The 2009 PALA Conference Planning Committee invites you to present a poster session at the PALA Annual Conference to be held October 18 – 21, 2009 at the Hilton Harrisburg located in downtown Harrisburg.
What is a poster session? It is an opportunity, set aside during the conference, when author- librarians, students, staff or others participating in the professional conference can present an idea, the outcomes of a completed project, or research results to an audience of their peers. The tone is casual and the mode is highly interactive. The object is to gather feedback and to make connections with others interested in the same subject. This is a forum for library professionals from across the state to highlight their libraries and to share their successful ideas or innovations with colleagues.
Poster sessions are displayed on poster boards (4 ft x 6ft). Pictures, graphs, data and text are used to illustrate the presentation. An effective poster presentation highlights, with visual display, the main points or components of your topic; the presenter fills in the details verbally. Poster Sessions can cover any project or program. They are a great way to share your interesting work without doing a formal presentation.
Some suggested subject categories for poster sessions include but are not limited to: Conservation and Preservation, Library Services to Special Groups, Reference and Information Services, Management, Children’s Services, Information and Referral Services, Young Adults’ Services, Reference, Personnel, Library Use Instruction, Planning and Evaluation, Circulation Services, Organization, Special Collections, Technology, Automation, Archives, Education, Continuing Education, Telecommunications, Library Education, Computers, Rare Books, Literacy.
This year’s conference theme is Pennsylvania Libraries: Capitalize on Your Future. The poster sessions will take place in the Strawberry Arcade, the main walkway between the parking garage and the hotel. We expect a lot of traffic in this area, which is also the location of the conference registration desk. The 2009 conference schedule will include the following poster session periods:
Monday, 10/19/09, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. for topics of interest to youth services librarians.
(Immediately precedes the Carolyn Field Award Luncheon)
Tuesday, 10/20/09, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. for all topics.
There will also be a special poster session display by PaLA divisions and round tables during the New Member Reception on Sunday night to inform new PaLA members of groups that they may wish to join.
We invite you to submit a poster session proposal online via this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=zmAWWQALf69l8DigTT6haw_3d_3d. A link is also available on the PaLA Website, www.palibraries.org. The deadline for proposals is May 31, 2009.
Come join us in Harrisburg and capitalize on your future!
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Call for Abstracts for Geoscience Information Society Annual Meeting in Portland in October
Share your recent research project or your library’s latest innovation with the Geoscience Information Society at the 2009 GSIS Annual Meeting in Portland from October18-21. The meeting is held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America whose theme will be “From Volcanoes to Vineyards: Living with Dynamic Landscapes.” GSIS will sponsor two technical sessions at the meeting. The themes for the two sessions are broad, which should allow for a wide variety of topics at both the oral presentations and the poster sessions.
Oral presentations–“Navigating the Geoscience Information Landscape: Pathways to Success” (Topical Session #118)
Poster sessions–“Geoscience Information Landscape: Pathways to Success” (Topical Session #117).
Beginning April 1 you can submit your abstract on the electronic submission form on the GSA website:
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2009AM/index.epl < http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2009AM/index.epl>
The deadline for submitting your abstract is midnight (Eastern time) on August 11.
The final schedule with dates and times for technical sessions will be announced in late August. GSIS will reimburse all presenters (oral presentations and poster sessions) who are GSIS members for the cost of submitting their abstracts ($20 for students and $30 for non-students). When you submit your abstract on the GSA website, you will need to pay the fee by credit card in order to submit it. Following the conference, a reimbursement check will be sent to all presenters who are GSIS members.
Contact Jody Foote, Technical Sessions Chair, (jbfoote@ou.edu < mailto:jbfoote@ou.edu> or 405-325-6451) if you have questions.
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Posted in Women's and Gender Studies, Women's Studies Librarianship
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The editors of Transformations seek articles (5,000 � 10,000 words), media reviews (books, film, video, performance, art, music, etc. � 3,000 to 5,000 words), and photo-essays that explore nation in a variety of pedagogical contexts and from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Topics might include:
Defining, defending, crossing national borders; Conceptualizing and contesting ideas of nation in the classroom; Courses on Im/migration and/or emigration; Pedagogical approaches to nation, identity, citizenship, and language; Globalization, economics and labor; diaspora, transnationalism, exile; Nations, states, nation-states; Colonialism, post-colonialism and nation; Nation and communities; Nation, race-ethnicity, religion, class, gender, and sexuality; National conflict and cooperation; Nationalism, patriotism, xenophobia in the classroom; Articulating and representing cultural identities; Teaching indigeneity and sovereignty.
Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary forum for pedagogical scholarship exploring intersections of identities, power, and social justice. The journal features a range of approaches � from theoretical articles to creative and experimental accounts of pedagogical innovations from teachers and scholars from all areas of education.
Send submissions or inquiries in MLA format as attachments in MS Word or Rich Text format to: transformations@njcu.edu. Author(s) name and contact information should be included on a SEPARATE page. For submission guidelines go to: www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations.