[Web4lib] CFP: Five Weeks to a Social Library

[Meredith Farkas]

CFP: Five Weeks to a Social Library
Location: Online
Dates: February 12 - March 17, 2006
CFP Deadline: September 22, 2006

We are pleased to present Five Weeks to a Social Library , the first free,
grassroots, completely online course devoted to teaching librarians about
social software and how to use it in their libraries. The course was
developed to provide a free, comprehensive, and social online learning
opportunity for librarians who do not otherwise have access to conferences
or continuing education and who would benefit greatly from learning about
social software. The course will take place in Drupal and on a MediaWiki
installation, and will also involve a variety of other popular social
software tools. The course will make use of synchronous components, with one
or two weekly Webcasts and many IM chat sessions being made available to
students each week. The course will culminate in each student developing a
proposal for implementing a specific social software tool in their library.

The course will take place between February 12 and March 17 and will be
limited to forty participants. However, course content will be freely
viewable to interested parties and all live Webcasts will be archived for
later viewing.

We are currently welcoming proposals for live presentations and course
content on the following topics:

   - Blogs
   - RSS
   - Wikis
   - Social Networking Software and SecondLife
   - Flickr
   - Social Bookmarking Software
   - Selling Social Software @ Your Library (no live Webcasts on this
   topic)

We want the presentations to be as practical and useful to as wide a
library-related audience as possible. Preference will be given to
presentations that 1) are very "nuts-and-bolts" or 2) describe a successful
use of the technology that could be replicated in different types of
libraries.

We are looking for presentations in the following formats:

   - Webcast – a one-hour live online Webcast that will be archived.
   - Screencast/Vodcast – no more than 30 minutes (please note: most
   commercial screencasting software offer a 30-day free trial).
   - Podcast – we welcome proposals for podcast presentations, podcast
   interviews with innovators in the field or podcast discussions between
   innovators in the field.
   - Text presentations – we will accept a very limited number of text
   presentations, but we greatly prefer presentations that incorporate audio
   and video.

In addition to developing a presentation, presenters must also make
themselves available via AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) for questions from
students for one-hour during the week their presentation is shown.

All presentations will be made available under the
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5
License<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/>.


Format of Proposal: 250 – 500 words, written. Proposals are a way for the
review team to assess your contribution quickly. Please do not submit full
presentations.

Proposals should include the following:

   - Full name of presenter
   - E-mail address of presenter
   - Web-site and/or blog URL of presenter
   - IM screenname(s)
   - Institutional affiliation
   - Brief biographical information (under 150 words)
   - Include same personal information as above for any additional
   presenters after the lead presenter (if applicable)
   - Presentation title
   - Format(s) you are willing to present in (if you are flexible about
   the format you are willing to present in, please note that)
   - Presentation Abstract (250 to 500 words)

Proposals must be submitted by September 22, 2006 via e-mail to
sociallibrary at gmail.com. Any questions about the CFP process can be
addressed to the Planning Committee at sociallibrary at gmail.com.

Proposal Review: Proposals will be reviewed by the planning committee.

Planning Committee:

   - Michelle Boule
   - Karen Coombs
   - Amanda Etches-Johnson
   - Meredith Farkas
   - Ellyssa Kroski
   - Dorothea Salo

Key Dates:

   - Deadline for Proposals: Friday, September 22, 2006
   - Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2006



-- 
Meredith Gorran Farkas
Distance Learning Librarian
Kreitzberg Library
Norwich University
Northfield, VT 05663
mfarkas at norwich.edu
http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/