Want to know more about WorldCat?

WorldCat Basics Webinar Session from MINITEX

Classes offered:

Monday, January 07, 2008
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

WorldCat is available at no cost to all libraries in Minnesota via ELM. It is the world’s largest bibliographic database. This webinar gives an overview of WorldCat and covers basic searching, limiters, and working with results. This session will NOT cover using WorldCat as a cataloging or ILL tool.

Who should attend?: Librarians and media specialists who have little or no experience with WorldCat and for those who don’t use it on a regular basis.

For more info:
http://www.minitex.umn.edu/events/training/webinars.asp#170

Cataloging class at MCTC

Minneapolis Community and Technical College is offering INFS 2200 Introduction to Cataloging, a 3-credit course, Spring 2007. Classes meet on Wednesday evenings, from 5-7:45 p.m., beginning January 16 through May 7.

This course is a good course for:
* Librarians and paraprofessionals new to cataloging
* Librarians and paraprofessionals who would like a refresher
* Librarians and paraprofessionals who have been cataloging for some time, but would like more formal training.

This course provides a basic overview of descriptive and subject cataloging, using appropriate tools. While we’re using AACR2 as our primary model for description, we’ll be introducing concepts brought forward in RDA as well. Students will work with OCLC’s Connexion browser, building familiarity with that tool.

This course can be taken by non-degree seeking students, and can be audited or taken for a grade.

For more information, visit the Library Information Technology website at:
http://www.minneapolis.edu/academics/areaofstudy.cfm?aos_id=88

Or contact:
Virginia Heinrich
Instructor/Librarian
Minneapolis Community and Technical College
612.659.6296
AIM: MCTC Heinrich
virginia.heinrich@minneapolis.edu

Call for Proposals — SLA Contributed Papers

Have you broken the rules of the status quo to make improvements in your workplace? Have you reached out and “built bridges” to another organization to improve your service? Have you learned valuable lessons that could help other information professionals? If so, here is your opportunity to engage in scholarship and share that knowledge with your peers. Every SLA member is eligible and encouraged to apply.

**SLA is now accepting proposals for papers to be presented at the 2008 SLA Conference in Seattle **

Proposals should be 250-300 words in length and submitted to brandy.king@childrens.harvard.edu by December 15th.

Topics of the papers should be related to library science, information management, research or other issues related to customer service, technology, or administration in special libraries. Proposals will be judged in a blind peer-review process on their relevance to the conference theme Breaking Rules — Building Bridges or to the SLA tag line Connecting People and Information, as well on the strength of the idea, quality of writing, and potential member interest. The strongest proposals will be selected for development into full papers due 1 May 2008. In addition, this year, the paper that best demonstrates the theme of the conference will receive an award at the annual business meeting.

For more information see: http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2008/Conference/callforpapers/index.cfm

I hope to hear from many of you!

Sincerely,
Brandy King, Chair of the 2008 Contributed Papers Committee

Brandy King, MLIS

Librarian, Center on Media and Child Health

Children’s Hospital Boston , Harvard Medical School , Harvard School of Public Health

(617) 355 – 4651

Call for papers on Reading & Writing Recipe Books

CFP: Reading and Writing Recipe Books: 1600-1800
University of Warwick, UK
8-9 August 2008

CFP Deadline: Jan 31, 2008
CFP URL: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/events/recipebooks/

This international interdisciplinary conference will provide a much-needed environment that allows recipe book scholars to meet and discuss important issues such as comparative methodologies and periodization, thereby offering a key opportuninity to shape the course of future research on this genre.

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Proposals for 20 minute papers on any aspect of recipe book studies are welcome, though we particularly encourage papers on the following topics:
Methodological essays from the disciplines of history of medicine, literature, material culture, culinary history, etc. Periodization of generic conventions Possibilities of new scholarly directions (e.g. recipe books as life-writing sources)

Editing recipe books for modern audiences
Evidence of larger cultural influences, such as gender, social status, and geography
How manuscript and printed recipe collections relate to one another

Please send your 300 word proposal to one of the co-organisers:

Michelle DiMeo (m.m.dimeo@warwick.ac.uk) or Sara Pennell (s.pennell@roehampton.ac.uk)