The Public Library Division (PLD) of the Pennsylvania Library Association (PaLA) invites proposals for presentations or panel sessions for the 2011 PaLA Conference, Touchdown! Winning Strategies for Libraries. The conference will take place October 2-5, 2011 at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel located in State College, PA.
If you have a topic of interest to public librarians, we invite you to submit a proposal for a session. Examples of possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
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� Assessment of services/programs |
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� Copyright issues |
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� Ebooks – software & readers |
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� Dealing with difficult patrons |
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� Digital library projects |
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� Digital Rights management |
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� Fund raising/development in Public Libraries |
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� Gadgets & a Gadget Petting Zoo |
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� GLPTQ topics |
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� Generational differences among library staff |
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� Grant writing |
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� Leadership development |
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� Legal issues for libraries |
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� Library management and HR |
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� Library marketing and advocacy |
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� Library security |
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� Marketing and advocacy in Public Libraries |
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� Mobile technologies |
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� Partnerships |
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� Planning library spaces (user, staff & collection spaces) |
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� Poetry |
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� Programming for young adults, teens and tweens |
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� RDA and cataloging |
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� Readers Advisory programs |
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� Recruiting and educating the next generation of librarians |
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� Rural & small library issues |
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� Social networking |
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� Statistics and what to do with them |
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� Volunteer management |
All proposals will be accepted online via the program proposal link. A PDF is available for download for use as a working copy of the form. The link to the form is also available on the homepage of the PaLA web site.
Submission Deadline: Midnight on Sunday, April 3, 2011.
Proposal Acceptance Notification: The program committee will notify all submitters regarding the acceptance of their proposal(s) in May 2011.
For more information, contact Rebecca Long at rlong@beaverlibraries.org