Professional Publishing for Librarians Panel on July 20 at 6 SLT

Professional Publishing for Librarians - a panel discussion
At Ways With Words
Community Virtual Library on Info Island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/17/218/23
July 20, 2011 at 6 PM SLT
Ways With Words is a new area for CVL on Info Island where people with interests in reading, writing, and publishing get together to discuss books, all types of writing, and share information on publishing. On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 6 PM SLT, we will kick off a professional writing group for librarians with a panel discussion by librarians with much experience in writing professionally and being published in library literature.
This session will be informal with each panelist speaking for about 10 minutes and the audience interacting with questions and comments after the panel has presented. The discussion will be of interest to librarians and library students who are interested in writing and publishing. Please feel free to pass along this notice to anyone who may be interested.
Our distinguished panelists:
Adra Letov/Diane Nahl - Adra Letov/Diane Nahl is a professor in the LIS Program atthe University of Hawaii with over 25 years of academic and social sciencepublishing experience including books, journal articles, and conferenceproceedings. She is on the editorial board of several journals including the International Journal of Virtual andPersonal Learning Environments, and serves a peer-reviewer for a variety of HCI,LIS and IS journals and conferences. Her research and writing centers on informationbehavior research, information literacy, affective load and road rage.
Alexandria Knight/Esther Grassian - Esther S. Grassian retired from the UCLA Library in June 2011 after 41 years in various capacities, including Reference/Instruction Librarian, Electronic Services Coordinator, Interim Head of College Library, and Information Literacy Librarian. She and Joan R. Kaplowitz designed a graduate course in information literacy
instruction in 1989 and have alternated teaching it each year to MLIS students in the UCLA Information Studies Department. She has also held elected and appointed positions in information-literacy-related organizations, regional and national. Her publications include the ACRL Instruction Section’s award-winning Information Literacy Instruction: Theory and Practice (2001; second edition 2009), as well as Learning to Lead and Manage Information Literacy Instruction (2005), and the “Information Literacy Instruction” article for the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, all co-authored with Joan R. Kaplowitz. In Second Life (SL) she managed the UCLA Library in Cybrary City, 2006-2011, and co-managed Entropia, the CLIR/DLF island from 2008-2010. She has helped orient a number of UCLA faculty, staff and students to SL, and has done presentations about SL in SL, as well as in RL .She also created a number of LibGuides and Google Sites websites, including Teach Information Literacy and Critical Thinking! https://sites.google.com/site/teachinfolit/ In addition, she has written magazine articles: “Building on Bibliographic Instruction,” American Libraries, October 2004 and “Do They Really Do That? Librarians Teaching Outside the Classroom,” Change, May 2004.
 Archivist Llewellyn/Shannon Bohle, MLIS, is an award-winning writer with 17 years of writing, editing, and publishing experience and over 50 publications. She has published on a variety of subjects including journalism, literature, computer technology, library science, archives, and science, with publishers such as Nature Publishing Group, Library Journal, Cambridge University Press, Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, and O'Reilly Media. From 1998 to 2001, she taught writing courses to university students. She presently serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Library & Archival Security and will be pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge.
 Aurora Tutti / June Power is the Access Services Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. In addition to making presentations at the past two Access Services Conferences, several Southeastern Innovative Users Group Meetings, and various other venues, she is part of the editorial board for the Journal of Access Services. In this latter role, she contributes columns, has published some stand alone articles, and reviews submissions to the journal. She has also had a few book chapters published. http://unclassifiablelibrarian.blogspot.com/
Bookie Balogh (Susan K. Martin in real life) has been director of the libraries at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities, as well as Executive Director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. She has published more than 100 articles and books, and was editor of the Journal of Library Automation (now ITAL) and founding co-editor of portal: the academy and the library. She now lives on Cape Cod, where she works part-time in her local public library, has founded Find My Classmates, a search service for missing people and out-of-date addresses, and is co-editor of RezLibris.
 Valibrarian Gregg/Valerie Hill,a school librarian in Lewisville I.S.D., is a doctoral candidate at TexasWoman's University's School of Library and Information Studies. She is a National Writing Project trainerwith interests that include children's literature, storytelling, multi-media,human-computer interaction, and emerging technology tools that impact libraries. Her research area is the useof virtual worlds in libraries and information services and as educational immersive learning environments.