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Making Connections
& Cultivating Community

Friday, October 18, 2013

Second Call for Proposals! (And save the date!!)

Dartmouth Library’s October Conference is seeking proposals for its seventeenth annual meeting, “Making Connections and Cultivating Community.” The day-long event is scheduled for Friday, October 18, 2013, and will be held at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire (an easy two-hour drive from Boston, Springfield, and many other New England locations).

This year’s conference will emphasize the collaborative role that academic libraries can play within their communities. Do you have a story to tell about your library in community? If so, send us a proposal! Examples might include, but are not limited to, establishing interdepartmental or interdisciplinary alliances on campus, fostering partnerships between public and academic libraries, engaging with civic organizations, or making new or non-traditional connections. We’re interested in hearing from academic libraries of all types – community, 4-year, universities, private, public, large, and small.

Proposals should include:

• A brief description, including how you see it fitting in with the overall focus of the conference this year.
• How much time you’ll need (typically 15-30 minutes).
• Contact information for all speakers (e-mail and phone number).

The programs for previous October Conferences are available here.

Please e-mail your proposal to Peggy Sleeth at margaret.k.sleeth@dartmouth.edu by June 30, 2013.

The journal Collection Management seeks additional proposals for a forthcoming Special Issue! Details below:

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Collection Management titled “We’re Moving, Please Pardon Our Dust: A New Collection Management Paradigm.”

Collection Management seeks well-researched, refereed articles on the topic of shifts in the organization and the changing role of collection management and development within libraries.  The co-editors are looking for both forward-thinking discussions and practical applications of how the management and work of collection managers and collection management departments have changed.

The special issue will include 10-12 original papers and be published in v. 39, no. 2-3 (April 2014).

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

·         Structural changes within collection management departments, and outcomes

·         Collection development and management activities across departments

·         Paradigms of cooperative collection development in consortia

·         Organizational changes and coordination with digitization projects

·         Strategic planning that results in organizational changes

·         Patron driven acquisitions and other emerging strategic foci as well as the changing role and work of collection managers

·         Preparation in terms of skills sets, experience, and education for collection managers in new paradigms

·         Theoretical discussion of the current state collection development and management in libraries

·         Comprehensive literature review on paradigms of collection development and management

·         The changing roles of collection managers or subject specialists

Manuscripts should be (20-40) typed pages, double-spaced (including references and abstract).  The references and format should follow the Chicago style (as outlined in the latest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style). The journal is published quarterly in both print and electronic formats.  Additional information about submission requirements is at:

Deadlines

June 24, 2013: Submit an abstract (maximum of one page) with the title and your proposed article idea.  Please include your name, institution, and email address.

July 19, 2013: The editors will notify authors whether their proposals have been accepted.

October 15, 2013: Submit pre-print article to Collection Management for peer-review. http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/collectionmanagement

December 1, 2013:  Final versions of post-print articles are due.

Submit proposals to karen-fischer@uiowa.edu, with subject line of: Collection Management Special Issue Proposal.

Special issue co-editors:

Karen S. Fischer

Collections Analysis Librarian

University of Iowa Libraries

Iowa City, IA 52245

 (319) 335-8781   |  karen-fischer@uiowa.edu

Susanne K. Clement

Special Projects & Assessment Librarian

Interim Head of Cataloging

Utah State University

3000 Old Main Hill

Utah State University

Logan, UT 84322-3000

 (435) 797-0499   |   susanne.clement@usu.edu

[SAMHSA Announcement]

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced the launch of MentalHealth.gov as an online resource for people looking for information about mental health. This website provides information about the signs of mental illness, how individuals can seek help, and how communities can host conversations about mental health. The website also features videos from a number of individuals sharing their stories about mental illness, recovery, and hope.

SAMHSA will release a Toolkit for Community Conversations About Mental Health to support communities interested in holding discussions about mental health using consistent information and approaches. The Toolkit has three parts: an “Information Brief,” a “Discussion Guide” and an “Organizing Guide.” These components will help communities and individuals start a conversation about mental health and help identify innovative and creative actions to meet the mental health needs of our Nation.

Through MentalHealth.gov and SAMHSA’s Toolkit for Community Conversations About Mental Health, we can all work together to provide youth and adults accurate information about the prevention and treatment of mental health conditions, coupled with open spaces to tell their stories, ask for help, share their successes, and support one another. These conversations will also give us a venue to highlight the importance of recovery, support those in recovery, and offer opportunities for everyone to see that recovery is possible.

The entire SAMHSA Toolkit for Community Conversations About Mental Health will be available soon via the SAMHSA website, the SAMHSA Store, and MentalHealth.gov. The Information Brief section of the Toolkit is available for print and electronic download today, June 3, 2013, on the SAMHSA Store and at www.mentalhealth.gov/talk/community-conversation/index.html.