Call for Participation

Shodor (Durham, NC) home of the Computational Science Education Reference Desk, offers great workshops for youth in grades 6-8, and 9-12. These are great opportunities for students to have fun, learn about science and math, sharpen computer skills, and more: 

The Third Annual VIVO conference takes place August 22-24 in Miami, Florida:  Official Call for Papers.   

"In the past 3 years, a growing international movement of developers, researchers, administrators,funders, librarians and informaticians has converged around the vision of openly representing research and researchers via Linked Open Data. VIVO is helping to make this vision a reality through its community, through open software and the VIVO ontology, and a growing number of adopters and collaborators worldwide, across multiple knowledge domains. The 2012 VIVO conference will explore how to participate in and best take advantage of the emerging Linked Open Data world encompassing and expanding our understanding of research. How can we contribute? How will newly available data and the applications built around it change the future of research networking? How will the vision evolve into practice?"

This year's VIVO conference creates a unique opportunity for people from across the country and around the world to come together in the spirit of promoting scholarly collaboration and research discovery.

The VIVO conference is an excellent opportunity to meet with VIVO team members from participating institutions, and offers an open and collaborative environment to share ideas and discuss topics related to adoption and implementation of VIVO, VIVO-based tools and the opportunities created by advancing data sharing and team science.

Who should attend?

Scholars, scientists, researchers, developers, publishers, funding agencies, research officers, students, institutional officials and those supporting the development of team science."

The University of Notre Dame (www.nd.edu) has an opening for a Library Communications Program Director for the Hesburgh Libraries (http://library.nd.edu/). The position holder will develop strategies for and oversee implementation of a wide variety of initiatives to meet the libraries' communications, outreach, and promotional needs using print publications and materials, websites and online publications, emails, social media, displays, events, and person-to-person contact.

Specific responsibilities include the following:

• Develop and implement, in collaboration with the librarian and leadership team, a communication plan that will heighten awareness, understanding and support of, as well as engagement in, the Hesburgh Libraries' collections, services, and activities


• Craft effective messages, materials, and special events to represent and promote the libraries and to advise the University Librarian and others in presenting the libraries' strategies, achievements, and issues to the targeted audiences such as faculty and students (current and prospective), the broader academic community, alumni, donors, University development, University leadership, the media, the general public, etc.


• Coordinate with library units and help to clarify responsibilities and manage priorities for writing and editing materials


• Work with University Relations to create development and communication materials for donors and the University Libraries Advisory Council


• Participate in and contribute to library management groups to ensure strategic and effective communications about the Libraries' innovations, ambitions, issues, and programs.


• Cultivate relationships across campus and coordinating communication strategies that advance wider campus goals, such as recruiting a first rate faculty.


• Design Libraries' campus communications plan to highlight major new resources and services.


• Guide Associate Directors and Department Heads in creating effective position ads for high level position needs.

Email Erin Putt for more details or apply directly online at the ND jobs site - http://ND.jobs – Job #12142 or visit https://jobs.nd.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=58313. 

Are you going to be at Indianapolis on March 31?  Take advantage of this FREE half-day workshop offered by AAAS' Project 2061 to help educators make great use of the NSDL Science Literacy Maps, a concept-browsing interface for concepts based on the AAAS Benchmarks for Science Literacy. 

All participants at the workshop will get free copies of Project 2061's Atlas of Science Literacy

Where: Indiana Convention Center,  Room 203 (in conjunction with the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) National Conference)

How to apply:  Complete the brief questionnaire at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SCWTB3Q by March 8. Selected participants will be notified by March 15. 

Apply now!