Professor & Reference Librarian at Sam Houston State University, is researching collection development policies and would appreciate a response to the short survey below. She is finding that the majority of academic libraries are very broad in their collection development scope, and while that’s quite useful for purchasing power, it may backfire when it comes to needing to justify a purchase to an irate or offended library-user
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=2vAwAEenLWn3N5_2bLRmHi_2fw_3d_3d
The Women’s Studies Section will hold its second annual Research Poster Session during our General Membership Meeting at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago on Saturday, July 11, 2009, from 4:00-5:30 p.m. The forum seeks to provide an opportunity to present newly completed research or work in progress. Both beginning and established researchers are welcome to apply. Participants may receive collaborative feedback and recommendations for future publishing and/or new initiatives.
The potential scope of the topics includes, but is not limited to, teaching methods, instruction, information technology, collection development, interdisciplinarity, and collaboration with academic faculty. For research ideas, see the Women’s Studies Research Agenda.
(http://www.libr.org/wss/committees/research/resagenda.html)
Attendees at the forum will find an arena for discussion and networking with their colleagues interested in related issues and trends in the profession.
The committee will use a blind review process.
Selection criteria:
1. Significance of the topic. Priority will be given to Women’s Studies Section members and/or women’s studies topics.
2. Originality of the project.
Proposal submission instructions:
1. Proposals should include:
Title of the proposal
Proposal narrative (no more than 2 pages, double spaced, 12 pt. font)
Name of applicant(s)
Affiliation
Applicant address(es), Phone number(s), Email address(es), Fax number(s)
Are you a member of Women’s Studies Section? ___Yes ___ No
If you would like to become a member, go to:
http://www.libr.org/wss/join.html
2. NOTE: Submission deadline: March 23, 2009
3. Proposals should be emailed to: Cindy Ingold. Chair, Research Committee
(cingold@illinois.edu)
4. The chair will notify the applicants by April 27, 2009
Dolores Fidishun, Ed. D.
Head Librarian
Penn State Great Valley School of
Graduate Professional Studies
30 E. Swedesford Rd.
Malvern, PA 19355
Phone: 610-648-3227
Fax: 610-725-5223
Email: dxf19@psu.edu
Dolores’ List of CFPs blog
http://www.personal.psu.edu/dxf19/blogs/dolores_list_of_cfps/