IAMSLIC Conference proposals due April 19th
The deadline for submitting proposals for the 39th IAMSLIC Conference is less than 3 weeks away!
This year’s theme Visualizing a Bright Future offers limitless possibilities for presentation topics, including:
- New roles for libraries and librarians (e.g. data curation, digital preservation, digitization, scholarly communications)
- Communicating the value of service to the organization
- Consolidation of physical libraries to respond to fiscal realities – can this scenario present new opportunities?
- Importance of partnerships and collaboration
- Embedded librarianship
- Graphical information – data visualization, geo-referencing, information graphics, mash-ups, presenting statistics or survey results
- Changes in collection management – demand driven acquisitions, ebooks, shared print repositories
- Changes in publishing – mergers, Open Access, Open Data
- Re-purposing library space
- Mobile environments/technologies
- Other innovations and new initiatives
Don’t delay! Review the conference home page and the Call for Proposals and then send your proposal to sally.taylor@ubc.ca
Looking forward to hearing from you!
