Saturday, October 28, 2006

CALLS FOR PAPERS, PROPOSALS, AND PRESENTERS (From ALA Datebook)

CALLS FOR PAPERS, PROPOSALS, AND PRESENTERS

From ALA (October 27, 2006)
http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/datebook/datebook.htm#call


By Oct. 31: Symposium on the Arts in Society seeks presentations for the symposium to be held Feb. 23–25, 2007, in New York City. www.arts-symposium.com.

By Oct. 31: Symposium on the Humanities, seeks papers (title and short abstract) for the symposium to be held Feb. 24–26, 2007, in New York City. http://humanitiessymposium.com.

By Nov. 1: The Popular Culture Association is seeking papers from graduate students for their upcoming annual joint meeting with the American Culture Association April 4–7, 2007. Prospective presenters should send a one-page abstract to Allen Ellis, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY 41099-6101. ellisa@nku.edu; www.popularculture.org.

By Nov. 1: Electronic Resources and Libraries 2007 seeks proposals for presentations, panel sessions, and preconference workshops for the conference to be held Feb. 22–27, 2007, in Atlanta. www.electroniclibrarian.com/call.

By Nov. 10: LOEX seeks proposals for breakout sessions, discussion sessions, and poster sessions for the LOEX 2007 conference, to be held May 3–5, 2007, in San Diego. Amy Wallace, amy.wallace@csuci.edu; http://public.csusm.edu/acarr/loex/index.html.

By Nov. 30: The Public Library Association is seeking preconference and program proposals for its 12th National Conference, to be held Mar. 25–29, 2008, in Minneapolis. Linda Bostrom, 800-545-2433, ext. 5027, lbostrom@ala.org; http://www.pla.org.

By Dec. 1: Joint Use Libraries: An International Conference seeks abstracts for speakers for the June 19–21, 2007, conference in Manchester, United Kingdom. london@profbriefings.co.uk; http://www.ebase.uce.ac.uk/docs/contribute/UCEflyer06.pdf.

By Dec. 1: The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge, Oregon seeks abstracts for presentations at the May 19–22, 2007, institute. Richard Brumley, brumleyr@onid.orst.edu; http://libweb.uoregon.edu/ec/aitl/.

By Dec. 8: The Library Research Round Table of ALA seeks proposals for two research forums at the 2007 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., June 21–27. John Bertot, jbertot@fsu.edu.

By Jan. 10, 2007: The Association of College and Research Libraries seeks proposals for roundtable discussions at the ACRL National Conference Mar. 29–Apr. 1, 2007, in Baltimore. http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/baltimore/program07/callforparticipation.htm.

By Jan. 21, 2007: American Society for Information Science and Technology seeks proposals for contributed papers, technical sessions and panels, and preconference sessions at its Annual Meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Oct. 18–25, 2007. The meeting also seeks proposals for contributed posters and short papers, due Feb. 25, 2007. Richard Hill, 301-495-0900, rhill@asis.org; http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM07/am07cfp.html.

By Mar. 30, 2007: The American Association of School Librarians seeks presenters for the Exploratorium session, to be held Oct. 25, 2007, at the AASL national conference in Reno, Nevada. 800-545-2433 ext. 4382, aasl@ala.org; http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/conferencesandevents/national/presenters/rfp.htm.