Network for Research on Libraries and Teens

This effort is sponsored by YALSA’s past presidents and held at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting, which will be January 25 - 29, 2013 in Seattle. Proposals are due by June 1. The presenter will receive up to $1,500 to defray travel and registration costs.  The paper will be published in YALSA’s peer-reviewed Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults after the conference.  For complete details visit…See More

Georgetown is seeking applications from a wide cross-section (including scholars, journalists and authors, government officials, business executives, civic actors, and entrepreneurs) for this fellowship.  Fellows are responsible for multi-disciplinary research that explores how diverse international values apply to the development and use of new communications technologies, with a focus on emerging markets. Further information can be found here -…See More

Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Humanities High Performance Computing Collaboratory (HpC) is a summer institute for graduate students and faculty who are conducting scholarship in the digital humanities. HpC offers two five-day workshops, one with the University of Illinois’ Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS), and the other at the University of South Carolina’s Center for Digital Humanities (CDH). Attendees will 1) receive a…See More

The American Library Association’s Washington Office is participating in the Google Policy Fellows program. For the summer of 2012, the selected fellow will spend 10 weeks in residence at the ALA Washington Office to learn about national policy and complete a major project. Google provides the stipend for the summer, but the work is directed by ALA and the fellow. The Google Washington office provides an educational program for all of the fellows, such as lunchtime talks.  Complete details and…See More