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CALL FOR PAPERS ALISE Distance Education SIG abstracts due: July 11, 2010 Distance Education SIG of Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) calls for papers to be presented at the ALISE conference in San Diego, California, January 4-8 2011. The 2011 conference theme is Competition, Competitiveness, and Innovation as a venue for discussing various approaches to remaining competitive and innovative. Possible topics include but are not limited to: * Ethical considerations of competition and innovation * Race, gender, social class equity issues * Changing modes of curricular delivery * Approaches to preparing for the unforeseen innovations on the horizon * Expanding student populations and competing for talent * Competitiveness and innovation as research and scholarship expectations * Innovative administrative structures and responses * Developing and nurturing a successful culture of competitiveness and innovation * Political aspects of competition and innovation * Unions and unionization * From radical, fringe, queer to mainstream—inclusion, competing for representation * Critical approaches to conventional thought regarding library and information science education * Accreditations, certifications, licensures * Historical perspectives on competition and innovation in library and information science / education for LIS-archival studies-museum studies * Competition and innovation—challenges and opportunities * Globalization, internationalism, cross-nationalism, multilingualism, multicultural concerns * Open source/closed source/managed services * Responses to technological advances Submit abstracts of 500 to 750 words via email to ALISE Distance SIG Convenor Lorri Mon ([log in to unmask]) by July 11, 2010. Also see the ALISE site for more information on the 2011 Conference: http://www.alise.org Lorri Mon, Assistant Professor College of Communication and Information Florida State University 268 Louis Shores Building, 142 Collegiate Loop Tallahassee, FL 32306 email: lmon@ fsu.edu