Deadline Extended: Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

Deadline Extended to April 1, 2013

The Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy, August 23-24, 2013, in Savannah, GA, invites proposals across disciplines for workshops and presentations that will consider, extend, or otherwise address information literacy in K-12 and postsecondary settings:

• DEFINING INFORMATION LITERACY in a digital age.
• EFFECTIVE MEANS of developing information literacy skills in learners.
• PARTNERSHIPS between librarians and classroom teachers to teach students research skills.
• INFORMATION LITERACY across the disciplines.
• ASSESSMENT of information literacy initiatives.
• INTELLECTUAL property, copyright, and plagiarism in the digital age.

Conference organizers welcome international participants and proposal submissions, in order to broaden and share knowledge regarding information literacy practice, theory and research in a variety of cultural settings worldwide. Please note, however, that presentations must be in English and that the Conference cannot provide funding for attendees or for presenters. 

For more information, visit our Web site at http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/infolitproposals.html

Editing for Editors

So, I am teaching a Professional Editing class this semester, and this is the second time during the semester that I have come across professional editing boo-boos.  The first was my name badge at a conference I attended in Georgia that misspelled the name of my university ("Gerogia Southern University").  The picture here is from a table tent at the Editor's Round Table at the Research Network Forum at the 2013 CCCC in Las Vegas.  I couldn't resist including this picture for my students in my online editing course!

The Rhetoric and Composition Journal Editors Group is an ad hoc group representing (mostly) non-profit editors and publishers in the field.  Several years ago we banded together to host a table/booth in the exhibit hall at CCCC where various journals and publishers could share calls for proposals, subscription information, and other information as a public service to the discipline.  If you are an editor or member of an editorial board for a journal and would like information about joining us, see instructions for subscribing at http://pwr.gmu.edu/journals-l.