Software innovation is top of agenda in Australia today, with a host of new businesses emerging to service a blossoming market.
When documenting the rapid rise of a technology start-up, the cutting-edge creativity of an entrepreneur is best captured through the flickering glow of new ideas.
Yet for Anthony Stevens, in building an Australian-made ISV, Devicedesk was not a light bulb idea.
Rather a process of working through parts of a jigsaw puzzle, wondering what can and should be different in IT.
"There are always challenges when starting a business," Stevens acknowledged.
Founded in late 2014, the Melbourne-based company creates process and productivity analytics software for businesses of all sizes across Australia, striking key vendor partnerships with Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday and Zendesk along the way.
Despite being young at heart, the Devicedesk team has collectively spent decades assessing how to instigate fundamental enterprise change, utilising emerging technologies such as hyper-scale computing, big-data and machine learning.
Essentially, Stevens is tapping into the industry's insatiable appetite for cloud application services, with software-as-a-service (SaaS) forecast to grow 20.3 percent in 2016, reaching $US37.7 billion globally.
"We have seen big changes in how organisations use SaaS vendors such as Salesforce, Workday and Microsoft," Stevens said.
Targeting the "more progressive CIO", Devicedesk represents a new breed of Australian start-ups, start-ups built from the ground up with software innovating from the epicentre.
Operating as an enterprise catalogue platform for IT services, software and devices, Stevens said Devicedesk draws inspiration from leading consumer online experiences, before bringing them into the Australian enterprise.
"Organisations sign up for licenses with different providers, deploy these licenses internally but then struggle to assess usage rates which subsequently makes it difficult to attach value to the investment," he explained.
Underpinning Devicedesk's offering is Insightcentr, which marks the company's entry into the IoT and analytics market.
As a recently released SaaS solution, Insightcentr is designed to allow businesses to better understand software utilisation and workforce productivity by providing time-oriented reporting into web or desktop software usage.
The software has been developed in partnership with Microsoft and leverages Microsoft Power BI for analytics and reporting.
"Insightcentr is a proprietary software designed to run on PCs to understand the level of usage of any software that is running on the computer," he explained.
Leveraging the Microsoft Azure platform, Insightcentr works through the use of a lightweight agent that runs on Microsoft Windows, creating the modern day equivalent of a digital time-and-motion study.
Consequently, Stevens said data can be accessed and aggregated on an anonymous basis to ensure privacy is maintained.
"Insightcentr negates the typical situation of half a dozen tabs open in a browser - such as Microsoft Word or Excel - that are running, but largely just sitting dormant in the background," he added.
"Insightcentr provides an understanding of what the user is actually looking at or what is in focus.
Stevens said businesses are deploying Insightcentr internally to build a clearer profile of workforce usage, uncovering what and how staff utilise software.
"Businesses can then launch a change initiative as a result," he said. "It also helps organisations think about the adoption of software.
Developed via a Microsoft BizSpark partnership - designed to facilitate start-up growth - Insightcentr provides usage analytics for multiple software platforms including DocuSign, Microsoft Dynamics, Office 365, Salesforce and SAP.
Data is then available for structured or ad-hoc reporting through Microsoft Power BI alongside any other corporate data.
"We worked closely with Microsoft's PowerBI product teams to build out Insightcentr," Stevens added.
"Insightcentr is very unique and we don't think there is anything in the market that currently competes directly with the product.
Labelled as "the second cab off the rank" by Stevens, the introduction of Insightcentr follows Devicedesk's first foray into the Australian software market, through CatalogIQ.
Enabling organisations to order devices, software and services, the offering integrates with Autotask, ConnectWise, ServiceNow and Zendesk.
"We designed CatalogIQ for most of last year and upon going to market, the product took off immediately," he said.
Built as a result of years of senior IT leadership experience for both Stevens and CTO, Greg Rudakov, the overriding concept of Devicedesk is capturing the imagination of businesses at a national and international level.
In New Zealand, managed services provider, Base 2, selected Devicedesk to help drive the company's B2B eCommerce strategy, bringing the Australian start-up across the Tasman in the process.
"We are proud of the innovation that continues to come out of Australia, but we also have our sights set on expanding our capabilities overseas," Stevens added.
As the company continues to build out new solutions locally, Stevens outlined its dependence on the channel to help drive greater levels of productivity across organisations.
Specifically, Devicedesk is aligning closely with system integrators, managed service providers and technology consultants to realise the emerging opportunities of an expanding market.
"We have a specific strategy around the channel," he explained. "Firstly, we are looking for partners offering software asset management type services, alongside end-user assistance around getting the most out of licensing spend.
Going to market through the Devicedesk Reseller Program, Stevens said the company is actively engaging with large-scale system integrators and management consulting providers in Australia, as the company seeks further expansion through its channel.
"We're very focused on listening to the channel and our customers in relation to what we are doing," he added. "It helps us grow as a company and also ensures our products fit the market.
Spanning both product offerings, Stevens is launching a two-pronged approach to the channel, built around selling and using Devicedesk solutions to improve business productivity.
"With CatalogIQ, we see opportunities for both the channel in terms of taking our solution to market, but also in adopting the solution internally to help sell more effectively to customers" he added.
Through an emerging business, and an emerging channel, Devicedesk is operating at the cutting-edge of the Australian software market, representing a new breed of technology company, a company that identifies a business problem and builds a ready-made solution in response.
"We're not a consumer technology company, we're not a Fintech company and we're not only focused on productivity enabling software," Stevens added.
Driven by an unrelenting entrepreneurial spirit, Stevens' ambition is simple - to ensure Devicedesk is the enterprise shopfront for IT.
"But you still need the confidence and appetite for risk to put your brand and proposition out into the market in the first place," he cautioned.


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The Top 15 Most Exciting Essay Topics In World History
World history is a rich source of information for research and publications. Interest in examining various periods of history in diverse regions and countries of the world has led to a rich body of work. It can be overwhelming to zero in on a suitable topic for your essay with such a vast amount of information available in this area. Listed below are 15 of the most exciting essay topics in world history to help you along the way:
Compare and contrast the roles played by philosophy and science in the introduction of the modern world in the 18th century.
Explore the Age of Discovery at the start of the 15th century when European explorers set forth to find new trade paths to the Indies but wound up discovering the New World.
Examine the causes of the outbreak of the Bubonic plague that ravaged the populations of Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.
The collapse of the Roman Empire in Western Europe ushered in the Dark Ages. Explore the reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire.
Explore the various dynasties to have ruled China and how the country's history influences its rapid rise in the world today.
Explore Germany's role in the two World Wars and the political events that led to the wars.
Explore the rise and fall of the British Empire. How does the experience of the empire influence the United Kingdom to this day?
How did the Greeks rise to prominence and what role did their peculiar geography have to play in their dominance of their era?
Slavery, violence, racial struggle and economic problems have remained themes in the history of Jamaica. What impact does the country's history have on its present?
Examine the role played by the Anglo-Boer War between the original Dutch settlers and the British on the fortunes of Southern Africa.
Explore the reasons for the demise of the Soviet Union. Would the U.S.S.R. have collapsed in the absence of the Cold War?
Examine the differences between the loyalists and fascist rebels that led to the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
Explore the role played by artists, philosophers, scientists and governments in the era of the Renaissance.
Examine Irish history with a special focus on the Troubles.
The Titanic was advertised as being indestructible. Explore the reasons for its demise.

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Last year's flu season was a "high severity season" across all age groups, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported, with high levels of visits to outpatient clinics and emergency departments for flu-related symptoms. This activity began to increase last November.
Flu season is looming, and an unvaccinated child in Florida recently died from the flu. This is the first reported pediatric death of this flu season, according to the Florida Department of Health.
So why hasn't everyone gotten vaccinated? A national survey by Orlando Health found that many parents are skeptical about flu shots, and more than half of parents surveyed believed that you can get the flu from the vaccine.
In reality, the flu shot can't and won't give you the flu, experts stress.
It's biologically impossible for you to catch the flu from being vaccinated, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist and a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
That's because the vaccine is constructed from a killed virus. Not only that, but also there are only a couple of proteins from that dead virus in the vaccine. So, nobody's getting injected with a complete virus.
Those proteins, taken from the surface of the killed virus, are enough rev up our immune system and give it a clear target. But they certainly aren't enough for the flu virus to reconstitute itself in our bodies.
For the most part, people are mistakenly assuming that symptoms which coincidentally developed around the time they got the shot were caused by the vaccine. But, Schaffner explained, just because two events occur around the same time doesn't mean they're connected.
There's also the issue of where you get your shot, said Dr. Richard Zimmerman, a professor of family medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. "If you go to the pharmacy or to the doctor's office there's a good chance someone sitting next to you will be coughing," Zimmerman says.
Which is not to say you won't get any symptoms after a flu shot.
About 20 percent of people experience soreness in the arm that got the shot, Zimmerman said. "That lasts about a day and then goes away," he adds.
If you were exposed to the flu shortly after being vaccinated your body didn't have enough time to marshal its forces against the virus. The shot doesn't reach full effectiveness until two to three weeks after vaccination, Ison said.
So, there's no good reason not to get the shot. Even people with egg allergies are now cleared to get it.
"Don't linger. Run to your health care provider and get vaccinated right away," he said.


It was a curious position: Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo helped hire the new leader of New York City's subway. But when that leader released a sweeping plan to fix the failing system last week, Mr. Cuomo offered a tepid response, promising simply to review it.
Eight days later, on Thursday, Mr. Cuomo embraced the plan and said that he wanted to pay for its steep price by pursuing congestion pricing — a proposal to toll drivers entering Manhattan.
What exactly prompted his latest comments? At least one factor is Cynthia Nixon, the actress who is challenging Mr. Cuomo in the Democratic primary for governor.
As Mr. Cuomo runs for a third term, his management of the beleaguered subway is one of his greatest political vulnerabilities. Ms. Nixon has tried to capitalize on the issue, positioning herself as a champion for subway riders and repeatedly attacking the governor. But it was not until Thursday that Ms. Nixon's campaign had offered specific solutions, releasing its own plan to fix the subways.
Mr. Cuomo, however, got out in front of the news by saying he would pay for the subway overhaul plan, which could cost $19 billion just for the first stage, by working to have the State Legislature approve congestion pricing next year.
Ms. Nixon also supports congestion pricing, but her plan calls for two additional revenue sources to fund the subway upgrades: a fee on companies that pollute in New York State and a millionaire's tax — an idea backed by Mayor Bill de Blasio.
In announcing her plan, Ms. Nixon again attacked Mr. Cuomo for ignoring the plight of subway riders. "The way he's handled this issue for his first two terms should completely disqualify him from a third," her proposal states.
Congestion pricing has long been a contentious issue in Albany, where a proposal backed by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg failed about a decade ago. Mr. Cuomo revived the proposal — calling it an idea "whose time has come" — but critics said he did not press hard enough for it during recent budget negotiations in Albany and the plan failed again. Instead, state lawmakers approved a more modest source of revenue for public transit, a fee on taxi and Uber trips.
The dueling comments on the subway were only the latest example of how the transit system has become a central campaign issue. After Ms. Nixon announced her candidacy in March, Mr. Cuomo held a series of press events to show that he was working to fix the subway.
Standing before a mob of television cameras, Mr. Cuomo inspected train parts at an overhaul yard. He ran a magnetic wand along the subway tracks to clear debris. He admired a fiery demonstration of rail-welding technology.
The pace of the events — three tours in a five-week period in April and May — was unusual. At one event in Brooklyn, a video showed Mr. Cuomo waving from the tracks as a train passed at a snail's pace. Ms. Nixon's campaign immediately criticized the event as a photo opportunity that had slowed down trains.
Mr. Cuomo has not been shy about firing back. After Ms. Nixon recently spoke with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, a spokeswoman for Mr. Cuomo's campaign said that Ms. Nixon had failed to answer a question about the subway with specifics. "Mr. DeMille, Cynthia Nixon is not ready for her close up," the spokeswoman, Lis Smith, posted on Twitter.
Still, on the subway and other issues like public housing and recreational marijuana, Ms. Nixon has proved adept at getting under Mr. Cuomo's skin.
"I think we can pretty much assume that anything the governor does between now and Sept. 13 is in response to Cynthia Nixon," Christina M. Greer, a political-science professor, said referring to the date of the primary election.
Despite Ms. Nixon's focus on the subway, Mr. Cuomo, who is said to be considering a presidential run in 2020, has retained a comfortable primary lead in recent surveys. The subway, however, has been a concern for Mr. Cuomo: As the system descended into crisis last summer, his approval ratings dropped.
For years, advocates have criticized Mr. Cuomo's uneven leadership of the transit system, with a focus on splashy projects like the Second Avenue subway over the unglamorous nuts and bolts of running the system. They have also urged him to ride the subway to understand the daily suffering of riders.
The last time Mr. Cuomo is known to have taken the subway was in January 2017 for the first trip on the new Second Avenue line on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Mr. Cuomo lives in Westchester County and often works in Albany, the governor's office has said, though he does frequently travel to New York City.
"The governor was born and raised in Queens and grew up taking the train — but riding the subways doesn't fix them, and that's the only thing we're focused on," said Dani Lever, a spokeswoman for Mr. Cuomo. She declined to say when Mr. Cuomo last took the subway.
Ms. Nixon has made a point of riding the subway, as has Mr. de Blasio, the governor's frequent adversary. Mr. de Blasio has taken the subway at least 18 times this year, his office said, providing a list of recent trips.
"It's important that public officials experience the subway crisis like everyone else does," said Austin Finan, a spokesman for the mayor.
Last week, the subway's new leader, Andy Byford, released a comprehensive plan to overhaul the system, including quickly installing new signals on the busiest lines. The proposal could cost $19 billion in the first five years — and an additional $18 billion during the second five years of the plan, according to board members who were briefed on the plan.
Mr. Cuomo's office released a lukewarm response after the plan was unveiled and the governor told reporters he had not read it. The governor's support on Thursday was more concrete. Mr. Cuomo dismissed the idea of a millionaire's tax, arguing that the Legislature would not approve it, and he said he would push for congestion pricing.
The governor's office disputed the notion that Mr. Cuomo's recent events have been prompted by Ms. Nixon's candidacy. They argued that he has been a forceful advocate for the subway and that the recent events were organized to highlight the work that can now move forward after Mr. de Blasio finally agreed to finance half the cost of a short-term emergency repair plan.
On Thursday, Jon Weinstein, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state-controlled agency that oversees subways, buses and commuter railroads, said the subway's leaders "know he supports us as long as we deliver results for riders," in reference to Mr. Cuomo. He also took a shot at Ms. Nixon's plan, echoing a post from Ms. Smith.
Last summer, Mr. Cuomo declared that the subway was in a state of emergency and the authority began an emergency plan for immediate repairs. But many riders say that service remains terrible. Only about 65 percent of weekday subway trains are on time — about the same rate as a year ago, according to the authority's statistics.
Subway riders might not notice significant improvements before Election Day. Ms. Greer, who is a McSilver Institute Fellow at New York University, said that having a well-documented record is one of the risks of running for a third term.
The $19 Billion Question: Will Cuomo Support the Subway Plan?


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"To develop software is to build a Machine, simply by describing it. This is one good reason for regarding software development as engineering. ... The parts of the world that will affect the machine and will be affected by it are its Application Domain. ..."
"This distinction between the machine and the application domain is the key to the much-cited (but little understood) distinction between What and How: what the system does is to be sought in the application domain, while how it does it is to be sought in the machine itself. The problem is in the application domain. The machine is the solution."
"An inability to discuss problems explicitly has been one of the most glaring deficiencies of software practice and theory. ... writers on development method claim to offer an analysis of a problem when in fact they offer only an outline of a solution, leaving the problem unexplored and unexplained."
"Some years ago I spent a week giving an in-house program design course at a manufacturing company in the mid-west of the United States. On the Friday afternoon it was all over. The DP Manager, who had arranged the course and was paying for it out of his budget, asked me into his office.
"`What do you think?' he asked. He was asking me to tell him my impressions of his operation and his staff. `Pretty good,' I said. `You've got some good people there.' Program design courses are hard work; I was very tired; and staff evaluation consultancy is charged extra. Anyway, I knew he really wanted to tell me his own thoughts.
"I saw what he meant."
"It's good to draw context diagrams, but I think it's better to draw them with a different emphasis. I would rather think of a context diagram as showing the context of the problem, not of the system. That means above all that it should focus your interest on the application domain."
"We will show all domains that may be relevant to the problem requirement, not just those that provide input directly to the machine domain or accept output from it.
"The connections between domains will not represent data flows. Data flows are just one kind of possible communication. ... We will think in more general terms: a line connecting two domains means only that they communicate by Shared Phenomena."
"... Nothing will improve your ability to write good descriptions more than the habit of careful and critical reading."
The care taken in each aspect of development should be proportional to P*D, where P is the probability that it will go wrong, and D is the size of the disaster if it does."
"... good graphic descriptions are hard to make. For any description, graphic or textual, you have to decide what to show and what to ignore."
"Graphic notations are, in fact, formal languages. Yet they seem to carry a higher risk of vagueness than textual languages. ... the cure for vagueness is not to avoid the use of graphic notations altogether. They're much too useful for that. The cure is to be very careful when you write a description in any language, and to be twice as careful if it's a grahic language."
"For software developers, mathematics is only a tool: not the whole of their trade, nor the greater part of it, not even the most important part. The central emphasis in software development --- especially in requirements and specifications --- is not on proof and logical deduction, but rather on separation of concerns and the clarity that makes a truth obvious. It is not on mathematical abstraction, but rather on identifying and describing the Phenomena of the Problem Context in which the machine must function. Above all it is not on calculation, but rather on description. Software describes a machine that must fit into the world of concrete reality, not into a world of Platonic abstractions and ideals."
"The classical grammarians distinguished several moods of verbs. `You sing' is in the indicative mood: it asserts a fact. ... And `May you sing!' is in the optative mood: it expresses a wish."
"It's not a good idea to introduce the uncertain linguistic subtleties of English verbs into system development documents."
"You can classify ... properties as indicative and optative. Indicative properties are those that the [problem] domain possesses regardless of the behaviour of the controlling machine."
"Optative properties are those that the controller is desired to bring about or maintain."
Never mix indicative and optative moods in the same description."
"Avoiding subtelties isn't the only reason to keep indicative and optative in separate descriptions. Another, equally compelling, reason is that the mood of a description changes during the project. The domain properties that are optative when the software is under development become indicative when the software is deployed. The machine interacts with the domain and --- all begin well --- turns our wishes into facts."
"The mathematician G. Polya wrote an admirable book How To Solve It , in which he explains and amplifies ideas for solving mathematical problems. The ideas are wonderfully suggestive of ideas for solving software development problems. They come from the ancient Greeks..."
"The Greeks were the first people in the Western world to think [write?] systematically about how to solve problems. Many of the words we use to talk about problem solving --- analysis, synthesis, method, system, theorem, heuristic --- are derived from ancient Greek words. The word `problem' itself is of Greek origin. It means something put forward, as a difficult question may be put forward to be answered.
"The Greeks divided mathematical problems into two classes: problems to prove and problems to find. A problem to prove requires the solver to prove something. ... A problem to find requires the solver to find or construct something. ..."
"Each kind of problem has its principal parts related in a characteristic Problem Frame or structure, and a solution task posed in terms of those parts. The principal parts of a problem to prove are the hypothesis and conclusion. The solution task is to demonstrate that the conclusion follows from the hypothesis --- or, perhaps, that it does not."
"In a problem to find, the principal parts are the unknown, the data, and the condition. The solution task is to find the unknown, which must be of the right kind and related to the data by the condition."
consider what other conclusions follow from the hypothesis.
think of a variation of the unknown, or of the data, or of both, so that the new unknown and the new data are nearer to each other.
"All these recommendations are given in terms of the problem's principal parts. Without the problem frames and their named parts you couldn't talk about problem solving at all in such general terms."
"Ken Orr --- of the Warnier-Orr method --- tells a delightful story about Barry Boehm and the intangibility of software. Barry was working, many years ago, on the avionics software --- written in Fortran --- in a project to develop a new aeroplane. The weight of the plane was critical, and the project director had appointed a weights manager, whose job was to ensure that the total weight of the plane's components did not exceed the design limit. The weights manager came to Barry to ask how much the software would weigh. `Nothing,' said Barry. `That's ridiculous,' said the weights manager; `the software is costing a million dollars and doesn't weigh anything? I don't believe it.' But Barry insisted. The manager went away. Next day he returned, triumphantly holding the punched-card deck of a Fortran program that he had picked up in the computer room. `Look,' he said; `here's some software, and it does weigh something.' Barry held on of the cards up to the light. `See those holes?' he asked the manager. `Those holes are the only part of the software that actually goes into the plane.'"
"The terminology of software development is mostly in a chaos that correctly reflects the chaotic state of the field. Usage of the word specification is no exception."
"I like to use the term in a much more restricted way. It's one of a trio of terms: requirements; specifications; and programs."
"... specifications are all about --- and only about --- the shared phenomena ... at [the] interface [between the machine and the environment].
"Requirements are all about --- and only about --- the environment phenomena..."
"Programs, on the other hand, are all about --- and only about --- the machine phenomena..."
"A specification cannot be completely abstract because its ultimate subject matter is concrete [really?]. If you rely on too much abstraction in the wrong places your specification will be about an abstract problem, not about the real problem that your customer expects you to solve [unless your customer is a mathematician?].
"There are two basic difficulties with top-down [design, as activity; not after-the-fact description]. The first is that for inventing or designing new things to be built ... top-down enforces the riskiest possible ordering of decisions. The largest decision is the subdivision of the whole problem: it is the largest in scale, and the largest in consequences. Yet this decision is taken first, when nothing is yet known and everything remains to be discovered: if it is wrong, most or even all of the work that follows will be wrong or useless. Even worse, if the decision is wrong you won't find out until you reach the bottom level, or until you write the code."
"The second difficulty is that the real world ... hardly ever has a single hierarchical structure."
"In short, my advice to those about to work top-down is like Mr Punch's advice to those about to marry: Don't."
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CFP: Sports Culture (Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference 2014, Indianapolis, IN)
Friday-Sunday, 3-5 October 2014
JW Marriott Indianapolis:
Address: 10 S. West St., Indianapolis, IN 46204, Phone: (317) 860-5800
Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2014
We are currently seeking original work and panel suggestions in the area of Sports Culture for the annual Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference. Abstracts can include a wide variety of topics and approaches to sport. Abstracts or panels might include research focused on popular culture and sport in the Midwest; but papers / panels on all topics related to popular culture and sport are welcome and encouraged.
Please upload 250 word abstract proposals on any aspect of Sports Culture to the Sports Culture area: http://submissions.mpcaaca.org/.
Any questions? Please email Ben Dettmar at bdettmar@adrian.edu
More information about the conference can be found at http://www.mpcaaca.org/
Please note the availability of graduate student travel grants: http://mpcaaca.org/conference/travel-grants/
Please include name, affiliation, and e-mail address with the 250 word abstract. Also, please indicate in your submission whether your presentation will require an LCD Projector.
Ben Dettmar (bdettmar@adrian.edu)
Sports Culture Area Chair
309b Jones Hall
Email: bdettmar@adrian.edu
Visit the website at http://www.mpcaaca.org/
CFP: 14th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
8-11 October 2014, Austin, Texas, USA
Complete Call for Participation: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2014/cfp
DCMI's annual conference addresses models, technologies and applications of metadata.
2014 THEME: "Metadata Intersections: Bridging the Archipelago of Cultural Memory"
Metadata is fundamental in enabling ubiquitous access to cultural and scientific resources through galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM). While fundamental, GLAM traditions in documentation and organization lead to significant differences in both their languages of description and domain practices. And yet, the push is on for "radically open cultural heritage data" that bridges these differences as well as those across the humanities and the natural sciences. DC-2014 will explore the role of metadata in spanning the archipelago of siloed cultural memory in an emerging context of linked access to data repositories as well as repositories of cultural artifacts.
--Peer-Reviewed Papers, Project Reports & Posters
Submission Deadline: 3 May 2014
Author Notification: 12 July 2014
Final Copy: 16 August 2014
--Special & Panel Sessions, Tutorials & Workshops
Author Notification: 1 June 2014
--Best Practice Posters & Demonstrations
Submission Deadline: 2 June 2014
Author Notification: 30 June 2014
TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS:
(1) Peer-reviewed Papers, Project Reports & Posters
(2) Special & Panel Session, Tutorials & Workshops
(3) From the field: Best Practice Posters & Demonstrations
CFP: Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium (The University of Toronto, October 18, 2014)
URL: http://litwinbooks.com/2014colloquium.php
Gender and sexuality are two of the critical organizing axes of contemporary life. Alongside and intersecting with race, class, nation, and others, they constitute the ways through which we make ourselves known to ourselves and to one another: as men, women, or one of the 58 new gender options offered by Facebook, and as lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, and all the other varied and ever-changing linguistic markers of preferences of physical and emotional intimacy. Just as legal studies, the hard and social sciences, philosophy and literature, information studies is a discourse called to respond to the challenges posed by critical perspectives on gender and sexuality. Perhaps more than any other discipline, information studies confronts the theoretical with the material. How do both the "the archive" and the archive organize, and how are they organized by, gender and sexuality? From the collections we build to the access tools we design to the histories we collect, catalog, and preserve, information studies theorists and practitioners are always engaged in the projects of making and being made.
We invite proposals to join and extend these conversations during a one-day colloquium to be held at the University of Toronto on October 18, 2014. Presentations will consist of individual papers organized around themes that emerge from the submissions.
Information studies and its engagements with cross-disciplinary theories of gender and sexuality
Practice-based responses to critical theories of gender and sexuality in information
Critical approaches to cataloging and classification
Feminist and queer library pedagogies, both in information studies schools and at the K-12 and undergraduate levels
Queer and feminist archival practices, both theoretical and material
Sexed and gendered labor in information environments
Intersections of gender and sexuality with race, class, and other axes of social organization
Critical feminist and queer critiques of the technologies of information production, organization, and dissemination
Please submit abstracts of no more than 500 words to emily.drabinski@gmail.com.
Proposals due May 1, 2014. Notification June 1, 2014.
Thanks to the University of Toronto Faculty of Information for generously hosting this colloquium.
Call for Chapter Proposals: E-Learning Innovations in Academic Libraries
Librarians from Appalachian State University invite you to submit a proposal for a chapter in their upcoming book, E-Learning Innovations in Academic Libraries, to be published by McFarland Publishing. This practical book is intended to be a guide for academic librarians interested in the creation and uses of e-learning tools.
Examples of relevant topics include:
Instructional games
Geo-spatial applications
Virtual reality applications
Classroom use of technology
For consideration, e-mail a 1-2 page proposal to either of the editors by April 25, 2014, clearly presenting your e-learning innovation and its significance. Proposals should include information about the audience and need for the e-learning tool, the technology used to create it, the length of time it has been used, assessment, and the transferability to other libraries. Final chapters will be 5-7000 words, excluding endnotes and bibliography. Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their proposals by May 12, 2014. Complete chapters will be due by August 30, 2014, as we anticipate publishing this book in Summer 2015.
Margaret Gregor, Ed.D., MALS
Instructional Materials Center Coordinator
gregormn@appstate.edu
Scott Rice, M.A., M.S.
Coordinator of Technology Services
ricese@appstate.edu
CFP: Iowa Innovative Users Group Meeting (September 2014 in Des Moines, Iowa)
CALL FOR PAPERS AND SAVE THE DATE!
Have you worked out a workflow process or done something innovative with your Innovative system? Why not share it with other Innovative users in the state of Iowa? The Iowa Innovative Users Group will be meeting September 19th 2014 in Des Moines. More location details forthcoming, so stay tuned for more information.
We would be interested in hearing success stories (or not-as-successful-as-we'd-like stories) at our conference. Share your experience with others! Presentations of 30-60 minutes, with some of the time set aside for questions, are planned. Ideas for forums or panel sessions to discuss a topic are also of interest. Topics can range from various Millennium/Sierra features and management to workflows - all ideas are welcome.
Contact Becky Yoose (yoosebec@grinnell.edu) with any questions or your proposal (Name, contact information, and a brief abstract). Proposals are due June 30, 2014.
And don't forget to save the date of Friday September 19th, 2014 to attend IA-IUG in Des Moines!
CFP: Academic Brass (Business Libraries)
NEW CALL FOR ACADEMIC BRASS ARTICLES.
Interested in seeing your name in print? Have something to share with other
business librarians?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, Academic Brass wants you!
The Business Reference in Academic Libraries Committee of BRASS is seeking articles for the next issue of its online publication Academic BRASS. Academic BRASS is a newsletter--not a journal--that publishes issue-based articles and information for the general and educational interest of BRASS members and academic business librarians.
You may want to see previous editions of BRASS.
For the full text of these articles and access to past issues of Academic BRASS, see
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/sections/brass/brasspubs/academicbrass/academicbrass.cfm.
The typical length of an Academic BRASS article is 500-800 words, but past articles have been as long as 1,000 words or more. Authors should be guided by what they have to say rather than an arbitrary word length. All articles are subject to editing for length, style, and content. The newsletter follows the Modern Language Association Handbook, seventh edition for all matters of style and citation. Authors whose articles include references to print or internet
resources should observe the conventions set forth in the handbook or on the MLA web site (http://www.mla.org/style).
Article proposals are due Friday, May 15, 2014. Please send them to Charles Allan, chair of the Committee, at ca20@txstate.edu
Completed articles will be due August 30, 2014.
Charles Allan Academic BRASS editor
CFP: OpenEd 14: Achieving the Potential of Open (The 11th Annual Open Education Conference -November 19-21 in Washington, D.C.)
Are you an OER Librarian? Do you help faculty locate or create OER for their courses? Is the Library supporting open textbooks for students?
If you answered "yes" to any of the above – or if you or your library is actively promoting OER or thinking about doing this, you will want to attend OpenEd 14.
Academic librarians are expanding their role in the adoption of Open Education Resources (OER) at their institutions. They are also exploring methods to support students taking advantage of open education opportunities.
OpenEd 14 is the premier annual conference where OER experts gather to share their knowledge about massive, high quality open content infrastructure on top of which innovative people and organizations are building a new generation of educational models.
The organizers of OpenEd 14 are seeking to increase the representation of the academic library community at the conference. With the addition of a library track to the program, there will be greater opportunity for academic librarians to share information about their research or OER program through a formal presentation. This is an excellent opportunity for librarians engaged in OER and open education to connect with librarians, non-library faculty, researchers and academic administrators who share their interests. There will also be time for academic librarians to gather informally to share ideas and discuss challenges in the growing area of OER.
The conference will be held at the Hilton Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia on November 19 through 21, 2014. This year's conference is sponsored by Lumen Learning in partnership with SPARC. The conference organizers seek proposals for 25 and 50-minute presentations by individuals or panels.
The deadline to submit a conference proposal is Friday, April 25. Decisions will be e-mailed to proposers onMonday, June 2.
Library track topics may include but are not limited to:
· Library-Press Collaboration for OER
· Helping instructors locate and create OER
· Leading Open Textbook Reform on Campus
· Promoting the Use of OER on campus
· Applying Lessons Learned in Open Access to OER
· Innovation in the development and use of OER
· OER Librarians – Emerging Position
Presenters will be expected to register for the conference.
More information about the conference and the CFP may be found at http://openedconference.org/2014/
CALL FOR PANELISTS FOR AN ONLINE DISCUSSION ON "REORGANIZING FOR THE FUTURE"
Are you a "library of the future"? Do you have a story about how you successfully reorganized to generate efficiencies in services or reallocation of staff to allow infrastructure changes that support the future? Or maybe you have a story about how a failure to create efficiencies or reallocation resulted in a different reorganization model that was successful? Either way, we need your stories!
The ACRL ULS Committee on the Future of University Libraries is planning an online discussion on the topic "reorganizing for the future." As university libraries seek to create new services for the future within the current higher education environment, we will likely need to look to our existing resources in order to prepare the way for these new services. What efficiencies can we find in our operations? What tough decisions to modify or eliminate existing services should we consider? How can reorganization free up resources to help us move forward?
We are looking for stories about efficiency, priorities, opportunities, constraints, aspirations. Is your story inspiring? We are seeking panelists to share their reorganization stories and respond to audience questions in an
online panel to be offered some time in late spring or summer.
To be considered, please send your story (300 words or less) to John Blosser <jblosser@northwestern.edu> by March 31, 2014. Lisa Horowitz (for the ACRL ULS Committee on the Future of University
Libraries)
Call for Speaker: ALCTS Technical Services Managers in Academic Libraries Interest Group and the ACRL Technical Services Interest Group (ALA Annual 2014)
NOTE: Deadline extended until April 21, 2014
The ALCTS Technical Services Managers in Academic Libraries Interest Group and the ACRL Technical Services Interest Group welcome proposals to be the featured speaker at the groups' joint meeting during the 2014 ALA Annual Conference. This meeting, scheduled for 8:30-10:00 a.m. Saturday, June 28th, will focus on issues facing technical services librarians in academic libraries.
The speaker will deliver a brief (15 minute) overview of those issues in the form of an extended lightning talk, then participate in roundtable discussions at which the attendees can follow up on those ideas. The proposed topics for the roundtables include: promotion and tenure (2 tables, one for those with faculty status and one for those without faculty status); research and publication; tips for supervising librarians who are seeking P&T and/or who are doing research; collaborative research and publication; the continuing issue of silos; service opportunities for TS librarians (geared toward younger/newer librarians); general issues facing new technical services librarians.
To be considered for this session, please email a proposal, in .doc or .docx format, of no more than 500 words to Amy Lana (lanaamy52@gmail.com) by April 21, 2014. Please be sure to include the following information with your proposal:
Proposed title of the talk
The chosen speaker will be notified by April 30, 2014.
Accepting proposals for edited books to be published in the 2016 copyright year (IGI Global)
I am pleased to announce that IGI Global is now accepting proposals for edited books to be published in the 2016 copyright year. Preference will be given to larger compilations including one or two-volume Handbooks of Research and Encyclopedias; however, single-volume edited book publications will also be considered.
Topics of interest include all areas of academic research including, but not limited to: medicine and healthcare, engineering, business and management, ethics and law, public policy and government, social science, information science and technology, environmental and earth science, media and communications, library and information science, and the life sciences.
Please follow this link for more details on publishing with IGI Global. We encourage you to submit a proposal on your preferred area of research by no later than April 15, 2014.
Please utilize this form which may be submitted online or e-mailed as an attachment to acquisitions@igi-global.com.
Should you have any questions or need additional information, please feel free to contact me at your earliest convenience at acquisitions@igi-global.com or (717) 533-8845 ext. 141.
This is a wonderful opportunity to further advance your research and expand your network of colleagues in your field.
Kayla Wolfe
Acquisitions Editor
Editorial Content Department
Email: acquisitions@igi-global.com
Web: www.igi-global.com
Call for Juried Proposals: Library Research Seminar VI
The Engaged Librarian: Libraries Partnering with
WHEN: October 7-9, 2014
WHERE: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign iHotel and Conference Center.
WHO: Hosted jointly by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the University Library, and the Library Research Roundtable of the American Library Association.
WHY: 21st century librarianship has witnessed new forms of cooperation between librarians and the communities they serve. Academic libraries have adopted new roles that span the scholarly communication lifecycle and advance digital humanities, data stewardship, and eScience initiatives. Public libraries have become community focal points for programming that meets the learning needs of children and their families, encourages the creative use of new technologies, and reaches out to include new and diverse communities. Creative school librarians also work with others to examine issues related to the common core standards, the development of programs that promote and complement curricula, and the exploration of new learning and teaching models.
WHAT: This conference will bring together academics and practitioners, including faculty and graduate studentsfrom library schools and iSchools, and academic, public and school librarians. The conference will focus on howcollaboration and cross-disciplinary research can create new knowledge and chart a course for partnerships with deep and lasting impact. The LRS VI Program Planning Committee invites proposals for papers, panels, posters and workshops. We welcome creative contributions from individuals and groups in the following theme areas.
HOW: A lively discussion of paper, panel, poster, and workshop presentations and activities.
· Cutting-edge research that crosses boundaries within and beyond the field of library and information science
· The process and products of collaboration: lessons learned and best practices that establish librarians as full research, teaching, and learning partners in academic or community settings
· Librarian-faculty partnerships, their impact on research, and the influence of their findings on the collaborative approach
· Identification of knowledge gaps and research agendas
· Intra-institutional, inter-institutional and trans-national collaborations
· Community engagement and community informatics projects--stories of success and possible scenarios for the future
· Examples of recruiting, training, and mentoring the next generation of librarians to be research, teaching, and learning partners in their campus and communities
Proposal Submission Guidelines & Formats
The deadline for submission of proposals is May 15, 2014. In addition to an abstract, each author or panelist must provide a separate biographical statement (maximum of 50 words).
· Paper proposals must include a title, author(s), format, and abstract (maximum of 500 words).
· Paper proposals should be submitted individually, and they will be grouped with others on a common theme, typically for a 90-minute session comprised of three paper presentations. The abstract submitted should state the focus of the paper and the way(s) in which it contributes to the body of knowledge in the field. Presentation time for papers should be no more than 20 minutes.
· Poster proposals must include a title, author(s), format, and abstract (maximum of 500 words).
· This formal graphic presentation of the topic, offers an excellent opportunity for reporting on evaluation results and gathering detailed feedback on one's work. Posters should be no larger than 40" high and 44" wide. Graduate student submissions are encouraged.
· Panel proposals must include title, author(s), format, and abstract (maximum of 750 words).
· The abstract should describe how three or more panelists will creatively present a cohesive theme and promote lively discussions between panelists and audience members. Proposals should provide a description of the issues to be discussed, and a list of panelists who have agreed to participate with their qualifications and contributions to the panel.
· Workshop proposals must include title, author(s), format, and abstract (maximum of 750 words).
· The abstract should outline how participants will engage an issue, learn a new skill, or develop an action plan or other activity where hands-on learning is integral. Submissions must include an example of an activity you plan to conduct. The learning experience should excite and encourage the participants to take risks, question assumptions, and fully engage in the learning process.
Evaluation Procedures:
The Conference Planning Committee will evaluate proposals based on:
· Relevance to the theme
· Significance of its contribution to LIS research or practice
· Clarity of expression
· Status of research: Are the results in hand? When appropriate, please include the timeline for completion of research.
For more information on the Library Research Seminar VI Conference, please visit http://www.library.illinois.edu/lrs6/ or send your comments/questions to LRSVI@library.illinois.edu.
Call for Articles, Reviews and Interviews: TEXT MATTERS: A JOURNAL OF LITERATURE, THEORY AND CULTURE
Published by the University of Łodź in Poland
Dorota Filipczak
Special Themed Issue
Collecting, Archiving, Publishing North America
edited by Jadwiga Maszewska
Visit the website at http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/text-matters/
Jeremy Braddock, in his Collecting as Modernist Practice, argues that the material collection and the anthology both be considered as an "authored work" and, following Bourdieu, a "system of positions." The history of collecting and publishing in the 20th century – from Peggy Guggenheim to the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, TX – illustrates a widespread development and framing of how literary and cultural materials are received. Publishers, editors, librarians, and curators have all played a fundamental role in authoring and shaping the reception, preservation, and influence of textual and cultural objects.
Text Matters invites contributions to its 5th issue that analyze the construction and management of North American literary and cultural artifacts within the frame of archival or textual studies, as well as reception theory. Preference will be given to articles that cover some aspect of the 20th century, but any relevant article will be considered. Please see the style sheet available from the journal's website http://ia.uni.lodz.pl/text-matters/ for details. The deadline for submissions is April 30th, 2014. They should be emailed to text.matters@uni.lodz.pl and jadwigamasz@gmail.com. Editors invite potential contributors to contact them about thematic proposals at jadwigamasz@gmail.com and dorfil@uni.lodz.pl.
CFP edited volume: With Honors?: Challenges and Promises in the Future of Honors Education
Call for Papers Date: 2014-03-31
Editors: Robert W. Glover, Ph.D. (CLAS-Honors Preceptor of Political Science, University of Maine) Katherine M. O'Flaherty, Ph.D., C.A.S. (Faculty Fellow at Barrett, The Honors College, Arizona State University).
The landscape of American higher education has changed in notable ways in recent decades. One essential and defining feature of contemporary higher education is the growth of honors education. Many colleges and universities now feature an honors program or a fully institutionalized honors college. The honors experience boasts small classes, individualized interaction with faculty, and a range of enriched educational opportunities not available to the student population at large. There are at least 600 such programs in the United States according to one recent report with 60% of those established since 1994. Yet amidst all this growth and change, what honors education ought to be in terms of content and structure remains a hotly debated topic. It is in this spirit, that this edited volume asks a provocative question: What should the Honors College of the future look like? This question forces us to engage with difficult issues in a variety of ways. Furthermore, it allows those involved in shaping honors education (faculty, administrators and students) a venue in which to think beyond the day-to-day dictates of their existing institutions and to consider ways in which institutions may grow or evolve in the future.
Such a forward-looking perspective invites consideration of a number of important questions which structure and inform the volume: How can Honors evolve in a way that it provides meaningful intellectual growth for students from a wide range of academic majors and specializations? What choices should drive the construction of curriculum in Honors? How do institutions structure Honors curricula in a coherent and meaningful way? What concrete and tangible skills should Honors education provide for students and how do we ensure that we are imparting them to our students? In an institutional environment increasingly characterized by assessment and demonstrable outcomes, how does Honors demonstrate its value to those making decisions about funding priorities? What models for funding outside of the existing structure can support Honors education in the future? What is the role of technology in the Honors classroom experience of the future? How does institutional type impact the Honors experience? What can different institutions learn from one another? What does/should the faculty of an Honors College look like? What should be the model for recruitment, advancement, promotion, and retention of faculty? What challenges and opportunities exist for Honors administrators? What future priorities should drive decision-making and how can those involved in the administration of Honors ensure the authenticity and value of the Honors experience for all involved? Any other directly or indirectly related questions that thoughtfully take up questions related to the future of honors education.
With these gaps and opportunities for scholarship in mind the editors of this volume invite proposals/abstracts. We are particularly interested in contributions (final chapters will be 5,000-7,000 words) that examine curricular innovation, provide examples of innovative pedagogical approaches to teaching, address the use of technology in enhancing learning, highlight innovative projects and other related ideas. We welcome submissions from faculty, administrators, staff, students and other stakeholders at public and private institutions in the U.S. and internationally. We support a methodologically pluralistic approach to scholarship and welcome innovative cross-disciplinary pieces.
Prospective contributors are invited to submit: 1) Initial proposal/abstract (500-750 words) 2) Brief curriculum vitae/resume (1 page)
Send to: katherine.oflaherty@asu.edu Due: March 31, 2014 Please also direct inquiries to: Katherine M. O'Flaherty (katherine.oflaherty@asu.edu) Notifications will follow and the invited essays (5,000-7,000 words) are to be tentatively submitted in early Fall 2014. The language of the proposed publication is English.
Call for Chapters: Handbook of Research on Multimedia Integration and Interactivity in Electronic Books
Handbook of Research on Multimedia Integration and Interactivity in Electronic Books
http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1313
Alexandra Saemmer (University Paris 8, Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France, Associate Professor), Nolwenn Tréhondart (University of Paris 8, France, Publishing Specialist and Research Engineer at Labex Arts-H2H), and Madjid Ihadjadene (University Paris 8, Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France, Full Professor)
Overview on e-books and their history from different perspective countries (America, Europe, Africa, etc.)
E-books publishing models and policies (business models, agile publishing, cultural issues, future trends in the market, selection and acquisition of e-books, marketing e-books, legal issues, archiving, curation, accessibility, digital libraries, digital libraries)
Transformation of the traditional workflow
Imaginations of publishers, authors, and readers related to e-books and enhanced e-books
Designing and developing e-books (evolution of formats, page layout, navigation tools, interface design, content representation, search architecture, datamining, indexing, browsing)
New tools, technology, and content management for publishing (authoring tools, platforms, software, standardization, interoperability, metadata, editorial and production workflow)
Enhanced e-books (categorization, role of hypertext and interactivity, use of media in the reading context, writing, narration, storytelling, gamelike interactivity, augmented reality, gamified books, social medias)
Scenario of use in various fields (children, adults, specific user communities, fiction and non fiction, academic, scientific, textbook, technical documentation, graphic novels, comics…) and contexts (library, private reading, university…)
Empirical studies on digital reading (readers engagement, comprehension reading, user experience and usability, reader response theory)
Integration of e-books in e-learning
Future of digital publishing
Digital literature and e-books: links, experimentations (digital born fiction, research and creation projects, new art forms exploring creative possibilities, innovation), close readings
April 15, 2014: Proposal Submission Deadline
May 15, 2014: Notification of the accepted Proposals
August 15, 2014: Full Chapter Submission
October 15, 2014: Review Results to authors
November 30, 2014: Final Acceptance Notifications
December 30, 2014: Final Chapter Submission
Call for Contributors - Encyclopedia of Online Education Steven L. Danver, editor Sage Publications/Mesa Verde Publishing
We are pleased to announce the development of the Encyclopedia of Online Education, a first-of-its-kind comprehensive treatment of the world of online education. This three-volume project will produce a thorough, engaging reference work on the ever-expanding field of online education, which has many aspects that are not well understood. This work will serve to remedy this with authoritative materials for users at every position within the online educational structure, from students to administrators. More so than the technology itself, though, the use of such technology to facilitate effective learning by students will be the central focus. The perspective, much like the subject itself, will be interdisciplinary, and the content should prove useful to administrators, teaching faculty, and students alike.
We are currently assembling a team of qualified scholars to produce this important work. If you possess an earned doctorate and experience with online education, we would appreciate the opportunity to have you contribute to the project! Please sign up at http://www.mesaverdepublishing.com/online-edu-list.htm, and we will be happy to send you further information about available entries, remuneration, and due dates. Thank you in advance for your interest, we look forward to working with you to produce an informative, academically rigorous, and useful volume.
Steven L. Danver (Ph.D., University of Utah) is Academic Coordinator and Core Faculty in Social Sciences in the College of Undergraduate Studies at Walden University and co-owner (with Lauren Danver) of Mesa Verde Publishing. He has been involved in online education for more than five years with three exclusively online institutions and two traditional institutions with online programs. He has written and edited extensively in fields such as history, politics, and ethnic studies.
CFP: Special Issue of Journal of Library Metadata "RDA and New Frontiers in Library Metadata"
Guest Editor: Yuji Tosaka, Ph.D., M.L.I.S.
Cataloging/Metadata Librarian
The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
RDA: Resource Description & Access has arrived at a time when libraries are at a crossroads. New information technologies have created uncertainty about their role in a rapidly changing environment, while they also create opportunities to produce robust metadata to support vastly improved discovery services for library users and other
information seekers at large.
The goal of this special issue of the Journal of Library Metadata is to offer both LIS researchers and practitioners a much-needed primer exploring the possibilities of cataloging and information access under RDA. We invite articles that address current issues, trends, research, and purposeful experimentation relating to, but not limited to, the following topics:
• Evaluation of RDA as a practical application of the FRBR model
• Evaluation of RDA's ability to provide a flexible and extensible framework for describing all types of content and media in the digital environment; RDA and special formats cataloging; the role of cataloger's judgment under RDA
• RDA and user analysis; evaluation of RDA's "responsiveness to user needs"
• RDA and "cost efficiency"; RDA's impacts on cataloging production and operations
• Using RDA with other metadata standards; interoperability issues with different communities of practice; evaluation of RDA's "flexibility" as a content standard that can be usable for other, non-library metadata
• Evaluation of new RDA elements, instructions, and vocabularies
• RDA and MARC standards; RDA in a post-MARC environment
• RDA and OPAC display issues; RDA and next-generation catalogs
• RDA implementation and training issues in different library sectors; catalogers' transition from AACR2; practitioners' views on the new cataloging code
• Internationalization of RDA; reception and implementation of RDA in an international context
• Development of new tools, resources, and services to manage and leverage RDA and legacy catalog data
• Evaluation of the standards development process for RDA, RDA's openness as a technical standard
• Analysis of RDA in the historical context; comparison of AACR2 and RDA as cataloging codes; RDA's continuities and discontinuities with cataloging traditions
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a proposal (approximately 500 words) including a problem statement, problem significance, objectives, methodology, and conclusions (or tentative conclusions for work in progress). The proposal should also include author's name, professional affiliation, and e-mail address. Only
unpublished, original work will be considered. Proposals must be received by April 15, 2014. Full manuscripts (4000-7000 words) are expected to be submitted by July 20, 2014. All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Please forward inquiries and proposal submissions electronically to the guest editor
at tosaka@tcnj.edu
The Journal of Library Metadata is the exclusive forum for the latest research, innovations, news, and expert views about all aspects of metadata applications in libraries and about the role of metadata in information retrieval. This focused journal comprehensively discusses practical, applicable information that libraries can effectively use in their own information discovery environments. Specialized knowledge, the latest technology, and top research are presented pertaining specifically to evolving metadata use in libraries. More information
about the Journal of Library Metadata can be found online at http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/wjlm20
Michigan Innovative Users Group (MIUG) Call for Proposals (Lansing, MI)
The Michigan Innovative Users Group (MIUG) Steering Committee is now accepting proposals for the 2014 MIUG Conference, to be held at the Lansing Community College West Campus on July 25, 2014. We invite you to share your expertise in any of the modules of Sierra or Millennium. The Steering Committee are looking for presentations that will last about 50 minutes, with a portion of that time set aside for Q&A. We are also open to forum ideas where an expert, or panel of experts, discuss a topic with an audience. Ideas for poster sessions are also welcome. In addition, if you are presenting at the IUG Conference in May, please consider doing a repeat of your presentation at the MIUG.
You may submit your proposals using this Proposal Submission Form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mAE4SecTkeHAd8vVaaYKtBvnwcB-l0v4QrUQQjochFQ/viewform). Deadline for proposals is Friday, April 25, 2014. The Steering Committee will notify all submitters regarding the acceptance of their proposal(s) in early May.
Netspeed 2014: Call for Speakers
The Alberta Library invites you to be a part of Netspeed: The Human Side Of Technology. We are accepting session proposals for this year's conference, to be held October 16 and 17, 2014 at the Edmonton Marriott at River Cree Resort in Edmonton, AB.
Netspeed is a leading library technology conference that connects librarians from public, academic, government, and special libraries from Western Canada and beyond. Technology is embedded in virtually every aspect of the library experience and the Netspeed conference addresses this convergence of people and technology.
We offer learning experiences that include lectures, discussion, technology demonstrations, resource and equipment vendors, forums for conversation, and more. Presenters have the opportunity to address a wide range of delegates, boost their professional profile, and participate in engaged knowledge sharing.
We are seeking 50 minute presentations that address the following areas of focus:
· Transforming library service through technology
· Emerging technology trends affecting the nature of library work
· The role libraries can play in the evolving connection economy
· Newly licensed resources, websites, apps, and collaboration tools
· Marketing, metrics, and methods for evaluating digital impact
· Innovative strategies to build digital and information literacy skills
Do you have a great idea for a topic not listed above? We welcome proposals for sessions outside of our recommended areas of focus. Formats such as demonstrations, hands-on workshops, panels, facilitated discussions and group strategy development are encouraged.
Accepted presentations will receive one complimentary conference registration per session. Proposals will be accepted through an online form and must be received by April 18, 2014.
For more information contact Lauren Sergy at lsergy@thealbertalibrary.ab.ca or at 780-414-0805 ext. 230.
We look forward to your proposals and participation in Netspeed 2014!
CFP: e-journal, Endnotes: The Journal of the New Members Round Table.
The NMRT Endnotes Committee seeks contributors for the Spring 2014 issue of its annual e-journal, Endnotes: The Journal of the New Members Round Table.
Endnotes is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that addresses issues faced by new librarians and LIS students nearing completion of their graduate programs. Article submissions are accepted throughout the year. Articles should range from 2000 – 4000 words and present original research, practitioner-based research, and/or case studies. Those interested in discussing an article idea are encouraged to contact the Editor at nmrtendnotesjournal@gmail.com to determine if the proposal fits the publication's scope.
Article submissions are accepted throughout the year; however, articles received by April 1, 2014 will receive guaranteed consideration for the Spring 2014 issue.
We strongly encourage students in LIS programs to considering submitting articles for publication.
Authors must be NMRT members at the time of publication.
For more information about Endnotes, including complete submission guidelines, please visit http://www.ala.org/nmrt/oversightgroups/comm/schres.
Jodie Borgerding
NMRT Endnotes Committee
CFP: Say-it-in-Six Lightning Rounds: Case Studies on Using Data to Improve Library Services (ALA Annual)
The LLAMA MAES Using Measurement Data for Library Planning, Assessment, and Communication committee is planning a program at the 2014 ALA Conference in Las Vegas on Monday, June 30th, at 8:30am. This fast-paced program will feature presenters from a variety of settings who will share the ways they have used data to assess, promote, or improve their library. Have you used data to make changes in your own library? If so, we need you!
We are looking for proposals on almost any topic in which the data mattered: library spaces, library services, programming & outreach, collections, student learning/retention, or internal training & workflows, or anything else that worked for you! Innovative methods and tools used to analyze data, as well as interesting outcomes resulting from the data analysis, are especially of interest.
Some specifics of how the lightning rounds will work:
• Each presenter will give a brief presentation (six minutes of presentation, followed by 4 minutes for Q&A) multiple times, rotating to small audiences sitting at informal banquet tables. All attendees will hear and ask questions of all speakers during the course of the program.
• The format for the six minutes of presentation is adapted from Ron Hoff's book Say It in Six: How to Say Exactly What You Mean in Six Minutes or Less.
To submit your proposal (300 words or less), please include the following information:
• Type and size of your library
• Type of assessment method/how the data was collected (such as survey, observation)
• Sample size of the data
• Tools or methods used to analyze and present the data
• How the data was used (resulting changes/improvements/realizations)
• Name, position, and email address of the presenter.
Please e-mail proposals to susan.gardner@lmu.edu by Friday, March 28th, at 5pm PST. Those submitting proposals will be notified of their status by mid-April.
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Happy Monday all! It has been a little quiet over on this end. I have been really busy with work and am finally getting a chance to sit down and share an amazing story with you all!! My friend Becky is an inspiration and motivation to me, and a reminder to never give up on any dreams, especially when they have to do with your health!
Here is her story followed by a few pictures!
"I should preface this with the fact that all my life I had been a little bit chubby. However, it never stopped me from being active. My parents had me in all sorts of activities–dance, ice skating, swimming, intramural sports and marching band. I always enjoyed a little activity. I actually stayed with ice skating and swimming for quite some time–spending about 8 years on the ice and 4 in the pool (and it was quite busy when Swim season overlapped with ice skating season). I never let the fact that I was always heavier than the other people get in my way or bother me. And the people I was skating or swimming with never really minded that I was heavier either.
Something changed when I hit college. I was nowhere near the activity level that I was at in my pre-university days, but I certainly was not sedentary. I loved to take walks and had 2 jobs–one those jobs kept me on my feet the whole time. I ate a fairly healthy diet, but knew it could have been better. After college, I started running thinking well I hate running, but it might help. The pounds wouldn't budge. No matter how much I restricted food intake and increased exercise would the pounds come off.
I decided I'd run my first half marathon in 2009. I teamed up with Team in Training which is an offshoot of the Leukemia and Lymphoma society. I was getting really frustrated because I was running about 20 or so miles per week, eating a lean/clean diet but still as heavy as I was before I started training. I still ran and finished that first half marathon, but couldn't help but be a little jealous of my training buddies who were sporting more trim bodies. I KNEW something was wrong. I later found out my thyroid had shut down. It certainly explained why I was feeling SO miserable and not able to lose weight despite my best efforts.
Since that diagnosis, I have lost about 97 pounds, run 2 more half marathons and started working at fitness facilities in addition to my full time job. I am certified to teach SilverSneakers, which is a fitness program geared towards the elderly to help them keep and/or get back strength and fitness for daily life activities. I am also certified to teach Les Mills Sh'bam (dance based cardio) and as of yesterday (4/26/13), I am now certified to teach Les Mills CXWorx (30 minute core conditioning). I am gearing up to train for Les Mills BodyAttack, which is 55 minutes of high intensity/interval/sports inspired cardio and also planning my next half marathon (perhaps the Hershey Half since this is chocolate runner girl's blog..wouldn't that be appropriate?). When I'm not teaching, I enjoy a few miles here and there and also take BodyPump, BodyStep and RPM through Les Mills as well. They are great additions if you're looking for cross training activities while gearing up for a distance running event.
Mile 10 in the first Half Marathon she ever ran in Jan 2009–the Disney World Half Marathon.
Her last half marathon which was December 2011 in Miami Beach (for her birthday–race day was on her birthday).
A gym candid..one of the more recent photos of Becky.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged BodyPump, Half marathon, health, Les Mills, Marathon on May 7, 2013 by chocolaterunnergirl.


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Joker executive producer: 'Movies can shake people up and bring issues to attention'
Alex Biese
Michael Uslan is ready to help change the world again.
Uslan, an Ocean Township native, has served as the producer of the "Batman" film franchise for 30 years. He was there when director Tim Burton and Oscar-winning production designer Anton Furst crafted the Caped Crusader's game-changing 1989 film, a stylized gothic adventure that helped shape our modern superhero-focused cinema landscape.
Nearly 20 years later, Uslan worked with writer/director Christopher Nolan on his acclaimed, grounded trilogy reimagining the world of Batman for a post-9/11 world, including the nearly-universally hailed 2008 urban crime epic "The Dark Knight."
Uslan is shaking things up again as executive producer of "Joker." Due out Oct. 4 via Warner Bros. Pictures, the film promises a gritty origin story for Gotham City's Clown Prince of Crime, with Joaquin Phoenix in the title role.
"Three times we have completely reinvented how comic book movies are made and perceived," said Uslan. "If we had done it once in '89 it would have been enough. And then as things went off track and powers-that-be got so enamored with toys and games and Happy Meals that everything went off the side rails, to be able to say, 'OK, we brought it back even better and different and better than ever,' that would have been enough. And now this."
Director Todd Phillips' vision has already garnered plenty of attention. Earlier this month, it took home the top prize at the 76th Venice International Film Festival, the Golden Lion Award.
Previous Golden Lion winners, including Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" (1948) and Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape of Water" (2017) went on to win Best Picture honors at the Academy Awards.
However, not all of the pre-release discussion has been positive. Seven years after 12 people were killed and 70 were injured at a 2012 Aurora, Colorado, screening of Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises," five family members of Aurora victims sent a letter to Warner Bros. this week.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the letter asked the studio to "end political contributions to candidates who take money from the NRA and vote against gun reform" and "actively lobby for gun reform."
Warner Bros. responded with a statement on Tuesday stating that neither Phillips' film nor Phoenix's character is an endorsement of real-world violence.
"It is not the intention of the film, the filmmakers or the studio to hold this character up as a hero," read the statement, according to Variety.
The Aurora cinema where the "Dark Knight Rises" shooting occurred is not planning to screen "Joker," according to the Hollywood Reporter.
This month, Phoenix walked out of an interview with The Telegraph following a question regarding connections between the Joker character and real-life mass shootings.
What would Uslan say to audience members apprehensive over the prospect of a film looking to paint an empathetic portrait of a sociopathic killer in this modern, fear-filled age?
"I would almost turn that question over to the teachers of film around the world, to the academicians, as to what is the role of cinema, thematically (and with regard to) responsibility," said Uslan. "Look at what I consider some of the most important films: What have they done? They've held up a mirror to our society, and there are times when people don't want to see that reflection, they want to run from it. They don't want to acknowledge it because sometimes the reflection shows warts and all, whether it's biases and prejudices or what's happened to our society, reflecting the times."
Uslan also cited provocative works of 1970s cinema that he described as "Joker" antecedents such as Scorsese's "Mean Streets" (1973), Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) and Richard Attenborough's "Magic" (1978).
"If anything, I believe movies can shake people up and bring issues to attention, whether it's about guns or the need to treat mental illness or the need for civility and for us to start talking with each other instead of at each other again," he said. "You can't suppress that, you can't censor that."
"Joker" director Todd Phillips is the man behind the wildly successful "Hangover" trilogy of R-rated comedies, and already an Academy Award nominee for his work on the "Borat" screenplay.
"Think about this for a second: to elect to tackle the Joker in any way, shape or form when you're following in the footsteps of (previous Joker actors) Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger, Mark Hamill, that's unbelievable," said Uslan. "And that requires a clarity of vision. That also requires something else: It requires passion. It requires knowledge, love for a character, understanding of a character even if you're willing to go down different doors with him."
Phillips' screenplay, co-written with Scott Silver, takes its cues from the character's DC Comics origins but tells its own tale. In an interview with Empire published this summer, Phillips said he and his team didn't follow anything from the comics.
"We just wrote our own version of where a guy like Joker might come from," Phillips said. "That's what was interesting to me. We're not even doing Joker, but the story of becoming Joker. It's about this man."
One thing consistent with DC Comics history is the central role New Jersey plays in the proceedings.
For years, comics and films have depicted Gotham City as being located in the Garden State, while the Joker has been played by a pair of Monmouth County natives, Neptune native Nicholson in Burton's film and Cesar Romero of Bradley Beach in the cult classic mid-1960s television series.
Nolan shot part of his "Dark Knight" trilogy in Newark, and Phillips filmed "Joker" in Jersey City and Newark in October and November 2018.
"It's a look that feels 1970s to me, that is evocative in Times Square, 42nd Street and what that was. … The whole look of this picture is unlike any comic book movie you've ever seen before," Uslan said of Phillips' North Jersey Gotham. "It feels like a crime drama that (Martin) Scorsese might have done, but it is pure Todd Philips."
New York Comic Con returns to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan Thursday, Oct. 3 through Sunday, Oct. 6.
Uslan will be in town for a talk on the 30th anniversary of 1989's "Batman" 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4. He'll take part in a remembrance of Marvel icon Stan Lee 2:45 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5. At 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6 he'll sign the new edition of his 2011 memoir, "The Boy Who Loved Batman," on sale Tuesday, Oct. 1.
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HomeEconomyShipment of euro banknotes arrives in Vilnius
Shipment of euro banknotes arrives in Vilnius
November 20, 2015 ELTA EN Economy 0
"Delivery of this euro shipment will ensure replenishment of our cash holdings and smooth circulation of euro banknotes in Lithuania," said Mindaugas Vilkelis, director of the Bank of Lithuania Cash Service.
The euro banknote shipment was delivered to Vilnius in accordance with the plan approved by the European Central Bank (ECB).
In transporting the banknotes, it is necessary to follow strict safety procedures and requirements, including flying the banknotes during daylight hours, limiting traffic while transporting them to the vaults and other security measures. Due to security, the cash delivery time, route, security and other details cannot be disclosed to the public ahead of time.
Euro banknotes are printed at around 16 heavily secured European printing houses. From there, in coordination with the ECB, the banknotes are distributed to the national central banks.
Under the direction of the ECB, the national central banks reallocate the banknotes, so that there would not be a lack of them in a country or that there would not be too many of them.
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An IMF mission commenced work in Lithuania. Representatives from the International Monetary Fund met with Minister of Finance Rasa Budbergytė and discussed the economic situation of Lithuania, state fiscal policy, next year's budget and measures […]
Lithuanian central bank warns banks may have to increase capital requirements
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Lithuanian commercial banks may have to accumulate additional capital buffers for risk control, said Vitas Vasiliauskas, the head of Bank of Lithuania, at the Lithuanian Banking Association conference. […]
Bank of Lithuania revises down GDP growth forecast
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The Bank of Lithuania forecasts that the domestic demand-driven Lithuanian economy will continue growing, albeit at a slower pace than previously expected. The worse outlook for the Russian economy, determined by persisting geopolitical tensions and falling oil prices, will have an essential influence on this change, the central bank said. […]


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VENUE: Canlan Ice Sports, Romeoville, Ill.
GAME TIMES: March 27, 4:30 pm vs. Yellowstone Quake (35-7-5, 75 pts, 1st in Frontier Division, 5th seed at Fraser Cup), March 28, 2:30 pm vs. Granite City Lumberjacks (33-14-0, 1st in West Division, 8th seed at Fraser Cup), March 29, 4:30 pm vs. Binghamton Jr. Senators (41-3-3, 85 pts, 1st in Northeast Division, 1st overall seed) (all times Central). Semifinal and final times are to be announced.
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THIRD TIME LUCKY: The Jr. Blues punched their third straight ticket to the Fraser Cup (formerly Silver Cup) Finals with a 11-5 win at Peoria to sweep the Mustangs and win the Midwest Division crown. The past two seasons St. Louis has gone 1-2 in Romeoville and failed to progress out of the group stage, and doubtless will be looking to change their fortunes this year.
HOW IT WORKS: All eight division playoff winners qualified for the Fraser Cup, and were then divided up into two groups of four based on regular-season points totals. St. Louis were seeded fourth, and thus placed into Group A with Binghamton (#1 seed), Yellowstone (#5) and Granite City (#8). Group B features #2 seed Metro, #3 seed Texas, #6 seed New England and #7 seed La Crosse. Each team will play each other once, with the top two teams from each group advancing to the semi-finals on Friday: the winners of those games will play in the grand final on Saturday afternoon.
SCOUTING THE QUAKE: The men from Cody, Wyo. are also making their third-straight trip to Chicagoland: last year they advanced to the semifinals before falling to Metro in the semi-finals. The Quake advanced to the Fraser Cup Finals by winning the Frontier Division, sweeping Gillette in the semi-finals and doing the same to Helena in the division final. Rookie forward Riley Buller leads the way for Yellowstone with 94 points in the regular season (40 G, 54 A), while goaltender Reid Waszczenko has had an excellent year with a 1.85 goals-against average and .947 save percentage. St. Louis and Yellowstone faced each other earlier this year at the NA3HL Showcase: the Jr. Blues ran out 4-1 winners back in December.
SCOUTING THE LUMBERJACKS: The 'Jacks took down Willmar and New Ulm both in sweeps to defend their Fraser Cup championship as the West Division winners. Forward Braden Altena, who earlier this year committed to play NCAA Division III hockey at St. John's University in Minnesota, tops the scoring charts with 72 points, and leads a veteran core for the men from Sauk Rapids, Minn.: the team's top eight scorers are all members of last year's championship team. Ridge Gerads (1.68 GAA, .934 SV%) and David Mulligan (2.48 GAA, .910 SV%) have split the goaltending duties all year, each playing 22 games during the regular season, although Mulligan has been preferred in the playoffs. St. Louis and Granite City met four times this season, with each side claiming home sweeps: they also were in the same group at last year's Fraser Cup, with the Lumberjacks mounting a furious comeback capped off by a goal with three seconds left to win 4-3.
SCOUTING THE JR. SENS: The men from New York come to Romeoville having not lost a game since January 21, when they dropped a 3-2 decision in a shootout at Pittsburgh. The Jr. Sens swept first Oswego and then Niagara Falls in the Northeast Division playoffs to make their second straight Fraser Cup Finals appearance: last year, they won their group only to lose in the semi-finals to Granite City. Forward Brad Becker won the NA3HL scoring crown with 116 points (53 G, 63 A): he has committed to play NCAA DIII hockey at Utica College. Brady Anderson, acquired earlier this season from Willmar, has been sterling in goal for Binghamton, with a 16-0-2 record, 0.88 GAA, and .962 save percentage for his new club. St. Louis and the Jr. Sens' lone match-up in history came at last year's NA3HL Showcase, where Binghamton won 6-3.
JUNIOR NOTES: The Jr. Blues wish to congratulate our five age-out players—Jake Cox, Jack Hatton, Cameron McAtee, Dan Dunaway, and Dylan Carroll—on their great junior hockey careers. We wish them nothing but the best in their future endeavors.
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