You will also be given the chance to enter and win one of four $25 Starbucks Gift Cards to thank you for your participation!

Click on the link below to access the survey:

http://umichlib.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_agei8Dy4CQqPdbL

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Jennifer Mayer (mayerj AT uwyo.edu), WGSS Chair, or Beth Strickland (stricklb AT umich.edu), WGSS Member-at-Large.

Conversations about democracy, information access, and information distribution within communities continue to gain momentum in both academia and society as a whole. Academic librarians and LIS faculty can work with social justice issues in many ways. Learn how the speakers shape and bring to the forefront these issues via their teaching, scholarship, and work in local communities. Areas addressed include: community informatics, information literacy-focused service learning, and community outreach.

Speakers include:  Lizz Zitron, Outreach Services Librarian at Carthage College, Hedberg Library in Kenosha, Wisconsin; Maureen Barry, First Year Experience Librarian at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio; Martin Wolske, GSLIS senior research scientist at the Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Co-sponsored by ACRL’s Education and Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) and ALA’s Social Responsibility Round Table (SRRT).  For more information contact Jennifer Mayer (MayerJ@uwyo.edu) or Pamela Salela (psale2@uis.edu)

A short awards presentation will be held at the beginning of the program.

Thursday, April 11th
6:30-8:30pm
Slippery Noodle Inn
http://www.slipperynoodle.com/

We hope to see you there!

IFLA Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group (WIL) invite colleagues to submit proposals for its conference session to be held in Singapore, August 2013.

Conference Theme
LIS professionals improving the lives of women in Asia Oceania.

Scope / Objectives of the Session
The session will discuss current library and information initiatives which are supporting and improving the lives of women living in the Asia Oceania region.

It would include examples of work by library and information professionals:

• Contributing to the development of women in the Asia Oceania region by democratising access to information;
• Collecting and preserving the memories of women in the Asia Oceania region;
• Bridging the digital gap faced by some women in the Asia Oceania region;
• Providing access to human rights, gender equality and women specific information to women in the Asia Oceania region.

Submission Guidelines
Proposals to be submitted by email to wilsig@googlemail.com including:

• Title of the paper
• Abstract of 200-250 words, summarising the paper
• 3-6 keywords
• Speaker’s name, professional affiliation, postal address, email address and brief biographical note (no full CVs please)

Conference presentations will be made in English. They will be no longer than 15 minutes, with extra time for discussion at the end of the session.
Colleagues from the Asia and Oceania region, especially first-time presenters and new professionals, are warmly encouraged to submit abstracts.

Proposals will be reviewed by a selection panel chaired by the Convener of the Women, Information and Libraries Special Interest Group. Papers and presentations should be unpublished, original works. IFLA has first publication rights to papers selected.

All expenses, including registration for the conference, travel and accommodation are the responsibility of the presenters. No financial support can be provided by IFLA. Letters of invitation can be issued to presenters upon request.

Deadlines:

• Submission of abstracts: Sunday 10th March 2013
• Notification of acceptance: By Friday 15th March 2013 (authors who do not receive a response by this date may assume that their abstract has not been selected).

Further information:
http://www.ifla.org/news/call-for-paper-proposals-lis-professionals-improving-the-lives-of-women-in-asia-oceania

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 newly updated Research Agenda for Women and Gender Studies Librarianship.

Applicants chosen to present their work at the poster session are expected to supply presentation materials, including poster boards.  Tables for presentation materials will be provided.  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 peer review process.

Selection criteria:
1. Significance of the topic. Priority will be given to Women and Gender Studies Studies Section members and/or women and gender 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)
Name of applicant(s)
Affiliation (s)
Applicant Email address(es), Phone number(s)
Are you a member of the Women & Gender Studies Section?
If you would like to become a member, go to: http://www.libr.org/wgss/join.html

2. NOTE: Submission deadline: March 29, 2013

3. Proposals should be emailed to: Jennifer Gilley, Chair, Research Committee (jrg15@psu.edu)

4. The chair will notify the applicants by April 30, 2013.

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 newly updated Research Agenda for Women and Gender Studies Librarianship.

Applicants chosen to present their work at the poster session are expected to supply presentation materials, including poster boards.  Tables for presentation materials will be provided.  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 peer review process.

 
SELECTION CRITERIA:

1. Significance of the topic. Priority will be given to Women and Gender Studies Studies Section members and/or women and gender 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)
   >  Name of applicant(s)
   >  Affiliation (s)
   >  Applicant Email address(es), Phone number(s)
   >  Are you a member of the Women & Gender Studies Section?   If you would like to become a member, go to: http://www.libr.org/wgss/join.html
2. NOTE: Submission deadline: March 29, 2013
3. Proposals should be emailed to: Jennifer Gilley, Chair, Research Committee (jrg15 AT psu.edu)
4. The chair will notify the applicants by April 30, 2013.

Also, the committee is looking to document the impact of the agenda, so if the old one inspired your own research, or if the new one does, please let Jennifer Gilley know at jrg15 AT psu.edu. You could be mentioned in the literature review the next time around!

The committee members who each contributed a monumental effort to this task are Marcia Barrett, Jennifer Gilley, Pamela Salela, and Susan Wood.

In this issue:
Notes From The Chair
Section Contact Information
Committee Reports
In Memoriam, Sandy River
Welcome, Irene Herold
ALA Annual Wrap-up
Member News
New Member Welcome

Get your copy now!  It’s available at the WGSS site.

•  Service within the organized profession through ACRL/WGSS and/or related organizations;
• Academic/research library or archival service in the area of women & gender studies;
• Research and publication in areas of academic/research library or archival services in women & gender studies;
• Planning and implementation of academic/research library or archival programs in women & gender studies disciplines of such exemplary quality that they could serve as a model for others.

The WGSS Award for Significant Achievement in Women & Gender Studies Librarianship recognizes one-time achievement, by an individual or a group, during the particular year of the award. Achievement may be in any area of academic women & gender studies librarianship, including, but not limited to:

•  Publication of a monograph, journal article, website or media product;
• Talk or other presentation at a nationally recognized conference;
• Innovations in women & gender Studies librarianship, including but not limited to instruction;
• Development of an exemplary program, collection, digitization project, or access tool to serve women & gender studies students and/or faculty;
• Significant creative & innovative contribution to the work of the ACRL Women & Gender Studies Section.

Additional information and  nomination forms are available on WGSS Awards Page. Please send your questions and completed nomination forms to Pamela Mann, pemann AT smcm.edu.

We would especially like to encourage individuals to submit write-ups about their experiences at ALA Annual. Suggestions for submissions about annual include:

• Committee reports/updates
• Reports about the WGSS co-sponsored annual program
• Information about the WGSS poster sessions
• Where was the social? How was it?
• WGSS awards & winners

Other submission suggestions:

• Memories of Sandy River. She was an important member of our section, and we’d like to honor her in our newsletter. Please send a short write-up and we’ll compile them if we receive more than one.
• Have you recently published something, presented at a different conference (ACRL perhaps?), won an award? Think about sending us a couple sentences about your achievements so they can be shared with other members.
• Want to highlight something happening at Midwinter?

Member highlights! Are you a new member? A maybe not-so-new member? We want to hear from you! (And introduce/highlight you in the newsletter). Send us a brief write-up which includes:

• Your name & education
• Job title & 1-2 sentences about your current position
• What books you’ve read recently
• What you enjoy doing in your spare time
• Why you joined WGSS
• A picture we can include in your profile

Please send all submissions by Friday, October 5th to Lea Susan Engle (lengle AT tamu.edu) and/or Laura Bonella (laurab AT k-state.edu).