The Library Staff Association would like once again to invite you to join. There is no deadline for joining.

Please save the date of September 20 for our semi-Annual Blood Drive co-sponsored with the Black Law Student Association at the School of Law. You can earn 4 hours of "blood time" as well as movie passes and Diddy Riese cookies.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at sexton@law.ucla.edu.

Australian Lifelong Learning Conference

The 5th International Lifelong Learning Conference will be held 16-19 June 2008 at Rydges Resort, Yeppoon, Queensland. The theme is Lifelong Learning: Reflecting on Successes and Framing Futures. Potential authors, presenters and workshop conveners are invited to submit abstracts (maximum of 300 words) addressing the Conference theme. Suggested sub themes are available for consideration, but are not intended to limit the imagination.

The closing date for the submission of abstracts is 7 September 2007. Abstracts for refereed papers, presentations, workshops and symposia sessions will be assessed by the Program Committee and authors will be notified of the result by the end of September 2007. At that time a Word template for writing the paper and an Endnote style will be available. Full papers are to be submitted (by email attachment) by 29 February 2008.

The Conference offers a variety of options:

1. Submission and presentation of a refereed paper
2. Presentation of a non-refereed paper
3. Presentation of a workshop
4. Presentation of a symposium session

For more information on the Call for Abstracts visit the 2008 Lifelong Learning Conference website at: lifelonglearning.cqu.edu.au/2008.

Authors, presenters and workshop conveners must be conference delegates. The estimated early bird registration fee for 3 nights, twin share accommodation, all meals included is $1246.00 (AUS). Registration options will also be available for single days and without accommodation. Early bird deadline is 18 April 2008.

Announcing the Publication of College Libraries and the Teaching/Learning Process: Selections from the Writings of Evan Ira Farbe

Earlham College Libraries and the Earlham College Press have announced the publication of College Libraries and the Teaching/Learning Process: Selections from the Writings of Evan Ira Farber. This 272-page hardbound volume, edited by David Gansz, contains selections from Evan Farber's writings and talks, many of which helped shape thinking about academic library service over the past forty years. In addition, Farber has added prefatory comments on the context for each piece and reflections on the ideas presented.

The volume includes pieces on "the university-library syndrome," the role of the college library, the importance of bibliographic instruction, and the necessity for collaboration between the library and the teaching faculty-- perhaps the central focus of Evan Farber's role as library director at Earlham from 1962 to 1994. There are seven pieces never before published including "The Library in Undergraduate Education," written in 1985 for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. This piece of 21 pages is an important statement on the nature of college libraries in the last twenty years of the twentieth century.

The volume begins with a Preface by David Gansz (Edison Community College, Piqua OH) and an Introduction by Richard Hume Werking (U.S. Naval Academy), and concludes with an interview of Farber by Scottie Cochrane (Denison University).

The volume is available for $29 plus $6.95 for shipping and handling from the Earlham College Bookstore, Drawer 7, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374. ISBN:978-1-117-18-1, OCLC: 135339476

Survey of Instruction Librarians and Government Documents

Judith Downie, Humanities and Government Documents Librarian at Cal State University San Marcos, seeks instruction librarians located at a California academic institutions for her survey on the use of government documents. Her goal is to gain a picture of academic instruction librarians' exposure to, and use of, government documents in their instruction.

The survey takes no more than 15 minutes to complete, and will remain open until September 15, 2007. You will find it here:
www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=CBQo3ODiic3mV58_2bhb17IQ_3d_3d.

Academic Exchange Quarterly’s Winter 2007 Issue on Online Learning - Call for Articles

There is still time to submit articles for AEQ’s Winter 2007 issue focusing on Online Learning. According to AEQ’s call for submissions, the focus of this issue will be “on ways of delivering instruction through asynchronous or synchronous methods either through online courses or by “hybrid” or “blended” courses.” If you have experience regarding instructional technology or information research via the Web, and an idea for an article, please consider submitting an article.

AEG site: rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/index.htm.

AEG’s Online Learning issue information: rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/5onlin.htm.

Call for articles: rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm.

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