new issue of C&RL

The January 2012 issue of C&RL News is now freely available online. Data curation, management, and preservation are increasingly becoming part of the academic and research library’s contributions to their institutions. Susan Wells Parham, Jon Bodnar, and Sara Fuchs outline methods used at the Georgia Institute of Technology to assess faculty data curation needs in their article “Supporting tomorrow’s research.” At the University of Texas-San Antonio, librarians reached out to their campus community by collaborating with human resources to add a library introduction class for professional and administrative staff to the university orientation process. Natasha Arguello and DeeAnn Green discuss the project in “You mean I can use the library, too?”

In this month’s ACRL TechConnect feature, Harry Glazer revisits his 2009 C&RL News article on library Facebook pages and poses the question “‘Likes’ are lovely, but do they lead to more logins?” The article discusses possible metrics for gauging Facebook page success. The trends of the mobile Web and apps continue to grow, especially as more smart devices become available. Stefanie Havelka and Alevtina Verbovetskaya present a call to arms for “Mobile information literacy” in their The Way I See It essay.

The new year means another round of ALA/ACRL elections. We take a look at this year’s candidates for ACRL vice-president/ president-elect, Board of Directors, and section officers in this month’s issue. Review the full statements by the vice-presidential candidates forthcoming in the February issue and vote in the election beginning March 19.

Make sure to check out the other features and columns this month, including Internet Resources on the bicentennial of the War of 1812 by Susan M. Frey, the newly revised ACRL Standards for Libraries in Higher Education, the index for last year’s volume of C&RL News, and our usual slate of departments including Internet Reviews and New Publications.

Thanks as always for reading the News

Curriculum Materials Collections and Centers: Legacies from the Past, Visions of the Future

ACRL announces the release of Curriculum Materials Collections and Centers: Legacies from the Past, Visions of the Future. Edited by Rita Kohrman, education resources librarian at Grand Valley State University, the book provides practical applications for curriculum material center (CMC) operations that focus on the fundamental needs of students, faculty and current teachers.

Capturing the evolution of the education collections and services integral to teacher preparation, initial chapters focus on the foundations of place CMCs within theoretical and historical contexts—their original goals, purposes and services. Succeeding chapters discuss how curriculum centers are evolving to meet current and future changes in teacher preparation. Among the notable contributors are Nancy O’Brien, Penny Beile and JoAnn Carr, all recipients of the ACRL/EBSS Distinguished Education and Behavioral Sciences Librarian Award. Carr is also editor of the ACRL publication A Guide to the Management of Curriculum Materials Centers for the 21st Century. Additional chapters are written by other distinguished practitioners and leaders in the fields of education and curriculum centers librarianship. This volume is essential reading for education liaison librarians, curriculum materials center collections and librarians, library schools and general professional collections.

Curriculum Materials Collections and Centers: Legacies from the Past, Visions of the Future is available for purchase in print, as an e-book, and as a print/ e-book bundle through the ALA Online Store; Amazon.com; and by telephone order at [phone] in the U.S. or [phone] for international customers. The title will also be available in the ALA Store at the upcoming ALA Midwinter Meeting in Dallas.

بیستمین شماره ماهنامه مدیریت ارتباطات منتشر شد

پورتال‌ها، دروازه ورود به دنیای سایبر، دیگر پرونده این شماره ماهنامه مدیریت ارتباطات است. سید تقی کمالی به اتفاق همکارانش، نقش پورتال‌ها در برقراری ارتباط بهتر با ذینفعان،‌ انواع پورتال‌ها و ویژگی‌های هر یک،‌ کارکردهای ارتباطی و اطلاعاتی آنها، فرصت‌آفرینی،‌ الزامات فنی و پشتیبانی و مختصات تولید محتوا و ضرورت‌های مدیریتی و ارتباطی را مورد بررسی قرار داده‌اند.پورتال های سازمانی از مدیریت دانش تا تحقق جامعه اطلاعاتی نوشته سید مهدی طاهری، گفت‌وگوی الهه حسینی با دکتر علیپور حافظی، عضو هیأت علمی پژوهشگاه علوم و فناوری اطلاعات ایران، گفت‌وگوی هاجر شادمانی با مدیر مرکز ثبت دامنه‌های کشوری، یادداشت محمد هرندی‌پور با عنوان خدمات‌رسانی بر مبنای اطلاع‌رسانی یکپارچه، آنچه باید از پورتال‌ها دانست نوشته یاشار حدیقه سرشت، بررسی کارکردهای اطلاعاتی و ارتباطی 4 پورتال همتا(پورتال‌های وزارتخانه‌های علوم در کشورهای مالزی، استرالیا، دانمارک و ایران) توسط محیا برکت، ارزیابی و رتبه‏بندی وب‏سایت‏ها از طریق جوایز اینترنتی توسط محمد مهدی مولایی و حاكميت پورتال‌هاي سازماني و فرآيندهاي راهبري نوشته آرش رامز عناوین این پرونده را تشکیل می‌دهند.همچنین در بیستمین شماره ماهنامه مدیریت ارتباطات بخش چهاردهم ترجمه کتاب نگارش  در روابط‌عمومی با عنوان انتشار خبر و اطلاعات عمقی با ترجمه علیرضا باستانی منتشر شده است.علاقمندان به تهیه ماهنامه مدیریت ارتباطات می‌توانند علاوه بر کیوسک‌های مطبوعاتی، آنرا از طریق خرید آن‌لاین از سایت www.cmmagazine.ir و یا www.prshop.ir تهیه نمایند.
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call for papers for digital age

26-28 September 2012, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme, in cooperation with the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies and with the Library of the University of British Columbia, and in partnership with IFLA, ICA, ICOM, WIPO, Google, Microsoft and others, is sponsoring a three-day conference concerning the preservation of documentary heritage. This Conference will provide a platform to showcase major initiatives that could lead to synergies both in research and implementation. An open dedicated space will be soon established on UNESCO's CI website for this event which will provide a restricted area to share documents.

Prospective speakers are invited to submit abstracts of proposed presentations in any areas related to The Challenges listed in this Call for Papers. The presentations should be about original work or research findings/recommendations and take the form of either a traditional paper or an interactive tutorial, seminar, or workshop.

All abstracts will be reviewed by the Conference Programme Committee to ensure that the programme provides significant, timely, and authoritative information. The traditional papers will be allotted 20-minute each and delivered in thematic sessions concluded by a commentary and a discussion. The tutorials, seminars or workshops will be allotted 3 hours each.

The presentations should advance the state of knowledge in the areas and issues described in this flyer. The conference languages are English and French.

Complete details: http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/mow/call_for_papers_mow_digital_age_en.pdf

فراخوان مقاله ایفلا

IFLA Science and Technology Libraries Section
Papers are invited to be presented at 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Helsinki, Finland in August 2012 
Theme:  The Role of Libraries in Data Curation, Access, and Preservation: an International Perspective

Data curation, access, and preservation are integral to the advancement of research in science and technology.  For further definition and clarification of the role of data in research see the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) website: (http://www.dcc.ac.uk/digital-curation/what-digital-curation).
The session will focus on the role of libraries and librarians in data curation in various countries and the challenges associated with establishing and operating data curation repositories, on a local or national level. Proposals must focus on one or more of the following topics:

1. Key issues confronted in establishing a national plan for data curation
2. The role of libraries in establishing data curation repositories.
3. A financial model for sustaining data curation within the library and/or university.
4. Training and preparation of librarians to participate in data curation.

10th International Bielefeld Conference 2012

Feeding Data, Designing Information Services and Constructing ICT-Infrastructure for a Digital Natives World***

The hybrid world of printed and digital academic resources faces a rapid dissolution of accustomed barriers. Barriers between different physical manifestations of documents, pure textual information and various supplementary data, catalogues and databases, local holdings and information in a cloud, in-house and remote users, librarians and users, authors and publishing houses are no longer what they used to be.

The Bielefeld Conference 2012 will provide ideas to renew structures of documents, data, services and organisations, i.e. the Conference will present a vision of future INFO-Structures

10th International Bielefeld Conference 2012
http://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de.

خبرنامه جدید ایفلا

Dear colleagues,
The fresh copy of S&E Section Newsletter is now available at http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/se-newsletter
or you can, too, go directly to the latest issue: http://www.ifla.org/files/statistics-and-evaluation/newsletters/SENews_2011-12.pdf

شماره جدید نشریه سی. اند. آر. ال

Coll. res. libr. Online Table of Contents 

A new issue of College & Research Libraries is available online:

1 January 2012; Vol. 73, No. 1

The below Table of Contents is available online at: http://crl.acrl.org/content/vol73/issue1/index.dtl?etoc

گزارش بزرگداشت استاد عطاردی

یکصد و شصت و نهمین شماره ماهنامه «کتاب ماه کلیات: اطلاعات، ارتباطات و دانش» ماهنامه نقد و بررسي تخصصي كتاب هاي حوزه اطلاعات، ارتباطات و دانش شناسي در آذر ماه 1390 با درج مطالبی با موضوع «نقد و نقد نویسی»  منتشر شد. در این شماره گزارش من درباره بزرگداشت استاد عطاردی به چاپ رسیده است.

هفت دوره جشنوارۀ نقد کتاب به روايت آمار/ مژگان حقانی، دومین اجلاس ناشران جهان اسلام/ شهيمه السادات حسيني، نخستين همايش نويسندگان ايران/ شهيمه السادات حسيني، نهمین همایش بین المللی سنجش عملکرد کتابخانه ها و مراکز اطلاع رسانی در انگلستان/ دکتر گلنسا گلینی مقدم، مراسم بزرگداشت استاد عزیزالله عطاردی/ الهه حسینی  در بخش گزارش این ماهنامه منتشر شده است.

در لیزنا بخوانید.