The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) launched its 2007-2008 Leadership and Career Development Program (LCDP) on January 17, 2007. The LCDP is an 18-month program to prepare mid-career librarians from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups to take on increasingly demanding leadership roles in ARL libraries. Twenty LCDP fellows from 18 academic libraries were selected for the program, including Hong Cheng of the UCLA Library.

During the first gathering in Seattle from January 17 to 20, the program included four sessions: 1) Setting up vision and goals for leadership and career development; 2) Designing research project and learning professional writing; 3) Defining organizational culture and efficacy; and 4) Recognizing current trends such as the changing role of research libraries, scholarly communication, information policies and how to measure the changes. Each LCDP fellow was assigned to a mentor who is a university librarian or library dean/director of an ARL member library. Part of the program was jointed by other ARL program attendees. ARL HR directors, including Pat Hawthorne of the UCLA Library, attended a lunch meeting, and offered valuable and informal speeches.

The forthcoming LCDP events will include future workshops at the University of Nebraska on April 18-21 and at the University of Tennessee on February 7-12, a campus visit to the mentor’s university library between August to December, 2007, and a closing ceremony in Anaheim on June 27, 2008, in conjunction with the ALA Annual Conference. The ARL LCDP provides a unique learning and leadership development opportunity for ethnic minority librarians.

Call for Participation: ACRL IS/AS Conference Program Virtual Poster Sessions

Together with the Arts Section, the Instruction Section of ACRL invites proposal submissions for Virtual Poster Sessions being offered in connection with the Conference Program at ALA 2007 in Washington, D.C. The conference program, titled Eye to I: Visual Literacy Meets Information Literacy, will explore the relationship between these two sets of abilities.

More information, including the official call for proposals, is available at: www.indiana.edu/~libinstr/eye2i/index.html.

IFLA Call for Papers - "Libraries for the Future: Progress, Development and Partnerships"

The Information Literacy (IL) and the Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Sections of IFLA are planning a joint open program at the World Library and Information Congress. They invite you to submit proposals for papers related to their program theme:
 

Students are actively engaged in using cell phones, podcasts, blogs, vlogs, IM text messaging, social networking websites, wikis, and virtual worlds. Library users are pressuring for more non-linear learning modes. Have you adapted your instruction program to push information literacy instruction to them where they live? Do you have a library blog or a page on My Space for your library? Have you partnered with Instructional Technology units to jazz up your instructional delivery?

The proposal should include a title, an abstract of 300-400 words describing how multimodal instruction and learning is used, and also include a one-page biographical sketch for each author(s) / presenter(s) and a selected list of previous presentations and publications. Both the abstract and the full paper should be submitted as MS Word files by e-mail.

Proposals for papers must be submitted in English no later than 15 FEBRUARY 2007 to:
 

The full paper is due no later than 1 May 2007 and must be an original submission not published elsewhere. Papers may be written and presented in any of the IFLA working languages (English, French, German, Russian and Spanish), however simultaneous translation is not guaranteed.

Please note that all fees, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation, etc. are the responsibility of the authors of accepted papers. For additional information, please contact Linda J. Goff.

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