The Programming Committee for the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries (IACRL) is issuing a call for participation for its annual conference to be held March 16, 2012, at the Doubletree Hotel in Oak Brook, Illinois. The conference is broadly themed as "Adapt, Adopt, Accelerate."
In keeping with the theme, the programming committee is interested not only in traditional panel presentations (e.g. groups of four 15-minute papers), but also in "focused discussions" (groups of 5-minute (or less!) position statements around a broad theme followed up by give-and-take between/ among audience and panel members) or in other non-traditional presentation formats. In short, we are actively encouraging people to explore new ways of sharing knowledge at the conference. Please submit your panel topics along with mode of presentation, abstracts of the papers (for traditional panels) or summaries of discussion positions (for focused discussions).
If you are interested in another presentation format, send us a summary of what you would like to do with one hour of the conference's time that would enlighten, educate, amuse, infuriate, or otherwise intellectually stimulate your colleagues in the Illinois academic library community.
If you have topics you would like to hear about (but not present on yourself), please send them to Susan Swords Steffen (susanss@elmhurst.edu) and we will do our best to find presenters. Think of this as “patron driven convention programming.”
Proposal Form for Sessions that Happen in Rooms In Front of an Audience: Download Form
The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2011.
For Poster Sessions: Download Form
The deadline for poster session submissions is February 1, 2012.
Possible Topics:
- Cloud computing
- Mobile computing
- New models for reference
- New models for providing instruction
- Patron driven acquisitions
- Cross institutional collection building
- Digital e-books / e-readers
- Re-imagining the library as place
- Library past as library present
- Assessment in the age of performance based budgeting
- Libraries, Sexuality In
- Libraries as “green” places
- Special collections in the digital age (Are our patrons / colleagues using them? How?)
- Campus politics and libraries
- Future of Academic Librarianship: How are our jobs changing? To Whose Benefit
- What Usually Can’t Be Said but Ought to Be Said Right Here Right Now
