SCONUL Focus invites articles on supporting teaching and learning

Issue 68 of SCONUL Focus is on the theme of innovation in teaching and learning and articles (1,500 words approx.) are due Friday 25 November.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to the following:

Critical literacies

Digital literacy

Learning analytics

Learning environments/spaces

Supporting distance learning – overseas and satellite campuses

Evaluating teaching

Flipped classroom

How librarians can best support academics in their teaching.

If you have any queries please contact me.

Helen Fallon

SCONUL Focus Editorial Board Member

 

Open Access Irish issue of New Review of Academic Librarianship

This is open access week.  For the next six months a special virtual issue of the New Review of Academic Librarianship (NRAL) will be available on open access. This provides free access to 15 articles from 24 authors sharing insights into how Irish librarians are addressing issues and developments which are common concerns to the international library profession. These articles are part of a growing body of research literature being created by Irish librarians providing a valuable record of Irish research and practice over the past seven years for current and future practitioners and researchers in Ireland and internationally.

This special issue was launched by Dr Philip Cohen President of the Library Association at Maynooth University Library on Thursday 20th October.

Access Irish Issue

Call for presentations - Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Science and Humanities conference

Preserving Abundance: The Challenge of Saving Everything
The Sussex Humanities Lab and the Digital Repository of Ireland are pleased to announce that the second Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Science, and Humanities conference will take place 14-15 June 2017 at the University of Sussex, Brighton.
The CFP has now been released, the submission deadline is midnight Sunday 11 December 2016 (GMT).
DPASSH is a response to the problem of digital preservation within the arts and social sciences domains. It seeks to address the complexities of long-term digital preservation of the full variety of research materials; and to encourage a long term dialogue around the issues created by such preservation.
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PRIMO: Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online call for submissions

The Peer Reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO) Committee of the ACRL Instruction Section invites you to submit your online information literacy tutorial, virtual tour, or other online library instruction project for review and possible inclusion in PRIMO: Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online.

***Deadlines for Fall 2016***

Nominations: October 31, 2016

Submissions: November 14, 2016

Additional information

Site submissions for PRIMO are accepted continually, but are reviewed for possible inclusion twice per year.  If you would like to submit your own project for consideration, please use the Submission form rather than the Nomination form. For further information, please contact committee co-chairs Bill Marino at wmarino1@emich.edu or Megan Hodge at mlhodge@gmail.com.

**Important note**

All submissions will be acknowledged shortly after the submission deadline. If you submit a project for review and do not receive an acknowledgment after the submission deadline, please contact the PRIMO co-chairs with a request for verification that your submission was transmitted successfully.